Commander Bellisario paced across the bridge of the Intolerance to where the Techmarines clustered round the view screen, studying the layout of the space hulk. The Space Marines had succeeded in destroying the launch control room, but at the cost of an entire squad of Terminators. Bellisario hadn't been alive at the time of the Blood Angels' first encounter with a space hulk six hundred years ago, when the First Company had been virtually wiped out, but he felt the burden of their loss reaching out to him across the centuries. Now he hoped to avenge their deaths, and finally lay their souls at peace.
The ship's layout had been analysed, and the likely routes for an alien advance had all been plotted. It was calculated that the first enemy attacks would be delivered from a cryogenic cluster a kilometre away from the landing area. Sealing a key junction along this route should block the route. A squad of Space Marines had been sent to the junction, 300 metres beyond the projected perimeter defences. Here, it was hoped, they could cover the beachhead area by slowing down the rate of enemy reinforcement.
The advancing Space Marines reached the junction and spread out to check the nearby rooms for unspotted aliens. The sweep was finished with only seconds to spare. By the time the Space Marines reported the area secure, several hundred Genestealers were converging on their position. The Terminators were outnumbered by over sixty to one, and it was obvious that it was only a matter of minutes before they were wiped out.
The Space Marine squad is clearly doomed. It is only a matter of time before it is destroyed by the numberless hordes of rampaging Genestealers. The Space Marines have one overriding desire: to take out as many Stealers as they can before they go down.
Squad Cyrano must must kill at least 30 Genestealers before being destroyed.
The Space Marines move first.
There are no blips at the beginning of the mission. Two blips will arrive every turn. Blips will not lurk, but may not use any entry point within six floor tiles of any Marine.