Battles of Samana

The Battle of Samana was an Imperial defensive campaign fought by elements of the Mauryan Guard Astra Militarum Regiments against an insurrection of Chaos Cultists on the IMperial world of Saragarhi.

Background
Valiant last stand on the planet Saragarhi during a Chaos uprising that swept across the entire planet between its garrison of 30 from the 63rd Renjara Regiment's 11th Company and over 20,000 Chaos cultists whipped into a blood frenzy. The outpost was located on a ridge overlooking a massive valley down below with the loyalist town of Samana in the middle of it, also two forts located north & south of the outpost were garrisoned but constantly fending off raiders. When the cultists horde was spotted the garrison of guardsman tried to signal the forts for reinforcements but raids in there areas made it impossible for at least 24 hrs.

They voxed the town of Samana to to be ready to defend itself from cultists and then they decided to make the outpost a last stand if need be to keep the enemy from reaching the peaceful farmers living in Samana. The cultists tried several times to push through the gate but were repulsed by the defenders overwhelming firepower from its heavy weapon emplacements, but on the 5th assault they were able to take the gate and push toward the inner tower where the rest of the defenders had already taken cover in and poured out as much munitions as possible before the cultists swarmed the bottom levels and butchered any they found, evidence shows that the defenders fought a savage melee outside the entrance to the vox tower.

The last survivor, voxman for the outpost Pvt. Gurmukh, killed dozens trying to reach the top most level before they just burned the entire tower down with him in it. Over half of the cultists were estimated to have died in the attack to the mauryans 30. The rest of the 63rd arrived the next day & the much quicker Second Battle of Samana erupted as the guardsmen took a bloody vengeance on the cultists found there.

Due to the courage of the outpost garrison they cultists were unable to take the town in the valley below since they were busy scavenging to replenish there meager munitions & replace there dead when the 63rd attacked them from all sides. Lt. Ishar Singhe & the rest of his men were revered as heroes to the Saragarhites and all of Maurya when word got back home.