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You gently pull apart his arms, which easily part beneath your gauntlets and take the <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-g">Combi-Weapon</span></span>from his grasp. The bottom half of the weapon is a regular bolter, but the top half, though dull and unpowered, is made from a series of magnetic accelerator coils, seemingly intact. This is indeed a mighty weapon. The scout’s sacrifice will not be in vain.
<span class="mu-g">Combi-plasma gained!</span>
You spend some time burying the body. Just a few metres from the crater, you dig a shallow grave for the fallen scout, placing him within it and covering him with the dirt of this world. There are surely hundreds like him scattered across the planet, and you will not have time to find nor bury them all. So you look over the grave for a few moments in silence, before examining the weapon he has left you.
It seems to have suffered little damage. Burnt at the edges, but you suspect it would work well enough if you tried to shoot it. You refrain from testing it however, because <span class="mu-s">you do not have any spare ammo.</span> It will have to receive a baptism of combat, as it the case with so many things made by the Imperium.
And then you are off again, running north-west now to the third site marked by Johann. It is after midnight you reckon, when you reach the river, and following find yourself at the bridge leading to the town of Nagenhof, the largest you have seen so far. There are several buildings smouldering around it, though the stone walls stand proud, if battered. The gate is scorched, but you can see it has not been breached, and there are men patrolling the walls. Corpses of orks and gretchins surround it, though remarkably little, and you suspect that if you searched you might find them at camp somewhere nearby. But you do not have time to linger, and moving like a shadow you run north, off the road and onto the open fields.
