02 - Galrisian - Interceptors, The XI Legio Metalica Battlegroup with CDXXII imperial guard regiment intercept the ork invasion on Kepler Secundus way.
An avalanche. Sure, an avalanche of battlewagons and gunwagonz has hit the imperial front line. The Fields of Sandor are now a horrible scar, furrowed by bubbling craters and explosions. The orks beat on the beaten. Columns of ork tanks advance and press upon the imperial army, which fails to break the blockade while on the sky thunders and lightning join the deafening brutal concert of death and destruction.
An ork gyrocopters brigade jump out from the orks settlement and tries to slow down the imperial super heavy tanks next advance, damaging the first baneblade; but suddenly a sentinel platoon moves fast and patrol the area in front of the super heavy tanks firing at the ork gyrocopters.
There isn't rest, no mercy, no remorse, no retreat. For the stormtroopers, in front of them, cut off from the rest of their army, there is only glory, in death. The evil sunz mob quickly descends from the hill mounted on their battlewagons and battlefortress, but are forced to stop in front of the imperial veterans that patrol the scientific district. Of the twenty soldiers, only ten survive the cannonade.
"Reinforcements! The left flank is about to collapse! We call for reinforcements now!", is the voice of the liutenant of the stormtroopers that breaks on the supreme commander's vox device. The vultures squadron is sent to reinforce and face the evil sunz, but they are able to kill only few boyz before to be destroyed by the impressive firepower of the ork stompas brigade perched on the orks settlement.
<< Damn! Iron Skulls, XI Battlegroup! My animals, regroup maneuver, now! Tactic advance and long range fire against the columns of tanks on the left flank, avoiding their direct line of fire. All around me! all around me my warriors! Ready to climb this hill, a ride of glory! We will be an avalanche upon them! >> Princeps Hector Bezmenov to all its XI Battlegroup.
The earth trembles, the tanks vibrate and the sky roars thunders and lightning bolts, when the warlord titan Ferrum Iratus advances rapidly over the hill, moving gloriously in front of the enemy army. As a steel God it stands immense on the horizon, drawing to itself magnetic and electrostatic forces that do fibrillar and sparkle its void shields. All its mouths of fire light, and in a few seconds it becomes a battle station at full power! All guns blazing! Still, its fury is dedicated not against the battlefortress down the hill, but wisely it strikes deep, targeting the kult of speed ready for action, which is hit by a terrifying rain of fire that halved the effectives.
What remain of the evil sunz kult of speed aborts its mission and is forced to perform an assault against the sentinels platoon, keeping well away from the warlord titan support fire. The sentinels are swept away under the flamethrowers of the ork scorchers.
The second and last mechanized infantry detachment advances on the left side of the central hill, near the warlord titan and unleashes all its firepower against the deathskull ork mob perched on the top of the hill. The firestorm is too much even for the orks, now completely decimated. From the massacre it's seen escape a couple of battlewagons, with a few dozen green-skins, burned and humiliated. For them, the battle is over.
In the end, from the farthest imperial rear four chimera tanks full of praetorian combat servitors and robots march moving behind the central hill, in line of sight of the Veteran Princeps Bezmenov on Ferrum Iratus. All mounted on their tanks, ready to jump down from the hill. The imperial assault forces and its tactic are now revealed.
OST - Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
Sandor boils. The ork's pincer on the imperial left flank is hold only by ten stormtroopers and two vultures in disarray, while on the center the whole ork's blitz brigade columns are positioned and ready for strike until victory, facing the leman russ tanks. And a hill, on the middle of the battle. A hill to devide the orks army to the titan legion battlegroup and the praetorians ready for battle. A hill devides now victory from defeat.
War is hell. But the orks will never know peace until theirs defeat. For them, there is only war, and conquer. The Legio Metalica XI battlegroup is ready to write its page on the glorious Chronicles of their titan legion... and motor club.
TURN 2. End turn. ORKS WAAGH: 1 (defend the flag) ARMY OF THE IMPERIUM: 1 (defend the flag)
