02 - Galrisian - Interceptors, The XI Legio Metalica Battlegroup with CDXXII imperial guard regiment intercept the ork invasion on Kepler Secundus way.
OST - Motörhead - Thunder & Lightning (New Song 2015 from album Bad Magic)
"Hail the Omnissiah! He is the God in the Machine, the Source of All Knowledge." — Magos-Lector Vad Kapellax, at the first Convocation of the Lathes
The crew and the servitors busily work on their arcane devices, by entering codes, converging flows of plasma, controlling the level and stability of the plasma reactor, and the efficiency of the entire weapon system. The Soopa Stompa is their target, but the Soopa Stompa and with it some other stompers move, a short movement inside the ruins surprises the fire maneuver of Ferrum Iratus. The stompers open fire, a terrible storm against the warhound titan Venator Vendetta. The warhound, well before it can react, is hit by a terrific cannonade. Its void shields collapse under the formidable hammering, while a horrible explosion breaks its carapace and rips off its light turbo laser destructor. However, from the ball of smoke and flames that it is became, the warhound emerges miraculously still standing, in a daring escape behind the central hill.
<< Incendiarius! Lupus Igneus, for the soul of your best! Come here! Come here, now! >> Veteran princeps Bezmenov.
With a masterful maneuver, worthy of the oldest strategists of the Adeptus Titanicus, Lupus Igneus the warhound titan, this time obeying the directives of its Veteran Princeps on Ferrum Iratus, moves forward for stops at the foot of the reaver titan Calor Mars, escaping from the assault of the ork hordes and at the same time bringing its devastating Inferno Gun against the entrenched ork artillery perched on the settlements. A wave of massive flames invests the crumbling buildings, burning and devastating the enemy artillery, virtually defenseless against the wave of flames.
The remaining ork big gunz shocked by the devastating conflagration open fire on the imperial superheavy tanks, but the turmoil prevents them from perform a sustained fire. A combination that allows the company to go out only slightly damaged by the shelling.
The entire command is now in the hands of Bezmenov, who commands and gets the reinforcement of the leman russ company on the central front. The tanks advance and open fire on the Soopa Stompa, destroying all its power fields, leaving it undefended against the titans weapons. Now the destruction of the stompers has become the top priority. The key for victory.
However, on the left flank, bravely held by the imperial stormtroopers in the hours before, is overwhelmed from the assault of the rokkitboyz that assault and slash down the last two vultures, while the remnants of the Deathskulls mob moves quickly in front of the imperial superheavy tanks barring them the road and forcing to retreat the imperial hydra flak tanks on the hilltop, now under fire from their machine guns and crude rocket launchers. The secondary imperial objective is contested, the flank is broken.
Still, and gloriously, it's prepared the last, extreme defense on the left flank, now hopelessly compromised. The last two chimera tanks of the praetorian combat servitors run quickly from behind the central hill to the disputed area, barring the way at the "rokkit" boyz, while from behind a spur the last ten stormtroopers charge, in a glorious assault against the skyboyz that countercharge the praetorians. A fierce melee, but in the end none of the orks escape the massacre, while servitors and soldiers close the ranks, ready for the last defense.
The action falls, dizzying. What remains of the blood axes kult of Speed come back to the front, moving to the weak side of the imperial advance ravaging the latest chimera tanks and killing half a dozen servitors. But before the columns of gun wagonz in the vicinity can launch the assault, the Marauder bombers arrive definitively destroying the kult of speed, only two schorchas leave the battlefield joining the tankaz in retreat.
On the opposite side, the last four ork stukas bomb the baneblades, but today the imperial army seems unstoppable! And immediately retaliation is unleashed. The baneblades and the Shadowsword climb the hill, bypassing the battlewagons and taking the side of the reaver titan. A movement that permanently contest the sector occupied by the orks. The fire of the Baneblade is ineffective, inaccurate, but the volcano cannon strikes smear the Soopa Stompa, damaging it.
On the left flank the orks arrive with a colum of tankaz, to finally challenge the entire front with their presence, opening fire aginst the servitors, that now broken still stand, fearless. The call of duty, the call of glory summon the last imperial guards survived at the hecatomb of the previous hours, that march near the stormtroopers and the last servitors and robots. An indistinct mass of veterans, privates, servitors and robots now form the last defense on the left flank, but maybe this last as extreme battle will not be fought...
