Monday, October 30, 2017

Tarlius: The Dark Angel's Assault

Now free of Inquisitor Constantine's meddling the Dark Angels were free to return to their primary objectives and continue the fight against the heretic Astartes plaguing the sector. Acting on intelligence of a high value target in the Tarlius system the Dark Angels deployed a rapid strike force with the goal of eliminating it.

The target was a mastadon, a mighty super heavy transport dating back to the dark age of technology, now daemonically possessed and put to foul usage by the traitor legions of the heretic Astartes. Annihilating it and its deadly cargo would deal a severe blow to the Chaos efforts on Tarlius.

The Dark Angels attacked with their customary speed and ferocity, focused beams of lascannon energy slamming into the might war machine as the Ravenwing sped forwards to engage it. Crippled and boxed in amidst the dense ruins the mastadon disgorged its cargo, a wave of enraged and blood crazed Bezerkers who sprinted towards the Dark Angel's positions.

Wave after wave was mown down and the traitor forces sustained severe casualties, but so did the Dark Angels who were unable to match Khorn's chosen warriors in unbridled rage. Despite being heavily crippled in the opening seconds of the engagement the mastadon proved impervious to further harm, seemingly blessed by its foul patron. As the Dark Angel's casualties mounted they shifted their fire away from it, hoping to preserve their forces and retain control of the battlefield. In this they were partially successful but it came at the cost of ending the mastadon's vile existence.

Accepting that to persist would only result in their own destruction the Dark Angels reluctantly withdrew and left the forces of Chaos battered but triumphant.

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