Grey Knights raid Tarlius

With the tide turning once again to the Imperium, largely thanks to the Grey Knights targeted strikes against the Daemonic forces supporting the traitors, the Iron Warriors, who were long forced from the front lines, re-entered the fray. While fortifying the southern regions of Tarlius III word reached the Imperium that the Iron Warriors were reinforcing their position with daemonic constructs the Grey Knights mounted an elite strike of Paladins against the armoured century defending the southern fortifications.

To the surprise of the Grey Knights the armoured Century was exclusively comprised of Legion Astartes and no Daemon Engines. At sight of the Land Raiders of the Grey Knights the Iron Warriors formed an armoured defensive with their Rhinos instant barricades. The Grey Knights had a slim window of opportunity to strike before the guns of the Iron Warriors were truly brought to bear and so the mighty force of Paladins used their psychic might to hurl themselves into the Iron Warriors before their defensive positions were completed. The Grand Master in Dreadknight moved through the ruins in support of his terminator brethren levelling it’s weaponry and along with the Land Raiders Lascannons destroyed the lead Rhino forcing the Havoc team and Fire support squad to bail out into the cover of the ruins.

The Grey Knights focussed upon turning the defensive positions of the Iron Warriors against them, using Rhinos as cover against their fire. For a moment the psychic defences of the Grey Knights flickered as the Sorcerer attempted to rip away their defences, but the impressive might of the Sorcerer was rebuffed by the Grey Knights.

The Havocs levelled their Chaincannons at the Grand Master Dreadknight and, despite the glowing psychic defences, the Grand Master severely underestimated the firepower of the Iron Warrior veterans. In an endless hail of bullets the Grandmaster was not so much shot as sandblasted into oblivion, leaving only a few scraps of cabling and ceremite. The Lascannon toting Havocs fared worse against the Land Raiders who simply would not die despite repeated hyper accurate las rounds blasting into their hide.

Reinforcements teleported in along with the overall Company Grand Master and commander of the Grey Knights. The casualties began to mount but the Iron Warriors stubbornly refused to give in nor give ground. Line Captain Torrik, commander of the Iron Warriors, calculated his chances of victory and found the probabilities falling against him. Resigned to this, he sought to wound the Grey Knights as deeply for their arrogance. He ordered his Chosen veterans deployed and a counter strike into the the Grey knights. The Iron Warriors quickly formulated a fire pattern that wiped out the Grey Knight Strike teams leaving only the Grey Knight Commander alive, which the Chosen emptied their Plasma Guns into the heavily armed warrior in a horrifying display of overkill. The Commander was melted into a puddle of steaming goo. With that act of malice completed Line Captain Torrik ordered his Legionaries to fall back. The Grey Knights had won the day, and completed their mission, but with the death of their Commander, Grand Master and two full strike teams, they had paid a heavy price for their success.