Mordecai: Knights retake Skrime

While Lord Maximus and his first general, Martin Bessas, planned to push forward at Tarlius, general Kutuzov pressed forward with his offensive in the south of Mordecai Tersius. The chaos offensive in the northern plains had run out of steam, but now Cybixx’s forces were redeploying in the south, clearly planning an offensive to relieve the besieged forces in Skrime. 

Kutuzov had newly arrived reinforcements in the shape of a Knight lance from House Corvus, a house fiercely loyal to the adeptus mechanicus with a burning hatred for the arch heretek Cybixx. The Knights of Corvus, lead by a massive Castellan, deployed directly in front of the enemy advance, and in the outskirts of Skrime a massive battle erupted as the traitor Mechanicum came into range of the Knights’ devastating firepower. 

Almost immediately the forces of Cybixx were on the back foot. They had advanced forward and were in the process of being resupplied by air when the imperial war engines attacked. Realising that if they intercepted the supply drop the chaos assault would be finished, the Castellan opened up on the formidable Ironstrider formation, noting they were Sydonian Dragoons. The massive ordnance ripped the walkers apart, leaving all but one, which was itself cut down by Helverin support fire as the surprised scout unit tried to react to the sudden appearance of the enemy. 

Return fire was desultory, and although the Castellan took damage, it’s firepower remained undiminished as it followed up this early success by obliterating the heretic Kastelan robots. Eventually the traitors scored successes, knocking the two largest imperial war engines out of action. Only the mysterious and unknown hover bikes employed by the traitors posed a real threat, as they briefly contested the landing sites where the supplies were landing. Their spirited stand almost rescued Cybixx’s attack, but despite losing the Castellan and knight Errant, the remaining smaller armiger class engines gradually thinned out the Mechanicum troops, cutting down skitarri and clearing the landing zones. 

By 1606.019M42 all but one of the supply zones had been secured by the imperial forces and the remaining heretek troops had been decimated. The forces of chaos retreated back across the Skrime isthmus and within days the city itself, cut off and without hope of rescue, had fallen to Kutuzov’s army. The war on Mordecai had once again swung in the imperium’s favour.