The counter attack by the Emerald Serpent had got the chaos forces to the city of Skrime, but had failed to take it. Now the elite forces of the Iron Warriors took over the advance, their troops ideally suited to the brutal siege warfare involved in taking the ruins of the settlement. Opposing the daemon engines cultists and astartes of Stahl were a regiment of Novgorod Guard, fully ten thousand strong holding the city, and augmented by fanatical members of the Imperial Cult.
The fighting in Skrime was brutal and lasted for days. Both sides took heavy casualties as they attempted to grind down each other. The Iron Warriors tried to outflank and surround the Novgorod army, but were stopped again and again from reaching their objectives. On the other hand, the Iron Warriors could not be repulsed from the city, and the fighting devolved into a bloody stalemate.
Eventually, realising his strategic position was the weaker, General Kutuzov abandoned the city under the cover of darkness on 0506.019M42, leaving the forces of chaos in command of the shattered ruins. The Imperium had been pushed hard in the latest chaos offensive, but there had been no collapse in the Imperial lines, although all hope of an early end to the fighting now seemed to have evaporated.
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