Updates from the Front: The Line Breaks at Dardanus

The Line Breaks at Dardanus

[//spoolinload commencing+++]

'This stylized pic-capt, from the so-called 'War of the False Primarch', hails from the Imperial Archive (Bellum Imperialis) on Saint Odo’s World, Sector Callimitas. It has been tentatively identified as a first-generation replica of an agitprop item issued to the ruling caste of the world in the later stages of the war to galvanize support for the Pentarchy.' 

[//Partisan Guardsmen flee in the face of the advancing Red Talons+]
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'Even as those Chapters cleaving loyally to the rightful rule of the High Lords made gains in the Heliopolis subsector, the thrice-accursed Quadrargenta traitors had dug in at key junctions near or on the warp-routes in the subsector, prompting a static war of pure attrition.'

'The result was seemingly expected by the Red Talons, who had haunted the Partisan chapter of the [//redacted+] since the beginning. When a cluster of three of the brutal Polemarchs of that benighted Chapter were revealed to be cooperating in fortifying the world of Dardanus, Lord Autek Mor wasted little time in committing a large contingent of his Talons to the assault.'

 

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'The tactics used were typical to the Red Talons' method of war, with Mor deploying an overwhelming force of armoured spearheads in the wake of the first devastating barrage.'

'The Land Raider in the pict-capture appears to be non-standard, with additional armoured panels and prow, decked out with a Heliopolian pattern Mk.V Thunderfire assault-turret and ancient volkite sponsons. This would likely lead to a diminished transport capability, something the Talons were known to eschew in a direct assault if superiority of fire could thereby be achieved.'

 

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'The human defenders, bereft of anti-tank-grade weaponry and lacking substantial Astartes support, would not have lasted long faced with such weaponry. Hench the title we can assume…now, moving on to our next exhibit, we see…” +++DATASPOOL TERMINATED+++

[//extr. Museion Tempestus archival logs A tour of the West Gallery circa M33, pre-Liquidation.+]


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