Gathered about the holo-display the leaders considered their options.
Warmaster Mcbane - "Its clear we must strike before the gestation phase is complete."
Chaos lord Meda - "I have fought these tyranids before, I am due the righteous retribution in the name of the dark prince!"
Dark Apostle Heartdrinker - "Perhaps the dark gods favor an the penitent approach. Let us play a game of chance. I shall slay the cultist before us if his blood covers me i shall lead the assault, if his blood covers you, it shall be your honor.."
***herein follows a short period of gruesome violence, resulting in the death of a groveling cultist.***
Covered in blood, Heartdrinker of the Cocktrice warband along with the 115th asphodel traitor guard attempt the assault.
At the start of the battle
deployment assymetric: pincer attack
mission Siphoned power
Cockatrice legionairies start at the far end of the dam, the accursed cultists hide near promethium lines.
Deep strikers tempestus scions x3 and proxied avenger strike fighter. raptors.
Tyr turn 1, in a defensive effort the gene stealers and hormagaunts spread out maximally, to deny access to the back line of the manufactorum. The termagaunts pepper the Cockatrice legionairies, while the exocrine and the tyranid warriors fire on the accursed cultists. the carnifex charges the accursed cultsts, and the dark apostle.
Meanwhile in elsewhere in the hive city... Lord Zharkov engages the Black legion.
Lord zharkov plans a meticulous defense, while the black legion prepares the terminators in the teleportarium of the strike cruiser.
T2 Scions of the dark prince emerge from beneath the snow, and unleash on the exocrine with plasma guns blazing. Unfortunately it still stands...
The legionairies charge the termagaunts on the dam, while the cultists try to swing back at the carnifex, but its armor is too strong and its scything talons too sharp. Heartdrinker falls...
The avenger strike fighter unleashes on the tyranid warriors in the ruin.
The carnifex claims the right flank for the hive mind.
On turn 2 the mawloc and the raveners arrive. the hormaguants charge the scions. exocrine blasts the scions. Mawlock and raveners mboth fail their charge.
"there's too many!"
"Hold the line!"
The scions are wiped out and the gestation pools are secure for now. but the legionairies hold the dam and wipe out the termagaunts.
turn 3
More reserves arrive, the scions use grav chutes to emerge atop the manufactorum tower, more scions emerge from the frozen river. The legionairies eventually decide to move toward the exocrine in hopes of assaulting it. Raptors of the Cockatrice warband attempt to take out the carnifex. the avenger strike fighter fires on the warriors again.
"Bring down that purple scum!"
The raptors lose a few of their number but can't bring down the carnifex.
T3 - The raveners move to engage the legionairies and incapacitate all.
Affixing bioadapted mucus working as a grappling hook, the genestealers and the broodlord assault warmater mcbane and the scions
The hormagaunts charge the scions of the river, few die falling through the ice to a watery grave. The scions hold against the chitin and claws.
t4 the raptors are determined to break the carnifex. The avenger strike fighter is once again minimally effective, shooting at the exocrine but protected by the nearby venomthropes and their spore cloud.
At the end of Chaos T4 the assault on the manufactorum is looking bleak.
T4 tyranids overrun the last scion, while the raptors take out the carnifex, collect the bodies of warmaster mcbane and the dark apostle Heartdrinker, signalling the valkarie evac. The battle may be lost but the war for apothis rages on.
With alien vision the broodlord surveyed the strewn bodies of the the humans, it smelled the iron tang of blood and licked its long extendable tongue, over the nearby eggs of the gestating larvae. Then it turned back to the broken body of the scion before it, still quivering with life and terror. The tyranid began to feed on its prey...
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