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Battle Details

Type: Battle
Date: 334.007.M31
Sub-Sector:Beneheventian Sub-Sector
System: Prosperine System
Planet: Antroth
Victor: Unresolved
Draw: n
Influence: 5

Forces:

Dramatis Personae

The World Eaters
Tiberius Thanatos, Centurion
Kallax "Nightlord", Primus Medicae
Solomon Drakon, Champion of the Pits
Ancient Daegron, Contemptor Mortis Dreadnought

The Salamanders
Nocturus, Praetor
Vashtar, Centurion

Battle Summary

Prologue

After the fall of Virtus Prime, the Salamanders retreated in Antroth's fortified capital, Iulia Augusta. As the loyalist forces started to gain an advantage over the traitor auxilia at Porilia, they were able to send a fleet to attack the battlebarge Merciless and his escorts, locking them in an unwanted engagement and thus denying them the opportunity to bombard Iiulia Augusta from orbit or support their ground forces in any other significative way. Thanatos -in one of his always rarer moments of lucidity- understood that a prolonged engagement on the surface of Antroth would have soon left his forces out of armour and ammo, even though the temptation of another wholesale slaughter against the planet's populace was painful to resist. The World Eaters redeployed towards Iulia Augusta, bellowing their war cries as they swarmed through the outest city, towards the fortified walls.

First Blood

Praetor Nocturus of the Salamanders led a hit-and-run attack against the approaching World Eaters in order to lure the Nails-lost berserkers under the barrage of his company's artillery tanks. The plan was successful, and Thanatos himself was heavily wounded by a massive shard of ferrocrete that splattered his secondary heart and left him impotent and agonising on the ground, forgotten by his blood maddened brothers in their need kill. The force led by Nocturus suffered almost total losses, annihilated by the World Eaters despite their lack of leadership and the tremendous casualities inflicted by the Salamanders' artillery, safe behind the walls of Iulia Augusta. The Salamanders retreated once more, but not before having captured the inconscious enemy commander, now firmly in their hands. The Siege of Iulia Augusta had just begun.

Liberation Mission

Nocturus questioned Thanatos about the forces at his disposal, their next moves and the ongoing galaxy-wide war, without getting anything more than threats and insults from his rabid farnetications. The Salamander then asked about Isstvan V, wishing to know more about what happened to his brothers and why... this time, the berserker answered with great satisfaction, morbidly enouncing all the atrocities suffered by the loyalists during the infamous Dropsite Massacre. Nocturus gave up to the rage and beat the chained enemy commander, almost killing him. He then left Centurion Vashtar to deal with Thanatos, in order to question him further and get all the datas they needed -using torture whenever necessary and allowing him to kill the prisoner if utterly uncollaborative. As Nocturus went organising Augusta's defences for the incoming assault, a small task force led by the freshly appointed Pit Champion of the Merciless, Solomon Drakon, infiltrated the structure and killed Vashtar before leaving the city with their Captain, furious and longing for vengeance for the outrage he suffered, his mental conditions worsening as if the Butcher's Nails weren't enough.

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