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TalOS finally caught sight of the core battlefield where the two groups of Astartes were meeting. The first thing that took him was the mass of Astartes from both sides creeping their way into the middle. Behind the Emperor’s children were a pair of ornately armored transhumanism, which TalOS took to be acting in the role of commissars for their warriors. The mob of warriors they were championing were acting well together, but missorder was rampant among their ranks.
TalOS had done a quick study of the Emperor’s Children and learned that they were viciously low in number. The reason was that their stocks of genestuff were destroyed, This caused the Emperor’s children to never fight in number and instead take on that commissar role for standard mortal troops.
The irony of this moment was that, if TalOS were to guess, that this was the greatest number of Emperor’s Children fighting together at one. It was because of this they did not have teamwork.
Instead of teamwork TalOS watched as several of their number quickly began breaking line and rushing forward into the onslaught of gunfire that was provided by the Acillians. Many of them were not alone in this, about six of them doing so. These men were shot at and the Machine Spirits quickly declared them dead.
It was when TalOS reached a high point that he saw the full battle for what it was. The Shroudsalm had protected the Acillians and their Astarte’s kin from the worst of the 3rd Legion’s gunfire, causing the 3rd to try and cross the gap for the sake of retaliation.
Only to drive the point home TalOS elected to choose one group of his Acillian sons, +My Sons, join me in prayer to venerate the Machine God! Through his grace shall our aim to true and ruinous!+
To those words the voxcasters his sons had been using to maintain the cloud dissipated and instead prayer came. Each and everyone one of them giving thanks and prayers to their weapons’s machine spirits, which caused their aim to become perfect.
It was a slaughter in the middle at that point as Legionnaires were falling left and right. The Astartes who were sent forward to hold the middle, with Vadar among them, turning the middle point to their color.
As this happened TalOS looked into the sky to see that the Automatons flew into the air to be met by Astartes jump pack troops. Said troopers quickly learned not to deal so closely with these Machines as over half the Emperor’s children were sent careening into the ground with serious injuries.
To compound these injuries TalOS watched as the Dreadnaught walked his way onto the far point joined by the Knight. Both wrecked havoc and claimed another position for the Astartes.
