Points: 2000.
Deployment and Mission: Crucible Of Battle / Targets Of Opportunity.
Primary Objective: Take And Hold.
Detachment: Gladius Task Force.
Opponents Detachment: Awakened Dynasty.
This battle took place during the Imperial attack on Zann, specifically the campaign to eradicate the Necron forces from the deserts of the southern continent. The Rift Wardens under Captain Vortigern came under attack early on by a sizeable Necron force led by Orikan the Diviner. The Rift Wardens had fortified a series of fire bases surrounding the deserts edge.
Prior to the events of this engagement, Orikan's forces had been forced to retreat from the deep deserts after an series of successful assaults by the Deathwatch. The xenos hunters pursued the Necron forces, pushing them eastwards and allowing Imperial forces to consolidate and garrison vital sites in the central desert wastes. Patrols and reconnaissance by Orikan's forces soon detacted that the only way out was through the Rift Warden positions.
As the twin suns rose over the horizon, Orikan's force matrialised from the heat haze and attacked the space marine positions. During the fierce fighting, the tactic of advancing forward while aircraft straffed the positions and deathmarks assassinated important marine officers prevailed, while the main force supported by giant walking machines laid waste to anything else the Rift Wardens moved into battle. The space marines themselves werre unable to hold their positions under such devastating assault. Vortigern had no choice but to abandon the fire bases to the enemy for now.
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