"All Dark Angels have been deployed to the landing zones!"
Lion, standing before the tactical table, heard the report from the bridge communications officer.
But it was merely a notification. The Primarch's reaction speed and thought processes had already allowed Lion to deduce information that had yet to appear on the tactical display.
His decision to send his sons into the first wave of the landing operation was not merely because, with the Codex now useless, he wanted the Dark Angels to first adapt to Legion-era tactics and rebuild themselves to their Legion-era scale. It was also because he knew his sons too well, enough to anticipate the next changes in the battle by weighing their respective traits.
When the drop pod carrying Azrael and Ezekiel crashed down amid the fighting between the Death Guard and the Drakasi, launching attacks on both sides at once, Lion had already begun preparing the follow-up strategy for the landing operation.
Humanity possessed no shortage of strategic weapons and personnel in this Golden Crusade. That was why Lion considered this a well-supplied war.
First, there were four Primarchs. If necessary, the Primarchs themselves would enter the battle.
Then there were the Tyran Sector's Blackstone Fortress, Iron Man forces, Star Gods, Lord of Tyran, and Celestial Engine.
Among the Star Gods, Burner and Saranoga were with the fleet led by Chagatai.
The Blackstone Fortress had been taken away by Sanguinius. Sanguinius would only awaken directly from his coffin to join the battle when the sub-fleet under his command fell into crisis, so Dante still remained the true commander of the Blackstone Fortress and the armed forces within that sub-fleet.
The main fleet did not have a weapon like the Blackstone Fortress, one that could suppress Warp energy across nearly a hundred light-years once activated. But