Mobility test.
The battlefield changed in an instant. Aside from your legs that had not yet been broken, there was nothing you could place all your hopes in.
Rhodes Island operators often had to carry out dangerous missions in complex cities, forests, and underground caverns.
Agile, sharp movements and the instinct to quickly find cover had become essential skills that needed to be mastered and refined.
The Doctor had already witnessed Leman Russ's immense strength and superhuman speed when he fought those strange Originium bugs. This test was more of a formality, allowing more data to be entered into Rhodes Island's landship database.
Of course... the Doctor also found it perfectly reasonable to add a little difficulty to the mobility test.
Before Rhodes Island began its mission, the Doctor called over all the operators best at long-range sniping. They found concealed firing positions and were to do their utmost to delay Magnus and Leman Russ.
The finish line lay at the far end of the obstacle course. Leman Russ looked helplessly at the sandbags, cement-filled fuel barrels, and narrow trenches deeper than a person.
Testing a Primarch's limits with such things would undoubtedly be an insult in their world. If it had been that hot-tempered fellow Lion El'Jonson, he would have silently drawn his sword and cut everything before him down.
At the whistle, the two brothers broke into a run.
They chose different routes, but that did not prevent the Rhodes Island snipers from assigning themselves their respective targets.
Firewatch, Vermeil, Ambriel, and Kroos set their sights on Leman Russ, fully drawing their various bows and crossbows as they predicted his movements.
Kroos lazily complained over the communications channel that Leman Russ was running too fast, forcing her to concentrate intensely just to keep him in her sights.
Vermeil,