Honsou's warrior bugs were far from weak. The beetles measured two to five meters long and stood 0.8 to two meters tall. The abdominal limbs beneath their bellies bore four sharp claws, powerful enough to slice a strong adult in half with ease.
Their heads also had a pair of pincers for close combat, and their mouthparts had a powerful bite that could tear through ordinary sheet metal.
If the Imperium of Man's Astra Militarum had charged into the Webway without first establishing a solid defensive line, Honsou's warrior bugs would have scattered them, cut them off, surrounded them, and overwhelmed them.
A small force of Space Marines or even Necrons might have been defeated as well.
But what they faced was the Screw Clan's Greenskins, pouring in like a tide.
When their numbers were small, these Greenskins stood firm like reefs against the warrior bugs' onslaught. Once tens of thousands of Orks had entered, they began pushing Honsou's warrior bugs back.
The Greenskins did not enter the Webway alone. Some large combat machines were brought over as well, and the entire Ice Planet grew heated with their enthusiasm for battle. Looted tanks, Killa Kans, and Gorkanauts over ten meters tall rolled into the Webway one after another.
Had the Squig Webway Gate not been so small, the planet's tens of billions of Orks could have charged through all at once.
Once the battle line was secure, Boss Copperhead stopped charging into the fighting. Holding Little Slick, whose body had been half shattered, he roared, "Where's da Painboy?! Where's da Painboy! Get over here and help! We got an Ork who's nearly stopped breathin'!"
A Painboy carrying a bloodstained, massive choppa came into Boss Copperhead's view just as he sliced a warrior bug in two. He was about to charge