"Finish this quickly." Evan was already urging the warriors on.
By this point, both sides had suffered "heavy casualties." The Black Templars' tactical analyst was already picking up a weapon to join the fight, while the action up on the platform had grown even more unrestrained.
The Black Templars' Combat Groups had adopted a highly effective approach, engaging the Adamantium Warriors in groups of three with the sole aim of giving the Marshal carrying the Concussion Hammer a chance to land a hit.
The Adamantium Warriors' fighting style had also grown wild. Those "Light Assassins" wearing Phobos-pattern Mark X Power Armour often used their superior agility to stab at our Tactical Visors, while the Adamantium Warriors seized any opening to grab them and swing them around.
They simply swung them around as weapons.
You dared to hit an Adamantium Warrior with your Concussion Hammer, but did you dare hit your own soldier wearing Phobos-pattern Power Armor?
That hammer blow really could kill someone.
With their opponents afraid of hurting their own, the Adamantium Warriors counterattacked. The "assassins" found the world spinning around them, and after several collisions, they tumbled off the platform together with their battle-brothers.
In this way, an Adamantium Warrior could often take down two Crusader Squads of Neophytes before facing off against four veterans.
In most cases, the Marshal managed to catch him with a surprise hammer blow during the melee.
Seeing this, the Adamantium Warriors waiting behind began choosing different weapons, such as powered Coiling Dragon Staffs. Those heavy, cumbersome-looking suits of Power Armor looked awkward and ridiculous swinging the staffs.
But the point was the staff. Beneath the hall's roof, these long-reaching weapons further cramped the enemy's fighting space. Above all, they had strength behind them: even if a sweeping blow failed to kill you,