The three warriors took off running again, leaving the Bloodletter utterly baffled.
Anthony: We might fight like maniacs, but we're not brainless idiots like you lot who only know how to slash, slash, slash. The battle on Olaye had been publicized as a textbook example of warfare.
After Kazhaniv had chopped off the enemy Death Guard's feet, Chapter Master Evan had ordered everyone to pull back and drown the enemy in firepower.
Wasn't this exactly the same situation? The warriors pulled out their Bolters and began target practice. The pitiful Bloodletter returned to the Warp amid its own cries of, "You're all cowards!"
Of these three warriors, the first two were sons of the White Scars and the Imperial Fists.
The third warrior carried Luna Wolves gene-seed. Gene-seed stored the combat experience of its previous warrior and slowly passed it on to the next over time. However, the Luna Wolves gene-seed seemed to be original stock. As with an official large-scale founding, a sample of gene-seed would be selected and cultivated inside specially designated slaves for five years, producing two mature gene-seeds. After fifty-five years of cultivation, this process would yield enough gene-seed for a thousand men.
The combat experience within these seeds was negligible. This warrior would have to work several times harder than the others to acquire comparable fighting skills and experience.
Elsewhere in the desert, the hastily assembled army was on the march.
The Sentinel Walkers arrived late. They were ultra-ultra-ultraminiature versions of Titans, classified as single-pilot, bipedal all-terrain vehicles, generally used for reconnaissance or to provide infantry regiments with fire support.
On rough terrain that tanks couldn't climb, fire support fell to them.
Generally, Sentinels dedicated to reconnaissance had only one "Mechanical Arm Equipment Sequence," fitted with a multilaser or Plasma Cannon. Missile launchers and Autocannons