"Brothers, the Seventy-eighth Armored Regiment will provide cover for you."
"We'll do everything we can to draw the Titan's attention."
"Good luck."
"Understood, Colonel. Thank you for your support."
"For humanity."
Captain Kobel mounted a Marauder Combat Bike, while the rest of Second Company boarded Combat Bikes, Land Speeders, Rhinos, and other vehicles.
They surged out of the fortress like a pack of wolves.
Up ahead, the Seventy-eighth Armored Regiment had already launched its attack.
From a distance, it looked like a swarm of ants attacking Goliath in a myth. Masses of armored vehicles rolled over the lava left by the Volcano Cannon, charging courageously toward the towering Titan in the distance.
The towering mountain retreated step by step. Each blast from the Volcano Cannon mounted on its left arm carved a line of fire through the battlefield, swallowing the unlucky armored vehicles caught in its path.
To cover the retreat of this sole surviving Titan, the Imperial Army committed the Armored Legion that had already suffered devastating losses, along with a Knight Force held in reserve.
The two torrents of steel crashed violently into each other like surging currents across the vast plain.
The Emperor's Baneblade roared, its super-heavy hull crushing the assorted heavily modified Leman Russ models fielded en masse by the Dawn Army.
The Knight walkers swung their Chainswords, cutting down the charging armored units.
The Dawn Army had no STC construction templates for heavy vehicles like the Emperor's Baneblade. Most of its vehicles were assorted heavily modified Leman Russ models.
Thanks to the deployment of abominable intelligence and xenos technology, a Dawn Army Armored Legion far outstripped its Astra Militarum counterpart in size.
To deploy the new weapons developed by the Black Adeptus Mechanicus following the exchange of technology, the Tech-Priests had subjected the Leman Russ