The Adrantis Endeavour: Sitrep 03
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Our protagonists from our opening two Sitreps went head-to-head in Phase 2 of the Adrantis Endeavour, so we have to cover their epic clash, both having been reinforced up to 1000 points!
Chris gave us the following write-up, straight from the battlefield!
The Salamanders seized the initiative, surging onto two objectives with Tactical Squads while a Rhino packed with Pyroclasts and their Praetor thundered toward a third.
Their Vindicator roared first, its demolisher shell annihilating three Sons of Horus from the 23rd.
The Warmaster’s sons struck back with fury, a Rhino bursting from cover, disgorging Reavers and Chief Herald Draegor Malith straight into Salamanders holding the midfield. In a storm of blades and brutality, the Loyalists were torn apart. Draegor himself bellowed praises to Horus as he butchered their centurion before the traitor’s axe could fall.
Turn two saw the Pyroclasts advance, unfazed by the massacre unfolding, while another Salamander squad, unflinching despite the carnage, unleashed disciplined bolter fire into the Reavers. Four sons fell in the dust of Adrantis IV, halting their reckless charge across the battlefield.
The Vindicator pivoted and smashed its cannon into the Reavers’ Rhino, crippling it. But the Sons were undeterred. The Reavers fell back into their transport, which roared forward again in a desperate thrust. Legionaries of the 23rd sprinted through the Vindicator’s kill zone to secure the ground their brothers had bled for. Then the Pyroclasts struck. Disembarking at last, they unleashed their infamous firepower. Sons of Horus were reduced to molten ceramite as the Salamanders claimed their side of the field.
Elsewhere, the Reavers surged once more, lightning claws tearing through Loyalist Legionaries and ripping them from their objective in a storm of gore. As the battle neared its climax, Contemptor Orrek Droskar sought to end it in his forces’ favour. His conversion beamers lanced across the field, one shot striking the enemy Praetor, the other falling wide. Wounded but alive, the Salamander leader endured… for now.
When the dust settled, it was the Sons of Horus who held the ground, forcing the Salamanders back in bitter retreat. For the Warmaster. Lupercal! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Despite this heroic and brutal victory for Traitors, the wider campaign did not fare as well for the followers of Horus, with the Loyalists starting to pull out the slimmest of margins.
The Adrantis System
As confusion and chaos reigned, friends became foes and kinships shattered. As neither side controlled an advantage, the forces began to coordinate their efforts.
Due to incoming reinforcement flows from the Istvann system and Segmentum Solar, coherent fighting forces began to take shape.
As the small splinter groups from the loyalist forces scattered to secure as many planets in the Adrantis System as possible, the traitors, embittered by their lack of progress, hounded the loyalists to the drop zones and fell upon them with fury and dark zeal.
The loyalists knew the traitors were fully committed and used this to their advantage, with feints, strikes and Fade tactics, they bloodied the disorganised traitor forces before they could fully deploy.
