"The final showdown at Beta-Garmon took place when a massive force of traitors entered the system to rally their faltering forces led by Horus Lupercal himself. While the major blow fell at Nyrcon City it was merely a gambit, as the attack on the Diviner's Needle would prove. Bolstered by the primarch Sanguinius the loyalists got ready to defend the capital of the sector against the onrushing masses of traitors, entire legions of titans marching and dying fore mere handfuls of earth"
From: De Bello Titanico
House devine is mauled by loyalist volleys and destroyed by friendly fire
A phalanx of three Metalica warlords advances on the right, killing an engine in turn one
A second banner of traitors comes in from reserves and engages house Raven
When the dust settles just three traitors remain standing
Promptly evaporated by a volcano shot
The command engine of Metalica hides behind a building
Second banner of House Raven marches to war
As does another of Devine
The traitors make a pincer attack on the lone Imperius Damnatio
Stripping it from any void shields
The slaaneshi knights march boldly...
... only to be anihilated by long range fire from Imperius Tenebrus
The imperial knights sneak behind the enemy princeps seniores
The left phalanx has divided and comes around to engage the enemy
A painful backstab destroys the overbearing titan
Damnatio is wounded but unbowed, and kills a mortis engine with flank fire
Finally Imperius Quintus destroyed a third warlord with plasma fire
"And so it was, that the hateful traitors were routed at last from Beta Garmon II, the corpses of the once mighty god-machines littering the lifeless battlescape of the ravaged orb, in testament to the many sacrifices and boundless heroism showed by both sides. The fall of the Carthega Telepathica would cast the whole sector into turmoil, the war would move on to future battlefields, closer and closer to the beating heart of mankind. But to those men and women that fought, and died, on the myriad worlds of the cluster, that battle was more than a simple bloodbath, it was the death of a dream and a mournful funerary peal for the once vaunted might of the Titanic Legions"
"Legio Mortis, merely a shadow of its own strength, would go on to fight for the Warmaster in many battleflields, but the severe losses suffered during the campaign would see them relegated to a support role in future wars, and lacking in numbers during the apocalyptic attack on Terra"
"It is said that war, war never changes, but the ideals and dreams that move men's hearts certainly do. Princeps Pentecost and his legio found in the ravenous fires of battle, a flickering hope that the defeat of the traitors was possible, and would stand resolutely at the final battle of the Imperial Palace"
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