Knightsblade (Warhammer 40,000) by Andy Clark

Author:Andy Clark [Clark, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2018-01-26T23:00:00+00:00

Runes swam across Sire Garath’s vision, picking out priority targets in the greenskin horde. His steed, Iron Drake, stood within a cannon slit set to the right of the Ironclaw gate. The embrasure provided his Knight with a limited field of fire at the attacking hordes, and with his ion shield angled forward and the armoured ferrocrete of the wall protecting him, he was all but impossible for the orks to hit.

Garath fired with a clench of his fist, and an ork tank exploded. The fireball engulfed a mob of greenskin mechanics, and sent blazing chunks of wreckage bouncing through the xenos ranks.

‘They’re as thick as bloodspiders on a carcass out there,’ he said. ‘It’s insultingly easy.’

‘True,’ replied Sire Reikard, whose Knight, Pyromancer, stood at the embrasure on the opposite side of the gate. ‘It’s more a case of hitting something worthwile.’

Garath grunted in agreement. ‘They’re more likely to starve us of ammunition than they are to breach the walls.’

Checking his strategic overlay, Garath saw hundreds of orks surge towards the Draconspire’s walls. Explosions blossomed incessantly as their small arms fire and bombs hit the ’spire’s void shields. The sky filled with fire, but still, the energy field held.

The return fire of the Draconspire militia was withering. Las and autogun fire punched through green flesh, while heavy weapons, gun emplacements and Knightly weapons laced the ork lines with shells and piled brutish corpses in bloody hillocks.

‘They’ve been doing this for days,’ said Reikard. ‘Will they never tire of throwing their lives away?’

‘A ghurgol has more brains than these savage beasts,’ said Garath. ‘They’ll keep throwing themselves at our walls, and we’ll continue killing them.’

‘Do not underestimate the xenos, sire Garath,’ voxed Sacristan Nilsoch, ensconced in his Crawler behind their position. ‘They have forced us to expend almost one third of our stockpiled ammunition in less than a week. The beasts’ assaults have gained the outer walls four times, and last night their infiltrator caste almost carried the Drakescale tower. Those xenos are still not all accounted for, and if Lady Suset had not led the counter-attack when she did…’

‘They’d have taken a single tower for a short while,’ Garath’s tone was singularly unimpressed. ‘Their technology is made from scrap and rubbish. They have no honour or discipline, and they throw themselves at our walls like rabid wulfdenkyne. Every raid by our air forces thins their ranks. Every attack costs them a hundred lives to every one of ours that falls. These xenos are going to break themselves against the Draconspire until they’re all dead, you’ll see it.’

‘They won’t run out of bodies in a hurry,’ said Reikard, punctuating his words with raking volleys from his gatling cannons. ‘I heard another two warbands arrived from the south overnight. We’ve killed thousands of the brutes, but they spring up as fast as we put them down. They’re like fungus after rain.’

‘It would not do to forget their heretical technologies, either,’ said Nilsoch, his lecturing tone rankling Garath. ‘The orbital augury suggests a

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