Editing The 13th Black Crusade (section)

===Close And Personal===

[[File:BFGA2_Hordes_of_Chaos.JPG|thumb|right|It never ends.]]

Drop-ships closed the distance, and the defenders of Kasr Kraf were suddenly given something to worry about as [[Dreadclaw]] drop pods came shrieking down unto the ramparts. [[Word Bearers]] and [[Alpha Legion]] Traitor Astartes deployed and opened the engagement. Shock troopers were deployed to counter these incursions, but the Legionnaires raised blasphemous icons, summoning daemons to bolster their attack. What was an already tough fight became a battle for survival.

It was much the same everywhere, as redoubt and gun emplacements fell from within, their defenders overwhelmed by the tide of Daemonkin. Many fled, only to be cut down by hellblade and claw, but many more still fought to the last, their defiance spurred on by the fiery sermons of their Ministorum priests.

Nowhere was the fighting harder than at the Shrine of Saint Morrican, as the blazing faith of the Sisters of Battle goaded the Daemons into attacking that sacred ground time and again. The surviving sisters of the many Orders there never took a step back, and under the determined gazes of their '''Canonesses Eleanor and Genevieve''', threw back the ravening hordes with bolter and holy flame.

The first drop-ships to make it planetside landed on the East of Kasr Kraf, deploying Daemon-engines with the aim of reaching the eastern curtain wall. The Cadian 252nd was stationed nearby and ambushed them, sending the first wave straight to hell. The Chaos [[Baneblade]]s that followed however were not even slowed, and their counter-barrage brought down part of the curtain wall, which buried three squadrons of [[Leman Russ Battle Tank|Leman Russ tanks]] as veangence. Skull-decorated [[Rhino]] transports roared from behind the Baneblades and moved to exploit the new breach.

The remaining makeshift defenses of Kasr Jark came under Iron Warriors bombardment. Orven Highfell ordered his brothers into their transports to sally forth for an assault. [[Warsmith]] '''Krom Gat''' had anticipated this, and had fortified the approach to his location with drop-bastions and cursed aegis to slow down the furries. This did not deter the Sons of Russ, as they swept away all opposition in their way, [[Not As Planned|and used Krom's own trenches as cover against his artillery barrages]].