The Mechanicus convoy marched unceasingly through the ruined throughfare ahead. The clanking of robotic joints echoing from the enclosing buildings to each side, occasionally punctuated by the bark of a stubbgun firing at some unseen target ahead.
Flashes of binaric communication flitted along the troops as orders were passed back and forth, each on sounding like a swarm of hornets flying past.
Skitarii Marshal Lau consulted the noospheric link to ascertain that his forces were exactly as he had laid out in the briefing plan. Each unit's Alpha had a copy of the plan and their units instructions to follow, along with a list of contingency plans.
Satisfied with their deployment, Lau took his place back in the convoy and they marched onwards towards the heretic's positions.
How the heretical cult forces had been allowed to gain a foothold upon the blessed soil of Curium, a minor forge but belonging to the Omnissiah regardless, was a query to be answered at a later date.
Right now, the Skitarii maniples had been deployed to crush the enemy and resanctify the world around the forge.
Two missiles corkscrewed from a building ahead, one bouncing off one of the Onager Tanks to explode harmlessly above another building. The second impacted the lead Onager Tank with a loud clang.
Lau allowed himself a microsecond of smugness as in waiting for the Skitarii to approach to a range where they couldn't miss, the enemy they hadn't given the weapons spirit time to activate and it had bounced off.
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Both Onagers turned and traversed their weapons to the building the shots had come from. A blinding flash of laser light exploded the frontage inwards with a roar of explosive force and debris and dust billowed into the warzone.
The loping, long legged silhouettes of Lau's Ruststalker unit disappeared into the murk and the muted sounds of rapid automatic gunfire were heard.
Below in the road the Skitarii vanguard units were fanning out to cover any possible counter attack. The lead unit firing their irradiated ammunition at targets towards the next junction.
Lau's attention was pulled back to the ruins as a long drawn out scream signalled a heretic being thrown from the third floor of the building.
The Ruststalkers had attuned their disruption weapons to maximum as even with Lau's enhanced augmetic sensors, the trooper which had cast the enemy from the ruins was a flickering blur of static to him.
He turned away as the gunfire down the road picked up. One of the Onager's sending thumping energy shots into the ruins, as it's supporting unit of Skitarii rattled firepower into the ranks of traitors.
Skitarii Marshal Lau recalled his forces and proceeded with a secondary plan to storm the junction ahead.
"In the name of the Omnissiah, praise the Motive Force" he vocalised.
"Praise the Motive Force" his troops vocalised in reply and charged forwards.
*****
With "Mechanicus March" nearly being over, I thought it time to post up the newly finished Adeptus Mechanicus forces so far.
Some of you may remember me mentioning this army which belongs to my friend, who can never be bothered finishing painting his own gear.
I volunteered after our game (over a year ago) and am now getting somewhere with it, the pandemic, work, life has gotten in the way.
But I digress...
To begin with here are the main troops, all thirty of the Skitarii:
Three separate units of ten infantry, each unit has an alpha to lead them and a selection of special weapons.
They are painted using this tutorial from Warhammer TV.
The bases are basic cityfight with a little rubble and some cat litter painted to match the ruined buildings I started and haven't finished.
Secondly are a unit of five Ruststalkers:
Again they follow the previous tutorial and basing scheme.
I didn't want the bases to be too flashy to detract from the miniatures themselves, so they're very basic but get the idea across.
This unit was painted entirely from scratch this past week, whereas the Skitarii above have been half painted for several months.
Finally, arrayed for war with two of their supporting tanks:
March forth for the Machine God!
Hobby wise they tick off two separate"Any Model" boxes on my grid.
I counted the Ruststalkers as one box being painted fresh, and all thirty Skitarii as a box together as they've been finished off, rather then fully painted.
So with the two boxes and another line completed this added 70 points to my total.
Now bringing me up to 210 points total.
I'm going to work on something different to the Mechanicus for a couple of weeks to refresh the palette of endless swathes of Red.
But there are the leaders of this army and six Kataphron Destroyers to be painted yet.
If I can ever get then off of him, a few Armiger knights to accompany his original Imperial Knight I painted way back when.
- Lewis
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