Sebastev had advanced relentlessly, firing his lasgun from the hip in hopes to simply surpress the xenos. As he reached the first line Sebastev fell to one knee and waiting briefly for his breathing to settle. His rebreather assisted in purifying the air so he could recover faster.

He levelled his lasgun atop the wreck of a weapons platform and began firing upon the vile Eldar.

Vermont bit his lips and growled low as he went down on a knee, similar to a nearby soldier and started to let his weapon do the talk. The Krak grenades on his hips seemed so tempting... Ah forget the Lasgun! He put the gun over his shoulder, grabbed a Krak Grenade and threw it as far as he could, attempting to throw it against any of those aliens' heads! "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" He roared as the grenade made it's way across the battlefield.

As even more Guardsmen fell to the Eldar, Saven stowed her bloodied close combat weapons in favour of her lasgun and let loose a torrent of lasers upon the Xenos filth in a bid to wipe out as many of them as she could. Yet the flamer could prove a handy tool later on..... So she dashed over to fallen Guardsman that had the flamer and went to take the weapon for her own use.

Once done with diversion (even if it meant seeing off anyone else that had bright idea of taking it with a punch to the face) she readied her lasgun and continued firing at the Eldar from a crouched position which Saven hoped would make her less of a target, as she had no intention of dying today and every intention of wiping out every single Eldar that she could see.

"Good Work, Saven and Vermont. " Upon seeing Saven back off for shots, he battle slung his Boltgun and unholstered his plasma pistol. He also drew his Power sword. " Leave non standing. " His servos whirled as he closed into close combat against the eldar firing off shots of plasma.

@TechCaptain
Alton managed to kill one one dire avenger placing a shot through the wall of fire to impact the head of the aspect warrior knocking him backwards and out of sight of the rest of the platoon, The remaining dire avengers responded immediately directing some of their fire in the direction of the former Skitarii. Hissing disks of shimmering metal started to whiz past the head of the Sergeant threatening to end the man's life life at any moment.

Although afforded little time to equip new armaments while under fire Alton managed to do so, but as he started firing one of the razor sharp disks just grazed his arm holding the pistol, a narrow escape perhaps but the force of which still managed to make his plasma fire go wide to the point of ineffectiveness.

@Uriel1339
The krak grenade somehow managed to make its way through the wall of fire and landed close to the non suppressed dire avenger squad, the grenade went off with a terrific explosion but did little more than briefly disorient a couple of the aspect warriors.

@EvicusDasan1
Managing to find a lone guardian still holding out against the platoon advance the rifleman's accuracy was rewarded when some of the las impacted the shoulder of the Xenos causing the Eldar to twist in pain and fall down into one of the craters. The guardsmen closer to the wall of fire were attracting the brunt of the more serious Eldr return fire however leaving Sebastev free reign to maneuver closer.

@Illfetus
The explosive devices sailed through the air towards the suppressed dire avengers squad landing in and around the crater the squad was sitting in, the quick reactions of one of the Eldar suddenly saw one of the grenades thrown back at the squad the frag thrown with incredible speed as the xenos then dived out of the way. The rest of the lobbed grenades started detonating emitting the sound of several loud explosions in quick succession and the dying screams of at least one of the dire avengers who was not quick enough.

@Maleth
The laser torrent managed to wound one of the dire avengers causing him to redirect his fire, it was a mad dash for the flamer as the rain of blades started impacting the ground around the the guardsman with emitting loud 'spats' as they hit the dirt. Perhaps it was a sound idea to have taken cover as the battle continued to rage the dire avenger's aim surely must have been confounded by the slightly more agile nature of the half eldar.

@Kalle

@High_Adept_Zeth

@UnluckyFellow

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On the platoons flanks much of the rest of the advance had already impacted the Eldar line of defense and had successfully met the Xenos with the bayonet charge even after taking horrendous losses. One of the more distant Chimeras was destroyed by a brightlance shot from an Eldar war walker closer to another platoon, barely half of the special weapons squads it was carrying was crawling out of the burning wreckage.

The flamer specialists started to move forward advancing upon the dire avenger positions and moving the deadly wall of fire closer to the aspect warriors, behind them the Chimera continued to suppress the dire avengers moving to keep up with the rest of the advance as it did so. There were few members of the guardian squads left and even as the flamers advanced the last of the Shuriken cannons fell to the Imperial guard onslaught leaving the field behind the platoon free of enemy fire.

The cries of the howling banshees was growing louder and even as the platoon was beginning to consolidate six bone white figures leaped through the promethium fire towards the guardsmen their sudden attack barely hindered by the specialists torrent of flame. Wielding flickering power swords they quickly cut down several guardsmen unfortunate enough to be too close to the aspect warriors before advancing on the flamers seeking to end the torrent upon the dire avengers.

Even with the new arrival of the Howling banshees however behind the now heavily depleted platoon all the way back towards the treeline came the sounds of another trench whistle echoing across the battlefield from the trenches. Numerous more guardsmen started emerging from the trenches and started charging towards the conflict, it was the guardsmen of the 233rd New Byzantine that had been left behind to guard the defenses now being sent to aid the advance.

Sgt. Alton growled as he found the nearest Eldar and shot at him with his Mark V 'Wraithfire' Plasma pistol, ignoring a bit of damage to his arm. As he fired at the Banshees he dived deeper into his crater to get some cover as he fired. He knew they are what was keeping his squad alive. " Counter Attack the Melee Eldar. Saven, Felix redirect at them. Rest fire into the remaining Eldar."

Simon had continued to move slowly forward with the rest of the platoon, supporting their more...enthusiastic and borderline suicidal charges. He alternated between kneeling and standing positions as they started to push back the Eldar lines. He stopped with so much suppressive fire as the guardsman in front of him actually found success in bayoneting some of the guardian squads. As their advance slowed and the Chimeras arrived with the flamer teams, he started to put two or three round bursts into the Eldar trying to destroy the flamer teams and a few into the Eldar running away from them.

While changing a magazine, he turned back to his brother and even in the twilight saw that he was bleeding a bit. Simon ruffled his hair. "Dummy, be more careful or you'll lose your neck. Rifle time, you remembered to pack the AP rounds right?" He knelt down so that Andy could use his shoulder as a decent firing platform. "Might be a bit overkill but we need them to stay alive. Range is 200 meters, no change for elevation, no change for wind."

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Sorry @Kalle, was busy yesterday so didn't really get a chance to post.

'Oh shit' Pfiffer thought and tried to dive out of the way as he saw one of their own frag grenade flying back with great speed and in a low trajectory arc. The gyro stabilisator hindered Pfiffers attempt at diving so Pfiffer ended just duck-sitting on the mud. The frag grenade exploded and hurt two of the other veterans, they sat down screaming with marks of grievous spall damage on their faces, as trying to power down the power backpack so the gyros wouldn't hinder them when they tried to lie down and scream for medic.

With the howling of the oncoming banshees Pfiffer struggled to regain balance on his feet with the last remaining vets, and they all tried to direct and consecrate fire to one of the banshees. Hellgun and newer Hot Shot Lasgun patterns howled in unison, battering one of the banshees with armour piercing laser fire.

At the same time Pfiffer heard the salvation, another trench pipe shrieking, announcing arrival of reinforcement.

Gunning down one of the disoriented,retreating Eldar Guardians,Felix turned around as he heard the screams of the Banshees as they charged through promethean fire.

Instinct told him to seek cover,and so he did with a brief sprint,behind a Chimber,his flank hitting hard against the vehicles hull.From the screams ahead,it didn't take much to realize that some of the wenches came in for the melee.Noticing one of the specialists down,his weapon flamer beside him,Felix smiled as he rushed in for the weapon.

Pulling with his teeth pin from a frag grenade,he tossed it,into the Banshees that were too busy butchering.Dropping his Assault Lasgun beside him,he picked up the Flamer`s gun,promethean backpack still strapped on the back of the dead specialist.

Only lover part of his face visible,Felix smiled as he opened up the valve and squeezed the ignition trigger.

"By the golden throne how can they withstand that?!" 'Monty' exclaimed more to himself than anything else as he saw that his grenade barely did anything at all. The same grenade-type that was constructed to disable, if not even destroy, vehicles. These were not aliens, they were demons sent from the afterlife to reap their souls! But Rifleman Rice would defy death, he would not die today!

The distant screech already scratched on his brain and soul, but what should have weakened him, fueled him instead! He grabbed his rifle tightly and unleashed living hell himself upon the foes! Though instead of shooting at the screamers, he aimed his rifle at the very same individuals that he threw before a grenade at.


OOC #1: Not the lack of the 'a' in Demons (since IG ain't really know their existence since it would shatter their souls, yardy yar yar)

OOC #2: Attacking Dire Avengers