With the Eldar's weapon having missed her and the Flamer being nicked by another Guardsman, Saven decided not to cause a friendly fire incident just because she needed the weapon, as well as the simple fact she had more important things to do given that one of Xenos seemed intend on killing her. Given that she wasn't intending to die today to any alien abomination, she dashed over to the rear of the Chimera for some cover from the Eldar's weapon and occasionally popped out from her piece of cover to return fire on the Eldar fiend.
Seizing the moment as instinct demanded Sebastev dove into a nearby crater. As he lay prone he scanned the area in front of him looking for more targets while reciting litanies appropriate for the situation. He then turned his power pack on high charge, it meant less shots before a reload, but each hit would be much more powerful.
@Uriel1339 Monty's continuous fire managed to draw the dire avengers attention towards his position although not before his efforts were rewarded when one of the aspect warriors was slain by a very fortunate las tracer finding its way past the Xenos armor. Before the guardsman had even finished the return fire from dire avengers started pelting his position spattering the terrain around him with lethal blades. @EvicusDasan1 Without picking any clear targets Sebastev attracted very little attention from the rest of the battle, he could see the remaining dire avengers through the wall of fire still continuing to fire upon the guardsmen advance. he could also see the howling banshees tear through the scattered guardsmen as they attempted to break the assault, merely hearing the screams of the latter was causing mental pain and messing up the guardsman's concentration but for now he wasn't the focus of any enemy attention so far. @TechCaptain (*Dice roll* The dice gods smile upon you this day techcaptain, your character is unharmed... for now) Alton via a miracle managed to survive the focus of the Dire avengers fire being able to evade the razor sharp disks from the Avenger Shuriken catapults long enough for the frustrated Xenos to draw their attention elsewhere. The shots managed to take down another dire avenger further reducing their numbers. @Maleth The dire avenger firing at Saven halted as soon as the half Eldar was in cover behind the Chimera when she re emerged a fresh hail of razor blades impacted the vehicle hull resulting in numerous alarming thuds against the vehicle side armor. The Aspect warrior was keeping her suppressed but the timely intervention of Felix with the flamer meant the Xenos no longer had clear vision allowing Saven to move freely. @Illfetus After receiving one of the frag grenades in return from the dire avengers squad the veterans were fortunate indeed to have regained their senses in time to meet the oncoming banshees, the Xenos armor was hardly proof against the sheer armor penetrating power of the hotshot lasguns and the single aspect warrior went down in a hail of laser fire. The screams of the banshees was almost painful to hear as they drew closer however and although the warriors were not charging the squad directly it was all the veterans could do to even bring down one of the aspect warriors. @UnluckyFellow The bursts of fire from the autogun managed to wound one of the howling banshees and take down one of the last of the Eldar guardians still alive in the present battle, their position was attracting little attention from any remaining Xenos fire base allowing the guardsman to operate with impunity. @High_Adept_Zeth After forcefully taking the Flamer from Saven the burst of promethium fire from the special weapon managed to impede the banshee counter attack from approaching the Chimera directly and obscuring the guardsmen positions allowing both Felix and Saven some freedom to maneuver. The lobbed frag grenade landed close to one of the banshees as she attacked one of the remaining guardsman squads unable to disengage from the close combat fast enough the explosive device exploded engulfing the aspect warrior in shrapnel. @Kalle ~ A part suddenly appeared in the wall of fire a space forced open by psychic ability from a single individual that paced through from beyond, it was an Eldar Farseer wielding a witchblade and a shuriken pistol also followed by another two squads of Eldar guardians. Glowing with psychic energy she screamed through her translator at the guardsmen advance. 'Wretched humans! Your actions have endangered the lives of millions, you shall pay for this travesty with your lives!' The guardians rushed forward surrounding the Farseer and protecting her from any incoming enemy fire, her appearance had also redoubled the efforts of the remaining aspect warriors in their resistance and for a moment it looked like the advance could falter. The few remaining guardsmen were engulfed in a fresh bladestorm of Shuriken catapult fire torn to shreds by the sheer volume of shots from the highly accurate Eldar forces, those that survived were either lucky enough to not be targeted so far or were already deep in cover. Were it not for the timely arrival of the 233rd New Byzantines and the second wave of the Imperial guard advance the bayonet charge would have been finished, among their ranks the platoon commander and the Valerian command squad could also be seen along with the regimental commissar. Their appearance provided fresh momentum to the assault and much needed relief for the remaining guardsmen of the 19th Valerian, the Xenos now faced with far more guardsmen than they could take down at such short notice had their newly found resolve mitigated by the sheer volume of troops presented to them. This left only the Eldar farseer as the last credible threat to halt the Imperial advance, brimming with psychic power she was anchoring the Xenos lines if she fell the Eldar warhost would be broken. The Autarch wherever he may be will not be able to hold the defense on his own.
Sgt. Alton returned to cover by diving behind one of the destroyed 232rd Mechanized Infantry's Chimeras and lobbing a fraq grenade right towards the biggest threat to his men. Then snapped off a shot or two of his Mark V 'Wraithfire' Plasma Pistol from his covered position. Through his squad's vox channel, " Concentrate fire on the Eldar Witch and her guard. We need to clear the path for reinforcements." With reinforcements on the way especially the commissar, he felt that he must redouble his veterans squads efforts even if the force he charged with was mostly decimated. He didn't like the commissar because they are not needed in the Skitarii and this particular one ran off fear, it seems and not loyalty. Loyalty and mechanical precision is what was needed in his opinion not more fear.
'Die, just die' Pfiffer roared as the banshee went down, all left of it was a smoking corpse full of hole craters, like as the mythical zwisse cheese of ancient terra. The reek of burnt xenos anatomy and strange material were strong for Pfiffers nose. Still the situation weren't resolved as there are a few more still living aspect warriors screaming and making business short-lived with the poor guardsmen being in their path of blood. Pfiffer turned to left, and were about to run back a dozen metres to regroup as the veterans were wavering, with the last squad leader, sarge Athakin nothing but burned and charred meat lying there and there on the muddy field. 'About time, the reinforcement... oh fuq, worse, commissars among them, let forget about regrouping then' Pfiffer signalled to the other vets that commissars were en route behind them with the reinforcement. So regrouping were out of question. Now the vets, having regained sense, feeling their morale boosted by the reinforcement and bringing one banshee down, jumped to closest bomb craters and kept continuously fire against the last remaining banshees.
Knowing to attract the howling Eldar would be suicide Sebastev aimed carefully and slowly squeezed off a couple of high powered shots at the Dire Avengers seeing a guardsman being pinned down by their fire. Knowing they would soon redirect some attention towards him Sebastev began flanking around them to meet up with the pinned guardsman bouncing from crater to crater, behind wrecks, and whatever else presented him some protection. He began yelling litanies of fury that had been indictrinated into him at a very young age on Vostroya. "For The Emperor!"
When the reinforcements arrived Saven relaxed behind her piece of cover for a moment, glad that some other poor sods could continue the fight, given that she had been pinned down before the Flamer-thief managed to keep the Xeno from seeing her... Then she saw the regimental Commissar among the reinforcements, which meant that taking a more relaxed approach to her duty was only going to end badly. So Saven then popped out from her cover to see what was going on, and the hybrid's eyes saw the Farseer in the gap made in the wall of fire. Not willing to let a prime opportunity be wasted, she flicked her lasgun onto the highest power setting it had, took very careful aim at the foul Xeno.... Then fired, and her lasgun issued a few follow up high-power shots, just to make sure the fiend did die today.
Vermont Rice had thrown himself down in the dirt and ground behind some wannabe cover until the shuriken stopped slicing into his flak armor and land right and left next to him. Most of them were so tiny the only reason he knew of being shot at was the sound of it. But when it stopped and the reinforcements opened fire, he slammed a new mag in his rifle, jumped up on his legs and gave a fully concentrated fire upon that glowing-alien-thing. He never saw anything like it, nor did he ever feel anything similar to it. He only knew it was alien and anything alien had to die. That was one thing most humans agreed on, whether they worked for the Imperium or defied it. In concentrated silence he attempted to bring death upon the foe.
With a blunt boom! and a mass of earth and mud blown upwards,where banshees stood,Felix was satisfied with the result.It tasted good to fight back and to actually make an impact.It tasted like vengeance,and if he died today,he will die with a smile. Hearing Sergeant Alton howling new orders over the vox,Felix discarded the flamer and ducked,almost face first,in the dirt,in his new crater,his trusty lasgun by his side.Area stank of cooper,burning ozone and of alien materiel,but Felix ignored it.Wiping dirt from his face visor,he aimed down the Eldar host protecting the screaming woman in the middle (Farseer),opening fire on the Guardians around her.Switching his Assault Lasgun to semi-automatic mode,his clip size more then double the size of more common Lasguns,he opened fire.Training and decades of experience,guided his aim.
Simon hadn't really liked what he was seeing with regards to the Howling Banshees, the speed of the Eldar warriors was blindingly quick and took all his concentration to even try and follow the movements. Even at this distance, it was pretty clear that they faced a very real threat to the lives of his squadmates. Simon placed a new magazine in his autogun and started to get into a rhythm of paced single shots, trying to lead the Banshee's movement -and- not hit his squadmates at the same time. With the psychic blast and the farseer taking the field, he looked over he shoulder that wasn't supporting a large rifle. "I really hope you brought the AP rounds...The big and ugly one, range still roughly 200, all else still good."