@High_Adept_Zeth Discarding the flamer the special weapon landed undamaged in the loose soil of the no man's land beside where Felix had taken cover, the guardians were paying his position no mind clearly distracted by other issues closer to them. Felix's fire managed to down two of the Eldar further thinning their ranks and making the Farseer further vulnerable to Imperial guard fire, a number of the guardians returned fire upon losses to their squad forcing the guardsman to either take cover or risk death, but the damage was done. @TechCaptain The frag grenade landed among one of the squads of guardians defending the farseer, with a loud explosion the shrapnel eliminated three of the unfortunate Eldar who then fell helplessly to the ground. The guardian squad continued to hold its position however as its remaining members were determined to hold out against the Imperial advance at any cost. The snap fire from the plasma pistol failed to kill any additional Eldar however as the more agile of the guardian squad managed to dodge the fluorescent projectile before it hit the action did however draw more attenton to Alton's position. @Kalle @Maleth The Farseer took one glancing shot to her left shoulder before the guardian squad reacted immediately saturated Saven's position with Shuriken catapult fire sending razor sharp disks flying past her cover with almost merciless abandon. Her concealment was little proof against the perception of the Eldar guardians who immediately traced the origin of the las and re-positioned to cover the opening in their formation. The damage was done however and the Eldar Farseer was clearly wounded but not quite dead yet. @Illfetus With the new arrival of the 233rd much of the attention was drawn away from the Veterans including that of the banshees, the Eldar now focusing their attention on the new advance had largely diverted their attention to the new threat allowing the veterans relocation to go off without any real dire threat to their lives. The banshees were distracted by the arrival of the fresh reinforcements and the impact of their wails dulled by the sounds of so many guardsmen advancing, the veterans had a much easier time aiming and thus managed to fell two of the banshees. One which was already wounded had the back of her head bifurcated by a single precise shot while enough was knocked off balance by a single lucky shot to the leg which impeded her movements just enough for the guardsmen to finish her off with bayonets. @Uriel1339 Vemont was unfortunate enough for his shots to only impact a member of the surrounding guardian squads which shielded the Farseer from attack, rice was fortunate though that another guardsman seemed to have drawn the ire of the Guardian defenders thus allowing him to remain out of cover without consequence for the time being. The shots then managed to kill an additional two Eldar guardians causing them to slump down into the dirt reducing the power of the Xenos bladestorm by that much. @UnluckyFellow The last remaining howling banshee confounded the aim of the guardsmen being able to almost contemptuously anticipate where exactly the guardsman would shoot as she charged from squad to squad killing almost everything in her path. Simon did finally get lucky when the Banshee finally got caught up in melee when another guardsman managed to deflect the blow from her power sword although admittedly losing both his lasgun and half of his arm in the process, the agonized guardsman using his remaining arm to grapple with the Eldar was finally hindering the aspect warrior's movement allowing Simon to finally be able to fire effectively extinguishing the life of the last remaining Banshee and ending their threat for this battle. @EvicusDasan1 The dire avenger squads had already suffered badly from the efforts of the 19th Valerian, now their attention was divided between the new advance and the remaining light infantry. their numbers had dwindled yet further by the fire of the 233rd, the shots of sebastev managed to claim one more reducing the size of both squads to almost negligible levels. The attempt to flank met with increased resistance from the remaining Eldar guardians who kept up their bladestorm upon the 19th Valerian making the move after a point to be almost impossible Sebastev was almost at the guardsmen he was aiming to reach but the razor sharp disks whistling past his position disallowed him from proceeding any further. ~ After taking the wound and her Guradian escort taking significant losses the Farseers's voice had lessened to but a gasp, raising her Shuriken pistol she fired at the guardsman advance as she attempted to manifest a Psychic power to strike against the attackers. Letting loose a psychic shriek she assaulted the minds of every guardsman around her suppressing much of the advance that was previously firing at the remaining Eldar and forcing many such troopers to clutch at their foreheads in pain their cries of distress reverberating across the battlefield. many unfortunates keeled over stone dead as their minds were extinguished by being too close to the epicenter of the shriek their last dying screams almost haunting to listen to. The output of psychic energy was only stopped by sudden impact of a bolt round onto her chest armor rupturing the protection of her armor and inflicting a grievous wound upon the Farseer, causing her to stagger backwards as she attempted to compose herself her breathing labored. The firer of the shot has it happened was the Commissar, the arm holding smoking bolt pistol was outstretched as the man himself was clutching at his forehead scowling angrily at the Eldar witch. The platoon commander was also clutching at his head wincing and leaning forward as he fought against the mental attack, upon its abatement he straightened up and yelled to all the remaining guardsmen within earshot. 'All guardsmen priority one target is the Eldar Witch, Eliminate that target and be quick about it!' To the left and right flanks of this particular engagement the Imperial guard advance had broken through the Eldar lines, the discipline of the Xenos resistance finally broken before the onslaught, their defenses broken the Eldar warhost was now fighting for their very lives in isolated pockets throughout the open field. In the distance the platoon could see the Autarch of the Eldar warhost waging calamitous battle upon multiple platoons of the guardsman advance, surrounding himself with the remains of his warhost it appeared that he himself would not last long too long before he fell.
The scream had given him one hell of a headache but he shook it off and stablized himself with his unaugmented hand. He let himself breath for a second then continued as if nothing had happened. He used his disciplined Skitarii lessons to keep himself on an even keel. Sgt. Alton grumbled under his breath at the LT (Platoon Commander) giving an order, he already did and acting like that wasn't obvious. Alton decided to fire off more shots of plasma with his pistol held in his bionic hand at the Eldar witch. He used his augmented sight to keep targeting her. " Suppressive fire on her remaining guard, Any surviving marksmen take off that Eldar Witch's head. You heard the L.T. priority alpha." Sgt Alton spoke over the vox.
Gunning down one and headshoting another Guardian,Felix licked his lips,pleased with his aiming.Such travesty did not go unnoticed among the xenos and some of them focused fire on his position.Only his reflex saved him,as he ducked in the crater. That was too close! And then a most horrible migraine climbed up his spine in promise of great pain it will deliver,as Eldar witch screamed.He could already hear the screams of his comrades,but that of little consequence as he gritted his teeths,his arms his head.For a moment his helmet became too tight and Felix thought that his head will explode as something was eating his brain! Luckily for `ol Felix,this was not the first time he was under psyhic attack by the foul alien.Images of his homeworld flashed before him and he tried to maintain self-discipline and somehow control the pain.Again,Sergeant Alton`s voice yelled over the vox,spewing targeting orders.Judging by his voice,he seemed unscrached by the attack and for a moment asked himself,how such a thing was possible?A flash of admiration ran by Felix as he grabbed his lasgun,clenching the weapon in pain.With his teeth gritted and pained expression,half-covered by his visory,he peeked over the edge of the crater,firing in Farseer`s general direction,watching more for friendly fire then anything else. OOC:Felix is not within earshot of platoon commander.
Pfiffer felt invincible when he and the remaining vets gunned down two more banshees, the day seemed theirs... 'Victory' Pfiffer thought, at least for this battle. All but sudden, an agonizing shriek set every brain cells of Pfiffer performing mitos at alarming speed, Pfiffer felt his brain about to explode and then all went white and black, passing out Pfiffer 'fell' down but in real he just sat down, as the gyro stabilizator hindered Pfiffer from going prone. So there, in the crater Pfiffer sat unmoving, with the power backpack still humming on with potent energy. Drools of saliva could be seen dropping from Pfiffers lips...
Wounding the witch brought a smile to Saven's face, one that was swiftly wiped off by the bladestorm by the Farseer's guards that forced the Hybrid to stay behind cover.... Then when the Eldar's psychic power was unleased upon the battlefield, the woman clutched at her helmet-covered head in an attempt to endure the agony she was suffering, which wasn't being helped by all the other screams of those dying or suffering from the Xeno witch's powers. When the pain went away, Saven gripped her lasgun tightly then popped out of her cover, levelled it at the Eldar and fired another high-powered shot at the witch. She wasn't going to let the foul Xeno escape the judgement of the righteous today, for the sake of those that died this day.
Shaking his head violently to get the Witch out of his head Sebastev began firing on the she elf and her retinue at low power as to hit them with many rounds and disorient them at the least. Enough for his comrades to deal damage.
@EvicusDasan1 The shots impacted on various points of the Eldar witch's armor as she went down causing sporadic damage but not quite killing her yet, she lay on the cold soil gasping for air as the remaining Eldar started wavering, their squads taking heavy losses. @TechCaptain One of the shots of plasma disarmed the Eldar Farseer as she attempted to block the incoming ball of plasma with her witchblade causing another wound on her arm, staggering sideways she managed to somehow dodge the remaining shots. The focus of the remaining guardians fire was being divided as the rest of the Imperial guardsmen closed in reducing the amount of attention being directed towards Alton's position. @Uriel1339 @Kalle @Illfetus The mental attack didn't prove fatal but it had put Pfiffer out of commission at least for a brief while, his hazy view of battle slowly focused as he recovered from the psychic shriek. He was attracting no fire from the remaining Xenos. @Maleth The shot impacted directly upon the Farseers helmet, the shot ricocheted off the armor of the already badly wounded but the witch giving a desperate gasp fell over backwards onto the cold soil, clearly she had nothing left to give staying alive only by sheer willpower. The guardians around her wavered and their discipline lapsed, their squads started suffering increasing casualties as their ranks thinned to only a few remaining members @UnluckyFellow @High_Adept_Zeth Felix's shots killed several of the Eldar guardians who yet continued to attempt to block as many of the shots that they could from the Imperial guard advance attacking the Farseer, the Xenos were getting desperate and their discipline was starting to break down, it would only take just a little more to see them flee this field of battle completely. ~ The fallen Farseer lay gasping on the ground, defeated after taking so much punishment she spoke loud enough for all surrounding guardsmen to hear, her voice was pained and almost delirious, she lacked the strength to manifest any further psychic powers and thus was no further threat to the remaining guardsmen. 'No... no... There is so little time left, this world has so little time left... May you suffer dearly for this Imperial vermin for you have woven your own fate and now face only calamity' The Farseer's eyes gazed up at an opening in the clouds where Artemis minor hung in the night sky, the shooting star the Imperial guard had seen earlier had grown into a ominous green fireball that appeared to be drawing closer by the second. Upon seeing it the object plummeted directly over the top of the battle and then crashed in a not so distant field beyond emitting a cloud of dust that covered the battlefield as it landed and causing the very ground to heave under its impact. visibility plummeted to almost nothing and many guardsmen had to shield their eyes to block out the disturbed dirt. For a while the battle became indeterminable, through the dust storm guardsmen could see the Eldar guardians running falling back from this area of battle, they were making their way towards the Autarch's last stand purposeless without the Farseer's guidance and shooting behind them to cover their escape. Even the fire of the avenger shuriken catapults largely ceased as the dire avengers fell back deeming the current firefight to be unwinnable, a couple of the remaining guardians who remained behind tried to lift the fallen Farseer to get her away from the guardsmen but were quickly dispatched by two successive shots from the Commissar's bolt pistol. The platoon commander closed in on where the fallen Farseer lay and leveled his laspistol at the head of the Xenos, not saying a word he executed the fallen Eldar. Around this scene the battle drew silent, there were no more of the Eldar warhost left to shoot and no further threat to the guardsman lives, visibility remained at almost nothing yet in the distance the group could still hear the sounds of battle waging as the distant autarch continued his own battle. The platoon commander gave no order to continue the advance instead watching over the fallen Eldar farseer clasping the laspistol firmly in his hands.
Vermont Rice had no exact idea what happened. Everything was so fast, blood was flowing a bit out of his upper right arm where he was hit by the Eldar armement. He had to shield his eyes when that collision occurred, the recent screech of the Alien still ringing a bit in his mind, but finally wearing off. Not letting his duty or purpose slack he regrouped around the Platoon Commander in silence, loading his gun through to be ready for more war. Though what would the enemy now do? Their leadership was crushed! None could withstand the hammer of the Imperium.
Sgt Alton holstered his pistol and sword, the un hooked his boltgun. " Alright Troopers job aint done. I want two groups one to help finish off the Eldar scum and second come with me to make sure that green comet isnt more Eldar." He gave the leadership one look that says they should have been taking charge and then headed off towards the comet field waiting just long enough for volunteers. " And somebody secure that witches weapons. Who knows what trouble they can cause."
With the execution of the Eldar Witch,everything died down.Felix stood up,dusting his plebian vestment,when something green...looking like a rock past by over their heads.Luckily,he had his visor on,but he had to dust himself again,since comet raise quite a typhoon in its wake. Hearing Sergeant Alton hollering,he regrouped with the others,clenching his lasgun in his hands.Bayonet at the tip of the Assault Lasgun was still clean.Removing protective visor from his eyes,he looked at the Sergeant,making sure not to yell too loud,lest the Regimental Commissar gets twitchy: "Sir,i volunteer for the pursuing group,sir!"spoke Felix curtly,saluting.
