The Paladins Eternal march is a tightly ordered ranks, perfect squares of knights and marines. Maximus walks at its head surrounded by his honor guard and several Valkyries orbiting above the legion, the 5th company of Blazing sisters walking ahead of the 2nd Cohort’s column. Behind the Paladins the Imperial Army follows in a reasonably disordered mess, men riding on tanks and chimera transports as much as they are inside of them. Now that the Paladins are together with the sisters and Erron’s battle Maximus begins to formulate his plan and make his orders over the Vox. [b]”Valkyrie one and two, do a flyby of Erron’s position. I need tactical data.”[/b] with a short word two of them veer off and begin scanning the unfolding battle. Maximus studies in real time as the armies clash. He pauses reading and re-reading the positions of the Void Stalkers fighting. [b]”Valkyrie one, re-scan and confirm position of Void Stalkers”[/b] [b]”The scans are correct my Caesar, visual confirmation of Void Stalker position.”[/b] Maximus nods silently, this situation is far more dire than he had thought if the Void Stalkers are bloodying their hands directly. He considers the data carefully again, running through the battle scenario in his mind before relaying his orders. [b]“First, Second, and Tenth, you will relieve Erron in the center, you will cut through any Orks in your path.”[/b] Says Maximus in an emotionless tone,[b] “Seventh, you shall be rear guard. Protect the Apothecary stations and our retreat. All other Cohorts, we shall drive the Orks back, hook around and join up with the main force of the Wild Blades.”[/b] Simultaneously each other general replies [b]“Yes my Caesar”[/b] but Domitius, continues [b]“What of the Blazing sisters and Imperial Army?”[/b] Maximus thinks a brief moment, [b]“The Blazing sisters will follow the spear head to reinforce Erron while the Paladins drive the Orks back, and the Imperial Army will set up their artillery and support the Seventh.”[/b] General Loch opens a vox channel, [b]“All due respect my Lord, we are veterans. I request a position in the tip of the spear.”[/b] Maximus ponders this for a moment before answering, [b]“Pick your hundred best, they will join the Blazing sisters.”[/b] As Maximus finished his orders Captain Antiope, and General Loch both reply with [b]“Yes my Lord"[/b] [hr] Maximus began detecting the battle on his short range auspex scanner, only a few more moments before hell would rain down on the Orks. He began picking up frantic orders coming from the wild blades as they fought for their lives beneath a ceaseless tide of Orks. He broadcast on every vox frequency [i][b]“Imperator Aeternum!”[/b][/i] as a battle cry for his troops to rally behind and a greeting to his brother’s legions. His targeting HUD began to light up with thousands of possible targets, he picked a spot near the crumbling center hoping that his fire would give his brother some breathing room. Seconds later each other Knight began to hammer away with their weapons scouring a path between the Paladins and Erron. The Blazing Sisters and their attatched Imperial Army followed the spear made by the first, second, tenth, and Maximus. Dozens of other rhinos followed the Sisters carrying hundreds of Paladin devastator marines and Terminators. The rest of the knights kept firing and began to veer off coming in behind the Wild blades. Maximus flanked by his Honor Guard and Generals finally smashed into the ork ranks, still hundreds of meters from Erron. Maximus yelled into his vox "Ignore them, we go to the center, crush them beneath your mighty treads!" The knights formed a tight group, nearly touching as Maximus lead the very tip of the spear, flame and bolter poured from the knights at the edge trying to keep the Orks back and make room for the rhinos. the rhinos had little trouble traversing the blasted gap left by the knights only driving though corpses crushed flat and a few orks trying to rejoin the battle. Domitius speaks calmly into his vox even while his titan class flamer purges a thousand Orks from the field [b]"My Caesar, they will envelop us soon. Retreat will be impossible."[/b] Maximus laughs into the vox cheerfully [b]"What gave you the impression that retreat was an option?"[/b] he asked rhetorically. Moments later the Knights where nearing the collapsing center and made a thin path for the Rhinos into the heart of Erron's bubble. The Rhinos entered swiftly and unloaded their cargo of Terminators, Imperial Storm Troopers and Blazing Sisters who rushed towards all sides and started to relieve the harrased Blades. The knights began to fan out as well and blasting the orks away from the center. Maximus says into the vox [b]"Brother Erron, You where expecting us?"[/b] Even as he said the words dozens of Paladin Eternal terminators found Errons position and rushed the Orks around him, using their massive bulk and strength to push the horde back several paces. A squad of Imperial strom troopers followed them and started firing around the newly formed shield wall into the orks, with General Loch and their head shouting orders into his vox and firing his plasma pistol. [hr] The rest of the Paladins came in behind the Wild Blades fighting desparately to join their Primarch and started to carve furrows into the ork lines and thinning the horde. The arrival of the Paladins and the destruction being rained down uppon the orks gave the Wild Blades a second wave of corage, they rallied and began driving the orks back with redoubled fervor.