The Battle for Kenrac

Among the initial objectives of the Dark Angels as they pushed outwards from Triplex was the world of Kenrac, its modest industrial output marking it as a target of some value in the ongoing war for the Thramas sector. Before the arrival of the Dark Angels, the Night Lords had seen to the extermination of Kenrac's planetary defence force and begun a process of forced conscription in order to form new slave regiments to feed the war effort, and it would be these forces and a small core of Night Lords warriors that would oppose the Dark Angels’?landings. The Lion assigned elements of the 19th and 7th Orders to the assault, placing Logaine, Knight-praetor of the 17th Order and Marshal of the Firewing, at the head of the battlegroup, his orders clear elimmate all occupying forces and secure the planet for the First Legion.

Kenrac世界是黑暗天使軍團從Triplex向外推進的最初目標之一，其適度的工業(yè)產出使這個世界成為了薩拉馬斯星區(qū)正在進行的戰(zhàn)爭中有價值的目標。在黑暗天使到來之前，人們已經(jīng)看見午夜領主軍團處決了Kenrac的行星防御部隊，并且開始了強制征兵來形成新的奴隸兵團以滿足戰(zhàn)爭的需要，而就是這些凡人奴隸部隊和一小群午夜領主軍團戰(zhàn)士將要面對登陸星球的黑暗天使部隊。萊昂派遣了來自第19和第7騎士團的分隊執(zhí)行進攻任務，并且指派第17團騎士團的騎士執(zhí)政官兼火翼元帥洛凱恩指揮該戰(zhàn)斗群。洛凱恩接受的命令是：剿滅當?shù)厮械恼碱I軍，確保這個世界落入第一軍團之手。

Rather than waste manpower and munitions in the direct annihilation of the slave regiments that the Night Lords placed in the frontline, Knight-praetor Logaine made use of the Fire wing's doctrine of precise strikes and the careful accumulation of intelligence. Initials attacks on the surface were limited to small Firewing teams of Seekers and reconnaissance Legionaries directed to plot enemy positions and secure the Night Lords overseers scattered amongst the bulk of the slave regiments. With the information gained from traditional scouting and the interrogation of the captured Night Lords, the location of the main Night Lords host itself was quickly ascertained, these forces would be the main target of any assault, leaving the ill-motivated conscripts out of the real battle for the planet. The final assault would come suddenly and with overwhelming force, with the bulk of the Dark Angels battlegroups heavy assets landing with pinpoint precision amongst the Night Lords' own units, seeking to overwhelm them with the sheer speed of their assault. Without the screening force of slave-soldiers, the small Night Lords garrison found itself hopelessly outnumbered, with even their command post within the fortified hive spire swiftly falling to the onslaught of?a combined force of?heavy transport vehicles and Terminator assault squads.

騎士執(zhí)政官洛凱恩并未浪費人力和彈藥去直接摧毀午夜領主軍團安排在前線奴隸兵團，他祭出了火翼精準進攻的信條，仔細進行情報收集。黑暗天使軍團在地面的第一波進攻僅由尋路者和偵察兵組成的小規(guī)?；鹨硇￡爤?zhí)行，他們暗中偵查敵軍位置，確保擔任監(jiān)軍的午夜領主們分散到奴隸兵團的大部分部隊中。利用常規(guī)偵查和審訊被俘的午夜領主軍團戰(zhàn)士所獲取的信息，黑暗天使們很快就確定了午夜領主主力部隊的方位——這些部隊將成為黑暗天使所有進攻行動的主要目標，將那些缺乏斗志的凡人征召兵排除在星球上真正的戰(zhàn)斗之外。最終進攻突然以壓倒性的力量展開，黑暗天使戰(zhàn)斗群的大量重型裝備將會精確地降落在午夜領主自己的單位之間，試圖用進攻的純粹速度來壓倒敵軍。沒有了奴隸士兵組成的掩護部隊，那些小規(guī)模的午夜領主駐軍發(fā)現(xiàn)自己陷入寡不敵眾的絕望境地，甚至連他們位于要塞化巢都尖塔內的指揮部也迅速淪陷——由黑暗天使重型運輸載具和終結者突擊小隊組成的聯(lián)合部隊屠殺了他們。