Battle for Tsua-Lakor

Ready they stood for the upcoming battle they waiting, inside the dense forest and atop ruined monuments to god best left unknown. Silently waiting the Jaguar Warriors Space Marines waited to make battle with the bastard xenos. The calming whine of anti-grav engines was heard off in the distance as the tau tanks and troops begun to take up positions in the ruins of what was once a human colony in ages past. The tau waited and set up themselves, if they weren't going to be lured into an ambush thought Chapter Master Montezuma, then we shall have to make them come out of hiding another way. On the cox he ordered the advance upon the enemy's left flank a squadron of Lanspeeders to first target and eliminate the tau artillery and then move to disrupt the entrenched tau forces further north. He looked back behind him at the squad joining him was under the command of sergeant, Impotaka and behind them further in the forest was ancient Matoki a contemptor dreadnought who continued to serve the chapter in his new metal form.

The trees rustled with silent vengence, the Jaguar Warriors using archeotech noise supression systems on their landspeeders to make the as quite as the void. Through the trees and past the beginnings of the ruined city, the landspeeders rushed onwards towards the Tau, they came upon the sight of a grav-tank and blasted the missile bearing tank to oblivion with promethium and melta blasts. On the right flank Chapter Master Montezuma and his acompanying squad of tactical marines reading themselves in the forest, and at the first sight of  kroot in the building before them, broke free from cover. As they did vast magnitudes of plasma fire assailed them bring many battle brothers low, a Riptide battle suit stood in the distance to oppose them, Montezuma and his remaining men pushed forwards again to reach the kroon who had now also opened fire upon them with deadly poisoned rounds that felled more battle brothers. Behind Montezuma, ancient Matoki turned his attention to the riptide and the two walker readied to make battle.

Montezuma and his men made their charge lunging up into the building with powerful jumps, some even punching through the floor to the surprise of the kroot. None could stay Montezuma's wrath and he dispatched no less the five of the xenos in the first swing of his thunder hammer and continued to slaughter them along with the squad joining him.

Down the centre of the battlefield ancient Matoki marched forwards to the riptide battlesuit assailing it with his storm bolter and kheres assault cannon, his in built augur array making every shot land. The xenos battlesuit fired back but couldn't get anything through his inbuilt power field. Down on the left flank the Landspeeders passed through the city and spies the riptide ahead of them, but to there surprise a battlesuit with the marking of a commander surrounded by all sorts of drones sprung up behind them and together with the tau snipers hiding in the building the just passed brought them low just as they got a salvo off on the riptide, critically damaging it. Matoki marches ever towards and damage the riptide further, but it was the scouts under the command of sergeant Impata that delivered the final blow, brother Kakan used his heavy bolter to lethal effect it hellfire rounds breaching the riptides defences and finishing the giant xenos creation once and for all in a fiery blast.

Matoki turned his attention west but was unable to move further onwards as he was crippled by the tau commander who had come up behind him after destroying the landspeeders. Montezuma however could not be stopped bursting through cover by himself as his men went and recovered the wounded and dead, he ran into the lines of tau gunmen slaughtering them with ease, chasing them down for the glory of the golden god. Behind him came another battlesuit which he quickly turned to raising his mighty shield to deflect every shot the battlesuit unleashed at him. In a burst of speed after the initial salvo from the battlesuit he quickly changed from his defensive stance and launched to assault the battlesuit who was to slow witted to escape, with a mighty swing of his thunder hammer he smashed the battlesuit in two across the middle.

The scout moved up provided cover for their allies as the tau begun to retreat realising the battle was lost, the cost of victory was steep, the Jaguar Warriors being a small chapter, 16 battle brothers had been lost of injured in the fighting, some were not to be recovered most likely disintegrated by tau plasma weaponry or in the fiery wreckage of the landspeeders demise. But victory was to the Jaguar Warriors, and Montezuma now had to make further plans to rid the tau from the planet.