Conrad sighed Perhaps Brother Manus was not as daft as he had originally thought. He took a quick look at the outlying of the Planet the primary continent looked to be scarcely defended, and hte secondary continent appeared to hold only a contingent enough to keep the locals in check.
"Brother Manus" he intoned looking at the holoprojection, we need to concentrate our forces here at what appears to be a fortress built from the ground its self, it is no doubt "moderately defendable" and should be taken with as much force and as quickly as possible to disrupt communication."
if there was one thing the Iron Warriors under his command were good at it was laying a withering seige, only once in recent memory had they faild to hold a siege to its bitter end and Kurze was not in the mood to thiink about that. The emperors childern took their pleasure from the fight its self, they had a tendency to stubbornly continue through out the end, very rarely were they ever disheartend enough to leave a battle still not won. His Night Lords had a much more subtley way of doing things, much more akin to teh way the Conrad prefered. They had exellent night vision even without their helmets and visors, and they knew the way of fighting in the unseen places.
"If you posistion your forces here in this sector of the sub continent and press steadilly forward, I can swing the entiretyu of the Iron Warriors forward into posistion here" he gestured to a large building like area near the main out cropping of the structures. They will be effectively blockaded and ariel support they send can be easilly mowed down before it become a threat by both your Iron hand and the Iron Warriors meanwhile we break the Emperor's childerrn into smaller strike forces of about 100 each and send them in various points as a counterstrike measure, or a shock troop assault, whichever shall be needed more and quicker in our engagement. My Night Lords will assume a role as the back bone of our line here. (points to a rocky ridge overlooking the entirety of the enemy location) WE will wait till night fall to begin any major advance in posistoin and keep them covered throughout the day."
Ah the space marine each one genetically engineered to be as tough and more durable than over 5 expertly trained soldiers, as those soldiers are more well trained than nearly 50 battle droids. Even against whole armies it was usually only necessary to send 100 or so marines to take out their numbers, as the army struggled to bring its numbers to bear even in the largest of battles the marines with their small numbers but superior advantages would more often than not take the day as theirs. Here they had 6 Legions of marines more than enough to single handed ly hold a sector, over 50,000 marines the number was too large to accurately count at this time but kurze would bet the number neard 75,000 or more. and yet this was only a quarter of what the Light of Mankind had to spare, and more than adequate for this mission.
there was no need to get cocky though every battle was hard fought no matter the strength of the forces
"Brother Manus let us treat this conquest as dearly as we would treat the defense of our home world. Our orders are to not harm the local populace as much as possible. Alien they are, heretics they are, but useful to us the remain. If some happen to get in the way of our guns though, I doubt they will be missed. For the Light of Mankind my Brothers we strike so that others may be free."
