Battle under the city of Paimanah, Parvana Mahrukh System. Horus Heresy campaing game 7

This is part 7 in our campaign of Parvana Mahrukh, set in the world of Horus Heresy, 30k
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In the last game we saw the Expeditional Protection Force managing to protect most of their collected taxes and valuables from the greedy hands of the Eastern Fringe Trading Company.
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2019/11/battle-under-city-of-paimanah-parvana.html

This game was played in November or something so its hight time for a report from it...



In this part we will follow one of the many minor skirmishes under the city of Paimanah located in the Khurshid area.
We wanted to test an even smaller game and decided on a 500pts force.


The Solar Auxilia of the Eastern Fringe Trading Company under the command of Legate Commander Ryabov Vaniamin had been tasked to clear out the forces of the Expeditional Protection Force in this area.
And a small task force was set together for this mission.

The Servo automatas under the Companys hands scans the corridors for enemies.

Grenadiers in power armour from the Expeditonal Protection Force moves in to counter the encroachment.

The Servo automatas and the Enginseer rounds a corner and makes contact with the Grenadiers.

Tight corridors packs any movement.

At the end of the room an battle automata are ready to meet the Grenadiers...

Vicious close combat are still being battles in the corridors. The Command squad of the militia force has joined in.

Outflanking sentinels tries to use their autocannons against the Battle automata as the grenadiers unleashes fire at point blank range...

The dead are mounted up and the survivors are getting fewer..

An lasrifle reduced squad joins in to tip the numbers in the favour of the Eastern Trading Company.

Legate Commander Ryabov Vaniamin prepairs to engage the sentinels with his power fist.

And he and the last survivor of a lasriffle squad charges the sentinels...

Debris is falling on the combatants of this Zone Mortalis as the battle rages on overhead. An massive explosion from the battle in the city must have set loose a couple of rocks.

The copbats are still raging...

An lasrifle squad charges the grenadiers pinned in combat by the Battle automata.

The militia Commander, that I have some trouble identifing at the moment but I think it is Commander Ackerman is seen moving around this combat.

Milita Commander Ackerman charges in on Legate Commander Ryavov Vaniamin as he is battling the Sentinells.
But he stopped in his track from a mighty powerfist to the face...

All fell from the might of Legate Commander Ryabov Vaniamin and the area was in the hands of The Eastern Trade Company...

So there we have the third part of the battles around the city of Paimanah. What we can see now is that the Expeditional Protection Force had been pushed away from their checkpoints and tollbooth on the surface, been pushed away from the surrounding areas under grown but they had managed to relocate or extract almost all of the valuables and wares collected in the area.

So the Eastern Trade Company had manage to, at least on paper claim ownership of the area but their main price of all the collected wealth had eluded them...
The quick gain of monetary gains from the previous battle seems to evade them. It had been a costly victory.





Better pictures of Legate Commander Ryabov Vaniamin and the Castelax battle automatas can be seen in this post:
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2019/11/solar-auxilia-legate-commander-and.html