![]() ![]() ![]() The Imperium was victorious that day and the battle would later be seen as the perfect example of A tricamerate Pact victory- Khazamga and Olea fighting alongside Xomia- three distinct worlds working together for a single goal. This forced the use of innovative tactics, bikers and horsemen would fight alongside armor, horsemen would charge into Ork units weakened by cannon fire, while armor would engage mobs weakened by Olea heavy guns or Khazamga lances, evacuating wounded or shoring up barricades and trenches, using their tanks and Chimeras as bunkers. The massive clash would last for seventeen straight hours and involve tens of thousands of Greenskins. Seeing such a large concentration of enemies in the same area one of the Warbosses saw an opportunity, throwing his WAAAGH at the city. This was the constant attacks drew Olea infantry away fro their construction work and onto the battlefield, slowing progress. Rough Rider units including the "Hard Chargers" flocked to the city due to a miscommunication- they incorrectly believed the walls had been completed as well. They came under attack almost immediately, but despite this they finished work on the central bastion in roughly a month. With the Szerkasian 20th were meant to protect them while they worked. The 22nd's orders were to rebuild several key fortifications as much of the wall as possible, giving Khazamaga Rough Rider units refuge and a base to strike from on the otherwise open plains. Their most notable battle during those months came when they were assigned to the ruined city of Sho‘rguzar which saw them fighting alongside Xomia PDF the famed Olea 22nd Infantry and several units of Khazamga Rough Riders. The 20th Szerkasian would go on to participate in the Liberation of Xomia serving alongside Medici tank regiments and units from the future Tricamerate Pact, using lessons learned fighting Orks throughout the Kashidaan and Kanye Clusters. It is from this period that the only surviving image of the tank appears- an appreciative Szerkasian infantryman gifted the first commander with a hand drawn image of his tank once the fighting was over. ![]() Someone remarked that The Leman Russ was the "Queen of all tanks" and after Killer Queen's crew laid waste to a formation of Killa Kans about to destroy a pinned down squad of regulars and she earned the "Killer" sobriquet. The first battles to defend Szerkasia also saw this tank earn her name. Her first crew(the names of all but one have been lost to time) were reportedly more used to tractors and farm equipment than war machines but they made up for it with superior local knowledge, reportedly catching an Ork unit in a landslide triggered by a well placed shot. Szerkasia had no tradition of armored warfare and so her first crew had to learn quickly when they were forced into battle with Ork armored units. She was thrust into battle almost immediately and according to legend she was destroyed during the invasion of Szerkasia by Hive Fleet Erebus more than a century later. She was built on Medici sometime in the 640s and was one of the few tanks not to be looted by WAAAGH Mukkrukka. ![]() Is without doubt the best known Leman Russ Battle Tank fielded by the Szerkasian Blackhats- specifically the 20th Regiment and according to the legends told by Szerkasian refuges and their descendants her career lasted for well over a century- outliving many of her veteran crews and facing off against every enemy that the Szerkasian 20th met in battle. Killer Queen ( zabiják královna in Szerkasia's ancestral language) ![]()
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