The Ilyrian Crusade
During the Ilyrian Crusade, the Corsican 523rd was deployed as an occupation force on the planet Verus. It had previously been ‘conquered’ by the Space Marines, but the remaining heretics were anything but submissive. After making contact with one such heretic warband, Colonel ‘Blitzkrieg’ Caine personally gave chase. However, he soon found he had fallen into a shrewd enemy commander's trap. Fortunately for Caine, he was rather shrewd himself and had split his pursuit force into two formations for just such an unlucky occasion...
