Betalis III Campaign - Gods of War Unleashed: Out on the ice plains, the Reaver and Warhound Titans of the Legio Gryphonicus were closing upon sector 45-3, where the last sighting of the Aeldari Phantom Titans had been reported.To search the vast, arctic wasteland more efficiently, they had split into two. The first group, Demi-maniple Invictus, was moving across the north of the Alacian Plains, a single Reaver Battle Titan flanked by a pair of Warhound Scout Titans . The larger of the two Titan groups, Maniple Exaro, was sweeping up from the south and comprised three Reaver Titans and a pair of Warhounds.Both groups were shadowed by the heavy armour of Battle Group Odon, the few squadrons of Titan-killing Baneblades, Shadowswords and Stormblades that the Cadian 6th Armoured Regiment's command staff could secure in the short time they'd had to assemble the army.As the Aeldari Wasp squadrons launched their assault on Company Vengeance, the Reaver Battle Titan Invictus Nova and the Warhound Titans Tempus Prima and Magna Canis strode onto the frozen landscape of the northern Alacian Plains, the footfalls of the mechanical behemoths sinking metres deep into the permafrost as they searched for their foe.Without warning, five pulsar blasts slammed into the right flank of the Magna Canis from the mountains that edged the north of the Alacian Plains. The Warhound Titan staggered under the assault, waves of actinic energy flickering and sparking across its overloading void shields.With a command born of instinct rather than conscious thought, the princeps of the Nova and Tempus instantly returned fire. With their target hidden from sight, both saturated the mountainous border land with lancing plasma bolts, setting off avalanches that roared down the mountain ranges.The Magna Canis, damaged but still functioning, quickly recovered and added its own awesome might to the bombardment; its Plasma Blastgun had been disabled in the attack and so the Canis' princeps ordered his moderati to switch to its Turbo-Laser Destructor.An explosion from the super-heavy vehicle squadron suddenly buffeted the demi-maniple. A Shadowsword had flipped over, smoke and flames pouring out of its ruptured hull. Not waiting to suffer the same fate, the rest of its squadron split apart as another fusillade flashed between them, knocking out the tracks of one super-heavy and barely missing another.With inhuman speed the Machine Spirit (artificial intelligence) of the Invictus Nova calculated the fusillade origin point and located their attacker, although the Aeldari giant was barely visible, so effective were its Holo-Fields.It was one of the Aeldari Phantom Titans, and before the demi-maniple of Imperial Titans had time to react, it unleashed another savage volley, the energy bolts from its pulsar stitching along the ice only metres behind another swerving Baneblade.In thunderous concert, the three Titans of the Legio Gryphonicus opened fire, but only the Nova's five Apocalypse Missiles had the range to reach their mark and they slammed into the Aeldari Phantom's left shoulder, its Holo-Fields shimmering and flickering as they temporarily failed.Before the Imperium's Titans could follow up with a second barrage, a high-pitched shriek emanated from the mountains behind them. With an almighty scream the first Aeldari Phantom's Distortion Cannon discharged a seething bolt of black Warp energy into the heart of the demi-maniple. It hit the Magna Canis, passing cleanly through its Void Shields and wreathing its torso in a shroud of impenetrable darkness.The princeps of the two Titans watched in absolute horror as sections of the massive war machine momentarily vanished into the rift between realspace and the Immaterium and then reappeared moments later as nothing more than a twisted mass of darkly glowing metal.Unable to cope with the massive stress its systems had been placed under, the Canis' plasma reactor detonated. The blast shook the northern Alacian Plains, its deafening boom heard as far away as the Tormus Delta in the south, where the first Guardsmen of Company Retribution were preparing to deploy.Still kilometres south of the battle, the princeps of Titan Group Exaro desperately tried to make contact with the demi-maniple, but their repeated vox hails met with silence. Too far away to immediately come to their aid, the Exaro maniple could only pray that, when they arrived, the other two Legio Gryphonicus Titans had somehow survived.