House Draconis - Delaying the Inevitable: Some thirty thousand greenskins strong, Drogg's horde advanced across the Valatane Plains. Upon seeing their enemy, the Orks roared their anger and charged straight ahead, Warbikers, Trukkz and other Battlewagonz or scrap tanks soon outpacing their slower counterparts, leaving them open to counterattack.The first to engage the Imperial Knights were the Flyboyz, strafing the Imperial forces before disciplined volleys from Icarus Autocannons fended them off.As the frontlines were about to engage, a huge iron ball crashed into High King Danial's formation, felling three Knights and collapsing Ion Shields with its sheer kinetic energy. The enemy possessed a Gargant, a Titan-grade opponent!Quelling the momentary surge of panic within his own heart and that of his Knights, High King Danial ordered the formation to shift and to counter-charge the Orks.At the front of the Imperial attack, Knight Gallants tore into the larger Ork vehicles, ripping them to shreds as other Knights destroyed those vehicles trying to ram them at point-blank range.Despite the casualties inflicted, the Orks charged on, embarked infantry rushing the far taller Knights and assailing the Knight's legs and vulnerable ankle and knee joints with their Choppaz. Ork Rokkitz crashed into Ion Shield or armour, while Heavy Stubbers roared back, picking off those Orks trying to climb the towering Imperial Knights.Several of the brave Knights of House Draconis were felled in that manner, the Orks breaking through the Knights' hatches to exact bloody retribution on their pilots.Even the mighty Oath of Flame suffered crippling damages to one of its legs as High KIng Danial's steed was charged by a band of Meganobz.As Warlord Drogg's personal Gargant advanced into the melee, surrounded by its escort of lesser Morkanautz, Deff Dreadz and Killa Kanz, a Macrocannon-shot rang out from the Draconspire's tallest spire.The gigantic shell -- designed to pierce a starship's armour -- was stopped by some Ork equivalent of a Void Shield. In response, the Gargant's secondary weapons opened up on the flanking forces led by the high king's herald -- Markos Dar Draconis -- and Lady Suset.Filled with righteous fury, High King Danial ordered his Knights to ignore the tatters of the first wave and focus on the enemy Gargant. A second Macrocannon-shot collapsed yet more of the super-heavy walker's shields, which seemed to anger its crew.The Gargant's colossal gut-cannon opened fire on the Draconspire itself, but the heavy iron ball harmlessly bounced off the citadel's own Void Shields. This inconclusive exchange of fire allowed no less than three formations of Knights to close with their quarry.Beset on three sides, the Gargant's shields collapsed. Imperial Battle Cannon fire and missiles soon found their mark, and destroyed the Ork idol's secondary weaponry and ravaged its gun decks.But the Gargant was far from defeated -- a strange energy weapon on the walker's right arm toppled no less than four Knights with one shot while its main cannon fired again, ripping an Imperial Knight in two. Warlord Drogg had by now exited his command-cuppola and defiantly roared his anger at th Imperials atop the Gargant's head.Angered by the mounting casualties, the high king closed on the Gargant within Oath of Flames. Having located the Gargant's main power core, Danial expertly directed his Knights' fire to strip away his enemy's armour before Oath of Flames' Thermal Cannon delivered the kill-shot.Ravaged by internal explosions, the Gargant tried to turn away but it was far too late to save it. In a catastrophic chain reaction, the Gargant's head was blown clean off its massive frame, incinerating Warlord Drogg in the process.The following explosion ravaged the Orks' ranks, but thanks to their Ion Shields the Knights of House Draconis were mostly left untouched.Grogg's demise and the destruction of the Gargant broke the greenskins' defiance. While some warbands still fought on, the vast majority fled the battlefield in fear.Those Imperial Knights that were able gave pursuit, further thinning the Orks' numbers before Killfist's army arrived and the siege of the Draconspire began in earnest.