Now it was his duty to hold these three bunkers. Thirty six brothers and a vindicator tank were n't that much of a force, when you considered, what Inquisitor Torquemada Richelieu had said. The old Inquisitor had been assigned to watch over the Lamenters during their crusade.

According to the old man, the emperor's tarot had warned him of a coming attack by an ages old enemy of mankind. He'd said, that the human wolf would come to steal an ancient artifact from this ruined city - not that there was much left of a city to see!

Now Boda and his men sat in these recently thrown up bunkers and waited for an attack that would probably never come.

"This place doesn't even have a name", Boda thought, " just a number - strongpoint Alpha 372. How am I supposed to convince my bretheren that we can atone for our sins by doing garrison duty on some forgotten planet."

He dismissed these thoughts by praying the catechism of bolter maintenance.

" The white lion, leader of captains of the lamenters second company, surely knows what he's doing and placing these men on this spot must mean something", Boda said to himself. There was still so much he had to learn.

He was still contemplating this, when the comm net became active:

+++ we have contact. Three or four rhinos. A landraider. The Wulfen are here.. +++

Then he saw them coming along the jungle trail. The searchlights on the ancient landraider illuminating the horde of heretics.

He activated his own commlink:

+++ devastators wait till you have clear LOS to the landraider and then hit it with everything you have+++

Then he called for reinforcements and concentrated on firing at the almost invisible enemy in the gloomy jungle before him.