From the moment the Tempestus had Landed with Inquisitor Mannelowe the 5th Inquisitorial Regiment had been out of their element, a fact they were none too pleased with, and outperformed by the Catachan 2nd at almost every turn. This outperformance ceased the moment the Catachan 2nd had found an old abandoned city, one that was not fully taken over by the heathens and heretical 'Goa'Uld', that required the Tempestus Scion's urban warfare expertise.
General Reszko tried not to look excited at the news during the briefing but the truth of the matter was he had ordered his men to be ready to move onto the city the moment it had been discovered within the no man's land. His excitement was only contained knowing he would have to use only half of the forces at his disposal, with the other half to stay on defensive duties around the Inquisitors ship. The city in question had been swept by recon forces a day earlier, it was already swarming with the enemy, three regiment equivalents, and many of the open areas within the city had been transformed into air strips and docking bays for their damnable ships and artillery strikes were out of the question which meant he had to force these 'Jaffa' out of the city the old fashion way.
The battlemaps were brought before him and the company commanders had gathered along with the Catachan 2nd who were there to either kill the fleeing foes or provide cover for their retreat. The city was set up to be within sight of the ancient temple, where the Ring Jaguar Squad had found, was set up and the 'houses' were made of a sturdy stone with the walls thick and strong enough to withstand small arms fire and standard breaching charges so there were a few options available to the Scion General. Grenadier squads supported by tanks and Chimera's filled with the remaining troops could try storming the main entrances but by the looks of the larger staff cannons he didn't like the chances of survival. Air support would be limited to keeping their own aerial units busy so it cut out dropping bombs into the city. The general was inspecting the Servo Drone's rendered holo map of the city, looking at the walls of the city, the ancient stone was giving him grief, if he blew a hole in the walls he would then have to defend it later on as well as the other entrances and that's only if he could make the breach work.
Thats when it hit the general, creating a breach would only create yet another point of entry to defend later on down the line, he looked over the city with a creased forehead and Recaff in hand. When he finally sighed and resigned himself to using the weapon he hated relying on most.
The Nerve Gas.
"Contact our onboard Logistician" The General sighed speaking to the room. They went silent at his decree "Tell him we require thirteen High Yield Nerve Gas explosives, high potency, and we need them to be airborne only, no contact"
"Sir how are we going to get them into the city" The Third Company's commander stepped forward. "With that many explosive devices you'd need to invade the city just to get them in or drop them from aircraft"
"Seven stealth strike teams will enter the city and place the explosives in various areas" The general responded highlighting the various zones "an eighth stealth strike team will attempt to plant Melta Mines on as many of the aircraft as possible to destroy and disable as many as we can, once the mines have been detonated and they are on alert then we will detonate the nerve gas. Once the Gas has reached its critical mass then we don anti gas gear and move down the streets with three Leman Russ Annihilator variants and two Leman Russ Exterminator Variants as support"
"The Leman Russ Exterminator are to remain on ridgelines close by to the city as anti air until our own fighters are able to come into the area" Raszcko pointed out said ridgeline upon the holo map "then they may join with the main assault if needed, with only three Anihilators we will be sending them down main streets only to clear out the heaviest of their resistance and to take the cities square in the middle, once we have it then we can begin with phase two."
"Holding the damn thing" Straken interjected, earning a few sour looks from around the room for interrupting.
"Correct Colonel" The General did not seem as annoyed as some of his own Lieutenants and Colonels "we will be digging underneath the large central building to create our command bunker and leaving the top as barracks space. The square will be turned into a Valkyrie landing zone and we will be setting up heavy weapons positions and auto turrets in as many places as we can"
"Lord Inquisitor Mannelowe intends this to be the first victory on the way to taking this entire planet from this false god 'Zues' and his Jaffa" Raszko looked around the room at his commanders "Therefore this Operation has been named Primo Victoria"
"I don't need to tell you the stakes" Raszcko raised his eyes to look around the room "you all know not to disappoint a Lord Inquisitor"