In stealth, the Scions awaited the Lord of Skulls' arrival and, when it finally burst behind the Imperial lines, they assaulted it with a ferocious array of hot-shot weaponry, melta charges, and munitions. The Daemon Engine roared its defiance, slaying scores of Scions in a wrathful counter-attack. The Tempestus soldiers' incessant and precise firepower, along with a barrage of grenades,eventually saw the Lord of Skulls reduced to a heap of smoldering slag.

Militarum Tempestus pg. 18