The story is set in the 13th Black Crusade. Cadia is fighting and burns and other chaos forces go to neighbour systems. In this case The Crimson Slaughter goes to Regallus planet and lay siege to it.
In this story we follow Heit after his Marauder being shot down. He is then "saved" by several Cadian Leman Russ tanks led by a Cadian woman that people call "Crown". We are introduced to some others plus some interesting Cadian rituals I didn't knew it existed. Maybe because Cadian has burn? Interesting.
The story is fast and dark - as I like them. I don't even tag as Grimdark because I expect almost all stories being dark. Here again, we understand that to a million worlds within the Imperium and the trillions of trillions of men and woman, a planet is nothing; millions dying are nothing but a comma in history. Yet as we are told these stories in a person POV it's messy and understading there are millions or billions of men and woman fighting and dying it's unmeasurable; unthinkable. It's like saying that there are more stars than all the grains of sand of all beaches in Earth. We can't even begin to comprehend.
One interesting thing here is that, people who are not accustomed to 40K don't really understand the way this works. I've read people complaining in a novel (not 40K) that the author had the audacity to kill several gay men in his story. People complain when the last female pov was dead in Game of Thrones. Well.. here everyone dies. Is that simple.
I will not be drawn into politics but thank the Lords of the Imperium.
But Leman Russ Transports... They exist? NEver heard but I don't play a lot 40K so..
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