Editing Imperium Asunder Campaigns (section)

==[[Censure of the Iron Hearts]]==
I'm guessing Balthasar got to their homeworlds, but didn't quite realize how ridiculously tough the [[Iron Hearts]] were going to be. He was used to them being not only sickly shits, but severely understaffed sickly shits. He was met by an army of supermen way tougher than any standard space marine, their ranks bolstered by moderately superhuman auxiliaries and their weaponry optimized by the influence of various Dark Age technologies. He was totally unprepared for what he found and way too overconfident, and his Legion were never master siegebreakers in the first place. In many ways, save for their willingness to spill astartes blood, the Bloodhounds were among the worst Legions that could have been mustered to fight the Iron Hearts. Running into a wall of dakka is generally going to get you nowhere. I imagine it like Balthasar trying to headbutt an egg, secure in his belief that it will splat instantly beneath his super dense skull, but then it turns out the egg is solid adamantium and now he's bleeding everywhere and it's all in his eyes eugh ugh geh.

Basically, he had to make a hasty retreat to pull reinforcements in, and in the time it took for him to do so Rubinek in his sons had made their escape.
That makes a heck of a lot of sense. I imagine that there would be bloodhound fleets tasked with hunting him down and erasing the legion's shame. Ooh, that gives me an idea for a character:

>Captain tasked with leading the assault on the Iron Hearts home world
>things go poorly and he had the misfortune of surviving
>leaps at the chance of hunting down the Iron Hearts
>Spends the next century tracking them down, occasional raids
>recalled by Balthasar for the heresy, since the Iron Hearts are to be allies in the Warmaster's plan--he's just told that bigger issues are at stake
>refuses recall order, tells balthasar where he can stick it 
>catches up to the Iron Hearts en route to the Ultima Segmentum
>the Iron Hearts have scattered
>the hunt is on!