Remember that point that Angron and the World Eaters invaded Armageddon? No? There’s an excellent purpose for that.

It’s a well-known indisputable fact that Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka invaded Armageddon twice. But he wasn’t the primary invader of the planet. He wasn’t even the primary. That honor belongs to Daemon Prince Angron and his World Eaters!

The First War for Armageddon is the least well-known of the three Armageddon Wars, and concerned the forces of Chaos and the Imperium. It was the fruits of years of preparation by the Daemon Primarch Angron, favoured of Khorne, to re-unify the World Eaters after their shattering by the hands of Khârn the Betrayer after the Battle of Skalathrax.

The conflict started throughout the hated area often called the Eye of Terror. The forces inside, being dedicated to Chaos, often struggle one another, however sometimes and inexplicably they put apart their rivalries to kind an assault on their widespread enemy, the Imperium. In this case, the unity of the powers of Chaos was triggered by the arrival of the Space Hulk Devourer of Stars round a Daemon World. The Hulk was giant sufficient to hold an enormous chaos drive to assault Imperial worlds. The capricious currents of the warp drew the invasion drive to the Imperial Hive World of Armageddon in 444.M4.

A Map of Armageddon

Meanwhile, on Armageddon, a collection of unusual occasions culminated in armed revolt breaking out in half a dozen hives. Armageddon consists of three important landmasses. Most human life is situated on the principle continent, which is break up into two components, Armageddon Prime and Armageddon Secundus, separated by the thick band of jungle recognized merely because the Equatorial Jungle. The revolts had been shortly put down in Armageddon Secundus, however amongst the extra extensively scattered hives of Armageddon Prime they proved harder to eradicate. As the planetary protection forces appeared able to coping with the revolt, no extra models had been despatched by the Imperium. Armageddon was a really good distance from the Eye of Terror, and nobody suspected the trigger for the revolts was extra sinister than easy civil unrest.

Busy containing the revolt, Imperial forces had been caught abruptly when the Devourer of Stars arrived within the Armageddon system.

The Devourer of Stars housed an infinite Chaos military led by the Daemon Primarch Angron. Chaos Marines from the World Eaters Legion, cultists, daemonhosts, mutants, beastmen, and hordes of daemonic creatures poured from the area hulk and descended on Armageddon Prime.

The insidious results of Chaos had been shortly felt as almost half the Planetary Defence Force went over to the invaders. The bloodlust-driven World Eaters descended upon the planets populous with a fury, butchering thousands and thousands within the first weeks. The few remaining loyal defenders had been shortly routed from Armageddon Prime. Falling again by way of the jungles within the south, the survivors joined up with the models from Armageddon Secundus and ready to make a final ditch defence alongside the rivers of the Styx and Chaeron.

The Imperial defence was properly organized. Unknown to the forces of Chaos, Logan Grimnar and his Great Company of Space Marines from the Space Wolves chapter had been assigned to this sector of the Imperium, and so they moved shortly to assist the beleaguered Imperial defenders. They gained invaluable time as Angron raised bloody monuments from the wreckage of the useless as a substitute of urgent his benefit. In addition, his energy was depending on a close-by Warp Storm, and when it lulled the defenders gained treasured time to prepare a counterattack. When his military emerged from the jungles that separated Armageddon Prime from Armageddon Secundus they discovered the defenders prepared and ready, and strengthened by the Space Wolves. Grimnar’s commanding presence and charisma rallied the terrified defenders of Armageddon’s.

Huge battles erupted alongside all the entrance. The Space Wolves had been outnumbered one thousand to at least one, however nonetheless Grimnar led the cost. Taking the struggle to the Chaos horde, the Great Wolf led an armored assault straight throughout the River Chaeron into the World Eater horde, inflicting heavy losses on the traitors earlier than withdrawing. The enraged World Eaters pursued the Space Wolves mechanized forces into the jungle, falling right into a mixed Space Wolf/Steel Legion ambush alongside the Chaeron and slaughtered. The Space Wolves waded into the river itself and set in regards to the Chaos horde in a mad frenzy, battling for hours and holding the road.

However within the west, the assault alongside the river Styx was spearheaded by Angron himself and the Cruor Praetoria. The Primarch and his Bloodthirsters smashed by way of the Imperial strains and led his forces in the direction of Hive Infernus and Hive Helsreach. The Imperial Guard and Space Wolves forces managed to desperately maintain the road and purchased sufficient time for the Imperium to unleash the Grey Knights.

It was now that the Imperium unleashed his secret weapon. When Logan Grimnar realized the character of their foe, he referred to as for the help of the Grey Knights, as solely the Chapter Militant of the Inquisition’s daemonhunters had the power to really defeat a daemonic entity as highly effective as Angron.

The Grey Knights dispatched 100 and 9  Terminator Assault Marines who attacked Angron immediately, together with the Cruor Praetoria, his bodyguard of a dozen Bloodthirsters, by teleporting into the middle of the daemon military. At the identical time, the Space Wolves led a large Imperial counter-attack. Initially Angron and his escorts decimated the Grey Knights, the Primarch wiping out 5 Grey Knights Terminators with a single stroke of his Black Blade. However because of the psychic may of the younger recruit Hyperion, the Black Blade was shattered and the Grey Knights had been now at a big benefit. Soon after, Brother-Captain Taremar Aurellian was killed whereas personally banishing Angron again to the warp for 100 years and a day. The lack of their chief, coupled with the shock assault from the remaining imperial forces, led to the near-complete annihilation of the chaos forces on Armageddon. Though the ultimate battle was a serious Imperial Victory, solely 13 Grey Knights survived.

In the years to return, data of the First War for Armageddon was suppressed by the Inquisition, to the purpose that even the inhabitants of Armageddon itself consider that there have been solely two wars for the planet.

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