The Armageddon Steel Legion troops fight against the greenskin horde. Without their leader, the Forces of Chaos were routed and Armageddon saved. Only the Grey Knights could deal with an entity as powerful as Angron, and after a desperate battle they were able to hurl his spirit back into the Warp.
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It was at this moment that Logan played his trump card in the form of a full company of Grey Knights. Titanic battles erupted all along the front as the forces of Chaos crashed into the Imperial line. Unknown to Angron, several Great Companies of Space Wolves Space Marines led by the Great Wolf Logan Grimnar himself had arrived to bolster the Imperial defence. The subcontinent of Armageddon Prime fell swiftly to the Chaos army, and the survivors fell back and prepared to make a last ditch stand along the Rivers Styx and Chaeron. Chaos Space Marines from Angron's World Eaters Traitor Legion swept across the land, while at the same time Warp rifts flickered into existence and unleashed hordes of Daemons upon the beleaguered Imperial defenders. On board was an enormous Chaos army, led by the Daemon Primarch Angron. The revolts were quickly put down on the continent of Armageddon Secundus, but amongst the more scattered hives of the continent of Armageddon Prime they proved more difficult to eradicate.īusy containing the rebellion, the Planetary Defence Force was caught by surprise when the Space Hulk Devourer of Souls appeared in the Armageddon System. More than five hundred standard years before Ghazghkull was born, Armageddon faced no less deadly a threat from an enemy of a very different nature – the forces of Chaos, during the First War for Armageddon.įollowing a rash of strange, inexplicable events, armed rebellion erupted in the huge hive cities that stud the surface of Armageddon. The latest Ork invasion of Armageddon is not the first time that the planet has been attacked. The Grey Knights combat the daemonic forces of Khorne during the First War for Armageddon.
Its strategic importance and massive stockpiles of weapons have made it the target for several major invasions. This important Imperial world is located 10,000 light years to the galactic northeast of Terra, at the centre of the Armageddon Sector.įor millennia it has been one of the Imperium's industrial powerhouses, its vast weapon factories providing arms and materiel to the Astra Militarum for use in campaigns all over the galaxy. The Armageddon Sector and in particular, the Hive World of Armageddon, have been torn apart by war.
The Hive World of Armageddon as seen from orbit.
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