![]() With the Abyss-class vessels obliterating the orbital defence platforms, the initial attacking fleet elements initiated their drop-pod dispersal. These vessels (the Blessed Lady and the Trisagion) were so powerful that they dramatically altered the odds in favour of the attackers. Dropping out of Warp practically inside combat range came, unexpectedly, not one, but two Abyss Class Battleships. ![]() Once battle was joined, however, Lorgar's strategem became clear. While this armada was a sizable naval force by any standards - two Gloriana-class battleships and several dozen escorts - the system defences of Armatura were reckoned so strong that the outcome of the opening void-war was predicted to be an easy victory for the defenders. The combined fleet of the Word Bearers and World Eaters powered into the Armatura system and wasted no time in engaging the defence forces. The primarchs assigned themselves the Fortress World of Armatura as a principal target, due to its nature as a recruitment, training, shipyard and armoury depot of the Ultramarines legion. He personally led a small contingent of Word Bearers, in conjunction with a large force of World Eaters under their Primarch, Angron, as part of this campaign. While the main Word Bearers offensive was directed against almost the entirety of the Ultramarines legion in the Battle of Calth, Lorgar had already broken up the remainder of his legion and ordered it to fall upon the other worlds of Ultramar in a campaign of directed planetary murder the Shadow Crusade. Noted in the annals of the World Eaters as a particularly gruelling conflict, it is chiefly notable for the following reasons: Both Lorgar and Angron took to the field amidst the heaviest fighting and were both almost slain, and it was during this battle that Angron discarded his axe, Gorechild, after which it would be recovered and repaired for use by the World Eaters champion, Kharn. The Battle of Armatura was a conflict that took place during the Shadow Crusade, a campaign designed by Primarch Lorgar Aurelian to wreak much havoc upon the domain of Ultramar, and more besides. Significant System Defence Fleet and orbital defences ![]() The Evocati several thousand Ultramarinesīelieved 1 billion Armaturan Academy Guard and Armaturan Wardens ![]() Significant World Eaters and Word Bearers forces The Shadow Crusade, part of the Horus Heresy World Eaters engage Ultramarines Evocatii during the Battle of Armatura ![]()
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