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Operation Thunderstorm
FortressofArrogance.jpg
The objective of the campaign, the command tank Fortress of Arrogance
Conflict Third War for Armageddon
Date 998.M41
Location Golgotha
Outcome Imperial victory[1a]
Combatants
Imperium of Man Orks
Commanders
General Mohamar Antoninus deViers (KIA)
Major General Gerard Bergen
Major General Aaron Rennkamp
Major General Klotus Killian
Commodore Galbraithe
High Commissar Morten
Magos Benedentius Sennesdiar[1b]
Golgothan Ork Warlord (KIA)
Multiple Golgothan Ork Warbosses
Strength
Three Divisions
Small Naval taskforce
Hundreds of thousands of Orks
Casualties
Approx. 20-25,000 men Tens of thousands

Operation Thunderstorm was the Expeditio Reclamatus to find and retrieve the wreckage of Commissar Yarrick's personal Baneblade, the Fortress of Arrogance, from the Ork World of Golgotha, in or around 998.M41, shortly before the outbreak of the Third War for Armageddon. Yarrick and the Departmento Munitorum believed that the famous tank would be a much-needed boost to morale for the Imperial forces defending Armageddon from Waaagh! Ghazghkull.[1c]

The Operation was undertaken by 18th Army Group Exolon, under the command of General Mohamar deViers.[1]

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