Gunheads (Novel)
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Gunheads is an Imperial Guard novel by Steve Parker and was first published in 2009. It is also collected in Hammer of the Emperor (Omnibus), the second Imperial Guard novels omnibus.
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Cover Description[1]
Sergeant Wulfe leads his armoured tank company, the Gunheads, to the hostile alien world of Golgoltha as part of an Imperial battlegroup. Their mission is to locate and retrieve the Fortress of Arrogance, a battle tank that belonged to the legendary Commissar Yarrick, hero of Hades Hive. If Wulfe can keep his mind and men together, and the Imperial forces can retrieve the tank, this will have a huge boost on morale in the Armageddon campaign‚ but are they risking their lives needlessly?
Summary
Shortly before the Third War for Armageddon, a Cadian Army Group is landed on Golgotha, to retrieve the wreckage of the Fortress of Arrogance, Commissar Yarrick's famous Baneblade tank. Though the Army Group numbers approximately thirty thousand men, complete with tanks and artillery, many of the level-headed officers know that the mission is suicidal, for such numbers will hardly make a dent in a planet full of Orks. But the Lord General in command of the expedition is desperate to win glory at any price, and the Mechanicus Adepts guiding him have their own agenda.
Trivia
- The name of the planet the novel takes place on is spelled Golgoltha on the Black Library webpage for Gunheads[1], but the novel itself and numerous other sources consistently spell it Golgotha. This is presumably an error.
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Imperial Guard Omnibus: Volume One / Shield of the Emperor | Fifteen Hours • Knee Deep • Better the Devil • Death World • Rebel Winter • The Citadel |
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Hammer of the Emperor | Desert Raiders • Ice Guard • Mercy Run • Gunheads • A Blind Eye • Waiting Death |
Honour Imperialis | Cadian Blood • Redemption Corps • Dead Men Walking • Regicide • Down Amongst the Dead Men • Hunters • The Mouth of Chaos |
Glory Imperialis | Imperial Glory • Iron Guard • Commissar • The Siege of Fellguard • The Hour of Hell • Monolith |
Other Novels and Short Stories | Baneblade • Straken • Stormlord • Shadowsword |
Audio Dramas | Waiting Death |