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Korps Grinda was an Ork Great Gargant.[1]

The personal Gargant of Warlord Gogard, Korps Grinda featured heavily in all his Waaagh!s. Its last actions would take place on the world of Belle Apha, ten years before the Third War for Armageddon. Having invaded the planet, Gogard found himself assaulted by Imperial forces led by Blood Angels Space Marines. Trapped by an assault force of the Blood Angels, most of Gogard's boyz were annihilated. Gogard mustered the remainder of his force and ordered a seemingly suicidal charge on the 'beakies'.[1]

With Korps Grinda at its head, the Ork attack suprised the Blood Angels, who only managed to damage the Great Gargant before the mechanised Ork rush swept through their line and approached the main Imperial defence zone. The gunline of the Imperial Guard raked the Orks with heavy weapons fire, destroying all the other vehicles except the Korps Grinda. The Great Gargant, with fires raging out of control inside, managed to stomp its way into the Imperial lines before detonating, the explosion destroying it once and for all, as well as killing Warlord Gogard. The Imperial lines suffered immensely in the last act of the Ork Great Gargant.[1]

Gogard's last stand and subsequent demise is a story told amongst the Ork campfires on Armageddon, and the tale of the Korps Grinda so captured the Orky imagination that several Ork Gargants in action on the world were renamed after it. One particular Great Gargant, named Korps Grinda II, ended up cut off from support and trapped behind Imperial lines. In an attempt to break through and reach Ork territory, it carried out a charge much the same as that of its forebearer...[1]

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