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The '''First Battle of Sverren''' took place in '''757.[[M41]]''' during [[Operation Newfound]], the second phase of the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]].
 
The '''First Battle of Sverren''' took place in '''757.[[M41]]''' during [[Operation Newfound]], the second phase of the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]].

Latest revision as of 11:46, 19 May 2015

The First Battle of Sverren took place in 757.M41 during Operation Newfound, the second phase of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.

Sverren was a vital objective world, both strategically and for morale purposes, being located in a central part of the region known as the Holy Visage (a stellar formation said to resemble the face of Saint Sabbat). The invasion force was placed under the joint command of Lord Militant Humel and General Bulledin. The initial assault succeeded in routing the primary concentration of Chaos forces and in killing the Archenemy leader, Magister Kuvelo.[1a]

During the second phase of the invasion, the Imperial Guard was slowed by bad weather, allowing the retreating Chaos forces to rally together and fortify three bastions: Neffr City, Colchis and Rammery. Colchis fell after a brief siege by Bulledin, while Humel managed to establish air superiority over Rammery after a six-week campaign.[1a][1b]

Neffr City, however, resisted assault for eight full weeks, costing Bulledin an estimated three thousand Guardsmen for an advance of only two kilometres. Bulledin, characteristically, offered his resignation to Warmaster Slaydo. Slaydo's refusal was terse: "Do it again."[1b]

Bulledin obeyed. With the aid of a single Warlord Titan, the Victrix Impassionata, on loan from the Mechanicus, Bulledin's second assault overran the walls of Neffr City on the 241st day of 758.M41. The Archenemy commander, Kuvelo's deputy Pater Bucher, died while trying to resist being taken alive.[1b]

Because of his experience in the theatre, Bulledin was assigned to the Imperial force sent to retake Sverren two years later, when the planet was overrun by Archon Nadzybar's vicious counterattack, leading to the Second Battle of Sverren.[1c]

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