Operation Thunderstorm

Operation Thunderstorm
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
Losses/Survivors
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]

Sources

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• 1: Gunheads (Novel) by Steve Parker^{[Needs Citation]}
  • 1a: Chapter Thirty-Five, pg. 572
  • 1b: Dramatis Personae
  • 1c: Chapter Three, pg. 66