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The '''Battle of Isstvan III''' was the first battle of the [[Horus Heresy]], carried out by the Traitor Legions to purge any remaining loyalists from their ranks.
The '''Battle of Isstvan III''' was the first battle of the [[Horus Heresy]], carried out by the Traitor Legions to purge any remaining loyalists from their ranks.
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As
a
final
preparation for his
war on his father, [[Horus]]
wished
to
remove all loyalist elements from
his and
his brothers' forces to prevent them from warning
the
Emperor
of
their plans or aiding him in the coming conflict. After gathering their forces in
the Isstvan system,
the Primarchs, consisting of
[[
Horus
]], [[
Angron
]], [[
Mortarion
]]
, and
[[Fulgrim]]
, ordered all space marines they suspected of being loyalists down
to the
surface
of
Isstvan III <strike>under
the
guise of putting down a rebellion</strike>nope pretty sure there
was
an actual rebellion
.
Once they were there, the Traitors bombarded the planet with virus bombs, catching the loyalists off guard and supposedly fucking the over. While a large number of the loyalists were killed a good number of them
[[File:Betrayal In Istvaan III.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The destruction that took place in the battle is fucking GLORIOUS!!!]]
survived and hunkered down
,
because you cant titrush
bombs
. Before a second bombardment or [[Exterminatus]] could be organized
to
wipe out
the
the survivors
.
[[Angron]] led his legion down
to
the surface to eradicate them personally
.
Because another bombardment would destroy
the [[
Khorne
]]
-aligned
[[
World Eaters
]]
, Horus had a tantrum
and the
traitors were forced to deploy their own forces. This delay would have extremely large repercussions on course
of the
Heresy, essentially fucking up Horus
' plan
from the word go
.
While the traitors won the battle, it costs them valuable time, during which a small handful
of
loyalists escaped to warn
the
Emperor of
their
treachery, exactly as they had feared. While
the
traitors won the battle and completed their goal
of
removing any remaining loyalists from their ranks
, the
larger purpose
of the
plan had failed. While this small handful of survivors (most notably
Luna Wolves
10th Captain Garviel Loken
and
Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro
of the
Death Guard) wouldn't have a dramatic impact
on the
civil war like
the
force
of
loyalists who were purged would have
, they
managed
to warn the Imperium of Horus's treachery and
would become the founding members of the
[[
Grey Knights
]]
at
the
order
of [[
Malcador the Sigillite
]]
aka the Inquisition aka those fucking douchebags
.
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As
the
final
step before declaring
war on his father, [[Horus]]
needed
to
get
his
brothers on his side
and
purge their legions of elements whose loyalties were uncertain. He used
the
secession
of the Isstvan system
as a cover for this activity. He
, [[
Angron
]], [[
Mortarion
]],
and Lord Commander
[[
Eidolon
]]
(Horus had sent
[[Fulgrim]] to
try and sway [[Ferrus Manus]] to their cause) hand-picked
the
squads that would form the first wave
of the
Legiones Astartes invasion rather than committing entire companies as
was
their standard operating procedure
.
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[[File:Betrayal In Istvaan III.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The destruction that took place in the battle is fucking GLORIOUS!!!]]
Once the initial wave landed
,
the Primarchs set about deploying virus
bombs to the
fleet
.
This was where things didn't go according
to
plan
.
Saul Tarvitz of
the [[
Emperor's Children
]]
stole a
[[
Thunderhawk
]] and
warned [[Nathaniel Garro]] aboard
the
''Eisenstein''
of the
Warmaster
'
s
plan.
Garro's company took control
of the
ship, killing
their
brothers under
the
command
of
Ignatius Grulgor
,
and escaped
the
system after accepting refugees Iacton Qruze
of the Luna Wolves
, remembrancers Euphrati Keeler
and
Mersadie Oliton, and iterator Kyril Sindermann, who had witnessed Horus's massacre
of the
remembrancers and iterators in his fleet. The virus bombing exterminated all life
on the
surface of Isstvan III, but some Astartes found sealed bunkers and dug in. Before Horus could order a second bombing wave, Angron went down to kill them personally. Horus had to deploy
the
rest
of
his forces alongside Angron
,
resulting in an inefficient, bloody battle that pushed back his timetable even though it blooded the forces loyal to him, ensuring
they
would fight the war to their ends.
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The flight of the ''Eisenstein'' allowed Nathaniel Garro
to warn the Imperium of Horus's treachery
. The ground battle cost Horus time that he needed to consolidate his gains
and
push toward Terra.
[[
Rogal Dorn
]]
organized a fleet of seven legions that would eventually reach
the
Isstvan system and challenge Horus in his fortified position on the Urgall Depression
of
Isstvan V.
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[[
Drop Site Massacre|Nothing can possibly go wrong
]].
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== Tabletop ==
== Tabletop ==
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[[Forge World]]'s first [[Horus Heresy]] rulebook, ''Betrayal'', is focused on this battle
; in
addition to the generic rules for Space Marine Legions and a Mechanicum detachment, it includes special rules for the specific Legions and characters involved, including [[Horus]], [[Mortarion]],[[Angron]],[[Abaddon]], and [[Garviel Loken]].
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[[Forge World]]'s first [[Horus Heresy]] rulebook, ''Betrayal'', is focused on this battle
. In
addition to the generic rules for Space Marine Legions and a Mechanicum detachment, it includes special rules for the specific Legions and characters involved, including [[Horus]], [[Mortarion]],[[Angron]],[[Abaddon]], and [[Garviel Loken]].
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