Never before or since has the valour of the Ultramarines been tested as it was in the defence of the polar fortresses. Trusting to his Ultramarines to keep the fortresses secure, Calgar relentlessly pursued the Tyranid fleet, determined that it would not bring ruin to other worlds. Their gruesome cargo delivered, the battered Hive Ships retreated from orbit. So it was that the Tyranids landed in even greater numbers than before, and the fortresses soon found themselves sorely beset. Caught between the blistering firepower of Macragge's polar fortresses and the vengeful hammer blows of Calgar's fleet, Tyranid vessels were destroyed by the score, but many more yet remained.Īs battle raged, the Tyranids unleashed thousands of Mycetic Spores above the vital polar fortresses - and if the fortresses were taken, Macragge's guns would be silenced, and the world left defenceless. With no sign of reinforcements, Calgar led his fleet in a series of daring attacks, striking at isolated vessels as they spread out to invade Macragge in force. Hours later, the main Tyranid fleet arrived at Macragge. Refusing all but the most vital medical attention, the Master of Macragge took command of the fleet, and sought a way to save his world from certain destruction. ![]() Knowing that to remain planetside was to doom his followers to wasteful death, Calgar withdrew to the orbiting Battle Barge Octavius. In a final climactic battle on Cold Steel Ridge, the Ultramarines rearguard was brutalised by the Tyranid horde and Calgar himself was gravely wounded. Calgar achieved great success in the early days of the campaign, buying time with blood for his Battle-Brothers to the north and south. Meanwhile, Calgar's taskforce, the largest of the three, performed a series of rearguard actions, attempting to slow the Tyranid advance and eliminate Hive Mind synapse-control organisms. The primary and secondary taskforces, composed largely of 1st Company Veterans and the regiments of the Ultramaran Planetary Defence Forces, bolstered Macragge's polar fortresses against the Tyranid onslaught. Deeming that the Tyranid threat was too massive to be opposed piecemeal, Calgar combined his ground forces into three mighty armies. Soon many thousands of Mycetic Spore-birthed beasts scurried and rampaged across Macragge. The alien bio-vessels swept aside attacks by Ultramarines Strike Cruisers and swarmed over the planet below. Scant solar weeks later, the outrider vessels of the Tyranid fleet attacked Macragge. Between this mighty fleet of warships and the planet's no less formidable orbital defence stations, Macragge was anything but defenceless. Massive Strike Cruisers cast shadows over civilian vessels and Imperial Navy Destroyers, and were themselves dwarfed by the brooding presence of the Ultramarines' Battle Barges. A dozen warships already hung in orbit, and each day more arrived from the Warp. Deeming Macragge to be the star system most immediately threatened, Calgar ordered its already formidable defences to be further improved. Upon learning of the threat posed to Ultramar by Hive Fleet Behemoth, Marneus Calgar at once drew up his plans. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Kryptman's discoveries at Tyran Primus, the defenders of Macragge had been forewarned of the horror headed towards them. But of all these terrible wars and heroic struggles, there is one conflict that stands above all others - the onslaught of Hive Fleet Behemoth against the Chapter's homeworld of Macragge. So did the Sons of Ultramar prove in the 35th Millennium in battle against the Star-Striders of Crioth, and in retaliation for the Heavenfall Massacres. The Ultramarines have tested their might against Ork WAAAGH!s and Renegade uprisings, T'au incursions and Necron raids, but the measure of their heroism is shown truest in battles where they have defended all life in the galaxy itself in the face of threats from beyond known space. Over the 10 millennia that passed after the mortal wounding of their Primarch Roboute Guilliman, the Ultramarines defended the Realm of Ultramar against all manner of invaders - some so strange as to defy the comprehension of the common man. Warhammer 40K Darktide Review - Left To ShredĬhapter Master Marneus Calgar leads his Ultramarines in the desperate defence of Macragge.
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