Invasion of Paramar V
"Battles are won by the application of superior force; wars are won by the application of superior resources."
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The Invasion of Paramar V, also known as the First Battle of Paramar, was a battle fought during the Horus Heresy.[1]
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Overview
Paramar V was a strategically important world to Horus Lupercal. It laid on the northern edge of Segmentum Solar and was a staging area for Expeditionary Fleets. It was positioned in almost direct conjunction between the Isstvan system and Terra.[1]
Horus launched his attack in the opening days of the Heresy after the Dropsite Massacre. The Alpha Legion led the initial assault, followed by the traitorous Legio Fureans and Dark Mechanicum Cybernetica, Knight, Thallax, and Skitarii forces. The defenders of the loyalist Paramar Nexus Mechanicum consisted of 77th Grand Battalion of Iron Warriors still loyal to the Emperor as well as the Legio Gryphonicus and Mechanicus troops of the Taghmata Paramar.[1]
The initial assault of the Alpha Legion and traitor Titans seized most of the planet, but only after bloody battles at Landing Zone Secundus. But when the Traitor Legio Fureans entered the planets primary Spaceport at Paramar Nexus, they were shocked to find the Titans of the loyalist Legio Gryphonicus waiting for them backed up by loyalist Iron Warriors and Mechanicum. A vicious battle erupted that saw the Traitor Titans initially pushed back, but a swift counterattack by the Alpha Legion helped turn the tide. The loyalists were pushed back, until they only held onto the base of Terminus. In a final combined assault, the planet fell to the forces of Horus.[1] However traitor-allied Titan forces from the Legio Fureans took heavier losses than expected at the hands of the loyalist Iron Warriors and Legio Gryphonicus.[2]
Aftermath
Two more battles were fought over Paramar V during the Heresy. The Second Battle of Paramar took place two years later and saw a massive loyalist counter-invasion. However again the traitors were victorious. Eight years after that however during The Scouring, the Imperium would finally retake Paramar V after the catastrophic Third Battle of Paramar.[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination — The Invasion of Paramar V
- 2: Adeptus Titanicus: The Horus Heresy Rulebook, pgs. 14–15
