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The Ultramarine fleet had to sacrifice Prandium. For a week Marneus Calgar went without food or water while meditating on the matter. When he came out of his trance-like state, he told the Ultramarines that they had been guilty of the sin of pride. The Codex Astartes was written for the [[Space Marine]]s, the Space Marines were not created for the Codex Astartes. They would have to adapt and develop new strategies and tactics, even weapons, if they were to be successful against the Tyranid menace. Hit and run raids were abandoned in place of concentrated defenses and static firepower. This meant that the Ultramarines had to choose a place to defend, and they chose their fortress monastery on [[Macragge]].
The fighting was intense, and every marine of the [[Chapter]] was deployed to defend the planet. Millions of [[Mycetic Spores]] were destroyed by the planetary defenses, yet millions more got through and reached the planet. Around the frozen northern laser batteries, Tyranids bodies stacked 10 deep. So corpse-covered was the ground, in fact, that one walked on them, and not on the frozen soil. The entire Ultramarine [[First Company]] was wiped out - a an enormous loss.
In space, Kryptman was able to discover a weakness of the Tyranid fleets: one of the Tyranid's major ships was destroyed and the surrounding ships became unable to coordinate before the arrival of a similar vessel. Striking as hard as possible, and losing many ships in the process, the Space Marines were able to destroy the Tyranid Fleet.
