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During the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]], the [[Tanith First and Only]] [[regiment]] was ordered to make a suicidal frontal attack on the enemy trench line. The order came from [[Lord Militant General]] [[Hechtor Dravere]], the theatre commander, at the suggestion of [[Colonel]] [[Draker Flense]] of the [[Jantine Patricians]], who harboured a deep personal hatred for the Tanith's commanding officer, [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]].{{Fn|1a}}
[[Imperial GuardsmentGuardsmen]] fought with Chaos forces across four hundred kilometres of battlefield, a vast and ragged pattern of opposing trench systems, facing each other across a mangled dead-land of cratered mud and shattered factories.{{Fn|1a}} However, the Ghosts managed to sabotage a [[Chaos]] ritual to turn the attacking guardsmen into [[Daemonhost]]s.{{Fn|1b}}
During the conflict, food shortages in the Forge World's [[Hive Cities]] caused the citizens of Fortis Binary to process the flesh of dead soldiers as food.{{Fn|2}}
