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[[File:      {{War|Name = {{PAGENAME}}|Image = Red-waagh.png|thumb|400px|Image caption= The Red Waaagh! unfolds on [[Alaric Prime]]|Date = 443998.[[M41]]|Location = [[Sanctus Reach]]|Outcome = Imperial victory|Combatant1 = [[Orks]]|Combatant2 = [[Imperium]]|Commanders1 = [[Warboss]] [[Grukk]]<br>[[Big Mek]] [[Mogrok]]<b>Tank Boss [[Baddfrag]]<br>[[Raddak Bluefinga]]<br>Skyboss [[Wingnutz]]<br>[[Bogrot Bones]]<br>[[Gashrakk Da Flash]]<br>[[Weirdboy]] [[Big Redd]]<br>[[Goff]] Boss [[Drogg]]|Commanders2 = Lord [[Vargan]]<br>[[Chapter Master]] [[Midnias]](KIA)<br>Lord [[Neru]]<br>Lord [[Gaulemort Kestren]]<br>[[Castellan]] [[Jakren Stein]]<br>[[Silas Ovik]]<br>[[Salem Whitlock]]|Strength1 = See Order of Battle, billions{{Fn|3}}]]|Strength2 = See Order of Battle|Casualties1 = Heavy|Casualties2 = Heavy}}

===Prelude===Once an [[Ork Boy]] [[WarbossGoff]] of [[Krugg|Krugg the Tyrant]] on the world of [[Eyrok]], Grukkfought for Krugg's [[Bad Moon]]s for many years. The situation changed when [[Big Mek]] [[Mogrok]] arrived on Eyrok, having been marooned by [[Freebooterz]]. Mogrok convinced Grukk that rather than fighting a few Orks on some backwards planet, he should be conquering [[System]]s. With the spirit of ambition in Grukk, the two oversaw the fall of Krugg. During the plows into fight for dominance, Grukk sawed through the Tyrant's face with a saw-klaw, and thereafter became known as Grukk ''Face-Rippa''. Within a week, Grukk managed to unite the Orks of Eyrok and began constructing ships with the help of Mogrok.{{Fn|6}} Soon enough Grukk and his forces began their rampage, targeting the densely populated [[Sanctus Reach]].[[Sector]] Lord [[Vargan]] was taken completely by surprise as the Orks ravaged the jungle moons of [[Laos]], overran the Penal colony of [[Night's End]], and ambushed and destroyed Vargan's fleet in an asteroid field. With every raid and battlemore Orks flocked to Grukk’s banner, and his legend took root in the minds of greenskinsacross the breadth of the Sanctus Sub-sector. In the space of a few short years, a sector ofspace considered desolate was teeming with Orks, all bawling the name Grukk into the dark.{{Fn|6}} ===The Imperium prepares Siege of Obstiria===By the time Grukk reached the Sanctus Reach he had billions of Orks following in his wake. His biggest obstacle was the world of [[Obstiria]], home to make the [[Obsidian Glaives]] [[Space Marine]] [[Chapter]] led by [[Chapter Master]] [[Midnias]]. Using Freebooterz and [[Evil Sunz]] under Kaptain [[Dakbad Flamegut]] to launch an initial shock assault on the world, the [[Fortress-Monastery]] of the Obsidian Glaives, [[Penumbral Spike]], soon came under siege. Despite leading a vicious defense for eight days and nights, Grukk arrived and managed to turn the tide after defeating a stand upon Space Marine counter-attack at the Battle of Black Gulch and slaying Chapter Master Midnias in the process. With their commander dead, the Obsidian Glaives managed to hold out for three more daves before being overrun. With Obstiria crushed and the Sanctus Reach aflame, only the [[Knight World]] of [[Alaric Prime]] now remained defiant.{{Fn|6}} ===The Battle for Alaric Prime===As the Red Waaagh! approached Alaric Prime, the Lord of [[House Kestren]], a [[feudal worldGaulemort Kestren]] and Lord [[Neru]] of linked[[House Degallio]] readied the defenses and sent out distress calls via [[Astropath]]s. They were subsequently reinforced by [[Cadian]] [[Imperial Guard]] forces.{{Fn|3}}archipelagos After many nights of anxiety and crumbling gaolshurried preparation, the Waaagh eventually descended. When a flotilla of The Imperial orbital defenses and orbiting warships and desperately sought to prevent an Ork foothold on the planet. The Ork rustattack was focused on the thousand-ships makes planetfallmile ring of fortifications around the Sacred Mountain of Alaric Prime. Despite the orbital defenses soon enough the defensive line was under attack by [[Deff Dread]]s and [[Battlewagon]]s. No matter the amount of carnage meted out by the Imperial gun lines, theOrks still came on.{{Fn|3}}[[Knight HouseImage:SanctusMap.jpg|thumb|right|220px|knightly housesThe Battle for the Bridges]] It was then that the Knights of [[House Alaric|AlaricKestren]], [[House Degallio]], [[House Velemestrin]], and [[House Brahmica]] lead launched their attack. While they managed to hold the line, Grukk himself eventually appeared, at the helm of a [[Gargant]]. In the ensuing charge, House Kestren was annihilated and the Cadians attempted to hold the line, though Grukk's Gargant was ruined. Under Cadian[[Castellan]] allies in a worldwide counter-attack[[Jakren Stein]], the Imperial Guard made their stand at the banks of the Boiling River and used massed artillery and tank fire as well as [[Ogryn]]s to try and hold the bridges of Zeta Sec and Zeta Tert. The Cadians inflicted massive casualties on the Orks but were ultimately facing defeat until the Knights of House Degallio arrived. Soon Bridge Zeta Tert was destroyed and the concentrated firepower of House Degallio's fortress, the Isle Degallio, decimated greenskins. The battle of the bridge was soon over, and the momentum of the Orks blunted. Warlord{{Fn|3}}Grukk’s bullish tactics take Stein made it clear that while they had one this battle the Ork threat was far from finished, and insisted that the only way to stop the Waaagh! was to kill the Greenskin leader. Meanwhile the Orks launched a heavy toll renewed attack on the human defenders Sacred Mountain defensive line, manned by Cadians and Knights of House Velemestrin and Brahmica as well as the [[Freeblade]] [[Gerantius]]. When Grukk himself once more entered the fray on a Battlewagon, Stein deployed [[Heavy Weapons Squad]]s to try and assassinate him. When this failed, Gerantius himself took action and managed to destroy both the Battlewagon and Grukk. With their leader dead the Orks began to falter, and the Cadians launched a massive charge from their positions that turned the withdraw into a rout. Following the defeat, Grukk's Waaagh! broke down into infighting and chaos as Grukk's lieutenants struggled for dominance.{{Fn|3}} ===Waaagh! Mogrok===Unbeknownst to all involved, it was Big Mek Mogrok (who many Orks suspected as having engineered Grukk's death) who was already well ahead of the game. While his rivals were fighting among themselves, Mogrok and his [[Obsidian GlaivesMek]] horde struck at human forces with well-planned traps. Mogrok understood that the key to obtaining power for himself was to start large and impressive battles that would draw the attention of all the Orks in the region to his forces. Mogrok executed his plan with an attack on the Auspice Savannah, far east of the Sacred Mountain. Sacrificing his first wave of vehicles to Imperial fire, this created a metal wall on the plains that allowed the Orks a secure position on the battlefield. While the Imperial Guard defenders initially held their ground, an advance of [[ChapterMorkanaut]] before s air-dropped onto the Cadian lines led by the legendary[[FreebladeGargant]] ''Gungutz'' combined with an Ork aerial assault broke them. Satisfied, Mogrok activated his [[tellyporta]] known and sought to move on the coastland islands that was the key to Imperial reinforcement of the Savannah.{{Fn|3}} The battle for the Isles began, as Mogrok led a siege of these enclaves. First blocking their causeways, Mogrok deployed 200 heavy tanks to move on Isle Kamata. Dropping in [[GerantiusKommandos]] joins to infiltrate the conflictisland by hiding themselves underneath the vehicles of a supply convoy, tipping Kamata's island oasis fell by morning to the war into Ork infiltration troops. The Orks captured a great deal of equipment, leading to a massive increased in Looted weapons, vehicles, and even Knights in greenskin hands. Mogrok himself was working on a new desperateweapon that could destroy an entire island in one blow.{{Fn|3}} phaseSoon enough Mogrok revealed his doomsday weapon: an oversized [[Traktor Kannon]] that would latch onto the orbiting frozen comet and send it plummeting onto the Sacred Isle. The only hope for the Imperial defenders fell on [[Salem Whitlock]] and his [[Tempestus Scion]]s, who would attempt a raid behind Ork lines to disable the device. In the vicious battle at the Ork base that housed the Tractor Cannon, the Scions were successful in destroying the weapon.{{Fn|13}}

Unbeknownst to Imperial tacticiansDespite the setback, Grukk Face-Eater is long deadthe Orks made one final attack on the Sacred Mountain anyway as the frozen comet still plummeted towards Alaric Prime (though it was now thrown off course). The final battle, this time focused at Fortress Alaric, soon was underway as Stein again led the defense alongside Knights, [[Big MekBaneblade]] s, and [[MogrokStormsword]], who many Orks believe engineered the events that led to Grukk's death. In a vicious, now leads desperate final battle the largest horde of boyz left Imperial forces were barely holding out but following an Ork explosive chain reaction in space with the Red Waaagh! In fighting and splinter groups have left Frozen comet, the Ork threat celestial object was again on a shadow of what it once wascollision course with the Sacred Mountain. The comet struck the mountain, wiping out the Imperial defenders and many Orks with them.{{Fn|23}}