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Battle of Gate Forty-Two

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The Warmaster planned to launch a rapid blitzkrieg strike by the Luna Wolves, [[Space Wolves]], [[Iron Warriors]], and [[Raven Guard]] that would converge on the heavily fortified lair of the Unsighted Kings before a final overwhelming assault was launched across the entire Cluster.{{Fn|1}}
After conquering the outer worlds of the Cluster in a matter of weeks, Horus called a council of his brother [[Primarch]]s. He called for the Raven Guard to make a frontal assault onto the guns of the defenders of Gate Forty-Two. [[Corax]] argued against this waste of resources and squandering of his warriors lives, countering with a strategy of his own. He proposed that his Legion should draw off enemy forces in a series of feints, allowing the three other Legions to overwhelm the defenders who remained at the Gate. However [[Perturabo]] suggested that Corax was simply seeking to avoid battle. The two nearly came to blows, and only the intervention of [[Leman Russ]] prevented bloodshed. However the Space Wolves Primarch told Corax to heed Horus' plan, as he had been the one the [[Emperor]] himself had put above any of his brothers. Reluctantly, Corax conceded to Horus' plan. He placed many of his [[Terra]]n-dominated [[Company|companies]] to the frontal assault, in particular those whose [[Captain]]s appeared the most willing to support Horus' strategy.{{Fn|1}} Corax had long maintained a disfavor with his Terran officers, mostly due to their use of brutal terror tactics before his arrival.{{Fn|2}}
The assault that followed was hailed as the Legion's darkest hour, a grim honour that saw entire [[Assault Marine|Assault]] companies decimated in the face of heavy enemy defenses. Corax himself led the bloody attack that saw Gate Forty-Two finally taken. The Luna Wolves, Space Wolves, and Iron Warriors moved into the Unsighted Kings fortress soon after. Bitterly for Corax, the glory of slaying the Unsighted Kings themselves went to Horus and his Luna Wolves. But despite the victory thousands of Raven Guard, most of them Terran-born, had lost their lives.{{Fn|1}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Three]] pg.133-135
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Corax: Lord of Shadows (Novel)]] - Chapter 4
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