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However, when [[Commissar]] [[Pius Kowle]] led a Vervunhive armoured division out to meet the forces of Zoica, it became clear that this was no conventional assault; the Zoican army massed in the millions.{{Fn|3b}}{{Fn|3c}} In comparison, Vervunhive could muster only approximately 500,000 troopers out of a population of over 40 million people. What made the force imbalance all the more disturbing was that Ferrozoica was approximately 1/3 smaller in population and size than Vervunhive.{{Fn|3c}}

The allied [[Vannick Hive]] was the first major casualty of the War when Ferrozoica deployed [[nuclear weapons]] and all but destroyed it. With the Vervunhive leaders debating reasons why Zoica would destroy rather than capture, [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]] made the judgment that with the size of Zocia's forces and the tactics they were using, that the whole hive had actually fallen to [[Chaos]] and that this was more than just a Trade war.{{Fn|3d}} This proved to be a correct judgment, and it would transpire that the whole population of Ferrozoica had become the thralls of the Chaos [[Chaos Lord|Warlord]] [[Heritor Asphodel]].{{Fn|3e}}