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[[Image:BraggMini9th.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Try Again'' Bragg Miniature{{Fn|67}}]]'''Bragg''' was a [[Trooper]] of the [[Tanith First and Only]]{{Fn|1a}}, serving in the [[Imperial Guard Regiment|regiment's]] [[Imperial Guard Platoon|eleventh platoon]].{{Fn|67}}
One of the original [[Tanith]] recruits to the regiment, Bragg was notable for two particular reasons - his sheer size (being by far the largest man in the regiment, strong enough to wield an [[assault cannon]] or [[heavy bolter]] single-handed and unaided by [[power armour]]{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|3a}}) and his terrible aim, which earned him the nickname ''''Try Again' Bragg'''.{{Fn|1a}} Bragg had a simple nature, although many who didn't know him assumed that he was stupid.{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3c}}
==Biography==
===[[Caligula]]===
In the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]]'s assault on [[Caligula]], Bragg was on a [[troop-ship]] which was shot down by a [[Psyker|psychic storm]] over [[Nero Hive]]. Thanks to the leadership of [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]], the survivors of the crash managed to reunite with the rest of the Crusade.{{Fn|3b}}
Once the [[daemon]] generating the storm over Nero was destroyed, the [[Imperial]]s managed to gain control of the planet. Colonel-Commissar Gaunt was part of the efforts to rebuild Caligula, having been placed in charge of coordinating relief convoys from [[Aurelian Hive]] by [[General]] [[Thoth (General)|Thoth]]. The main obstacle he faced was the threat of bandit attacks on the convoys - not only were the bandits too hard to pin down and eliminate directly, but they had inside knowledge of the convoy routes. When [[Vox-Operator|Comms-Officer]] [[Raglon]] analysed the hive's [[vox]] traffic and discovered an information leak, Gaunt had Bragg take charge of a convoy headed to [[Hive Calphernia]] in order to identify the traitor and draw the bandits out into the open. Bragg was successful on this mission, taking [[Tlewn Milloom|the collaborator]] down and exposing the bandits to an attack by [[Marauder Bomber]]s.{{Fn|3c}}
===[[Menazoid Epsilon]]===
On [[Menazoid Epsilon]], Bragg was later part of the team that Colonel-Commissar Gaunt selected to accompany him on [[Edicule|a secret mission]].{{Fn|1c}}
===[[Verghast]]===
In the closing stages of the [[Siege of Vervunhive]], Bragg was one of thirty Tanith selected personally by Gaunt to take part in [[Operation Heironymo]], the mission to infiltrate [[The Spike]] and assassinate [[Heritor Asphodel]]. During the mission, Bragg saved the lives of [[Haller]], [[Dremmond]] and [[Muril]] by grabbing onto them when they almost fell off the Spike whilst trying to board it.{{Fn|4}}
===[[Hagia]]===In the [[Hagia]] campaign, Bragg was part of a clearance team led by [[Major]] [[Elim Rawne|Rawne]] during the battles to reclaim the [[Holy Doctrinopolis]] from the [[Infardi]]. At one point, Bragg was shot in the shoulder, but survived.{{Fn|5a}} He While recuperating, Bragg and four other Troopers volunteered to accompany [[Colonel]] [[Colm Corbec|Corbec]] and [[Captain (Imperial Guard)|Captain]] [[Ban Daur|Daur]] to the [[Shrinehold of Saint Sabbat]] after the officers had experienced visions of [[Saint Sabbat|the Sabbat Martyr]], in defiance of the Guardsmens' orders to evacuate Hagia in the face of incoming [[Chaos]] reinforcements.{{Fn|5b}} Along the way, Bragg struck up a friendship with Trooper [[Niceg Vamberfeld|Vamberfeld]], one of the new [[Verghast]]ite recruits drafted into the regiment following the Siege of Vervunhive. Corbec asked Bragg to watch Vamberfeld, who had been suffering from [[Wikipedia:PTSD|severe mental stress]].{{Fn|5c}} Eventually the Guardsmen reached the Shrinehold and met up with the rest of the honour guard, who were defending themselves against an army of the Infardi that had followed them up into the [[Sacred Hills]].{{Fn|5d}} During a lull in the fighting, Vamberfeld made his way to the shrine's sepulchre, clutching a [[jiddi-stick]] that he had found on the journey, convinced that it was the Saint's own (Sabbat having been born to a lowly [[chelon]] herder). Bragg followed Vamberfeld and tried to calm him down, but they were confronted by [[Denil Greer|Greer]], the driver that Captain Daur had coerced into operating [[Wounded Wagon|the Chimera]] that they had taken to get to the Shrinehold. Daur had convinced Greer that the Guardsmen were actually journeying into the hills to retrieve a stash of gold ingots hidden by [[ayatani]] priests and Greer, who by this point was practically delirious from exhaustion, believed that Bragg and Vamberfeld were trying to steal the gold from him. Although Bragg and Vamberfeld tried to persuade him, Greer shot both of them with his [[autopistol]].{{Fn|5e}} The Tanith [[medic]]s were able to resuscitate Bragg, however.{{Fn|5f}}
==Trivia==
{{Trivia}}
The natives of Tanith are described in the novel [[First and Only (Novel)|First and Only]] as having a generally pale complexion and Bragg is not noted as an exception in this regard.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|4}} Despite this, the [[Warhammer Community]] website unveiling of the new Tanith First and Only models for [[9th Edition|Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition]] features his miniature depicted with darker skin than the others.{{Fn|67}}
==Sources==
**{{Endn|5a}}: Chapter Two
**{{Endn|5b}}: Chapter Eight
**{{Endn|5c}}: Chapter Eleven**{{Endn|5d}}: Chapter Fifteen**{{Endn|5e}}: Chapter Sixteen**{{Endn|5f}}: Chapter Seventeen*{{Endn|6}}: [[The Guns of Tanith (Novel)]], Prologue*{{Endn|7}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/05/05/warhammer-fest-online-day-3-black-library/ Warhammer Community: Warhammer Fest Online: Day 3 – Black Library (posted 5/5/2021)] ''(last accessed 5th May 2021)''
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