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One of the most pitched of the campaign was the [[Battle of Armatura]], where the traitor fleet led by two gigantic [[Furious Abyss]]-class battleships smashed through massive Ultramarine defenses. During the butchery Lorgar realized that Angron's fury was consuming him as the [[Butcher's Nails]] could not handle a [[Primarch]]'s brain. Lorgar, wishing Angron be elevated to serve the [[Gods of Chaos|Dark Gods]], decided to journey to his homeworld of [[Nuceria]] to find the secrets of the Butcher's Nails. While Lorgar led a small force to Angron's world, the rest of the traitor fleet splintered into many small parties which brought destruction upon every Ultramar world they encountered.{{Fn|1}} [[Talassar]] and [[Percepton Campaign|Percepton]] are other worlds that are known to have been attacked by the traitors.{{Fn|5}}
When the two Primarchs arrived at Nuceria however they discovered that the slave-lords of the world had massacred Angron's comrades and told the population that he had fled during their last stand. Infuriated, Angron ordered that the World Eaters and Word Bearers purge Nuceria of its population. During [[Battle of Nuceria|the ensuing battle]], the Ultramarines led by [[Guilliman]] arrived, determined to exact vengeance on the traitors for the Battle of Calth. The three immensely powerful but vastly outnumbered traitor Battleships (''[[Conqueror (Ship)|Conqueror]]'', ''[[Fidelitas Lex]]'', and ''[[Trisagion]]'') faced a rag-tag Ultramarines fleet of 40 smaller vessels. The ensuing battle in space was nearly even, in large part thanks to the vast power of the ''Trisagion''. However due to their numbers Ultramarines vessels were able to move past the traitor blockade and land forces on Nuceria. They also managed to bring down the ''Fidelias Lex'', losing twelve ships in the process.{{Fn|1}}
On the ground, loyalist and traitor astartes and [[Titan]]s began to engage each other in pitched combat. Lorgar went on to duel Guilliman himself during the battle, and the two were largely evenly matched. However Angron then arrived, and defeated the Primarch in a furious rage. But while Guilliman managed to escape thanks to an intervention by nearby Ultramarines, this was precisely what Lorgar had wanted and the Word Bearers Primarch began a Khornate ritual. Using Angron's rage as a conduit, Lorgar channeled the power of Khorne and surged the Red Angel with the powers of Chaos. Angron was transformed into a hulking, even more bloodthirsty avatar of violence and rage that had overcome the debilitating effects of the Butcher's Nails. With his brother empowered and the Ruinstorm now at its crescendo, the traitor fleet withdrew.{{Fn|1}}
