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→114 Later analysis shows that the greenskin defences were rather less formidable than Cain's earlier remarks would indicate, having been intended simply to deter an attack while their numbers swelled to a level sufficient to mount a successful invasion of the west. The Imperial forces had adopted a defensive posture at the other end of the peninsular largely because, with the entire eastern continent under orkish control, the effort required to cross the land bridge with the forces remaining to them would have been futile. Once the back of the orkish occupation had been broken, and beachheads established in the east by the newly-arrived Imperial Guard regiments, the strategic picture had changed completely, allowing an advance to take place relatively unimpeded.

→116 All in all about seventy per cent of the group seem to have made it through this final skirmish, quite a remarkable achievement.

→115 The crew of one managing to hold out long enough to be rescued by the approaching Imperial forces.

→112 The last few raiders are believed to have been tracked back to their base on the fringes of the system and finally eradicated in the early 950s, although, as in so many things where the greenskins are concerned, it's hard to be entirely certain that they've been eliminated for good.

→111 Mica's pict recording of the end of Cain's duel with Korbul had two effects: in the short term it provided unequivocal confirmation of the death of the warboss, which shaped Imperial strategy to best take advantage of the ensuing confusion among the greenskins, and in the longer term it made Cain a popular hero throughout the sector, particularly once the Commissariat decided to release it to the newscasts.

→109 An oath prevalent on the lower levels of many hive worlds, and extremely harsh by Cain's usual standards.

→108 By impetuously engaging Cain himself Korbul had effectively made it a duel between the two of them which his captains would be reluctant to interrupt. To do so would be interpreted as an insult to the warboss, implying that he was too weak to win on his own, which in turn would be taken as a challenge to his

→105 An uncharacteristically introspective passage, which may point to a side of his character that he seldom acknowledges. Or perhaps it was the amasec.

→103 In all likelihood he'd armed it before being struck down, and the timer finally gave out at this point.

→102 It seems that out of habit, Cain was continuing to use his commissarial clearance to monitor the rest of the battlefield communications, thus getting a more general overview of events; which makes his singleminded concentration on his own experiences to the detriment of the wider picture even more frustrating.

→110 Probably both.

→107 Clearly an exaggeration, as examples of this so-called ''mega-armour'' in the possession of the ordo xenos, exhibit weaponry roughly equivalent in calibre to an Imperial storm bolter or autocannon.

→106 Actually just killed, in most cases.

→104 Tlie chaplain of the schola where Cain was appointed tutor of the commissar cadets.

→101 Command, Control and Communication.

→99 By this point the convention of naming the militia teams after the regulars commanding them seems to have become firmly established.

→98 Cain is clearly writing with hindsight here, as at the time he would have had no knowledge of the prevailing strategic situation.

→95 Somewhat ironic given that, as I mentioned in my preliminary remarks, this portion of his memoirs was recorded shortly before he was to be swept up in the momentous events of the Black Crusade.

→94 From The Precepts of Saint Emilia: rather an unlikely tome for Cain to have taken to heart, given his frequently expressed and somewhat trenchant opinion of the pious, but her keen appreciation of human frailty seems to have struck something of a chord with him, and several quotations from it appear in his commonplace book.

→93 Presumably he means the Earthshakers themselves, which the 12th deployed on static platforms, relying on Trojan towing vehicles to move them about when required, rather than the self-propelled Basilisk variant which never appeared in their inventory. In either case, the artillery crews would normally have relied on ancillary vehicles to maintain ammunition supplies, the shot locker aboard the Basilisk being too small to contain enough shells for a prolonged battle.