A saviour pod burns a flaming path through the skies of Fortuna Minor while the Imperial fleet retreats above, its deployment undone by ork cunning. The planet is overrun by Speed Waaagh!s and its people enslaved to build weaponised effigies of brutish gods. Into that nightmare steps Arcadian Leontus — Lord Commander of the Segmentum Solar, peerless tactician, and a man with no intention of merely surviving.
At a glance
- Format: Hardback
- Range: Black Library
- Setting: Warhammer 40,000 — Astra Militarum
- Author: Rob Young
Read it because
- One of the Imperium's finest strategists trying to turn a war almost single-handedly
- Shows how the Astra Militarum fight when outnumbered and outgunned
- A proper against-the-odds campaign against a ferocious ork Waaagh!
Stripped of his armies and dropped into a losing war, Leontus doesn't plan to endure it. He plans to win it.
Against-the-odds generalship in the 41st Millennium. Find your next read in our Black Library range.
