Burning of Prospero
The Battle of Prospero | |
Date | 004.M31 |
Scale | Planetary |
Theatre | Horus Heresy |
Status | Pyrrhic Space Wolf victory |
Belligerents | |
Imperial Censure Host | Thousand Sons |
Commanders and Leaders | |
The Primarch Leman Russ, Constantine Valdor, Jenetia Krole | The Primarch Magnus the Red, Ahriman |
Strength | |
~73,200 Space Wolves, 5000 Sons of Horus, 982 Custodians, 3000 Sisters of Silence, over 54,000 human infantry from various regiments, 12 Battle Titans, 5 Psi-Titans, over 2000 Mechanicum Secutarii and Tech Adept staff. | ~62,200 Thousand Sons, the Prosperine Guard (~85,000 soldiers), Zhao-Arkhad Taghmata (~8000 warriors & automata), 12 Battle Titans, millions of citizen reservists |
Losses | |
49,000 total. 23,000 Space Wolves KIA and 23,000 Imperial Army KIA. Severe Custodes and Sisters of Silence casualties | Very heavy. 90% of the Thousand Sons KIA. 30 million Prosperine Spireguard and civilians wiped out |
Outcome | |
Razing of Prospero, withdrawal of the Thousand Sons to Sortiarius and the sundering of Magnus the Red. |
