Dilen Belfry

General Dilen Belfry was a senior Imperial military commander that served under both Warmaster Slaydo during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.

History
During the planning stages of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the strategically important world of Ambold Eleven had been proposed to be an objective of the opening stages of the Imperial campaign into the system. At the final hour before the Crusade was to commence, Slaydo overruled this scheme and instead decided that Ambold Eleven would be one of the primary objectives when the Crusade began the second phase, known as Operation Newfound, focusing its priorities on the liberation of the region known as the Newfound Trailing Group. Just before the initial phase of Newfound took place, the Crusade focused on liberating the towering hives of Ashek II. The prosecution of Ashek II began early in 756.M41, but the scale of the fighting increased in 757.M41. Their task of liberating the planet was extremely difficult by the fact that they faced the notorious and brilliant Magister Heritor Asphodel, one of the most tactically gifted Magisters serving the Archon.

The assault on the Chaos-held planet began in the middle of 756.M41, as Admiral Karslae decimated the orbital forts and destroyed enemy shipping at both high and low anchors, allowing for the Imperial Guard forces under the command of General Belfry to execute an overnight orbital drop into the enemy strongholds of Pelbury Civitas, Upper Ganff and Amboldus Hive. Between the days of 201 and 288 of that year, the forces of the Archenemy drove back three waves of troop attacks. Though not well supplied or equipped, these dug in forces benefited from the sturdy concentric wall defences of the Ambold citadels. Approximately 9,500 Guardsmen were lost trying to breach the walls. General Belfry himself was killed in a mortar attack.