Bulledin

Lord General Bulledin was one of the senior Imperial military commanders that served under both Warmasters Slaydo and then Macaroth during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.

History
Lord General Bulledin was senior ranking and well regarded Imperial Guard General Officer that served during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade and was instrumental in many campaigns. During the outset of the Crusade when the Imperials began Operation Newfound, Bulledin was present at the First Battle of Sverrin (757-758.M41). This world was mired by challenging circumstances and the fierce tenacity of the Archenemy forces. General Bulledin led an Imperial Guard force that invaded the planet in 757, routing the enemy forces and killing Magister Kuvelo in the initial assault landings. Circumstances quickly changed when the weather became exceedingly bad and the Imperial ground forces soon found themselves bogged down in the soft mud. Braving the inclement weather Bulledin drove his forces towards the city of Rammery, despite the Archenemy forces attempts to bog down their thrust forwards. Bulledin's forces encircling the city which soon fell after a short siege.

Nefr City proved to be much more difficult to subdue, as Bulledin lost 3,000 soldiers for the gain of only two kilometres of land. Offering his resignation to Warmaster Slaydo for his failure, it was refused. Slaydo sent back a dispatch which read, "Do it again." Taking the Warmaster's orders to heart, Bulledin tried again and finally, on the 241st day of 758, his forces and a single Warlord-class Titan managed to overrun the walls of Nefr City, storm the Upper Palace, and kill the Magister's second-in-command, Pater Bucher, when he resisted capture.

In 760, a fierce and bloody counter-strike ripped into the Crusade's midline. Led by Archon Nadzybar himself, the world of Sverren once again fell to the forces of the Archenemy. Once again, this world found itself the site of major warfare. General Bulledin soon found himself once in again in command of the Imperial forces on Sverren, as he had the most experience fighting in the land war on this contested planet two years earlier. His fierce determination was instrumental in preserving the declining morale of Imperial forces, as he refused to let the cursed world bedevil him twice. When relief convoys arrived in 761, they soon determined that the beleaguered General had been fighting a war on two fronts, resisting both Magister Sholen Skara and the hosts of Archon Nadzybar himself. The Archenemy forces were eventually driven to the tropical jungles of the Southern Continent and finally broken after 16 intense months of fighting.

During the assault on the Chaos-held world of Balhaut in 765, Warmaster Slaydo died of mortal wounds received after facing Archon Nadzybar in personal combat. Before finally expiring, he appointed Marshal Macaroth is his rightful successor to the esteemed position of Warmaster. During Macaroth's push into the Cabal System, General Bulledin soon found himself in command of the Crusade Second Army. He was directed spinward of the main Crusade fleet to protect the line of reinforcements via Urdesh.

On Khan III, Lord General Bulledin found himself pitted against the forces of Magister Shebol Red-Hand, a notorious monster who left a trail of burning worlds in his murderous wake. Fortunately for the Imperials, Red-Hand lacked organisation and discipline, a fact that the Lord General would take full advantage of when their forces clashed. Supported by two separate armoured brigades, Bulledin forced an opening in the Archenemy's lines, then sent foot companies from two Imperial Guard Regiments to flank Red-Hand's forces. Panicking, the Magister drew his fources closer to him. A heavy tank battle soon ensued, and Bulledin quickly pressed in with three battalions of troopers with Titan support. Magister Shebol fle to the highlands and soon found himself surrounded by an armoured brigade commanded by the Lord General himself. Though allegorical tales tell of how Bulledin met and slew Shebol in personal combat, many regard these tales and speculation and hearsay. What matters is that the vile Magister met his ultimate fate upon that high ground and was killed. Though the Lord General had achieved a major victory, enemy forces would continue to harangue the Imperials for the next 22 months of intense fighting. Later, he found himself placed in overall command of the Monthax theatre.Commissar-Colonel Ibram Gaunt held the Lord General in high regard despite the fact Bulledin had ordered the Inquisition to interrogate his adjutant as a suspected Psyker.