General Sturnn

Grit Incarnate

General Sturnn is the commander of the Cadian 412th Regiment in the Dawn of War: Winter Assault game.

Unlike the other Imperial Generals in the succeeding Dawn of War games, Sturnn is actually old (rather than looking in his early 40s), and looks like he's been into a fight or ten. He and his Regiment were ordered to secure the Emperor-class Titan, Dominatus, on Lorn V (that's 5 in roman), left behind when the Planet was lost to Chaos Forces.

The main difference between himself and General Vance Motherfucking Stubbs is that Sturnn's got the one thing that separates the Man-General from the Boy-General: Grit. His idea of a planetary beachhead against super-human, power armour-wearing chaos worshippers is to personally land with a Commissar and 5 squads of Imperial Guardsmen right on the doorsteps of a god damn Defense Fortress. His choice of tactics might be connected with the fact that since he possesses a gritted, roached out voice, he possibly drinks himself to sleep at night, but that's just how he does things.

He also doesn't feel the need to wear a golden breastplate, have a plasma pistol, Super duper powerclaws, bodyguards, optical bionics, Over-sized Pauldrons, fancy golden boots or a shiny new cape. He only wears his gritted face, cheap powerclaws, forearm bolter gun and his Medal covered Imperial Guard uniform, which offers good protection against anything, especially against Space Elf trickery and guile. The sheer amount of medals he has gained gives him about as much armor as a Space Marine Terminator. All of these have been earned from incredible feats of manliness, such as killing an Ork Warboss by beating him to death with his own severed arm, or single-handedly holding off a Tyranid Hive Fleet while pleasuring three women.

His Manly Grit earned him praises from Space Marines, right after defeating a bunch of Necrons who just woke up and had a bad case of the morning blues, Orks looking for trouble and the Chaos forces on Lorn V.

Sadly, he did not make it to Dawn of War:Dark Crusade, being replaced by some snot-nosed Boy-General, who laughably tried to imitate his gritness by finding A SINGLE ARM OF SOME RANDOM TITAN WHICH WAS JUST LYING 5 FEET FROM HIS SUPER SECURE AND OUT OF REACH LANDING ZONE. That General was Named Governor-Militant, if only because Sturnn was elsewhere, possibly busy killing some other enemy of the Imperium of Man with but a glance of his Grit-filled stare.

Fate

Some would have you believe that Sturnn died in Winter Assault and the Eldar ending is canon, but a piece of Imperial Guard wargear in Retribution outright states that General Sturnn did lead his men to the Imperator Titan.

However, the FFG Only War sourcebook Hammer of the Emperor states that General Sturnn was betrayed by Taldeer and the Eldar and "cut down in a hail of shuriken fire." HERESY, DID YOU NOT JUST READ WHAT IT SAID ABOUT HIS MEDALS?

Then there's the Imperial Guard campaign in Dark Crusade. Alexander's secondary goal besides securing the planet is hunting down Taldeer and taking her out, and we don't mean on a romantic HERETICAL date. She must've done something big... say, blowing up an irreplaceable war machine that could single-handedly turn the tide of an entire campaign?

Really, who knows. The majority of evidence points to an Eldar victory on Lorn V, but it's highly unlikely that Sturnn would allow himself to be killed by any amount of Space Fairy faggotry and frankly any notions to that are ridiculous and extra heretical.

Speaking from an entirely hypothetical perspective, it would in many ways make sense if Gorgutz killed him, as he and Taldeer are the only characters that carry over, and it directly shows Sturnn being pulverized by Gorgutz, so this is entirely possible.

Though this too seems unlikely as Gorgutz' only real tactic seems to be running away. Some Ork warboss amirite?

Famous members of the Imperial Guard
Commissars:	Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt Commissar Anton Gebbet Commissar Ciaphas Cain Commissar Holt Commissar Lord Bernn Commissar Severina Raine Commissar Yarrick
Senior Officers:	Colonel Carus Brom Colonel Greiss Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken General Sturnn Governor-Militant Lukas Alexander Lieutenant-Colonel Mikail Leonid Lord Castellan Ursarkar E. Creed Lord Castellan Ursula J. Creed Lord General Castor Lord Solar Macharius Lord Solar Arcadian Leontus Vance Motherfucking Stubbs
Junior Officers:	Captain Al'Rahem Commander Kubrik Chenkov Knight Commander Pask
Enlisted Guardsmen:	Colour Sergeant Jarran Kell Gunner Ferik Jurgen Mogul Kamir Nork Deddog Ollanius Pius Sergeant Harker Sergeant Lukas Bastonne Sergeant Merrick Sly Marbo Trooper Arden