As the Empire became victim to a series of raids from the lands of the North, the Empire began a mass mobilization for an upcoming Chaos invasion. Led by Count Valmir von Raukov and his eldest son, Oleg von Raukov, the province of Ostland girded itself for war. Valmir von Raukov, a war-like man by nature, had suggested the unthinkable -- to launch reprisal raids into the unholy lands of Norsca just as Sigmar himself had done in ages past. With a new, massive army of mustered state-troops, Valmir led the raids in 2513 IC, putting several coastal towns of Norsca to the torch. Valmir's raids, for all their bluster, did not manage to penetrate very far inland, and were primarily contained to the Norscan coastline.