List of Battles of the Blood Angels
List of military engagements involving the Blood Angels.
M30
- ???.M30: Conquest of Neptune[1c]
- ???.M30: Second Siege of Yarant[1c]
- ???.M30: Melchior Compliance[2a]
- ???.M30: Extermination of the Adryantis Cluster[3]
- ???.M30: Conquest of Teghar Pentaurus[1c]
- ???.M30: The Banquet of Kiy-Buran[1a]
- ???.M30: The Burning of Anahktor[1a]
- ???.M30: The Praxil Compliance[26]
- ???.M30: Compliance of Muspel[4]
- ???.M30: Anaxis XII against a Hrud migration[1c]
- 962.M30: Defense of Helioret and destruction of Craftworld Magc'Sithraal[1b]
M31
- 000.M31: Ullanor Crusade alongside several other Legions under Horus[1a]
- ???.M31: Kayvas Initiative[2b]
- ???.M31: War on Murder — Blood Angels Astartes fought on the planet named One-Forty-Twenty, aka "Murder" against the arachnoid race dubbed "Megarachnids"[5]
- 005-006.M31: Signus Campaign[1d]
- ~011.M31: Second Battle of Davin[27]
- 014.M31: Siege of Terra[28]
M32
- 544.M32: War of the Beast — The Blood Angels and Novamarines manage to destroy an Ork Attack Moon. Later a force under Captain Valefor arrived at Terra to aid the throneworld on the push to Ullanor.[6]
M33
M35
- 173.M35: Achernar Invasion — The Blood Angels wiped out the Ork horde that had preying upon Imperial shipping for several months. The Achernar system was cleansed of Orks so thoroughly that no more greenskins were seen in this Sector for millennia afterwards.[8]
- 400.M35: Waaagh! Starsmasha[7]
M36
- 732.M36: 5th Black Crusade — The Blood Angels mobilised to fight Doombreed in the Eclipse of Hope alongside the Warhawks and Venerators. Both of the other chapters are driven to complete extinction, while the Blood Angels lose the Battle Barge, not to be seen again for 5,000 years.[9]
M37
- 237.M37: Battle of Hell's Hollow[7]
- 811.M37: 7th Black Crusade — The Chapter is nearly wiped out on Mackan.[8]
M38
- 755.M38: Siege of Balle Alpha — The Blood Angels arrived to save the beleaguered world from an Ork Waaagh!.[8]
M39
- 114.M39: Gallow Heresy[10]
M40
- 112.M40: Fall of Leryer V[10]
- 676.M40: Battle of Tytus[8]
- 996.M40: Secoris Tragedy — A boarding of an unknown Space Hulk infested with Genestealers met with disaster. The entire Chapter was nearly wiped out; only 50 Blood Angels survived.[11]
- ???.M40: Kallius Insurrection[12]
M41
- 187.M41: Shadowblight Campaign[7]
- 589.M41: Seeking revenge for the Brothers who died in the Secoris Tragedy in 996.M40 during a battle with Genestealers, over eighty members of the Blood Angels First Company under the command of Captain Michaelus Raphael boarded the Space Hulk Sin of Damnation and utterly destroyed the aliens.[7]
- 700s.M41: First Captain Ubaldo leads a force from the 1st Company to Gorgonum, aiding this Forge World against the Forsaken Doom, a Genestealer-infested space hulk.[13][Note 1]
- 742.M41: First Tyrannic War — Dante sends 3 companies of Blood Angels to aid the Ultramarines against Hive Fleet Behemoth.[14a]
- 798.M41: Assault on Baal — The Blood Angels' homeworld of Baal came under attack from the Orks of Waaagh! Big Skorcha. Though two of the three invading Ork space hulks were destroyed in orbit by the Blood Angels fleet and boarding parties, a third landed on the surface and disgorged thousands of Orks. The defences of the Blood Angels' fortress-monastery would have fallen if not for forty-one Dreadnoughts led by Furioso Astramael, who managed to hold off the Orks long enough for reinforcements to arrive from orbit and mop up the remaining Ork forces.[14a]
- 823.M41: Battle of Khartas[7]
- 841.M41: Battle of Omnissiah's Eye[7]
- 859.M41: Assault on Ice Planet Zoran — The Alpha Legion incites an uprising on the frozen planet of Zoran. Captain Metraen leads elements of the 3rd and 8th Companies to crush the insurrection.[14b]
- 865.M41: Verdeworlds Campaign[17]
- 872.M41: Kasablan Campaign[7]
- 877.M41: Mel'yanneth Skywar[7]
- 927.M41: Battle for Antax[14d]
- 941.M41: Second War for Armageddon — As Waaagh! Ghazghkull ravages the hive world of Armageddon, the Blood Angels, as well as their brothers from the Ultramarines and the Salamanders arrive to lend the beleaguered planet aid. Such was Commander Dante's reputation that Tu'shan and Calgar ceded overall command of the Space Marine strike force to him. The Blood Angels bore the brunt of the close-quarter fighting, eventually culminating in a massed drop-pod assault into the heart of Ghazghkull's forces that finally broke the back of the Ork army.[14c]
- 969.M41: Invasion of Taladorn[18]
- ~900s.M41: Arkio Insurrection — A civil war erputs among the Blood Angels. Eventually, Arkio is exposed as being part of a plan to tempt the chapter to Chaos and his insurrection is defeated.[15]
- 992.M41: Battle of Hollonan[14d]
- 994.M41: Blackfang Crusade[7]
- 995.M41: Hive Fleet Jormungandr[7]
- 998.M41: Cryptus Campaign — Commander Dante leads much of the Blood Angels and their successors against the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Leviathan, which have massed in such force that Baal itself is threatened.[3]
- 998.M41: Third War for Armageddon — Despite the bulk of the Chapter being deployed against the threat of Hive Fleet Leviathan, Commander Dante still deploys the 3rd Company led by Captain Tycho to Armageddon when the hive world falls under Warboss Ghazghkull's baleful attention once more. During the ensuing conflict, Captain Tycho succumbs to the Black Rage, finally meeting a valiant end as part of the Death Company upon the walls of Hive Tempestora. Brother-Captain Machiavi succeeds him in command of the Company.[14e][16]
- 999.M41: Thirteenth Black Crusade — The Blood Angels contribute four companies to battle against Abaddon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade. They are deployed to push back Chaos forces advancing on Agripinaa and seek out their leader. Discovering it to be the notorious World Eater Champion Kossolax, the Blood Angels engage the Champion of Khorne and his bodyguards in combat. Kossolax eventually summons Daemons for aid, including a Bloodthirster, after sacrificing thousands of Agripinaa's citizens. However thanks to the Sanguinary Priest Numitor and the Black Rage-berserk Death Company, the Bloodthirster and Kossolax were both defeated at great cost to the Blood Angels involved.[19] In addition, Astorath and other Captains commanded the defence of the Diamor System in the Diamor Campaign.[3]
- ~999.M41: Devastation of Baal[29]
M42
- ???.M42: The Relief of Lastransa[20]
- ???.M42: The Battle of Dhormet[20]
- ???.M42: The Red Scar Campaign[20]
- ???.M42: The Angel's Halo campaign against the remnants of Hive Fleet Leviathan[22]
- ???.M42: The Khovan Incident[20]
- ???.M42: Battle on Vonnegatu against Dark Eldar[21a]
- ???.M42: Battle on Dekidua against Necrons alongside the Dark Angels[23b]
- ???.M42: Battle of Ankerin against the Word Bearers[23a]
- ???.M42: Battle on Varaktus against Eldar[21a]
- ???.M42: Battle on Krestis against Harlequins[21a]
- ???.M42: Battle on Kelestia XIX against Daemons[21b]
- ???.M42: Battle of Idolatros during the Arks of Omen Campaign. Dante leads a massive Blood Angels force alongside the Imperial Navy to relieve the Unforgiven under Azrael from the forces of Chaos. During the battle, Dante is badly wounded by Angron.[24]
- ???.M42: Fourth Tyrannic War, including the Battle of Bastior[25]
Date Unknown
Trivia
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- Note 1: Space Hulk: Tactics doesn't specify when the story exactly happens, it just says "closing years of the M41". Other sources can give us more information: Karlaen had been First Captain for two centuries in 999.M41, this means Ubaldo could have been First Captain until 799.M41. The main characters in the campaign already know of the Tyranids. This means the First Tyrannic War has already happened and the story is set between 742.M41 and 799.M41.
Sources
- 1: The Horus Heresy Book Eight - Malevolence:
- 2: Fear to Tread (Novel)
- 3: Dante (Novel): ch. 2
- 4: Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First (Novel), Part 11
- 5: Horus Rising (Novel), Part Two, ch. 7
- 6: The Hunt for Vulkan (Novel), ch. 4
- 7: Codex: Blood Angels (7th Edition), A Chronicle of Heroes
- 8: Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes, pgs. 16-18
- 9: Mephiston: Lord of Death (Novella) [Needs Citation]
- 10: Blood Angels Painting Guide – Sons of Sanguinius, p. 6
- 11: Space Hulk Mission Book (3rd Edition), pgs. 3–33
- 12: Dante: Darkness of the Blood (Novel), ch. 10
- 13: Space Hulk: Tactics
- 14: Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition):
- 15: Deus Encarmine (Novel), Deus Sanguinius (Novel)[Needs Citation]
- 16: Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition), pg. 32
- 17: Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition), pg. 53
- 18: Sentinels of Terra - A Codex: Space Marines Supplement (6th Edition) — The Invasion of Taladorn
- 19: White Dwarf 286 (UK), pg. 66
- 20: Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pgs. 20-23 — A Chronicle of Heroes
- 21: Codex Supplement: Blood Angels (9th Edition)
- 22: Psychic Awakening: Blood of Baal, pg. 9
- 23: Codex: Space Marines (9th Edition):
- 24: Arks of Omen: The Lion, pg. 27
- 25: Leviathan (Box) Rulebook, pgs. 247-253
- 26: The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal, pgs. 118-119
- 27: Ruinstorm (Novel), chs. 17-Epilogue
- 28: The End and the Death (Novel)[Needs Citation]
- 29: Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Rulebook, pgs. 52–53
- 30: White Dwarf 388 (UK), pg. 121
- 31: The Blood Angels Omnibus, Appendix Angelus, pg. 602
