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Death Strike
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The Death Strike are a Space Marine Chapter, of Imperial Fists descent.[5]
Battles and Campaigns
- 364.M39: The 5th Company took part in the Assault on Moros.[2a][6a]
- 930.M41: Verdan Wars[6b]:
- The 3rd Company was deployed for the Verdan II Counter-Strike[2c] (and took grievous losses during the first part of the Verdan Wars).[6b]
- The 6th Company fought a rearguard action in the Verdan II Extraction[2b] (in the second part of the Verdan Wars).[6b]
- 997.M41: A series of Exterminatus missions are carried out by Space Marines of the Death Strike and Genesis Chapters on worlds in the Ulik Sector not yet consumed by Hive Fleet Leviathan to prevent it from gaining precious bio-resources.[3]
- M42: The Octarius War — The Death Strike were one of many Chapters that defended the Pankallis Sub-Sector.[7a] Their primary actions took place in the Gydisk System[7b]:
- On Gydisk Tertius (one of the Chapter's recruiting worlds), the Death Strike evacuated a number of potential recruits and the planet's gene-seed stores.[7b]
- On Gydisk Quartas the Death Strike determined that the planet was doomed and so oversaw the transport of its food stocks offworld where they could be more useful. This also prevented the invading tyranids from making use of it.[7b]
Recruitment
The Death Strike make use of a number of planets besides their homeworld for recruiting purposes. Known recruitment worlds for the Chapter include Gydisk Tertius.[7b]
Trivia
Notes
The Death Strike are somewhat similar in colour scheme to the Rainbow Warriors which appear in earlier editions.[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: How to Paint Space Marines, pg. 88
- 2: Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition:
- 3: Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition), pg. 29
- 4: Insignium Astartes pg. 52
- 5: Legion of the Damned (Novel), Chapter 3, pg. 79
- 6: Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes
- 7: War Zone Octarius - Book 1: Rising Tide:
- 8: Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition), pgs. 16-17 — A Thousand Chapters
Uncited
- Space Marine Chapter Gallery (accessed 2007.02.19)