Fire Angels
The Fire Angels are a Space Marine Chapter descended from the Ultramarines that have a zealous devotion to the Imperial Creed[1b].
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Background
The Fire Angels are a Space Marine chapter created from Ultramarines gene-seed. They fought on the loyalist side during the Badab War. In one incident during the war, the rebel Astral Claws launched a suicidal counter-attack, in which a squadron of Rhinos broke through an Imperial salient to the Fire Angels' lines and detonated a virus missile, causing more deaths in one day than the Fire Angels had suffered in the war so far.[Needs Citation]
The Fire Angels are a highly zealous chapter. Fervent believers in the Imperial creed, they do not revere their ancestral primarch (Roboute Guilliman) as most chapters do, believing this to be a form of idolatry. They tend to rely on "basic" Imperial technology and codex equipment, such as rhinos and Predators, while their 1st Company is mostly composed of Sternguard Veterans rather than of Terminators.[1b]
Campaigns
- Fenright Tithe Wars — from 760.M39 to 411.M40[Needs Citation]
- Magdellan Prime Civil War — 143-151.M41[Needs Citation]
- Battle for Grand Al'gul — 666.M41[Needs Citation]
- Badab War — 901-912.M41[Needs Citation]
- Third War for Armageddon — 998.M41 (at least sixth company fought there)[2]
- Destroying the Psyker Cult Seven Daughters of Oblivion on the planet Lament — Unknown Time[Needs Citation]
Notable Members
- Haran Stark — Chapter Master[Needs Citation]
- Mathias Dee — Chief Librarian[Needs Citation]
- Tarnus Vale — Captain - Praetor of the 3rd Company[Needs Citation]
Images
Related Articles
Sources
- 1: Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One
- 2: Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition, pg. 54
- 3: Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pgs. 34/35
Uncited
- White Dwarf 101 (UK) "Index Astartes: The Badab Uprising" by Rick Priestley, reprinted in Warhammer 40,000 Compendium
- White Dwarf 103 (UK), Rampaging Rhinos by Rick Priestley
- GW UK's Campaign Weekends Badab War Rules (.pdf)