Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-4948356-20140428212452/@comment-14745711-20140429214118

OOC: sorry I'm late. I blocked for some strange reason. Here's my forces again, but I'll give more exact numbers afterward.

The Dragon Guard space marine chapter.

Hailing from the planet Ereges, the Dragon Guard are a fairly young chapter, founded at the start of the previous millennium. Their colours are bronze, with red shoulders and a black trim. Their symbol is (naturally) a black dragon coiled around a golden cross, its wings unfurled encompassing the whole of the top part of the emblem. At the bottom is traditionally printed these words: "Victoria de ore cladis", 'Victory from the jaws of defeat'. This is a big indicator of the chapter's history, for at their first true battle they were forced to do just that, when an elite strike team descended into the heart of a fleet of chaos ships and destroyed their capital ship, killing the commander, and scattering the other vessels in panic. The battle was then won within the hour, in both space and on the ground.

The Dragon Guard are famous for their ability to hold a single position for years without relief, they held onto the planet Ranosel V, in the wake of a massed Tyranid onslaught, until the Imperial fleet arrived, and the space marines were evacuated. Their defensive capabilities are second nearly to none, but neither are they lacking the power to assault with devastating power. Close combat is their chosen field of expertise, and this field they till well. Even the tactical marines are equipped with short swords, and an attack by the chapter's assault terminators, is something before which most foes cannot stand.

They are lead by chapter master Turvok, a veteran of many campaigns against a wide range of foes, both xeno and heretic alike. However, for this campaign the forces mobilised to the defence of the planet will under the command of captain Riorn, of the 5th company. He is a young, but highly skilled warrior and tactician, who is prepared to make complete sacrifice for his Emperor and the Imperium. He wields a power sword named perfidus homicida; traitor killer, and a wide assortment of long range weapons including a wrist mounted mini-melta.

In this campaign he will be leading his own company the 5th, as well as a detachment from the 7th company. This will place his numbers at about 120 battle brothers. His involvement in the campaign will be minor, as there is not a huge presence by the chapter. Vehicle support is fairly limited, with a single unit of predators, another of land speeders and a single land raider. As far as elite forces go, there are two terminator squads; one normal, one assault.

60 tactical marines

40 assault marines

20 devastator marines

10 terminators

5 assault terminators

3 dreadnoughts

3 predators

4 land speeders

1 land raider

Fleet-

1 battleship: The Brightflame

2 cruisers: The Jupiter and The Darkstorm

10 escorts

Commanders-

Captain Riorn (force leader)

Chaplin Didales

Librarian Alexander

Lieutenant (yes the dragon guard have lieutenants) Arius

Lieutenant Dagon

Lieutenant Sirrius

Those are my complete (and highly limited) forces.

IC: the Bright flame left the warp just over Gimintis, followed closely by the Jupiter and the Darkstorm, along with the fleet's escorts. Riorn was surprised to be notified of the presence of two groups of space marines already in the planets vicinity. Could a single forge world really be worth the deployment of so many marines? Then again, perhaps it was more the opportunity to destroy a large amount of the ork horde which was reported to be closing fast on the system.

Riorn immediately sent out hails to the other Imperial forces in the system, asking for any information they might have, which could be useful.