Night Raptors

The Night Raptors Squads were a specialised Legion Assault unit of the Night Lords Legion, comprised of the most brutal cutthroats and murderers, equipped with Jump Packs and an array of close combat weapons. They served as an elite shock assault unit during Following the end of the Horus Heresy and flight into the hellish realm known as the Eye of Terror, like all of the Space Marines in the Traitor Legions, these troops were slowly and insidiously corrupted by the Chaos Gods so that, step by step, they were turned into something all together the opposite of what they had once been. Where there had once been proud, noble Space Marine warriors, there now stood the vain, selfish creatures that quickly became known by both themselves and their enemies simply as Raptors.

History
The Night Raptors were a caste apart from the Night Lords Legion -- not so much a martial elite as a bloody coterie of murderers wedded together by similar proclivities and chosen styles of warfare. The Night Raptors were equipped with Jump Packs and an array of close combat weapons, all of which they utilised to bring unfettered savagery down upon the heads of their foes in a single, overwhelming onslaught. Where the Night Lords as a Legion wielded terror as a weapon, the Night Raptors rejected all subtlety in favour of assaults as bloody and direct as a butcher's axe cleaving meat. The Night Raptors found bleak joy in soaring above the battlefield like screaming predators hunting for victims and savoured most that start moment of clarity when a victim witnessed their death reflected back to them in the eyes of their killer. Like many of the Legion's elite, where possible they adorned their armour with grisly trophies and utilised advanced systems to project images of death upon its surface, images that depicted the doom of the Night Raptors' countless victims in eternal loop, as much for the amusement of the wearer as to stun his target into insensate horror.

Composition

 * 4 to 10 Night Raptors
 * 1 Huntmaster (Squad Leader)

Wargear

 * Power Armour
 * Bolt Pistol
 * Chainsword or Combat Blade
 * Jump Pack
 * Frag Grenades
 * Krak Grenades

Optional Wargear

 * Power Weapons
 * Nostraman Chainglaive -
 * Single or pair Lightning Claws
 * Flamer
 * Meltagun
 * Plasma Gun
 * Plasma Pistol
 * Hand Flamer

Optional Wargear (Huntmaster)

 * Volkite Serpenta
 * Hand Flamer
 * Plasma Pistol
 * Melta Bombs
 * Artificer Armour