Editing Devastation of Baal (section)

===You’ve Heard This Part Before===
With their defences crippled, their Neophytes dead, the [[Swarmlord]] itself leading the Tyranids on a final assault, and no hope of victory in sight, the Blood Angels and their successors collectively decided to go down swinging; using ash, blood, and grime in place of paint, they inducted themselves into the [[Death Company]] and resolved to make the Tyranids bleed as much as possible before going down. The Tower of Amareo was opened, unleashing the Red Thirst-mutated monsters within to accompany them on their last charge into the hordes.

In the resultant fighting, the present Chapters suffered utterly catastrophic losses despite the [[Legion of the Damned]] and the [[Sanguinor]] arriving to lay a smackdown on the 'Nids; all but one of the remaining [[Sanguinary Guard]] were ripped to shreds, along with the likes of Chaplain Ordamael ([[Astorath]]'s second-in-command) and several other Captains from the Blood Angels and their successors. Dante himself came within millimetres of falling to the [[Black Rage]] as he fought his way toward the Swarmlord, keeping himself together through nothing but sheer willpower and hatred for the Tyranids.

The two leaders eventually met in a vicious duel to the death - Dante burned off one of the Swarmlord's arms, broke one of its swords, and tore out an eye, only for it to retort by badly damaging Dante's armour with a stream of psychic attacks before shanking him through the chest with the remnants of its damaged bonesword, popping his secondary heart and leaving him badly poisoned. Unfortunately for the Swarmlord, Dante took advantage of his impalement to [[Rape|fire the Perdition Pistol at point-blank range into the Swarmlord's face, cooking its head to steaming mulch]].

The victory, however, soon proved a ''very'' pyrrhic one. Dante actually died from his injuries on the battlefield, and the war continued to rage on as the last remnants of the Blood Angels and their successors sought to bloody the Tyranids one final time.