Crimson Eagles

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Crimson Eagles
Battle Cry	"Death From Above!"
Number	VII
Founding	First Founding
Primarch	Caligor Kincaid
Homeworld	Haravi IV
Strength	~75,000-120,000
Specialty	Airborne Infantry, Airborne Cavalry, Total War
Allegiance	Traitor, Chaos Undivided/Renegade
Colours	Variable Camouflage (Typically Jungle or Desert) with Maroon helmet

"The Crimson Eagles are consummate front lines soldiers, eager to fight and quick to end a battle. Using aggressive tactics and mixed unit assets to hit the enemy and hit them hard. The Eagles deploy almost exclusively via drop pod, or from dropping from swooping thunderhawks, both infantry and cavalry units.

Legion History

Unification Wars

The Seventh Squad, as they were known in those prehistoric times, were a respected force. What the Seventh lacked in ferocity on the battlefield they made up in efficiency. They rode in with the Seventeenth as infantry support.

>Forced a few settlements to surrender without violence, using diplomacy only >Blew stuff up and went terrorist mode when they couldn't use verbal judo >Famed front line fighters using equal parts subterfuge and force

Organisation

The Organization of the Crimson Eagles is rather standard for an Astartes Legion, consisting of ten Chapters with five Companies each, the only variation in standard legion organization being the platoon level, in which squads fall under. The platoon formation allows for greater specialization within a company, and ultimately a chapter. While Chapters tend to prefer to stay relatively similar in performance and composition for simplicities sake, chapters and their companies often build a certain reputation for certain battlefield roles, such as boarding actions, or liberal use of promethium to suppress the enemy. Due to the extremely dangerous nature of Eagle deployments and their frontlines recruitment strategy their numbers tend to fluctuate rapidly, with fresh blood often going to those units most grievously in need of bodies.

Doctrine

Strategy

The Crimson Eagles