Editing Avenging Sons (section)

==History==
An [[Ultramarines]] Successor Chapter, they are [[Matt Ward|fanatic followers]] of the [[Codex Astartes]], but with a key exception in how they deploy their forces. Unlike other chapters who will send an appropriate amount of force depending on the foe, The Avenging Sons opt to drop whole companies worth of marines onto any battlefield that will have them. While most of their history is only built from partial records of the 41st Millennium, the Chapter is very active, and appear to be involved in all sorts of Imperial battlefronts, dumping company after company wherever the Emperor needs them.

But that's not a good thing.

While yes, this is a lot of Space Marines at once and for an Imperial warfront that's usually a good thing, they're apparently run by complete [[Derp|smoothbrains]], frequently making so many rash, pointless and tactically disadvantageous decisions that they're usually a blight on whatever sector they ended up in, rather than a boon. Their penchant for glory-seeking also means that they are often hopelessly outnumbered as they're dropped into battle in places no sane person would put valuable members of the Astartes, and in general are led so poorly by even sergeant-level marines that they almost always end up in protracted conflicts, and almost always dying pointlessly; often losing whole companies in the process and accomplishing ''precisely everything'' their venerated holy book is supposed to be preventing in the first place. In short, they've clearly inherited whatever recessive bit of Guilliman's geneseed was responsible for creating [[Cato Sicarius]] en masse.

Seriously, it is a minor miracle that this chapter manages to get out of bed in the morning without losing whole companies to holes in the ground. It is an extremely major miracle (or maybe just [[Guilliman|Guilliman's]] [[Imperium Secundus|second largest oversight error]]) that they were thought to be good enough to act as one of the ten Shield Chapters of Ultramar, considering the abilities and reputation for such an honor.

Seriously, these guys are working the same role as the [[Silver Skulls]] and [[Scythes of the Emperor]]- how the fuck did they manage that when literally every single battle they've been involved in, they've lost or disgraced themselves?