Editing Avenging Sons (section)

==What charitably passes for Campaigns==
*'''Liberation of Antillis IV''' - A company of the Chapter gets overwhelmed by forces of the [[Black Legion]]. They fight to the last and detonate their position before being overrun. Their sacrifice was not entirely in vain however, as the larger campaign to retake Antillius was won by the Imperium, and a single [[Scout]] escaped on board of a [[Thunderhawk]] containing much of the [[Gene-seed]] lost during that battle. That being said, the [[Apothecary]] left behind left valuable gene-seed via his own progenoid glands for another World Eater Apothecary to analyze and replicate to prevent his warband from degenerating their geneseed to the extinction point. Give credit where credit is due: this one was almost not as big of a fuckup as the rest- had they not found literally the only Astartes still on planet, that World Eater warband would be kaput and the story would be considered a heavy victory.
*'''Battle of Archimedon''' - The Chapter's 3rd company was deployed to Archimedon. Their mission was to defend a spaceport on the planet; However, after the company suffered heavy losses, they destroyed the spaceport themselves rather than let it fall into enemy hands. The [[Chapter Master]] didn't approve of it, but refrained from censuring the company. Instead, he sent them to fight a gruelling campaign in Helmabad, which leads us to...
*'''Helmabad Rebellion''' - The 3rd company was given the opportunity to redeem itself fighting against [[Chaos Cults]], where they spent months dealing with non-stop fighting and the unprofessional PDF. But when the Captain learned from the company's [[Librarian]] that Helmabad was mere hours away from a full scale Demonic invasion, he got cold feet. Deciding that [[Heresy|dying for the Emperor wasn't its own reward]], he proposed abandoning the doomed world. The [[Chaplain]] obviously wasn't on board and [[Heresy|had to be killed along with the rest of the loyal Marines]]. Not only that, but the Captain turned on the PDF to take the Planetary Governor hostage and turned him over to the [[Chaos Cults]] as a bargaining chip to secure safe passage off-world. The remains of the 3rd company, [[Heresy|knowing well what they had done]], decided to set course for the [[Eye of Terror]].
*'''Harrowing of the Night Reapers''' The Night Reapers [[Chapter]] had been sent on penitent crusade to a dangerous backwater nebula as punishment for abandoning a Shrine World to the forces of [[Chaos]]. They went radio silent after a while, and steadily started to deviate from [[Codex]] doctrine, tactics, and equipment. Six years after last contact and many suspicious raids in the area, irrefutable proof of their attack on a [[Rogue Trader]] vessel earned them an ''Excommunicate Traitoris''. A staggering four companies of the [[Avenging Sons]] went after them, but our chapter can't do anything right and got ambushed by the Night Reapers, who captured one of their [[Space Marine Strike Cruiser|Star Cruisers]] and mauled another. They blamed their humilliating defeat on "Warp flame weapons" that bypassed [[Void shields]], so the High Lords had to send someone who could actually [[get shit done]]: The [[Minotaurs]] and the [[Red Hunters]].
*'''[[Taros Campaign|First Taros Intervention]]''' - The desert world of Taros gets investigated by the [[Administratum]], as its tithe and production estimates are out-of-date. The delegation finds that, while Taros is meeting its quotas to the local [[Forge World]], it seemed to be mining much more without growing its stockpiles beacause the Planetary Governor had been cutting a deal with the [[Tau]]. The Chapter's second company answered the request for punitive action against Taros and assaulted the Governor's palace... only to find he had already been evacuated by the Xenos. The Tau forces on the planet quickly converged upon the Astartes and kept them pinned down for two days before the Avenging Sons finally decided to evacuate after losing over half their initial force. This failure to slay the treacherous Governor would set the stage for the following invasion of Taros, and its eventual failure.

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