Editing Deathwing (section)

=== Deathwing Companions ===
[[File:Fe7a1ead.jpg|250px|right|thumb|When you're too goddamned knightly for the [[Grey Knights]].]]
Not to be confused with the [[Emperor|Emprah's]] [[Companion|closet friends with 'benefits'.]] The Deathwing Companions were the finest warriors from the Dark Angels Legion's Deathwing during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]].

These were warriors who were honour-bound to form the personal bodyguard of the Legion's officers. Each had taken an oath to lay down their lives before letting harm come to the one they were tasked to protect. Any among the Companions that took a death-blow meant for their charge and survived was granted the right to wear bone-white armour in recognition of their selfless devotion. Commanding officers were known as Oathbearers.

The Companions were equipped with Artificer ''Terminator'' Armour, not Artificer Armour or Terminator Armour, but [[AWESOME|''Artificer Terminator Armour'']], which goes to show how ''baller'' the Dark Angels were back in their heydays. They are armed as standard with either a [[Power weapon#Terranic Greatsword|Terranic Greatsword]] or Calibanite Warblade as well as [[Melta Bomb]]s, [[Power weapon#Powerfist|Power Fists]], [[Lightning Claws]], [[Thunder Hammer]]s, [[Grenade Harness|Grenade Harnesses]], [[Grenades & Explosives#Stasis Grenade|Stasis Grenades]], [[Combi-weapons|Combi-Weapons]], and [[Plasma Pistol]]s. They also had access to the unique Cytheron pattern Aegis.

It is unknown if any of these companions still exist in the 41st/42nd Millennium.

Crunchwise, on the Horus Heresy Tabletop, these are your Elite squads armed with either Calibanite Warblades or Terranic Greatswords, they all have [[Artificer Armour]] and the option of [[Terminator Armour]] (their choice of pattern) or Jump Packs if their Praetor has a Jump pack. Non-terminators can take Cytheron Pattern Aegis shields granting them a 4+ invulnerable save against shooting or a 5+ in melee (this would be redundant on Terminators anyway). Their special rules make them quite possibly the best bodyguard squad ever: they don't take up a Force Org slot (but can only be taken with a Praetor/Primarch); they are all Chosen Warriors and can accept challenges where they reroll hits thanks to the Scions of the Deathwing rule; and they always pass Look Out Sir rolls and their character cannot be picked out by Precision Shots.