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===Chapter Nomenclature and Leadership===

The Daggers have largely retained the leadership and structural positions of the two Ultramarine Successors that Founded them, those being the Angels of Fury and the Novamarines.  The Chapter does have a few unique titles for their leaders, but those are mostly cosmetic alterations of pre-existing posts within the general guidance of the Codex Astartes, as laid down by their gene-sire Lord Guilliman.

Iron Hail: This technique was pioneered by the Ultramarines during the final few decades of the Scouring.  Using a combination of retro-rockets, Drop Pods, unmanned gun turrets, Assault Marines with jump packs, and Assault Teleporting Terminators, the Daggers launch an entire Company’s worth or more of Marines from an orbiting ship, usually one of their Strike Cruisers or the ''Sharp Edge''.  Before the inhabited Pods strike the ground, uninhabited Pods use the rockets to lurch ahead of the others, and arrive at the ground first.  These serve as decoys, drawing enemy fire away from the occupied Pods, but are not empty.  Instead, their interiors are laced with heatsinks, shock absorbers, targeting cogitators, and magazines.  Their exteriors are slightly different as well, as they contain heat-shielded Rapier Quad Bolters, which draw on the shock absorber and magazine equipment inside to send sheets of high-explosive bolts out at whatever AA batteries may be firing at the Pods.  When these dummy Pods land, their side hatches blow open as all Pods’ do, but instead of disgorging Marines, they instead activate Fragstorm packages and smoke dischargers located inside, identical to those on a Furioso or Ironclad Dreadnought.  While frags and smoke are still filling the air, the occupied pods land, and the hatches blow open.  Assault Marines and Terminators with Teleport Homers emerge.  The Assault Marines use their Jump Packs to rocket clear of the impact site and engage defenders in close quarters, while the Terminators use their Lightning Claws and Chainfists to clear away obstructions and call in backup.  Other variants of the technique use the Deathstorm variant of Drop Pods with in-built Assault Cannons.

The Blue Gunline: Another technique inherited from the Ultramarines of the Scouring, this technique involves using sensor suites and LADAR packages on Command Rhinos and Land Raiders Excelsior to map out a battlefield at long range, then using smoke dischargers and covering fire from vehicle-mounted bolters to provide cover for snipers to enter preferred shooting vantages, all at the speeds that only transhumans can attain.  A classic variant of the same ground control technique practiced by infantry since the Phoenician Empire, updated for modern capabilities.

Needle Formation: A Blue Dagger technique developed by the boarders of the great Glasian Cylinders.  This technique refers to the practice of using modified Assault Rams, Thunderhawks, and Teleporters to move vast numbers of boarders onto the Cylinders at once.  Thanks perhaps to their avian heritage, the Glasians prefer wide spaces on their starships.  Corridors and chambers that are far larger than a Mechanicus-designed ship would contain are very common.  On the one hand, this makes boarding and teleporting into the interior of the ships far safer.  On the other, it means that boarders must sometimes contest vehicles inside the enemy ships, which a boarder might not be equipped for by default.  To compensate, the Daggers have developed methods of allowing tracked Rapier platforms, Terminators, and even Dreadnoughts onto their Rams and shuttles and gunships, even when their normal layouts would forbid this.  However, it is a very tight fit for Dreadnoughts on anything smaller than Thunderhawks.

The Emperor’s March: A belief structure for the Chapter.  While older members of the Chapter are more likely to believe the same things about the Emperor and the history of Mankind as the Novamarines and Angels of Fury, the younger members of the Chapter have taken to this belief.  They believe that the souls of those who die in the honorable service of the Emperor’s armies will join together in an endless procession of glorious souls to the side of the Emperor Himself in the Warp to aid him in battle against the Gods of every other starfaring race.