Angels Encarmine

Angels Encarmine
Battle Cry	Unknown
Number	Unknown
Founding	Second Founding
Successors of	Blood Angels
Successor Chapters	Unknown
Chapter Master	Castellan Zargo (Dead); Unknown.
Primarch	Sanguinius
Homeworld	Unknown
Strength	Rarely at full strength; over 90% Primaris.
Specialty	Unknown, possibly melee combat and full frontal assaults.
Allegiance	Imperium
Colours	Red with black trim (regular); alabaster with black/gold trim (Honor Guard/Death Company)

The Angels Encarmine is a second founding successor chapter of the Blood Angels.

One of the most active chapters in the Imperium, the Angels Encarmine are famed for constantly campaigning and always looking for the next fight to throw themselves into it. This relentless attitude and their willingness to fight to protect the Emperor's people has bought them much fame and valour and casts a good light on the sons of Sanguinius.

You see, the Angels Encarmine's Chapter Master or "Castellan," Zargo, had no need for rest and found no comfort in sleep; constantly seeking opportunities to lead his brothers on campaign. In battle he was said to be relentless and commanded his brothers with great zeal and fury. To the ire of some, he had a penchant for getting rather irritated with those around him he deems coy, weak, or too hesitant to charge headlong into battle to slay mankind's foes. Although undoubtedly effective, this relentlessness and utter lust for battle has rubbed off on most of the chapter, and at times their bloodlust is met with awe and suspicion by those the Angel's Encarmine fight alongside.

As a result the Angels' ranks are rarely at full strength. They almost never stop to resupply, recruit novitiates, or generally catch their breath. During Zargo's leadership it was said by a Blood Angels archivist that no Space Marine Chapter was as active as the Angels Encarmine, which is fucking insane considering how thin they're stretched already. Still, they kick serious ass despite being outnumbered and outgunned most of the time, making them pretty awesome.

Although it might just be the bloodlust in the Angels Encarmine demanding blood, blood, BLOOD, it is whispered there is a darker reason. The flaws of the Red Thirst and the Black Rage manifest themselves differently from chapter to chapter and it could be this active energy is a result of the Encarmine handling it in their own way. Their Death Company is larger than most, evidence to the rumormongers that the chapter's days are numbered... as the rumors have stated for the last ten thousand years. If ten thousand years of a large Death Company, slow casualty replacement, and constant campaigning hasn't killed them off, they are fine.

Like most of the Blood Angels' successors Chapters, they pitched in to the big throwdown between Hive Fleet Leviathan and the Imperium at Baal. Though they put up a hell of a fight, they were horrifically mauled on both fronts of the battle: their orbiting fleet took heavy losses, while Castellan Zargo himself was killed in action (along with two-thirds of the entire chapter) defending the section of the Blood Angels' fortress-monastery known as the Arx Murus in the final days of the fighting. Their numbers were whittled down further as the Red Thirst asserted itself with a vengeance, leaving scarcely a company's worth of marines to rebuild their shattered chapter (though they received Primarines at the fighting's end, so there may still be hope for them yet).

Like most Blood Angel successors, they use an obscene amount of red in their armour. Seriously, they need to diversify their colour schemes a bit more. Or perhaps the Chapters of the Blood Angels still view themselves as a Legion? They might not operate as one like the Dark Angels some people, but they do act like it when fighting together.

They are also noteworthy for having their Death Company and Sanguinary Guard wear white instead of black or gold.

Gallery

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  Lookin' fancy.
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  Zargo Conversion for a Dark Vengeance Captain.
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  A trio of Angels Encarmine Dreadnoughts, including a Librarian, deploy on the world of Stromark Secundus.