Tanks were swarmed and destroyed, explosives strapped to their undercarriages, left immobile and desecrated. Crushed by the massed throngs of now chaos cultists, the beleaguered and exhausted remains of the Obsidian blades were ruthlessly torn apart by concentrated gun fire and ripped limb from limb by hundreds of cultists. Instead, the moment their forces relocated inside the city, they were turned upon by the blood drunk and heretical imperial citizens. When the Siege was broken, dismantled from within by the ferocious hordes of imperial citizens, the Obsidian Blades expected to be welcomed into the city as heroes and saviours. Their fall came from the incited and dissident human population of the city, who rose up against their Tau overlords, led in secret by the Alpha Legion insurrectionists. When the Obsidian Blades besieged the planetary capital, the fighting was fierce, entrenched Tau forces proffered impressive defensive capabilities, and had the supplies to last potentially years.
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When the Obsidian Blades made planet fall at full chapter strength they executed their campaign without thought to the potential betrayal of the local population. In the time since the Tau occupation, agents of the Alpha Legion had infiltrated the oppressed human population, and spread dissent and chaos. In the Tau's presence, faith in the God-Emperor had weakened, and in its absence, heresy had festered. While executing a campaign against the Tau occupiers of the planet Ziphon, the Obsidian Blades were deceived, assuming their opponents just the xenos invaders, they executed their battle plan with little thought to the local population, and what may have occurred to them since the Tau's occupation. They were seen employing much older marks of armour and Jump packs than is normally seen within the Chapters of the imperium. Neither venture could be considered a success, and soon the still flawed chapter was pressed into service, where it served with moderate distinction as a chapter excelling in urban warfare and close quarters fire fights. (Image courtesy of Algrim Whitefang)Īs happened with many chapters of the cursed 21 st Founding, the gene-seed of the Obsidian Blades Chapter was tampered with and altered in a attempt to restore the use of the Muchanoid and Betcher's gland. Obsidian Blade Battle-Brother in Tundra pattern camouflage armour and ghillie suit.
The Obsidian Blades believe in ensuring the battle is won before a single shot is fired, sabotaging key structures and poisoning enemy supplies so that when the Obsidian Blades do emerge from the shadows like ghosts, the enemy is already weakened and debilitated. Their heritage and gene-seed lineage already leans them towards a more reserved, practical and cunning approach to war, which has only been exacerbated in recent centuries as the Chapter has faced many hardships and near extinctions.
The Obsidian Blades are a Codex-Deviant Space Marine Chapter of Raven Guard stock.
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