Baleful Boars

Baleful Boars armorial with Chapter iconography.

Baleful Boars Sergeant, unknown company. Note, grisly trophies worn on battle-plate and taken from the battlefield.

## Space Marine Chapter

### **Allegiance**

Imperium of Man
(*Fedelitas Atrox Extremis*)

### **Successor of**

Blood Angels
(Sanguinius lineage.)

### **Fortress-Monastery**

*The Butcher*
(Retribution-class Battleship)

### **Specialty**

Harrowing Actions, Planet-Kill & Extermination Operations, Punitive Actions, Renegade/Rebellion Annihilation, Subjugation Campaigns, Orbital Bombardment, Drop pod/Thunderhawk Assaults

### **Battle cry**

- Chaplain says: "Death to the weak!"- The brothers answer: "Let there be blood!"

### **Colours**

Gold & Brown

The **Baleful Boars** is a very small and endangered Loyalist non-*Codex* compliant Space Marine Successor Chapter created from the lineage of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter during a unstated founding at the end of the 37st Millennium. It was created to counter the threat of the 7th Black Crusade in 811.M37, when Abaddon the Despoiler and his forces assaulted the Segmentum Obscurus.

Since their inception, the Baleful Boars have writ a blood-soaked saga of fell deeds and numerous atrocities down the long millennia of their existence. The Chapter's detractors often point out that these ferocious Astartes appear every bit as savage and merciless as the heretical World Eaters Traitor Legion. Walking a precarious path between purity and damnation, only time will tell whether or not the numerous excesses committed by the Baleful Boars in the Emperor's name will be their downfall, and eventually they are declared renegades by the High Lords of Terra.

## Chapter History

The Baleful Boars have a bloody and brutal history since its founding. The Chapter has been in almost a constant state of war, which also have made them constantly low in numbers and therefore, permanently understrength. They possess a reputation for being unusually ruthless and merciless Astartes, even for the Blood Angels and their Successors. The Baleful Boars are described as a savage force of bersekers, as well as often unreliable allies who do not work well with other Imperial military units.

## Notable Campaigns

Many of the operations that the Baleful Boars have done are notable in that they are often against Space Marine forces or Imperial Guard regiments, often Renegades or otherwise deviant in their behavior or actions. They also undertake punitive expeditions against Imperial and Xeno planets.

* **Extermination (124.M38)** - The Baleful Boars assaulted and destroyed, the now forgotten, *Golden Swords* Space Marine Chapter after they been branded as traitors by the High Lords of Terra.

* **Butchers of Jalur** - The Chapter slaughtered the entire population on the planet *Jalur* after tracers of Chaos was found.

## Chapter Home World

Having no home world to speak of, the Baleful Boars are a fleet-based Chapter, operating solely from its Chapter warfleet as part of a perpetual crusade. The Chapter voyages endlessly, pausing only to identify and engage its foes. It must choose its targets carefully, selecting those within its means to destroy without threatening the fleet's viability as a fighting force. Once it selects the appropriate victims, it can descend upon them quickly and savagely, engaging and destroying potential threats or launching spoiling attacks against foes too large to attack in force. The fleet obtains resources from the vanquished foe before vanishing, safe from any potential retaliation.

### Chapter Fortress-Monastery

*The Butcher* is a Retribution-class Battleship that function as the mobile fortress-monastery of the Chapter. In the vast halls and dark temples of the ship the brothers prepare for battle and perform their bloody rites. Mutilated bodies and severed skulls of enemies hangs as a token to the brothers devotion to the corpse of the Emperor of Mankind.

## Chapter Organisation

The Chapter are organised in two companies, one Battle Company and one Death Company, that consists of several squads with between 10-20 brothers. Each Battle Company squad are led by a Lector and each Death Company squad are led by experienced Preacher. The Chapter do not have or will ever use any Librarians or other psykers.

### Officer Ranks

* **Cardinal** - Most Veteran Chaplain/Chapter Master equivalent.
* **Bishop** - Senior Chaplain/Captain equivalent.
* **Lector** - Chaplain Initiate/Sergeant equivalent.

### Specialist Ranks

* **Preacher** - Chaplain/Death Company Chaplain equivalent.
* **Flesh-Carver** - Apothecary equivalent.

## Order of Battle

### Headquarters

**Astaroth -**
*Cardinal of the Baleful Boars*
**Cadell -**
*Judiciar*
**Martel -**
*Chapter Champion*
**Command Squad -**
*(Standard Bearer, Flesh-Carver, Preacher, Techmarine)*
**Chapter Serfs**
*High Pastor of Preachers*
**Preachers**
**Lectors**
**Chapter Serfs** | **Samael -**
*Lord of Flesh-Carvers*
**Flesh-Carvers**
**Flesh-Carvers Initiates**
**Chapter Serfs** | **Astrophel -**
*Master of the Forge*
**Techmarines**
**Techmarine Initiates**

### Companies

*Bishop*
**7 Squads** | **Orpheus -**
*Bishop*

### Squads

*Lector*
**Veteran** | **Burrienus -**
*Lector*
**Veteran** | **Caesinus -**
*Lector*
**Close Support** | **Diocleus -**
*Lector*
**Close Support** | **Livigenus -**
*Lector*
**Battleline** | **Maecilius -**
*Lector*
**Fire Support** | **Caristanius -**
*Lector*

*Preacher*
**Veteran** | **Naucratius -**
*Preacher*
**Close Support** | **Vettonianus -**
*Preacher*
**Close Support** | **Germanicus -**
*Preacher*

## Chapter Combat Doctrine

The brothers of the Chapter preferred way of combat is to face their enemies in close quarter. With huge Chainaxes they throw themselves into the enemies ranks. The Baleful Boars rarely detach smaller forces away from the main body, but in very rare cases. They attack the enemies as a whole with the entire Chapter gathering for the assaults. This form of attack makes the Chapter a very blunt weapon, but it also make them capable to ripping through any enemy.

## Chapter Beliefs

The brothers of the Chapter don't worship the Emperor of Mankind as a living entity, they worship his corpse. They believe that the Emperor already is dead and because of that they have nothing to fear in battle. The brothers celebrate their own death and see themselves as dead already.

Within their fortress-monastery the Chapter makes sacrifices in bloody rituals under the watchful eyes of the Chapter's Blood-Preachers. When a Neophyte become a full Battle-Brother he has to sacrifice a body part of himself, for the brothers this sacrifice symbolize that the new brothers life has ended. It is common that brothers cut of hands, arms or legs in this ritual of initiation. The body part is replaced with a bionic substitute.

## Chapter Gene-Seed

The Chapter are severely affected by the genetic flaws that many of the Blood Angels Successor Space Marine Chapter is affected by. Both the Red Thirst and the Black Rage are widespread amongst the brothers of the Chapter. They also have pale skin and elongated and sharpened teeth.

## Recruitment

The Flesh-Carvers of the Baleful Boars gathers prisoner of war, often several hundreds at the same time, and subjecting them to a program of rapid psychological and genetic indoctrination. There are rarely any survivors, those few that do become new Neophytes of the Chapter.

## Notable Order-Brothers

* **Astaroth** - Cardinal Astaroth is the Chapter Master of the Baleful Boars. He is a fierce and brutal warrior that have led his Chapter for centuries.
* **Cadell** - As Judiciar, Brother Cadell often oversee the Death Company together with Bishop Orpheus to make sure that the brothers always are ready to fight the enemies of Imperium.
* **Caedmon** - High Pastor of Preachers, Brother Caedmon are the second highest ranking Chaplain of the Chapter after the Chapter Master himself.
* **Samael** - Brother Samael is the Lord of Flesh-Carvers. He responsibility is to monitor the program in which new Neophytes are made.

## Chapter Fleet

The Chapter only possess its flagship and Fortress-Monastery, *The Butcher*, and several smaller escort vessels.

## Chapter Relics

* ***Lord of Mayhem*** - This master-crafted two-handed chainaxe is the badge of office for the Chapter Master.
* ***Deathbearer*** - A relic Eviscerator that has been with the Chapter since its founding.

## Chapter Appearance

### Chapter Colours

The power armour of the Baleful Boars are painted in gold with brown armorials, gauntlets, vambraces and helmet. The helmet have a design that resembles the head of a boar. The power armour are often bloody and worn. All brothers have a hand, arm or leg bionic substitute due to the rituals of the Chapter. They also have tabards made of the skin of a boar.

On the right armorial there is a large red blood drop. On the left poleyn (knee guard) there is the squad name of which a brother belong to. On the right poleyn there is a small red blood drop. On the backpack there is steel poles on which the brothers impale their victims and collect heads and skulls. Bones and skulls of their victims often hang from the brothers' belts. The brothers are often armed with large two-handed chainaxes and combat knifes. They also have a holstered bolt pistol.

The power armour of Death Company are traditionally black with a saltire (red cross) painted on the portions of their battle-plate, depicting the wounds of their Primarch Sanguinius, that he sustained when facing the Arch-Traitor Horus during the Siege of Terra.

### Chapter Badge

The badge of the Chapter is a broken white skull with two crossed axes.

## Relations

The Chapter eschew all contact with other Imperial military forces.

## Notable Quotes

### About the Baleful Boars

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