Bullhorn Company

Bullhorn Company armorial with Chaos iconography.

Bullhorn Company Heretic Astartes.

### **Specialty**

Shock Assault, Close Combat, Shock Assault, Drop Pod Assault, Teleportation, Suprise Assault, Decimation

### **Allies**

No regular allies, but a network of contact persons

### **Warband Size**

135 Chaos Space Marines715 Serfs350 Thralls

## Pre-Heresy

### **Colours**

Not coherent

The **Bullhorn Company** is one of the reams of Chaos Space Marines Warbands active in the Galaxy and sells its services to the highest bidder. Such services reach from brutal onslaughts againsts enemy positions over the destruction of rivals of the bidder to sabotage. They fullfil always their contracts and fight with such skill and fears that their low numbers are made good. Such services come with a cost and can ruin the employer even if he doesn't upsets the Company. But for those who can hire them regularly has a powerful ally and can engage with them in arms and supply trade for other services and potential support if needed.

## History

Founded in the mid 800s of M41 when Grandcaptain Joshan Harland drummed up a band of Renegade Space Marines and Chaos Space Marines, Most of the Chaos Space Marines came from the ranks of the Iron Warriors and the Black Legion with a handful of Alpha Legionnaires and Thousand Sons. The Renegade Space Marines were attracted from near-extinct Chapters or wrongly persucated Chapters.

The Companies first decades were the Bullhorns picky in choosing the contracts offered to them. Such behaviour narrowed the growth of the group but attracted a specific type of employers who were eccentric and rich enough to hire them. Successes in combat like slaying an covent of psykers on Epaxion brought a reputation of strength and reliability - something important for employers.

Growing larger became the Bullhorn Company less piky about their contracts and reached out to new potential employers. Such new employeers were small Dark Eldar Kabals, who paid them in slaves for their raids on rival Kabals, or the Tau misunderstanding the nature of the Bullhorn Company and when outraged paid dearly. Attempt in working together with ruthless Rogue Traders and Nobles had to be halted in 955.M41 after a series of betrayals by the "employers" or the later execution of those.

## Notable Missions

* **Hunting the Kraken (800s.M41):** The first 20 members of the Bullhorn Company were tasked by a Chaos Lord to support of his forces during a mission through planting an explosives in the body of a void creature called the Kraken, which harrassed the Chaos forces in the Sector. The Bullhorn functioned as an expendable resource during the hunt but was able to use a small vessel to come into teleportation range to the beast and execute it with brute force in its body after the explosion lacked the strenght of killing it.
* **Massacre on Olium (late 800s.M41):** An Alpha Legion Warband hired the Company for secretly massacring religious orders on Olium while the Warband confronted the Subsectors naval assets. 16.000 monks and nuns from 5 orders were killed in a bloodbath.
* **Exfiltration of House Kausch (932.M41):** A strike force of the Bullhorn Company supported the escape of the Traitor Knight House Kausch after its secretly joined Chaos but found themself deep behind imperial lines in Ultima. Decapitation strikes and tactical sieges weakend local armies and allowed the House to flee into the Screaming Vortex while letting the Imperium believe that they loyaly perished.
* **Defence of Refulingstation Phi-Epsilon-9234** **(008.M42):** The Bullhorn Company came to the aid of the Tzzech worshipping Warband The Screaming Path in the battle against Khorn Berzerkers sieging down a conquered refueling station for naval assets. Grandcaptain Joshan Harland chose to intervened in the conflict thanks to the many contracts offered by them in the past.

## Warband Organisation

### Ranks

* **Grandcaptain** - Commander of the Bullhorn Company
* **Lieutenant** - commands Strike Forces or fills the highest specialist rank of a Space Marine Chapter
* **Seargent -** leads an Inferno
* **Veteran**
* **Battle Brother**

### Structure

The Bullhorn Company rarely use their full strength for a mission but sent out a Strike Force consisting of several Squads called Infernos, vehicles and support personal. The Inferno consists of 11 Astartes, 10 Astartes with one to two armed with heavy support weapons and a Seargent leading them. Astartes in the Squad can wear regular a Power Armour or a Vanguard Armour if they proved them in battle. Some Infernos functioning as a reserve serve as specialist forces.

* **1st Inferno "*Reaper Squad"***
* **2nd Inferno *"Burning Sons"***
* **3rd Inferno *"Death Dealer"***
* **4th Inferno *"Death Riders"***
* **5th Inferno " *Fire Raiders"***
* **6th Inferno *"Wartakers"***
* **7th Inferno *"Tactical Berserkers"*** - Includes a Terminator
* **8th Inferno *"Legion Bearers"*** - Guards Rouen`s Anchor
* **9th Inferno *"Obbonents of Life"*** - includes Centurion Battlesuits
* **10th Inferno *"Bolter Brothers"*** - Heavy weapons reserve
* **11th Inferno "*Light Takers"*** - Fleet-based reserve
* **12th Inferno "*Captain`s Own"*** - Oversized Inferno commanded by the Grandcaptain

## Combat Doctrine

Battles including the Bullhorn Company are fast, bloody, sudden and often short. Transports bring Infernos fast to the enemie give devastating fire support while the Astartes kill everyone opposing them. Add hoc formed Biker units often also including Thralls hunt down fleeing enemies or shot at their prey until a flock is broken up, which then is broken in concentrated assaults. Terminators and units equipped with mobile teleportarium equipment form the spearhead of assaults behind or in the enemy lines and are used to surprise attacking forces when in defensive. Explosives are used commonly in defense or for ambushes and sabotages.

## Warband Beliefs

The Bullhorn Company waver between lothing Chaos and having a neutral position to it, worshipping it if the Company feels neccessary. Worship is done mostly by the individual Marine while the entire Company makes unregular collective ceremonies to Chaos Undivided. After battles against Chaos Space Marine Warbands allied to a specific God commits the Company ceremonies for the specific God to keep themself off the Gods hitlist.

## Notable Warband Members

* **Grandcaptain Joshan Harland:** Joshan Harland, the founder of the Bullhorn Company, is a man of determination and skilled in leading small bands against bigger foes and a hesistant Chaos Worshipper. He worships Chaos. a tool too instabil for men of war. carefully and only if needed and then to Chaos Undivided. One of his talents is his administrative and logistical skills, talents rare among Chaos worshippers but decisice for the Bullhorn Company freeing it from any form of bondage to other Warbands or even Legions.
* **Lieutenant Haikos Anakos the Hand:** Anakos is the second in command of the Company and comes from the lineage of the Alpha Legions Primarchs. He came from the same Warband from which his Grandcaptain and close friend Joshan originated. Haikos Anakos is trusted with fullfilling the will of the Grandcaptain and functions as Master of Execution version found in other Warbands and Chapters. Most of the members of the Bullhorn Company have a distrust against this Son of Alpharius because of the reputation of the Alpha Legion and with him being trusted to keep his comrades in line.

## Warband Fleet

* **Carnage Class Cruiser *Crucifier***
* **Hellbringer Class Light Cruiser *Murderer of Pastesh***
* **Idolator Raider *Overlord***
* **Idolator Raider *Reclusium***

## Warband Relics

* **Letters of Rouen:** Letters of Rouen is the collection of the records, writen on a various sources of paper or paper replacement, kept by the Warband containing the names of the employers, the mission, losses and the pay. A sentimental relict but also includes wisdome learned from the missions and the names of the best employers, who may still be source of income.
* **The Corrupted Mirror:** The Corrupted Mirror is a mirror looted from a Chaos Temple during a mission. Instead of a mirror image of the watcher shows the mirror scenes of summoning Deamons or rituals honouring Chaos Gods. It serves as inspiration for ceremonies for worshipping the Dark Gods and teached the Warband the basics of Deamon summoning.

## Warband Appearence

### Warband Colours

The Bullhorn Company Astartes are coloured in vermillion, amber, azure and in white or grey. Helmets are coloured in azure, while the backpacks, the backpacks joints, the belts, the insets of the shoulder armour and the feet are coloured in vermillion. Hands, the trimms of the feet and armour are coloured normally in white. Officers have them coloured in grey.

### Warband Iconography

The Bullhorn Company uses a skull surrounded by a circle from which eight arrows arise. Another symbol of the Company is a bull skull sideward leaning to the left with the Warbands Iconography on it.

## Gallery

Bullhorn Company Chaos Terminator arrayed in relic Indomitus pattern Terminator Armour.

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