Corpsemakers

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The Corpsemakers were a vectorium of the Death Guard legion active in the Vlaktes Sector during the Fall of Tectonia Prime and, later, during the Anvil Worlds Invasion. The warband is led by Rutus Bileheart, Lord of Contagion. The Corpse Makers now make their mark in the Meaxi Cluster during the Anvil World Invasion They used their moon Epoxus as a staging ground where their forces would go into small splinter fleets attacking points in the Meaxi Cluster hoping to weaken it for one final devastating attack against the main force lead by Rutus Bileheart who would claim the Anvil Worlds as his own. In the first phase, Bileheart assigned Gothillum Goutbelly ,Chaos lord and Champion of the Bloated, to attack some of the smaller industrial worlds to try and cut off resources to the Imperials in the area, but sadly Gothillum had failed and was repelled by the a guard regiment known as The Vostroyan 616th who had defeated the 2nd Plague Company in a skirmish over a refinery on a small desert world. As the Corpsemakers retreated the small desert world they left nothing but plague by bombarding the planet from orbit releasing a plague that would hopefully cause fear in the Imperial threat.

Gothillum Goutbelly and the Bloated had failed their warband in the first phase of Rutus Bileheart's plan in the Invasion of the Anvil worlds, and they would pay for their failure when Bileheart arrived in system. What they where unaware of is that Rutus would use their defeat to the Corpsemakers advantage. The worlds were stained by devastating plagues causing the populace to decline rapidly, weakening PDF forces in the process. Once Bileheart arrived at the Meaxi Cluster he would pick off the worlds one by one and would slowly succumb to the will of Rutus and his sons the Corpsemakers. As the Corpsemakers invaded the Meaxi Cluster they gained ground, but they made very little for the imperium had managed to hold off the advances of the Corpsemakers. Even though they did not succed in their lord Rutus Bilehearts vision they did however plant the seed of Nurgle and plague thoughout the Anvil Worlds in the Meaxi Cluster and would soon strike again and hopefully conquer the Meaxi Cluster.

## Warband Organization

The Corpsemakers are a large vectorium, equivalent to nearly a chapter of loyalist Astartes. Because of this, Bileheart divides command duties between seven lieutenants, listed below.

* Lothkar Plaguebringer, Rutus's Favored
* Barcask the Exiled, Champion of the Bloated (Gothillum Goutbelly deceased.)
* Darnath Filthmonger, Gardener of Blighted Excess
* Festos Bilemaw, Herald of the Decaying Cohort
* Andox Rotspew, Keeper of the Poisoned Wall
* Blebos Boilkin, Master of the Tri-lobed Horde
* Kalax Bilephlegm, Lord of the Crawling Seventh

## The Corpsemakers Battle Tactics

The Corpsemakers prefer to fight in as close quarters as possible to gut the enemy from within, causing mass panic in the enemy force and thriving in the panic killing swiftly and brutally. Examples of these tactics took place in the fall of Tectonia Prime where the Corpse Makers would fight Imperials in cities where they can use the narrow spaces of the cities to fight the enemy causing the enemy forces to be picked of as individuals than as a whole, and force the enemy in the city with mortar fire from plagueburst crawlers causing the enemy to take cover from the mortar fire and give the Corpse Makers the opportunity to charge in and slaughter all those in their way and creating poxwalkers in their wake of destruction creating panic on the planet were multiple strikes took place in cities and production structures where they were shortly turned into disease ridden pools. The Corpse Makers also use this strategy in 3 phases. In phase one will be a small strike force that creates a landing zone and a staging post for more assaults causing panic in cities having the planetary populace scatter and into the jaws of the small strike creating poxwalkers that are released upon on the local planetary forces weakening them whether that be by their numbers or amount of supplies they have left. Phase 2 is when the planetary forces are weakened and are bombarded by PlagueBurst Mortars and other plague weapons along with orbital blight bombardments causing the enemy to take cover and hide whilst the ground forces of the Corpse Makers make advances on the enemy getting in close combat killing all they can. Lastly the final phase where the main force is dispersed on to a planet where any surviving force is shortly engulfed by weapons and plagues, and shortly after becomes a home for the Corpse Makers where they feed on the populace by using them for experiments or slave work, or worst adding to the unending legions of poxwalkers. So when the Corpse Makers land on a planet , or system one can usually hear their warcry ***"WE ARE THE BEGINNING AND THE END!!!!!!!!!"*** and shortly after victims fall to their wrath.