Blood Angels - Battleline Squads: Battleline Squads are the adamantium backbone of Blood Angels strike forces. Versatile, skilled and well-equipped, these battle-brothers are equally at home tearing a bloody path through the enemy's lines or digging in and anchoring their own. From securing vital strategic sites to mechanised offensives, rescue operations and kill missions, there is no task they cannot turn their talents to.As set down in the revised Codex Astartes of theEra Indomitus, the Blood Angels are organised into three main types of squad: battleline, close support and fire support, each trained, armed and equipped to excel at a different tactical battlefield role. The squads are each led by a sergeant, who directs his warriors to flawlessly execute the orders of his superiors, and are sometimes split into five-Astartes sub-units called Combat Squads, so as to provide greater battlefield flexibility.Battleline squads include the following types of troops:Intercessor Squads - The Primaris Space Marines were created upon the orders of Roboute Guilliman himself. In the wake of the Horus Heresy, the primarch of the Ultramarines entrusted arcane secrets of genetic alchemy to a Martian magos named Belisarius Cawl. Guilliman fell in battle and was interred in stasis, and with no one to contradict his orders Cawl continued his endless labours deep beneath the surface of the Red Planet. The seal of a primarch was attached to his strange project, and opened every door that the acquisitive Cawl desired. No technological arcana were beyond his reach, no secret of biologis lore forbidden to him. For thousands of Terran years Cawl laboured, refining and expanding endlessly, obsessively, until he had created something vastly beyond the remit of even Guilliman's grandest visions. The Primaris Space Marines were Cawl's masterwork, slumbering in their thousands in the archmagos' cryo-vaults beneath Mars, awaiting only the call to war. With Guilliman's return and the commencement of the Indomitus Crusade, that clarion call sounded at last. Primaris battle-brothers were formed into Chapters of their own during the so-called Ultima Founding, and names such as the Knights of Thunder and the Rift Stalkers were soon inscribed in glory upon victory monuments across the Imperium. Many others were drafted into existing Chapters, there to bolster the ranks and continue the proud warrior traditions of their new brothers. Some Chapters gave these newcomers a cagey reception. Not so the Blood Angels. Here were reinforcements when they needed them most in the wake of the Devastation of Baal, noble warriors bearing the unmistakable mark of Sanguinius who could replenish the Blood Angels' waning strength and provide hope in a dark and terrible age. After the cleansing of Baal was complete, Commander Dante formally welcomed the Primaris battle-brothers and oversaw their integration into the ranks of the Blood Angels and their successors among the Sanguinary Brotherhood in the wake of the Devastation of Baal. Their Intercessor Squads now furnish the Blood Angels with a substantial strategic reserve upon which to draw.Heavy Intercessor Squad - A Heavy Intercessor is a Primaris Space Marine who serves on the battleline and are a potent defensive force. Clad in thick Mark X Gravis Power Armour, Heavy Intercessors are used to secure ground already won and are immovable in its defence. Always ready for any sign of enemy counterattack, they stand firm, laying down volleys of heavy fire with their Heavy Bolt Rifles that keep all but the most determined or foolhardy enemies at bay.Tactical Squads - To be a member of a Tactical Squad is to have proven oneself beyond all doubt in every aspect of war. Those Blood Angels who aspire to serve in a Tactical Squad must demonstrate the necessary control over the rage within, and act according to the situation at hand, rather than heed the chained beast in their souls. For some, however, the lure of blood-drenched assault is too strong -- many such battle-brothers serve in the Chapter's Assault Squads until death or the Black Rage takes them. Others do not yet have the combat experience to switch between close support and fire support roles as the situation requires. As their name suggests, Tactical Squads are flexible and adaptable units that operate especially well alongside their Primaris Intercessor battle-brothers. Where close support elements must push ahead, Tactical Squads can hold ground with dauntless determination. As such, the Tactical Squad's role will be defined more by circumstance than strict battle plan. The sergeant will be aware of his overall mission goals, but the method through which those goals are to be achieved is often left to his discretion, rather than enforced by the commander of the strike force.Infiltrator Squad - A Vanguard Infiltrator is a type of Vanguard Space Marine who is usually part of an Infiltrator Squad. Vanguard Infiltrators are Primaris Space Marines who are responsible for disrupting enemy communications and sabotaging targets of opportunity. Clad in Mark X Phobos Power Armour, the first the enemy sees of Infiltrators is a cascade of choking smog as they hurl a barrage of Smoke Grenades, masking their advance. As the foe peers into the swirling cloud, the Space Marines bring their targets down with disciplined bursts of fire, the augur-scopes of their marksman Bolt Carbines lighting each victim up for the kill. Aside from their weaponry, the most important tool at the Infiltrators' disposal is the Omni-Scrambler. This portable, back-mounted device intercepts wave signals across a broad spectrum, scrambling frequencies and diverting holo-broadcasts to ensure that enemy communiques never reach their intended recipients. Infiltrators are drilled in self-sufficiency and survival techniques, and some squads have their own medicae specialists called Helix Adepts to perform the sacred duty of recovering the gene-seed of fallen brothers.