Catachan Jungle Fighters - Third War for Armageddon: During the Third War for Armageddon, when the sheer number of Feral Orks pouring out of the mountains of the Equatorial Jungles became apparent, two full regiments of the infamous Catachan Jungle Fighters were dispatched to Cerbera Base, the legacy of the Second Armageddon War. The citizens of Armageddon had no idea just how many of the aliens had been quietly flourishing in the humid, overgrown belt of dense jungle dividing the sub-continents of Armageddon Prime and Secundus.Although their numbers were thought to have been kept in check by the native Armageddon Ork Hunters, the presence of Ghazghkull on the planet triggered a massive increase in the Ork presence throughout the jungle, from which they staged their raids on the Imperial settlements around Death Mire and Cerbera Base.Commissar Yarrick quite rightly assumed that due to the Catachans' upbringing on one of the harshest Death Worlds in the galaxy, they would be more than capable of taking on the Feral Orks in this region, even on their home ground. In fact, many a Catachan fighter described patrolling the steaming, Ork-infested jungles as akin to paid leave. However, the Orks outnumbered the Catachan forces roughly thirty to one, and it was still a hard-fought battle, yet the Jungle Fighters took a heavy toll on the Ork population.Many times the Orks surrounded the Catachans completely, cutting them off from Cerbera. As a result the Catachans often went for solar weeks without contacting base. Several high-ranking Imperial officers proffered the theory that squads of Catachans had deliberately cut themselves off from their superiors, content in the knowledge that when they were deep in the jungle, they knew exactly what they were doing.The smell of burning Ork bodies permeating the Equatorial Jungle is testament to the brutal efficiency of the Catachans. Most of the small squadrons of Jungle Fighters were equipped with Heavy Flamers, as not only were they extremely effective in such densely packed terrain, but the only way to properly cleanse the Ork infection from a location is to immolate their corpses until all organic material is destroyed.Due to the excessively humid atmosphere and heavy water-laden leaves of the native trees, these fires were generally controlled. If an Ork nest was located, however, whole hectares were burnt to the ground. Yarrick himself had authorised these extreme measures in an attempt to rid Armageddon of Ork spores completely.At night, from Cerbera base, the jungle was lit by hundreds of blazing fires. The screams of dying Greenskins rang out over the howls and hoots of jungle beasts. Most of the troops stationed in Cerbera learned to sleep through this horrendous noise over several painful solar weeks.In the Catachans, both Yarrick and the Imperium knew they had found the perfect tool for an extremely difficult job. Even assuming that Armageddon is not overrun finally by the aliens, it will be many Terran years before the Ork population is fully culled, let alone wiped out completely.The initial deployment of the Jungle Fighters soon instigated an intense rivalry between them and the native Armageddon Ork Hunters, but as Feral Orks continued to flood from the mountains and dense jungle, the Ork Hunters soon realised that they needed all the help the Catachans could give them. Due to their lethal effectiveness, but also their disregard for command and independent operations, it has since been proposed that the Catachans fighting in the Equatorial Jungles be stationed at Cerbera indefinitely.