Blood Angels - Close Support Squads: Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade, the Blood Angels have always held a well-earned reputation for excellence in close-quarters combat. Chainswords howling, bolt weapons roaring, the Blood Angels' Close Support Squads storm the enemy's battle lines and overrun their fortifications, reducing all that stand against them to butchered offal. These squads include the following:Inceptor Squads - The swiftest and most manoeuvrable of the Primaris Space Marine squads, Inceptors are perfectly suited to surprise assaults, pinpoint strikes and beachhead clearance operations. Their atmospheric dives allow them to attack at incredible speeds from an unexpected quarter, many enemies mistaking them for errant ordnance or detritus falling from space until it is too late. When circumstances permit, Inceptors capitalise upon this misconception by dropping amidst actual orbital debris. This feat takes incredible piloting skill, for the slightest error would see the Inceptors dashed to ruin by the hurtling projectiles concealing them, but the transhuman reactions of the Adeptus Astartes are more than equal to the challenge. With their speed and their powerful armaments, it is no surprise that the assault-oriented Blood Angels have found numerous strategic roles for their Inceptor Squads. Whether reinforcing hard-pressed Imperial forces, tearing open weak points in the enemy's lines, swiftly capturing high ground or running down retreating foes and turning their withdrawal to a rout, the strategic versatility of the Inceptors has earned them a place at the very heart of Blood Angels tactical doctrine.Assault Squads - Assault Squads form the core of the Blood Angels' close-quarter shock troops. Jump Packs blazing, they roar across the battlefield, assailing the enemy where he least expects it, winning victory through valour, courage and battle-fury. Traditionally, Blood Angels graduate to serve in an Assault Squad once their training as a Scout Marine is complete. Here, a Blood Angel's role and duties will mesh most closely with his innate skills and aptitudes. An Assault Squad's mission is to overwhelm the enemy at close quarters, so there are far fewer dangers in assigning a hot-headed young blood here than to a more nuanced or tactically flexible assignment, such as with a Devastator or Tactical Squad. Whilst Assault Marines are incredibly common in a Blood Angels strike force, this should not be taken to indicate that Assault Squads are more prevalent here than in other Chapters. However, given the Blood Angels' predilection for Jump Packs in general, and close assault in particular, there is rarely a shortage of Battle-Brothers with suitable training to fill Assault Squad rosters as casualties occur. So it is that Assault Squads are likely to remain at full strength, even if battlefield casualties reduce other elements of the strike force to a ghost of their former numbers.Assault Intercessor - Assault Intercessors are Primaris Space Marines who are among the most widespread close support units in a Space Marine Chapter's arsenal. Firing their Heavy Bolt Pistols as they close upon the foe, they charge into the fray, where they make short work of their enemies with brutal swings of their chainswords.Reiver Squads - The Blood Angels aspire to nobility in all things. They are true heroes, selfless in the defence of even the meanest of the Emperor's servants, and willing to lay down their lives for those they shield. For all this heroism and honourable conduct, there are times when cruelty, terror and merciless violence are the only weapons that can achieve victory. At such times, the Reiver Squads come to the fore. Many battle-brothers amongst the Blood Angels see the deployment of Reivers as distasteful and dishonourable. They assert that they should meet their enemies head on, as Sanguinius intended. Yet in such a dark time as the Era Indomitus the use of every weapon is justified in the Imperium's defence, and so Reivers have accompanied many strike forces since the Battle of Baal. That these warriors can engage in the most bloodthirsty acts of murder and mayhem seemingly without risk of falling prey to the Black Rage is a considerable asset to the sons of Sanguinius, and these so-called "angels merciless" have shortened many conflicts through the sundering of enemy battle lines and the sudden slaughter of key command elements or support weapon crews amongst the foe's ranks.Bike Squads - The Blood Angels make use of their Bike Squads to support mechanised offensives, to launch encircling strikes against far-flung enemy forces, and to support the swift attack of their Jump Pack and gunship-mounted assault forces. Sitting astride their armoured steeds, Bikers plunge into the enemy with their guns blazing and blades swinging. Whether ploughing through the enemy lines with bone-breaking force or harassing the foe's flanks and rear, these swift and durable squads are the bane of Heretics and xenos alike. As with all of the technology employed by the Blood Angels, their mechanical steeds are incredibly durable, able to perform uncomplainingly in a variety of challenging environments, from icy plains to rubble-strewn ruins, shifting desert sands to rocky moonscapes. No less important is the fact that the bikes are also simple enough in design that their riders can perform jury-rigged repairs when the situation requires it. Such repairs are often needed, for the Blood Angels are infamous for pushing their bikes to the limit, forcing whatever extra speed they can out of the engines and riding at full tilt over terrain that would cripple a lesser machine in seconds.Outrider - An Outrider is a Primaris Space Marine who rides to battle on a Raider Pattern Combat Bike.  Outrider Squads advance ahead of the main Space Marine lines, guard the flanks of larger formations and hunt down enemy infiltrators to the Adeptus Astartes' battlelines. When battle is joined, they conduct lightning fast hit-and-run attacks on defended positions and run down those who would try to escape the vengeance of the Chapter. The Raider Combat Bike, designed like most of the vehicles and wargear used by the Primaris Marines by Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl, shares a lot of similarities with the standard Space Marine Assault Bike, including a twin-linked bolter weapon load-out and double exhausts. However, the engine block is even more heavily armoured, and the front suspension has undergone quite an evolution. While speed, weapons and armour are certainly important for a combat bike, they are nothing when compared with performance. The Raider Pattern Combat Bike is also excellent on the battlefield as long as its rider can dominate its bellicose Machine Spirit. With battle-brother and bike in harmony, victory is all but assured. Among the Dark Angels, Outriders usually serve with the Ravenwing.Incursor Squads - An Incursor Squad is a close support Primaris Space Marine unit that fulfils an aggressive, close-quarters gun-fighting role within Adeptus Astartes forces. Their missions typically see them storming defended positions, sweeping the flanks of spearhead advances or rapidly knocking out strategic enemy assets such as power generatorums and communication centres. Key to this role are the paired wargear technologies of their Occulus Bolt Carbines and the Divinator-class Auspexes that feed directly into their highly advanced transpectral combat visors.Land Speeders - The Land Speeder is a light combat skimmer. It generates an anti-gravitational field, allowing it to skim through the air at exceptional speeds and jink nimbly around obstacles and incoming fire. Such feats require not only a robust and responsive vehicle -- which the Land Speeder undoubtedly is -- but also inhuman nerves and reactions on the part of the pilot. Fortunately, the heirs of Sanguinius have plentiful supplies of both. The Blood Angels consider Land Speeders to be vital support craft, capable as they are of swiftly redeploying whilst providing formidable supporting fire. As it is not unheard of for a Blood Angels assault element to outstrip the strike force's more static fire support, such as Devastator Squads and Predator tanks, having a handful of what are essentially fast-reaction weapons platforms can mean the difference between victory and defeat. This being the case, Land Speeders -- and their pilots -- are in almost constant demand, with the commanders of strike forces keeping a keen eye on Chapter deployments in order to snap up any Land Speeders whose assignments have come to an end.