Mordian Iron Guard - Siege Regiments: 237th Mordian Siege Regiment - The 237th Mordian Siege Regiment was deployed to the Imperial Hive World of Phlegethon after civil unrest had broken out in the planetary capital of Hive Profundis and the neighboring city of Hive Corymbus. Unknown to the soldiers of the 237th, this civil unrest was not the fruit of misrule but the insidious effects of Chaos corruption, as the reborn Prophet of Blood -- a herald of the Blood God Khorne -- had unleashed a psychic affliction which manifested itself as a wave of pure rage and mindless violence. Having forced a landing following an orbital bombardment, the 237th Mordian Siege Regiment intended to march directly into the center of this uprising, Hive Profundis, and kill whatever was responsible for the collective madness. Leman Russ tanks at the front, the 237th scythed through the frenzied mob which came at them with clubs, blades and in many cases their bare hands until the press of frenzied citizens was enough to stop even a Leman Russ in its tracks. Adapting his battleplan, the 237th Siege Regiment's commander, Colonel Reinecker, ordered his Hellhounds to the front while the regiment's Wyverns unleashed a rolling curtain of fire. For an entire solar hour, the Mordians made steady progress until they witnessed the destruction of their vessel, the Dictator-class Cruiser Vanandra, in high orbit above Phlegethon. When the first Thunderhawk gunships were sighted, the Mordians dared to hope that their reinforcements had arrived, but the aircraft carried only more foes: the Traitor Marines known as the Blood Disciples. Caught between the frenzied multitude of Phlegethon's civilian population, its Planetary Defence Forces and the equally enraged Heretic Astartes, the 237th made a heroic last stand at the gates of Hive Profundis, surviving long enough for the 4th Battle Company of the Blood Angels to intervene and save them from certain death. Unfortunately, this merely postponed the inevitable. Despite orders not to do so, the Iron Guard advanced upon the enemy to assist the Blood Angels, attracting the attention of the Blood Angels' 4th Company's Death Company led by Chaplain Lemartes. In the grip of the Black Rage, these Space Marines struck out at the 237th, badly mauling it and destroying what was left of the Mordians' armoured support. Reduced to the capabilities of a simply infantry regiment, the 237th Mordian refused to be left out of the fight even when the Prophet of Blood's incantations grew in power, pulling thousands of Phlegethon's many moons from the sky to plummet to the planet's surface. The massive number of deaths as the world's citizens died in the bombardment unleashed a Warp Rift upon the battered planet, releasing one of Khorne's most dangerous servants, a mighty Bloodthirster, into the material realm. With the Blood Angels either in the grip of the Red Thirst or the Black Rage, the only organised resistance on Plegethon came from the 237th. Even facing the Greater Daemon's fury, the Mordians' discipline held firm. At the head of his severely depleted and battered regiment, Colonel Reinecker, now on foot, led the 237th against the towering monster, not knowing that he was facing one of the Blood God's most dangerous servants: Skarbrand the Exiled One. The Mordians unleashed disciplined las-volleys at the Greater Daemon, each of which found their mark, but all equally powerless to truly wound Skarbrand. With a great roar, the daemon charged the 237th, slaughtering the regiment to the last man. Yet, their sacrifice allowed the Blood Angels to regroup, Chaplain Lemartes leading his brethren in a desperate but ultimately victorious charge that banished Skarbrand back into the Warp.