White Scars - Pre-Heresy: The combat doctrines of the White Scars Chapter have been honed through over ten millennia of battle and bloodshed, but they still reflect those of the original Chogorian nomadic warrior-tribes. Though wild and savage, the warrior-nomads of the Chogorian steppes are highly intelligent tacticians and masters of field craft.Each battle-brother draws on the savagery of the steppes not as a mindless berserker, but as a finely-crafted hunting spear delivered with the focused precision of a master predator. They specialise in hitting their enemy with a peerless impact and frightening speed, but they are never reckless.Time spent on preparations is vital to their strategy, as they reconnoitre each target in depth and formulate detailed plans and contingencies, coordinating their strike to ensure that maximum damage is done.Such methods have seen the White Scars emerge victorious from many of the bloodiest battles in the Imperium's history, including the Siege of Terra itself. In their many millennia of service since, they have hunted the Emperor's foes from one end of the galaxy to the other, meeting every threat with blades in their hands and battle cries on their lips, defeating rebellions and invasions unnumbered in the name of the Emperor and of the Great Khan.Each brotherhood of the White Scars Legion was a highly mobile task force unto itself, endowed with the means to transport its complement of Legiones Astartes warriors to the battlefield with a speed that was the hallmark of their Legion.As such, the White Scars were known to favour the use of aerial and contragravity vehicles of all kinds, with a noted preference for smaller craft due to the lower maintenance requirements and greater manoeuvrability of such vehicles.Their usage of massed squadrons of Scimitar, Shamshir and Falcata Pattern Jetbikes is well-known and documented, but the various brotherhoods also made use of large numbers of Land Speeders, Fire Raptor gunships and even armoured vehicles of certain patterns.Indeed, some brotherhoods were even known to specialise in the use of mobile artillery, experts at the rapid displacement of batteries after the completion of a fire mission, and at providing close-range support bombardments.Among all of the Emperor's Legions, the White Scars were the most enthusiastic adopters of the newer Thunderhawk pattern gunships, smaller mass-produced replacements for the ancient and vast Stormbird pattern dropships that had served the earliest incarnations of the Legiones Astartes since their departure from Terra itself.These vehicles, while less powerful and imposing than the huge Stormbirds, were more easily customised by the gan-khan of the armoury to suit the needs of the White Scars, and far more easily maintained and supplied on the long, solitary campaigns favoured by the Vth Legion.By the time of the Chondax Campaign, most of the larger brotherhoods of the Vth Legion had been assigned at least a single Thunderhawk, with some fielding enough to transport their entire complement into battle without recourse to more cumbersome landing craft.Integral as they were to the mobile style of warfare and operation favoured by the White Scars, these vehicles were the focus of many of the small rituals within the brotherhoods. Upon their armoured flanks they bore the marks of those who lived and died as warriors of the ordu of Jaghatai, serving as shrines for the dead and fortresses for the living.Each bore a name and history the equal of any other Veteran of the Legion, and many enjoyed a fame more widespread among the Legion than the warriors who crewed them.