EVERY Chaos Space Marine Unit in Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising EXPLAINED

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EVERY Chaos Space Marine Unit in Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising EXPLAINED

One, Chaos Space Marine Squad. Traitor Astartes who have turned from the Emperor, the Chaos Space Marine Squad is the core line infantry of any warband — power-armored veterans who have traded institutional discipline for the raw authority of violence. In the lore, these warriors are either survivors of the original traitor legions who fought at Isstvan and Terra ten thousand years ago, or newer recruits who have since been drawn into the Long War; in Dawn of War II they form the flexible backbone of the faction, equally capable of holding ground under fire or pressing into melee when the moment opens. A squad materializes from a teleport shimmer at the center of a loyalist plaza, bolters discharging before the displacement field has fully collapsed, the nearest defenders scrambling to rotate their weapons toward a threat that arrived inside their formation rather than at its edge. The Iron Warriors besieged the Imperial Fists at Hydra Cordatus in an action that demonstrated how completely traitor Astartes had internalized loyalist tactical doctrine and turned it back upon its architects, assault formations using the same breaching methods the Fists themselves had codified. The loyalist fears what the traitor has become; the traitor fears nothing at all, and that is the more dangerous condition.