Shadowsun Crusade

The Shadowsun Crusade is the name of a coalition of disparate Chaos Space Marine war bands and Traitor Guard Regiments. While the many separate factions wear different uniforms and wield different weaponry they are all pay respect to, or fear Lord Shadowsun, A mighty Chaos Sorcerer clad in terminator armour made of living flesh.

The varied makeup of the Shadowsun Crusaders makes their tactics and movements erratic and somewhat unpredictable. For general engagements a hard core of Chaos Space Marines favouring mid to close range weaponry advance under a barrage of lasfire and artillery provided by Traitor Guard Regiments. Their preference is to hammer the enemy with firepower using kill zones and artillery to command dead ground. Melee is ideally handled by two dedicated assault units, one a unit of Chosen led by a Chaos Lord and an unorthodox cavalry unit consisting of Rough Riders and Nurgle Bikers.

The Shadowsun Crusade currently operates from the Space Hulk Deaths Head orbiting the void that used to be Cadia. Unusually for most hulks is that it's amalgamate engine is maintained by the corpses of former crew members, resurrected by foul Nurglish Sorcery. The Shadowsun Crusaders have used the wide frontage of the Indominus Crusade to pick on the less defended worlds and have earned a reputation for attacking munitions trains and fleets carrying cargo of gene-seed and vital war materials. Convoys carrying water supplies and filtration plants are a favourite target because all it takes to destabilise a hive city is a tainted water supply. Would-be plague magicians taint the water with all kinds of dirty objects, alarmingly a few of them have developed the means to create actual diseases and poisons and it is these elements that spread a wide variety of diseases amongst the populace.