Editing Sanguine Shields (section)

==Tactics and Equipment==
===Stratagem===
The vast majority of Sanguine Shields' tactics revolves around [[White Scars|armored assaults]], the use of heavy combat vehicles and rapid movements to make quick, overpowering assaults. While the bulk of an assault force is comprised of heavier combat vehicles, their increased mobility and armor gives them an advantage over infantry based armies, allowing them to outmaneuver their opponents with relative ease and safety. 

'''Anvil of Gordian''' An adaptation of Steel Rain and other Codex maneuvers, the '''Tears of Baal''' requires greater precision, fearless Hypastistai, and skilled armour crews. The Tears of Baal, or Blood Rain, consists of three waves of drop insertions, boxing in the enemy. The fore insertion will be the Devastors, the second, Hypastistai, then the final, the Armour and any aspirant Neophytes that will already be on the ground. This insertion is performed in the bulk of the enemy formation, or fired into the enemy itself. What distinguishes Tears of Baal from Steel Rain is that it is simply a maneuver in which Marines can move into another stratagem with ease through proper positioning. Then the stratagem moves into the second phase after dropping pod insertion. The Devastors confront the head of the enemy in an attempt to push them back, whilst the Hypastistai maneuver against the flank of the enemy alongside the wild human neophytes which pushes the enemy into slowly advancing armour.

'''Trident of Oceanus''' This stratagem focuses on three elements of armour which charge the enemy head on before, at the last minute, diverging so that the outward prongs move out and attack the flanks. The "shaft" of three Trident, composed of wild neophytes and their ramshackle vehicles and mounted space marines, likewise splits in two and reforms the Trident with the middle prong and drives through the enemy before reforming with the flanking prongs.

===Equipment===
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'''The Scutum Pattern Combat Shield''' fuses elements of the Synford Pattern Lockshield, Astartes Storm Shield, and Hydraphur Patterm Suppression Shield. The Scutum Pattern is considerably larger than it's counterpart patterns, the standard Astartes Combat Shield, and require to be held like the Storm Shields, restricting one hand to solely operating the shield. Its design came from a series of compromises between size, defense, and mass production, trading stronger protective field for increased size, and large scale manufacturing. The shield itself shares a similar shape to the Hydraphur Suppression shield sans glass viewing port, covering a large, rectangular section of a Marine's armor. 

Since the Sanguine Shields are outfitted with outdated power armor, particularly Mk V set, there tends to be considerable amounts of exposed power cabling due to lackluster head dissipation. In response, the infantry Tagma were outfitted with the Scutum Pattern shield to prevent stray shots from damaging the cabling or other such weak areas. The Scutum has been outfitted with a function similar to the Synford Pattern Lockshield, having the ability to lock with adjacent shields, creating a steadfast bulwark. By locking their shields together, the Battlebrothers within the tagma mitigate a good deal of enemy fire.