Editing Desert Fangs (section)

===Combat Doctrine===

''"Zeal is its own excuse."'' - Thought for the Day

Throughout their history, the Desert Fangs focused almost exclusively on close-quarters combat, often wielding two or more close combat weapons at the same time. During the Great Crusade, this was done so that Silencers could bring their null-auras to bear on Warp-wielding enemies and in honor of the close-quarters techniques mastered by the Voralians. Since the Horus Heresy, the Angry Marines continue the tradition because they find ranged combat unsatisfying and cowardly, to the point that service in a Devastator squad or vehicle detachment is used as a punishment.

Before siring the Angry Marines, the Desert Fangs employed many tactics revolving around the Silencers, those among the Legion that possessed null auras. During their cooperation with the Alpha Legion, Alpharius discovered that warp-based methods of espionage could not spy on or anticipate Silencers or anyone around them; this effect was put to good use in deceiving warp-empowered enemies, by formulating and implementing a plan with Silencers present, then discussing and simulating a completely different plan to bait the enemy.