Blood Buzzards

"We scour the galaxy in search of Holy weapons from our past so that they my once again be used to reap bloody Vengeance upon the enemies of mankind."

- Broth Maximilian, Veteran Bloody Scholar



Overview
The Bloody Vultures is a small fleet based chapter founding during the 24th founding in M39. They are a relatively small Chapter rarely able to maintain the 1000 battle brothers mandated by the Codex Astartes. This is more than likely due to the fact that they don't have a specific planet or route were they recruit new Battle brothers. Instead they have a system where other chapters will allow them to recruit from their home worlds often in exchange for artifacts of theirs that the Vultures have recovered in their travels. The Vultures actively seek out these artifacts going to great lengths to retrieve them so they may ether be added to their armory or traded to other chapters for weapons, equipment or other vital supplies. On rare occasions the vultures will return relics they deem Sacred to various chapters without asking for compensation. For example when the chapter located a Frost Blade that once belonged to Great Wolf Anakron Silvermane they returned it to the Space Wolves chapter immediately. The Space Wolves offered the Chapter a great number of weapons and armor in exchange but the Vultures refused saying it was there duty to return what was rightfully theirs. Despite this the Space Wolves did give them several casts of Ale and a feast as a reward. The Vulture specialize in the Hammer and Anvil as well as hit and run tactics. They will ether form a strong defensive line to tie up the enemy before using Assault Marines and Drop Pods to get be hind the enemy and attack them from behind. Or sending large formations of Assault Marines hurtling into the enemy lines to inflict massive casualties and cause confusion before retreating. Out of the two the later is more commonly due in part to the fact that the Vultures lack a lot of the heavy armor and artillery used by other chapters and instead relay upon large amounts of infantry, Dreadnoughts, and air support. The few vehicles they do have are often older models recovered from feral worlds or scavenged from the battlefields. They have even been known to seize vehicles from traitor chapters for their own use, their tech marines repairing and updating the often ancient machines. Surprisingly, the Vultures do have the capacity to equip their entire first company with Terminator Plate though, like the vehicles, they are often old models ether recovered or scavenged. This does not bother the Vultures however as they embrace the weapons or old. They see the opportunity to utilize once used by the space marines of old as a great privilege with the veteran members of the company being given older versions of power armor and weapons as a reward for their service. In fact the Companies Chapter Master David Maximus uses a set of Mark IV power armor captured from chaos space marines.

History
The Bloody Vultures are unique among Space Marine chapters in that they don't claim lineage from one particular Primarch or Legion but instead, from every Legion. They view themselves as simply a part of the vast lineage of Adeptus Astartes. This is more than likely do the fact that they have no real record of which Primarch, Legion, or Chapter they're successors of. Because of this the