Sternguard Veterans are drawn from the elite First Company, warriors whose centuries of service have made them masters of the boltgun and every discipline of ranged warfare. Where other squads charge or manoeuvre, the Sternguard hold and destroy, delivering fire of such precision and ferocity that entire enemy assaults break apart before they can reach the line.
Their signature is the special-issue ammunition they carry into battle, an armourer's collection of specialised bolt rounds for every conceivable target. Kraken penetrator shells punch through armour plate, hellfire rounds flood alien physiologies with corrosive venom, dragonfire rounds burn defenders from cover, and vengeance rounds tear apart heavily protected foes. A Sternguard squad can shift the nature of its firepower in an instant to answer whatever horror the galaxy sends against it.
Seasoned, iron-disciplined and utterly unflinching, these veterans are deployed where their commanders need a threat annihilated or a vital position held against impossible odds. To face the massed, measured volleys of the Sternguard is to understand why the bolter remains the most revered weapon in the Emperor's arsenal.
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