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Despite the fact that the Salamanders follow the Codex Astartes, they nonetheless also follow the doctrines of their own Promethean Cult. The Promethean Cult places high emphasis on self-reliance, self-sacrifice and loyalty. Symbols of the forge - such as fire and hammers - are prominent throughout Promethean iconography. As such, flamers, melta weapons and thunder hammers are widely used throughout the chapter. Because of their early training as blacksmiths, all Salamanders are fully capable of maintaining and performing moderate repair on their weapons and armor, leaving the Chapter's artificers with the free time necessary to create great works of technology and metallurgy. As a result, the Salamanders Chapter has an unusually high number of master crafted weapons and artificer armor.
In an interesting example of juxtaposition, however, the high fluctuating gravity of Nocturne makes training with certain units such as landspeeders and bikes difficult, therefore the chapter makes little use of them , in favour of Devastator squads and Terminator Squads (the chapter has 120 veterans as opposed to the typical 100).
Indeed, it is fitting that Salamanders be lacking in the way of Fast Attack, as for some inexplicable reason, they naturally have slightly slower reflexes than most Space Marines. It should be noted though, that their reflexes are still significantly faster than those of a normal human.