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When a mission, referred to within the chapter as an "undertaking," is decided upon the [[Chapter Master]] announces how many squads he believes are required to ensure its success. All squad-leaders who wish to volunteer their units for the mission then place their tokens into a kylix (a form of drinking cup whose origins lie in ancient [[Terra]]). The [[Chapter Master]] then decides which squads to assign to the undertaking based upon which tokens he finds in the kylix.
Though the Iron Snakes are able to deploy an acceptable number of vehicles, and also include [[Dreadnoughts]] and [[Librarians]] amongst their forces, the primacy of the combat squad means that they concentrate on infantry tactics in battle. The Chapter armory is able to issue [[Combat Shield]]s short-swords, and [[Ithakan Sea Lance|sealances ]] (javelin-type fighting spears) to all brothers, enabling them to close up and use phalanx-style tactics. They are particularly skillful with the sea-lance, as part of a petitioner's training on their homeworld of [[Ithaka]] involves the hunting and slaying of the large, predacious sea-wyrms native to the planet.{{Fn|1}}
One of their unique battle practices is that they trained to use [[dog]]s in combat, especially in tracking and attacking [[Dark Eldar]].{{Fn|1}}
