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[[Image:Howling Griffons Scout.PNG|thumb|right|150px|[[Howling Griffons]] [[Scout]] with [[Heavy Bolter]]{{Fn|4b}}]]
The Tenth Company of the [[Howling Griffons]] is made up of its [[Scout Marine]] Squads.
*'''906-909.M41''' — [[Badab War]]. The Howling Griffons, along with the [[Novamarines]], responded to calls for aid. Having just finished a campaign in the [[Caradryad Sector]], the Howling Griffons' task force was no more than 250 Space Marines and had insufficient planetary assault resources to aid in front line assaults. As a result, their initial engagements were to carry out garrison duties or convoy protection. Their largest deployment was to garrison the airless moons in the [[Khymara]] system, rebuilding old listening posts as staging areas for later in the war. Unfortunately this posting put them in the path of the [[Executioners]] in 907.M41{{Fn|3}} who were coming to aid the Secessionists as part of their blood oath to Huron. The Howling Griffons were annihilated; after the [[Executioners]] withdrawal, the casualty rate was more than 70%, including the catastrophic loss of their strike cruiser, ''[[Augeias]]'', and [[Chaplain Dreadnought]] [[Armand Titus|Titus]]. Despite these losses, the remaining force continued to fight wherever they could until officially relieved in 909.[[M41]]{{Fn|1}}
*'''978.M41:'''{{Fn|4a}} [[War for Bhorc Prime]] (Scrap at da Scrap Yard) — A contingent of Howling Griffons was dispatched to prevent the [[Ork]]s from building bigger and better idols. They managed to seize the high ground, and, with commanding fire positions, they could press their attack on the Warlord's [[Gargant]]t fields and slow the invasion.{{Fn|4b}}
*'''Liberation of Vanqualis''' — [[Vanqualis]] was under attack by [[Orks]]. The Howling Griffons along with the [[901st Penal Legion]] fought against the [[Orks]].{{Fn|2a}} Shortly after landing they turned on the [[Soul Drinkers]] [[chapter]], believing them to be the bearers of a [[Chaos]] artifact, the [[Black Chalice]].{{Fn|2b}}
**{{Endn|2b}}: Chapter 11
*{{Endn|3}}: [http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/l/Last-stand-on-Khymara.pdf Forge World Scenarios for Badab War campaigns] ''(last accessed 13 June 2015)''
*4: [[White Dwarf 349 (UK)]]
**{{Endn|4a}}: pg. 55
**{{Endn|4b}}: pgs. 69–74
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