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**70 Salamanders of the 6th Company, under the command of Sergeant [[V'reth]], were deployed to [[Hive Helsreach]] in support of the [[Black Templars]].{{Fn|13}}
**The Salamanders launched several counter-attacks against the rock-forts landed by the Orks along the Hemlock river. Preferring the close-quarter fighting within the maze of crudely carved tunnels within the [[Rok]]s to the long-range duels in the desert, the Salamanders made the Orks pay a high price for their audacity. By the [[Season of Fire]] at least nine Roks were destroyed by the Salamanders' attacks, slaughtering untold thousands of filthy greenskins.{{Fn|7}}
**Many chapters fought in the name of the Emperor, or for personal glory. Of the fully twenty chapters, only the Salamanders fought for the people of Armageddon. According to rumorsrumours, Tu'Shan himself came to blows with Captain [[Vinyar]] of the [[Marines Malevolent]], when the latter shelled a refugee camp the Orks had penetrated.{{Fn|14}} Vinyar is said to have left the civilians to die because he "hadn´t time" to defend them, a notion which greatly angered the Chapter Master.{{Fn|3}}
**After the Season of Fire, only two Companies were left to protect the major population centers, while the Chapter's [[Techmarine]]s busied themselves rebuilding the destroyed infrastructure. Tu'Shan also left a squad of Firedrakes with the Blood Angels as an honour guard for the fallen Captain [[Erasmus Tycho|Tycho]].{{Fn|7}}
**The war raged into the period known as the [[Noctis Aeterna]] where many of the Salamanders reinforcements were cut off from Armageddon. When [[Warp Travel]] was reestablished, the Salamanders and elements from 8 other Chapters found that nearly half of Armageddon had been transformed into a [[Daemon World]]. The Salamanders led an effort that succeeded in halting a Daemonic ritual that would have summoned [[Angron]] to Armageddon.{{Fn|42}}
