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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' The [[Battle of Idolatros]] during the [[Arks of Omen Campaign]]. [[Dante]] leads a massive Blood Angels force alongside the [[Imperial Navy]] to relieve the [[Unforgiven]] under [[Azrael]] from the forces of [[Chaos]].{{Fn|26}}
*'''???.[[M42]]:''' The [[Fourth Tyrannic War]] including the [[Battle of Bastior]]{{Fn|10}}
==Culture==
The Blood Angels will spare no effort to attain the material needed to create the [[Chapter]]'s art and have even fought wars to obtain them. This includes [[Bloodstone (Material)|Bloodstone]] gems from the deep caves of the '''Cruor Mountain''' on [[Baal]] and the larvae of the [[spinewyrm]] fauna. Bloodthirsty sand clams are also needed, as the white pigment used to paint the Chapter's angel wings can only be obtained by crushing clams' shells.{{Fn|57a}}
==Homeworld==
[[Image:Baal.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Baal and its two moons.{{Fn|4c}}]]
The [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld|homeworld]] of the Blood Angels is the planet [[Baal]] and its two moons, [[Baal Primus]] and [[Baal Secundus]], from which the Blood Angels take their new recruits. The Blood Angels' [[Primarch]], [[Sanguinius]], fell upon Baal Secundus after he and his brother Primarchs were scattered across the galaxy.{{Fn|4c}}
In ancient days Baal and its moons had Terra-like atmospheres. Baal itself was always a world of red rust deserts, but its moons were close to paradises. As the [[Dark Age of Technology]] ended in the [[Age of Strife]], civil war erupted between the world and its colonised moons, leading to the nuclear devastation of the planetary system. Baal Secundus has since been a nuclear-blasted desert world with deadly levels of radiation. This forced the world's human tribes to build cumbersome radiation suits in order to survive. Mutants were once rife upon the world, frequently at war with the remaining pure humans for dominance of the planet.{{Fn|4c}}
==Tactics==
