During this bitter war the Iron Cyclone formation was deployed directly from Black Templars Strike Crusiers under merciless enemy ground-fire to overwhelm their bastions and silence their guns despite suffering heavy loses. This formation is believed to have been so-named by the Black Templars who used it repeatedly during the Aegisine Crusade against the rebel Drift Worlds of the Mandragora Sector in the 39th Millennium.
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The Drop Pod plummets through the planet's atmosphere at meteoric speeds, firing powerful retro-rockets just before touchdown to rapidly slow its descent.
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A Drop Pod is a one-way, sealed, armoured landing craft that is launched from an orbiting voidship onto the planet below. The Dreadnought Drop Pod, officially the Lucius Pattern Dreadnought Drop Pod, also known as the Lucius Pattern Heavy Drop Pod, is a specialised variant of the common Drop Pod used by the Adeptus Astartes for planetary assaults. A Dreadnought Drop Pod of the Space Wolves Chapter