Battle for Tsua-Lakor

Ready they stood for the upcoming battle they waiting, inside the dense forest and atop ruined monuments to god best left unknown. Silently waiting the Jaguar Warriors Space Marines waited to make battle with the bastard xenos. The calming whine of anti-grav engines was heard off in the distance as the tau tanks and troops begun to take up positions in the ruins of what was once a human colony in ages past. The tau waited and set up themselves, if they weren't going to be lured into an ambush thought Chapter Master Montezuma, then we shall have to make them come out of hiding another way. On the cox he ordered the advance upon the enemy's left flank a squadron of Lanspeeders to first target and eliminate the tau artillery and then move to disrupt the entrenched tau forces further north. He looked back behind him at the squad joining him was under the command of sergeant, Impotaka and behind them further in the forest was ancient Matoki a contemptor dreadnought who continued to serve the chapter in his new metal form.

The trees rustled with silent vengence, the Jaguar Warriors using archeotech noise supression systems on their landspeeders to make the as quite as the void. Through the trees and past the beginnings of the ruined city, the landspeeders rushed onwards towards the Tau, they came upon the sight of a grav-tank and blasted the missile bearing tank to oblivion with promethium and melta blasts. On the right flank Chapter Master Montezuma and his acompanying squad of tactical marines reading themselves in the forest, and at the first sight of  kroot in the building before them, broke free from cover. As they did vast magnitudes of plasma fire assailed them bring many battle brothers low, a Riptide battle suit stood in the distance to oppose them, Montezuma and his remaining men pushed forwards again to reach the kroon who had now also opened fire upon them with deadly poisoned rounds that felled more battle brothers. Behind Montezuma, ancient Matoki turned his attention to the riptide and the two walker readied to make battle.

Montezuma and his men made their charge lunging up into the building with powerful jumps, some even punching through the floor to the surprise of the kroot. None could stay Montezuma's wrath and he dispatched no less the five of the xenos in the first swing of his thunder hammer and continued to slaughter them along with the squad joining him.

Down the centre of the battlefield ancient Matoki marched forwards to the riptide battlesuit assailing it with his storm bolter and kheres assault cannon, his in built augur array making every shot land. The xenos battlesuit fired back but couldn't get anything through his inbuilt power field. Down on the left flank the Landspeeders passed through the city and spies the riptide ahead of them, but to there surprise a battlesuit with the marking of a commander surrounded by all sorts of drones sprung up behind them and together with the tau snipers hiding in the building the just passed brought them low just as they got a salvo off on the riptide, critically damaging it. Matoki marches ever towards and damage the riptide further, but it was the scouts under the command of sergeant Impata that delivered the final blow, brother Kakan used his heavy bolter to lethal effect it hellfire rounds breaching the riptides defences and finishing the giant xenos creation once and for all in a fiery blast.

Matoki turned his attention west but was unable to move further onwards as he was crippled by the tau commander who had come up behind him after destroying the landspeeders. Montezuma however could not be stopped bursting through cover by himself as his men went and recovered the wounded and dead, he ran into the lines of tau gunmen slaughtering them with ease, chasing them down for the glory of the golden god. Behind him came another battlesuit which he quickly turned to raising his mighty shield to deflect every shot the battlesuit unleashed at him. In a burst of speed after the initial salvo from the battlesuit he quickly changed from his defensive stance and launched to assault the battlesuit who was to slow witted to escape, with a mighty swing of his thunder hammer he smashed the battlesuit in two across the middle.

The scout moved up provided cover for their allies as the tau begun to retreat realising the battle was lost, the cost of victory was steep, the Jaguar Warriors being a small chapter, 16 battle brothers had been lost of injured in the fighting, some were not to be recovered most likely disintegrated by tau plasma weaponry or in the fiery wreckage of the landspeeders demise. But victory was to the Jaguar Warriors, and Montezuma now had to make further plans to rid the tau from the planet.

Apocalypto

Apocalypto is the home world of the Jaguar Warriors Space Marine Chapter. It's classification is death world and is situated deep within the Veiled Reigon far outside the Imperiums borders. On the surface of the planet lives nothing, the planets close proximity to its star has turned the surface into a barren desert wasteland were no life can survive, Apocalypto's uniqueness lies underneath the surface. Underneath the crust of the planet run thousands upon thousands of giant tunnels, that due to the humidity created by the underwater lakes and rivers and the heat from the rock ontop of the tunnelsare full of verdant and lush rainforests. Some of these magnificent forests have been tuned into bile swamp in more recent times due to an attack upon the planet by a war host of Death Guard. The sheer size of the tunnels has created skyline of its own clouds form and can even produce rain to nourish the forests due to the size of the tunnels. The wildlife within these forest ranges from saurian beasts such as grow and megadons to giant birds of prey and massive spotted cats the size of a Space Marine Rhino called mega-jaguars from which the chapter inherits it's name.

Chapter organisation

The orginasation of the Jaguar Warriors chapter is as far from the rules and guidelines set out by the codex astartes as possible, mainly due to the fact of the chapter smaller then normal size. The chapter itself barely numbers more then six-hundred space marines a quite significant amount less then what the codex astartes dictates as the norm. This however is not a draw back as the Jaguar Warriors squads, and general marines are vastly independent, in instances then chapter has helped sway battles by merely sending a squad or two worth of marines to the particular war zone. Due to the independence of each unit and small size the chapter is not split into companies as normal instead split into tribes of varying sizes from a mere fifty space marines to the largest nearing two-hundred, each tribe is led by a chaplain indirectly, the chaplains role is more to guide spiritually then in battle, and most tribes highest ranking sergeant is in charge. The leader of the chapter leads his own tribe as does the second in command. The chapters second in command is known as first sergeant or Chief Secondus. The chapter contain chaplains, librarians, apothecaries and tech-marines like normal however they are not split of from the rest of the chapter instead mix in with the various units within it. 

Way of War

The Jaguar Warrior favour ambush as their preferred way of war and the close confines of assault. The most general tactic of their combat doctrine is to sit and wait amongst cover and leap out into assault killing the enemy in one swift move. Once they commit they do not relent only ever killing, maiming and capturing all of their enemies is enough to suffice their lust for vicious combat. Those poor unfortunate souls who are not killed will soon wish they were once they come to realise their purpose in the Jaguar Warriors rituals and rites. With a love of ambush the chapter does not possess any suits of tactical dreadnought armour or other marks of terminator plate, they also forgo the use of both bikes and jump packs, the noise gives a surprise assault away. Vehicle wise the chapter favour land speeders and artillery vehicles such as vindicators and whirlwinds. The chapter also does make heavy use of customised flyers who's engines have be diluted of noise to allow the to make surprise drop assaults from the air. 

Chapter Rituals and Beliefs

The Jaguar Warriors have taken on many aspects of their home worlds rituals and beliefs none more so the the need for blood ending and ritual sacrifice. Every eve of battle or launch of crusade, feast of victory and on countless other events the Jaguar Warriors sacrifice victims both willing and unwilling, friend and foe to the Golden Lord. On many instances this has draw ire from other Space Marine chapters and Imperial forces fighting alongside them, it has also struck fear into enemies for the Jaguar Warriors take prisoners in war only to slaughter the to their god afterwards. The most recent sacrificial event to take place was after a battle alongside regiments of the Imperial Guard, during the battle the refusal of the Imperial Guard officers to advance to a more strategic location cost the Jaguar Warriors many brave warriors after the battle was done the Jaguar Warriors advanced upon the Imperial Officers who expecting to be commemorated for their part in the victory were instead held against a stone  and executed by decapitation one by one in sacrifice to the Golden God, this was met with screams of panic and heresy by those left alive by the Jaguar Warriors, but no one dared point the out as heretics after the brutal display. Instead word was sent secretly to the Ordo Hereticus and the High Lords of Terra of the incident which is now under review by both parties, what will come from this only time will tell.