A Stormtalon is often assigned to escort other mission-critical units. In this role, the Stormtalon is all but unmatched. At one moment it can be screaming across the battlefield at death-defying speeds, at the next, its pilot can switch over to repulsor systems, trading raw speed for agility, all the while strafing enemy positions with a thunderous barrage of shells and missiles. Such were the tactics employed by the Ultramarines Chapter at the Battle of Cold Steel Ridge. Here, Stormtalon pilots pushed their gunships to the limit, afterburners propelling the aircraft to bone-jarring speeds in their attempts to intercept monstrous Harpies and flocks of Gargoyles whose winged bodies were darkening the skies. No sooner had the Stormtalons regained air-superiority than the pilots were vectori