Under his leadership, The Blooded have known many great victories over the enemies of the Emperor, and in recent years Dante has come to favour the 2nd Company for those war zones of greatest importance to the Chapter. It was Aphael and The Blooded that were despatched when the mineral-rich Grimmok Sector was invaded by the expansionist armies of the Tau Empire. On worlds of ash and sand, the Blood Angels 2nd Company fought a war of attack and counterattack, striking the xenos in swift and bloody ambushes and withdrawing before the Tau could muster their full might. The alien commanders came to believe Aphael's force was much larger than the hundred Space Marines present in actuality, the smoking fields of dead Fire Warriors and gutted Devilfish left in their wake seemingly the work of a m