The Iron Shock Troopers

The Iron Shock Troopers, also referred to as the ‘Ferrum Schock-Truppen’ in there native dialect are one of the more well-known forces within the Cthonian Imperium’s base military, producing and deploying over a hundred fully manned and fully armed regiments upon their induction into the Cthonian Imperium by the modern Howitzers space marine chapter during the the year 378.M03 (2378). The Iron Shock Troopers operate in almost the same way as their Terran-born ancestors of the Nazi German Army, taking to the field in various and massive formations called army groups (an amassed number of various armies) and waging their wars with zealous vigour.

The Iron Shock Troopers in recent years have not seen much major conflict since their inception, much to their chagrin, but have been known to have regiments deployed to either put down more organised rebellions and deal with unclaimed worlds under Imperial Compliance. One of their most recent deployments being upon the Hive-world of Avuak in the year 742.M03 (2742), a planet that had seceded from the Cthonian Imperium after it was taken over by an anarcho-transhumanist group by the name of The Forged. The Forged took control of Avuak and forced their belief of organised technological barbarism upon the populace, turning many sections of numerous hive city habitation-blocks into vast halls where they would replace most if not their entire bodies with mechanical implants or simply placing their brains into droids. When emissaries of the Cthonian Imperial Administration arrived to discern the political state of the world, they were captured and brutally murdered publicly in an attempt to ward off any other potential push for peace, an action that lead to the world being subjected to the wrath of the mankind in the form of the Eisenaldens of the now renowned 321st Eisenalden Infantry regiment, more infamously known as "The Bearers of the Iron Cross" due to their regimental heraldry making use of both the Iron Cross and Germanic Aquila.

For approximately three months the 321st Iron Shock Trooper regiment along with the 34th Battlement Armoured Division fought against the techno-barbarians, the 321st fighting within the cramped urban complexes that were the planets hive-cities while the 34th Armoured Division aimed their sights on facilities and strongholds built outside the planetary hive-cities. In the waning days of the conflict The Forged had fractured into warring splinter groups planet-wide which made the assaults carried out by both the Imperial Army forces leading to a successful compliance