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Hello there. I was just wondering, considering that Storm Ravens are new additions to the SM codex would the Mantis Warriors have had them before their penitent crusade? If not, would they be allowed them after, or would they not be trusted and therefore not given the best new gear?
I think they would be allowed to have them, It only says they aren't aloud to recruit new neophytes until their Penitent crusade is over.
Also on the Wikii it says their Penitent crusade is over.
Battle of Herodian IV (999.M41) - The Mantis Warriors answered a distress call from the world of Herodian IV when it came under attack from a Tyranid splinter Hive Fleet. They managed to evacuate 270,000 people off-world but the 2nd Company was badly mauled defending an Adeptus Mechanicus station on the world prior to the arrival of a Deathwatch Kill-team and an Inquisitorial fleet, drawn to the world because of its strategic location along a Warp route deemed critical to support Imperial efforts to defend against a Chaotic attack from the Eye of Terror. Following the successful defence of the Herodian System from the Tyranids the Inquisition determined that the Mantis Warriors' actions had restored the Emperor's blessing to them and they were allowed to begin to recruit Neophytes to replace their losses once more.
The Administratum cut them off, but the AdMech never did, to the best of my knowledge.
That said, most of their new gear probably got 'lost in the post' so to speak, what with the Mantis Warriors being of no fixed abode for several years.
"That time I only loaded the cannon with powder. Next time, I will fill it with jewels and diamonds and they will cut you to shrebbons!" - Nogbad the Bad.
