Originating on a world of perpetual night under the leadership of the Night Haunter, a vigilante who ruled by fear, it is unsurprising that the Night Lords are experts in the art of terror.

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The Emperor was on the verge of dealing with the Night Lords’ excesses when the Heresy began. The Night Lords established a brutal reputation on the Eastern Fringes, attacking by surprise and showing absolutely no mercy to their unfortunate victims. Even the assassination of Night Haunter himself could not stop them. The catalogue of atrocities they have perpetuated and continue to perpetuate are their way of sapping their enemies’ will to resist. Many weak, frightened planetary governors have capitulated rather than face the wrath of the Night Lords; none has ever been spared as a consequence.

On the tabletop, these masters of the art of terror are a highly mobile army, able to make rapid strikes at isolated enemy units then redeploying before your opponent can react to the threat. The normal limitation on Raptor squads does not apply to a Night Lords army and all Space Marines have Night Sight.

COMBAT DOCTRINE
The Night Lords adopted the modus operandi of their Primarch without exception, and thrive in sowing fear and confusion among their enemy. It is common practice for Night Lords Chaos Space Marines to ensure that the communications of a target planet are shut down, broadcasting hideous messages and screams across the airwaves as they begin slaughtering the occupants at their leisure. It is very rare that the Night Lords voluntarily fight a force able to withstand them; they much prefer to attack the weak and frightened. Repeated instances have shown that the Night Lords will not give quarter, and are entirely bereft of mercy. Any poor soul offering to surrender will have his pleas answered by mutilation and painful death.

Night Haunter's Legion have no holy crusade, no belief that causes them to spread murder and misery to the worlds they visit. Similarly, they have no martial creed, all concept of honour eroded by the supplanting of vicious criminals into their ranks. The Night Lords are masters of stealth, able to infiltrate a position quickly and silently. These arts appear to be innate to the legion, and come to the fore during the sick games they use to drive their prey into paroxysms of terror. Even before they turned to Chaos, the Night Lords adorned their armour with imagery of death; this is because they know that fear can be used as a weapon just as effectively as a chainsword or bolter. Given their predilection for picking on weaker foes, a fully-armoured Night Lords champion armed with a devastating array of weaponry is always more than a match for the foes he chooses to fight.