Thought I'd introduce my first commissioned character (And the Captain that is helping the Harvest Guard on Oaks IV). Meet Godric Havlock, the Thane/Captain of the Huscarls Chapter's 3rd Company. This amazing masterpiece was made by george.abalayan on Instagram. And yes, that is infact General Kenobi's face. Anyways, here's his lore:

Codex Dataslate: Thane Godric Havlock

Name: Godric Havlock
Title(s): Thane of the Third, Seneschal of the Arsenal, Warden of the Breach
Chapter: Huscarls
Company: 3rd Company — The Line Breakers
Specialization: Attrition Warfare, Methodical Breakthrough Warfare, Siege Assault, Command Decapitation
Known For: Relentless line-breaking, precision leadership targeting, absolute battlefield composure

Overview:

Thane Godric Havlock stands as one of the Huscarls’ most uncompromising commanders—a master of siegecraft who embodies the Chapter’s doctrine of attrition, discipline, and inevitability. Where others seek maneuver or glory, Havlock seeks collapse: of enemy structure, morale, and cohesion.

He is a commander of few words and fewer concessions. His presence at the front line is not inspirational—it is decisive. “My actions are my speeches.”

The Role of the Thane:

Within the Huscarls, the title Thane is reserved for captains entrusted, not only as a rank, but with command and the execution of decisive warfare.

As Seneschal of the Arsenal, Havlock holds additional authority over:

• relic weapon deployment
• siege materiel allocation
• armory doctrine
• battlefield logistics of heavy wargear

He does not merely fight wars—he ensures the Chapter fights them correctly.

Combat Doctrine:

Methodical Breakthrough Warfare

Havlock does not wage battle through momentum, but through controlled inevitability.

His campaigns follow a strict pattern:

• Identification of structural weakness
• Suppression of enemy command and artillery
• Progressive pressure across the line
• Sudden, overwhelming breach at a chosen point
• Immediate consolidation and counterattack denial

He rejects impulsive assaults. Every advance is earned, measured, and permanent.

Decapitation Strategy

Havlock is particularly known for targeting:

• command echelons
• vox networks
• officers and war leaders
• symbolic strongpoints

Rather than merely breaking a line, he removes the will to hold it.

Enemy formations often collapse not from destruction—but from directionless panic.

The Unyielding Line

Though an attacker by doctrine, Havlock is equally feared as a defender.

When ordered to hold ground:

• fallback is eliminated from planning
• defensive layers are constructed in depth
• fire lanes are engineered with precision
• counterattacks are pre-scripted

Positions held by Havlock’s command are rarely retaken once secured.

Personality & Command Style:

Taciturn Authority

Havlock is not a speaker.

• He does not rally troops with rhetoric
• He does not issue dramatic declarations
• He does not indulge in ceremony beyond necessity

His silence is not coldness—it is efficiency.

Orders are brief. Expectations are absolute.

Selective Communication

Havlock speaks freely only with:

• his Lieutenants
• fellow Captains
• Chapter command

To his broader company, he communicates through:

• action
• positioning
• results

His warriors do not need to understand his plans—only their place within them.

Private Discipline

In rare moments of stillness, Havlock is never idle.

He is known to spend his time:

• conferring with Lieutenants on future engagements
• maintaining his personal wargear
• recording enemy tactics and battlefield observations
• drafting counter-strategy treatises for Chapter archives
• being a avid historian, along with the other Huscarls of the Chapter

These writings are considered required study among Huscarl officers.

Wargear

Artificer Volkite Charger — “Seneschal’s Oath”

A relic weapon of ancient provenance, meticulously maintained by Havlock himself, with help of the Chapter's Techmarines.

• Emits thermal beams capable of liquefying infantry formations
• Causes cascading thermal detonations within enemy ranks
• Favored for trench clearing and breach-line execution

Havlock personally oversees its calibration and repair, refusing full Mechanicus custody.

Artificer Power Axe — “Trench-Splitter”

A brutal siege weapon designed for:

• breaching bulkheads
• shattering defensive emplacements
• close-quarters execution of elite foes

Its edge is said to have split ceramite, adamantium plating, and warlords alike.

Modified Mark III Artificer Armor

Havlock’s armor is a relic of the Chapter’s oldest arsenals:

• reinforced for frontal assault
• layered with centuries of repair and augmentation
• optimized for confined warfare and sustained advance

It bears the scars of countless sieges—none repaired beyond necessity.

The 3rd Company — The Line Breakers

Under Havlock, the 3rd Company serves as the primary breakthrough formation of the Huscarls.

Battlefield Role:

• siege assaults
• trench warfare
• urban reduction
• fortified line penetration

Reputation:

“If Havlock takes the field, the wall has already fallen.”

Notable Traits:

• Never observed retreating
• Rarely deviates from pre-battle planning
• Maintains perfect operational cohesion under extreme pressure
• Displays no visible hesitation in casualty-heavy offensives
• Holds himself to stricter standards than any under his command

Recorded Maxim:

“Victory is not taken. It is constructed.”

Legacy

Among the Huscarls, Thane Godric Havlock is not remembered for speeches, heroics, or charisma.

He is remembered for something far more enduring:

Lines that did not break.
Walls that did not stand.

The Chapter Master of the Huscarls, Lord-Thane Godwinson Czarin, has stated, "If I could, I'd have him in my Honor Guard, but both he and I realize his duty is the mud and the blood and the tears of the battlefield."

Thought I should finally introduce my Homebrew Imperial Fist Successor, The Huscarls. If you haven't noticed, this chapter is based on aspects of WW1, mainly their preferred combat of Trench-based and Attrition Warfare. I'll try to keep it as simple as possible, but when has explaining a chapter been simple or short?

A lesser known Chapter from the 2nd Founding, The Huscarls are a stern and dauntless successor of the Imperial Fists and deeply rooted in their reminiscence of Dorn's Honour Guard.

With roots of the Huscarls being dated since that of the Great Crusade, their first Chapter Master and Crusade veteran members remember their first meeting with Rogal Dorn, cold and silent as the planet of Inwit. Many of these Great Crusade veterans showed their resilience and tenacity in campaigns where the Fists simply waited the enemy out or in the bloody trenches even before meeting their father. When the Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra began, these same Marines would starve and carve into the traitors on the frontlines.

In the Era Indomitus, the Huscarls continue to show this same unstoppability fighting many Traitorous Warbands and Xenos scum.

Homeworld: Verdun

The land of Verdun is littered with craters and trench lines of previous scuffles and skirmishes. However, the land is majority flat to hill scattered plains with forests, lakes, swamps, creeks, oceans, and some arid scrubland and rough badlands. The Capital City of Somme is where processions of the Huscarls are found on the Anniversary of the Chapters Founding on the 11th Day during the Second Founding.

Heraldry:

The Huscarls hold reverence to defence and weaponry, however were veterans of a bygone age only some minds remember. The Huscarls emblem is a black eagle head surrounded by stylized black laurels on a field of yellow; Thus showing their reverence of being from Dorn’s own honour guard and their heritage of being from the Imperial Fists.

Chapter History:

First Expedition:

The Huscarls are a Space Marine Chapter that continue traditions from the 7th Legion, The Imperial Fists, but have adopted tactics more on par with the Death Guard or the Iron Warriors, which many of the older veterans did fight alongside with. Their first Chapter Master, Vespera Gregor, was in the Honor Guard of Rogal Dorn before volunteering to lead this Chapter to the stars. Chapter Master Gregor decided on storing an immense amount of stockpiled equipment before departing, such as his favored Tartaros Terminator, MKIII ‘Iron,’ MKIV ‘Maximus,’ MKV ‘Heresy’ armors; Power Mauls, Chainglaives, and Plasma weaponry amongst other pieces of tech. The Huscarls Fleet, led by Gregor’s Flagship ‘the Belleau,’ set out towards the Ultima Segmentum searching for a planet to call home. The Fleet would discover the world of Verdun, a backwater industrialist planet with abundance in resources, perfect for the Huscarls to call home. Located (for reference) South-East of Fenris in the Western Reaches of the Ultima Segmentum. As the fleet pulled in, Chapter Master Gregor would lay his steel eyes upon a Space Battle Station, quite similar to The Phalanx of the Huscarls parent chapter the Imperial Fists, but smaller and less armed; This would be their own Fortress-Monastery. 
(Author’s Note): It is important to note that while this Station is similar to the Phalanx, it is of course not the same by description. What is extremely important to note is that this Station would be blurted out from the Warp that had a small force of Death Guard that got lost in the Warp before the Horus Heresy. Why did it have Loyalist Death Guard uncorrupted by Nurgle that eventually returned to the galaxy and the Imperium didn’t know? Because majority of held power of the station was moved to the Gellar Fields while the Station floated like a jellyfish thru the Immaterium.
Vespera Gregor would contact the Space Station, named the Stalemate, and be greeted by a husk voice of Lieutenant Blakad Malar, a loyalist Death Guard member. After the news of the Horus Heresy and Great Scouring, Lieutenant Malar and his force of other loyalist Death Guard would bend the knee and be inducted and assimilated into the Huscarls Chapter, along with the Stalemate that orbits the planet of Verdun and serves as Verdun’s first defence and everlasting vigil of the Huscarls.

House of Trenches:

The Huscarls decided to make the Planet their home and main recruitment world. Chapter Master Gregor declared the Verdunians were their people and no harm shall be wrought on their people as long as *the Stalemate* was alive. Verdun, an industrialist and cratered world with a hardy people, labyrinths, trenches, and resource abundance. Gregor silently saw his Chapter in the World; unyielding and stubborn. The Ancient Dreadnought Ælfred ‘the Bludgeoner’ in his Contemptor-Pattern chassis was the first to start negotiations with the world’s council of leaders (Guild-Lords, Manufactorum Masters, and Militia Commanders), being one of the best negotiators of the new Chapter, along with Chapter Master Gregor and the Chapter’s Inner Circle at the Capitol City of Somme. Terms made were the Chapter now ruled in the name of the Imperium, the current Planetary Defence Force would be morphed into an Imperial Guard Regiment that would help the Huscarls in campaigns but additionally be sent in their own campaigns and defend Verdun, the Huscarls would defend Verdun at all costs, and the resources and manufactorums of Verdun would be used to supply the Chapter, Verdunian Iron Auxilia, and Verdun itself. Verdun was now the Huscarls' home.  
The Verdunian Iron Auxilia was formed and shared the Huscarls’ symbol, acting as “little brothers” the Verdunian Iron Auxilia would follow their Astartes counterparts in rigorous training and simulated battlefield practice, but would combine Infantry (Light and Heavy) with light and mobile transports and tanks.

ANYWAYS: I think it's best to leave this where it is, I'll def update some things later. But for now, ask me anything about The Huscalrs or criticize me on how i did. Thank you.