Like many other Legions, the Salamanders often group their armoured vehicles into large special purpose formations. Siege Cadre Magnor was one such formation and was based around a core squadron of Typhon Siege tanks, and supported by full squadrons of Predator Infernus and the new Sicaran battle tanks as outrider forces. Unlike many Cadres within the Salamanders, which were ad-hoc formations formed for a single mission or campaign and then reassigned as the course of the Great Crusaded endless battles dictated, Cadre Magnor, under the command of Centurion Magnor Haken, had achieved longevity, proving its worth time and again in situations that required the brute application of firepower to spare the Salamanders a costly infantry assault.

如同其他很多軍團一樣，火蜥蜴軍團通常把他們的裝甲載具聚集起來組成大型的特殊用途編隊。馬格諾爾攻城核心部隊就是此類編隊之一，它的建立基于一支堤豐攻城坦克核心中隊，并由一整支煉獄型捕食者坦克中隊提供支援，并有新型的西卡然戰(zhàn)斗坦克作為先驅(qū)開路部隊?；痱狎孳妶F中的很多核心部隊都是為了單一任務(wù)或戰(zhàn)役而組建的臨時特殊編隊，之后他們則會隨著大遠征無盡的戰(zhàn)況而被重新分配，馬格諾爾攻城核心部隊則不同，他們在百夫長馬格諾爾 哈肯（機仆：啊，這…）的指揮下被長期保留，在一次又一次戰(zhàn)爭中，他們使用殘酷的火力進攻對方，使火蜥蜴軍團避免使用代價高昂的步兵突擊戰(zhàn)術(shù)，他們?nèi)缡亲C明了自己的價值。

Landing during one of the later drops on Isstvan V ，Cadre Magnor was not initially deployed to the front lines of the Loyalist advance, forming part of the Salamander's reserve force not far from the Loyalist drop zones. With the betrayal of those Legions making up the second wave of the assault on Isstvan V ，Cadre Magnor found itself surrounded by enemies and cut off from their Primarch and the force of?Salamanders trapped with him. Rather than dig in, or attempt to fight free of?the Urgall Depression, Centurion Haken brought his tank, the Typhon Abraxus, to full power and signalled his Cadre to counter-attack. Using the sheer bulk of his two surviving Typhon super-heavies, Haken began to smash a path through the encircling Alpha Legion troops in an attempt to reach Vulkan. The trail of destruction forged by the Salamanders tanks was only ended when the Traitor Imperator Titan Dies Irae directed a salvo of fire onto their position, obliterating a number of Alpha Legion units as well as the Loyalist tank squadrons.

馬格諾爾部隊是在后續(xù)的空降行動中登陸了伊斯特萬五號，他們最初并未被部署到忠誠派推進的前線，組成了距離忠誠派登陸區(qū)并不遙遠的的火蜥蜴預備隊的一部分。隨著另外四個軍團的叛變組成了伊斯特萬五號上的第二波攻擊潮，馬格諾爾部隊發(fā)現(xiàn)自己遭到了敵軍的包圍，并且被切斷了與原體和遭到圍困的同胞兄弟的聯(lián)系。但百夫長哈肯并未深挖戰(zhàn)壕進行防御或者試圖殺出Urgall絕望平原來擺脫叛軍，而是將自己的坦克——臺風庇佑號提升到最大功率，示意他的部隊發(fā)起反攻。利用兩臺幸存的堤豐超重坦的龐大車體，百夫長哈肯嘗試與原體伏爾甘匯合，他們開始在包圍火蜥蜴主力的阿爾法軍團部隊中沖開一條道路。直到叛軍的帝皇級泰坦死亡末日號向他們的陣地猛烈開火，消滅了大量阿爾法軍團單位和忠誠派坦克中隊們時，火蜥蜴坦克們鑄就的毀滅路徑才終于停止了。