The Battle for Birch Creek

Birch creek is rather innapropriately named because it does not contain any flowing water – though it is one of the most hospitable areas of Birch by virtue of the area's topography. The sand here retains sufficent moisture to extract potable drinking water when the appropriately complex machinery is employed.

It is the infamous site of one of the first battles with Waaagh! Snazgutz . Lured by a false distress signal, the Emperors Hawks chapter found themselves fighting a bloody battle.  The Hawks extracted as soon as they were able but not without taking a number of casualties as well as inflicting a significant number themself.