Iron Warriors

Iron Warriors Armorial with Legion Iconography.

Iron Warriors Terminator Legionary Gaelean of the 26th Grand Company.

### Observed Strategic Tendancies

Co-ordinated Mass-Theatre Warfare, Armoured Assault, Planetary Decimation, Attrition, Retribution and Counter-insurgency Campaigns.

### Alliegence

Loyalist
 *(Fidelitas Constantus)*

### Colors

Deep metallic Hue, Gold, Black and Yellow

The **Iron Warriors** are a Loyalist First Founding Space Marine Legion known for their mastery at siege-craft, both in defence and assault. They are the grim, cold-hearted masters of the science of war among the Space Marines, exemplars of strength and discipline turned exclusively to the systematic destruction of an enemy. The Legion was commanded by its Primarch Perturabo as an extension of his own mind and body, the will of each Legionary utterly sublimated to his conception of victory. More so than in any other Legion, the life of each warrior was secondary to his duty, as much a resource to be expended in the relentless calculus of war as bolt shell or lascannon charge.

The IVth Legion has garnered a reputation for ruthlessness and as master-strategists, and are very adept at tearing down every impregnable fortress or unassailable citadel that dares to defy the Emperor's will. Armored with a suspicion borne of bitter experience, the Iron Warriors have often been labeled paranoid, but as the events of the Shattering proved, not even brother Astartes can be trusted implicitly. As consummate siege-masters, they were instrumental in the success of the Great Crusade, and after the Betrayal they, alongside the Imperial Fists, refortified the Imperium to withstand assaults from within as well as without. While other legions place their trust in dangerous psychic powers or the superstition of blind faith, the Iron Warriors depend instead upon thick walls, overwhelming firepower and meticulous planning to ensure victory.

## Legion Beliefs

The legion is methodical and coldly logical in its approach, and is certain that any problem or obstacle will yield to them in time. The worst tragedies in their history, such as the battle at the Lion's Gate or the Iron Cage Campaign have occurred when they have embraced passion over reason. Bitter experience has left them mistrustful of others, and in response they have striven to armor themselves against any chance of further betrayal. They remain steadfastly loyal to the Emperor, greatly respecting the rational, secular galaxy that he had tried to build, and so have little time for the deification espoused by the traitorous Word Bearers.

Similarly, such esoteric practices as the use of psychic powers are treated with deep distrust. Though they grudgingly accept the vital role that astropaths and navigators play in the day-to-day running of the Imperium, the study of such things is seen as an unsuitable vocation for an Iron Warrior. In the absence of psychically talented brother-librarians to combat the wiles of the daemonic and the witch, the Iron Warriors have instead applied their technological skills to the task. For the Grand Companies standing sentinel around the Eye of Terror, the null fields and weaponry from the forges of Olympia are prized above even a plentiful supply of ammunition. These devices are seen as yet another kind of fortress, one which protects them against the insidious denizens and whispered madness of the Warp.

## Legion Fleet

The Iron Warriors were known to possesses the following vessels as part of their Legion Fleet during the Great Crusade, The Shattering, and Beyond:

## Gallery (Iron Warriors)

Iron Warriors Tactical Marine Veraxus Morian of the 4th Grand Company.