Legiones Astartes

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Allegiance and the Legiones Astartes

Decurion Defensor

Amongst the most common disciples of the Legiones Decurion creed are the defensors - charged with the protection of their mount in the heart of battle. They are experts at close defence and suppressing fire with pintle mounted weaponry.

• • Predator
  +20 Points

• • Sicaran
  +20 Points

• • Kratos Assault Tank
  +30 Points

Decurion Locus

Many of the initiates of the Legiones Decurion are trained to track and optimise the fire of their mount’s main battery, ensuring that each salvo strikes true as well as identifying priority targets amid the maelstrom of battle.

• • Predator
  +30 Points

• • Sicaran
  +30 Points

• • Kratos Assault Tank
  +40 Points

Legion Officer Wargear

• - Bolt pistol
  Free

• - Chainsword
  Free

• - Bolter
  +5 points

• - Volkite serpenta
  +5 points

• - Hand flamer
  +5 points

• - Plasma pistol
  +5 points

• - Disintegrator pistol
  +5 points

• - Chainaxe
  Free

• - Charnabal sabre
  +5 points

• - Power weapon
  +10 points

• - Power fist
  +15 points

• - Lightning claw
  +10 points

• - Thunder hammer
  +15 points

• - Combat shield
  Free

• - Boarding shield
  +5 points

Legion Terminator Melee Weapons

• - Lightning claw
  +5 points

• - Power fist
  +10 points

• - Chainfist
  +10 points

• - Thunder hammer
  +10 points

Legion Sergeant Melee Weapons

• - Chainsword
  Free

• - Chainaxe
  Free

• - Charnabal sabre
  +5 points

• - Power weapon
  +10 points

• - Thunder hammer
  +15 points

• - Power fist
  +15 points

• - Lightning claw
  +10 points

Legion Pistols

• - Plasma pistol
  +5 points

• - Hand flamer
  +5 points

• - Volkite serpenta
  +5 points

Legion Combi-weapons

• - Combi-bolter
  +5 points

• - Combi-flamer
  +10 points

• - Combi-melta
  +10 points

• - Combi-plasma
  +10 points

• - Combi-volkite
  +10 points

• - Combi-grenade
  +10 points

• - Combi-disintegrator
  +10 points

• - Combi-grav
  +10 points

Legion Special Weapons

• - Flamer
  +5 points

• - Plasma gun
  +10 points

• - Meltagun
  +15 points

• - Volkite charger
  +5 points

• - Volkite caliver
  +10 points

• - Rotor cannon
  +10 points

Legion Equipment

• - Nuncio-vox
  +10 points

• - Augury scanner
  +10 points

Legion Heavy Weapons

• - Heavy bolter
  +10 points

• - Heavy flamer
  +10 points

• - Autocannon
  +20 points

• - Missile launcher
  +15 points

• - Multi-melta
  +25 points

• - Plasma cannon
  +20 points

• - Volkite culverin
  +15 points

• - Lascannon
  +25 points

Legion Sponson Weapons

• - Two Sponson Mounted heavy bolters
  Free

• - Two Sponson Mounted heavy flamers
  Free

• - Two Sponson Mounted lascannon
  +20 points

• - Two Sponson Mounted volkite culverins
  +10 points

Legion Pintle Weapons

• - Pintle Mounted combi-bolter
  +5 points

• - Pintle Mounted combi-flamer
  +10 points

• - Pintle Mounted combi-plasma
  +10 points

• - Pintle Mounted combi-melta
  +10 points

• - Pintle Mounted combi-volkite
  +10 points

• - Pintle Mounted havoc launcher
  +5 points

• - Pintle Mounted heavy bolter
  +10 points

• - Pintle Mounted heavy flamer
  +10 points

• - Pintle Mounted multi-melta
  +25 points

Apothecarion Detachment

The apothecarion of the Space Marine Legions stands outside the organisation of chapter and company, with small detachments of its warriors assigned to an army as necessity demands. Only on the longest campaigns would an apothecary find themselves going to war amongst the same warriors time and time again.

Area Denial Drop

An area denial drop is a co-ordinated attempt to close off an area of the battlefield to the enemy by seeding it with automated weapons systems and hunter seeker units.

Auxiliary Vehicle Bay

The largest of transports are so vast that they can carry smaller vehicles into battle. Such huge engines of war are rarely deployed, save to the most dangerous of conflicts where an army must bring the maximum possible force to bear upon the foe or must traverse the most dangerous of terrain.

Bitter Duty

Some warriors are marked by the dire weaponry they bear or the grim tactics in which they are trained. These dour cohorts are shunned by their brethren, whether out of respect for their burden or from fear of their rage.

Breaching (X)

Some weapons are capable of breaching armour with a terrifying ease, whether by specially designed munitions, careful targeting or sheer brute power.

Brutal (X)

Some weapons strike with such force that they cause terrible wounds that can lay low even the most formidable combatant.

Combi

Some weapons feature multiple weapons systems linked to the same trigger. Often each weapon will have a specific role, but in extremis, both can be fired simultaneously, blasting the foe with a variety of deadly munitions.

Containment Breach

Some of the more powerful reactors in use by the vehicles of the Imperium are so potent as to cause terrible damage to those nearby should they be breached by enemy fire. Yet, the engines of war they feed are so vital that such risks are considered worthwhile.

Crushing Weight

While the impact of any war machine can cripple an ordinary warrior, some vehicles are so massive that they can crush infantry like ants. Such engines of destruction can even cripple lesser vehicles, serving as battering rams of unequalled effectiveness when called upon.

Deathstorm

Some weapons make no attempt to target individual warriors, but instead saturate the target zone with such a torrent of gunfire that few can escape their wrath. Such weapons are capable of causing high casualty numbers in a short space of time, but require vast stores of ammunition to maintain their attack.

Detonation

A carefully placed explosive charge can easily doom even the most heavily armoured vehicle, but are difficult to attach accurately in the heat of combat.

Dreadnought Talon

The towering Dreadnoughts of the Legiones Astartes were often organised into informal warbands, waiting only for the start of battle to advance and bring death to the foe.

Dreadnought Transport

Some transports are specially designed to allow the massive frames of Dreadnoughts to be transported into battle; from drop pods intended purely for the delivery of these armoured behemoths from orbit, to more versatile transports that can either ferry warriors or Dreadnoughts into the fires of war.

Feedback

Some weapons emit projectiles or energy beams of such terrible potency that, if fired, they can have terrible consequences for those that dare unleash their power. Whether due to energy surges in coherent energy beams, or failure in the arming systems of shells or warheads, a failure to properly arm the weapon and fully penetrate the enemy’s armour can cause lethal feedback.

Fury of the Legion

The tactical Legionaries that form the core of every Space Marine Legion drill endlessly with the boltgun that is their hallmark. As a result, these warriors are capable of unleashing a torrent of gunfire that can halt any foe in its tracks.

Graviton Collapse

These weapons emit an unstable stream of gravitons that causes a catastrophic implosion at the target point. Such is the power of these weapons that even the strongest of targets is dragged in and torn apart by the forces unleashed, the sheer mass of their armour serving only to increase the power of the detonation.

Harbingers of the Legion

Running ahead of the heavy infantry that was the closed fist of the Space Marine Legions, these warriors harry and pursue the enemy. They strike at the foe’s most vulnerable points, depriving them of shelter and succour and leaving them at the mercy of the warriors that follow in their wake.

Heart of the Legion

Though often overshadowed in the annals of history by other more prestigious warriors, it is the courage and tenacity of the humble tactical Legionary that carried the Legions to victory after victory. It would be by the blood of these warriors that the course of the Horus Heresy would be decided, and by their sacrifice that the fate of the Imperium determined.

Heat Blast

Serving primarily to slow the descent of orbital strike craft, the thrusters of some such vehicles can also be used to scorch and burn enemy infantry. The most desperate or sadistic crews assigned to such craft often made use of this capability to reap a toll of the enemy, even after releasing their passengers into the heart of battle.

Heavy Beam

Emitting a devastating beam of coherent energy, these weapons can engulf multiple targets in a single blast. Sweeping across the battlefield in a continuous beam of ravening destruction, the destructive power of such a burst can only be halted by the sturdiest of obstructions or most mighty of war machines.

• All models (friend and enemy) caught in the beam area (excepting the firing model) suffer a Hit with the listed profile of the weapon, except models with the Flyer Sub-type which cannot be affected or targeted.
• Units with any models in the beam area receive a number of Hits equal to the number of their models caught in the path of the beam; casualties are removed from affected units using the normal rules for removing casualties.
• If a Terrain piece, Building, model with the Vehicle Unit Type or any model with 6 or more Wounds is in the beam area, the attack is blocked and its line of effect will go no further than that model. The blocking model will, however, suffer 1+D3 separate Hits, rather than just 1.
• If a model with the Vehicle Unit Type and the Transport Sub-type suffers a Penetrating Hit from a weapon with this special rule, each unit Embarked on it suffers D6 Str 4 AP - Hits with the Deflagrate special rule, in addition to any other effects. Any Wounds caused are allocated by the controller of the target unit.

Impact-reactive Doors

Many assault vehicles have doors designed to release via explosive bolts, allowing their passengers to disembark as swiftly as possible.

Inertial Guidance System

Orbital strike vehicles often mount sophisticated sensors to aid them in avoiding obstacles as they streak towards the battlefield. Those assigned to orbital assaults must rely on these systems to see them to the surface, for, given the sheer speed of their descent, no human pilot could hope to bring them safely down.

Inexorable

Whether due to intense training, indomitable armour or blind madness, some warriors will keep advancing no matter the firepower directed at them.

Infantry Transport

The most common transport vehicles are those dedicated to carrying the infantry that form the core of Mankind’s armies. Such bulk transports lack the specialised equipment to accommodate more unique warriors.

Legion Artillerists

Skilled beyond the arts of mortal warriors in the employment of artillery to its most deadly effect, these artists of shot and shell know best how to place each strike from their guns.

Legiones Consularis

Among the many officers of the Legiones Astartes, there are those with unique talents and hard-won skills that are honoured with the title and rank of consul. These warriors lead the Legion into battle and conduct the most arduous of missions, called upon by their lords when the specialised knowledge they guard is required in the struggle for victory and demise of the foe.

Limited Ammunition

Some weapons, either due to a restricted capacity to store shells, a terrifying rate of fire or a complex loading mechanism, are prone to running out of ammunition in the heat of battle. Once drained of their reserves, these weapons become little more than burdens to their wielders, impotent until the battle is concluded and specialised equipment can be used to replenish their stores.

Loyalist

Whether pledged to the Emperor himself as the rightful leader of Mankind or to the dream of the Imperium that he intended to create, some warriors swore to fight and die for the Loyalist cause and no other.

Marked for Death

Trained to identify and slaughter specific targets, certain cadres of warriors make an art of stalking and assassination. These warriors are singular in their focus, and, when unleashed upon the foe, are a decree of certain death.

Master of Automata

Some warriors are trained to operate alongside the towering automata of the Mechanicum, well accustomed to the limitations of those war machines and how to best fight at their side.

Master of the Legion

The greatest commanders of the Space Marine Legions are all but peerless in their strategic and tactical abilities. The genecraft of the Emperor that created them, honed by individual talent and the experience of countless battles, has sharpened their acumen to a preternatural degree.

• Rites of War: If a Detachment with the Legiones Astartes Faction includes at least one model with the Master of the Legion special rule then that Detachment may select a single Rite of War. Rites of War are presented in the Legiones Astartes Rites of War section.
• The Few and the Proud: An army may only include a maximum of one model with this special rule per 1,000 points. This counts across all Detachments of an army. Thus, an army that totals at least 1,000 points may include only a single model with the Master of the Legion special rule, and an army that totals at least 2,000 points may include up to two models with the Master of the Legion special rule, etc.
• Retinue: A model with this special rule may also include a Legion Command Squad, Legion Cataphractii Command Squad or Legion Tartaros Command Squad as part of the same Force Organisation slot as the model with the Master of the Legion special rule.

Melta (X)

The beams of energy generated by melta weaponry dissipate over long ranges. When used at close quarters, however, their effect on armoured vehicles is devastating.

Neutron-flux

Designed specifically to degrade the complex neural circuitry and cogitators of the Mechanicum’s automata, these weapons are considered an affront to their Order. The exotic radiation emitted by such devices is the bane of the otherwise indefatigable steel warriors of the Mechanicum, leaving them as motionless, lifeless husks.

Orbital Assault Vehicle

Drop pods and other dedicated orbital assault vehicles are intended for one purpose only – to deliver warriors and equipment from orbiting spacecraft to battlefields on a planet’s surface. Once deployed they play little further part in the battle, serving only to support the onslaught of their passengers.

Overload (X)

Some weapons are almost as dangerous to the wielder as to the foe. Supercharged powerpacks can explode in combat or volatile munitions can jam or even detonate, all of which can prove deadly to those charged with deploying such weapons.

Plasma Burn

Certain plasma weapons are designed not just to break the target with the sheer power of its initial strike, but also to burn and short-circuit the internal workings exposed. The superheated matter emitted by plasma cannons serves ideally for this purpose, continuing to sear and burn long after impact.

Rapid Tracking

Some weapons feature augmented motility and enhanced targeting systems, able to track and lock onto fast moving targets with ease.

Reach (X)

Some weapons rely not on the speed of their wielder, but on their sheer length or cunning design to inflict harm upon the foe before they can react.

Reactor Blast

Certain powerful reactors, when destroyed, erupt in a devastating blast capable of destroying other engines of war.

Reaping Blow (X)

Only when outnumbered in the press of the melee, can these weapons be wielded to the greatest effect.

Repair

Some vehicles are robust enough or simple enough in their construction that the crew can conduct minor repairs in the field.

Retinue

Many of the most famous and powerful commanders went to war with a dedicated cadre of bodyguards and adjutants. These guardians served both to protect their master in the heat of battle, preserving his life against all threats, and as a vital reserve of skilled warriors to press the attack at the most crucial moment.

Rocket Barrage

Some weapons require a stable firing platform in order to deliver their payload with maximum destructive force. When forced to fire without the proper preparations their effect is greatly reduced, but when firing from prepared positions they can unleash such a devastating torrent of fire that few enemies can survive their wrath.

Shot Selector

Some weapons are designed to feed from multiple small magazines loaded with specialist ammunition. The most common of these are the Tempest and Scorpius rounds commonly issued to Seeker Squads, but many other Legion forces may utilise even more esoteric and specialised ammunition.

• Panic (1)
• Breaching (4+)
• Suppressive (2)

Spite of the Legion

The warriors of the Space Marine Legions knew full well that to leave any foe alive was to compromise the Great Crusade, to endanger the long march of humanity across the galaxy. So in war, they deployed warriors specifically to harry those that attempted to flee or that haunted the edges of the battlefield.

Sudden Strike (X)

Some warriors are skilled in the swift and deadly arts of guerilla warfare, relying on ambush and surprise to take their opponents unaware. These warriors are deadly on the attack, but must press this advantage to overcome more heavily equipped foes.

Talons of the Legion

Employed to cover the advance of the infantry companies below, those who pilot the aircraft of the Space Marine Legions are masters of the interception and destruction of enemy aircraft and airborne xenos beasts.

Techmarine Covenant

With most Legions boasting only a small cadre of Techmarines, those that are available are a vital resource for any Legion task force. These warriors are assigned only as is necessary, placed in the units and formations that can best benefit from their unique skills.

Torsion Crusher

Driven by technology little understood, even by the initiates of the Mechanicum, these weapons are the bane of the complex war machines of the Horus Heresy. Once such weapons have cut through the target’s armour, their exotic energies and sheer destructive power wreak havoc on the delicate internal machinery of the target.

Traitor

In the name of the Warmaster Horus, a vast host took up arms against those they had once called brothers – some driven by a lust for power and others by a misguided desire for justice. Regardless of the cause they held dear, there could be no turning back for these warriors, only victory or damnation.

Transport Bay

Some of the largest transport vehicles are specially designed to carry both infantry and engines of war into battle, allowing versatile battle groups to be deployed to the battlefield at once. These rare war machines are often restricted to the most elite of an army, and used to tackle the most perilous of missions.

Void Shields (X)

Some vehicles are equipped with almost impenetrable shields of energy, relics from ancient times known as void shields.

Volatile Plasma Containment

Even at the height of the Imperium’s power, plasma weapons were poorly understood and often dangerous to put into use. The most destructive of these weapons required large and volatile tanks of super-heated gas, which would often detonate should a vehicle carrying them suffer catastrophic damage, scattering plasma on any nearby.