Legiones Astartes – Captain Lucius
- Captain Lucius 215 pts
In the latter years of the Great Crusade, Lucius’ renown grew among the Legions as that of an exemplary swordsman, hailed as the best blade of the IIIrd Legion. His pursuit of perfection in the art of personal combat was undeniable, although his single-minded and often self-serving approach to warfare brought discord between him and the officers of his Legion. Evidently, Lucius fought in the Great Crusade primarily for himself and to prove his superiority over the rest of the galaxy. The seeds of arrogance and vainglory sown in those times would later bear the bitter fruit of jealousy and hubris that would ultimately lead to blackest treachery. Ambition would turn into obsession and the canker that was festering in Lucius’ soul would be revealed, clear for everyone to witness in the form of the myriad self-inflicted scars that marred his once-perfect features. For Lucius, the cataclysmic tragedy of the civil war that engulfed humanity was simply the stage of a cosmic theatre, a grand opportunity for him to carve his legend in blood, and he joyfully joined the slaughter in a state of exhilaration as sharp as the edge of his murderous blades.
| LD | CL | WP | IN | |||||||||||
| M | WS | BS | S | T | W | I | A | LD | CL | WP | IN | SAV | INV | |
| Captain Lucius (⌀32mm) | 10 | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| Captain Lucius (⌀32mm) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 10 | - | - | - | 2+ | - |
- Bolt pistol
- Nineteen
- The Blade of the Laer
- Artificer armour
- Iron halo
- Frag grenades
- Krak grenades
- Emperor’s Children
- Legiones Astartes (Emperor’s Children)
- Master of the Legion
- Independent Character
- Relentless
- Preferred Enemy (Independent Character)
- Precision Strikes (3+)
- Stubborn
- Supreme Duellist
- Traitor
- Warlord: The Blade Alone
- Infantry (Character, Unique)
- •Captain Lucius may take sonic shriekers +10 points
- Captain Lucius may exchange the Blade of the Laer for a close combat weapon, reducing his points cost to 175 points*
Nineteen
Lucius, famed for his overweening egotism, had little interest in the tools he used and wanted no simple blade to gain a fame that approached his own. Despite the casual disinterest of its wielder, the blade referred to as Nineteen by Lucius was a masterwork of the smith’s art and most likely taken as a trophy from some slain and forgotten opponent. Its slender edge belied its strength and, in Lucius’ hands, it could block almost any attack aimed at the cocksure warrior.
R | FP | RS | AP | D | Special Rules | Traits |
- | User | - | Melee, Rending (3+), Duellist’s Aegis (1), Murderous Strike (6+), Master-crafted |
Duellist’s Aegis (X): A model with this special rule gains a bonus to their Weapon Skill equal to the value in brackets listed as part of the special rule whenever it is Engaged in a Challenge with an enemy model.
The Blade of the Laer
Following the cataclysmic events of Isstvan V, the Phoenician gifted Lucius with the masterwork blade that he recovered from an alien temple on the planet Laeran and often carried into battle himself. The dark power lying dormant within the blade that ended the life of one of the Emperor’s sons seemingly recognised in Lucius the unfathomable darkness of its own kind and slowly reawakened to its full potential.
R | FP | RS | AP | D | Special Rules | Traits |
- | User | 2 | Melee, Duellist’s Edge (1), Fleshbane, Specialist Weapon, Master-crafted |
Supreme Duellist
While fighting in a Challenge, if Captain Lucius’ Initiative Characteristic is higher than his opponent’s then he gains +1 to his Attacks Characteristic.Warlord: The Blade Alone
If chosen as the army’s Warlord, Captain Lucius automatically has The Blade Alone as his Warlord Trait and may not select any other.The Blade Alone – If an army’s Warlord has this Trait, then no other models or units may use his Leadership regardless of any other rules or Wargear that a unit may have, however, whenever Captain Lucius is Engaged in a Challenge, all friendly models in the same combat gain the Fearless special rule. In addition, the first Reaction made in each Game Turn by Captain Lucius and any unit he has joined does not use up a point of the controlling player’s Reaction Allotment.
Relentless warriors are strong of arm – nothing can slow their implacable advance.
Relentless models can shoot with Heavy or Ordnance weapons, counting as Stationary, even if they moved in the previous Movement phase. They are also allowed to Charge in the same turn they fire Heavy, Ordnance, or Rapid Fire weapons.Some weapons are capable of breaching armour with a terrifying ease, whether by specially designed munitions, careful targeting or sheer brute power.
When rolling To Wound for a model that has the Breaching (X) special rule, or is attacking with a weapon that has the Breaching (X) special rule, for each To Wound roll equal to or higher than the value listed in brackets, the controlling player must resolve these wounds at AP 2 instead of the weapon’s normal AP value. This rule has no effect on models that do not have Wounds, such as models with the Vehicle Unit Type.For example, a model with the Breaching (5+) special rule that rolls To Wound and rolls a result of ‘5’ or higher, the Wound inflicted gains an AP of ‘2’ regardless of the AP value listed on the weapon’s profile. Note that a weapon that has both the Breaching (X) and the Gets Hot special rules always uses the base AP of the weapon when rolls of ‘1’ To Hit inflict Wounds on the attacking model.
This class of grenade contains only a small explosive charge, and is intended primarily to disorientate and distract the foe while closing on a fixed position.
A unit that includes at least one model with frag grenades makes attacks at its normal Initiative Step during an Assault after it has successfully Charged through Difficult Terrain or Dangerous Terrain, but still suffers any penalties to Charge rolls imposed by Difficult Terrain or Dangerous Terrain when resolving a Charge through Difficult Terrain or Dangerous Terrain.This class of grenade encompasses a variety of shaped charges, plasma detonators and crude bombs, all intended to disable armoured vehicles.
The controlling player may choose to have a model with krak grenades that is Engaged or otherwise in base contact during the Assault phase with a Building or Fortification, or a model with the Vehicle, Dreadnought or Automata Unit Type, inflict one automatic Str 6, AP 3 Hit on the target in Initiative Step 1 instead of attacking normally. Any model in a unit that is chosen to inflict Hits using krak grenades may not otherwise attack or make use of any other special rule or item of Wargear that inflicts Hits or Wounds on a model in the same Assault phase (but may participate in Sweeping Advances as normal).Many warriors live and die according to the principle of ‘death before dishonour’. Seldom do such warriors take a backward step in the face of danger.
When a unit that contains at least one model with this special rule takes Morale checks or Pinning tests, the unit ignore any negative Leadership modifiers. If a unit is both Fearless and Stubborn, the unit uses the rules for Fearless instead.Forged by the master craftsmen of the Mechanicum, these superior variations of power armour are often highly embellished with ciphers of strength and durability, while some of wildly differing designs are far older than the present age and owe their origins to the forgotten zenith of human technological might.
Artificer armour confers a 2+ Armour Save.Utilised by Techmarines and the Adepts of the Mechanicum, cyber-familiar is a term that encompasses a variety of semiautonomous devices such as servo-skulls, mek-spiders and other smaller drone units and lesser haemonculites tied into the direct neural control of their operator. These miniondrones are an extension of their master’s will and provide them with a host of additional senses and capabilities.
A model with a cyber-familiar adds +1 to its Invulnerable Save (to a maximum of 3+) or an Invulnerable Save of 6+ if they do not already possess one. In addition, they allow them to re-roll failed Characteristic tests other than Leadership tests, Psychic checks or failed Dangerous Terrain tests.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.
The Master of the Legion special rule grants the following benefits:- 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.
This datasheet has HQ Battlefield Role. Full list of Legiones Astartes units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:
These devices are defensive field generators designed for personal protection. They encompass the wearer in an energy field or force barrier which serves to refract or deflect impacts and energy discharges. Although powerful, these fields are limited by the need for the wearer to move and the prodigious power consumption of the generator, which leaves vulnerabilities a canny opponent can exploit. Devices of this nature are relatively rare, even among the Space Marine Legions, and are the province of commanding officers and honoured champions, where they are often incorporated into armour or amulets and gifted as a mark of favour and rank.
A model with a refractor field gains a 5+ Invulnerable Save, and a model with an iron halo gains a 4+ Invulnerable Save.Invulnerable Saves granted by a refractor field or iron halo do not stack with other Invulnerable Saves, but can benefit from rules (such as cyber-familiar) that specifically increase existing saves. If a model has another Invulnerable Save then the controlling player must choose which one to use.
Mighty heroes go where they are needed, being at the forefront of the most vital charges and leading their troops to victory.
Independent Characters can join other units. They cannot, however, join units that contain Vehicles, Dreadnoughts, Automata or any model with the Monstrous sub-type (unless the Independent Character also has that Unit Type or sub-type). They can join other Independent Characters though to form a powerful multi-character unit.FLAWLESS EXECUTION
On a turn in which they make a successful Charge, even if that Charge is considered a Disordered Charge, models with the Legiones Astartes (Emperor’s Children) special rule make their attacks in an assault at one Initiative step higher than normal – after any Initiative modifiers from other special rules have been taken into account. Models with the Legiones Astartes (Emperor’s Children) special rule and the Vehicle Unit Type gain a bonus of +1 to all To Hit rolls made for Defensive weapons when making a Shooting Attack as part of a Reaction.
Models with this special rule gain access to unique Wargear options (see The Armoury of the Emperor’s Children).
The Phoenician’s Own
Any Legion Tartaros Centurion with this special rule may select the Phoenix Warden Consul upgrade.
Exemplars of War
A Warlord with this special rule may select a Warlord Trait from the Emperor’s Children Warlord Trait list.
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.
A model with this special rule may only be included in an army that has the Traitor Allegiance.Towards the end of the Great Crusade, the Legion’s armourers and apothecaries had begun to experiment with surgical augments and psycho-sonic weaponry based, in part, on xenos designs. Although their true breakthroughs in these fields would not occur until given unholy impetus and inspiration during the Legion’s fall, some success had already been reached in creating effective combat implants which were finding selective use as the Horus Heresy dawned.
Any model with the Traitor Allegiance and both the Legiones Astartes (Emperor’s Children) special rule and the Character Unit Sub-type but not the Unique Sub-type may select a single Surgical Augment from the list below for a cost of +20 points:- Sonic Shriekers – During a turn in which a unit with at least one model equipped with sonic shriekers successfully Charges, or is themselves successfully Charged, all models in any enemy unit(s) locked in combat with them suffer a -1 penalty to all To Hit rolls. Models which are immune to the effects of the Fear (X) special rule are not affected by this modifier.
- Sub-sonic Pulser – A model equipped with this upgrade, and any unit it joins, ignores the penalties to Leadership and Ballistic Skill imposed by the Night Fighting special rules.
- Sonic Lance – A model equipped with this upgrade gains the sonic lance weapon:
| Ranged Weapon | |||||||
Ranged Weapon | R | FP | RS | AP | D | Special Rules | Traits |
| Sonic lance | |||||||
| Sonic lance | Template | 2 | - | Assault 1, Breaching (6+), Pinning | - | ||
Nineteen
Lucius, famed for his overweening egotism, had little interest in the tools he used and wanted no simple blade to gain a fame that approached his own. Despite the casual disinterest of its wielder, the blade referred to as Nineteen by Lucius was a masterwork of the smith’s art and most likely taken as a trophy from some slain and forgotten opponent. Its slender edge belied its strength and, in Lucius’ hands, it could block almost any attack aimed at the cocksure warrior.
R | FP | RS | AP | D | Special Rules | Traits |
- | User | - | Melee, Rending (3+), Duellist’s Aegis (1), Murderous Strike (6+), Master-crafted |
Duellist’s Aegis (X): A model with this special rule gains a bonus to their Weapon Skill equal to the value in brackets listed as part of the special rule whenever it is Engaged in a Challenge with an enemy model.
The Blade of the Laer
Following the cataclysmic events of Isstvan V, the Phoenician gifted Lucius with the masterwork blade that he recovered from an alien temple on the planet Laeran and often carried into battle himself. The dark power lying dormant within the blade that ended the life of one of the Emperor’s sons seemingly recognised in Lucius the unfathomable darkness of its own kind and slowly reawakened to its full potential.
R | FP | RS | AP | D | Special Rules | Traits |
- | User | 2 | Melee, Duellist’s Edge (1), Fleshbane, Specialist Weapon, Master-crafted |
The Blade Alone – If an army’s Warlord has this Trait, then no other models or units may use his Leadership regardless of any other rules or Wargear that a unit may have, however, whenever Captain Lucius is Engaged in a Challenge, all friendly models in the same combat gain the Fearless special rule. In addition, the first Reaction made in each Game Turn by Captain Lucius and any unit he has joined does not use up a point of the controlling player’s Reaction Allotment.