Legiones Astartes – Ebon Keshig Cohort

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This datasheet has Elites Battlefield Role. Full list of Legiones Astartes units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:

Elites

• Legion Apothecarion Detachment

• Legion Contemptor Dreadnought Talon

• Legion Destroyer Assault Squad

• Legion Mortalis Destroyer Squad

• Legion Rapier Battery

• Legion Techmarine Covenant

• Legion Terminator Cataphractii Squad

• Legion Terminator Tartaros Squad

• Legion Veteran Squad

• Dreadwing Interemptor Squad

• Inner Circle Knights Cenobium

• Ebon Keshig Cohort

• Golden Keshig Squadron

• Deathsworn Pack

• Varagyr Wolf Guard Terminator Squad

• Templar Brethren

• Crimson Paladins

• Dawnbreaker Cohort

• The Angel’s Tears

• Gorgon Terminator Squad

• Medusan Immortals Squad

• Invictarus Suzerain Squad

• Praetorian Breacher Squad

• Firedrake Terminator Squad

• Pyroclast Squad

• Mor Deythan Squad

• Palatine Blade Squad

• Phoenix Terminator Squad

• Iron Circle Maniple

• Contekar Terminator Squad

• Night Raptor Squad

• Terror Squad

• Rampager Squad

• Red Butchers

• Deathshroud Terminator Squad

• Castellax-Achea Automata

• Contemptor-Osiron Dreadnought Talon

• Khenetai Occult Cabal

• Sekhmet Terminator Cabal

• Justaerin Terminator Squad

• Reaver Attack Squad

• Ashen Circle Squad

• Gal Vorbak Squad

• Mhara Gal Dreadnought

• Lernaean Terminator Squad

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

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.

These melee weapons are sheathed in disruption fields that allow them to cleave armour as though it were paper and annihilate flesh or bone with ease. They are both difficult to master, for a single mis-stroke can lead to catastrophe in a close packed melee, and expensive to manufacture and maintain, and so are mostly found only in the hands of the finest warriors in the Legiones Astartes.

This was an advanced pattern of Terminator armour developed late on during the Great Crusade in parallel with the Maximus pattern power armour, and was considered a technological masterwork. Tartaros armour is more streamlined and power efficient than its predecessors, making it more agile and providing short bursts of extra speed when needed, but was also more difficult and resource intensive to manufacture. Regardless of this, it had become one of the most widely-circulated patterns issued in the decades before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy.

Relentless warriors are strong of arm – nothing can slow their implacable advance.

The humble vexilla displays the heraldry of a particular squad, proclaiming not only its designation in the Legion but also its proud legacy in the annals of the Great Crusade.

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

A branch of weaponry now commonplace among the ranks of the Legiones Astartes, bolt weapons are based on a robust Terran design, refined from the weapons used during the Emperor’s battles to conquer Old Earth. These brutally efficient weapons fire a caseless, self-propelled and mass reactive munition, more akin to a miniature rocket than a simple bullet and easily capable of eviscerating most foes against which the Space Marines of the Imperium find themselves matched. Such was the success of these weapons that they would eventually come to replace the more complex Martian weapons that had once dominated the arsenals of the Legiones Astartes.

An Ancient Terran innovation, pairing a bolter with another secondary weapon to allow elite formations of warriors to project superior firepower at the climactic moment of battle. Most often used to break through enemy lines or to stymie the onslaught of enemy armour, these weapons are the mark of the elite of the Legiones Astartes, issued to the most skilled of warriors to maximise their worth.

• Any Legiones Astartes profile that allows a model to select a magna combi-weapon grants the model a weapon with a bolter as the primary weapon and a secondary weapon chosen from the following list: meltagun, plasma gun or disintegrator*.
• Any Legiones Astartes profile that allows a model to select a minor combi-weapon grants the model a weapon with a bolter as the primary weapon and a secondary weapon chosen from the following list: flamer, volkite charger or grenade launcher.

An auxiliary weapon system fitted to Terminator armour, the grenade harness unleashes a barrage of fragmentation bombs at the foe as the Terminator charges.

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.

The Kharash is both an ancient tactic of Chogoris and a sacred oath of defiance. Those that accept the burden of such a position are pledged to die, to fight without regard for survival and seek only to kill as many of the foe as possible before they are dragged down. Those that survive service in the Kharash are hailed as heroes among the White Scars, warriors destined for greatness, and those that fall are forgiven all sins and remembered only with honour for their sacrifice.