Legiones Astartes – Horus Lupercal

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

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.

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.

The cognis-signum is an advanced array of sensory devices, cogitator-assisted communications and telemetry arrays. Installed into a purpose-modified suit of power armour, these enable the wearer to co-ordinate battlefield data with blinding speed.

Some units make their way to battle via tunnelling, teleportation, flying, or some other extraordinary means which allows them to appear in the thick of the fighting.

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

Primarch

• Lion El’Jonson

• Jaghatai Khan

• Leman Russ

• Rogal Dorn

• Sanguinius

• Ferrus Manus

• Roboute Guilliman

• Vulkan

• Corvus Corax

• Fulgrim

• Perturabo

• Konrad Curze

• Angron

• Mortarion

• Magnus The Red

• Horus Lupercal

• Lorgar

• Alpharius

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.

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.

The Serpent’s Scales

Horus’ unique suit of Terminator armour is one of the first prototypes of its kind, fashioned and continuously improved by the hand of Kelbor-Hal and the greatest artificers of the Imperium, and it is proof against attacks of both brute and esoteric origin.

The Warmaster’s Talon

A unique lightning claw which incorporates a baroquely styled twin-bolter, the Talon has long been Horus’ favoured weapon. Some apocryphal sources claim it is an antediluvian relic that was found deep within the planet Clthon, and was a product of Mankind’s Dark Age of Technology.

Worldbreaker

This is a power maul of prodigious size and might, which as well as being a weapon capable of shattering armoured ceramite, is also a signifier of Horus’ rank of Warmaster, and is said to have been created by the hand of the Emperor himself as a gift to his favoured son.

Horus wields a genius-level strategic intellect combined with a gutter-fighter’s savagery, honed together over centuries of constant warfare and martial experience, and it was not for nothing he was considered by many as foremost among his superhuman kind.

Among his brothers Horus was known as a master of weapons, combining the practised skills of a Terran duelling master with the low cunning of a Cthonian gutter-brawler. In combat he would use whatever means were required to gain the upper hand and crush his opponent, and was easily a match for almost any of his kin.

As the Warmaster of the Imperium and first amongst the Primarchs, Horus demanded the best from those that served him. When he took to the battlefield in person, every warrior would strive to gain his favour with acts of bravery that would ensure a position in the inner circle of the Warmaster.