Legiones Astartes – Mortarion

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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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Each Space Marine Legion maintains the ancient military tradition of the battle standard being a rallying point and spur to glory. These icons vary greatly from Legion to Legion depending on their particular martial culture. Be they a tattered flag that has weathered the shot and shell of a hundred battlefields, a burning steel standard, or a trophy rack bedecked with the heads of slain xenos, it is in the shadow of such banners and icons that battles are won or lost.

Understood only by the secretive Tech-Priests of Mars, these weapons unleash projectiles of super-heated plasma capable of melting both armour and flesh with equal ease. Kept contained by temperamental magnetically sealed flasks, the plasma that feeds these weapons is as dangerous to the wielder as to the foe and deadly leaks or even explosions are far from unknown. Yet, such is the destructive power of these weapons that even the risk of such detonations does not outweigh their value.

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 Barbaran Plate

Mortarion’s war panoply is of his own design, fusing power armour technology with his own lore. It is designed not only to protect him in battle but augment his own singular physiology and environmental needs, synthesising trace elements of the poisonous vapours of his home world to mix with the air he breathes.

Silence

A massive two-handed battle scythe with a blade span as long as most human warriors are tall, ‘Silence’ —to give it the macabre nickname favoured by its wielder— is accounted as one of the most fearsome blades wielded by any Primarch. Since Mortarion’s finding, there have been dark whispers that the blade is of xenos-tainted origin, and some familiar with the legend of the Death Guard Primarch’s early life believe it to be none other than the weapon of the terrible creature that once named himself Mortarion’s ‘father’.

The Lantern

A drum-barrelled energy blaster of unknown origin, the ‘Lantern’, is Mortarion’s preferred sidearm.

These unique power weapons are used to great effect by the Death Guard, wielded in great sweeping arcs lopping off limbs and slicing apart the foe with ease. Many among the grim Legion of Mortarion favoured them as much for the fear inspired by their form as for the carnage they inflicted upon the foe.

Mortarion is a terrifying, almost spectral figure, who despite his size and bearing is able to go unseen almost at will and attack from an unexpected quarter.

Mortarion’s resilience and stamina are legend, and it has been said that of all the Primarchs none were more able to shrug off injury and torment as he, and of all none had endured more in their lives before the Emperor had reclaimed them.

Mortarion was renowned amongst the Primarchs for the implacable advance of his Legion, a slow and steady encroachment that could not be stopped or turned aside by dangerous ground or enemy action. The foe was left with the choice of cowering in their boltholes until the Death Guard arrived at their doorstep or sallying forth to die upon the guns of Mortarion’s warriors.