Legiones Astartes – Palatine Blade Squad

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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.

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

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.

This class of grenade encompasses a variety of shaped charges, plasma detonators and crude bombs, all intended to disable armoured vehicles.

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.

With their origins tracing back to the ancient duelling societies, assassin cults and bloody vendettas of the Terran Courts during the Age of Strife, these elegant and deadly weapons rely on speed and dexterity rather than brute force for their lethality. The master weaponsmiths of Terra are each said to have their own rituals of forging, impressing a distinct pattern in each bespoke weapon as legible as a signature to those with the wit to read them. As well as the nobles of the Terran Court, certain Space Marine Legion officers favour the Charnabal weapons over more ‘clumsy’ power weapons as they see them as being more responsive to true martial skill, while others think them effete and decadent weapons.

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.

Trusted lieutenants or paragons of martial virtue, these warriors let no challenge go unanswered in the heat of battle.

• A Perfect Guard: If a model or models with the Skill Unmatched special rule selects this option, they must increase their Weapon Skill by +1 for the purpose of determining the score required for enemy models to make To Hit rolls only, but must reduce their Attacks Characteristic by -1.
• A Perfect Strike: If a model or models with the Skill Unmatched special rule selects this option, they must increase their Weapon Skill by +1 for the purpose of determining the score required for that model’s To Hit rolls targeting enemy models only, but must reduce their Attacks Characteristic by -1.
• A Perfect Fury: If a model or models with the Skill Unmatched special rule selects this option, they must increase their Attacks by +1, but must reduce their Weapon Skill by -1.

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.