Legiones Astartes – Datasheets

[ No filterLoyalist Legiones AstartesLoyalists onlyIst – Dark AngelsVth – White ScarsVIth – Space WolvesVIIth – Imperial FistsIXth – Blood AngelsXth – Iron HandsXIIIth – UltramarinesXVIIIth – SalamandersXIXth – Raven GuardTraitor Legiones AstartesTraitors onlyIIIrd – Emperor’s ChildrenIVth – Iron WarriorsVIIIth – Night LordsXIIth – World EatersXIVth – Death GuardXVth – Thousand SonsXVIth – Sons of HorusXVIIth – Word BearersXXth – Alpha Legion ]

When facing heavy resistance, many centurions will march to war clad in Cataphractii Terminator armour, leading their subordinates into the thickest fighting. Line centurions lead massed ranks of Space Marines in the field of battle, the superior durability and protection afforded by Cataphractii suits greatly increasing the survivability of such a perilous duty. Certain specialists among the Legiones Consularis show particular preference for Cataphractii pattern Terminator armour, such as the Legion siege breakers that are expected to storm a breach in enemy fortifications, primus medicae officers ensuring that the gene-seed of their fallen brothers is safely collected from the battlefield or the Legion forge lords, masters of artifice who are often found in the heart of battle repairing damaged vehicles and incanting words of supplication to beleaguered machine spirits.

Many command squads go to war clad in Cataphractii Terminator armour, using its sheer bulk and durability to protect the life of their commander. Able to withstand even the most vicious blows and bearing the finest weaponry in the Legion’s armoury, these exemplary warriors embody the finest qualities of the Legiones Astartes, valiantly spearheading assaults into the most hazardous of war zones holding the Legion’s banners high. Cataphractii armour is amongst the earliest marks of Terminator armour to be issued to the Legions and, as such, the most experienced veteran Legionaries often choose it over more recent marks, preferring its proven superior protection to serve them in the duty of safeguarding their commander in battle.

Amongst the greatest commanders of their Legions, seasoned by years of war and masters of front-line combat, praetors that choose to march to battle clad in Cataphractii Terminator armour place great value in its enhanced resilience, capable as it is of stoically weathering even the heaviest of incoming fire. Massively armoured and bearing its own powerful armaments, Cataphractii Terminator plate is favoured by those warlords that are often engaged in the thickest fighting, leading their warriors as they advance upon enemy lines or teleporting into the most perilous war zones as part of precise and overwhelming attacks against strategically vital targets. Many venerable lords of the Space Marine Legions trust in the superior protection Cataphractii plate provides even though more technologically advanced patterns of Terminator armour have been introduced, its distinct hulking form having become synonymous with the ferocious conquest of hundreds of battlefields.

The ranks of each Space Marine Legion stand a hundred thousand strong or more, and as such require a substantial core of battle commanders and officers to control and co-ordinate, as well as more specialised ranks and roles which help give a Legion its operational depth and strategic flexibility. The centurion represents such leaders, champions and line officers, and whether a company captain in command of a thousand or more Legionaries on-campaign, or a shieldlieutenant given charge of a boarding party in a savage space battle, to have risen in the ranks means they have already demonstrated their worth in the bloody fires of conflict.

It is common for Space Marine commanders and champions to be accompanied in battle by a squad of highly disciplined and worthy warriors. They serve both as a bodyguard for their commander and are entrusted to carry one of the Legion’s great standards, making them a rallying point on the battlefield for the Legion’s troops. These chosen Space Marines have access to the finest wargear available to the Legion’s rank and file, and embody the Legion’s honour in war.

Equipped with advanced communication, cognisanalysis and tracking equipment, including a powerful orbital-interface secure vox-transceiver, the Damocles is designed principally as a command and control vehicle to serve as a direct and all but unbreakable link between a Space Marine Legion formation in the field and its brethren elsewhere within the war zone and in high orbit above during planetary operations. Using these systems, skilled Techmarine crew are able to read the ebb and flow of battle, call in reinforcements, and ward off enemy forces through signal interference and interdiction targeting. Designed to meet the requirements of the everexpanding Ultramarines Legion, the Damocles was both easier to manufacture and deploy than the venerable Proteus Explorator Land Raider variants, which commonly fulfilled this role during the Great Crusade’s early years. Despite this, the Damocles was just as capable in its task but, unfortunately, far less durable than its counterparts, being based on various patterns of the ubiquitous Rhino chassis.

Praetors are the mightiest warriors and battle-leaders of the Space Marine Legions, second only to the god-like Primarchs in martial skill and generalship. These lords of the Imperium hold the power of life and death over whole worlds, with the direct control of entire war fleets and armies in their hands. Each is a vastly experienced warrior and warlord, unique in character, who has writ a legend in blood for themselves, and carries into battle the finest wargear and weapons known to humanity. In their ranks can be found chapter masters and lord commanders, first captains, khans and tribunes as the traditions of their Legions dictate. They are the masters of war and have commanded the hosts of the Great Crusade that have conquered worlds unnumbered.

Tartaros Terminator armour allows a centurion to retain the manoeuvrability of their power-armoured subordinates while lending them increased protection and resilience. In war zones designated as Zone Mortalis, such as the contested decks of a void warship or the nightmarish labyrinthine complexes of hive cities, where mobility and speed are important factors to achieve strategic objectives, centurions clad in Tartaros suits storm enemy positions at the head of their troops to crush even the toughest enemy resistance. Legion champions, especially those among the ranks of the Sons of Horus and Blood Angels Legions, often place their trust in the speed and protection offered by Tartaros Terminator armour to quickly close the distance with their foes, while Legion Mortificators rely on it to keep pace with the indomitable advance of their Dreadnought brethren on the battlefield.

When both speed and survivability are required, a command squad will march to war clad in Tartaros Terminator armour, often forming the point of the Legion’s spear. More technologically advanced than the Terminator armour marks it was developed alongside, Tartaros plate was initially a rarity compared to the more widely-available Cataphractii pattern armour. As such, Legion commanders equip their most worthy warriors with it and deploy them at the very forefront of battle. These paragons of their Legion’s ideals accompany their commander into the maelstrom of war, where the speed and protection afforded by their Tartaros Terminator armour assures a swift and decisive blow can be dealt to secure victory.

Developed in the closing years of the Great Crusade, and widely believed to be the most advanced pattern of Terminator armour available to the Legiones Astartes, many among the lauded praetors of the Space Marine Legions quickly embraced the comparatively superior range of movement the Tartaros suits offered the wearer without sacrificing any of the protection for which Tactical Dreadnought Armour is renowned. Tartaros pattern Terminator plate is particularly favoured by those lords of the Legions who prefer a fluid, lightning-fast approach to warfare, such as the sublime lord commanders of the Emperor’s Children or the fierce khans of the White Scars, its enhanced sensory systems and neurofibre uplinks ensuring the superior manoeuvrability needed for them to spearhead assaults on enemy positions.