Legiones Astartes – Alpharius

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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.

Bolstered by their ultimate faith in their goal, the crusader is tireless, sweeping from one foe to the next in a battle that never ends.

Some warriors are skilled in the swift and deadly arts of guerilla warfare, relying on ambush and surprise to take their opponents unaware. These warriors are deadly on the attack, but must press this advantage to overcome more heavily equipped foes.

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.

The Pythian Scales

Although frequently recorded as entering battle in the semblance of a regular member of his Legion, Alpharius —or perhaps an individual carrying that name— is also known to have led his Legion to war armoured in sinister and baroque reptilian-styled armour whose stature left no doubt in the mind of onlookers that a bloody-handed Primarch had entered the fray. This armour, faceless and fashioned after the shadowed mythic age of Ancient Terra was known as the Pythian Scales, and could turn aside blade, energy blast and alchemical attack with equal ease.

The Pale Spear

This was one of a number of strange and esoteric weapons associated with the Primarch and rumoured to be a xenos artefact whose forging predated even the rise of the Eldar. This double-bladed spear flickered seemingly out of phase with the material universe when wielded, emitting an eerie and otherworldly howling, and was able to pierce any physical defence it encountered without impediment, ripping them apart at the molecular level. Against living matter, it inflicted hideously gaping, bloodless wounds as the flesh where it struck dissolved into oily smoke.

The Hydra’s Spite

A weapon recorded as in use by several highly ranked members of the Alpha Legion – whether this was one weapon or a series of similar prototypes is unknown, but its efficacy in battle is undeniable. A high powered plasma weapon, the Hydra’s Spite did not suffer from many of the shortcomings common to Imperial plasma technology and may well have incorporated xenos components.

Alpharius is perhaps the most devious commander in the Imperium, with a labyrinthine mind able to both predict the actions of others with uncanny precision and manipulate his foes into unwittingly doing as he wishes, often sealing their own doom in the process.

• The Fleet (2) special rule
• The Preferred Enemy (Everything) special rule
• The Sudden Strike (1) special rule

Of all the Primarchs there was none as unpredictable as Alpharius, for he could appear at almost any location and arrive by almost any means without warning. Those that studied his methods would find no pattern to help predict his actions or scheme by which his preferences could be defined, and in many cases would swear that the Primarch could not be a single entity, given his ability to appear at any location with such ease.

Few among his brothers truly knew Alpharius, the last of all the Emperor’s Primarchs to rejoin the Imperium. Tall tales, rumours and outright lies spoke of a variety of flaws and gifts possessed by the last Primarch and none knew what to expect from him. When the war began, his enemies would spend much time attempting to sort truth from the lies, finding out only too late that Alpharius was no less a master of war than any of his brothers.