Legiones Astartes – Iron Circle Maniple
- Iron Circle Maniple 150 pts
With the dawn of the Horus Heresy, the fetters of obedience to the Emperor’s dictates and the customs of military convention were lifted from those Primarchs who followed Horus into rebellion. For some this meant freedom to revert to savagery or follow the lure of the Ruinous Powers, but for the Primarch Perturabo it was freedom of a different kind as well; the freedom to pursue his genius for technology shorn of the restrictions of Mars if he willed it. One of the most visible fruits of this was the development of battle-automata of his own variation and design, and the first and most famous of these were the Iron Circle, or the Domitar-Ferrum as they became known, first deployed as a bodyguard for their Primarch after the Battle of Phall, where he judged his own sons had failed him. Variants of the Domitar/Conqueror pattern, they were built as unyielding instruments of their creator’s will, and designed for the kind of warfare their master favoured first and foremost. First limited to deployment by their master’s side, as the Age of Darkness went on, more were constructed and found service elsewhere in the Legion.
| LD | CL | WP | IN | |||||||||||
| M | WS | BS | S | T | W | I | A | LD | CL | WP | IN | SAV | INV | |
| Domitar-ferrum (⌀60mm) | 8 | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| Domitar-ferrum (⌀60mm) | 8 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | - | - | - | 3+ | - |
- Shrapnel cannon
- Graviton maul
- Karceri Battle Shield
- Iron Warriors
- Legiones Astartes (Iron Warriors)
- Relentless
- Hammer of Wrath (3)
- Moving Bulwark
- The Shield of the Iron Tyrant
- Automata (Cybernetica, Heavy)
- The unit may include:
- - Up to five additional Domitar-ferrum +135 points each
Karceri Battle Shield
This huge power field-augmented auto-reactive armoured shield offers the Domitar-Ferrum an extraordinary resilience to attack.
A model with a Karceri battle shield gains a 5+ Invulnerable Save and any model with a Karceri battle shield that suffers an unsaved Wound with the Instant Death special rule is not immediately removed as a casualty, but instead loses D3 Wounds instead of one for each unsaved Wound with the Instant Death special rule inflicted on it. In addition, any Charge that targets a unit that includes one or more models equipped with a Karceri battle shield which is not already locked in combat is always resolved as a Disordered Charge.Moving Bulwark
Some warriors and war machines are equipped to form a moving wall of steel, intended to maximise their defences as they advance.
When a model with this special rule is in base contact with another friendly model that also has the Moving Bulwark special rule, both models increase their Invulnerable Saves by one step (i.e., from 5+ to 4+) to a maximum of a 4+ Invulnerable Save.The Shield of the Iron Tyrant
The first deployment of the ‘Iron Circle’ was as a bodyguard for their Primarch after the Battle of Phall, and these war machines Perturabo continuously sought to tamper with and improve as the whim took him.
An Iron Circle Maniple composed of at least three models may be selected as a Retinue Squad in a Detachment that includes Perturabo, instead of as an Elites choice. An Iron Circle Maniple selected as a ‘Retinue Squad’ counts Perturabo as its Leader for the purposes of this special rule. An Iron Circle Maniple selected as a Retinue Squad does not use up a Force Organisation slot and is considered part of the same unit as Perturabo. An Iron Circle Maniple selected as a Retinue Squad must be deployed with Perturabo deployed as part of the unit and Perturabo may not voluntarily leave the Retinue Squad during play. Domitar-ferrum that are a part of an Iron Circle Maniple chosen as a ‘Retinue Squad’ for Perturabo gain the Feel No Pain (5+) special rule.This datasheet has Elites Battlefield Role. Full list of Legiones Astartes units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:
Some weapons strike with such force that they cause terrible wounds that can lay low even the most formidable combatant.
When a model is allocated a Wound inflicted by a weapon with this special rule, it does not suffer only one Wound but instead suffers a number of Wounds equal to the number in brackets associated with the specific variant of this special rule, with all of the Wounds inflicted using the same AP and special rules as that of the initial Wound. Roll to save against each Wound inflicted separately, but note that Wounds caused in excess of a given model’s remaining Wounds do not spill over to other models and are lost. This special rule has no effect on models that do not have a Toughness value.Relentless warriors are strong of arm – nothing can slow their implacable advance.
Relentless models can shoot with Heavy or Ordnance weapons, counting as Stationary, even if they moved in the previous Movement phase. They are also allowed to Charge in the same turn they fire Heavy, Ordnance, or Rapid Fire weapons.WRACK & RUIN
When a model with this special rule makes a Shooting Attack or Melee Attack targeting a model with the Dreadnought, Automata, Vehicle or Building Unit Type, it gains +1 to the Strength of that attack.
Models with this special rule gain access to unique Wargear options (see The Armoury of the Iron Warriors).
A Detachment with this special rule may choose to upgrade a Legion Praetor, Legion Cataphractii Praetor or Legion Tartaros Praetor to a Warsmith.
A Warlord with this special rule may select a Warlord Trait from the Iron Warriors Warlord Trait list.
Karceri Battle Shield
This huge power field-augmented auto-reactive armoured shield offers the Domitar-Ferrum an extraordinary resilience to attack.
A model with a Karceri battle shield gains a 5+ Invulnerable Save and any model with a Karceri battle shield that suffers an unsaved Wound with the Instant Death special rule is not immediately removed as a casualty, but instead loses D3 Wounds instead of one for each unsaved Wound with the Instant Death special rule inflicted on it. In addition, any Charge that targets a unit that includes one or more models equipped with a Karceri battle shield which is not already locked in combat is always resolved as a Disordered Charge.Some warriors and war machines are equipped to form a moving wall of steel, intended to maximise their defences as they advance.
When a model with this special rule is in base contact with another friendly model that also has the Moving Bulwark special rule, both models increase their Invulnerable Saves by one step (i.e., from 5+ to 4+) to a maximum of a 4+ Invulnerable Save.The first deployment of the ‘Iron Circle’ was as a bodyguard for their Primarch after the Battle of Phall, and these war machines Perturabo continuously sought to tamper with and improve as the whim took him.
An Iron Circle Maniple composed of at least three models may be selected as a Retinue Squad in a Detachment that includes Perturabo, instead of as an Elites choice. An Iron Circle Maniple selected as a ‘Retinue Squad’ counts Perturabo as its Leader for the purposes of this special rule. An Iron Circle Maniple selected as a Retinue Squad does not use up a Force Organisation slot and is considered part of the same unit as Perturabo. An Iron Circle Maniple selected as a Retinue Squad must be deployed with Perturabo deployed as part of the unit and Perturabo may not voluntarily leave the Retinue Squad during play. Domitar-ferrum that are a part of an Iron Circle Maniple chosen as a ‘Retinue Squad’ for Perturabo gain the Feel No Pain (5+) special rule.