Legiones Astartes – Lord-castellan Evander Garrius

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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.

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.

A branch of weaponry now commonplace among the ranks of the Legiones Astartes, bolt weapons are based on a robust Terran design, refined from the weapons used during the Emperor’s battles to conquer Old Earth. These brutally efficient weapons fire a caseless, self-propelled and mass reactive munition, more akin to a miniature rocket than a simple bullet and easily capable of eviscerating most foes against which the Space Marines of the Imperium find themselves matched. Such was the success of these weapons that they would eventually come to replace the more complex Martian weapons that had once dominated the arsenals of the Legiones Astartes.

Many warriors live and die according to the principle of ‘death before dishonour’. Seldom do such warriors take a backward step in the face of danger.

Emitting a devastating beam of coherent energy, these weapons can engulf multiple targets in a single blast. Sweeping across the battlefield in a continuous beam of ravening destruction, the destructive power of such a burst can only be halted by the sturdiest of obstructions or most mighty of war machines.

• All models (friend and enemy) caught in the beam area (excepting the firing model) suffer a Hit with the listed profile of the weapon, except models with the Flyer Sub-type which cannot be affected or targeted.
• Units with any models in the beam area receive a number of Hits equal to the number of their models caught in the path of the beam; casualties are removed from affected units using the normal rules for removing casualties.
• If a Terrain piece, Building, model with the Vehicle Unit Type or any model with 6 or more Wounds is in the beam area, the attack is blocked and its line of effect will go no further than that model. The blocking model will, however, suffer 1+D3 separate Hits, rather than just 1.
• If a model with the Vehicle Unit Type and the Transport Sub-type suffers a Penetrating Hit from a weapon with this special rule, each unit Embarked on it suffers D6 Str 4 AP - Hits with the Deflagrate special rule, in addition to any other effects. Any Wounds caused are allocated by the controller of the target unit.

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.

Whether pledged to the Emperor himself as the rightful leader of Mankind or to the dream of the Imperium that he intended to create, some warriors swore to fight and die for the Loyalist cause and no other.

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

This datasheet has HQ Battlefield Role. Full list of Legiones Astartes units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:

HQ

• Legion Cataphractii Centurion

• Legion Cataphractii Command Squad

• Legion Cataphractii Praetor

• Legion Centurion

• Legion Command Squad

• Legion Damocles Command Rhino

• Legion Praetor

• Legion Tartaros Centurion

• Legion Tartaros Command Squad

• Legion Tartaros Praetor

• Corswain

• Deathwing Companion Detachment

• Marduk Sedras

• Qin Xa

• Geigor Fell-hand

• Hvarl Red-Blade

• The Wolf-kin of Russ

• Alexis Polux

• Fafnir Rann

• Sigismund

• Chapter Master Raldoron

• Dominion Zephon

• Remus Ventanus

• Captain Lucius

• Captain Saul Tarvitz

• Lord Commander Eidolon

• Sevatar

• KhÂrn The Bloody

• Calas Typhon

• Ahzek Ahriman

• Magistus Amon

• Ezekyle Abaddon

• Garviel Loken

• Maloghurst The Twisted

• Argel Tal

• High Chaplain Erebus

• Kor Phaeron

• Zardu Layak

• Armillus Dynat

• Exodus

• Lord-castellan Evander Garrius

• Vheren Ashurhaddon

Mighty heroes go where they are needed, being at the forefront of the most vital charges and leading their troops to victory.

An auto weapon is an ancient form of firearm that propels a solid slug by means of a chemical explosion, both ancient ‘bullets’ of lead or other base metals and more advanced armour-piercing sabot rounds. Among the ranks of the Legiones Astartes there are few examples of the older autoguns that once formed the main armament of the Emperor’s armies, but a number of larger autocannon remain in use due to the reliability of such simple weapons. Such weapons are most often used as anti-armour weapons, delivering volleys of large armour piercing shells to defeat armour that is proof against the mass reactive fire of the more advanced bolter weaponry. This category of weaponry also plays host to more advanced weapons, such as the first generations of assault cannon and magnetic charge accelerator cannon.

‘Volkite’ is an arcane Martian term for a variety of powerful ray weapons whose origins date back to the Age of Strife. Possessed of considerable killing power surpassing most armaments of their size, volkites were difficult to manufacture, even for the most able of the Mechanicum’s forges, and the demands of the Great Crusade swiftly overwhelmed supply of them. Once relatively common within the fledgling Legions, they had fallen largely from favour by the time of the Horus Heresy, and been superseded by the far more flexible and utilitarian Terran bolter. Those few that remained in service were the purview of only a few specialised units at the outbreak of the conflict.

Subjugator

A relic power gauntlet once wielded by a gene-wright tyrant of Old Earth, this ugly tool of war held little subtlety or grace but was brutally effective on the field of war. Garrius had claimed it as his own in the early years of the Great Crusade, and many claimed it was the taint of the ancient tyrant that had once wielded the same weapon against the Emperor that stained Garrius’ own soul and prompted him to bitter rage on the field of battle.

Incineratus

A unique variant of the volkite charger directly connected to the extensive bionic enhancements that were installed in Garrius’ body after his near-fatal wounding on the world of Larissan, Incineratus can fire deadly arcing rays of exotic energy that eat away at the very flesh and armour of the foe.

The Tyrant’s Regalia

An artificer-made suit of Cataphractii Terminator armour that offers its wearer some of the best protection available to any lord of the Legiones Astartes, the Tyrant’s Regalia was crafted to specifically fit around Evander Garrius’ ruined body and its internal systems are designed to pour pain suppressants directly into his bloodstream and numb the constant agony caused by his old wounds.

Evander Garrius had ever been held in disfavour by his own Primarch, it is a known fact and bitter regret of Garrius himself that the two had never stood side by side on the field of battle. The one hope that Garrius held to through all the brutal destruction of the Horus Heresy, was that if he could find one last success he might be granted, at last, the honour of fighting beside Rogal Dorn.

As he proved at Larissan, Garrius would ever be driven by a furious need to claim victory, no matter the cost in lives that was required to do so.