Legiones Astartes – Sigismund

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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.

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.

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.

Utilised by Techmarines and the Adepts of the Mechanicum, cyber-familiar is a term that encompasses a variety of semiautonomous devices such as servo-skulls, mek-spiders and other smaller drone units and lesser haemonculites tied into the direct neural control of their operator. These miniondrones are an extension of their master’s will and provide them with a host of additional senses and capabilities.

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.

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

These devices are defensive field generators designed for personal protection. They encompass the wearer in an energy field or force barrier which serves to refract or deflect impacts and energy discharges. Although powerful, these fields are limited by the need for the wearer to move and the prodigious power consumption of the generator, which leaves vulnerabilities a canny opponent can exploit. Devices of this nature are relatively rare, even among the Space Marine Legions, and are the province of commanding officers and honoured champions, where they are often incorporated into armour or amulets and gifted as a mark of favour and rank.

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

Fearless troops never give up and seldom make full use of cover – even if it would be wiser to do so.

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.

The Black Sword

A paragon blade of unknown provenance which takes the shape of an ancient two-handed sword of lustreless black metal, it is able to cut through stone and metal without effort or mar to the edge. In the hands of a warrior such as Sigismund, the Black Sword is deadly beyond belief, and alien warlords and mighty warriors without number have fallen before it.

Some heroes refuse to be laid low, even by what would be mortal wounds to lesser warriors.

Sigismund’s skill is legendary, even among the trans-human warriors of the Legiones Astartes, and none can match his instinctive talent for dealing death and finding the merest chink in his enemy’s guard to exploit to their undoing.

A sombre and deadly warrior, both indefatigable and remorseless in the fray, Sigismund is to onlookers less a mortal warrior but rather some unstoppable agency of the dark fates. This led none other than the Primarch Sanguinius to remark of him that he seemed “…less my brother Dorn’s champion, and more Death’s himself…"

Sigismund was known throughout all the Legions of the Legiones Astartes as a swordsman of surpassing skill and strength, few other than the Primarchs themselves could stand against him in single combat. In battle his brethren looked upon his skills as a source of pride, each of Sigismund’s victories bolstering the courage of his men.