The Legion fought first on Terra in the destruction of the final resisting elements there and then throughout the pacification of Terra's Solar System. This in turn meant that the IV th Legion was very swiftly put to active-service alongside the I st and V th Legions (the as-yet unnamed Dark Angels and White Scars). This advantage meant that the IV th Legion's fighting strength was built rapidly, expanding to several fully battle-ready battalions in size while some of the other nascent Legions were still yet unable to field more than an active century. Documentary evidence attests that the IV th Legion gene-seed showed an above-average adaptability and rates of implant rejection were notably low, particularly in comparison with difficulties in large-scale implantation encountered with other Progenoid types, which would not be eliminated until the acquisition of the gene-labs of Luna. The warlike gun-tribes, blood grieves and Tek-enclaves in the surrounding area provided the Legion with much of its earliest waves of recruits as the recalcitrant region was brought fully into the fold of Terran Unification, rapidly becoming one of the most stalwart of Loyalist domains. Its first muster grounds are noted to have been founded atop the wreckage of a recidivist fortress on the Auro Plateau of Sek-Amrak. While other legions place their trust in dangerous psychic powers or the superstition of blind faith, the Iron Warriors depend instead upon thick walls, overwhelming firepower and meticulous planning to ensure victory.Ī IV th Legion Veteran Legionary (Pre-unification) during the early years of the Great CrusadeĪ IV th Legion Tactical Squad during an Imperial Compliance.įounded as its brother-Legions were on Terra during the closing stages of the Unification Wars which presaged the Emperor's Great Crusade in the middle centuries of the 30th Millennium, considerable surface level detail on the origins of the IV th Legion remains. As consummate siege-masters, they were instrumental in the success of the Great Crusade, and after the Betrayal they refortified the Imperium to withstand assaults from within as well as without. Armored with a suspicion borne of bitter experience, the Iron Warriors have often been labeled paranoid, but as the events of the Dornian Heresy proved, not even brother Astartes can be trusted implicitly. The IV th Legion has garnered a reputation for ruthlessness and as master-strategists, and are very adept at tearing down every impregnable fortress or unassailable citadel that dares to defy the Emperor's will. More so than in any other Legion, the life of each warrior was secondary to his duty, as much a resource to be expended in the relentless calculus of war as bolt shell or lascannon charge. The Legion was commanded by its Primarch Perturabo as an extension of his own mind and body, the will of each Legionary utterly sublimated to his conception of victory. They are the grim, cold-hearted masters of the science of war among the Space Marines, exemplars of strength and discipline turned exclusively to the systematic destruction of an enemy.
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The Iron Warriors are a Loyalist First Founding Space Marine Legion known for their mastery at siege-craft, both in defence and assault. Deep metallic hue, gold, black and yellow.