Editing Steel Marshals (section)

=Legion Organization=

==The Steel Host==

Prior to their Primarchs discovery, just after the conquest of Sol and the bolstering of the Legion, the Tempest Knights were more or less informally organized into the ten "Demi-Chapters". Each Demi-Chapter was led by one of the members of the 10th Squad, the first led by Dietmar Hohn himself. Roughly operating as war bands, their numerous victories were darkened by the acts of barbarism by certain members of the former 10th Squad. Unless otherwise organized by their Captains, the Tempest Knights were not specialized and in some cases could be called a horde of Astartes that would descend on their foes.

Upon their Primarchs discovery, Roman reorganized the Legion with great detail. Reformed into the Grand Orders, each of these consisted of ten Orders. Each Order then consisted of roughly two hundred Astartes and twice that many Aspirants. It was Roman who thought that the aspirants should be tested in the heat of battle, for that is where they would truly become an Astartes. Each Order was then further split along battlefield duties, including line infantry, siege breaker squads, assault squads and heavy support squads.

===304th Order of the Steel Marshals===

The following example is a rough outline of a Steel Marshal Order.

-Centurion Avard Kalos (Legion Champion), Commander of the 304th Order, Hand of the Marshals, Breaker of Dark Citadel, Lord of the Rheldian Steppes (Accompanied by a Legion Command Squad)

-Attached Apothecarion Detachment and Techmarine Covenant

-Contemptor Dreadnought Valahad (Interred during the Dark Citadel Campaign)

-Terminator Squad ‘Knecht’ (Five Marines, Cataphractii Pattern Armor)

-One Veteran Tactical Squad (Ten Marines)

-Three Tactical Squads (Ten Marines each)

-Two Assault Squads (Ten Marines each)

-Four Siege Breaker Squads (Twenty Marines each)

-Two Tactical Support Squads (Five Marines each)

-Two Legion Outrider Squads (Five Marines each)

-Two Legion Heavy Support Squads (Five Marines each)

The 304th also possessed a number of transports and support vehicles depending on the mission type, terrain, and necessity.

==Doctrine==

The Steel Marshal's are a force built to raze enemy strongholds to the ground and crush the heart of their resistance. While other legions crush the enemy by weight of bombardment or armor, or else defeat the fortifications by cautious planning or brutal swiftness, the Marshals wage war through grit and strength of the marines themselves. They specialize in aggressive engineering, using excavators, drills, or their own bare hands to undermine the enemy and bring their walls crashing down. 

Once a means of bypassing the enemy's static defenses has been formed, the Marshals drive the onslaught home with a spearhead of heavily armored infantry. Specialist formations equipped with flamers and area-denial weapons drive the enemy from the breach, clearing the way for their battle-brothers to erupt from the earth and get to grips with their foe. The fighting here is often brutal and close quarters, as the Marshals often emerge within the bastions of the enemy and are forced to fight from room to room with swords and axes as much as they do with gun and flamer.

Steel Marshals are renowned for their mighty specialized armoured and formations, each of them is unique and exclusive (such as Chalcedonian or Urbanie). They even have a void warfare (read; boarding action and seizing ships) specialized formation, Ad Astra. They are also known to utilize Legio Cybernetica heavily on many occasions, frequently enough they have several specialized automata formations including legion Cybernetica Controllers.

===Specialist Formations===

'''Urbanie'''

With fire and blade, these marines stormed cities and complexes alike ahead of their brothers. Usually armed with hand flamers, shields, and chainsword they could surge from the breach and rob the defenders of any chance of resistance.

'''Ad Astra'''

Specialized in void warfare, the Ad Astra were fierce and brutal marines adept in the act of boarding and seizing ships. Their preference for naval combat caused them some distance with their fellow brothers, though they imparted many a lesson unto the Fifth Legion before the discovery of their Primarch. They numbered very few in the legion, however.

===Support Formations===

'''Chalcedonian'''

Though not formally a combat formation, the Chalcedonians play an important role regardless. Created during the integration of Chalcedon III, this unit of marines fight the subtle art of diplomacy and to uphold the image of the ideal Steel Marshal. Among their numbers are former philosophers, planetary officials and diplomats specialized in making first contact with new worlds. If the situation turned hostile, though, the Chalcedonians were full members of the Couro Prido and could defend themselves handily. They also often served as officers and advisers to other Imperial formations.

'''Castra'''

'''Armorium'''

'''Apothecarion'''

'''Librarus'''

==Legion Equipment==

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Trademark of the Steel Marshal's arsenal is an extensive array of mining engines, geo-augurs, and similar devices. Heavy lift vehicles line the bays of their transport craft, which haul the equipment needed to excavate on a grand scale.

The individual marines are heavily armored; the legion boasts a large stockpile of Mk 3 "Iron" power armor. Terminator formations are common, and have developed early-pattern storm-shields. Additionally, the individual marine is quite often armed with incendiary weapons and power weapons are common, even among the rank and file. A variant of the common power sword used by the Steel Marshals was the Austrich Power Blade, a weapon designed to deflect and parry rather than block, it's use in duels and close quarters combat made it popular for officers to use.

Unique to the is the Castra pattern dreadnought, which eschews long ranged heavy firepower for close in heavy weaponry. Sporting a breacher siege drill for its main weapon with underslung heavy flamer, it is meant to grind through earth, stone, rockcrete and plasteel to immolate the foe within their fortifications. It would pave the way for future developments that lead to the "Ironclad" dreadnought.

Although the lords of the Mechanicum were eager to grant Roman Albrecht's requests, the Primarch's generous nature forbade him from accumulating a vast array of rare weapons. Beyond the special equipment that supported their unique style of warfare, the Steel Marshals were better-known for making gifts from their arsenal than expanding it.

==Allies and Auxilia==

[[File:1445312110605.png|thumb|right|200px|Techno-feudal auxilia, typical of those deployed by the Steel Marshals]]

The Steel Marshals were usually able to call on the services of [[Werkerde]]'s Titan Legion, "Legio Picus".  They also had many [[Imperial Army (Hektor Heresy)|Imperial Army]] regiments pledged to their cause.