Horns of Ruin

Horns of Ruin
Number	XXIX
Founding	First Founding
Successors of	N/A
Primarch	Kranios the Destroyer
Homeworld	Satares
Strength	180,000 at start of Heresy
Specialty	Rampant Destruction
Allegiance	Khorne

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Summary of Legion XXIX

Numeration: The XXIXth Legion.

Primogenator: Kranios the Destroyer

Observed Strategic Tendencies: Use of destruction and resulting anarchy to cause widespread death and demoralization of enemy forces.

Noteworthy Domains: World of Satares.

Alliegence: Traitoris Maximus

Legion Tactics

The purpose of the Horns of Ruin was to cause destruction. In Kranios' eyes in was the purest and simplest form of what he was meant to be. The Legion make great use of collateral damage often leaving little to no sign that whatever enemy they had faced had ever existed in the first place. It was not simply the ruins or burnt out shells of cities that other Legion's wars left behind. Where glorious capitals of the enemy once stood, the Horn's of Ruin often left nothing, no hint that a civilization ever even existed in the place. So great was the destruction they caused that some of their enemies confused their name to be a singular "Horn of Ruin" a type of terrible Exterminatus weapon the Imperium made use of rather than an actual army of individual soldiers.

Kranios did not solely focus on simple eradication of worlds. He did build things after eradicating all trace oh his enemies' architecture, but they were hideous in their design and purpose. for every city he felled and every world he conquered Kranios erected factory and forge world with abandon, turning Utopian constructs and the most feral of worlds into bleak smog choked producers of his war machines. Any being that caught his attention or impressed him in the slightest would be taken and indoctrinated as Space marines to bolster his forces or as Legion slaves in the case of the women and the elderly. All others would be left to rot on the mechanical hell that he had constructed for them.

Legion Equipment

The Horns of Ruin make use of every kind of Imperial tech that they were offered, though they often favor weapons that provide a more explosive impact or a heavier and more constant stream of gunfire rather then smaller or more discrete firearms. Kranios' Legion made extensive use of heavy artillery, siege guns, and explosives no matter what enemy they faced. Dreadnoughts were highly respected, though more so for their destructive and endurance capabilities, rather than any aspects to do with experience or wisdom. Vehicles used by the Horns of Ruin tend to be slower or less armored but much heavier hitting variants of most vehicles used in the Imperium.

The Legion's relationship with the Mechanicus was a tumultuous one. While the Mechanicus at large appreciated their proper revilement and efficient destruction of xenos and their tech heresy as well as proper respect for greater weapons, individual members of the Mechanicus sent among these Astartes had to submit to a chorus of unholy screams of mechanical agony as the Horns of Ruin pushed their guns and vehicles to their limits in order to cause maximum damage, often resulting in the sometimes permanent crippling of these weapons.

Legion Doctrine

Once Kranios received his legion he began to bolster it with all the men who stood a chance of surviving the initiation progress. Into each legionnaire was beaten a desire for warfare in its most grueling and harsh forms. No mercy was ever to be given to the enemy and none was to be received. It was understood among them that any planet they were unleashed upon had rejected the Emperor's offer of being a part of His Imperium and was thus only deserving of total annihilation. As the Horns of Ruin brought shattered world after shattered world into the Imperium some criticized them for the brutal nature of their wars, but very rarely were these qualms brought up in the presence of Kranios or his Legion.