Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy)

This page details people, events, and organisations from the /tg/ Heresy, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. See the /tg/ Heresy Timeline and Galaxy pages for more information on the Alternate Universe.

The Legiones Astartes or Space Marine Legions were the primary armed forces of the Imperium during the Great Crusade. Their core forces were bodies of augmented soldiers, the products of the Emperor of Mankind's genetic experimentation on old Terra. But there were also ordinary men and women who supported the Space Marines or even fought beside them in the Auxilia formations of the Imperial Army.

Detailed information

Legions of the Crusade

The Twenty Astartes Legions of the Great Crusade
Number	Name	Speciality	Primarch	Homeworld	Loyalty
I	Heralds of Hektor	Generalists	Hektor Cincinnatus	Olmer (destroyed), now based from their fleet within the Eye of Terror	Traitor
II	War Scribes	Logistics	Arelex Orannis	Whitestone (Destroyed), now Fleet-based in the Atalantos Worlds.	Loyal
III	Missing and deleted from Imperial records
IV	Sons of Fire	World-Killing and Melee	Inferox "The Burned King"	Crematoria (destroyed)	Traitor
V	Void Angels	Manoeuvre warfare	Gaspard Lumey	Ciban IV	Loyal
VI	The Entombed	Heavy Support	Golgothos	Sepulchra	Loyal
VII	Missing and deleted from Imperial records
VIII	Mastodontii	Mechanised Warfare	Tollund Ötztal	Tisenjoch	Traitor
IX	Lions Rampant	Armoured Warfare	Cromwald Walgrun	Sommesgard	Traitor
X	Steel Marshals	Siege Warfare	Roman Albrecht	Centauri Primus	Loyal
XI	Thunder Kings	Furious Melee	Brennus	Alessia (destroyed), now multiple worlds	Loyal
XII	Life Bringers	Chemical Warfare	Johannes Vrach	Rai (destroyed), now Eden (Demon World in the Eye of Terror)	Traitor
XIII	The Justicars	Information and Infiltration	Uriel Starikov	Perfidiae V	Traitor
XIV	Black Augurs	Sorcery-powered Melee	The Voidwatcher	Ostium	Traitor
XV	Silver Cataphracts	Combined Arms Warfare	Alexandri of Rosskar	Rosskar	Loyal
XVI	Eternal Zealots	Close Quarters Combat	Aubrey The Grey	Lazarus	Traitor
XVII	Scale Bearers	Fast Attack	Tiran Osoros	Solnhofen	Loyal
XVIII	Stone Men	Defensive Operations	Onyx the Indestructible	Neolithus(destroyed)	Loyal
XIX	Eyes of the Emperor	Firepower	Shakya Vardhana	Marusthali	Loyal
XX	Iron Rangers	Asymmetrical Warfare	Rogerius Merrill	Profi Tiroedd	Traitor

Discovery Order of the Primarchs

1) Hektor Cincinnatus (at start)

2) Arelex Orannis (803.M30)

3) Uriel Starikov (817.M30)

4) Shakya Vardhana (822.M30)

5) Roman Albrecht (831.M30)

6) The Voidwatcher (836.M30)

7) Gaspard Lumey (850.M30)

8) Johannes Vrach (850.M30)

9) Alexandri (855.M30)

10) Tiran Osoros (859.M30)

11) Inferox the Burned King (863.M30)

12) Rogerius Merrill (870.M30)

13) Brennus (892.M30)

14) Golgothos (898.M30)

15) Aubrey The Grey (899.M30)

16) Zan Shin (900.M30)

17) Onyx the Indestructible (908.M30)

18) Cromwald Walgrun (914.M30)

Doctrine and Reforms

Much of the discipline and organisation of the early Legions owed greatly to the ancient and proven Terran patterns of strategy, hierarchy and function as laid down in the revered texts of the Principia Belicosa of Roma and Krom's fragmentary New Model that had survived in the hands of the Old Earth tyrants down the blood-stained generations. To these venerable treatises the Emperor and his commanders had added their own genius and created a sturdy but adaptable strategic framework that spoke to the fundamental strengths and superhuman abilities of the Legionaries themselves.

Following the disaster of the Hektor Heresy and the Imperial counter-offensive of the Great Scouring, Darius Cyaxares persuaded his brother Primarchs to lay down their Legions and break up these mighty armies, so that no one man would again lead the terrible might that Hektor had turned against the Imperium. In reforming the Space Marine Legions into smaller units, the wisdom of the Primarchs was combined. Thomas Gaudin, the Emperor's Praetorian, laid out the ethics of the Space Marines as unyielding loyalty, honour, and good faith. Gaspard Lumey, who stood at the fore of the greatest Legion, explained his tactical and organisational doctrine. Darius himself gave the instructions to govern Space Marine Librarians. The result was the Epitoma institutorum rei Adeptus Astartes - better known as the Institutorum Astartes - that laid the basis for the Space Marine Chapters of the reformed Imperium.

Rules

Skirmish level (Warhammer 40k using the Forge World "Horus Heresy" material): This is the base game for the AU. All of the Legions above can be assumed to use the Legiones Astartes Crusade list, with modifications and special characters covered either on the main article or on one of the pages below:

• Fifth Legion

Naval warfare (Battlefleet Gothic): We like Battlefleet Gothic a lot, and have sketched out some rules for playing Hektor Heresy in SPACE!

Resources for editors

Information

The Warhammer 40k wiki is a very useful resource due to giving "extremely accurate summaries" of Games Workshop and Forge World material. Lexicanum's 40k wiki relies on paraphrasing but is still worthwhile.

Graphical Templates

Here are some easily painted templates to make illustrating the Legion pages a simpler task.

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