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.
Remaining issues, including proposals for Legions, sorting out the Primarch discovery order, and defining Legion specialities and numbers, can be raised on the Talk page. At the moment there are four "missing" Legions, akin to the two missing Legions of the original universe.
| The Thirty Astartes Legions of the Great Crusade | |||||||
| Number | Name | Speciality | Primarch | Homeworld | Loyalty | ||
| I | Knights of Justice | Air Assault and Superiority | Bohemond | Hydegate | Loyal | ||
| 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 | Winged Victory/Void Angels | Terror Tactics | Gaspard Lumey | Ciban IV | Loyal | ||
| VI | The Entombed | Heavy Support | Golgothos | Sepulchra | Loyal | ||
| VII | Scions of Europa | Generalists | Kleisthenes | Europa, Segmentum Obscurus | Loyal | ||
| VIII | Missing and deleted from Imperial records | ||||||
| IX | Lions Rampant | Fast Attack | Cromwald Walgrun | Sommesgard | Traitor | ||
| X | The Crusaders | Zealous Assault | Thomas Gaudin | Terra | Loyal | ||
| XI | Wolves of Dawn/Heralds of Hektor | Generalists | Hektor Cincinnatus | Olmer (destroyed), now based from their fleet within the Eye of Terror | Traitor | ||
| XII | Life Bringers | Chemical Warfare | Johannes Vrach | Rai (destroyed), now Eden (Demon World in the Eye of Terror) | Traitor | ||
| XIII | Children of Armok | Information and Infiltration | Uriel Starikov | Perfidiae V | Traitor | ||
| XIV | Black Augurs | Sorcery-powered Melee | The Voidwatcher | Ostium | Traitor | ||
| XV | Missing and deleted from Imperial records | ||||||
| XVI | Eternal Zealots | Chaos Generalists | Aubrey The Grey | Lazarus | Traitor | ||
| XVII | Gorgers | Bloody Melee | Nathanog | Thorond-ul | Traitor | ||
| XVIII | Sand Keepers | Divination and Psykery | Darius Cyaxares | Simurgh | Loyal | ||
| XIX | Eyes of the Emperor | Generalists | Octullus Tyran | Illobian | Loyal | ||
| XX | Iron Rangers | Asymmetrical Warfare | Merrill | Profi Tiroedd | Traitor | ||
| XXI | Iron Assembly | Generalists | Thoren Grimm | Titan | Traitor | ||
| XXII | Thunder Kings | Furious Melee | Brennus | Alessia (destroyed), now multiple worlds | Loyal | ||
| XXIII | Silver Cataphracts | Attrition Warfare | Alexandri | Rosskar | Loyal | ||
| XXIV | Mastodontii | Armored Warfare | Tollund Ötztal | Tisenjoch (purged) | Traitor | ||
| XXV | Scale Bearers | Fast Attack | Tiran Osoros | Solnhofen | Loyal | ||
| XXVI | Steel Marshals | Siege Warfare | Roman Albrecht | Centauri Primus | Loyal | ||
| XXVII | Stone Men | Defensive Operations | Onyx the Indestructible | Neolithus(destroyed) | Loyal | ||
| XXVIII | the Bulwark | Fortification and Defense | Sebastian Rex | Arelon | Traitor | ||
| XXIX | Horns of Ruin | Demolitions | Kranios the Destroyer | Satares | Traitor | ||
| XXX | Missing and deleted from Imperial records | ||||||
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.
Arelex Orannis would later refine these tactics based on the reports and theories of the Loyalist Primarchs, creating 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.