Silver Blades

Silver Blades
Battle Cry	"¡A Sangre Y Fuego!"
Number	IV
Founding	First Founding
Successor Chapters	Divine Crusaders, Sons of the Blade
Primarch	Linares the Lord of Ale
Homeworld	Kadir
Strength	130,000
Specialty	Swordfighting, massed drop pods assaults
Allegiance	Loyalist
Colours	Silver

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The Silver Blades are one of the original Astartes Legions created for the Great Crusade by the Emperor of Mankind. Loud, reckless and masters of swordfighting, the Legion was always leading the charge, either for taking a position or to defend one. Loyal to the end, the Silver Blades engaged Traitors and Separatists alike during the Brotherwar, fighting with the bitterness of a Brother betrayed by his beloved siblings. After the Brotherwar, the severely crippled Legion could barely fill its own ranks, and started a slow and methodical process to recover the losses, further agravated by the battles fought in Kadir during the Brotherwar.

History

Pre-Primarch History & Reunion

The Silver Blades were known as the IVth Legion before Linares met them. They fought in the Great Crusade, and many worlds fell into compliance thanks to them. The Legion was stubborn, pretty much a Jack-of-all-trades one, but preferring melee combat to ranged one, although they fought at both with equal effectiveness. A well known battle of the period is the Compliance of Retuh.

At Retuh, 806.M30, the Legion fought against a numerically superior, but poorly trained, equiped and organized force of militias and fiends. The Legion had 105,000 boots on the ground, the whole Legion, supported by a number of Super-Heavy tanks and battle barges. The massed orbital assault crushed the defenses at first, but, while the tanks and the heavy materiel were being deployed, the militias attacked with overwhelming numbers, nearly 15:1, and payed their lives dearly. The Legion suffered heavy losses at that first assault, and it wasn’t the last one launched. When the war seemed won, the militias attacked with weapons scavenged from Mechanicum’s ships and destroyed a big part of the Legion’s vehicles. The fights were melee ones, as the militias didn’t had weapons capable of penetrating the Legionaries power armor. At the end of the Compliance, the Legion had lost most of its infantry and light armor, while the super-heavies were inmobilised, and the planet was under Imperial control. The Legion retreated to a planet nearby, and started the recovery.

After Linares was reunited with his Legion, he molded them like clay around his very ideals of warfare and the culture of his homeworld. As the Legion was already inclined towards melee fighting, it wasn't very difficult to make them accept it, but the most radical changes, like the complete removal of any vehicle heavier than a Land Raider from the arsenals of the Legion and the organization change were more difficult to the Legion in general. Still, the relations between the Legionnaires and their Primarch was pretty good, and it only improved with the Legion's rebuilding using Kadirian people.

The Great Crusade

During the Great Crusade, the Silver Blades fought in several fronts, always in the front, as the spearhead. They fought along the Loxodontii, Titan Marchers and Chosen of Hecate mainly, creating strong bonds between them and the two later Legions. Bonds that were only broken, in the case of the Chosen of Hecate, by the Brotherwar.

Brotherwar

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Post-Brotherwar

Overview of their journey towards 40k

Legion Doctrine

Legion Culture & Personality

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Legion Organization

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Special units

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