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Ferrus Manus

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[[File:Ferrus Manus Pre-Haircut.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Ferrus "I named my Legion after myself" Manus, The Gorgon, Wyrmslayer, The Great Iron-Father. It took over twenty five years to get a decent image of him, and he ended up looking like [[/co/|the Punisher]].]]
{{Topquote|Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.|William Butler Yeats}}
{{Topquote|By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.|Henry David Thoreau}}
{{Topquote|Steel isn't strong, boy. Flesh is stronger. What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?|Thulsa-Doom to [[Emperor|Conan the Barbarian]]. }}
'''Ferrus Manus''', '''"The Gorgon of Medusa"''', was the [[Primarch]] of the [[Iron Hands]] [[First Founding|Legion]] of [[Space Marines]]. His hands are made of iron. His name is also Latin for "Iron Hand". Real subtle, GW. He got said hands after wrestling with a silver dragon on the planet he crashed on and dipping the lizard into magma. The metallic skin of the dragon fused into the skin on his hands. Wait, living metal? [[Necron|That sounds oddly familiar for some reason...]] Anyway, his arms became so fucking hardcore that he did not even *need* a weapon to tear through dudes: his iron hands were more than enough. Although he is shown at one point wielding what looks like a [[Awesome|power spanner]].

[[meme|So in summary]], Iron Hand, who had iron hands, was the leader of the Iron Hands, who give themselves iron hands in honour of the iron hands of Iron Hand of the Iron Hands. He gets really pissed off if you called him THE HANDS OF FATE.

Ferrus, using his shiny metal hands, could make epic weapons that absolutely kick ass but he only used, like, one or two of them. It's not clear as to whether he or [[Vulkan]] was the best smith. Vulkan had better aesthetics, in that he could create things that actually looked pretty instead of just [[Leman Russ Battle Tank|ugly blocks of metal with guns haphazardly glued on]], but Ferrus certainly had the better way of making weapons; by [[Awesome|punching them into shape with his bare fists]]. Vulkan also had a respect for geology, whereas Ferrus thought that details of a metal ended at its usefulness. Vulkan was certainly better at forging healthy friendships.

Do NOT confuse him with [[Perturabo]]

==History==
[[File:Ferrus Manus by John Blanche.JPG|150px|thumb|left|For a very long time this was one of only two officially produced images of Ferrus Manus, drawn by [[John Blanche]]. The other image showed only his backside. Ever get the feeling you're the unfavorite? Ferrus understands you.]]
Back in the days of the Great Crusade (before the good ol' [[Horus]] [[Heresy]]), Ferrus met [[Fulgrim]] of the [[Emperor's Children]] beneath Mount Narodnya, and challenged him to forge the best weapon that he could. After three months, Fulgrim forged an ornate warhammer, while Ferrus made a big blingy sword. After praising each other for their craftsmanship, the two exchanged weapons and became best bros for life (literally, in Ferrus's case.)

Cuddly and friendly, however, Ferrus was not. To the people of Medusa he was a grim figure who took warriors into the crypts of the forbidden polar zone to fight archeotech nasties, and otherwise offered them weaponry and told them to fight to ensure they remained strong. Once he met his Legion, he performed a dramatic ''volte-face'' on interfering in Medusan politics. Which is to say he went from non-intervention to "Legionaries, take over their Clans. Btw they'll only understand if you do it really violently." Nonetheless there was [[Autek Mor|that one guy]] who took that a little far, wiping out a Clan that had gone rogue and claiming their crawler for himself.

As far as military doctrine went, Ferrus wasn't crazy like Angron or cruel like Curze, but he was pitiless, perhaps even more so than Russ or Horus. On the battlefield itself he was the kind of guy who could smash straight through the legs of a Reaver-sized Titan-analogue (a barely disguised AT-AT homage). And Angron thought he was tough holding up a Warhound. Bless.

Like Vulkan, he made a point of forging gear for most of his brothers, although Vulkan was a bit uncomfortable with Ferrus' way of punching metal into shape and didn't use his dragon-headed flamer until the Heresy broke out. Examples of his work include Horus' sword (which Horus favoured until the Emperor gave him ''Worldbreaker''), ''Fireblade'' (the aforementioned sword made for Fulgrim), and Lorgar's mace ''Illuminarum''.

Despite his rigidness and temper Ferrus could be reasonable. When he heard that the Emperor was going to retire from the Great Crusade and leave one of the Primarchs in command; Ferrus Manus decided that it had to be him. He tried to prove the point by leading a joint force of [[Iron Hands]], [[Emperor's Children]], [[Thousand Sons]] and [[Ultramarines]] into battle against a technologically equivalent human empire that had been causing the Ultramarines some problems; Ferrus figured that he could take command of the campaign and be done with it before Guilliman showed up with the rest of the XIIIth legion to finish the job. Unfortunately he lost his cool after his enemies tried to sue for peace then attempted to assassinate him. Deciding that he didn't have the patience trying to fight in the same manner as his brothers, he laid the world to waste, demolishing its population and its infrastructure. Guilliman was pissed when he finally did show up since the world could have become a tremendous asset to the Imperium, but by that point Ferrus Manus had decided he was better at being a conqueror rather than a leader and chose to stand back and wholeheartedly support whoever did get promoted to Warmaster. Humourously, when Fulgrim told Ferrus that Guilliman actually did consider him to be one of the greatest Primarchs among them, Ferrus responded that the thought was not reciprocated (Though this was only on the surface, internally he actually considered Guilliman everything he strove to be).

Ferrus constantly wanted to compare himself to his brothers, turning everything into some kind of competition. He built an arena on his flagship that outsiders figured was for dueling dreadnoughts, but was actually for him to spar against other Primarchs, though was disappointed that his brothers were reluctant to test themselves against him. Even offering Vulkan a better weapon than the '''Fireblade''' he forged for Fulgrim didn't get him the scrap he wanted. No doubt this was part of his zealous drive to test his own limits, as when an enemy psyker sifted through his mind to find moments of weakness to use against him, he only found that Ferrus actually cherished his defeats since they allowed him the room to grow, and so he actively sought greater challenges to throw himself against. He even figured that if he was to get a second duel against the Emperor, the outcome would be different.

===Horus Heresy===
It all went well until Fulgrim found a new [[Slaanesh|boyfriend/girlfriend/hermaphroditic freak]], and decided to make Ferrus [[heresy|join the dark Side]]. [[Fulgrim]] totally outmatched Ferrus with his [[heresy|HAWTNEZZ]] but Ferrus wasn't interested and they had a fight. Ferrus twisted apart the sword he made for his now ex-boyfriend with his own hands; in response Fulgrim reclaimed his brother's warhammer and knocked him out with it.

When the Horus Heresy officially started, Ferrus impatiently charged off with his fastest ships and his most badass of veterans ''(leaving the bulk of his Legion behind)'' in order to give his traitorous brothers the boot and arrived at the face-off at Isstvan V. It started well: Ferrus brought his army down right at the edge of the enemy's shields, and forced Horus' troops into retreat despite all the shenanigans the Traitors pulled. But then they got totally fucked up by a bunch of reinforcements while Ferrus challenged Fulgrim. The prancing ninny was on the verge of getting his ass handed to him... until he became Slaanesh's boyfriend for real and proceeded to cut Ferrus Manus's head off (well, it depends on who's writing it, in most Ferrus was losing even before his glorious haircut). [[Awesome|Ferrus' death was said to include great flashes of light,]] but the Inquisition isn't helping with research. Horus was pretty fucking pissed at this.

Ironically, Ferrus' death was caused by the same self-flagellating urge that drives his sons to turn themselves into cyborgs. When Fulgrim came to convert him to Horus' side, Ferrus thought this meant there was some flaw inside him that needed to be expunged by killing Fulgrim. This was why the Iron Hands stayed in the field when everyone else disengaged, and got screwed over harder than everyone else (well, the [[Salamanders]] taking a nuke aside).

Despite his anger at Fulgrim, or perhaps because of it, Horus kept Ferrus's head, removing the remaining flesh and leaving it a bleached skull for his throne. Sometimes he would talk to it, lamenting that he had nothing but [[Magnus|dishonored]] and [[Konrad Curze|broken]] [[Angron|psychopaths]] on his side instead of [[Sanguinius|angels]] and [[Roboute Guilliman|strategists]] as his generals. Waging a galaxy wide heresy is a tough job.

==Ferrus Lives?==
There is speculation ''(in-universe and out)'' that Ferrus Manus somehow lives, and is hidden away on Mars by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], though mentioning this to the Iron Hands gets them impressively angry, to the point that they might demonstrate how they think otherwise by using the speaker's own head. The marines who survived the Dropsite Massacre were in no doubt, having seen the visual evidence from multiple angles, but apparently the Iron Hands found the files too depressing and set about wiping their hard drive with a bolter.

That being said, the [[Horus Heresy]] book series might currently be sowing multiple seeds of some sort of truth to the rumour...

'''Firstly,''' [[Fulgrim]] regretted not being able to convince Ferrus Manus into joining the side of the traitors, and so had [[Fabius Bile]] attempt to clone his brother with all of his memories intact so that Fulgrim might try again at turning Ferrus to [[Chaos]]. This [[FAIL|did not work]] as the cloned Ferrus would become hostile at the suggestion of turning traitor and would have to be killed by daemon-Fulgrim.

That didn't stop Fulgrim from trying again and again, believing that Fabius' cloning methods resulted in "imperfect" clones and so ordered him to try harder and create more, though fortunately, each one would get angry at the attempt to turn him away from the Emperor and end up getting beaten to death by his now-ascended brother. Guess even Daemon Primarchs can stay [[butthurt]] for millennia on end.

Another thing to note is that the Ferrus Manus clones ''did not'' have the metallic arms of the original, which is obvious since the original was not "born" with them either and only acquired them later in life. This fact was hidden from the clones by making them wear gauntlets, which the clones found confusing (the original Ferrus never needed gauntlets for protection since the metal skin was protective enough) but ended up rolling with, since their lives tended to be measured in hours.

'''Secondly,''' the Iron Hands did manage to salvage one of the broken hands of Ferrus Manus from the battlefield of Isstvan V. The Iron Fathers of the Legion built a cult around it like it was some sort of relic and used it as the starting point for them constructing a mechanical golem creature that would act as a facsimile for the Gorgon that would issue orders by gesturing with its hand like some sort of paralytic invalid. Other than the hand, this new creature was unrecognisable as the Primarch that the arm had come from; [[Vulkan]] considered it an insult to the Emperor and his brother's memory and promptly destroyed it with his hammer.

It is strongly hinted that the Mechanicum may have had something to do with the personality cult of the Gorgon-Golem as the Iron Fathers of the Legion seemed to come back "changed" after receiving their mechanical upgrades from the tech adepts during the Horus Heresy. This hints that the Mechanicum might have been trying to subvert the Xth Legion to their own causes even while galactic civil war was going on around them. Even though Vulkan destroyed the creature, whatever influence the Mechanicum had on the legion likely remained, as the Iron Fathers abandoned their terran-born warleader '''Shadrak Meduson''' not long afterwards and went their own way.

What happened to the ''other'' metallic arm remains a mystery but a number of interested parties somehow cut shavings off them (finger bones) to use in the edges of ritual blades.

'''Thirdly,''' the head of Ferrus Manus was later returned to the Iron Hands just prior to the [[Second Founding]] as part of a pact between the fractious Shattered Legion and Guilliman and Dorn to ensure their compliance with the [[Codex Astartes]]. How the two Primarchs got their brother's head when it was in the possession of [[Horus]] is yet unknown.

'''Fourthly,''' in "Master of Mankind," the Emperor summoned an army of [[Legion of the Damned|black fiery space marines]] to hold back the tide of daemons and chaos forces from breeching the Webway and swarming Terra. Buying time for the Custodes and other Imperials to withdraw and seal the Webway entrance, they were conspicuously led by a giant with silver arms and a hammer.

Sufficed to say there is enough evidence of Ferrus Manus's physical remains surviving in various states of cloned reanimation or ghoulish undeath that it is definitely feasible for outside observers to get the wrong end of the stick and believe that he survived much longer than he actually did. The [[Original character, do not steal|original]] Ferrus Manus was hacked to pieces by traitor marines after being decapitated, with many taking away parts as trophies and Fulgrim likely taking 'some part to remember him by'.

==The flesh is... strong?==
[[File:Ferrus_Manus.jpg|thumb|right|[[Drawfag|Artist's]] rendition of Ferrus Manus. Has the chin of TEN MEN!]]
Being the hardass flesh-haters that the Iron Hands are, one would suspect that Ferrus Manus might as well have been called Ferrus Clunis when it comes to the weakness of the flesh. In reality this is about as far from the reality as possible. The following is taken from the preface to a novel where the Iron Hands are portrayed as emotionless, flesh-hating, misanthropes:

''"They are not my hands. This fact is forgotten by my brothers - inexplicably, it has always seemed to me. The hands are strong, to be sure, and have created great things for us all, but they are not mine. And that counts for something. They forget that the silver on my arms comes from a beast that I vanquished. It is the mark of a great evil that I ended, and yet it persists within me... I would struggle to remove it now... I will not remove the silver from my flesh because I have learned to depend on it. The fault is with my mind. I rely on the augmentation given to me by my metal gauntlets, so much so that the flesh beneath them is now little more than a distant memory... A day will come when I will strip it from me, lest I lose the power to master myself forever. Already my Legion's warriors replace their shield hands with metal in my honour, and so they too are learning to doubt the natural strength of their bodies. They must be weaned off this practice before it becomes a mania for them. Hatred of what is natural, of what is human, is the first and greatest of the corruptions. So I record it here: when the time comes, I will strip my hands of their unnatural silver. I will instruct my Legion to recant their distrust of the flesh. I will turn them away from the gifts of the machine and bid them relearn the mysteries of flesh, bone and blood. When my father's Crusade is over, this shall be my sacred task. When the fighting is done, I shall cure my Legion and myself. For if fighting is all there is, if we may never pause to reflect on what such devotion to strength is doing to us, then our compulsion will only grow. Already I see the madness that path leads to, and so I shall excise the silver from my hands. In doing so I shall weaken myself and my sons, but nonetheless it must be done. The hands are strong, and have created great things, but they are not mine."''
- Ferrus Manus, talking about how he was totally going to get rid of his silvered hands, any day now, I'm serious guys I'm going to do it, just not right now, but later, I swear I'll get rid of them.

With what the Iron Hands now do by turning themselves into cyborgs, with only part of their brains being flesh, is as big of a [[Rage|FUCK YOU]] to the Primarch as possible. If anything, they took his receiving a [[viking]] crewcut courtesy of his once best friend as a byproduct of his own emotional reactions, which only made them hate human weakness even more. In any case, it puts the Iron Hands in an [[Ultramarines|interesting]] [[Codex Astartes|light.]] Having his entire legion pay no attention to his thoughts on cybernetics also secures his position as most ignorable Primarch in-universe. This perfectly matches how real-life fans and GW have (not) thought about him for years.

==On The Tabletop==
[[File:Ferrus-manus1.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Praise be to [[Forge World]] for the making of this! The head even comes as a seperate part...]]

{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Ferrus Manus:''' || 455 || 7 || 6 || 7 || 7 || 6 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/3++
|}
Ferrus Manus is essentially God-King of Mars, functioning like a Tech-Priest Dominus on steroids. In addition to all the fun godly powers given to all Primarchs, he also has Relentless and Smash, and straight up all ranged weapons fire at him at -1 strength value. At T7, that means boltguns, sluggas, and all manner of S4 shooty guns as are prevalent throughout all of 40k no longer have the chance of hurting him. Bringing him also makes your Legiones Astartes Iron Hands army function a lot like the 40k Chapter Tactics, in that all models gain Feel No Pain (6+) unless it already had one better.

He has Battlesmith and passes all repair rolls on a 3+ (That becomes a lovely 2+ thanks to his servo-arm). He also makes any of your vehicles with at least 1 AV of 13 or higher gain It Will Not Die. You are going to field tanks and Contemptor Dreadnoughts with this guy. He is good to them. His crazy 2+/3++ armor includes a Nuncio-Vox so Ferrus can help direct your heaping gobs of indirect tank fire, and it gives him a servo arm. It also lets him shoot two of his guns in the shooting phase, making him the shootiest Primarch, which include a Plasma Blaster, Graviton Gun, Grenade Harness or Heavy Flamer. Still, if you're looking for a Primarch to ley back and shoot things, better look on the Traior side, where Lorgar and Magnus can spam titan-melting mindbullets and reliably intimidate most of the Primarchs into hiding in units and/or transports - Ferrus' guns are a nice bonus things for him to do while he's slogging to a glorious melee, not his main focus.

Lastly, his hammer Forgebreaker (that one forged by [[Fulgrim| Fulgrim]]) is "typical" Primarch stuff in that it's Sx2 Ap1 Concussive Strikedown. Not bad, Fulgrim, you pretty boy fuckhead. [[Dwarf Fortress|You make a pretty decent hammer]].

Considering his bonus Primarch powers are a force multiplier for a large tank army, and Legiones Astartes Iron Hands already gain several bonuses for tanks, you're bringing him with as many as you can field. Roll him alongside your tank columns so he can repair as you roll onward, knowing full well he can capably handle most any hand to hand unit thrown his way and is an excellent shot with powerful weapons in his own right.

He's very well designed for the simple reason that he makes the Iron Hands better at what they already excel at (not dying). The 6+ FNP has great synergy with Inviolate Armor, and if you're taking Head of the Gorgon (which you should), Predators and Vindicators can [[Awesome|Outflank and possibly regain 2HP a turn.]] That said, if he gets assaulted by a tarpit or if his transport is destroyed, he can have trouble making his points back. He's ultimately an average Primarch.

And yes, the model's head is detachable. (THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME!!!)

===Ferrus Manus VS other Primarchs:===
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Primarch fighting, while fun to see, isn't a very competitive thing to do as it'll usually tie up both Primarchs for the entire game without either of them dying (Especially with someone like Ferrus, with T 7 and 2+/3++ as saves). With that in mind this section is how Ferrus Manus fares against other Primarchs Mathhammer wise. Please note that all the various abilities are taken into accounts when possible and the match-ups assume the Primarchs are the only ones involved in the fighting, so various abilities like Angron's "The Butcher's Nails" and Rampage do not provide any bonuses. In essence, the fights are supposed to be in a "Vacuum" for simplicity, but notes are added to make things clearer in particular instances. Also all of the Primarch use their most powerful weapons (because why have a contest if you don't do your best?) so naturally Ferrus is equipped with Forgebreaker. Also, don't ever forget that he comes with Servo Arm for that ever useful +1 attack at S8 Ap 2, even if Unwieldy.
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* Ferrus Manus VS Horus
**Horus hits 4.667 times (Worldbreaker), wounds 3.333 times, 1.111 after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.0833 times, 0.694 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.361.
**As always, the Warmaster can't be put down. Although Ferrus can put up a decent fight thanks to his resilience.

* Ferrus Manus VS Angron
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 3.555 times, 1.185 after saves, and IWND take it down to 0.852 at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 2: hits 4 times, wounds 2.666 times, 0.889 times after saves, IWND will take that down to 0.556 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.694 times after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that down to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron wins by [[What|tanking more than Ferrus can]].

* Ferrus vs Mortarion
**Mortarion hits 2.5 times, wounds 1.25 times, 0.416 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.083.
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2 times, 1 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.444 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Even though Mortarion is tough in the end Ferrus wins pretty easily thanks to his superior save and to his hammer

* Ferrus vs Fulgrim
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.694 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Fulgrim Round 1: hits 5.629 (Master-crafted) times, wounds 3.284 times (Child of Terra), 1.094 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.761 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Fulgrim Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3.611 times, wounds 2.107 times, 0.702 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.369 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**The infamous match! And also one of the closest, with the same outcome as the lore unless Fulgrim either has the Laer Blade or he doesn't have Child of Terra, in which case he doesn't really stand a chance. With the Hammer, Ferrus is like Fulgrim's worst nightmare, 'cause strikedown will go off even if the strike doesn't wound him, reducing his initiative to 4 and stripping him of all his advantages. In the end, Fulgrim will win on the 11th round, while Ferrus needs 12 rounds to come on top, so Fulgrim did really well to take the hammer away. Also, a really epic fight!
***''Its worth noting that in the fluff during this duel Ferrus was fighting with Fireblade and Fulgrim with Forgebreaker. Here's how well that goes: against a primarch Fireblade is only a little better than just using his bare hands, though against most Primarchs Ferrus still wounds on a 2+ so it's all right for him. For Fulgrim though Forgebreaker is a HUGE upgrade. He goes from wounding of 4+ to 2+ thanks to strength 10. Most importantly Ferrus will no longer have Concussive to mitigate Fulgrim's sublime swordsman rules so he still gets more attacks. Even worse is that since Fulgrim can concuss Ferrus down to initiative 1, sublime swordsman will generate SEVEN additional attacks whenever concuss hits and hitting so much means it should be every turn. And even worse is that since Ferrus is down to initiative 1 a lot of the time, Blind is much much more likely to hit. It doesn't even matter if we make Forgebreaker unwieldy in Fulgrim's hands because unwieldy doesn't actually reduce initiative, it just makes you fight at that initiative step, and putting out so much more damage means striking at the same time simply doesn't matter. In the first turn Fulgrim should get that first unsaved wound to concuss and after that it gets disgusting. Once Fulgrim concusses Ferrus he gets 12(!) attacks (since sublime swordsman doesn't limit the bonus attacks it can give) hitting on 3+ (8 hits) wounding on 2+ (5.3 wounds) which is a frankly disgusting 3.5 wounds after saves. IWND will take that down to 3.177 but holy shit is Ferrus screwed. He dies after 3 rounds of combat and quite frankly he gets wrecked like a bitch. With Forgebreaker there's a reasonable chance that Fulgrim could take on Horus simply because the combination of sublime swordsman and concussive is just so powerful.'' '''Turns out Fulgrim WAS the better smith, after all.'''
****''It's also worth noting that in the fluff Forgebeaker isn't a '''sword''' so the Sublime '''Sword'''man rule would probably not apply here or at least be amended. Fulgrim would still win anyway but not by such a big margin.

* Ferrus VS Konrad Curze
**Curze hits 4 times, wounds 2.222 times, 0.741 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 1.042 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.709 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus win.
**Note: if Konrad use Hit and Run he can almost completely close the gap, doing 1.018 wounds on the turn he charges (counting his knives and HoW though). but when counting in Ferrus' overwatch he wins anyway. Just not so easily, making this fight akin to that of Ferrus vs Fulgrim, but a lot faster.

* Ferrus VS Vulkan
**Vulkan hits 2 times, wounds 1.666 times, 0.556 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.222 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2 times, 0.667 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.111 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**The fight between the two big tanks end in an almost surprising victory for Vulkan, 'cause even though Ferrus does marginally more damage, Vulkan is a bit tougher.

* Ferrus VS Lorgar
**Lorgar hits 2.5 times, wounds 1.667 times, 0.556 after saves and IWND will take that to 0.222 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.0778 times, 1.389 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.056 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus win.
**Note: as always, psychic powers not included. You know how it would end anyway...

*Ferrus VS Perturabo
**Perturabo hits 2.667 times, wounds 2.222, 0.74 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.694 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**The mirror match! (yes, I used Forgebreaker for both of them. Yeah, I know it is stupid...) In the end Perturabo wins thanks to his WS, since even with one more attack Ferrus hits marginally less times.
**Note: without the hammer(s) Ferrus would defeat Perturabo, 'cause he would wound Perturabo on a 3+ (2+ with the Servo Harm) wounding 1.75 times, with Perturabo wounding him on 4+ and so wounding him 1.333. Guess old Perty could use Fulgrim's hammer better, in the end.

* Ferrus VS Alpharius
**Alpharius hits 2.92 times and wounds 1.136 times, 0.379 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.045 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 1.042 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.709 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus easily win.

* Ferrus VS Rogal Dorn
**Dorn hits 2.667 times, wounds 1.481 times, 0.494 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.16 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 1.667 times, 0.833 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.5 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus win.

* Ferrus VS Corvus Corax
**Corvus hits 4 times (Scourge)/3 times (Shadow-walk), wounds 2.222 times (Scourge)/1.667 times (Shadow-walk), 0.741 wounds (Scourge)/0.556 wounds (Shadow-walk) after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.408/0.222 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus hits 2.5/1.667 times, wounds 2.083/1.389 times, 1.389/0.926 wounds after saves and 1.056/0.592 wounds after IWND.
**Ferrus win.
**Note: if Corax can pull off his tactics of Hit & Run he can close the gap, doing a lot more damage on the charge, but Ferrus' Hammer has Concussive AND Strikedown, and even if Corax use Shadowalk there is a 93% chance he will receive at least one wound, making it almost impossible to rely on this tactics and assuring Ferrus victory.

* Ferrus VS Roboute Guilliman
**Guilliman Round 1: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times (Hand), 0.694 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.778 times, 0.926 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.593 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.542 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.208 at the start of the next turn.
**Ferrus lose this fight. (OUR SPIRITUAL LIEGE ALWAYS WINS)

* Ferrus VS Leman Russ
** Ferrus Round 1: Hits 1.33 times, wounds 1.11 times, saves take that down to 0.555 and IWND brings it down to 0.366.
** Ferrus Round 2: Hits 0.666 times, wounds 0.555 times, saves bring it down to 0.2777 wounds and IWND brings it down to 0.1833.
** Leman: Hits 4.667 times, wounds 2.068, saves bring it down to 0.6827 and IWND brings it down to 0.45604
** A long as hell fight, since Ferrus' high saves make him very hard for Leman to damage, but at the end of the day, his complete inability to damage Leman (after round 2, every wound takes upwards of 5 rounds due to his needing 6s to hit) means that Leman will eventually win. This isn't including Sever Life however, but while Ferrus' is more resistant to it than most (due to T7), it will add on to the damage which means he'll go down faster.

* Ferrus VS Jaghatai
**Jaghatai: hits 4 times, wounds 1.333 times and 0.444 after saves which IWND will take down to 0.111 at the start of next turn
**Ferrus: hits 2 times with Forgbreaker and 0.5 times with his Servo Arm, wounds 1.666 times and 0.333 respectively which after saves becomes a **total of 0.666 wounds after saves which IWND will take down to 0.333 wounds at the start of next turn
**Ferrus outdamages Khan with despite having fewer attacks and so wins, but like Morty takes a long time about it.

* TLDR version: Ferrus is a really tough Primarch that, thanks to his sheer resilience and high strength attack can put up a good fight against any other Primarch, being even capable of taking down the big melee monster that is Angron.
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Perturabo

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[[File:Perturabo_Portrait.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Perturabo's default expression throughout the Great Crusade, that of a man learning his dog shat on the carpet.]]
{{Topquote|Tell them ruin has come to their world, death, despair and red war..."<br>"Tell them their hopes and pride have come to nothing."<br>"Tell them their empty whispers fall upon deaf ears - their gods are dead, human logic has killed them."<br>"Tell them the [[Space Marines|Angels of Death]] have come."<br>"Tell them that nothing can save them now.|The Primarch himself}}
{{Topquote|No one becomes depraved all at once.|Juvenal, Satires}}
{{Topquote|What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? [[RAGE|I'll tell you what you get:]] [[Blam|you get what you fuckin' deserve!]]|[[/co/|The Joker]]}}

'''Perturabo''', also known as '''"The Hammer of [[Olympia]]"''','''"The Lord of Iron"''', '''"The Lord of Shit (according to [[Abaddon]])'''", '''Peter Turbo''', '''Whiny Bitch #1''' and the '''"[[TTS|Petulant Manchild]]"''', is the perturbed [[Primarch]] of the [[Iron Warriors]] and one of the most technologically-inclined of the Primarchs. He can look at a machine, disassemble it, and reassemble it stronger than before in the time it takes [[Magnus]] to cast a spell or [[Angron]] to swing an axe. He was famously cold and distant, having a very hard time relating with people and preferred to work with machinery and pursue his dream of [[Roboute Guilliman|building a great civilization]]. This attitude was not helped during the [[Great Crusade]], as even though he wished to [[Rogal Dorn|build, protect, and be celebrated for it]], the Imperium would never let him do so, as he and his men were tasked with being the Emperor's workhorse\meat grinder Legion because the Legion's famous determination, endurance, and unflinching nature made them best for the job. Over the course of the Great Crusade, Perturabo and his Iron Warriors became increasingly jaded, angry, and wrought with despair at the horrors of war they were expected to face, and were awarded little renown due to the inherently mundane, dangerous, and mechanistic nature of their work, and that's without mentioning their MASSIVE casualties. By the end of the Great Crusade, Perturabo and the Iron Warriors were not the same. Determination turned to stubbornness, endurance turned to numbness, and grit turned to hopeless despair. This, combined with Pert and the Iron Warriors having [[Rogal Dorn|no]] [[Corvus Corax|hope]] [[Roboute Guilliman|of]] [[Fulgrim|renown]], [[Sanguinius|love]], [[Ferrus Manus|or]] [[Horus|respect]] from the Imperium, caused him to give up on his previous dreams of a greater future and turn against the Big E. He is also ''heavily'' hinted to be on the spectrum, whether this means he is a super autist remains to be seen.

When Horus decided to throw his [[Horus Heresy|galaxy-shaking tantrum]], Perturabo already hated his brothers so much he LEAPT at the opportunity to dismantle the Imperial Palace that Dorn built with glee. Unfortunately for him, things did [[Not as Planned|not go as planned,]] so he and his sons were booted back to the [[Eye of Terror]]. Despite currently being a [[Daemon Prince]] of Chaos Undivided, he and his legion don't really care for the [[Chaos Gods]] or their daemons, preferring to crush loyalist scum their own way: [[Land Raider|LOTS]] [[Typhon Heavy Siege Tank|OF]] [[Defiler|BIG]], [[Heldrake|SCARY]], [[Maulerfiend|FEROCIOUS]], [[Forgefiend|SHOOTY]] [[Vindicator|DEATHMACHINES]] [[Predator|OF]] [[Rhino|EVERY]] [[Helbrute|VARIETY]]!!! By the way, [[Ferrus Manus|we've never actually seen a picture of him]] as a Daemon Prince, though he is described as the ultimate [[Obliterator]]. Probably best we don't then.

Do NOT confuse him with [[Ferrus Manus]]
==Origins==
[[File:Past-Pert-Art.jpeg|300px|right|thumb|''"Not just yet. When Terra is ashes... ''then'' you have my permission to die."'']]
Perturabo's first memory is finding himself halfway up a cliff with no idea how or why he got there. All he knew was that he could see this [[Eye of Terror|great ugly spot]] in the sky that seemed to be watching him. Without any other information to go on he climbed the rest of the way and reached the top of the cliff where he found a squad of soldiers waiting to take the boy to their king. When being asked of his origins, Perturabo found that [[Mary Sue|he could speak the language, he knew his own name, was proficient in combat, could merely look upon objects and materials to know their constructive properties, he had an instinctive mastery of mathematics and engineering, could determine people's character like a psychologist just by watching them, and could reason matters of logic and philosophy from the get go.]]

This is what makes Perturabo different from all of his brothers; where each Primarch landed on their world, they spent their formative years being shaped by their experiences and exposure to learning. Where [[Fulgrim]] and [[Sanguinius]] were found as near-helpless babes and raised to appreciate the finer side of art and humanities, Perturabo [[Mary Sue|already knew about artifice and ethics]]. Where [[Lorgar]] and [[Magnus]] were taken in by scholars and practically consumed information until there was nothing left, Perturabo [[Mary Sue|already knew everything in the textbooks and didn't need to be taught]]. Where [[Vulkan]] was raised as the son of a blacksmith and learned craft through apprenticeship, Perturabo's literal first task upon being presented to his "father" was to [[Mary Sue|forge a ''perfect'' sword faster than any craftsman on the planet]]. Perturabo considered himself robbed of the sense of wonder he might have felt at looking on impressive works of art or learning how to do things the long way, if he did not already know how they were created and could critique them.

The only things Perturabo didn't know was what he was doing before he awoke on the cliffside, and why the sky was [[Eye of Terror|watching his every move]]. He was told that before his recollection started, there were tales of a boy descending from the mountains and killing monsters on his own, but Perturabo had no recollection of any of that. So naturally he would appear a bit jaded and suspicious. Why would he already have access to so much information? but why would he have no memory of his past? And why was he the only one who could see that DAMNED INTRUSIVE eye in the sky? This wouldn't be helped when his adoptive "father," Dammekos - Tyrant of Lochos, only seemed to see the opportunity that Perturabo represented, rather than as a son to raise or a brother to be admired. Perturabo was going to be used as a tool of war and he knew it.

The older fluff initially stated that the only lesson Olympia had to teach him was of his own superiority, the truth was much closer than that: with all this inherent knowledge, strength and skill, Perturabo was used as a kind of [[Angron|prize fighter]], paraded against the Tyrant king's enemies, humiliating them with displays of superior artistry, rhetoric and if need be, combat. He beat everyone effortlessly, vehemently refuting their claims of [[Emperor|his divinity]] and thought of them as ignorant fools, even going so far as to recite the story of [[Magnus|Plato's cave]] to demonstrate how wrong they were, though he did concede that he was created by no human artifice, just not gods. He also grew tired of being used endlessly for the pursuit of supremacy, reasoning that his skills could be put towards architecture and engineering, to make a better life for all but instead he was used as a weapon and he resented it. He knew he was better than all of them, but due to the constant political backstabbery of the court, mixed with their [[Ecclesiarchy|retarded religion]], Perturabo was constantly bombarded by pestering Luddites and disbelieving idiots who did not believe what he was capable of, yet he had no way to properly demonstrate it thanks to the technological limitations of the world he was marooned on. He was also still an aloof and arrogant prick; meaning the only person who tried to understand him was Calliphone, his foster sister.

Before he knew the full measure of what he was, Perturabo was a cultivated-scholar and a gentle man of peace. He lived for the utopian ideal of peace, freedom and enlightenment for all mankind and he was all for [[Reasonable Marines|stopping conflicts through diplomacy if at all possible.]] His foster-father was a tyrannical asshole, and dismissed all of Perturabo's artful designs for theatres, museums, bridges as [[Fail|follies]] and kept expecting Perturabo to perform the function of weapon and take over the world for him ''(so his family life was a tad strained)''. After [[Emperor|E-Money]] showed up on the East Side lookin' for his home-boys up in the 'hood, Perturabo had already taken over the planet for his other father and was ready to leave his petty little world in search for greater things. In joining the Imperium, he thought he was home.

Unfortunately for Perturabo, the Imperium was EXACTLY like Olympia, its leader had no real desire for a diplomat/artist/philosopher when all the Emperor wanted was a general. Perturabo's real father was every bit the tyrannical asshole his other parent had been, only thinking to use Perturabo's skills in matters of war, rather than construction and peace... only this "father" was shinier and kinda '''GOD'''like.

[[FAIL|Oh, but Perturabo had already figured out on the day of his first memory that gods couldn't exist and were not worthy of his devotion.]]

==The Great Crusade==
[[File:Perturabo.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Resentment and hatred even Angron could learn from....[[Derp|also, Christ! Look at how tiny his head is...and all that empty space...]]]]

When they first met on the mountains of Olympia, the Emperor looked into Perturabo's mind and named him his '''Lord of Iron'''. He placed enough faith in Perturabo to expect him to do all of the unrelenting, indefatigable and thankless tasks, knowing full-well the starry-eyed Perturabo was entirely sold on this whole "utopia" idea that he would do <u>anything</u> to see it through. So if daddy needed a general, Perturabo was going to damn-well give him a general and Perturabo was going to apply himself in the same clinical, detached and heartless manner that he always did. The utopian dream of the Imperium came first, all other "human" foibles came second.

Compared to his brothers, Perturabo spent a surprisingly short period of time on Terra getting to learn how the Imperium functioned and was put in command of his Legion within a year. Though after he was re-united with his Legion, he went full Tyrant himself. His ''first'' act as Commander was familiarize himself with the history of his Legion; his ''second'' was to enact the ancient tradition of [[Exterminatus|Decimation]], where one-in-ten soldiers ''(determined by lottery)'' would be beaten to death by the other nine. Most of the other Primarchs declared that Perturabo was insane, but the Emperor let it slide as Perturabo's reasoning being: ''"[[What|Not that they had failed... instead they had not reached their potential.]]"'' Therefore it was not enough to be merely superior, but Perturabo decided that his legion should have been supreme. [[Roboute Guilliman]] was particularly critical of this, as he had known several of the Iron Warriors selected to die personally and objected to what he viewed as their unnecessary deaths.

It's worth noting that decimation originally applied to serious offenses like mutiny, or after a humiliating defeat, not because of just being sub-par. However the Legion ''(without their Primarch)'' had just finished the disastrous liberation of Incaladion, a campaign where their own stubbornness and determination to slog through whatever the Crusade could throw at them and doing what other legions couldn't had backfired on them. Their plan unraveled but they continued anyway, throwing more and more bodies at the problem until it finally caved in. This lead to immense casualties in a single engagement - some 29,000 frontline units, including many veterans of the legion, and something like 2 million imperial army soldiers. It was deemed unnecessarily costly, and both damaged and shamed the Legion's largest expeditionary fleet. So that was a humiliating victory, rather than a humiliating defeat that led to Perturabo calling for decimation. The casualties from this campaign also meant that Perturabo only met about 35,000 of his sons (with about half that number again scattered around the galaxy), meaning the decimation casualties were about three and a half thousand. While this does put things a little bit in perspective and somewhat provides a justification for such punishment, it was still a needlessly brutal and asshole-ish move.

At the time of the Crusade, Perturabo was a busy boy, building citadels and forts on the planets that he had conquered, leaving always a little of his forces behind. In the end it became a stereotype that the Iron Warriors had the best army for sieges. He was also kept far away by the other Primarchs, mainly because Perturabo had so much badass technology they did not possess, but also because Big E wasn't too keen on having him ramble on about all this "democracy and peace" garbage. Perturabo had a big hard-on for Leonardo Da Vinci and spent much time searching the ruins of Old Earth for copies of his surviving journals, gathering his hidden papers and learning of the works he pursued in private. If the Emprah had named Perturabo his Praetorian and given him at least a share of the job fortifying the Imperial Palace, the Lord of Iron would've been a far happier camper.

What's also known about him is his rivalry with [[Rogal Dorn]]. What we know about these two is that their quarrels were equivalent to the typical sibling rivalry. While Dorn is [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Daddy's]] Golden boy, Perturabo serves as the incredibly jealous brother who just wants to tear his brother limb from limb. Another reason why he was jealous of Dorn was due to Perturabo considering himself an architect and builder but was left destroying everything instead while Dorn did what Perturabo wanted to be doing. The most iconic incident occurred when Fulgrim asked Dorn if he could build a fortress that Perturabo couldn't crack; Dorn answered "Yes" and Perturabo threw a fit and left. Dorn also said this of Perturabo, ''"Perturabo throws men at walls. If the Araakites (opponents of that campaign) so much as thought a wall he would pelt it with our legionaries as if there were no other way."'' Perturabo also had an inferiority complex and was frustrated by the limited opportunities he and his Legion got to prove themselves - as creatives they actually relished garrison duty, trying to build the cleverest and most impenetrable strongholds. When they went on campaign, they almost always ended up besieging the toughest fortresses opposing the Imperium and vented their frustration by massacring the defenders. This also tipped into ganging up with Horus on his brothers; at the battle of Gate 44, Perturabo accused [[Corvus Corax]] of cowardice for not wanting to march his men into a meat-grinder assault. Considering Perturabo had a hard-on for following orders without question, even if it meant death, one can see why he bitched at Corax. Unsurprisingly, this put Corvus (and probably Russ) off working with him for good, which pissed Perturabo off even more. As far as he was concerned, hurt feelings was no reason for not functioning as a proper soldier, brothers or not. Corvus, Russ, and some other Primarchs strongly leaned towards caring more about personal relations than stone-cold professionalism.

Because of this, Perturabo never got any recognition from the civilization he served for decades. Even the likes of Corvus and the Khan found it easier to gain a reputation as heroes because they got chances to perform their deeds out in the open in front of their fellow Legions and the Imperial Army (well, you didn't see Corvus do anything, but you suddenly realized that the hostile world wasn't hostile any more, and there were still inhabitants to integrate into the Imperium). The likes of [[Angron]] and [[Mortarion]] might not have been seen as heroes, but their feats of arms were sure as shit witnessed. If anyone saw the Iron Warriors doing anything it was either camping on an enemy's doorstep for weeks on end whilst sending Army units to "identify the least defended spots", or butchering the locals after kicking the door down. All this made poor old Pert more and more frustrated.

In a foreshadow of the Imperium's future stupidity, Perturabo never tried doing things the Imperial Fist way of directing the Legion's might against a weak point in enemy defenses to swiftly smash through and win. This is, in fact, how the Imperial Fists got their name and a large part of how they were able to Crusade so quickly and successfully.

All the same, '''despite chastising his Legion for throwing men at walls when meeting them''', he refused to alter his Legion's ways and kept on throwing more men at more walls. And after having refused to take advice from his brothers, he sure as shit wouldn't take any from his sons. The Legion's preeminent [[Warsmith]], [[Barabas Dantioch]], having seen half his Grand Company lost in a campaign against the Hrud and become crippled and prematurely aged by the xenos' entropic powers, questioned the Primarch's choices during the campaign. Suddenly Dantioch was not Perturabo's favored son anymore and was left to rot on permanent garrison duty as a result. Insult to injury, this meant that the disgraced Warsmith was now busy building a unique fortress and generally enjoying his life; exactly the kind of work Perturabo wanted to be doing.

In the Hrud campaign Perturabo refused to retreat, even as the Iron Warriors were '''LOSING HORRIBLY.''' Dantioch's lieutenant even advised retreating over holding a position that was impossible to hold. When Dantioch's aged frame bowed in failure before Pert, the primarch thought Dantioch was weak for failing. Meanwhile Dantioch spoke only that they should have retreated, that even their victories were making the Hrud fight harder. The only thing that saved the Iron Warriors was a supply ship from Olympia with news.

At this point, it could be easily argued that Perturabo was deliberately acting terrible at crusading because he just hated doing it and was hoping Emps or [[Malcador]] would notice how much he was putting on a struggle to get shit accomplished and assign him to anything else. After all, for all of his over the top Mary Sue shit, there's legitimately no reason that a mathematical and philosophical savant, let alone a <i>Primarch</i>, should ever have trouble with field tactics. The Hrud problem could've been solved with a simple orbital bombardment but Pert insisted instead that his legion push themselves into the atrophy meat grinder on the ground only to end up accomplishing nothing in the end anyway. Pair that with the unprecedented squash match he had with Dorn in the Iron Cage, it seems like he's only as incompetent at combat as he's motivated to be.

Also, the rest of his brothers treated him like shit and called him a stupid hick (except [[Sanguinius]], best of men; [[Magnus the Red|Magnus]], who appreciated Perturabo's scholarly side; [[Horus]], who gets along with everyone; and [[Lorgar]] who was not in a position to despise anyone). He and his legions never got credit for their work, and even when they did it was in a half-assed kind of way. That fight with Corax above ''also'' saw him cracking an orbital defense that had withstood assaults by three different Legions, historians [[troll| recorded him as "a nameless comrade-at-arms that calculated the most efficient attack vector."]] He held it all in for a long, long time, until, after a grueling three-part campaign in which the Iron Warriors, Blood Angels, and Imperial Fists all ganged up on a Fortress World, Rogal Dorn was given a medal, Perturabo was given nothing, and a master artist showed him a master-work of a painting depicting the battle, in which the Imperial Fists won a heroic victory while the Iron Warriors were '''literally''' ground face-first into the mud (then again, looking at Pert's favorite tactics, it's probably accurate). In truth, it showed a IV Legion apothecary giving a stricken warrior the Emperor's Peace, with an Imperial Fists flag in the background, but there was only one way Pert could interpret it. Perturabo actually bought that painting, then ''[[rage|burned it, stamped on it and pissed on it]]'', and then when Dorn went to the artist to commission a second one, the painter wisely refused for fear of the same happening to him. And that painting, as they say, was the straw that broke the camel's back.

''Weeeell'', strictly speaking that wasn't the ''final'' straw. That came when Olympia rose up against Imperial rule. With a little egging on from [[Word Bearers]] Chaplains sent by [[Lorgar]] to manipulate them into heresy, the Iron Warriors crushed the uprisings in a time-honored way: kill them all and let Big E sort them out! It wasn't quite Curze destroying Nostromo, but it was still pretty damn genocidal and tipped Perturabo over the edge; especially when he murdered Calliphone in a fit of rage after she pointed out that his flaws and refusal to listen to others led to his homeworld's rebellion. And when [[Horus]] came to him telling him it wasn't that bad because ultimately might makes right, Pert turned his back on the Imperium without much second thought.

==Horus Heresy==
{{topquote|The Imperium is my father's folly. I try to believe in it because I want it to be true, just like I wanted my great buildings to be true, and the perfect societies that would use them to exist. But they cannot be. There is no such thing as perfection, humanity is too chaotic to accept true order.|Perturabo, after sacking Olympia. 000.M31 and passing blame for his own bad choices, as usual.}}

He joined Horus and the other Traitor Legions during the Horus Heresy when they promised him that he would be forgiven for his actions on Olympia in exchange for his loyalty. At first, he tried to get revenge on Dorn by annihilating his Retribution Fleet, but that didn't work out too well since bad intel left him expecting the fleet would be led by [[Sigismund]] where it was led by [[Alexis Polux]] instead. Then, after licking his wounds (and becoming increasingly paranoid), he went on a joint operation with the Emperor's Children on the premise they'd go look for a super-weapon or other Fulgrim had heard rumors of that would tip the balance in Horus' favor. Pert wasn't really impressed, but Fulgrim promised him he'd let Pert get the accolades for finding and using the thing so he agreed. In the end, [[troll|he was nearly killed by Fulgrim]] when the latter tried to [[Pretend|suck the life out of him]] to aid his ascension to [[Daemon Prince|Princedom]]. This didn't help with his paranoia, and the best part? Him smashing Fulgrim's face [[rage|in anger]] when he realized he'd been trolled [[just as planned|finally triggered Fulgrim's ascension]]. Suffice to say that after that Pert got really tired of that shit, so he joined Horus for the assault on Terra (something he both understood and relished). He supervised the Iron Warriors as they bombed the shit out of Terra, and also the main siege, taking much pleasure in breaking the Emperor's Palace's walls down with the aid of traitor Titan Legions and the other traitor Astartes. However, Horus lost and they all fled to the Eye of Terror like little bitches.

===Iron Cage Trolling===
[[File:DemonicFortress.png|thumb|right|[http://gunshowcomic.com/471 You come across a seemingly well-fortified daemonic fortress! Defenses as far as the eye can see!]]]But before fleeing he performed one of the greatest acts of trolling in the entire fluff, called the "Eternal Fortress". A trap set for the [[Imperial Fists]] who wanted to take revenge on Perturabo who claimed to be residing in the Central Keep of the Fortress. Surrounding the Fortress was a 20 kilometer killzone, filled with mine fields, traps, bunkers, trenches, and every other kind of base defense imaginable in order to make the assault on the keep a very costly affair. This was intended to bleed the Imperial Fists dry for when they reached the actual fortress. This was made more effective by the fact that the Imperial Fist's fleet was kept busy dealing with the Iron Warriors' fleet, preventing them from providing effective orbital support to Dorn's forces on the ground, isolating them all the more.

When the Imperial Fists DID manage to get to the keep, after wading through twenty miles (or maybe kilometers...) of killing ground and losing a great deal of their forces in the process, they found out the Central Keep was *plot twist* empty! (Except for the various inward-pointing guns aimed directly at the Imperial Fists, essentially trapping them inside the fortress.) This caused Rogal Dorn to become a normal man after getting trolled: Sad, broken and [[RAGE|RAGED]]. But before the Imperial Fists even got out of the mess they had get shot at for three weeks before getting saved by none other than the great heroes of the Imperium, the *cough* [[Ultramarines|Ultrasmurfs]] *cough*. So then the Iron Warriors, realizing they couldn't beat both legions at the same time, decided to instead deny the Imperial Fists from recovering their fallen brothers' gene seed by essentially ''nuking the entire fucking planet.'' 400 were never recovered and dealing a great blow to the Fists' ability to replenish their numbers after the assault. The Iron Warriors obtained the [[gene-seed]] of hundreds of Imperial Fists and sacrificed it to the Chaos Gods, who showed their gratitude by elevating Perturabo to the position of Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided. (Well not all of it. Some of this gene-seed was used to create a few IF/IW half-breeds (may be with a little [[Fabius Bile|Fabulous]] support), including the [[Honsou|evilest motherfucker of the 41st millennium]].)

Loyalist corpsefuckers claim that Perturabo hesitated to slay Rogal Dorn, because "Only through his self-sacrifice could he break the Emprah's Champion!". Since FW gave rules to both of them, we now do know that Pert has nice chances against Dorn, if they both start on an even foot. Which they weren't on Sebastus, given Pert spent weeks of the Iron Cage siege laughing at countless Fists being blasted by heavy ordnance, and Dorn spent them fighting 24/7 without rest and repair to his weapon/armor, watching his beloved sons being slaughtered by the hundreds in a totally unmanly and unfair way. And of course, let's not forget the much more preferable and easily available option to just shoot the fuck out of Dorn with some crazy big and powerful guns Pert had in abundance, since Dorn was already trapped in the crossfire without any cover [[Grimdark|but the corpses of his fallen sons]] - few D-blasts in the face is enough to end any Primarch, save Horus and Lorgar.

Plus Perturabo would have known that killing Dorn would have made him a martyr throughout the Imperium. He'll go down in history as the mighty primarch who went down trying to take one of foul arch-traitors of chaos down, nobody will question that and people will take Dorn as a hero who fought to the last. But, bloody his sons, utterly humiliate him, and cause him to fail his sworn objective all the while leaving him alive to face the shame? Dorn doesn't go down as a hero, he's just a man who boasted big, got tactically outsmarted by his prey, and utterly defeated for his troubles, a much bigger blow than simply pulling the trigger of his super weapon and ending it there. '''''Instead, this actually caused Dorn and the Fists to become even more famous and loved throughout the Imperium as everyone saw it as the Dorn and his Imperial Fists cleansing themselves in the fires of war to be reborn anew.'''''

==Post Heresy==
While his brothers don't do all that much, Perturabo doesn't sit on his ass all day. In 400.M32, he single-handedly annihilated the forge world of Toil in eight days. With [[Nurgle]]'s help, he unleashed a machine-plague that transformed the planet's factories into walking monstrosities while causing Daemon Engine-spewing cables to burst out of the ground. This makes him the most deadly hacker to ever exist. And he also helped [[Abaddon]] fuck up the [[Iron Hands]] during the 10th [[Black Crusade]] (possibly because he was sick of people getting the Iron Warriors and the Iron Hands mixed up all the time), making him the only Daemon Primarch to actually participate in a Black Crusade.

After the Great Rift appeared to fuck shit up, Perturabo led the Iron Warriors to besiege Segmentum Obscurus worlds as he had been planning and attack planet Dysactis. However, the Death Guard had the same idea too and were attacking. What's more was that they were led by Mortarion. As to be expected the two Primarchs had a grand old family reunion (a big fight). The duel lasted for seven hours but Mortarion managed to beat Perturabo and drive him off. Being the salty Primarch he is, Perturabo detonated a series of explosives before he left.

==Personality==
{{topquote|I am not a man, I am far more.|Perturabo}}
{{topquote|In those words is the poison that spoils your potential.|Perturabo's sister, before he killed her}}
Perhaps out of all the primarchs, Pert is the most wildly inconsistent with depictions of him varying between Black Library authors. His motives, values and behaviors change between books, constantly contradicting any attempt at a general encapsulation of character. The only consistent trait is a mercurial disposition and ever-ruling sense of resentment. As a result, he has been stuck with the moniker of being a raging autist- to the chagrin of Iron Warriors fans everywhere.

In "Crimson Fist", Perturabo was portrayed as a Saturday-morning villain who flips his shit when a flunky brings him bad news. His emotions range from [[Stupid Evil|"hand-wringing evil"]] to [[BBEG|"I'll get you next time"]]. Thanks, John French.

In the third Forge World Horus Heresy book "Extermination", Perturabo is a cold, resentful bastard who the moment he was re-united with his Legion had it decimated for not being the best, then wondered how his legion still wasn't as good as the Dark Angels, Ultramarines and Luna Wolves, [[Fail|and why no-one liked him.]] As an aside the FW books are co-written by John French. The Forge World Imperial Armour Volume 13 Book also mentions a civil war between the Iron Warriors in M34 that, in-universe, is suspected to have been instigated by the Daemon Primarch Perturabo to weed out the weak amongst his scions. Some pieces of lore however, like the pre-Primarch IVth's Siege of [[Forge World|Incaladion]], hint at an underlying genetic quirk.

Guy Haley's novel "Hammer of Olympia" portrays Perturabo as an idealistic but staggeringly narcissistic renaissance man, seeing himself alone worthy of bettering humanity and the courts of Olympia holding him back. Brooding and resentful, he is inward and self-serving, even if he has convinced himself otherwise. He does a total 180 in the last 25 something pages of the book after smashing Olympia without hesitation.

[[Graham McNeill]] presents him in "Angel Exterminatus" as a vastly intelligent, very meticulous man who resented his legion's treatment at the Emperor's hands, but refuses to consider himself a "traitor" as opposed to the Emperor's "Loyalists". He came to the conclusion of joining Horus' side logically, but he hates himself for it and resents the circumstances that "forced" him to make the decision. Pride, endurance and commitment to excellence are both the strengths that make his legion and the vices that guaranteed his damnation.

McNeill's Perturabo is shown to possess loads of teeth-grinding, under-the-surface, passive aggressive, subtle rage, particularly where he buys hundreds of house-sized paintings of his own men and has them all burned. The painting in question that he had destroyed was one that showed a Legion Apothecary administering the Emperor's Mercy to an Iron Warrior, in the mud and grimy fields of a conquered fortress. In the background of the painting there was an [[Imperial Fists|Imperial Fists flag]] waving over the fortress. This just shows that Perturabo possesses an all-consuming hatred for Dorn, and in every waking moment he lives, breathes, and shits the thought that Dorn is somehow better than him. Which when put into context of his upbringing where he ''knew'' he was better than everyone else but had to constantly had to face the questions and doubts of lesser men while being unable to fulfill his potential, you can appreciate Perturabo's seething frustration when being stuck on fringes of the Great Crusade getting all of the shit jobs, while other brothers like [[Horus]] and Dorn get all the good jobs and hence the glory. Until you remember that nobody forced or ordered him to do so, they simply ''asked'' him to because he was so skilled at it and he accepted in the hopes that being a doormat would get his Legion some glory and people to like him. Interestingly enough, this might be a genetic flaw rather than pure personality, as hinted by the Forge World black books. Also, according to some sources, [[Emperor|Big-E]] viewed Primarchs as tools to be used, instead of normal human beings with free will, feelings and passions, so we can add Emperor's general retardation to the reasons of his fall as well.

As an extension of this, he's prone to premeditated acts of calculated destruction and cruelty to get one over on his brothers: one example is where Fulgrim fucked around one too many times on campaign, Pert invited Fulgrim into his inner sanctum to show him a clockwork [[Warhound Scout Titan]] only to smash Fulgrim's pretty face into the guts of the machine; that Warhound was intricate, made of dozens of hundreds of thousands of tiny parts, and fully-functional, complete with the ability to move and fire miniature laser cannons. He also had schematics of huge, wondrous buildings that he was the architect of, and a clockwork Phoenix that he spent over a century constructing by hand and even wrote the code of an AI from scratch for it. It was a master-piece in itself and Perturabo was willing to break his brother's face on it to make a point. A second example during the Great Crusade in the McNeill's novel "Magnus the Red" is where spends what must have been a long time painstakingly crafting a psychic sextant device at Magnus' request, only to smash it in front of Magnus because he knew exactly what it was for, for this Magnus outright called him cruel but Perturabo's response was that he needed to illustrate the Emperor's warning against delving too deep into the warp and simply <u>saying</u> as much wouldn't have done any good, [[Konrad Curze|so being cruel was the quickest option.]] Surprisingly showing a great deal of loyalty and obedience to the Emperor in the process despite his attitude. Also, as Monarchia showed, the Emperor's methods were pretty similar to Perturabo's when it came to teaching people a lesson. Unsurprisingly, the results and peoples' reactions to their methods were similar as well.

Perturabo seems to [[Mortarion|look down on Chaos]] in general, rejecting the opportunity to become a daemon prince of Nurgle by slaying the Lunar Wolves turned Plague Marines who offered it to him. Then he mocked Daemon Prince Angron for <i>somehow</i> becoming weaker than he was as a mortal Primarch, even causing Angron to literally <i>shrink</i> as he continued shittalking him to his face, noting that Angron's strength didn't belong to him and was only as good as the wanton slaughter he wrought on a given planet and concluding with "You think I would let your kind wield your weapons against me? I have taken their measure." just before spamming a torrent of ammo in Angron's face followed by curb stomping him with [[Ferrus Manus|Forge Breaker]]. Funny how he became a Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided. Though given that Fulgrim literally stole part of his life force to become a Daemon Prince himself, the remainder of which was only getting weaker as noted upon by the aforementioned Nurgle Wolves, probably forced Pert's hand under the caveat that he could retain some independence if he were dedicated to the Ruinous Powers as a whole rather than as an avatar of a single Chaos deity. If [[Malal]] were still a thing, Perturabo would've probably been slated to become his Daemon Prince instead, right after [[Konrad Curze]] and the 11th Primarch.

Simplicity is the key, expedience the goal. His is a mind entirely composed of mathematical equations, looking at the world around him in angles and percentages, statistics and numbers. Emotion is unwelcome, an unfactorable variable, but it's always there, the ghost that haunts his finely tuned thoughts; again in "Magnus the Red" by McNeill, his actions on the planet Morningstar would dispassionately leave millions of refugees to die simply because he could not afford to save them all, all because they fell on the wrong side of his equation. He had even argued with his brother Magnus about the realities of war and the need to avoid sentimentality in decision making. He would later admit to one of his commanders (Barban Falk, THE WARSMITH) that he is deeply affected by his emotions and was itching to find those responsible for his choices and punish them, later becoming exceptionally angry when he discovered that the planetary elite were responsible for the catastrophe and he labelled their treachery against the Emperor as utterly unforgivable ''(no doubt foreshadowing his own personal opinion about joining the Horus Heresy)'' He also admitted that he could not be ''seen'' to be emotional because he had a reputation to consider.

Perturabo was detached from his own men. He had his '''Trident''': a cadre of officers similar to Horus own '''Mournival''', though he didn't like any of them and considered replacing them, which begs the question of why he even had them. You think the Lion had people problems? At least his men could appreciate his elegant brilliance along with his ruthlessness so that any losses were weighed against gains. Perturabo was a brute force machine: victory was a positive in his arithmetic of war, failure was negative; therefore to him, any cost was worth the price of winning. He illustrated this when he decimated his legion in the beginning days. His men took the lesson to heart but became hardened because of it. Officers felt disdain for the lives of their own men and scheming became rife within his legion, all scrabbling for supremacy and the attentions of their masters to prove themselves worth keeping. Where other leaders might rule through [[Horus|force of personality]] or [[Konrad Curze|fear of reprisal]], Perturabo led through indifference, expecting the dream of Imperium to speak for itself.

Perturabo buried his dreams and his heart on Olympia's ridges, and then willingly cut all emotional ties and dived into Hell, all because he truly believed in his father's utopian dream of Imperium. He would do anything his father asked of him in order to achieve it. He murdered millions, because his father asked him to. He broke empires, shattered armies, and his Legion bore the most grievous wounds and losses, because his father asked him to. And he ignored the implications of it all, because his Father asked him to. Do you honestly believe none of this ground into his long lost humanity, the empty core of his being that he cut out, because his Father asked him to?

He is War-Broken. We're talking about God-Level post-traumatic mental disorder here. Perturabo can't control his emotions at times. He stares out at nothingness, and speaks to his past. One moment, he's unreachable, and the next he's ripping your head off because you brought him bad news. He can become utterly lost in fine details, both in crafting weaponry, and tearing down citadels. It calms him, returns his mind back to the emotionless numbers that represent hundreds of thousands of his sons dying. The further detached he became from reality, the further he tried to hide from the horror he was crafting, the worse his emotions got.

And Perturabo buried that shit. To admit the hurt and the fatigue would be to admit he was human, something imperfect; To acknowledge the dropping morale of his men would be to admit that they were weak when they should be strong. So he did the only thing his sensibilities would allow him to do: He moved forward. He got the job done, and the next, and the next and the one after that. He kept doing what his father asked from him, because that's what "Perturabo" would do, the Primarch who shouldered burdens without complaint, who did the jobs no-one else wanted.

Olympia was the line crossed. His mind broke, his heart broke, and he became the Monster he ran from his whole life.

Because his Father asked him to.

===Capabilities===

As mentioned earlier, Perturabo was born with the innate knowledge of pretty much all practical and metaphysical sciences, which pretty much sets him apart from all of his brothers in that he had no "real" childhood, no trial and error period of learning. On <u>his first day</u> he was debating ''(and dismissing)'' the nature of religion with his planet's wise men, and was master-crafting swords better than most smiths. You'd reckon being born knowing everything would stunt your emotional growth. Yes, other Primarchs like Angron, the Lion or Kurze got a pretty raw start but for better or worse they learned to adapt and rise to greatness ''(or infamy)''. Perturabo started off already being as good as he was going to get, though it would take time for his body to grow strong, his mind was already at its peak, and he had to spend decades on a shitty little back-water planet with no appreciable resources with which to build an empire the same way that [[Roboute Guilliman|Guilliman]] or [[Rogal Dorn|Dorn]] did, all the while having to slap down naysayers telling him that his fantasies of advanced engineering and space-travel were impossible.

As to his mind, if a comparison could be made, then he was probably just as intelligent as Guilliman, if not more so due to the seeming wide range of his capabilities. ''(Guilliman was renowned neither as philosopher, smith or artisan)'' As a military strategist Perturabo could plan a campaign from start to finish in his mind, using the arithmetic of war; where Guilliman could orchestrate a flawless battle-plan from the command center, [[Video_Games|Perturabo would enact it himself by plugging straight into the data feeds and absorbing all the info at once, circumventing the chain of command and issuing orders directly to squads, taking direct control of gun turrets and mechanised units and plotting their firing trajectories, even taking over starship systems and running them himself.]]

Thus lies the problem: Perturabo is a general as much as [[Neckbeard|any player of Warhammer 40,000 is a "general"]]: he [[Stat block|sees the battlefield in terms of units with stat blocks]]; that every soldier can be [[Warhammer 40,000|reduced to a number based on his armament or capability]] which would [[Powergamer|factor in to his arithmetic of war]]. Even Guilliman recognised the [[Dice | random nature]] of war and how small moments of heroism could change the flow of battle; other generals could trust their men to follow their orders to the best of their abilities and even exceed them from time to time and pull off something spectacular. On the other hand, in sincerely believing in his own superiority Perturabo would micromanage everything and instead remove the agency of his officers and men. His soldiers would never get their chance to succeed or fail on their own terms and were essentially reduced to minis on a tabletop. Which in turn would make his men paranoid, wondering if they would be thrown away into the grinder or be blamed for failure when they couldn't match Perturabo's expectations.

As an unwelcome revelation to the Mechanicum, Perturabo was quite capable of understanding binaric machine code, even when blurted out in its lightning fast audible form, something that would otherwise not be possible without some form of implants, to the point that tech priests unfamiliar with Perturabo would not actually believe it and be in for a shock when they attempted to use it in his presence. ''(Yet another example of Perturabo being underestimated)''

Of all the Primarchs, Perturabo is the most misused of all. He was the only person in the Imperium of Man with his [[Jokaero|savant-esque technical expertise]]; he can read & write binary fluently by heart, he's a master mathematician and engineer, he programmed a new AI from scratch for a Warhound Scout Titan that he hand-built from the ground-up, all things that the Mechanicum and greater Imperium are in dire need of constantly. Nobody, not [[Magnus]] nor [[Ferrus Manus]] or [[Belisarius Cawl]] could compare with his technical mastery, which remains unparalleled to the current millennium. Instead of assigning this literal Primarch-savant to research and development so nobody would have to waste time and energy kissing a machine spirit's ass for hours on end just to do <i>something</i>, the Emperor saw fit to just throw Pert at walls.

All things considered, the only siege battle Perturabo should have ever fought would be a campaign on the bowels of Mars to purge it of all Archeotech bullshit like the Men of Iron, then emerge as a genuine hero & receive the accolades and recognition he would rightly deserve. Then put him to task on unfucking Mars' broken-ass atmosphere so the planet can flourish again, followed by putting him to task on creating STC's for brand new weaponry & AI to completely overwrite all the shitty machine spirits that have no place in holding the Imperium back from [[AWESOME|full-throttle badassery]]. Would it piss the Mechanicum off? Probably, but what right would they <i>really</i> have to complain about innovation after the Omnissiah's son just fixed two of their planet's worst problems? If anything, it would endear the populace of Mars to the Emperor more than ever and give Perturabo a purpose bigger than walking an army into a meat grinder over and over. [[grimderp|But you can't have a grimdark story without enormous potential being wasted fucking everywhere, now can you?]] [[Horus Heresy|To make an omelette, you gotta break eggs.]]

Unknown to anyone else, Perturabo had always possessed a strange connection to the Eye of Terror - for some reason, he could sense it from anywhere in the galaxy, and he became convinced that it was constantly watching and judging his every action. The resulting inferiority complex wasn't really helped by the fact that when he tried ask others if they could see the Eye, they assumed he was hallucinating. ''(Ironically, he was actually the one to give the Eye its current name- before then, it was called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1 Cygnus X-1].)''

===Outside the box===
Oh, Perturabo enjoyed playing [[Warhammer 40000]], and no, we're not kidding; his legion's warrior lodge had a whole bunch of tables set up where they could all play scenarios against each other and see whose tactics and armies would win, proving that the [[Iron Warriors]] are [[Neckbeards]] (which would go a long way towards explaining why the IV Legion was so embittered). Perturabo himself owned an awesome perpetual-motion powered clockwork [[Warhound Scout Titan]] ''(I'd buy <s>one!</s> <s>three!!</s> ALL OF THEM!!!!!)'' which he facepalmed [[Fulgrim]] with (at the cost of the model) just to prove a point. [[Derp|What if he had a model of himself, then played with the model, but the model was made 30,000 years before him? Is there a GeeDubbs in 40k?]] [[what|Are we living in a board game to be made in the future?]] [[Derp|Would the]] [[Just as planned|events of 40k go as they where lore wise? Is Geedubbs Tzeentch? Is everyone under control of Tzeentch?]]

If you want to know, "Perturabo" is the name the nice lil' Perty chose for himself after reading some ancient texts predating the Age of Strife (or climbing out of his pod, depending on the story). Given GW's freaky love for kitchen pseudo Latin, we can assume it to be a deformation of the verb ''per'''d'''urabo'', meaning "I shall endure". Best predictive name ever if you consider the mountain of shit his bros and the Emprah threw on him before the Heresy... Or it could be a deformation of the verb '''perturbō''' meaning "I confuse, disturb, perturb, trouble, alarm". Or maybe both, making it a surprisingly good pun by GW standards. It's maybe also of note, that 'perdurabo' is the cult-name Aleister Crowley got when he entered the Golden Dawn, no mere coincidence, I would assume!

Also noted that his name sounds fairly close to the spanish word perturBaDo which is just 2 letters away and means "being disturbed", and applies amazingly well when you consider that this guy lived in permanent paranoia and was forced to watch the eye of terror almost from birth.

Or maybe said "Ancient texts" were some 40K material meaning he [[what|named himself after himself]].

==Tabletop==
{| class=wikitable
! || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
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| '''Perturabo:''' || 8 || 6 || 7 || 6 || 6 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/3++
|}

At 490 points when kitted out with [[Ferrus Manus|Forgebreaker]] he's the third most expensive Primarch after [[Horus]] and [[Magnus]]. But he's worth it.

[[Image:PerturaboPrimarchoftheIronWarriors03.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Fuck your Cerastus [[Emprah]] ! Buy another one, ya rich muthafucka! FUCK YOUR CERASTUS EMPRAH, FUCK YOUR CERASTUS! [[Chaos|DARKNESS! DARKNESS!]]]]
On his own merits, he's sort of what you'd get if you crossed the rules of Horus with Ferrus Manus.
Like Manus, his armour is a veritable bag of tricks, although less killy overall since he has fewer attacks and the hammer is unwieldy. Though you can choose to hit things with his fists if you don't want to use/bring the hammer, in which case he strikes as hard as a plasma gun. Also rather than carrying an arsenal of ranged weapons he has practically every item of wargear attached, making him much more of a support character since he can teleport and then bring on other teleporting dudes around himself. Units cannot infiltrate around him and the unit he's with can use Interceptors on enemy units arriving by deep strike. Finally, his armor also lets you refrain from shooting to give a squad +1 BS ''(due to Cognis Signum)'' which depending on your play style may actually occur more than you realize, since his own gun is only 24" range. On top of that, all of his attacks benefit from Wrecker and Tank Hunters, so any mechanized list he's up against will be in for a world of pain.

For what he gives to everyone else, his whole army gains a bit more of a close combat focus by becoming Stubborn which makes them very difficult to shift and they also all gain Furious Assault when in the enemy deployment zone, though you may not necessarily have built your army to fully utilize this since Iron Warriors tend to have [[dakka|all the guns]]. He can also make all other terminators deep-striking via teleportation ''(including siege terminators)'' though he does not make them into troops like [[Horus]] does. Like Horus, he has a wrist mounted gun (with Rending, no less) and he also has an Orbital Strike, which is slightly less powerful compared to Horus' (and lacks the Lance rule), but compensates by being Ordnance D3 instead of Ordnance 1.

He also lets you bring him on turn 1 with his squad (6 iron circle anyone?) without the need to roll. Arguably not as good, however if you roll on the personal traits and get outflank, this could be Perty with 6 iron circle body guard arriving turn 1 via outflank, and unless the enemy has paid for 54 Sigismunds, you'll be sitting pretty - not to mention the 30 BS5 heavy bolter shots that have pinning and an orbital strike. This also works well as if you take a squad of tyrants in reserve, they can deep strike without scattering on turn 2 (provided you roll a 3+) and reign fire down with a hefty 10 (20 if you're a dick) blasts within the enemies deployment zone.
[[File:Pert's_Tormentor.PNG|thumb|left|The Tormentor]]
All this said, he's really expensive and has no reliable way to break tarpits. Furthermore, while Deep Striking Termies and Furious Charge in the enemy deployment zone are good, they don't really capitalize on the strong points of the Iron Warriors. It's possible to use The Ironfire to build a list that makes use of his rules, but it's annoying that he tries to force his sons to take on new roles instead of focusing on dakka.

In games of 3000+ points or more, he can spend 600 points to use his special Dedicated Transport, the "Tormentor"- a buffed out Shadowsword with a void shield, a 15-model transport capacity, and a rear access point. It only has one set of sponsons, but with it's special rule '''Torment''' you won't care, since if you fire all your weapons at the same target, you get both Monster and Tank Hunter.

===Perturabo VS other Primarchs:===
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Primarch fighting, while fun to see, isn't a very competitive thing to do as it'll usually tie up both Primarchs for the entire game without either of them dying. With that in mind this section is about how Perturabo fares against other Primarchs Mathhammer wise. Please note that all the various abilities are taken into accounts when possible and the match-ups assume the Primarchs are the only ones involved in the fighting, so various abilities like Angron's "The Butcher's Nails" and Rampage do not provide any bonuses. In essence, the fights are supposed to happen in a "Vacuum" for simplicity, but notes are added to make things clearer in particular instances. Also all of the Primarch use their most powerful weapons (because why have a contest if you don't do your best?). So he is obviously armed with Forgebreaker. Also do note that Forgebreaker is an incredible weapon for Primarch vs Primarch duelling, giving him an edge against every other Primarch thanks to the combination of Strikedown, Concussive AND Blind, but the rules are only taken into account against Primarchs that he wouldn't be able to beat without, for (my) simplicity.
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* Perturabo VS Horus
**Horus hits 3 times (Talon), wounds 2.667 times, 0.889 after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.556 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Horus (Blinded) hits 2 times (Talon), wounds 1.778 times, 0.593 after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.256 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo hits 2 times, wounds 1.667 times, 0.556 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.222.
**Perturabo (with Horus Blinded) hits 2.667 times, wounds 2.222, 0.741 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Well well well. So, finally a real challenger has appeared? This fight would actually seem to pend in favor of Perturabo! Then you remember that Horus negates any effect that would adversely modify his characteristic profile with a 3+. Try again another time, Perty.

* Perturabo VS Angron
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 4.444 times, 1.48 after saves, and IWND take it down to 1.148.
**Angron Round 2 and thereafter: hits 4 times, wounds 3.333 times, 1.111 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo hits 2 times, wounds 1.667 times, 0.69 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron wins.
**Note: actually in the turn after Perturabo actually wounds Angron (69% per round) he will most probably be blinded and then hammered to death. So if he can't kill him before that (not easy) he is actually dead meat.

* Perturabo vs Mortarion
**Mortarion hits 2.5 times, wounds 1.666 times, 0.555 wounds after saves and 0.222 wounds after IWND.
**Perturabo hits 2.666 times, wounds 2.222 times, 1.111 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.555 wounds at the start of the next turn
**Perturabo wins.

* Perturabo vs Fulgrim
**Fulgrim Round 1: hits 4.5 times, wounds 3 times, 1 wounds after saves and 0.667 wounds after IWND.
**Fulgrim Round 2 and thereafter: hits 3 times, wounds 2 times, 0.667 wounds after saves and 0.333 wounds after IWND.
**Fulgrim Blinded: hits 1.667 times, wounds 1.111 times, 0.37 times after saves and 0.037 after IWND
**Perturabo hits 2 times, wounds 1.667, 0.555 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.222 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo (with Fulgrim Blinded) hits 2.667 times, wounds 2.222, 0.741 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Fulgrim surprisingly loses as after the first round he will be brought to I 4 (by Strikedown) and then Blinded and/or Concussed pretty much every round (actually 85% of the total rounds, if my calculations are correct, that is more than enough for Perturabo to destroy him).

* Perturabo vs Ferrus Manus
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.694 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo hits 2.667 times, wounds 2.222, 0.74 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**In the mirror match Perturabo actually wins thanks to his WS, since even with one more attack Ferrus hits marginally less times.
**Note: without the hammer(s) Ferrus would defeat Perturabo, 'cause he would wound Perturabo on a 3+ (2+ with the Servo Harm) wounding 1.75 times, with Perturabo wounding him on 4+ and so wounding him 1.333. Guess old Perty could use Fulgrim's hammer better, in the end.

* Perturabo vs Konrad Curze
**Curze hits 3 times, wounds 2.25 times, 0.75 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.417 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo hits 2 times, wounds 1.667, 0.833 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.5 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Konrad loses as Perturabo does marginally more damage.
**Note: With Hit & Run Konrad would win, but the chance he is not concussed in the round he wants to escape are pretty slim, meaning that Perturabo has still the Edge in this fight.

* Perturabo VS Lorgar
**Lorgar hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.694 wounds after saves and 0.361 wounds after IWND.
**Perturabo Round 1: hits 2.37 times, wounds 1.865 times, 0.932 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.599 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo Round 2: hits 2.666 times, wounds 2.221 times, 1.11 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.777 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo wins.
**Note: as always, psychic powers not included. You know how it would end anyway...

* Perturabo VS Vulkan
**Vulkan hits 2 times, wounds 1.667 times, 0.555 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.222 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Vulkan (Blinded): hits 1.333 times, wounds 1.111 times, 0.37 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.037 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo hits 2.667 times, wounds 2.222, 0.741 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.185 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**As with Fulgrim, Perturabo actually wins only thanks to his Hammer (great weapon indeed).

* Perturabo VS Alpharius
**Alpharius hits 2.92 times and wounds 1.701 times, 0.567 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.234 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo hits 2.667 times, wounds 2.222 times, 1.111 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo wins.

* Perturabo VS Rogal Dorn
**Dorn hits 2 times, wounds 1.5 times, 0.5 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.167 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo hits 2 times, wounds 1.333 times, 0.667 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.333 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo wins. Have at thee!

* Perturabo VS Corvus Corax
**Corvus hits 4 times (Scourge)/3 times (Shadow-walk), wounds 3 times (Scourge)/2.25 times (Shadow-walk), 1 wounds (Scourge)/0.75 wounds (Shadow-walk) after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.667/0.417 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo hits 2.667 times/2 times, wounds 2.222 times/1.667 times, 1.481 wounds/1.111 after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.147/0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo wins.
**Note: Welcome to Corvus Corax fist nightmare-city, population: Perturabo. He would mostly like to Hit and Run, but then again, with strikedown, concussive and blind, how can he do that? Also, Perturabo is immune to Blind. Yeah, he is like Corax’s natural enemy and then some...

* Perturabo VS Roboute Guilliman
**Guilliman Round 1/2: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.222 times, 0.74 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 3 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.963 times, 0.988 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.654 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo Round 1: hits 2.667 times, wounds 2.222 times, 0.611 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.278.
**Perturabo Round 2 and thereafter: hits 2 times, wounds 1.667 times, 0.833 times after saves, 0.417 for Armor of Reason and IWND will take that down to 0.083.
**Perturabo loses.
**Note: Guilliman is immune to Concussive, and even though Strikedown will assure that Blind actually goes on half of the time he still win the fight, even if not as easily as the above statistic would imply.

* Perturabo VS Leman Russ
**Russ hits 4 times, wounds 3 times, 1 time after saves, plus 0.388 wounds from Sever Life for a whole 1.388 wounds and IWND will take that down to 1.05 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Russ (blinded) hits 2 times, wounds 1.5 times, 0.5 time after saves, plus 0.388 wounds from Sever Life for a whole 0.888 wounds and IWND will take that down to 0.555 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perturabo Round 1: hits 1.333 times, wounds 1.111 times, 0.555 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.222.
**Perturabo Round 2 and thereafter: hits 0.666 times, wounds 0.555 times, 0.2775 times after saves and IWND will take that down to -0.055.
**Perturabo Round 2 and thereafter (with Russ blinded): hits 1.333 times, wounds 1.111 times, 0.555 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.222.
**Perturabo loses.
**Note : A first lucky hit with Forgebreaker and failed Blind rolls from Russ can help Perturabo lasting a bit longer, making him one of the toughest primarchs for Leman Russ to face.

*Jaghatai VS Perturabo
**Jaghatai hits 4 times, wounds 2 times, 0.666 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.333
**Perturabo hits 2.667 times, wounds 2.222, 0.74 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Perty wins, but only just. Khan could try to hit-and-run, but Perty's concussive and blind should prevent that.

* TLDR version: Perturabo with Forgebreaker result in one of the strongest challengers above Primarchs, the combination of rules in the Hammer making him even a threat Guilliman and Horus! Ok, not Horus, he is invincible...but Guilliman shivers a little as he challenges him. Then again, he IS the third most pricey Primarch.

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