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Divinity: Dragon Commander

2016-04-06T03:52:57Z

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[[File:Dragon-commander wide.jpg|1000px|thumbnail|center|I'M A DRAGON WITH A JETPACK! YOUR ARGUMENT AND ANY OTHER ARGUMENT ARE INVALID!!]]
Dragon Commander is a vidya set in the Divinity setting.
Straddling between political simulator, waifu simulator, real time strategy, and flight simulator/rail shooter, the game is quite in it's own category.

==Story==
The world is a world in constant warfare (which never changes). Until one day, it changed.

A powerful wizard named Maxos trapped a powerful demon named Corvos, and used his knowledge of destruction to design powerful weapons including giant robots resembling something out of War of the Worlds. He brought on the services of an architect (known only as the Architect) to actually build the damn things, and enlisted a powerful and regal warrior to lead the armies.
Together, they conquered the races of the world (Lizardfolk, Dwarves, Humans, Elves, Undead, Imps, and Orcs) and finally brought peace to it.

The capital was moved to the human city of Rivellon, where the warrior became king and the three friends dwelled in hard won peace.

Dragons, having long left the world of mortals for a higher plane (basically Tolkien Elves), had become increasingly interested in the events of the world. One particular dragoness adopted the guise of a noblewoman and entered the court of the king. The three friends all fell in love with her, and each competed for her affections. The king won her heart in the end, and conceived a child with her. The child was hidden.
The Wizard humbly accepted his loss, and became the guardian of his friend's son. But the Architect, jealous of the success of his former companion, conspired against him. More and more he listened to the words of Corvos, convincing him the king had used him as a pawn, had stolen what was rightfully his, and was a wicked being.
Eventually, the Architect allowed Corvos to inhabit his body and together they poisoned the dragoness. At her death rattle, Corvos's corruption caused the Architect an orgasmic surge of emotions that caused him to have a heart attack and die on the spot, freeing Corvos from captivity and allowing him to wreak havoc on the world.
The king grieved her, and buried himself in hedonism in an attempt to escape his pain. He sired many, MANY illegitimate sons and daughters and spoiled them rotten.

Meanwhile, Maxos had managed to track and trap Corvos again, imprisoning his spirit within the hull of a massive flying aircraft carrier called the Raven. There he secretly began plotting for a second great army after realizing what was soon to come.

Years later, the bastards of the court had maneuvered themselves into different positions of authority across the land and together killed the king. Thus began another military era, with a multitude of men and women controlling massive weapons of destruction and bringing death and destruction to the land once more.

Que you, the player. Your draconic heritage is not a template, and instead you are the same as your mother; a full-blooded dragon who assumes mortal form. Maxos finds you and informs you that you are the son of the Emperor of Rivellon and the Dragon Queen, and the only legitimate claimant to the throne. This gives you the loyalty of the bulk of the human kingdom, and everyone still loyal to the late king. In addition, politicians from each of the major races come to your mobile fortress to help you govern.

You also early on get to choose from a multitude of brides, princesses from each race (other than the Imps, who storyline-wise blew herself up accidentally on the way to meet you and in the real world was cut from the game due to lack of time, and the humans who you don't need to woo with a political marriage). You then follow your bride's storyline between combat missions, influencing her along different paths.
You also follow the plots of your Generals, branching their stories as well.

Corvos himself is also a character, giving schematics to your engineers for weapons of war. You can sacrifice your wife to him (and get another shortly after, until none are left) if you feel a bit evil and in return get more powerful.

After vanquishing most of your siblings in the first act, Corvos breaks free from his restraint and possesses the remaining siblings. The more brides you have fed him, the more powerful he is as their hate for you contributes to his own for the world. Of course if you have not sacrificed any wives then he's still quite powerful.

After defeating him and conquering the world, you and Maxos dispose of the great weapons of the era, and all knowledge of them; never again will there be a fuckhuge war on that scale. You then retire to your palace with your bride (if any remain that is), to enjoy an era of peace (and sire many dragon children).

In the next game, in another era, you find out that the player-brought peace lasted many generations and you sired a line of Dragon Knights, although in time complacency set in and power decentralized leading to another era of conflict. Luckily, the secrets of the past remained buried (although they still exist in myth) so rather than World War 3, it was instead more classic medieval.

===Generals===
You quickly assemble a team of military experts to help you run your military campaign, each of whom has his or her own personal journey of character development and self-discovery to go on as the game continues.

====Henry====
Boisterous, lower-class type, with a half-cyborg body, a daughter he loves very much, and a self-reliance complex that threatens her safety. Better with armor units, so his power scales up as you get more.

====Scarlett====
Sexy chick with a flirty streak and a punk haircut. Also a closeted lesbian. Better with defensive tactics and light units, making her good in the early-game turns.

====Catherine====
Well-dressed lady from a nation where traditional medieval gender roles were flipped. Kind of a bitch about the whole "female superiority" thing, but she mellows out if you push for gender equality and meet her halfway. Naval expert who reduces enemy numbers, and has the potential to gain the most skills.

====Edmund====
The only non-human among your generals, and the only one to wear a classy suit-and-monocle combo. The lizard's genius is matched only by his arrogance, and he starts the game with a very low opinion of pretty much everyone who isn't him, though he liberally mixes in some racism and classism for good measure. An offensive specialist with a powerful starting skill, falls off a little late-game but never enough to make him useless.

===Races and Ambassadors===
====Elves====
Elves are presented as both nouveau riche and old upper-class liberals in the game, being in favor of "Drudanae leaf" which apparently has both medical applications as a sedative and for recreational use, being for amnesty for illegal immigrants, and being defiantly against anything that harms the environment including deforestation and factory farms.
They are also not as morally upright as they'd have you believe; your ambassador asks for an Imperial pardon for an Elf that lead a dictatorial government in your name simply because it would be a talking point against the Elves were he to be recognized as having committed crimes against humanity/sapient beings.

If you pursue the ideals if the Elven race to the fullest, you end up implimenting labor reforms like establishing minimum wage, outlawing child labor, giving holidays off, and setting up a regulated work week.

====Imps====
Imp politics are complicated simply because most Imps [[moot|don't care about issues unrelated to their interests]]. They support anything that expands industry, supports scientific research, and are against any form of social control including a limitation on the amount of children one can have and of breastfeeding bans in public. At one point, their ambassador simply flips a coin to decide his position, and is angry when you go against the result.

Maxing out their favor ends with you allowing them to dig up ancient Elven cemeteries and dump the bodies in landfills to get uranium to build atomic bombs.

====Lizardfolk====
Lizards, as they are usually called, are probably the closest race to modern liberal-centrists. They generally support reasonable, moderate options, and are socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Their senator is a grand, cool-headed old lady who will generally be much more cordial about you disagreeing with her than the many angry, angry old people that surround her, and she generally comes out as the most principled of them all. [[Dragonborn| Also, yes, the lady-lizards have boobs.]] Please, check your rage at the door, our stewards will return it to you when the voyage is over.

Maintaining their favor will lead to the institution of a democratic government, to massive popular support but the abject horror of every other race's governments and, depending on how one interprets the "Luck" stat, the gods themselves. [[Perturabo|Heh.]]

====Dwarves====
The dwarves, as one can probably expect, are basically the Republican party. They are both socially and fiscally conservative, being in favor of both deregulated big business and old-tyme "family values." Their senator is, naturally, never ''not'' wearing a top hat, fox-fur ruff, and about ten pounds of bling. He also has a thick Scottish accent, because some things are unavoidable.

Toeing the dwarf party line will lead to smoking being taught in schools to children. You'll be rolling in dosh from all the money tobacco taxes bring in, but population will drop like a rock from all the cancer going on.

====Undead====
The undead, hilariously, are the hyper-religious faction. They are all super-uptight, generally in favor of horrifyingly medieval punishments for criminals, and reproduce entirely via alchemical processes that grow new skeletons. Their senator, Yorick, is... well, he's probably exactly what you're picturing.

Sticking with with the undead will generally lead to old-testament treatment of enemies, giving morale penalties to enemy troops but turning public opinion against you in a big way.

===Princesses===
After your first few battles, you will be given the chance to select a [[monstergirl]] princess to marry from one of the other races in the game. You recieve a boost to reputation with that faction, and after every battle you can visit your bride in your quarters (which has been redecorated to her tastes) and engage in dialogue which will advance her story as well as provide effects to your reputations, morale, and coffers.

What's that? Where's the human princess? [[Heresy|We don't take kindly to your type around these here parts.]]

You can also be a dick and sacrifice them to Corvus for more power by leading them to him and trapping their souls in a constant state of agony for his pleasure. Don't do this. It's just a bad idea in the short and long term.

====Lohannah, The Elven Princess====
Lohannah actually requested her father to send her as the potential bride for the Elven race. She is completely enraptured by you, believing that the Dragon Emperor and the Elvish Princess would be the perfect romance, just like in her favorite stories!

As you live with her, your decisions will more or less involve the questions of xenophobia and of pride. She can break tradition and do things like eat meat and wine with Dwarves whereupon she becomes a popular cultural icon among them (while Elves protest by destroying effigies of her) or withdrawing and sticking to Elvish tradition and ensuring the continued dickishness between the two races.
In one plot ending, she becomes a prim and proper Elvish queen. In the other, a cultural phenomenon and fun to be around.
<gallery>
Image:Lohannah.jpg|Lohannah as you first meet her.
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Image:Lohannah Endings.jpg|Lohannah's ending appearances.
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====Camilla, The Lizard Princess====
Camilla starts out as the only princess who actually has a job; namely, a Supreme Court Judge among the Lizardfolk. She makes it quite clear in the princess lineup that you are simply a tool to improve her political career, and she believes you see her as the same. Upon choosing her she informs you that you should choose a mistress as she's not your personal fucktoy. During the relationship, she will continue to act coldly to you but will bring up her current court cases (with your input resulting in her decision) and as a result will gain some respect for you and gradually acknowledge you as her husband. Her story fork boils down to the age old question of [[Paladin|whether to be Lawful or Good]].
A Good aligned Camilla warms up, learns to relax a little with you between battles, and is generally much happier and more in-touch with her emotional side. A Lawful Camilla becomes very robotic, uninterested in the affairs of lesser beings and your regime becomes one of absolute authority in fear of you.
<gallery>
Image:Camilla.jpg|Camilla as you first meet her.
Image:Npc Princess Lizard 01 old.png
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Image:Camilla Endings.jpg|Camilla's ending appearances.
</gallery>

====Aida, The Dwarf Princess====
Aida is, naturally, a buxom beauty who can chug enough booze to kill ten men and crack walnuts with her bare hands (which she admits made her popular at parties and unpopular in love). Her story revolves around her rotten relationship with her nasty, abusive father, and her attempts to take control of the kingdom. It also rivals Ophelia's for sheer complexity and number of outcomes. She's also like Ophelia for being a dutiful wife, simply bringing up issues to you and obeying your decisions.
She initially only wants to marry you to get away from the old man, and to get herself in a comfortable financial position for the rest of her life. She's quite prideful and cuts the Dwarf adviser to give her proposal herself. Her father attempts to overreach early in your marriage with her and also badmouths her to tabloids. You must deal with him falling ill and assassins he's pissed off with his poor behavior in the past, although so long as you keep Aida from desecrating the old bastard's mortal remains with horny pigs after he dies and she incorporates his throne into yours, you'll make out alright.

As your can imagine, an Aida who behaves according to her darker impulses just becomes a younger female version of your father in law although she's shamed among her people forever. On the other hand, an Aida who sticks to the moral high ground becomes a beloved monarch of the Dwarves and (if the previous two aren't an indicator) is warm and loving towards you.
<gallery>
Image:Aida.jpg|Aida as you first meet her.
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Image:1920x1200 dwarf.jpg|Aida's ending appearances.
</gallery>

====Ophelia, The Undead Princess====
Daughter of the mysterious Skeleton King, Ophelia is the shy, blushing (somehow) skeleton girl. Like all Divinity Undead, she is VERY religious and conservative. As her husband you're her absolute boss and she does nothing without your permission (and a long-winded Shakespearean speech).
You learn after marriage that she is [[wat|dying (again) from an as-yet incurable illness]] and that her people see this as a direct curse of the Seven gods in their pantheon and that the only reason she was married to you (a non-Undead) is twofold for power and to remove her from the Court. Potential solutions to her malady range from transplanting her soul into a gleaming robot body (''then'' choosing whether or not to drape it in human flesh from various dead bodies), lobotomizing an attractive female prisoner and putting her soul into the new fleshy form, making a deal with a demon to turn her into a vampire, engaging in magic shenanigans to draw her a body on a canvas and animating it with magic, to just being a dick about the whole thing and letting her die like her people (initially) want. The most complex of the four story-wise, and almost every outcome causes her to change models over the course of the game.

In the lobotomized form she sees herself as an abomination to her Gods and becomes mopey. In the vampire body, she becomes fairly evil and vain. In the painted body she looks the same as her stolen body, but is overall much, much happier with the situation. When she gets the robot body, her people believe that longevity is a sign of the blessings of the gods and in a robot body she is fully immortal. She's revered as a golden prophet to her people and gives sermons daily, and even her own father is unworthy in her presence now (although she sees you as sharing in her divine nature), but it clearly isn't great for her mental health. You can choose to have skin sewn over her robot body, which makes her much less popular among her own people, but also makes her about as happy as the "painted" body, if melancholic about the whole thing, and gives her a cool "Frankenstein" motif.

Also, the in-game newspapers mock your skeleton fetish right after you pick her.

Unimplemented concepts involved Ophelia pining for a fleshy form, and doing socially awkward things like using fruit as fake breasts and wearing wigs. This plot was dropped early on although the lipstick and empty corset remained, and the undead barmaid on the airship can be seen with a couple small pumpkins stuffed down her shirt as a gag.

As Ophelia became the most popular princess, she is seen as the mascot of the game and was most used in advertising.
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Image:Ophelia.jpg|Ophelia as you first meet her.
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Image:Ophelia Sick.jpg|Ophelia's plot until the first decision summed up.
Image:1920x1200 undead.jpg|Ophelia's ending appearances.
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====Unnamed Imp Princess====
Originally planned as a princess to marry, she would have come to you already secretly pregnant. Your plot with her would have involved your treatment of your illegitimate son Rufus, who (being an Imp) would grow up fast.

She was cut as the release deadline neared. Her lack of presence is explained by the Imp adviser at the princess lineup as she apparently was passing the time on her transport zeppelin on her way to meet you by playing the classic Imp game of "Hide The Fuse" with her handmaidens, and they lost. His demeanor suggests this isn't an uncommon type of event for his race, with a "true imp's death" apparently involving perishing in a gigantic accidental and self-inflicted explosion, and he only laments that you hadn't met her.
<gallery>
Image:Npc Princess Imp 01.png|The Imp princess. Unknown if this was her initial appearance, or if it's the result of decisions.
Image:Npc Princess Imp Rufus 01.png|Rufus, your Imp son.
Image:Imp Princess.jpg|A fan render of the Imp princess concept art.
</gallery>
====Unnamed Orc Princess====
The entire Orc race was cut from the game; originally you were going to have a dual princess/general character who was the female Orc aboard the ship. A few joke lines refers to the Orcs left in the game, which includes the Imps proposing that since they aren't scientifically categorized as people that they'd be viable as a food ration for your troops (no other race supports this) and the suggestion at the end of the game that you would keep electric fans so as to avoid having to have Orc slaves fan you and be an eyesore.
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Image:Npc General Orc 01 old.png|Concept art of an Orc bride/general.
Image:Npc General Orc v2.png|Further artwork, before being cut.
</gallery>
==Gameplay==

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Raven CounselorRoom Crowded.png|Concept art of the counselors.
Image:Counselors Dragon Commander.png|The finished product of your appointed pains in the ass.
Image:Prototype shots 0015.jpg|The early build of the game, more of a combat flight simulator than RTS.
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Image:2013-09-22 00026.jpg|Elven architecture.
Image:2013-10-04 00071.jpg|Dwarven architecture.
Image:2013-10-05 00082.jpg|Undead architecture.
Image:2013-10-06 00064.jpg|A palace.
Image:2013-10-04 00053.jpg|Tabloids keep you up to date about info in the game.
Image:2013-09-29 00022.jpg|The Raven.
</gallery>

==Cut Content==
One of the things Dragon Commander is most known for is the sheer amount of content that was cut from the game to make the deadline. Based on what was originally planned and promised, the game was going to be the fucking Dwarf Fortress/Game of Thrones/Waifu Simulator game no self-respecting neckbeard would ever skip out on if they ever wanted to claim they'd played a video game. Sadly, taking what was planned against what was produced ends up making a fan feel as if (obligatory Warhammer reference you know was coming here) they were promised a brand new army update with neat and well sculpted female named characters, and in the end were only given a section in the fluff category about that character and a few minor buffs to put you closer to that one cheesing fucker's list.

The first thing cut in the development process was the ability to play as a female character, which would have required a fair amount of reworking of the plot and expanded the game significantly (as one of the things you tussle with is sexism, and leading an army of dudes who think women don't have real souls needs some decent attention paid to it).
Also cut was an open relationship system where you need to woo your princess, and instead upon returning from incinerating an entire army Maxos simply says "Dude, we got some princesses in the hold, and I'm gonna lock the door until you pick one." Mistresses were also cut.
The Orc race, and the Imp princess were both cut for time to focus on existing princesses.

Player customization was cut; you only ever see things in the first person and your dragon self is selected at the beginning of the campaign from a short list (with Steam players getting an option to shine like gold).

Boss fights were cut early. Your siblings in the first chapter are given brief description (one replaced his hands with axes, another cut her tongue out thinking it would stop the voices in her head, and one thinks he's an Undead that's not dead yet and likes tearing his skin off) but otherwise you're simply given the vague "they exist and killed papa" to go on that they're evil, and you never get the idea that they exist other than as another army after that. To beat a faction, you simply have to blow up their ultra-durable fuckhuge fortress palace (which you're hilariously still larger than) on a defensive map which will always be the last territory they control.

It's noticeable that the tiers of troops seem to culminate to a point that doesn't exist. You have troops that seem designed to counter super-heavies, but none exist other than a large battleship/aircraft carrier which is of limited use on most maps which will only have a small lagoon or bit of coastline on them. This is because the final tier of troops, including battleships on the same size level as the Raven as well as giant GIANT robots, were cut. They can be seen on some beta footage. In addition, additional pre-built buildings existed as opposed to the small number built on stationary nodes. The original dragon combat style was much more unwieldy, playing much like a real aircraft simulator requiring you to maintain altitude and not crash into things while the final dragon mode is more of a hovercar that can spit fireballs like a machinegun on a short cooldown.

The story mode saw quite a bit of trimming; rather than the planned system which would have been so complex it would put some advanced JRPGs to shame, it plays more like a "choose your own adventure" in regards to your princess while political decisions are largely just to determine which races like you and which don't. This too was more elaborate early on, while in the finished product each territory is dominated by one race or another and if they are fond of you combat and production bonuses are granted.

The generals themselves were a great deal different in earlier incarnations. Notably, in one piece of concept art Maxos appeared to be more of a Shadowrun hippie than an ancient wizard.

Perturabo

2016-04-06T03:29:09Z

2605:E000:7ECF:7F00:89D:314A:79C2:2640: /* The expert's explanation as to Perturabo's Personality */

[[File:Perturabo.jpg|400px|thumb|right|He seethes with generic rage, and cripes man, look at all the empty space in the head piece....]]
''"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."''

'''Perturabo''' is the Primarch of the [[Iron Warriors]].

==Origins==
Before he knew the full measure of what he was, Perturabo was a cultivated-scholar and a gentle man of peace. He loved peace, freedom, democracy, and stopping conflicts through diplomacy if at all possible. His foster-father was a tyrannical asshole, mind, so their family was strained. After [[Emperor|E-Money]] showed up on the East Side lookin' for his homey-boys up in the 'hood, Perturabo used his armies to depose his father and reinstitute democracy among the <s>Greeks</s> Olympians. He thought he was finally home.

Unfortunately for him, the Imperium was the exact opposite of a democracy, its leader had no real desire for a diplomat when he wanted a general, and the father he'd found was every bit the tyrannical distant asshole his other parent had been and more. Whoops.

==Great Crusade==
[[File:Perturabo_Portrait.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Perturabo's default expression throughout the Great Crusade, that of a man learning his dog shit on the carpet.]]
Shortly after he was re-united with his Legion, something inside him switched drastically; rather than continuing to promote the peaceful compromise that is ''"democracy"'' 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 age-old procedure 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 an humiliating defeat, not because of just being sub-par.

At the time of The Crusade, Perturabo was a busy boy, building citadels and forts on the planets that he 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's [[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.

Because of this Perturabo never got any recognition from the civilisation 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 realised 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.

All the same, he refused to alter his Legion's ways and threw more men at more walls. Having refused to take advice from his brothers, he sure as shit wouldn't take it from his sons. The Legion's pre-eminent 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 favoured son, and was left on permanent garrison duty as a result. Ironically, this meant that the disgraced Warsmith was now busy building a unique fortress. Exactly the kind of work Perturabo wanted to be doing.

Also, the rest of his brothers treated him like shit and called him a stupid hick (except [[Sanguinius]], best of men, and [[Magnus the Red | Magnus]], who appreciated Perturabo's scholarly side). He and his legions never got credit for his 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."]] 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 favoured tactics, it's probably accurate). 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 Bearer Chaplains sent by Lorgar to manipulate them into heresy, the Iron Warriors crushed the uprisings. It wasn't quite Curze destroying Nostromo, but it was still pretty damn genocidal and tipped Perturabo over the edge.

==Horus Heresy==
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. He supervised the Iron Warriors as they bombed the shit out of Terra, and also the main siege. (He was also nearly killed by Fulgrim when the latter tried to [[Pretend|suck the life out of him]] to aid his ascension to Princedom.) And he took much pleasure in taking 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 then the great heroes of the Imperium, the *cough* [[Ultramarines|Ultrasmurfs]] *cough*. The Iron Warriors then, 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. Except some of this gene-seed was used to create few IF/IW half-breeds (may be with a little [[Fabius Bile|Fabulous]] support), including the [[Honsou|eviliest motherfucker of 41-st 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 have a nice chances against Dorn, if they both start on the 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/armour, watching his beloved sons being slaughtered in hundreds in totally unmanly and unfair way. And of course, lets 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.

==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.

==Personality==
Greatly known for his mastery of siege warfare. He is feared for his status as a [[Daemon Prince]], and his [[Rage|RAGE]], which is mainly due to an itch to the back of his head that he can't scratch due to the cable wiring (refer to the picture at the top). In other words, he's one big, mean and badass motherfucker who knows how to make the strongest thing go down.

He is described as "mercurial" in the Index Astartes article, which may be why his personality is so different between the two Horus Heresy authors who have portrayed him and, indeed, between the various segments of his personal history listed above. [[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. Kinda the way he's described as being elsewhere in the fluff. However, in that same novel he is also shown to fit neatly in both ends of the [[Rage]] Spectrum. One one hand you get the subtle rage, where Perturabo buys hundreds of House-sized paintings of his own men and has them all burned. On the other hand he's also prone to fits of destructive rage, whereby after Fulgrim fucked around one too many times, he invited Fulgrim into his inner sanctum and Pert smashed his pretty face into the guts of a clockwork [[Warhound Scout Titan]]. Another indicator of his personality was Perturabo's possessions, as he had many wonders of engineering; that Warhound was intricate, made of hundreds 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 writing the code of an AI from scratch for it.

::'''About that painting''': 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, of which every waking moment he lives, breathes, and shits the thought that Dorn is somehow better than him. He hates himself for this.

[[Image:PerturaboPrimarchoftheIronWarriors03.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Fuck your Cerastus [[Emprah]] ! Buy another one ya rich muthafucka! FUCK YOUR CERASTUS EMPRAH, FUCK YOUR CERASTUS! [[Chaos|DARKNESS' DARKNESS']]]]
In "Crimson Fist", Perturabo was a Saturday-morning villain who flips his shit when a flunky brings him bad news. His emotions range from "hand-wringing evil" to "I'll get you next time". Thanks, John French. "Angel Exterminatus" expands on this.

In the third Forge World Horus Heresy book "Extermination", Peturabo is a cold, resentful bastard who the moment he was re-united with his Legion had it decimated for not being the best. And then wondered how his legion still wasn't as good as the Dark Angels, Ultramarines and Luna Wolves, 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.

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].)

Oh, and 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 who's tactics and armies would win. Proving that the [[Iron Warriors]] are [[Neckbeards]] (which would go a long way to 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.

If you want to know, "Perturabo" is the name the nice lil' Perty choose for himself after reading some ancient texts pre-dating 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.

=== The expert's explanation as to Perturabo's Personality ===

Angel Exterminatus was an absolute crime against Perturabo. I will give credit to McNeil for his grand attempt to humanize the minds of the most mentally inhuman primarchs, but Occam's Razor applies here, as it always does in the mindset of the Iron Lord. 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. He buried his dreams and his heart on Olympia's ridges, and willingly cut all ties and dived into Hell, because his Father asked him to. 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 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 still buried that shit. He moved forward. He got the damn job done, and the next, and the next, with precise equations and algorithms.

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.

==Tabletop==
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| '''Perturabo:''' || 8 || 6 || 7 || 6 || 6 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/3++
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At 490 points when kitted out with [[Ferrus Manus|Forgebreaker]] he's the second most expensive Primarch after [[Horus]]. But he's worth it.

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 roll for reserves on turn one, which when combo'd with teleporting siege terminators can make for an [[Awesome|EPIC]] alpha-strike.

In games of 3000+ points or more, he can spend 500 points to use his special Dedicated Transport, the "Tormentor"- a buffed out Shadowsword with a void shield, a 15-model transport capacity, the Command Tank upgrade, and a rear access point.

==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 seems 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 lose 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 calculation 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 lose 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.

* 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 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 lose.
**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.

* TLDR version: Perturabo with Forgebreaker result in one of the strongest challenger 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 second most pricey Primarch.

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[[Category:Chaos]]

Perturabo

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[[File:Perturabo.jpg|400px|thumb|right|He seethes with generic rage, and cripes man, look at all the empty space in the head piece....]]
''"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."''

'''Perturabo''' is the Primarch of the [[Iron Warriors]].

==Origins==
Before he knew the full measure of what he was, Perturabo was a cultivated-scholar and a gentle man of peace. He loved peace, freedom, democracy, and stopping conflicts through diplomacy if at all possible. His foster-father was a tyrannical asshole, mind, so their family was strained. After [[Emperor|E-Money]] showed up on the East Side lookin' for his homey-boys up in the 'hood, Perturabo used his armies to depose his father and reinstitute democracy among the <s>Greeks</s> Olympians. He thought he was finally home.

Unfortunately for him, the Imperium was the exact opposite of a democracy, its leader had no real desire for a diplomat when he wanted a general, and the father he'd found was every bit the tyrannical distant asshole his other parent had been and more. Whoops.

==Great Crusade==
[[File:Perturabo_Portrait.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Perturabo's default expression throughout the Great Crusade, that of a man learning his dog shit on the carpet.]]
Shortly after he was re-united with his Legion, something inside him switched drastically; rather than continuing to promote the peaceful compromise that is ''"democracy"'' 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 age-old procedure 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 an humiliating defeat, not because of just being sub-par.

At the time of The Crusade, Perturabo was a busy boy, building citadels and forts on the planets that he 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's [[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.

Because of this Perturabo never got any recognition from the civilisation 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 realised 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.

All the same, he refused to alter his Legion's ways and threw more men at more walls. Having refused to take advice from his brothers, he sure as shit wouldn't take it from his sons. The Legion's pre-eminent 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 favoured son, and was left on permanent garrison duty as a result. Ironically, this meant that the disgraced Warsmith was now busy building a unique fortress. Exactly the kind of work Perturabo wanted to be doing.

Also, the rest of his brothers treated him like shit and called him a stupid hick (except [[Sanguinius]], best of men, and [[Magnus the Red | Magnus]], who appreciated Perturabo's scholarly side). He and his legions never got credit for his 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."]] 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 favoured tactics, it's probably accurate). 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 Bearer Chaplains sent by Lorgar to manipulate them into heresy, the Iron Warriors crushed the uprisings. It wasn't quite Curze destroying Nostromo, but it was still pretty damn genocidal and tipped Perturabo over the edge.

==Horus Heresy==
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. He supervised the Iron Warriors as they bombed the shit out of Terra, and also the main siege. (He was also nearly killed by Fulgrim when the latter tried to [[Pretend|suck the life out of him]] to aid his ascension to Princedom.) And he took much pleasure in taking 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 then the great heroes of the Imperium, the *cough* [[Ultramarines|Ultrasmurfs]] *cough*. The Iron Warriors then, 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. Except some of this gene-seed was used to create few IF/IW half-breeds (may be with a little [[Fabius Bile|Fabulous]] support), including the [[Honsou|eviliest motherfucker of 41-st 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 have a nice chances against Dorn, if they both start on the 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/armour, watching his beloved sons being slaughtered in hundreds in totally unmanly and unfair way. And of course, lets 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.

==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.

==Personality==
Greatly known for his mastery of siege warfare. He is feared for his status as a [[Daemon Prince]], and his [[Rage|RAGE]], which is mainly due to an itch to the back of his head that he can't scratch due to the cable wiring (refer to the picture at the top). In other words, he's one big, mean and badass motherfucker who knows how to make the strongest thing go down.

He is described as "mercurial" in the Index Astartes article, which may be why his personality is so different between the two Horus Heresy authors who have portrayed him and, indeed, between the various segments of his personal history listed above. [[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. Kinda the way he's described as being elsewhere in the fluff. However, in that same novel he is also shown to fit neatly in both ends of the [[Rage]] Spectrum. One one hand you get the subtle rage, where Perturabo buys hundreds of House-sized paintings of his own men and has them all burned. On the other hand he's also prone to fits of destructive rage, whereby after Fulgrim fucked around one too many times, he invited Fulgrim into his inner sanctum and Pert smashed his pretty face into the guts of a clockwork [[Warhound Scout Titan]]. Another indicator of his personality was Perturabo's possessions, as he had many wonders of engineering; that Warhound was intricate, made of hundreds 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 writing the code of an AI from scratch for it.

::'''About that painting''': 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, of which every waking moment he lives, breathes, and shits the thought that Dorn is somehow better than him. He hates himself for this.

[[Image:PerturaboPrimarchoftheIronWarriors03.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Fuck your Cerastus [[Emprah]] ! Buy another one ya rich muthafucka! FUCK YOUR CERASTUS EMPRAH, FUCK YOUR CERASTUS! [[Chaos|DARKNESS' DARKNESS']]]]
In "Crimson Fist", Perturabo was a Saturday-morning villain who flips his shit when a flunky brings him bad news. His emotions range from "hand-wringing evil" to "I'll get you next time". Thanks, John French. "Angel Exterminatus" expands on this.

In the third Forge World Horus Heresy book "Extermination", Peturabo is a cold, resentful bastard who the moment he was re-united with his Legion had it decimated for not being the best. And then wondered how his legion still wasn't as good as the Dark Angels, Ultramarines and Luna Wolves, 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.

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].)

Oh, and 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 who's tactics and armies would win. Proving that the [[Iron Warriors]] are [[Neckbeards]] (which would go a long way to 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.

If you want to know, "Perturabo" is the name the nice lil' Perty choose for himself after reading some ancient texts pre-dating 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.

=== The expert's explanation as to Perturabo's Personality ===

Angel Exterminatus was an absolute crime against Perturabo. I will give credit to McNeil for his grand attempt to humanize the mind the most mentally inhuman primarchs, but Occam's Razor applies here, as it always does in the mindset of the Iron Lord. 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. He buried his dreams and his heart on Olympia's ridges, and willingly cut all ties and dived into Hell, because his Father asked him to. 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 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 the 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 still buried that shit. He moved forward. He got the damn job done, and the next, and the next, with precise equations and algorithms.

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.

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

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 roll for reserves on turn one, which when combo'd with teleporting siege terminators can make for an [[Awesome|EPIC]] alpha-strike.

In games of 3000+ points or more, he can spend 500 points to use his special Dedicated Transport, the "Tormentor"- a buffed out Shadowsword with a void shield, a 15-model transport capacity, the Command Tank upgrade, and a rear access point.

==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 seems 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 lose 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 calculation 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 lose 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.

* 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 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 lose.
**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.

* TLDR version: Perturabo with Forgebreaker result in one of the strongest challenger 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 second most pricey Primarch.

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[[Category:Chaos]]

Perturabo

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[[File:Perturabo.jpg|400px|thumb|right|He seethes with generic rage, and cripes man, look at all the empty space in the head piece....]]
''"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."''

'''Perturabo''' is the Primarch of the [[Iron Warriors]].

==Origins==
Before he knew the full measure of what he was, Perturabo was a cultivated-scholar and a gentle man of peace. He loved peace, freedom, democracy, and stopping conflicts through diplomacy if at all possible. His foster-father was a tyrannical asshole, mind, so their family was strained. After [[Emperor|E-Money]] showed up on the East Side lookin' for his homey-boys up in the 'hood, Perturabo used his armies to depose his father and reinstitute democracy among the <s>Greeks</s> Olympians. He thought he was finally home.

Unfortunately for him, the Imperium was the exact opposite of a democracy, its leader had no real desire for a diplomat when he wanted a general, and the father he'd found was every bit the tyrannical distant asshole his other parent had been and more. Whoops.

==Great Crusade==
[[File:Perturabo_Portrait.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Perturabo's default expression throughout the Great Crusade, that of a man learning his dog shit on the carpet.]]
Shortly after he was re-united with his Legion, something inside him switched drastically; rather than continuing to promote the peaceful compromise that is ''"democracy"'' 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 age-old procedure 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 an humiliating defeat, not because of just being sub-par.

At the time of The Crusade, Perturabo was a busy boy, building citadels and forts on the planets that he 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's [[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.

Because of this Perturabo never got any recognition from the civilisation 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 realised 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.

All the same, he refused to alter his Legion's ways and threw more men at more walls. Having refused to take advice from his brothers, he sure as shit wouldn't take it from his sons. The Legion's pre-eminent 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 favoured son, and was left on permanent garrison duty as a result. Ironically, this meant that the disgraced Warsmith was now busy building a unique fortress. Exactly the kind of work Perturabo wanted to be doing.

Also, the rest of his brothers treated him like shit and called him a stupid hick (except [[Sanguinius]], best of men, and [[Magnus the Red | Magnus]], who appreciated Perturabo's scholarly side). He and his legions never got credit for his 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."]] 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 favoured tactics, it's probably accurate). 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 Bearer Chaplains sent by Lorgar to manipulate them into heresy, the Iron Warriors crushed the uprisings. It wasn't quite Curze destroying Nostromo, but it was still pretty damn genocidal and tipped Perturabo over the edge.

==Horus Heresy==
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. He supervised the Iron Warriors as they bombed the shit out of Terra, and also the main siege. (He was also nearly killed by Fulgrim when the latter tried to [[Pretend|suck the life out of him]] to aid his ascension to Princedom.) And he took much pleasure in taking 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 then the great heroes of the Imperium, the *cough* [[Ultramarines|Ultrasmurfs]] *cough*. The Iron Warriors then, 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. Except some of this gene-seed was used to create few IF/IW half-breeds (may be with a little [[Fabius Bile|Fabulous]] support), including the [[Honsou|eviliest motherfucker of 41-st 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 have a nice chances against Dorn, if they both start on the 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/armour, watching his beloved sons being slaughtered in hundreds in totally unmanly and unfair way. And of course, lets 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.

==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.

==Personality==
Greatly known for his mastery of siege warfare. He is feared for his status as a [[Daemon Prince]], and his [[Rage|RAGE]], which is mainly due to an itch to the back of his head that he can't scratch due to the cable wiring (refer to the picture at the top). In other words, he's one big, mean and badass motherfucker who knows how to make the strongest thing go down.

He is described as "mercurial" in the Index Astartes article, which may be why his personality is so different between the two Horus Heresy authors who have portrayed him and, indeed, between the various segments of his personal history listed above. [[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. Kinda the way he's described as being elsewhere in the fluff. However, in that same novel he is also shown to fit neatly in both ends of the [[Rage]] Spectrum. One one hand you get the subtle rage, where Perturabo buys hundreds of House-sized paintings of his own men and has them all burned. On the other hand he's also prone to fits of destructive rage, whereby after Fulgrim fucked around one too many times, he invited Fulgrim into his inner sanctum and Pert smashed his pretty face into the guts of a clockwork [[Warhound Scout Titan]]. Another indicator of his personality was Perturabo's possessions, as he had many wonders of engineering; that Warhound was intricate, made of hundreds 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 writing the code of an AI from scratch for it.

::'''About that painting''': 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, of which every waking moment he lives, breathes, and shits the thought that Dorn is somehow better than him. He hates himself for this.

[[Image:PerturaboPrimarchoftheIronWarriors03.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Fuck your Cerastus [[Emprah]] ! Buy another one ya rich muthafucka! FUCK YOUR CERASTUS EMPRAH, FUCK YOUR CERASTUS! [[Chaos|DARKNESS' DARKNESS']]]]
In "Crimson Fist", Perturabo was a Saturday-morning villain who flips his shit when a flunky brings him bad news. His emotions range from "hand-wringing evil" to "I'll get you next time". Thanks, John French. "Angel Exterminatus" expands on this.

In the third Forge World Horus Heresy book "Extermination", Peturabo is a cold, resentful bastard who the moment he was re-united with his Legion had it decimated for not being the best. And then wondered how his legion still wasn't as good as the Dark Angels, Ultramarines and Luna Wolves, 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.

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].)

Oh, and 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 who's tactics and armies would win. Proving that the [[Iron Warriors]] are [[Neckbeards]] (which would go a long way to 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.

If you want to know, "Perturabo" is the name the nice lil' Perty choose for himself after reading some ancient texts pre-dating 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.

=== The expert's explanation as to Peturabo's Personality ===

Angel Exterminatus was an absolute crime against Perturabo. I will give credit to McNeil for his grand attempt to humanize the mind the most mentally inhuman primarchs, but Occam's Razor applies here, as it always does in the mindset of the Iron Lord. 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. He buried his dreams and his heart on Olympia's ridges, and willingly cut all ties and dived into Hell, because his Father asked him to. 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 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 the 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 still buried that shit. He moved forward. He got the damn job done, and the next, and the next, with precise equations and algorithms.

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.

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

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 roll for reserves on turn one, which when combo'd with teleporting siege terminators can make for an [[Awesome|EPIC]] alpha-strike.

In games of 3000+ points or more, he can spend 500 points to use his special Dedicated Transport, the "Tormentor"- a buffed out Shadowsword with a void shield, a 15-model transport capacity, the Command Tank upgrade, and a rear access point.

==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 seems 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 lose 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 calculation 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 lose 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.

* 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 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 lose.
**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.

* TLDR version: Perturabo with Forgebreaker result in one of the strongest challenger 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 second most pricey Primarch.

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