Editing Eyes of the Emperor (section)

==Tactics==
[[File:Satriagurupioneer.jpg|200px|thumb|A ''Guru'' of the Legion's Pioneer squads, wearing the sophisticated Mark VI Power Armour.  He does not wear the black battle robe, instead showing only the yellow, green and white colours of his armour - colours of renunciation, balance, and wisdom.  Note the purity seal on his chest, a sign that this Marine has successfully guided a young Shishya into the mysteries of the Legion.]]
''The Legion greatly values the supplies delivered to us by the Mechanicum, but our greatest weapons are rice and water.''

- Kamal Kulkarni


No other Legion looked so far ahead.  The Eyes of the Emperor would plan their campaigns years, sometimes decades, in advance.  Rather than relying entirely on the reports of Rogue Traders, the Nineteenth sent their own exploratory vessels into little-known sectors and seeded cenobitic enclaves on human worlds ahead of their lines of march.  The Legion enclaves would be built up around trusted and loyal auxilia and worked to indoctrinate the native population into the beliefs of the Imperial Truth.  The Eyes careful and subtle approach meant that they brought hundreds of worlds into compliance without firing a shot.

When warfare was unavoidable - and the Galaxy had no shortage of hostile aliens who would never accept the Imperial Truth and could never be trusted by humanity - the Eyes of the Emperor favored engaging their enemies at range.  This led to ridicule and accusations of cowardice from some close combat oriented legions.  Indeed, the Eyes' strange ways were little trusted by any of their Astartes brethren.  However, their disdain for melee had nothing to do with a lack of courage.  Out of sight of the Imperium, the Nineteenth's Pioneer Squads often threw themselves into desperate battles to protect human worlds that had yet to come into Compliance.  A true accounting of the lives saved by these forgotten martyrs of the Great Crusade is impossible, but their valour cannot be doubted.

Imperial records often dwell on the Legion's battlefield use of Pioneer Squads, Heavy Support Squads and Whirlwind Missile Launchers, along with a impressive parking lot of Rhinos.  The ideal Eyes of the Emperor attack worked in a three layer format.  Pioneer squads would infiltrate through the enemy lines to attack high value targets in their rear, such as commanders and supply dumps.  Next, fast-moving Battle squads would isolate enemy strongpoints and eliminate weaker forces.  Finally, the Heavy Support would reduce the strongpoints.  Artillery was deployed lavishly to assist the forward elements.  This formation was known as the Tītana starita dīvāra, or the Layered walls of the Titan.

Although no Legion employed many of the highly-advanced Primaris-Lightning Strike Fighter, the Eyes of the Emperor had the lion's share of those assigned to the Legiones Astartes.  The skill of the ''Wesias'' caste was evident in their deft handling of this difficult, if powerful, weapon.  The Nineteenth also made heavy use of the Avenger Strike Fighter.