Legiones Astartes

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Legiones Astartes Auxiliary Detachments

Armoury of the Dark Angels

Blades of the First Legion

With a predilection towards long blades, even before the influence of the knightly Orders of Caliban, many among the 1st Legion carry two-handed swords into battle, wielding them with a preternatural skill.

Plasma Burner and Plasma Incinerator

An offshoot of more common plasma technology, these weapons vent plasma gas through a magnetic bottle in high-speed jets. Any enemy caught in the path of such a jet is quickly reduced to molten slag, annihilated by pressurised torrents of raw plasma, leaving no trace of its presence. However, the magnetic fields that keep the super-heated gas contained are fragile and emit a low-intensity’ field of radiation, and as such the average wielder remains combat viable for only a few short decades before requiring augmetic replacements or reassignment to a Dreadnought sarcophagus.

Paladin of the Hekatonystika

Veiled in allegory and obscure symbolism, the Orders of the Hekatonystika bore the heavy burden of keeping the most secret and dangerous knowledge acquired on the battlefield. Many of the Legion’s most veteran warriors were initiates of the Orders and wore their colours with pride on the field of battle.

• Has its Base Weapon Skill Characteristic modified by +1.
• Must have its bolter exchanged for a Terranic greatsword for Free.
• Gains the Order Exemplars Special Rule.

Terminator Paladin of the Hekatonystika

Granted the right to requisition the wargear they deem most appropriate to the deployment being undertaken, the Paladins of the Hekatonystika upheld the honour of their Orders across the battlefields of the Horus Heresy.

Rite of War: Legiones Astartes Dark Angels

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Additional Detachments

Armoury of the White Scars

Power Glaive

Based on the ancient polearms of Mundus Planus, the power glaive is as much a mark of status amongst the White Scars as it is a weapon of war. Known in the language of the steppes tribes led by Jaghatai Khan as the Rising Moon Blade, the weapon is known both for its intimidating weight as well as the graceful sweeping strikes that characterise its use.

Cyber-hawk

Crafted by the Techmarines of the Vth Legion, these dedicated servo-automata are based upon the form of great raptors, and are configured to act as advance scouts and pathfinders for their masters.

The Sagyar Mazan

The people ofChogoris are possessed of great wisdom and capable of deep compassion, but these characteristics are tempered by a fierce and uncompromising sense of justice that can lead them to acts of apparent cruelty when discipline or honour is compromised. Within the White Scars Legion, outright disobedience or catastrophic failure is rewarded with death, delivered by the hand of a warrior’s superior. Occasionally, however, this punishment might be commuted to exile by a merciful leader sympathetic to mitigating circumstances. Those exiled from their Brotherhood are known as penitents, or the ‘Sagyar Mazan’, and it is their fate to seek out an honourable death and, in so doing, wash away any stain of dishonour.

Rite of War: Legiones Astartes White Scars

Armoury of the Space Wolves

Fenrisian Axe

A common weapon among the tribal warriors of Fenris, these heavy bladed axes often seem crude to outsiders, but their pattern-welded steel is capable of cleaving through flesh and bone with terrible efficacy. When the warriors of Fenris began to join the ranks of Russ’ Legion, they brought these weapons with them, as much badges of office as they were weapons.

Frost Blades

Created by the weaponsmiths of the Fang, the famed frost blades were forged after detailed study of the arcane technologies of Leman Russ’ own Emperor-gifted blade, coupled with unique materials gleaned from the death world of Fenris itself, namely the preternaturally hard chitin-teeth of the Fenrisian krakens that haunted that death world’s deeps. Most took the shape of traditional Fenrisian battle axes or Terran-influenced double-edged chainblades, while some few were also fashioned after power claws or even broad-bladed war spears, but all were finely made and equally lethal. Only a few such weapons were able to match the fabled paragon blades of Ancient Terra in destructive potential and quality, but all were truly formidable weapons in their own right.

Pack Thegn

A Pack Thegn or lesser Claw Leader is a proven warrior of a score of campaigns or more, who is deeply experienced in the making of murder. Long of fang and beard, often a Pack Thegn is a commander who has survived the loss of his company or lost esteem in the eyes of his betters and is side-lined from any hope of becoming a Jari. These warriors bind their fortunes to that of their favoured Jari (or indeed whichever Jari is willing to take them on if disgraced), sharing their cunning and expertise in war with his new recruits and teaching patience to his more savage pack members. A Pack Thegn will stay at the heel of that Jari, hunting at the head of his packs until death.

• Has its Base Attacks and Weapon Skill Characteristics modified by +1.
• May have its power sword exchanged with one frost sword or frost axe for Free, or with one frost claw for +5 Points.

Rite of War: Legiones Astartes Space Wolves

Armoury of the Imperial Fists

Solarite Power Gauntlet

These augmented power fists are greatly favoured by the officers of the Imperial Fists Legion. Crafted in imitation of the ancient relics of Old Earth, they embody their Legion’s heraldic icon in the shape of a powerful weapon.

Vigil Pattern Storm Shield

The Imperial Fists were the first to utilise the enhanced Vigil pattern storm shield design, which featured a uniquely potent field generator far exceeding those found elsewhere. The first of these had entered service with the Legion after the Ullanor Campaign, but difficulties in production meant only a few hundred had entered full service at the outset of the wars of the Horus Heresy.

• Any Model with the Command Sub-Type and the Imperial Fists Trait may have its boarding shield or a combi-bolter exchanged for one Vigil pattern storm shield for +5 Points per Model or its combat shield exchanged for one Vigil pattern storm shield for +10 Points per Model.
• Any Model with the Imperial Fists Trait in a Tartaros Terminator Command Squad or Tartaros Terminator Squad may have its combi-bolter exchanged for one Vigil pattern storm shield for +5 Points per Model.
• Any Model with the Imperial Fists Trait in a Cataphractii Terminator Command Squad or Cataphractii Terminator Squad may have its combi-bolter exchanged for one Vigil pattern storm shield for Free.

Castellan

Upon the broad shoulders of the Lords Castellan were the foundations of the Imperium built. They are the unbending spine of the VIIth Legion, those chosen few lords of siege warfare who commanded armies in the name of their Primarch, conquering world after world. In their wake, the Castellans left only loyal, compliant civilisations; erecting upon those worlds which they conquered mighty Imperial redoubts from which the defence of entire sub-sectors could be coordinated.

• Gains an augury scanner
• Cannot select any of the Centurion’s listed options and instead must have their bolter exchanged for one of the following options for Free:
  
  • Heavy bolter
  • Autocannon
  • Iliastus assault cannon

Rite of War: Legiones Astartes Imperial Fists

Decurion Sagittar

Within each Legion there are those whose skill in armoured warfare and command of such vehicles is recognised, and their abilities put to use as Decurions. Such warriors have a limited degree of tactical autonomy, trusted to ensure their commanders’ orders are carried out by the squadrons they oversee. The Decurion Sagittars of the Imperial Fists further specialise in the defence of their charge, picking off the most vulnerable of the enemy’s assets as their mount tracks and destroys more critical targets. Such is their efficacy that they are dreaded by the enemy almost as much as the vehicles they crew.

• - Predator
  30 points

• - Sicaran (Models with twin accelerator autocannon or punisher rotary cannon only)
  30 points

• - Kratos Assault Tank
  30 points

Iliastus Assault Cannon

A prototype weapon system designed as a more compact and portable variant of the highly successful Kheres pattern, it was, as can be divined by its pattern designation, first developed on the Iliastus Satellite in the Sol System by the Dyunique techno-esoteric cult.

Armoury of the Blood Angels

Inferno Pistol

The Legion’s tactical doctrines were heavily focused on the use of powerful shock assaults to shatter an enemy’s resistance in a single, devastating blow. Because of this, melta weaponry was strongly favoured, both because of its effectiveness and its ability to provide a fearsome display in action.

Perdition Weapons

Though some would later attribute the various ‘Perdition’ weapons to the artifice of Sanguinius himself, these brutal weapons had been in the use of the IXth Legion since long before the Primarch had returned to them. The flame projectors built into these weapons are a legacy of the wars fought during Old Earth’s long darkness, the innovation of some long forgotten warlord brought to its pinnacle by the warriors of the IX"’ Legion.

• Blade of Perdition
• Axe of Perdition
• Maul of Perdition
• Spear of Perdition

Iliastus Assault Cannon

A prototype weapons system designed as a more compact and portable variant of the highly successful Kheres pattern, it was, as can be divined by its pattern designation, first developed on the Iliastus Satellite in the Sol System by the Dyzanique cult.

• Any Model with the Blood Angels Trait from either a Veteran Tactical Squad or a Centurion Command Squad may have its heavy flamer exchanged for one Iliastus assault cannon for +10 Points per Model.
• Any Cataphractii Terminator with the Blood Angels Trait may have its heavy flamer exchanged for one Iliastus assault cannon for +10 Points per Model.
• Any Predator with the Blood Angels Trait may have its Turret Mounted Predator cannon exchanged for one Turret Mounted twin Iliastus assault cannon for Free.
• Instead of having an option from the Legion Pintle Mounted Weapons list selected for it, any Model with the Blood Angels Trait and the Vehicle Type may have one Pintle Mounted Iliastus assault cannon selected for it for +20 Points per Model.
• Any Leviathan Dreadnought with the Blood Angels Trait may have both its heavy flamers exchanged for two Iliastus assault cannon for +30 Points per Model.

Revenants

The IXth Legion would march to war as Blood Angels, resplendent in lustrous crimson and gilded filigree, but their darker past would ever haunt them. As the horrors of the Warmaster’s treachery unfolded, they would once again become Revenants - savages clad in stark grey ceramite and splattered with the rust-red of their enemy’s blood, reliving a past they tried to forget and foreshadowing a fate they could not escape.

Rite of War: Legiones Astartes Blood Angels

Armoury of the Iron Hands

Armatus Necrotechnika

These secret devices of necro-technic engineering were among the fell technologies bound within the sealed vaults of Ferrus Manus. This technology is capable of harnessing the stolen energy of sentient life to power engines of mechanical destruction and repair. Those Iron Fathers who raided the Vaults ofMimir in the wake of the death of their Primarch would unleash this dark techno-heresy upon the galaxy once more and as the Horus Heresy drew towards its climax, it was sighted with terrible frequency among the ranks of Ferrus Manus’ grief-maddened sons.

Artificer Power Axe

Crafted to a standard which rivalled many of the Mechanicum’s pre-eminent forges, the power axes wielded by the Iron Hands were outfitted with advanced power emitters and blades of dense Medusan alloy, such that a well-placed blow could inflict ruinous damage to even the most heavily armoured foe.

Graviton Pistol

Ferrus Manus was amongst the most gifted of his brethren with the more exotic techniques of the Mechanician, and bent much of his will towards the study and understanding of such secrets. Able to emit a salvo of more precise graviton pulses, these weapons excel at the pinpoint destruction of heavy vehicles or disrupting an infantry advance with a salvo of gravitic bolts.

The Iron-clad

So depleted were they by the losses they had already suffered and so embittered were they by Horus’ treachery, the ire of the Xth Legion could not be stayed, even in death. Those who fell, too injured to be saved by the ministrations of the Legion apothecarion, were interred within the iron embrace of a dreadnought chassis where their compulsion for vengeance and retribution could be sustained.

Gorgon Terminator Armour

A variant of Indomitus pattern Tactical Dreadnought Armour devised by Ferrus Manus and his Iron Fathers, this advanced prototype suit was just going into production at the outset of the Horus Heresy to supplement the Iron Hands Legion’s combat depleted stocks of Terminator armour. The design replaced the field generators embedded in the armour with experimental systems that converted incoming electromagnetic and kinetic energy into bursts of blinding light, able to incapacitate and maim nearby foes.

Rite of War: Legiones Astartes Iron Hands

Armoury of the Ultramarines

Legatine Axe

Created to the specifications of Guilliman himself after a comprehensive study of thousands of individual power weapon designs from across the many worlds of humanity, the Legatine axe is a precise and perfectly balanced instrument of war.

Argyrum Pattern Boarding Shield

The Argyrum pattern boarding shield is a prototype boarding shield created by the Magi of the Forge Moon of Gantz that contained a larger field generator that greatly enhanced the protection of its bearer. Carried to battle by Ultramar’s greatest champions, such as the Invictarus Suzerains, the Argyrum pattern boarding shield is as much a symbol of status and power as it is an instrument of war.

Logisticae

Of the numerous strengths of the Ultramarines Legion was the efficiency with which they prosecuted the act of warfare. At the macro scale, entire chapters moved with fluidity, their Praetors and Centurions overseeing the deployment and actions of vast numbers of troops in carefully orchestrated manoeuvres and utilising interlocking tactics. At the micro scale, each squad and vehicle crew was permitted to make tactical decisions on equipment, occasionally removing additional ammunition supplies or even non-essential spare parts from their vehicles in order to better fulfil the specific requirements of the mission at hand.

Rite of War: Legiones Astartes Ultramarines

Armoury of the Salamanders

Drakenscale

Drakenscale, taken from the hides of the great beasts of Nocturne, is prized not only for its cultural and ceremonial significance but also for its physical properties. Despite its primitive origins, this organic material is capable of absorbing vast amounts of heat and can dissipate even the focused blasts of melta weapons or the sun-fire of plasma armaments. As such, veterans of the Salamanders Legion march to battle draped in mantles of Drakenscale not only as a mark of their hard-won experience, but also to augment the protection of their battleplate.

Duty Before Death

Heedless of their own safety’ and unshakable in their purpose, the Salamanders were unerring in the conduct of their duty. Where it was reckoned that those of the Death Guard did not feel pain, to claim the same of Vulkan’s sons was to diminish their sacrifice for it was for them that no excruciation or agony was great enough to turn them from their purpose.

Nocturnean Artifice

The forges of Nocturne were capable of producing weapons and equipment that were the finest examples of their type, using patterns that many speculated to be of Vulkan’s own design. Such weapons were carried to war by his sons who bore them with great pride and purpose, passing them on to their successors when their deeds proved them to be worthy.

Forge-crafted Power Weapons

Forge-crafted Power Fist

Forge-crafted Thunder Hammer

Forge-crafted Flame Weapons

Rite of War: Legiones Astartes Salamanders

Armoury of the Raven Guard

Raven’s Talons

These unique and jealously guarded variants of lightning claws, each a work of art in its own right, were both synonymous with the Raven Guard Legion and often bestowed as a mark of honour among them.

• Any Model with the Command Sub-Type and the Raven Guard Trait may have its lightning claw exchanged for one Raven’s Talon for Free.
• Any Model with the Command Sub-Type and the Raven Guard Trait may have its pair of lightning claws exchanged for one pair of Raven’s Talons for Free.

Corvid Pattern Jump Pack

A redesigned version of the tried and tested Warhawk pattern jump pack, the Corvid pattern adds a sophisticated vector thrust assembly that allows its wearer to make a longer, more precise, leap and avoid obstacles at the point of impact with ease.

Wraiths

The preternatural ability with which the warriors of the XIXth Legion could go unseen was legendary amongst those who had witnessed it, even the bulk of a fully armoured Space Marine blending into the shadows of the surroundings, seemingly able to shift out of physical reality itself. The truth, known not freely even amongst the Raven Guard, was that this ability was an aspect ofCorax’s lineage, a mutation in genetics that was not fully understood by the Legion Apothecarion and one that it was forbidden to delve into.

Rite of War: Legiones Astartes Raven Guard

Armoury of the Emperor’s Children

Surgical Augments

Towards the end of the Great Crusade, the Legion’s armourers and apothecaries had begun to experiment with surgical augments and psycho-sonic weaponry based, in part, on xenos designs. Although their true breakthroughs in these fields would not occur until given unholy impetus and inspiration during the Legion’s fall, some success had already been reached in creating effective combat implants which were finding selective use as the Horus Heresy dawned.