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==Overview== [[File:Destroyer_Legiones_Astartes.jpg|border|thumb|right|300px|The fact that the paint is coming off just tells you how messy their weaponry is]] The Destroyer corps can trace their origins to the Unification Wars, as they were inspired by the various enemies the Emperor faced when he was conquering [[Terra]] in preparation for the [[Great Crusade]]. Despite their sheer destructive potential, the Legiones Astartes shunned them, seeing in the Marines that were part of Destroyer Squads as the equivalents to [[That Guy]] (as in the Marines themselves were morally dubious for even willingly joining those formations). Nevertheless, Destroyers were seen as a necessary evil by Imperial commanders for being so damn efficient against xenos (who had no chance of joining the Imperium at large) or dug-in humans who would not submit and held nothing of strategic value but still needed to be made an example of. Even then, most of the Legions either shunned them, as mentioned previously, or simply didn't have them at all. Fittingly, the only real command personnel who would regularly deploy alongside units of generic Destroyers would be [[Moritat|Moritats]]. Due to using a loadout that would make [[Nurgle|Papa Nurgle]] happy, the Legionaries who were part of the Destroyer corps were heavily affected by their own weapons. Typical [[Grimdark|side-effects included abnormally pale skin, said skin rotting away due to cellular degeneration, tainted veins and blood bruises on the flesh, jaundiced eyes, and various aggressive forms of cancer that were so bad they required cybernetic replacements]]. The fact that being assigned to a Legion's Destroyer Corps virtually guaranteed a particularly nasty and slow death, even without any efforts on the part of the Imperium's enemies, meant that such an assignment was a ''de facto'' death sentence for many legionnaires who either stepped out of line or got on the wrong side of their Primarch (though a very few tougher-than-nails bastards, such as [[Crysos Morturg]], would survive for a long time and even thrive in such a lethal occupation). Needless to say, the one Legion that would be associated the most with these guys would be the [[Death Guard]]. Having their superhuman resistances further boosted by the capabilities of Mortarion's gene-seed, the Death Guard would become ''the'' experts on biological and chemical warfare and were sent to places that would prove fatal for normal Space Marines. And because of their love for this type of warfare, the already dubious XIV Legion would be seen with even greater suspicion by the rest of the Legiones Astartes. This was a prelude to what the Legion would turn into in the future. In terms of actual equipment, think of the nastiest shit the Imperium had during the [[Great Crusade]]. This includes [[Rad Missile Launcher]]s or [[Volkite Serpenta]]s as well as [[Balefire Gun|Toxiferran Flamers (AKA Balefire Guns)]]. They also commonly carried twin [[Bolt Pistol]]s, [[Chainsword]]s, [[Grenades & Explosives#Phosphex Bomb|Phosphex Bombs]], [[Grenades & Explosives#Rad Grenade|Rad Grenades]], and [[Melta Bomb]]s. Early on, Destroyer Squads wore [[Mark II: Crusade Armour|Crusade-pattern armor like everyone else]], but when the legion's commanders noticed that they were dropping like flies since the Mark II did very little in terms of protecting them from acute radiation poisoning, the Destroyer Squads were quickly upgraded with a heavily modified and up-armoured version of the [[Mark IV: Maximus Armour|Mark IV Maximus]] with better nuclear and chemical protection, thus making sure they survived long enough to not drop dead after the end of every campaign.
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