Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy)
This page details people, events, and organisations from the /tg/ Heresy, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. See the /tg/ Heresy Timeline and Galaxy pages for more information on the Alternate Universe.
The Legiones Astartes or Space Marine Legions were the primary armed forces of the Imperium during the Great Crusade. Their core forces were bodies of augmented soldiers, the products of the Emperor of Mankind's genetic experimentation on old Terra. But there were also ordinary men and women who supported the Space Marines or even fought beside them in the Auxilia formations of the Imperial Army.
Detailed information
Legions of the Crusade
| The Twenty Astartes Legions of the Great Crusade | |||||||
| Number | Name | Speciality | Primarch | Homeworld | Loyalty | ||
| I | Heralds of Hektor | Generalists | Hektor Cincinnatus | Olmer (destroyed), now based from their fleet within the Eye of Terror | Traitor | ||
| II | War Scribes | Logistics | Arelex Orannis | Whitestone (Destroyed), now Fleet-based in the Atalantos Worlds. | Loyal | ||
| III | Missing and deleted from Imperial records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IV | Sons of Fire | World-Killing and Melee | Inferox "The Burned King" | Crematoria (destroyed) | Traitor | ||
| V | Winged Victory/Void Angels | Manoeuvre warfare | Gaspard Lumey | Ciban IV | Loyal | ||
| VI | The Entombed | Heavy Support | Golgothos | Sepulchra | Loyal | ||
| VII | Crimson Teeth | +Undergoing editing+ | Camaxtli | Chalchihuitl | Traitor | ||
| VIII | Missing and deleted from Imperial records | ||||||
| IX | Lions Rampant | Armoured Warfare | Cromwald Walgrun | Sommesgard | Traitor | ||
| X | Steel Marshals | Siege Warfare | Roman Albrecht | Centauri Primus | Loyal | ||
| XI | Thunder Kings | Furious Melee | Brennus | Alessia (destroyed), now multiple worlds | Loyal | ||
| XII | Life Bringers | Chemical Warfare | Johannes Vrach | Rai (destroyed), now Eden (Demon World in the Eye of Terror) | Traitor | ||
| XIII | Children of Astarot | Information and Infiltration | Uriel Starikov | Perfidiae V | Traitor | ||
| XIV | Black Augurs | Sorcery-powered Melee | The Voidwatcher | Ostium | Traitor | ||
| XV | Silver Cataphracts | Combined Arms Warfare | Alexandri of Rosskar | Rosskar | Loyal | ||
| XVI | Eternal Zealots | Chaos Generalists | Aubrey The Grey | Lazarus | Traitor | ||
| XVII | Scale Bearers | Fast Attack | Tiran Osoros | Solnhofen | Loyal | ||
| XVIII | Stone Men | Defensive Operations | Onyx the Indestructible | Neolithus(destroyed) | Loyal | ||
| XIX | Eyes of the Emperor | Firepower | Shakya Vardhana | Illobian | Loyal | ||
| XX | Iron Rangers | Asymmetrical Warfare | Rogerius Merrill | Profi Tiroedd | Traitor | ||
Discovery Order of the Primarchs
1) Hektor Cincinnatus (at start)
2) Arelex Orannis (803.M30)
3) Uriel Starikov (817.M30)
4) Shakya Vardhana (822.M30)
5) Roman Albrecht (831.M30)
6) The Voidwatcher (836.M30)
7) Gaspard Lumey (850.M30)
8) Johannes Vrach (850.M30)
9) Alexandri (855.M30)
10) Tiran Osoros (859.M30)
11) Inferox the Burned King (863.M30)
12) Rogerius Merrill (870.M30)
13) Camaxtli (872.M30)
14) Brennus (892.M30)
15) Golgothos (898.M30)
16) Aubrey The Grey (899.M30)
17) Onyx the Indestructible (908.M30)
18) Cromwald Walgrun (914.M30)
Doctrine and Reforms
Much of the discipline and organisation of the early Legions owed greatly to the ancient and proven Terran patterns of strategy, hierarchy and function as laid down in the revered texts of the Principia Belicosa of Roma and Krom's fragmentary New Model that had survived in the hands of the Old Earth tyrants down the blood-stained generations. To these venerable treatises the Emperor and his commanders had added their own genius and created a sturdy but adaptable strategic framework that spoke to the fundamental strengths and superhuman abilities of the Legionaries themselves.
Following the disaster of the Hektor Heresy and the Imperial counter-offensive of the Great Scouring, Darius Cyaxares persuaded his brother Primarchs to lay down their Legions and break up these mighty armies, so that no one man would again lead the terrible might that Hektor had turned against the Imperium. In reforming the Space Marine Legions into smaller units, the wisdom of the Primarchs was combined. Thomas Gaudin, the Emperor's Praetorian, laid out the ethics of the Space Marines as unyielding loyalty, honour, and good faith. Gaspard Lumey, who stood at the fore of the greatest Legion, explained his tactical and organisational doctrine. Darius himself gave the instructions to govern Space Marine Librarians. The result was the Epitoma institutorum rei Adeptus Astartes - better known as the Institutorum Astartes - that laid the basis for the Space Marine Chapters of the reformed Imperium.
Rules
Skirmish level (Warhammer 40k using the Forge World "Horus Heresy" material): This is the base game for the AU. All of the Legions above can be assumed to use the Legiones Astartes Crusade list, with modifications and special characters covered either on the main article or on one of the pages below:
Naval warfare (Battlefleet Gothic): We like Battlefleet Gothic a lot, and have sketched out some rules for playing Hektor Heresy in SPACE!
Resources for editors
Information
The Warhammer 40k wiki is a very useful resource due to giving "extremely accurate summaries" of Games Workshop and Forge World material. Lexicanum's 40k wiki relies on paraphrasing but is still worthwhile.
Graphical Templates
Here are some easily painted templates to make illustrating the Legion pages a simpler task.
