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 | Void Angels | Manoeuvre warfare | Gaspard Lumey | Ciban IV | Loyal | ||
| VI | The Entombed | Heavy Support | Golgothos | Sepulchra | Loyal | ||
| VII | Missing and deleted from Imperial records | ||||||
| VIII | Mastodontii | Mechanised Warfare | Tollund Ötztal | Tisenjoch | Traitor | ||
| 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 | The Justiciars | Witch-hunting and surgical strikes | 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 | Close Quarters Combat | 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 | Marusthali | 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) Tollund Ötztal (842.M30)
8) Gaspard Lumey (850.M30)
9) Johannes Vrach (850.M30)
10) Alexandri (855.M30)
11) Tiran Osoros (859.M30)
12) Inferox the Burned King (863.M30)
13) Rogerius Merrill (870.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, Gaspard Lumey and Arelex Orannis presided over a great reorganisation of the Loyalist Space Marines into smaller rapid strike units of a thousand Astartes. These Successor Chapters to the old Legions would form an integral part of the Reformed Imperium's defences.
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.
