

This allowed the Legion to be one of the largest and the earliest deployed alongside the I Legion and V Legion. The Legion's gene-seed showed above average adaptability and a below average resistance rate to Bionics. The early IVth Legion proved itself in the Unification Wars, making its domain one of the most stalwart bastions of the Emperor. The warlike gun-tribes in the surrounding areas made up the first of the Legion's Marines. Originally created as the IVth Legion, the Legion was founded atop the wreckage of a recidivist fortress on the Terran Auro Plateau of Sek-Amrak. Unification Wars-era Iron Warrior Origins Like the Iron Hands they used bionics often to replace mutated limbs, as they hated all forms of mutation. They make common use of slave-soldiers as cannon fodder to wither the ammunition supplies of the besieged and to locate the positions of enemy gun emplacements. The Iron Warriors are also fierce close-range fighters, witnesses comparing their ferocity to the berserkers of the World Eaters traitor legion or the loyalist Blood Angels. Their specialty is siege warfare and the reduction of fortified positions, which made them natural rivals of the Imperial Fists even before the Heresy. They were one of the nine legions which betrayed the Emperor during the Horus Heresy, becoming Chaos Space Marines. The Iron Warriors were the IV Legion of the twenty original Space Marine Legions. Silver armour, gold trim, black shoulder pads For other uses of Iron Warriors, see Iron Warriors (disambiguation). This article is about the Chaos Space Marine Legion.
