IV Legion 'Iron Warriors': Origins & History (Warhammer & Horus Heresy Lore) 

I am in the process of binge watching this entirely channel. Love it!

'You don't know of the things I dream. No one does. No one ever cared enough to find out.'

Ten thousand years later, the tactical actions and outlook of the Iron Warriors would make them heroes of the Imperium, were they still loyal. They were miles ahead of the curve (presumably because there's a pillbox around said curve and they're busy throwing bodies at it). They'd be best friends with the Kriegers.

The work horse never gets the praise it deserves, if any other legion tried to do what the 4th did they wouldn't have a legion left to rebuild. Its okay Perturabo I appreciate you, Who else would have a baneblade as a personal command vehicle

“Know then, that this is a record...” My body is ready.

Perturabo is also the only Primarch who emerged fully aware of everything around him immediately. Part of why he's such a cold bastard.

It always surprised me that the Legion with the most advanced and numerous technology, with commanders driven by cold logic refused to commit to any tactics other than attrition and siege warfare. Although based upon this video it seems to have been done out of sheer stubbornness

You know a lore video is good when it makes you rethink your opinion on a topic. Outstanding piece

Perturabo: *I DEMAND TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!!!* Rogul Dorn: No...

"Tyrants rule through the love of their people, effective ones through fear, but no tyrant ever ruled through indifference."

Primarchs of the other legions are more honored and famous with their charisma and ability to work the masses with good P.R. Perturabo lacked those skills. The Iron Warriors should have hired a good PR agency or had more remembrancers.

Poor iron warriors. They weren't sourced from scum of the earth like the blood Angel's or prisoners like the night lords. They were just dudes. Then after being treated like expendable garbage for a long time, they finally get to meet their dad. But its perturabo :(

Everything about your presentation, from the tone of narration, cited pictures, background chanting, and extensive information about the subject REALLY helps with immersion. 10/10: would recommend until Ordo Redactus blams narrator.

Great video. I found the perterabo novel engrossing. He really was a tragic character. That and angel exterminatus made me actually feel a bit sorry for him.

Know then that you are my new favorite source of 40k lore.

I love the in-universe feel of the series, not to mention the vibe set by the music and voice

Exceptional depth, Gracefully narrated and thought provoking another out standing video, 40k lore as an art form

Easily my favorite warhammer 40k lore channel. Thanks man.

You have a vocal style that is what I'd call "graceful and stylistic." Thank you for your work.

Ironic that the stubborn, callous, and cold calculative mindset that Perturabo seemed to have had, is the very same mentality many people see in the Emperor himself, especially after reading "Master of Mankind".

Well, damn. The Emperor was a fool and begging for rebellion for letting this travesty continue.

Iron within, iron without, and therefore very stubborn and annoyed at everything. Then again, they should have gotten a break every now and then to shore up morale.

Most lore I've ever heard about a Legion that is normally forgotten.

i see you realy like that music in background.....heard it in quite lot of your videos......Pavle Aksentijević is realy amazing singer of church/orthodox stuff....start putting the music in description of your videos :D

Definitely a run down that made me look at the Iron Warriors differently.

Great narration as always. I really admire your work

Thank the omnissiah! I needed some Iculus Imperia today. Awesome job as always. Keep up the good work and take your time. Your videos are amazing.

Your origin and history vids of the different chapters are the gold standard of lore vids for me! You did such a great job !

Would it be correct to assume that these would be the form of the adeptus Astartes counterpart to the Death Korps Krieg of the IG?

Great work, once more. If I may be so bold as to suggest a minor addition; to end your videos instead of just going silent, perhaps have a sound (a ringing bell, etc.), to help make the records end feel more natural. Perhaps a mechanical sound as the servitor ends playback. Anyways, please keep up the great work.

Nice to hear the voice of an Irish man recounting the 40k lore.. your version is the best of all

Iron warriors have the best quotes in the lore. "The iron within, the iron without. Iron everywhere, empires rise and they fall, I have fought the ancient species of the galaxy, and my legiones astartes brothers will fight on meeting new threats in dangers as yet unrealized. We are an Empirum of iron, and iron is forever. When our flesh is long forgotten when the victim to the enemy within or the enemy without, iron will live on. Our hives will crumble and our mighty fleets decay, long after our polished bones, have faded to dust on a gentle breeze, our weapons and armor will remain. Remnants of a warlike race, iron of loyalist and traitor both, In them our story will be told, a cautionary tale to those that follow. Iron cares not for faith or heresy. iron is forever, and as our battle plate, our blades and bolters, rot in the sand on some distant world, they will pit and tarnish, their dull sheen will corrode and crumble, grey will turn to brown and brown to red, in our quietly rusting scrap of our fallen empire, iron will return to its primordial state. Perhaps to be used again by some other foolish race. And though the weakness of my flesh fails me, as the weakness of my brothers flesh will ultimately fail them, our iron shall live on, for iron is eternal. From iron cometh strength, from strength cometh will, from will cometh faith, from faith cometh honor, from honor cometh iron. This is the unbreakable litany, and may it forever be so."

So I'm wondering, what do you guys love the most about the Iron Warriors? I like their unrelenting system of war and how they serve as the mad scientists and weapon makers of the Traitor legions.

Can't help but feel sorry for the Iron Warriors to be honest. They did all the shit jobs no one else wanted to do, yet they were barely recognized for their efforts.

Another brilliant video. Easily the best channel for 40k lore.

From Iron Cometh Strength From Strength Cometh Will From Will Cometh Faith From Faith Cometh Honour From Honour Cometh Iron! This Is The Unbreakable Litany And May It Forever Be So!

I like to imagine that the Emperor's "silencing" of opposition to Perturabo's decimation was something along the lines of "I'd never do anything like that to my loyal servants haha... Unless....." and nobody wanted to press the matter any further.

Best 40k lore style hands down. Thanks for a longer video!! I just wish you put out more content.. heck I'd paytron you if you did..

MOURN THE ARCHAEOLOGIST, THE DESIGNER, THE BUILDER.

I know this comment is a bit late, but thank you for your awesome channel, AND for using "Decimate" correctly. Sooooo many people think that it means "obliterate", but it does not.

So happy to see you posting regularly again, looking forward to the 2nd part!

That was the most depressing thing I've watched all week Subscribing immediately

The iron warriors seem like the embodying of the phrase, “your reward is more work”

Love your presentation!

My new favorite channel, love your calmer more atmospheric delivery

My favourite legion and primarch

So the Iron Warriors were the guys who figured "it's just a job, let's not make a big deal out of it." Doesn't account for their complete and utter lack of unchanging inflexibility, though. Edit: They're like the Death Korps of Space Marines.

You and Arch Warhammer should attempt to do something like together. You, with your great story telling, Arch with his "skilled" humor, it has potential.

Your videos are amazing your an iterator of our times. Great content even better delivery. You use great artwork with descriptions. You can tell a lot of time effort and goes into these videos. My new favorite channel.

Beautifully done Remembrancer of Erie.

Another well done video!! Love it! Thank you for making these!

Coming back to this post 2022 is wild. Bit if a weird comparison now during the war in Ukraine, but seeing two semi modern militaries using modernized siege and trench warfare tactics in the 21st century, I can’t help but see these iron warriors. Like even with futuristic weapons and armor, when facing an entrenched foe, you just gotta go block by block, trench by trench again and again.

You do an amazing job with this.

14:43 not sure the message was "failure isn't an option" so much as "now you have another enemy to worry about from overhead"

Perturabo: "In the interest of efficiency 10% of you must die." Sergeant: "uh huh." *draws volkite pistol* Investigator: "So as I understand the six of you tripped, fell and your firearms accidentally discharged into Perturabo's back 148 times." Sergeant: "Yes Investigator." Investigator: "And then Perturabo stumbled out of his command post where a land raider accidentally ran him over 23 times." Sergeant: "Yes, they thought they had hit an animal so they reversed to take a look." Investigator: "And your account is absolutely identical to the other 5 officers in the command post, and I also have accounts mailed in to me by other Iron Warriors who back up your account word for word despite the fact they weren't even there." Sergeant: "I suspect we have a high incidence of Librarians in our ranks sir..."

I know 1 year late but you know what they say better late than never so I just subscribed

Hey bro, do you write these scripts yourself? You're blessed with literary talent. Thoroughly enjoy the perspective of your channel. Gives it that extra Sazon compared to other channels!

That was fast! Are you a White Scar? :O

Great work again! Please make one on the World Eaters

Rewatching this it becomes further self evident how much the IVths issues were self inflicted. From resenting the success of their cousin Legions, nursing imaginary grudges with the Vth and VIth simply for not praising them enough, to butchering their own Legion and allies. I mean, the XIIth looked at garrsion duty as recruitment drives, the Ist took losses as part of their duty. Perturabo and the IVth dug their own hole and, refusing to use that supppsed big brain, kept on digging. Its the embodiment of side show bob stepping on rakes or that meme of the guy ramming a stick into his own bike spokes.

BY THE EMPEROR!!! Already time for a new one :D

Awesome story telling

This one might need to be re-recorded... The sound is a bit echoey. Otherwise, amazing work as always.

This was great!

It just occurred to me years later and after many watch throughs, how funny it is for Third Legion recruitment stock to be repurposed for the Fourth Legion. So haughty little aristocrats who had been raised from birth to think they would become the Emperor's purple clad symbols of nobility and grace were told, "Nope! You're Corpse Grinders now. Get in those trenches and we'll talk to any of you who survive your first engagement!"

Thing is, they had remembrancers on their fleet whose sole job was to worship the ground they walked on and produce flattering propaganda. Plus we see statues of Iron Warriors and Perturabo being torn down during the Heresy implying they were honoured. So, my head canon is this was all in the heads of the Iron Warriors that they were being slighted. Especially when it’s mentioned in passing in Angel Exterminatus that they killed all their remembrancers. Have they done a book that actually explores and elaborates on the rivalry between Dorn and Perturabo?

This channel is much better than Arch Warhammer and OMS

Another amazing video my man.

Death guard next please

Love your work! Can you please tell me The name of The song you've used in this one?

Awesome as always!

Wonderful as always

Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼

I often wonder what would have happened if Perturabo had landed on Auretia..

I loved the IVth before, but damn, this has cemented my unwavering loyalty to them.

Please provide links to the music used in the videos.

Great stuff

Love it, the 1st next?

Ooooff one statement in this did not age well. While, yes the other Primarchs weren't exactly friendly to Perty, he and Magnus actually shared a very unique bond as illustrated in the book "Magnus: Master of Prospero". Though to be fair that book was published after this video was made, and I wish we'd get more stories of the Iron Warriors and the Thousand Sons collaborating with each other. Their Primarchs seem to enjoy each others company as well as their Legionaries, imo. It is the most unlikely synergy I have ever seen but it w o r k s when you sit down and actually think about it.

Well done!

The picture at 16:43 is from the battle of Tallarn, not a mutiny

Part two coming soon?

17:30 yo what the fuck is happening to those auxilliares at the bottom right

Hell yeah the new ones' out!

Please do the Lamenters or the word bearers

"Fuck Perturabo!" - the VII

I can‘t wait to listen to this! But let me hit the Like Button first.

still amazing

Awesome as always, blessed historian. Very nice for mentioning the Rangdan Xenocides too! Just few things; your pronunciation of Roboute Guilliman seems weird, try to use official one, from this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1_wXCBDiLEA.htmlm25s in cca 16:42, there is picture from Battle of Tallarn, so your caption of that picture is wrong wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Battle_of_Tallarn

DAMN! This is tragic

Know then, that this a record of my like and subscribe.

Music in background is Pavle Aksentijević.....not sure wich song he sings.....shame you didnt mention it

Pertorabo the Tywin Lannister of the 30k/40k universe cold ruthless uncaring and brutal.

Wonderful!

Absolute stubbornness? Must have been from Yorkshire!

IRON!! IRON WITHIN!! IRON WITHOUT!!!

Perturabo was a lunatic.

I'm new to your channel. i love it, but that music you have n the background 😅it's louder than you at times and off-putting for me 😅 again the shows great 👍

May we have [🐍🐍🐍] next?

Alpha Legion next