The Iron Warriors - Getting Started in Horus Heresy 

Remember, as always this is a demo army. You don't have to follow my advice, you don't have to buy the units I do, I just suggest a force which embodies the spirit of the Legion, and is designed as a core which you can build further around to go from a 2000 point force up to many times that. If you have any questions or want clarification, as always, ask away!

Make sure you roll to decimate all your squads prior to deployment.

Must resist starting an new army every time I watch one of these. Especially hard with Iron Warriors, the units are so cool.

Before video: Ehhhhh Iron Warriors are just evil Iron Hands After Video: IRON WITHIN, IRON WITHOUT

"You can't take allies. Ok, who wants to take allies?" >>Sad Reductor phosphex medusa and Legio-Cybernetica Thanatar noises

>iron warriors >seige breaking gods >bad breachers wtf Horus Heresy

mk4 is very fluffy as horus gave them large amounts of it

I wish the Legion rules included some sort of melee bonus to represent how the Iron Warriors were comparable to Blood Angels and World Eaters when assaulting breaches. You can remedy this by fielding a unit of Weaponmasters Veterans with power weapons. Other than that, you raise some interesting points. I don’t personally field Tyrants, I prefer normal Terminators armed with twin lightning claws (just for the looks). I wish you focused more on the Iron Havocs though, some of the best anti-tank, -elite and -air in the game when given missile launchers or lascannons. The missile launchers come standard with all types of missile, and the lascannons, while pricey, also kick major ass. BS 5 lascannons/missile launchers with tank hunter and a rule to lower cover saves? Kicks all sorts of ass, and you don’t have to give them expensive transports if you’re careful with deployment or go with more than one unit. From a fluff perspective, MK IV and Tartaros gear is just as appropriate as MK III and Cataphractii, since the Fourth were close to the Mechanicum and in general one of the most technologically able Legions. Moreover, they took part in field-testing the earliest MK VI suits, so they’re not too out of there either, I’d say. I usually like to give my guys lots of advanced weaponry to reflect their lore, so lots of conversion beamers, plasma guns and the like. Canonically, Dreadnoughts and Terminators of all sorts were very common in the Legion, so it’s appropriate to field lots of them (with the possible exception of Leviathans - they were extremely rare when the Heresy broke out and only the Loyalists got replacements for them)

The thing with the dreadnought is it looks like crap in just about every picture but actually pretty cool in real life. Its possibly the least photogenic model ever.

Iron within, Iron Without

I'm not so sure about the two tanks. Land Raiders and Spartans are Transport Vehicle, they're to expensive to take them just as battle tanks. The Tyrant Siege Terminators don't want to be transported, they want to shoot. If you want fire power, I'd recommend Vindicators with Machine Spirit and perhaps rapiers with Laser Destroyer Array.

From Iron cometh Strength From Strength cometh Will From Will cometh Honor From Honor cometh Iron This is the Unbreakable Litany and may it forever be so. 4th legion for life, doesn’t hurt that I actually live in a city called Olympia, lol.

thanks for this video, I picked up a lot of Mk III marines and Perturabo months ago with the intent of getting into 30k but I just wasn't sure what else to get so it kinda got shelved. Now its time to revisit the project.

thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I was not sure about taking the iron circle but you have given me a reason to

I really like this series and I hope you see it through to the end. To add my own opinions, if I were to start a basic 30k army I’d do it by getting the Betrayal at Calth/Burning of Prospero box set and getting 2 more Mark 3/4 squads made by GW. The main reason for this is to get a total of 50 tactical marines, with all their special/heavy weapons. If I’m correct on what extra pieces you get, by getting the box set and 2 more squads, then using every special/heavy weapon available, you should end up with... - 5 plasma gun marines (1 made as sergeant) - 5 melta gun marines (1 made as sergeant) - 5 flamer marines (1 made as sergeant) - 5 heavy bolter marines (1 made as sergeant) - 5 missile launcher marines (1 made as sergeant) - 22 regular bolter marines - 3 standard sergeants With this combination you can do a lot. For starters you can have… - Two 10-man tactical squads - One 5-man tactical squad (use as proxies for something) - Three 5-man tactical support squads - Two 5-man heavy support squads. That’s five troops choices (2 compulsory), and two heavy support choices, in addition to the two HQs, and two elites choices you get form the Betrayal at Calth set. A full army right there. Alternatively, you could mix and match the weapons to create three 10-man squads + addition support squads. For example… - Three 10-man squads (1 sergeant, 7 bolters, 1 flamer, 1 missile launcher each) - One 5-man plasma gun squad - One 5-man melta gun squad - One 5-man heavy bolter squad With that you’d have a few spare marines, 1 bolter, 2 flamers, and 2 missile guys exactly. But you would have either three veteran squads + 3 support squads for 30k, or 3 tactical squads + 2 veteran squads + 1 heavy squad for 40k. And of course that’s just one combination, you can mix and match the special/heavy weapons to your heart content. I personally think it’s a good idea for a starter army, which would work for any legion that isn’t 100% close combat orientated. I don’t play 30k yet however, so maybe what I’ve suggested is trash. It’s what I’m planning to do whenever I get around to collecting a 30k army however, so I hope it works.

Can't wait to place my 2nd order to FW :) , Not going over-board , but bit by bit , little by little, I will get there . Have a fair amount of Troops(about 40-50) , mixing between mkIII and mkIV armours and adding special weapons and Havoc squads. Looking forward to adding some "beef" to my army !!

The Iron Warriors is my favourite legion and by the Emperor their models look so cool especially the Iron Circle Battle Automata.

This is awesome! I've just gotten into 30k in the last couple of months. Is this still a pretty accurate breakdown for the IV Legion, almost 3 years later?

Macca, what would you change if you were to use the Ironfire Rite of War instead of Hammer of Olympia?

That laugh when he talked about the Spartan tells horrific stories

Good one! I have a similar army set up, with less tanks. I got lascannon iron havocs they a pretty strong.

So overpowered I love it

So i as a masacist should have a warsmith with 3 ferum classes and 20 tyrant terminators and 3 squads of three quad morters

Slowly waiting for the World Eaters episode...

"oh hey the Iron Circle, I do like those gu-" "but you'll be that guy if you use them everytime..." "wh- why?.... what could possibly be so wrong th-" " _they have 3+ invulnerable saves_ " " *_I'm sorry, what?_* "

Would you go 1 x 6 man havoc support squad because the achilles can only take a max of 6?

Don't know how I missed this series, auto play = on. ;P

Ok, halfway there...

As a rule of thumb is it better to field tacticals in 10s 15s or 20s?

Been eyeing this army to delve into with with the new box. Do you think this is still relevant in the new addition.

so, started collecting iron warriors, just got the 5 man tyrants and normal contemptor, and I know its been a year since this video came out, is there any updated things you were say to add or subtract from this? I haven't played HH yet and plan to soon

cool

4th legion is best legion

In short you do the same as in the 3.5 edition chaos codex just on steroids.

Laughs in fortification*

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