Armageddon Steel Legion

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- Armageddon Steel Legion -
Homeworld: Armageddon
Regiment Name: Armageddon Steel Legion
Specialities: Armoured & Anti-Ork Warfare
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The Armageddon Steel Legion are the most famed Imperial Guard Regiments native to the Hive World of Armageddon. While the populous world of Armageddon has raised many different types of regiments in the past, none are as well-renowned as the Steel Legion.[22]

True to its name, Armageddon has been the site of three massive battles in the history of the Imperium, most recently a pair of invasions by the Ork Warboss Ghazghkull Thraka. As a result, the armies of Armageddon are very skilled in fighting Orks.[1] Despite the constant war of their homeland, they are still deployed across the galaxy and their experience in battling Greenskins has made them valued additions to Imperial armies which face the Xenos.[22]

Organisation

Soldiers of the Steel Legion in combat with Orks on Armageddon[6]

The Steel Legion operates mainly from Armageddon and the planets of its system. They operate primarily against Orks, as they have gained experience fighting against them during the Third War for Armageddon.[22]

Much like the Death Korps Grenadiers, the Storm Troopers of the Armageddon Steel Legion are fully part of their own regiments and homeworld. The only noticeable difference is that they are instead split into divisions, this allows them to assist different companies of regular guardsmen during high-risk missions or on important campaigns. Steel Legion Storm Troopers pride themselves on being their regiment's finest soldiers, and whilst distant from regular guardsmen, they are still shown a great deal of respect within the Legion, whose rank and file members rightly consider them to be the "best of the best". Steel Legion Storm Troopers are armed with powerful Hellguns that are attached to notably heavy, thrumming power generators. They are also known to wear the Legion's iconic re-breather masks and don thick, ochre coloured trench-coats over their Carapace Armour.[8]

Regimental Structure

Each regiment raised on Armageddon is composed of twelve companies, typically a mix of infantry, armour, artillery and mechanised infantry. Infantry and mechanised infantry companies consist of a command section, a fire support platoon with 10 heavy weapons teams, and three infantry platoons of 50 soldiers each, including 5 heavy weapons teams. At full strength a company would have 175 soldiers, though casualties suffered during battle will quickly reduce this.[2a] Tank and artillery companies consist of a command vehicle and three squadrons or batteries of three vehicles each.[2a] Super-heavy tank companies are composed of three super-heavy vehicles.[2b]

Additional units can also be attached to a company to function as part of their organic structure. These include a fire support platoon, an infantry platoon, a tank squadron, a Hellhound squadron, a Griffon battery, a Hydra flak tank, and/or a two-man Sniper or Ogryn team. Normal practice limits companies to three such attachments, and never more than one of each type.[2b]

Additional support units can be attached to regiments on an as-needed basis, normally restricted a maximum of two support formations per company.[2b] These attached units can include Rough Rider and Steel Legion Storm Trooper platoons, the latter often riding in four Valkyries per platoon; three-vehicle Hydra flak batteries and four-vehicle Sentinel squadrons; four-craft Vulture Gunship squadrons; and even Deathstrike Missile batteries, with two Deathstrike Missile Launchers per battery.[2b]

Recruitment & Training

The Armageddon Steel Legion are recruited from the planet Armageddon. The large hive population leads to the planet founding a large amount of regiments. During the Third War for Armageddon more regiments were raised on Armageddon than on any other world in the Segmentum Solar.[16]

Whilst all types of regiment are raised on Armageddon, they are most known for Mechanised Infantry Regiments.This is in part due to the world manufacturing a large amount of Chimera armoured personnel carriers. Steel Legion Armoured Regiments are often split up amongst the various Mechanised Infantry Regiments to provide close support.[16]

Recruits for the Steel Legion are drawn from the hives of Armageddon. These hives are riddled with crime where only the strongest survive, and it is not uncommon for entire gangs to be conscripted into the Steel Legion at once, as they require little training compared to other recruits.[16] Usually, Steel Legion recruits are already well-acquainted the art of killing and instead only need to learn how to follow orders.[22]

Combat Doctrine

As Armageddon is one of the primary manufacturing sites for the Chimera transport, the Steel Legion always rides into battle with plentiful numbers of these vehicles. Their infantry is generally carried in these vehicles in long convoys, ploughing through enemy defenses in force before disembarking to finish off any who remain.[22] The mechanized regiments of the Steel legion are extremely mobile and can be shifted within the shortest time to the front or to support a threatened front section.[17]

Besides their mechanized infantry, the Steel Legion also maintains a large number of armoured formations. Equipped with a wide variety of vehicles, they are usually deployed in armoured divisions which are subsequently split up and attached to Mechanized Regiments. This allows each Regiment to maintain a pool of tanks in which to support their more vulnerable armoured personnel carriers against foes such as enemy war engines.[22]

Equipment

The Armageddon Steel Legion is incredibly well supplied due to their homeworlds industrial output. Lasguns, armoured vehicles, artillery, and every type of wargear imaginable for a Guard regiment are produced domestically at a prodigious rate by the planet's heavy industry. All of these weapons are of excellent quality due to centuries of experience in their mass production.[22]

Guardsmen of the Steel Legion wear a uniform of mustard yellow greatcoat, heavy boots and gloves, gas-masks and rounded bowl helmets over black fatigues.

The standard weapon of the Armageddon Steel Legion is the Voss-Pattern Lasgun.[15b] The Steel Legion also make use of Grenade Launchers and Missile Launchers. The preferred armoured vehicles are Leman Russ Battle Tanks, with Vanquishers serving as command vehicles, though they are known to include a few Leman Russ Executioners.[3] Artillery is usually Basilisks, Colossus Bombards and Manticores, while super-heavy vehicles are typically Baneblades and Shadowswords.[2a]

Notable Campaigns


Known Regiments

Main article: List of Armageddon Steel Legion Regiments

Notable Members

Images

Miniatures

Various official paintjobs, conversions, and kitbashes.

  • Ogryns from Armageddon in desert camo pattern.[24]

Product Miniature Range

Ranged of produced Armageddon Steel Legion models

See also

Sources

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