Space Marine Honour Guard Squad

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A Space Marine Honour Guard is a unit made of the best soldiers a Space Marine Chapter has to offer.[1]

Overview

An Honour Guard of the Ultramarines[1]

Honour guard are two extremes, solemn and taciturn at peace but ferocious and unyielding in combat. They have achieved all awards and honours that a marine can, which puts them in a position of unrivaled knowledge. Often their experience and knowledge of warfare outstrips the captains of a chapter, but to offer unsolicited advice would be to undermine the position of these captains. To this end, any advice given by an honour guard carries much weight within the command circle as well as among the rank and file. Even Chapter Masters have been known to seek advice from their honour guard.[1]

Honour guard weapons and equipment are the oldest and greatest the chapter has to offer. Most often this includes ancient and ornate artificer armour and weapons which have had hundreds of previous users, all of whom were great heroes. Most chapters can muster only a handful of honour guard and only the largest chapters have over twenty guards. It is very rare however, that such a number would ever fight together.[1]

Often the honour guard will form the retinue for the Chapter Master, keeping him safe in battle as well as carrying the Chapter Banner. They fight with a cold courage, their experience and abilities help them to calm the rage of combat whilst maintaining lightning reactions and instant analysis of battle conditions. This strength has turned the tide of many battles and saved the life of several chapter masters. When one of the honour guard dies in battle, his brothers fight all the harder to recover his body and return it to the chapter's Vault of Heroes.[1]

Chapter Variations

Pre-Heresy

During the Great Crusade, it became traditional for the primarch of a Space Marine Legion to be accompanied by an elite bodyguard unit, frequently equipped with Terminator armour. Units of this kind included:

Legion Primarch Title Notes
Alpha Legion Alpharius Lernaean Alpharius often switched places with these warriors[2]
Blood Angels Sanguinius Sanguinary Guard[3] Often equipped with Artificer armour instead.
Dark Angels Lion El'Jonson Paladins[4], Five Hundred Companions[5], Deathwing/Secta Mortis[6]
Death Guard Mortarion Deathshroud Names were deliberately expunged from the Legion's rolls, so they remained completely anonymous.[7]
Emperor's Children Fulgrim Phoenix Guard [8]
Imperial Fists Rogal Dorn Huscarls[9], Templars[10]
Iron Hands Ferrus Manus Morlocks [11]
Iron Warriors Perturabo Tyranthikos[12]/Iron Circle[13]
Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus Horus Justaerin Acted as an elite unit within the 1st Company, rather than a bodyguard unit. Captained by Falkus Kibre.[14]
Night Lords Konrad Curze Atramentar [15]
Raven Guard Corvus Corax Shadow Wardens [2b]
Salamanders Vulkan Pyre Guard [16]
Space Wolves Leman Russ Varagyr Wolf Guard [17]
Thousand Sons Magnus Scarab Occult [18]
Ultramarines Roboute Guilliman Suzerain Invictarus [19]
White Scars Jaghatai Khan Keshig [20]
Word Bearers Lorgar Phraetus Anointed[37]
Gal Vorbak[21]
Vakrah Jal
Harbingers of Death[22]
World Eaters Angron Devourers Unlike most primarchs, Angron disdained his need for a bodyguard unit, and so the Devourers were not the Legion's most skilled warriors.[23]

Post-Heresy

Chapter/Legion Title Notes
Black Legion Bringers of Despair Personal bodyguard of Abaddon the Despoiler[24]
Blood Angels Sanguinary Guard [3]
Blood Ravens Honour Guard [34][35][36]
Dark Angels Inner Circle Companions Guardians of heroes of the Unforgiven[32]
Death Guard Deathshroud Personal bodyguard of Mortarion[7]
Iron Hands Helfathers Guardians of the Iron Council[31]
Iron Warriors Rending Guard Personal bodyguard of Warsmith Andraaz[25]
Night Lords Atramentar Bodyguards for Night Lords Chaos Lords[15]
Thousand Sons Scarab Occult Bodyguards for Thousand Sons Chaos Lords[18]
Salamanders Firedrakes [30]
Space Wolves Wolf Guard Retinue of a Wolf Lord.[26]
Ultramarines Honour Guard[27]
Victrix Guard[28]
Chosen of the Tetrarchy[29]
White Scars Keshig Report directly to the Great Khan[33]

See also

Sources

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Space Marine Infantry
Chapter Command Chapter Master • Master of Sanctity • Chief Librarian • Master of the Apothecarion • Master of the Forge • Master (Master of the Watch • Master of the Fleet • Master of the Arsenal • Master of the Marches • Master of the Rites • Master of Relics • Lord Executioner • Master of Recruits • Master of the Signal • Master of Reconnaissance) • Chapter Ancient (Primaris Ancient) • Chapter Champion • Honour Guard
Company Command Company Command Squad • Reclusiam Command Squad • Captain (Primaris Captain) • Lieutenant (Primaris Lieutenant • Vanguard Lieutenant) • Company Ancient (Bladeguard Ancient) • Company Champion
Specialists Librarian (Epistolary • Codicier • Lexicanum • Primaris Librarian • Vanguard Librarian) • Chaplain (Reclusiarch • Primaris Chaplain • Judiciar) • Apothecary (Primaris Apothecary • Helix Adept) • Techmarine (Primaris Techmarine)
Veteran Squads Sternguard Veteran Squad • Vanguard Veteran Squad • Terminator Squad (Terminator Assault Squad) • Bladeguard Veteran • Veteran Intercessor Squad • Company Veterans
Battleline Squads Tactical Squad • Intercessor Squad (Heavy Intercessor Squad) • Infiltrator Squad
Close Support Squads Assault Squad • Assault Intercessor Squad • Jump Pack Intercessor Squad • Inceptor Squad • Infernus Squad • Reiver Squad • Incursor Squad • Assault Centurion Squad
Fire Support Squads Devastator Squad • Hellblaster Squad • Aggressor Squad • Eliminator Squad • Suppressor Squad • Eradicator Squad • Desolation Squad • Devastator Centurion Squad
Scouts Scout Squad
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