Armageddon Steel Legion

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The Armageddon Steel Legion are the Imperial Guard regiments native to the Hive World of Armageddon.

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.

Uniform

Basic Data

Miniature

- Armageddon Steel Legion -
Homeworld:	Armageddon
Regiment Name:	Armageddon Steel Legion
Specialities:	Xeno Fighters-Orks

Organization

Soldiers of the Steel Legion in combat with Orks on Armageddon

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

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, fire support platoon with 10 heavy weapons, and three infantry platoons of 50 soldiers, including 5 heavy weapons teams. At full strength a company would have 175 soldiers, though casualties suffered during battle will quickly reduce this.^2-p.133 Tank and artillery companies consist of a command vehicle and three squadrons or batteries of three vehicles each.^2-p.133 Super-heavy tank companies are composed of three super-heavy vehicles.^2-p.135

Each company can also be "upgraded" to include additional units 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 a two-man sniper or Ogryn team. Normal practice limits companies to three such attachments, and never more than one each.^2-p.135

Additional support units can be attached to regiments on an as-needed basis, normally restricted a maximum of two support formations per company.^2-p.135 These attached units can include Rough Rider and Storm Trooper platoons, the latter 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 unit.^2-p.135

Recruitment & Training

The Armageddon Steel Legion are recruited from the planet Armageddon and are trained under standard Imperial Guard methods.

Battle Style

The Steel Legion regiments are primarily Mechanized Infantry, and Armageddon produces many armoured fighting vehicles for the Imperium, such as Chimera APCs. This allows them to launch rapid attacks in which the Chimeras overrun enemy lines before the infantry disembarks to finish them off. Regiments are sometimes supported by Conscript Platoons and Ratling snipers.

The mechanized regiments of the Steel legion are extremely mobile and can be shifted within shortest time to the front or to support a threatened front section.

Equipment

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. This is however only the most commonly seen uniform and uniform presumably varies slightly between regiments as with all Imperial Guard.

The Armageddon Steel Legion make use of Grenade Launchers and Missile Launchers. The preferred armoured vehicles are Leman Russ tanks, with Vanquishers serving as command vehicles, though they are known to include a few Leman Russ Executioners.^5-p64 Artillery is usually Basilisks, Bombards and Manticores, while super-heavy vehicles are typically Baneblades and Shadowswords.^2a

Notable Regiments

Infantry

Regiment

Notes

Ash Wastes Militia

Known to have fought in the Third War for Armageddon

16th

47th

One of the many regiments that served in the Third War for Armageddon.¹

68th

Third War for Armageddon - One of the regiments that served in defense of Hive Helsreach.^7-Ch13

69th

87th

91st

Third War for Armageddon - One of the regiments that served in defense of Hive Helsreach.^7-Ch9

93rd

The 93rd Steel Legion is known to have taken part in the Third War for Armageddon, fighting at the Mannheim Gap.^6-p64

101st

Third War for Armageddon - The regiment that served in defense of Hive Helsreach.⁷

116th

Third War for Armageddon - One of the many regiments that served in the defence of Armageddon.²

141st

De	141. Stahllegion

Third War for Armageddon - The 141st fought in the defence of Palonious where they suffered heavy casualties. They were eventually reinforced by the Salamanders chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. During the battle around the Eumenides bridge the regiment was all but destroyed by a large body of Orks from the Blackskulls tribe as they migrated out of the Diablo mountain range. With the assistance of the Salamanders the bridge was saved and the Orks pushed back to the mountains. The remnants of the regiment were used to reinforce the 252nd Regiment.³

276th

De	276. Armageddon Mobile Infanterie

Third War for Armageddon - The 276th fought in the ash wastes where, in 963.M41, the Third company discovered the remains of a shattered Ork Gargant from the Second War for Armageddon and secured it with the help of Fourth company in the face of heavy Ork counterattacks.⁴

703rd

Third War for Armageddon - One of the storm-trooper regiments that served in defense of Hive Helsreach.^7-Ch16

Armoured

8th Armageddon Tank

Regiment	Notes
8th Super Heavy Tank Company	The Armageddon 8th Superheavy Tank Company is a Super Heavy Tank Company of the Imperial Guard founded on Armageddon. This company was originally equipped with Stormsword superheavy tanks, one of which was the ninth of the company.^5-p108
121st	Third War for Armageddon - One of the armoured regiments that served in defense of Hive Helsreach.^7-Ch2
199th	Third War for Armageddon - One of the armoured regiments that served in defense of Hive Helsreach.^7-Ch12
233rd	Third War for Armageddon - One of the armoured regiments that served in defense of Hive Helsreach.^7-Ch20
273rd	Third War for Armageddon - One of the armoured regiments that served in defense of Hive Helsreach. Nick-named the 'Steel Vultures'.^7-Ch6
339th "Iron Heads"	Third War for Armageddon - The 339th earned its title "Iron Heads" during the battle for the tank forges of Hive Tempestora during the war. So massive was the factory that the entire tank battle was fought within. At one point the 339th held a line demarcated by a long conveyor belt against an Ork attack and the assembly line continued to function despite the pitched battle that took place around it. At the height of the battle the entire regiment was mounted in Chimeras that had just rolled off the assembly line. The 339th then made a mechanized assault along the length of the factory, smashing through the Orks.⁸

Notable Members

Fulkerin - Armageddon Steel Legion Guardsman
Commissar Yarrick - Commissar of the Armageddon Steel Legion, Second and Third War for Armageddon hero.
Acting-Captain Haines, 47th Steel Legion
Major Istevus, 141st Steel Legion
Commissar Vandenberg - Regimental commissar, 267th Steel Legion
Commissar Ali Ibn Sina of 3rd Company, 267th Steel Legion
Second Lieutenant Helgast of 3rd Company, 267th Steel Legion