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Given their expertise at constructing and manning fortresses, the [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]] also found itself constantly diminishing in active crusading size as units were detached from it to act as garrison troops watching over worlds in the process of compliance. The most famous of these garrisons was that of the Iron Keep on [[Delgas II]], where a single ten-marine squad of Iron Warriors watched over a disgruntled population of 130 million.{{Fn|1b}} It is unknown why the Iron Warriors were so often selected for such assignments, or why [[Perturabo]] always accepted such orders without protest, but it is supposed that it began to inflict serious damage to the Legion's morale. Even [[Space Marines]] need rest, but the [[Great Crusade|Crusade]] gave them none.{{Fn|1c}} A particularly brutal battle of the Great Crusade for the Iron Warriors was the thankless [[Sak'trada Deeps Campaign]] against the [[Hrud]], which resulted in heavy casualties on a strategically far-off and worthless system.{{Fn|25}}
[[Image:TacticalSupportMarine.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Heresy-era Iron Warriors Space Marine{{Fn|20f}}]]
Worse, their "typecasting" as siege engineers or garrison troops set them apart from their brother [[Space Marine Legion|Legions]]s and made them feel increasingly marginalized. In particular they were aggrieved by the [[Imperial Fists]], whose [[Primarch]], [[Rogal Dorn]], often boasted about the impregnability of the defences they had constructed around the [[Imperial Palace]] on [[Terra]]. [[Perturabo]] was not the only one of the Primarchs who found his brother Dorn boastful and arrogant, but Perturabo was unable to let the insults to himself and his Legion pass, and these continued to fester in his heart.{{Fn|1c}} Likewise, [[Corax]], the Primarch of the [[Raven Guard]], made little secret of his contempt for Perturabo and his Legion, dismissing them as stolid attritionists, anathema to Corax's own concept of fluid, hit-and-run warfare.{{Fn|19}}
**{{Endn|20d}}: pg. 250
**{{Endn|20e}}: pg.120
**{{Endn|20f}}: pg.93
*{{Endn|21}}: [[Malodrax (Novel)]], Chapter Twelve
*22: [[The Siege of Castellax (Novel)]]

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