Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4948356-20130516175846/@comment-11526152-20130823144318

Seeing people creating multiple characters and factions has got metinking, why not join in the fun :)

2nd faction: The Iron Praetorians Space Marine Chapter

The Iron Praetorians are a Loyalist Fleet-based Space Marine Chapter of unknown founding and unknown Primach. However, with the presence of large numbers of Iron Praetorians favouring big GUNS and only BIG GUNS as their standard equipment and wargear, several Imperial scholars have suggested that they are succesors of the revered Imperial Fist Space Marine Chapter.

However, the Iron Praetorians are a non-codex compilant chapter making them different than other Imperial Fist Successor Chapter(with the exception of the Black Templars). The Chapter only field 8 companies compared to the codex 10. Even so, the total number of marines the chapter have are unknown due to combat fatalities and the number of succesful aspirants vary from time to time.

The Chapter does not have a vaunted 1st veteran company, instead the chapter made their 8th company a specialized company, the Shock and Awe company consisting of all the chapter veteran Devastator Marines, 16 Ironclad dreadnoughts and 8 Land Raider Achilies. The 1st to the 4th companies are Shock companies while the 5th and 6th companies are Tactical companies. The 7th company is the chapter only Assault Company where any of the chapter marines that loves close combats are found. The 7th company is unique as only the 7th company may utilize the chapter's Terminator Armours.

The chapter does not posses any long honour rolls of campaigns or victories compared to other chapters as the Iron Praetorians view these achievements as nothing more than decorations that gather dust. The chapter doesn't have any Predators at all even though having love for BIG GUNS. Instead the Chapter maintain an unusual amount of Land Raiders. The chapter favors the Mortis Dreadnought layout and maintain 12 of them.

The chapter rarely deploy their strength to many warzones as they do not posses the nessecary amount of voidships. As the chapter is fleet-based, the protection of their geneseed(the chapter future) comes first as 12 years ago, a tragedy befell the chapter and was threathend with the fate of extinction. The battle barge The Supreme Wrath contained nearly 80% of the chapter's geneseeds was destroyed in a titanic duel with a Space Hulk comanded by an elusive Ork Warboss. Most of the chapter's relics was lost as well and the chapter had to slowly rebuild their forces for the next century or so.

Now, the chapter only have a single Battle Barge, due to the desperate circumstances and the fact that the chapter is fleet-based. The chapter made their way to a unnamed forge world and requisisted or demand two Mars class Battlecruisers. After the battlecruisers were delivered to the Iron Praetorians, they thanked the forge world by annilihating the ork menace in the forge world system. The Iron Praetorians fleet composition are as follow, 1 Battle Barge, 2 Mars class Battlecruisers, 8 Strike Cruiser, 24 Escorts, 20 Storm Eagle and 40 Thunderhawks.

The chapter combat doctrine is to persuade the enemies of the Emperor and the Imperium with a lots of firepower. Due to their love of BIG GUNS, any xenos, heretic or chaos that encounters the Iron Praetorians are met with the RAW firepower of the Iron Praetorians BIG GUNS.