Iron Warriors

The Iron Warriors are one of the legions of Chaos Space Marines. The Iron Warriors' speciality lies in siege warfare. As a result they dislike close combat and instead prefer to sit back and blast their enemies with huge fire-power. Like their Primarch, they excel in siege-warfare tactics. Their motto is "Iron Within, Iron Without".

Their colour scheme of preference is silver (Boltgun Metal), gold (Shining Gold) and black (Chaos Black). Their weapons are usually embossed with yellow and black stripes, such as would be used to represent danger or warning. They make extensive use of tanks and heavy artillery, preferring to annihilate the enemy at range. They will occasionally alow positions to be cut off but know that since the post is held by Iron Warriors, it will never fall. They prefer not to go in for an all out assault (such behaviour would be expected of an army of Khorne, for example.) but some enemy positions must be taken in an assault and in such a case the Iron Warriors will make use of previously infiltrated squads. Only when an enemy force has been whittled down will the Iron Warriors launch their assault. When besieging a stronghold or city, the Iron Warriors will wait until the time is right to assault the walls. They will wait weeks even months until they are sure of the enemy and the pattern of attack they will need to take. When they are ready to attack, they will launch multiple attacks to confuse and disorient the defenders.

The Iron Warriors were originally one of the most respected Legions of the Adeptus Astartes, but their Primarch Perturabo led them into Chaos. Perturabo believed that the Emperor used them to fight the Imperium's bloodiest battles and divert the glory and fame to the more favored Primarchs (such as the Ultramarines, Imperial Fists, Space Wolves, Blood Angels and Dark Angels).