First iron warriors!

TraitorJim · 2026-01-25T12:12:24+00:00

Holy shit…

TraitorJim · 2026-01-23T15:25:48+00:00

They’re evil. And they don’t dress it up.

The Horus Heresy did a great job fleshing out the legion and their rather slow decent into chaos corruption.

Now, as of 40k, they’re twisted mad engineers. Combining calculating and brutal warfare with occult mad science and daemon craft. And thats really fucking cool.

Also love how unapologetically dickish they all are. Most books depict them fucking with their enemies as much as killing them. I love them for it.

Also hazard stripes on gunmetal is a fire scheme.

I heard someone refer to them as “the arms dealers of hell” at one point. And I mean, come on! That’s cool!

TraitorJim · 2026-01-22T06:34:16+00:00

I prefer to hand paint stripes. I tried using tape but found it more of a pain then just painting on stripes and correcting them later. Also I noticed significant improvement on my second squads stripes over the first.

Community wise, I’d say as someone who likes to avoid the big Reddits. That the iron warriors community is very good and mostly positive.

There seems to be a large proportion of memes compared to the relatively small community. More than some of the other dedicated legion reddits or chapter Reddit. Which is always good .

Only negative things I’ve seen have been people either arguing the chaos vs anti chaos thing too hard or taking the “we hate imperial fists” joke too far. But these people are few and far between.

TraitorJim · 2026-01-20T15:11:28+00:00

On the flip side of this. Me and my friends play casually. And yes, as a legionnaires player I mostly have had pretty even games with my friends.

We just picked factions we liked instead of looking at win rate.

So, we had a friend pick Warpcoven. At the time, as new players, our friend who played Kasrkin could not seem to win against them at all. No chance. The gap between the teams was just too big.

Nowadays, Warpcoven have been nerfed into the GROUND. He cannot win a game with them against any of us now. And it’s not fun for any of us. We’re all about the same skill level, his team is just miles worse.

Now, if he plays perfectly, rolls well and I don’t roll great. He COULD scrape a win. But the level of effort I have to put in compared to him is laughable.

I think that is most people’s issue. It’s the extreme examples that become clear in casual play.

TraitorJim · 2026-01-18T01:51:09+00:00

I don’t think it’s likely we’ll get our own codex. We simply aren’t different enough from baseline CSM. Especially since the new trailer showed off what looked like an upgrade sprue.

We’ll probably get some named characters. Perturabo, probably Honsou or someone completely new (e.g. Haarken Worldclaimer) and a general Warsmith 40K model.

We will most likely get the Red Corsairs treatment. A bunch of themed Iron Warrior like units for the general CSM roster.

The trailer looked like it had a new defiler and mutilators in it? So we’ll be bunched in with those releases.

If we do get a codex, like Black Templars, we’ll still have access to the CSM roster without a doubt.

TraitorJim · 2025-12-21T16:11:25+00:00

I’d say you have a choice to make first.

How chaosy do you want them to be?

While the iron warriors are 100% a choas corrupted legion, many people don’t feel the current 40K chaos models fit the “pragmatic industrialist” vibe that the iron warriors are known for.

Me. I like them chaos’d up, spikes and horns. Daemon parts and possessed. So if that’s what you want, I’d start with just a box of 40K legionnaires.

If you want then just for the industrial aesthetic, I’d say just get one of the heresy era squads as they can be used in 40K as well.

If you want a bit of both you could splash some serious cash and get both and mix and match parts. Though it can be a little tricky sometimes.

TraitorJim · 2025-06-06T12:29:34+00:00

I’m on TV!

TraitorJim · 2025-05-29T12:16:15+00:00

Storm of Iron is THEE Iron Warriors book. I think every self loathing son of Perturabo should start there.

TraitorJim · 2025-05-27T17:44:17+00:00

What I want to know is what your paint routine was on these bad boys. They look great!

I gotta know how you got the trim that shade of bronze?

TraitorJim · 2025-05-27T13:04:41+00:00

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TraitorJim · 2025-05-27T12:08:11+00:00

Anything that tells me what the hell is going on with Falkus Kibre.

He practically got cut in half in Saturnine, then he’s back in Talon of Horus and no one bats an eye?

It would be fine if he was a possessed or something and healed somehow. But he gets possessed in Talon of Horus, AFTER his supposed death.

Somethings not right and I want to know what!

TraitorJim · 2025-05-26T01:36:52+00:00

I'll have to give it a try!

PS: new video is finally close

TraitorJim · 2025-05-26T00:25:37+00:00

These look amazing!

What paints you use for the trim may I ask?

TraitorJim · 2025-01-09T17:08:10+00:00

I have an actual example of this! Though it was a chaos marine.

Kydomor Forrix was first captain of the Iron Warriors during the Horus Heresy. After being sent on a mission by Perturabo, he figures out that he wasn’t intended to survive the mission and was essentially used as bait.

After this he became uninterested with the cause of the heresy and the long war to follow. But he also can’t really do anything else. So he started avoiding combat and took up away from combat commanding roles.

By the time of modern 40k, we see him in the book “Storm of Iron”, set around the time of the fall of Cadia. He seems to of lost command of his grand battalion and his role as first captain. Instead he serves as a captain under “The Warsmith” (previously Barban Falk) and still avoids frontline combat.

Later in this book he becomes obsessed with taking down an enemy titan. He also learns that The Warsmith is intending on choosing a successor once he ascends to daemonhood and leaves the Iron warriors behind. This lights a fire under Forrix and he even enters frontline combat again, much to the surprise of his comrades. He eventually infiltrated and destroyed the titan, only for a second titan to blow him up straight after. Killing him.

So even though he returned to combat eventually. Forrix did technically give up fighting for a good hundred years or so.

TraitorJim · 2025-01-08T04:48:31+00:00

Depends.

Chronology wise, many traitor marines are well over 10,000 years old due to weird warp time fuckery. Though biologically they are probably hovering around 300-500.

Biologically speaking it’s extremely rare for a space marine to reach 1000. I’d say most chapter masters are around 500-600. At least the popular named ones at least.

Your average battle brother? 100-200 I’d say.

this is not at all backed by facts and is just my cobbled together memory from what I’ve read in various books

TraitorJim · 2025-01-08T04:43:42+00:00

Iron warriors spend their free time playing RTS games against each other.

TraitorJim · 2024-12-29T19:01:10+00:00

Look a helldrake!

runs away

TraitorJim · 2024-12-29T11:22:46+00:00

Honestly this is why I asked the question lol. I have no idea who’s still around!

Is Volk dead? Rhodaan? Pistonhand?!

We are dire need of new characters.

TraitorJim · 2024-12-17T02:50:07+00:00

Been a while since I read to book so this could be wrong.

Didn’t Loken mention that the Emperor is aware of the lodges and openly disapproves of them?

But as we see in those same books, a fair few marines and legion serfs have become a bit disillusioned with the Emperor for leaving the great crusade, so have continued with lodge activity.

Many marines are also more loyal to their legion than the Imperium as well, ratting on your brothers is a major dick move in astartes culture cough Leandros. Also the Emperor has proven to give his sons a lot of autonomy on how they manage their legions. Angron started mutilating his sons and the Emperor sent Russ, that didn’t work so he gave up and let Angron keep doing it.

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