Iron Hands

"Make ready for the onslaught"- Ferrus Manus, Primarch of the X^th. Legion

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Faction Overview

The Iron Warrior (IW) are one of the playable Factions in The Horus Heresy: Legions. Prideful to their core, symbolized in their unique trait, the IH shows their enemy that even when damaged, and embracing it, they are a menace. Their play style focuses on vehicles, heavy damage, and buffing your troops with Augmetics, the faction unique Special card. True to their Lore, unrelenting assault is your game. The Iron Hands were the 5th Faction to be reworked, moving their original pool of cards to Legacy.

Strengths:

• Strong and bulky troops, with many ways to make them stronger.
• Pride, besides giving you good effects, can be triggered with Augmetics, which makes an excellent symbiotic play style with both abilities.
• A lot of support for your vehicles, and ways to create more of them.

Weakness:

• A very slow Faction, as you won't make the most of your troops till the next turn they're played.
• On that regard, one could say that they have a "behind the enemy" type of play. With your troops needing to be damaged, and thus weakened, a lot of enemies can take advantage of it, and others outright thrive on it (Space Wolves, Sisters of Silence, etc.).
• Not many ways of "choosing" which Augmetics you'll get, so even if they're all good, you won't always get the best one for the specific solution.
• One of the Faction's with the least amount of Traits/Effects available, which gives you smaller variations in your play style.
• Most of your troops are Vehicles, which are vulnerable to Ordnance (a very common Effect).

Warlords

Standard

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  Ferrus Manus
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  Gabriel Santar
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  Castrmen Orth
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  Erasmus Ruuman
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  Kardozia

Legacy

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  Ferrus Manus
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  Gabriel Santar
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  Amadeus DuCaine
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  Shadrak Meduson

Troops and Tactics

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  Troops
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  Tactics

Traits and Available Effects

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Gameplay

The IH Troops main gameplay revolves around buffing themself or each other (trough Pride) and the generation of Augmetics.

The IH Tactics main gameplay revolves around some kind of interaction with Augmetics and Vehicle support.

Most of the IH Warlords focus on supporting your Troops.

The IH have Archetypes like: Control, Aggro.

For a more complete look on the Faction gameplay, check — How to Play: Iron Hands

Collection and Cosmetics

The IH cards can be obtained from the Dropsite Massacre Crate and the Galaxy in Flames Crate, or bought in the Daily Shop.

The IH Card Backs and Badge Cosmetics can be obtained randomly from the Cosmetics Crate, or bought in the Daily Shop.

Premium Cards appear randomly in any Crate, and can be bought from the Collection tab.

Additional Information

Balance History
Date	Changes	Notes
03 may 2024	Erasmus Ruuman: Increase initiave from Low to Medium
10 oct 2023	Immortal Sergeant: Lower Health from 4 to 3. Cadmiax: Change description to: ‘Choose an Iron Hands Astartes and put it in your hand. It costs 1 less’ (instead of lowering the cost by 2).
02 aug 2023	Subjugator Batallion (Castramn Orth’s special card): Lowered Cost from 3 to 2 and changed description to ‘Give Flank and +2/+2 to a friendly troop’ Reckoning: Lowered Cost from 18 to 16
21 jul 2023	Faction Reworked

Lore

The Iron Hands were born as the Xth Legion of Space Marines. Renowned for their pride, cold-hearted brutality and remorselessness in battle, the Iron Hands were among the most powerful and famed Space Marine Legions of the Great Crusade, and notable for their heavy use of bionics and their reverence for all things mechanical. Their Primarch was Ferrus Manus, a bellicose and uncompromising warlord and peerless weapon-smith, from whom the Xth Legion took their name and whose command was to them inviolatable law. Ferrus had landed on Medusa (a barren, harsh world nevertheless in possession of sophisticated and advanced technology), where the infant Primarch had already gained great fame –where he was known as the Gorgon– when he slew the great wyrm Asirnoth, a mechanical hybrid beast made of quicksilver. This act had caused the metal of Asirnoth to fuse to Manus’ hands, granting him his name. The Gorgon was an uncompromising master, and his warriors fought ever hard to gain just a scrap of his approval. Weakness could not be tolerated. At the Drop Site Massacre, and after Fulgrim (Ferrus most beloved brother) try to sway him into joining Horus side, the Iron Hands led the attack, with Ferrus at the very tip of the spear. He pushed through the Emperor’s Children forces, finally confronting Fulgrim in singled combat, but was overcame at the end and the traitor Primarch beheaded him in front of his horrified Legion. The Iron Hands were undone by their own hubris and the blade of the Traitor both, and paid a heavy price in the brutal slaying of their Primarch and the near-crippling of their strength. Though left as one of the "Shattered Legions," the cold fury of the Iron Hands' bitter vengeance would afterwards be writ across the stars.

Trivia

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Notes

If looking for more info on how to play (in general) or aspects of the game, check our Guides:

• New Player Guide -The basics of the game are here.
• Advance Guide -More complex mechanics and variations of gameplay.
• Buyers Guide -For the Daily Shop, and an overall idea of what to spend your Gems.
• Deck Building Guide -The basics of how to build Decks (for all Factions).
• Community Decks -Decks made by the Player's base.

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