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While its super unlikely the IV Legion of Iron Warriors will ever get a codex of their own, much less a daemon Primarch, I made my daemon prince for them as I thought Perturabo might be. For fun games, I thought he should be somewhere between Guilliman and Magnus, maybe at Str7, T7, BS & WS 2+ of course, with perhaps 12 wounds and 6 attacks.

Then for his special rules,

-The Logos
-2+/3++ (Iron Without!)...with a 6+ FNP (Iron Within!);
-Deepstrike (I gave him a giant daemonic jumppack so fly 10"?);
-Augmented Targeting Relays-friendly Iron Warriors units that have line of sight to Perturabo can use his LOS to target enemies, and friendly Iron Warriors re-roll random damage rolls if within 12" of Perturabo;

-Master Warpsmith-Perturabo can heal or curse non-flying vehicles and fortifications as a Warpsmith, but heals 2D3 or does 2D3 mortal wounds

Weapons
-Warp Mega Bolter (a Str6 assault 4 AP-2 pistol on his wrist);
-Forgebreaker or daemonic equivalent-Str x2 melee AP-4 3 damage or he can do a single crushing attack that wounds on a 2+ AP-5 that does 2D6 damage.

From what I've read Perturabo is pretty direct and a hard hitter, but also a force multiplier with a mind towards the mechanical. What do others think of these rules for the leader of the IVth Legion in 40k?

Oh, and I think his Warlord Trait would be Cold and Bitter. He's definitely both of those!

I'd rework the Augmented Relays, this essentially means I can shoot over walls, round corners etc if I can see Perty. Perhaps just "re-roll all misses" like most commanders get. Or you could say "any weapon that fires a random number of shots may re-roll the amount if it has LoS to Perturabo".

Also would remove Deepstrike, he's never had a jumppack of sorts.

Forgebreaker looks ok, but at S14 he'll be wounding most things on 2's anyway, the single attack is a waste.

Edit: Ok now I've got more time here's my go at it.

M8" WS2+ BS2+ S7 T7 W14 A6 Ld10 Sv2+/3++

Weapons
Forgebreaker
Melee Sx2 Ap-4 D5

Wrist-Bolter
Range 12" S6 Ap-3 D1 Rapid Fire 2

The Logos
Provides a 2+ save and 3++ Invulnerable save. Additionally, ranged weapons that target Perturabo must subtract 1 from all hit rolls.

Special Rules
Lord of the Iron Warriors: Friendly <IRON WARRIORS> units within 12" of Perturabo automatically pass all Morale tests. Additionally, friendly <IRON WARRIORS> units within 6" may add +1 to hit rolls in the Fight Phase, or +2 if targeting a unit with the <IMPERIAL FISTS> keyword.

Siege Master: Units with the <IRON WARRIOR> keyword within 12" of Perturabo may re-roll the number of shots fired when firing a weapon with a random number of shots.

If I recall correctly Perutrabo made a big cleansing operation when he took over his legion, killing 10% of the Iron Warriors. His Legion is possibly the most ruthless of all Chaos legions, even using Daemons as cannon fodder.
I'd like that trait to be represented by their primarch. So maybe some Commissar-like ability, you kill one of your own models and the whole squad can reroll hits and wounds. I know, Guilliman does it without killing, but this is Chaos (and would make perturabo cheaper ).
Some Bonus for vehicles would be nice, he invented the vindicator after all.

Also, he should ride a Maulerfiend.

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
Some Bonus for vehicles would be nice, he invented the vindicator after all.

Close, he requested the Typhon.