History Literature / IronWarriors

* TheBadGuyWins: It may be a matter of PopularityPower, but the Iron Warriors seem to be amongst one of the most successful Legions, both in-universe and within the franchise. Still, they retain a pretty low victory rate when pitted against the Space Marines.

* ArchEnemy: The Iron Warriors to the Imperial Fists.

* ColonyDrop
* CurseCutShort: "Oh what the f-" - [[KilledMidSentence last words of Uraja Klane]], [[{{Mooks}} mook]].

* MadScientist: The Iron Warriors are firmly established as being the best engineers within the traitor Legions, particularly as siege engineers, but they seem to be the Legion that has made the most forays into mad science. Their achievements include: the Daemonculaba, which transforms [[spoiler: [[CloneByConversion kids into twisted Astartes warriors]]]]; and having the most [[HauntedTechnology daemon engines]] outside of the Dark Mechanicus.

* TankGoodness: Probably the most tank-heavy of all the legions of Chaos.

* FiveBadBand: The Warsmith and his lieutenants fall rather easily into place: [[BigBad The Warsmith]], [[TheDragon Forrix]], [[TheEvilGenius Kelmaur]], [[TheBrute Kroeger]], and [[DarkChick Honsou]].
** After Honsou becomes a Warsmith, he leads his own Band: [[BigBad Honsou]], [[TheDragon Cadaras Grendel]], [[TheEvilGenius Etolph Cycerin]], [[TheBrute the Newborn]], and [[DarkChick Ardaric Vaanes]].

* {{Cyborg}}
** CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Inverted. Bionics keep most of the Warriors from turning into [[BodyHorror chaos spawn]] and insane mutants. This is more a case of "Chaos eats your soul, bionics help you keep it."
* FiveBadBand: The Warsmith and his lieutenants fall rather easily into place:
** BigBad: The Warsmith
** TheDragon: Forrix
** TheEvilGenius: Kelmaur
** TheBrute: Kroeger
** DarkChick: Honsou\\
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After Honsou becomes a Warsmith, he leads his own FiveBadBand
** BigBad: Honsou
** TheDragon: Cadaras Grendel
** TheEvilGenius: Etolph Cycerin
** TheBrute: The Newborn
** DarkChick: Ardaric Vaanes

* TheSpock: Often used as a contrast to the HotBlooded World Eaters or the...weird Emperors Children.

* TheSpock: Often used as a contrast to the HotBlooded WorldEaters or the...weird EmperorsChildren.

* TheBadGuyWins: It may be a matter of PopularityPower, but the IronWarriors seem to be amongst one of the most successful Legions, both in-universe and within the franchise. Still, they retain a pretty low victory rate when pitted against the Space Marines.

-->''From Iron cometh Strength. From Strength cometh Will. From Will cometh Faith. From Faith cometh Honor. From Honor cometh Iron. This is the Unbreakable Litany, and may it be forever so.''

They are the [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]] of Creator/GrahamMcNeill's series of Iron Warriors novels, and also feature heavily in the Literature/{{Ultramarines}} novels ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'' and ''The Chapter's Due''. [=McNeill=]'s novels follow the fortunes of the Chapter after the HorusHeresy, focusing on Warsmith Honsou and the Iron Warriors assault on the Imperial world of Hydra Cordatus.

They are the [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]] of GrahamMcNeill's series of Iron Warriors novels, and also feature heavily in the Literature/{{Ultramarines}} novels ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'' and ''The Chapter's Due''. [=McNeill=]'s novels follow the fortunes of the Chapter after the HorusHeresy, focusing on Warsmith Honsou and the Iron Warriors assault on the Imperial world of Hydra Cordatus.

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After Honsou becomes a Warsmith, he leads his group

* MadScientist: The Iron Warriors are firmly established as engineers first, but they seem to be the Legion that has made the most forays into mad science. Their achievements include: the Daemonculaba, which transforms [[CloneByConversion kids into twisted Astartes warriors]]; and having the most [[HauntedTechnology daemon engines]] outside the Dark Mechanicus.

* SiegeEngines

* ArchEnemy: The Iron Warriors to the Imperial Fists. Uriel Ventris to Honsou.

** [[spoiler:''Storm of Iron'']] was the first novel where Chaos won. In the 2008 reprint, [[spoiler:Graham [=McNeill=]]] says that even the people at Games Workshop were shocked.]]

** BigBad: The Warsmith
** TheDragon: Forrix
** TheEvilGenius: Jharek Kelmaur
** TheBrute: Kroeger
** DarkChick: Honsou

** CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. Bionics keep most of the Warriors from turning into [[BodyHorror chaos spawn]] and insane mutants. This is more a case of "Chaos eats your soul, bionics help you keep it."

-->''From Iron cometh Strength. From Strength cometh Will. From Will cometh Faith. From Faith cometh Honor. From Honr cometh Iron. This is the Unbreakable Litany, and may it be forever so.''

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: ''Storm of Iron'' was the first novel where Chaos won. In the 2008 reprint Graham [=McNeill=] says that even the people at Games Workshop were shocked.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The Citadel on Hydra Cordatus is housing a massive stockpile of Space Marine progenoids, which is to be used for future Foundings. To insure its safety, the Adeptus Mechanicus has been slowly poisoning the regiments stationed there to make sure that no one stays long enough to discover it.]]

** CyberneticsEatYourSoul
*** Subverted. Bionics keep most of the Warriors from turning into [[BodyHorror chaos spawn]] and insane mutants. This is more a case of "Chaos eats your soul, bionics help you keep it."

One of the nine Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines from ''[[{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40,000]]''.

Please resist the urge to put examples on this page or link to this page on tropes unless you are citing from 40K '''novels''' in which the Iron Warriors feature. Examples which are specific to rulebooks and other in-universe fluff should go on either the [[{{Warhammer40000}} 40K]] page or in the Chaos Marines section of the Characters/Warhammer40000ForcesOfChaos page.

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Honsou pulls one in ''The Beast of Calth''.]]

* ''The Best of Calth''

Please resist the urge to put examples on this page or link to this page on tropes unless you are citing from 40K '''novels''' in which the Iron Warrior feature. Examples which are specific to rulebooks and other in-universe fluff should go on either the [[{{Warhammer40000}} 40K]] page or in the Chaos Marines section of the Characters/Warhammer40000ForcesOfChaos page.

-->''Iron within, iron without.''

They are the [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]] of GrahamMcNeill's series of Iron Warriors novels, and also feature heavily in the Literature/{{Ultramarines}} novels ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'' and ''The Chapter's Due''. McNeill's novels follow the fortunes of the Chapter after the HorusHeresy, focusing on Warsmith Honsou and the Iron Warriors assault on the Imperial world of Hydra Cordatus.

The Iron Warriors were known for their excellent grasp of siege warfare, competing with the ImperialFists and starting a grudge that would lead to outright hatred after the HorusHeresy. The Primarch of the Iron Warriors was and is Perturabo, now ascended to daemonhood. They have a world in the Eye of Terror called Medrengard.

Generally, daemons and sorcerors are only rarely found amongst the Iron Warriors' forces. Instead, they have a propensity for technological battlefield solutions. Similarly, mutations are usually replaced with cybernetics, unlike the other Legions in which they are often displayed with pride. [[BodyHorror Obliterators]] were first spotted among Iron Warrior forces, and the Iron Warriors have an unusually large number of them. Well know for being very bitter and hateful.

They are arguably the [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]] of GrahamMcNeill's novel ''Storm Of Iron'', and also feature heavily in the Literature/{{Ultramarines}} novels ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'' and ''The Chapter's Due''.