Games Workshop Warhammer 40k - Space Marine Roboute Guilliman

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If the Devastator Doctrine was active for your army during the previous battle round, you can change it so that the Tactical Doctrine is now active. Was mortally wounded by Fulgrim after the Heresy, and put into stasis for millennia – then revivedin 999.M41 after the Fall of Cadia. Now Imperial Regent and Commander of the Imperium. It’s worth remembering that, at the outset of the Heresy, only one legion (the Word Bearers) and two primarchs (Lorgar and now Horus) had truly given over, or ‘fallen’, to Chaos. Alpharius was confirmed killed by Rogal Dorn in the opening battles of the Siege of Terra. His twin Omegon took on the name Alpharius,butwas later killed by Roboute Guilliman on the planet Eskrador – although there are rumors he survived.

Theoriginal exception to this was Alpharius Omegon – who was always assumed to be around the size of a regular warrior of the Alpha Legion, allowing him to operate incognito as just another Alpha Legionary (it helps that they all claimed to be Alpharius at all times anyway). Ancient Remembrancer sketch from Carpinius' Speculum Historiale, depicting Roboute Guilliman, primarch of the Ultramarines Legion, during the Great Crusade.That alone makes him a meaty proposition, but it’s his abilities that really drive home why it’s worth taking him. ‘Author of the Codex’ gives him three extra Command Points if your army is Battle-forged, giving you extra flexibility when using Stratagems. Master of Battle adds one to Advance and charge rolls for nearby friendly Imperium units, and allows hit rolls of one to be re-rolled, and on top of thatgrants re-rolls to failed Morale tests. Additionally, you have the option to model Guilliman with his head bare, emanating an air of command, or with a particularly aggressive-looking helmet, both accompanied by an ornate wreath. Contained within this multi-part plastic kit, you will find all the components required to assemble the imposing figure of Roboute Guilliman, the Primarch of the Ultramarines.

Named Illyrium, it was a barbarous land of outcasts and petty, warring micro-states that had long harboured brigands and mercenaries who raided more civilised lands as often as they hired themselves as foot soldiers to fight their neighbours' wars. He is handsome, in a plain way. He is handsome the way a regent on an old coin is handsome, like a good sword is handsome. He is not handsome like a ritual weapon, the way Fulgrim is. He is not angelic, like Sanguinius... Recess Shade with Nuln Oil – You have two options, you can either perform a recess shade with a thin brush including where the gold trim meets the blue portions, or you can perform an all over wash. I will say I prefer the former method because while recess shading can be tedious it is still less tedious than having to reapplying maccrage blue from the pot on EVERY SINGLE portion of the armor. After the end of the Horus Heresy, Guilliman worked to reclaim the galaxy from the hands of the traitors. He authored the Codex Astartes, a set of rules that reformed the massive Legions into smaller Space Marine chapters, to ensure no one man could ever again wield the might of the traitor Warmaster.

This model comes as 44 components, and is supplied with a 60mm Round sculpted base depicting Guilliman standing astride a broken Imperial eagle, flanked by 2 burning torches.

Roboute and the Ultramarines were beset by treachery from the very start of the Horus Heresy. First, Horus sidelined them in the Veridian System at the outbreak of the civil war, then Lorgar and his Word Bearers betrayed them at Calth, irradiating the planet and slaughtering the Ultramarines in their thousands. By his will, he made it so and within their Warp-sealed enclave, vessels from Macragge now plied regular and well-patrolled trade routes with local star systems, bringing raw materials and people to the flourishing world, while against some of its neighbours, short, victorious conflicts had already been waged to pacify the strife they had found there. Roboute Guilliman received several mortal wounds at the hands of Fulgrim, now a Daemon Primarch of Slaanesh, at the Battle of Thessala. Ultramarine Apothecaries were able to recover Guilliman before he perished, putting him into a stasis field where he remained for the next ten thousand years. Left his legion after the Heresy, promising to return for ‘The End Times’. Reappeared in late M32 to fight the Ork warlord called ‘The Beast’, killed it, and was presumed killed in the process (though as a Perpetual hemay be immortal). The Salamanders still search for him, believing his return inevitable. At the same time, with the help of his new advisors, Guilliman created a supremely efficient military machine on Macragge and its surrounding worlds, that provided the Ultramarines with a steady flow of new recruits. This factor, combined with the minimal casualties suffered thanks to Guilliman's tactical skill, allowed the Ultramarines to become the largest of all the Space Marine Legions [1b]. When Horus was appointed Warmaster by the Emperor, the reaction among the other Primarchs was mixed. Some supported the appointment out of affection for Horus, some opposed it, and some were cynically accepting. However, Guilliman, Rogal Dorn, and Jaghatai Khan supported the appointment, believing in their cool, rational judgment, that Horus was really the most worthy of them. For this reason, and because of their military genius, Horus valued Guilliman and Dorn as his closest advisors [7].The Indomitus Crusade would reach the end of its first major phase approximately twelve standard years later at the Battle of Raukos. Afterwards, Guilliman would turn his attention to helping his Realm of Ultramar defeat the forces of the Death Guard Traitor Legion and the servants of Nurgle in the Plague Wars, driving his traitorous brother Mortarion and the Death Guard Traitor Legion from the region in ca. 012.M42. For even before the Emperor's arrival, Roboute Guilliman, it is said, had dwelt much on the ancient histories contained from his world's deposed aristocracy, and the fragments he found there telling of the ancient domains of Mankind, and he had begun to dream of new horizons and new worlds to conquer, of a domain "beyond the seas of night" or to use the ancient scholarly form found in the text -- "Ultramar". The Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilliman from the Warhammer 40k range provides a highly detailed character figure for use in your Ultramarines Space Marines army. As with the society Roboute Guilliman had built on Macragge, the XIII Legion under his mastery would be as ruthlessly even-handed as it was efficient, with the needs of the individual sublimated to the greater whole, but the life of the individual never spent wantonly or without purpose; for the doctrine stated that each Legionary lost weakened those who remained. Roboute fought a brilliant campaign and won both the submission and the respect of the fierce Illyrium warrior bands, but when he returned to his home from the northern frontier, Roboute found the capital city of Macragge Civitas in turmoil.

For Warhammer 40k players, Roboute Guilliman has a plastic model that forms a fantastic centrepiece for any Ultramarines army. Standing atop the blasted remains of a Chaos Space Marine, Roboute Guiliman’s model shows him clad in the Armour of Fate, complete with iron halo, purity seals, and ornate filigree. He wields the Emperor’s Sword that burns with righteous zeal in one hand and in the other he carries the Hand of Dominion, a huge gauntlet that has a built-in rapid fire weapon. Held by some as a paragon among the Emperor's sons, Roboute Guilliman was as much a patrician statesman and empire-builder as he was an indefatigable warrior.

A better colour group for painting fire as the sword never quite read as properly luminous the way that a well-painted plasma coil will. Things I Would Do Differently If I Had to Paint It Over: Base with Retributor Armor – This part can be pretty time consuming, but it pays to be careful so you don’t have to do touch ups. Using Lahium Medium can help this part significantly. The capsule containing the developing form of one primarch fell upon the world of Macragge in the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy. Macragge was a bleak but not inhospitable world, part of a decayed star empire of ages past that Mankind had inhabited for many centuries since the time of the Dark Age of Technology. Sam: “As the most iconic figure of the Horus Heresy, Horus needed to have a really strong pose – one that would show the majesty of the Warmaster. He is stood upon the head of an Imperial Eagle with his mace Worldbreaker, guiding the Imperium forward. Based on both John Blanche and Neil Roberts artwork, his armour – the Serpent’s Scales – is adorned with Luna Wolves and Sons of Horus iconography, and can be painted in the colours of either legion.” Mortarion, Primarch of the Death Guard Rising to a galaxy at war, Guilliman departed on a crusade to reach Terra in a mirror to his actions during the Horus Heresy. Despite the combined forces of the Daemon Primarch Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons, the Tzeentch greater daemon Kairos Fateweaver, the Red Corsairs Chaos Space Marines, and Skarbrand the Bloodthirster of Khorne, Roboute Guilliman was able to reach Terra intact and stand in front of the shattered form of his father.