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In particular, the warlike culture and renowned brutality of the population of Old Albia, which supplied substantial numbers of recruits for the X th Legion, had a great deal to do with the Legion's early character (as it also did for the XIV th Legion), lending them a fierce pride in a warrior ancestry that predated the Legion's Founding.
The Urshan had also suffered heavy losses in the battle's opening stages, but afterwards they had been employed principally only in guarding the landing zones and supply lines while the X th Legion fought, and many had ultimately been spared, leading to Rust being hailed as a great triumph also on account of how little had been sacrificed to attain it. The battlefield of Isstvan V was a slaughterhouse of epic proportions. Treacherous warriors twisted by hatred fought their former brothers-in-arms in a conflict unparalleled in its bitterness. The mighty Titan war engines of the Machine God walked the planet’s surface, and death followed in their wake. The blood of heroes and traitors flowed in rivers, and the hooded Adepts of the Dark Mechanicum unleashed perversions of ancient technology stolen from the Auretian Technocracy to wreak bloody havoc amongst the Loyalists. All across the Urgall Depression, hundreds died with every passing second, the promise of inevitable death a pall of darkness that hung over every warrior. The Traitor forces held, but their line was bending beneath the fury of the first Loyalist assault. It would take only the smallest twists of fate for it to break. The Iron Hands of the 41st Millennium ironically harbour a special hatred for the Successor Chapters of the other two Loyalist Shattered Legions -- the Salamanders and the Raven Guard -- that fought with them at Isstvan V, for they believe that if those Legions had been stronger and continued to fight rather than retreating, Ferrus Manus would not have been lost and the Horus Heresy might have ended there. This belief defies all facts to the contrary.
The X th Legion's developing strategies were studied and indeed copied to varying degrees of success by several other Legions, such as the IV th Legion and the XIII th Legion in the campaign against the Krooked Klaw Orks and thereafter.
On both occasions, the Legion had defeated a powerful foe with relatively few losses despite very heavy resistance and while operating in environmentally hazardous conditions. Because of the constraints of these two battle environments -- the first being a Human-made space hulk, and the second, the airless and frozen caverns of a Dead World -- these victories, while notable, did not serve to distinguish them yet in the particular style of warfare to which they would later become most famed.M41: Siege of the Fenris System — The Iron Hands send forces to aid the Dark Angels-led coalition. [Needs Citation] Following this event, and the baiting and destruction of an Iron Hands ambush vessel further out in the Dwell system, Horus decided to detach a portion of his legion resources and assign them to hunting down and destroying Meduson and his own band. This force was placed under the command of Captain Tybalt Marr, who felt he had a personal score to settle with the Iron Hands warleader. [6] Quenching One of the most physically powerful of the Primarchs, whose skills as an artificer of arms and armour were every bit as potent as his martial prowess, Ferrus Manus despised weakness. By his presence on the battlefield, the Primarch drove his men to acts of superhuman endurance and remorseless fervour. Fulgrim • Perturabo • Konrad Curze • Angron • Mortarion • Magnus the Red • Horus • Lorgar • Alpharius Omegon
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