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44 factions in 10 groups.

Imperium of Man
Imperium of Man
The sprawling, million-world human empire founded by the Emperor during the Great Crusade. Ten thousand years after the Horus Heresy it is ruled in th…
Adeptus Custodes
The Emperor's personal guardians, each individually crafted and far beyond an ordinary Space Marine. They have watched over the Golden Throne since th…
The Inquisition
Secret agents with near-limitless authority who hunt heretics, daemons and alien threats. Its three great Ordos are the Hereticus (heresy and mutants)…
Officio Assassinorum
The Imperium's secret college of killers, made up of rival Temples such as the Vindicare, Callidus, Eversor and Culexus. Its operatives are sent only …
0 characters · 4 unitsAstra Militarum
The Imperial Guard: countless regiments of ordinary humans raised from every Imperial world, the hammer that wins wars through sheer numbers, artiller…
Adepta Sororitas
The Sisters of Battle, warrior-nuns of the Ecclesiarchy armed with bolter, flamer and unshakeable faith in the God-Emperor. Living Saints sometimes ri…
Adeptus Mechanicus
The Tech-Priests of Mars, who worship the Machine God (the Omnissiah) and jealously guard humanity's dwindling technological knowledge. Their pact wit…

Space Marines & Primarchs
Adeptus Astartes (all Chapters)
The Space Marines: genetically engineered superhuman warriors organised into roughly a thousand Chapters of about a thousand battle-brothers each. Mos…
0 characters · 18 unitsUltramarines
The XIII Legion of Roboute Guilliman and, after the Heresy, the model Chapter of the Codex Astartes. They rule the realm of Ultramar from Macragge and…
Dark Angels
The First Legion, sons of Lion El'Jonson. Their homeworld Caliban was destroyed at the end of the Heresy when part of the Legion turned on the Lion; e…
The Fallen
Dark Angels scattered through time and space when Caliban was shattered. Some serve Chaos, some are mercenaries or penitents; their mere existence is …
Blood Angels
The IX Legion of Sanguinius, noble and artistic but cursed by the Red Thirst and the Black Rage, inherited flaws in their gene-seed that echo their Pr…
Space Wolves
The VI Legion of Leman Russ, the Vlka Fenryka of the ice world Fenris. Fiercely independent, they disdain the Codex Astartes and are organised into Gr…
Imperial Fists
The VII Legion of Rogal Dorn, master siege-builders and defenders of the Imperial Palace during the Siege of Terra. Their successors include the Black…
White Scars
The V Legion of Jaghatai Khan, drawn from the steppe tribes of Chogoris; lightning-fast raiders on bike and jetbike.…
Salamanders
The XVIII Legion of Vulkan, master forgesmiths from volcanic Nocturne, famed for protecting civilians.…
Raven Guard
The XIX Legion of Corax, stealth warriors who strike from the shadows. They were nearly destroyed at the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre.…
Iron Hands
The X Legion of Ferrus Manus, who replace weak flesh with bionics, a creed hardened by grief after their Primarch's death at Isstvan V.…
Black Templars
A zealous Imperial Fists successor founded by Sigismund, organised in crusade fleets and openly devoted to the Emperor as a god.…
Crimson Fists
An Imperial Fists successor Chapter that survived near-annihilation on Rynn's World and rebuilt itself.…
Grey Knights
The secret daemon-hunting Chapter of psychic Space Marines, founded in the Heresy era under Malcador and tied to the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus.…

Chaos
Chaos Daemons
Beings of the Warp shaped from mortal emotion and bound to the four Chaos Gods: Khorne (rage), Nurgle (despair and decay), Tzeentch (change and ambiti…
Heretic Astartes (Chaos Space Marines)
Space Marines who have renounced the Emperor, from the nine Traitor Legions of the Horus Heresy to renegade Chapters and warbands that fell in the ten…
0 characters · 10 unitsBlack Legion
Once the Luna Wolves and then the Sons of Horus, renamed by Abaddon after he rejected his dead father. They lead the Black Crusades out of the Eye of …
Emperor's Children
Fulgrim's III Legion, whose obsession with perfection led them into the excesses of Slaanesh.…
Iron Warriors
Perturabo's IV Legion, bitter siege-masters who now raise fortresses on the daemon world Medrengard.…
World Eaters
Angron's XII Legion, maddened by Butcher's Nails implants and sworn to Khorne.…
Death Guard
Mortarion's XIV Legion, reborn as plague-ridden champions of Nurgle after being stranded in the Warp.…
Thousand Sons
Magnus the Red's XV Legion of sorcerers, most of whom were reduced to dust-filled automata by the Rubric of Ahriman.…
Word Bearers
Lorgar's XVII Legion, the first to worship Chaos and the true architects of the Horus Heresy.…
Night Lords
Konrad Curze's VIII Legion, who rule through terror. They serve no god willingly.…
Alpha Legion
The XX Legion of the twin Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon, masters of infiltration, deception and hidden agendas.…
Red Corsairs
A renegade warband based in the Maelstrom, founded by Huron Blackheart after the Badab War.…

Aeldari & Drukhari
Craftworld Aeldari
Survivors of the Fall, when Aeldari decadence birthed Slaanesh. They live aboard vast craftworld vessels and follow the disciplined Path, guided by Fa…
Ynnari
Followers of Ynnead, the nascent Aeldari god of the dead, led by Yvraine. They draw Aeldari from craftworlds, Commorragh and the Harlequins alike.…
Harlequins
Masked warrior-performers of Cegorach, the Laughing God, who guard the Black Library and walk the Webway freely.…
Drukhari
The "Dark Eldar" of Commorragh, who escape Slaanesh's hunger by feeding on the suffering of others through raids.…

Necrons

Orks

T'au Empire

Tyranids

Leagues of Votann
