Chapter Specific Quizzes: Iron Hands

Easy: 1 point questions

1. Special SCC question: Name the volcano who's silence will herald the second coming of Ferrus Manus?

Karaashi, the Ice Pinnacle. From IA:IH.

2. Where do the Iron Hands show their squad specialisation? (eg. tactical, assault, devastator.)

On the outside left greave (lower leg armour). From IA:IH.

3. Why do the Iron Hands have so few suits of Terminator Armour?

Because Ferrus Manus and the IH Veterans were all-but wiped out in the Isstvan drop-site massacre, and most of their TDA suits were lost. From IA:IH.

Moderate: 2 point questions

4. ‘The machine is strong. We must purge the weak, hated flesh and replace it with the purity of metal. Only through permanence can we truly triumph, only through the machine can we find victory. Punish the flesh. Iron in mind and body…' Who said this?

‘… Hail the Machine!' It was Paullian Blantar, Iron Father of the Kaargul clan. From IA: Techmarines and, ahem, Codex: Necrons!

5. What is strange about the Iron Hands Scout Company?

Trick question, the IH don't have a dedicated scout company! All ten companies / clans act as independent battle companies with their own scouts. From IA:IH.

6. During the 13th Black Crusade traitor forces invaded Medusa prompting one of the largest gatherings of armoured might since the Battle of Tallarn during the Horus Heresy. Which excommunicated Armoured regiment led the traitor attack on the Iron Hands?

The Haradni 13th Heavy Armoured Regiment. The IH won by the way. From IA: After the Storm, a post EoT article in UK WD 286.

Difficult: 3 point questions

7. In 999.M41 the Iron Hands were petitioned to search for an important Imperial servant in the Sentinel worlds by Lord Inquisitor Goreden. Who were they asked to track down?

Inquisitor Czevak, who was being hunted by Ahriman of the Thousand Sons. From C:EoT and Fanatic Magazine 1.

8. The work of techmarine Suprema Lysol Blane of the Imperial Fists was to be included in the Codex Astartes until it was vetoed by the Iron Fathers of the Iron Hands chapter. What was Blane's theory?

That the Iron Warriors intimately connected the crews to their armoured vehicles in a similar way to dreadnoughts, and that by targeting points on the enemy tanks that could cripple the pilots the vehicles could easily be rendered inoperable. It has been suspected that the Iron Hands follow a similar practice to the Iron Warriors in this respect, and were protecting their own interests in suppressing this information. From IA: Chaos Tanks, UK WD 275.

9. The Brazen Claws are a second founding successor chapter of the Iron Hands who follow the dictates of the Codex Astartes more closely than their parent Chapter. How do they show to which company they belong to on their armour?

The colour of the chest eagle. From 2nd edition Codex: Ultramarines.

Bonus Rogue Trader era question: 3 points.

How do Iron Hands apothecaries differ from the regulation battledress of white armour?

They wear normal chapter colours apart from the right arm, shoulder pad and back/medic-pack which are white. From IA: Medics in WD 102(!)

Scoring

Thrall bodyguard (1-5 pts)
Battle Brother (6-10 pts)
Terminator Sergeant (11-15 pts)
Iron Father (16-20 pts)
Venerable Dreadnought (21 pts)