Legendary Names3

Iron-Strider Adept. A rider so long fused to its walker that flesh and machine move as one — a Sydonian Dragoon or mounted Honoured whose every stride is swifter and surer than the rest of the maniple. This fighter gains +1" to its Move characteristic and re-rolls its charge distance, running the enemy down before he can set his feet. Yet it is too vast, too fast, and too committed to the advance to ever slow: this fighter can never benefit from cover of any kind.

The Calculated. Some marksmen of the maniple pass beyond discipline into something colder — a Ranger or Marksman whose targeting-cortex has been honed until every shot is a solved equation. Once per battle, a single ranged Hit this fighter scores is treated automatically as a critical hit, inflicting maximum Damage with no roll. But the same rewiring that perfects its aim has scoured away every instinct for the close fight: this fighter suffers −1 to all of its melee Hit rolls, a killer to its cortex and all but helpless at arm's reach.

Vexilus Princeps. The maniple's most distinguished infiltrator, a Sicarian Princeps whose kill-tally is spoken of across the forge world. At the start of each round this fighter projects its chosen Doctrina Imperative to all friendly Skitarii within 6", and it re-rolls one failed Hit roll, ranged or melee, each round. But the conditioning that makes it lethal has left it bound by kill-compulsion: in each of its activations it must, if able, target the closest enemy fighter it can reach or fire upon, and it may never voluntarily make a Retreat action.