I think they are servitor Missile Defense system.
Heavy Laz weapons, THe multi lazer started to damage the ceramite on the plate.
One of the things about the universe is that it can be pretty inconsistent depending on the author, although when it comes to games and stories with a deeper narrative they do tend to water down Space Marines because they are so ridiculously overpowered.
I think that's in False Gods. That's the book where Horus is wounded, at least.
Yep, chapters have all manner of assistance. I'll have to check a codex but I'm quite certain there are several thousand helpers for 1000 marines.
The last ADB Black Legion book had the main characters eat some old legionaire's brains to see how they died 😁
Or because they were Iron Hands. They do not give a single fuck about weak people, which includes pretty much every baseline human. In one of the books they just tell the resident IG commander that the plans have changed and they'll leave bunker clearing to them. The commander goes "but we'll take extreme losses!" and the IH just goes "...and? we found something more important to do, so you'll clear the bunkers or die trying"
Space wolves have a defect that turns them into Half intellegent werewolves.
That's a 180 on their previous approach then. I guess the backlash against them for their draconian approach didn't look too good.
The lore around them is great too. To think they're a shadow of their Primarch progenitors who were themselves walking demi-gods (who in turn were a shadow of their Emperor "father").
It happened after the heresy to prevent them from ever again posing such a huge threat to the Imperium (if they revolted).
