Another month, another off topic blog.
This one will serve as a repository for the pics and fluff for my Mordian iron guard project. This is an army I am building to use on second ed 40k.
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I have been playing with AI image rendering to help visualise the colour scheme for this army before committing to putting paint brush to models. Quite a nice quick way to get inspiration and ideas for painting!
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The Mordian 75th Battlegroup
“The Silencers”
The Mordian Iron Guard are renowned across the Imperium for their rigid discipline, immaculate drill, and uncompromising adherence to order. From the iron-ruled hive-cities of Mordia, they provide the Imperium with what their world offers in abundance: obedient manpower and absolute compliance.
The Mordian 75th Battlegroup, known unofficially as “The Silencers,” represents the extreme end of this tradition.
The 75th was raised not for conquest or glory, but out of necessity. Mordia is a world of limited strategic value beyond its population, and its continued relevance to the Imperium depends upon an unbroken record of loyalty. When failures of compliance, political instability, or prolonged unrest threaten that standing, Mordia answers not with diplomacy, but with force.
The Silencers exist to ensure that such failures do not repeat.
Formed as a permanent combined-arms battlegroup, the 75th integrates armoured, mechanised, and line infantry elements into a single, self-contained formation. Unlike standard regiments, it is never seconded temporarily. Once raised, the battlegroup was placed under standing orders for continuous deployment in high-risk theatres, where discretion, finality, and endurance are valued above all else.
The Mordian 75th is routinely assigned to compliance and pacification operations alongside the Ecclesiarchy and Adeptus Astartes crusade forces, most notably the Black Templars and the Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas. The 75th has also been known to be reinforced with elements of off-world penal legions, employed as expendable assault troops and screening forces.
The battlegroup’s distinctive black dress uniform is not ceremonial and differs markedly from the traditional Mordian blue.
Black signifies the nature of the work the 75th carries out on behalf of the Imperium: quelling population uprisings, enforcing compliance, and supporting fanatical Astartes in zealotry-driven crusades. It is a visible acknowledgement that their actions, while sanctioned, are rarely celebrated and never displayed with pride.
Service within the 75th is indefinite. There is no formal rotation back to parade regiments, and no public record of commendation on Mordia itself.
On the battlefield, the Silencers favour methodical, overwhelming force. Armoured spearheads shatter resistance zones, mechanised elements isolate and contain, and line infantry advance in precise, unyielding order. Vox discipline is absolute, civilian contact is minimal, and all operations are conducted under strict information-control protocols.
The nickname “The Silencers” did not originate on Mordia, nor does it appear in any official title block. It is a name used by other Imperial forces - quietly, and without affection. It refers not only to the suppression of enemy resistance, but to the battlegroup’s ability to end unrest so completely that no explanation is ever required.
The Mordian 75th Battlegroup does not feature in triumphal histories or recruitment hololiths. Its actions are recorded instead in sealed ledgers, redacted after-action reports, and marginal notes appended to crusade orders. It exists so that Mordia may continue to exist - and so that others may claim cleaner victories.
When the Silencers are deployed, the Imperium does not ask for loyalty.
It silences all dissent.
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Looking forward to your “Silencers Butt Deadly” Bassilisk tank.