POTENTIAM

GIGANTIO

Volume 1: Imperial Heavy and Superheavy Vehicles

4th Edition
By Konigstein (with contributions by Hawkeye), 2021

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 Stormblade ..................................................... 47
Contents Stormhammer ............................................... 49
............................................ 3
Gorgon Chassis ..................................................52
Patron Roll of Honour ................................. 3
Gorgon Assault Transport ........................52
Vehicle Traits ...................................................... 4
Stheno Mobile Blockhouse .......................54
Weapon Qualities ................................................ 5
Euryale Swarm Platform ............................ 56
Titanic-Scale Vehicles .......................................7
Crassus Chassis ................................................... 59
Capitol Imperialis ..........................................7
Crassus Assault Transport ......................... 59
Leviathan Command Vehicle ...................10
Praetor Assault Launcher........................... 61
Baneblade Chassis ............................................. 13
Dominus Armoured Siege Bombard ...... 63
Banehammer .................................................. 13
Crassus Rex Shock Tank............................ 65
Banelord .......................................................... 15
Macharius Chassis ............................................ 67
Banesword....................................................... 17
Macharius Heavy Tank.............................. 67
Doomblade ..................................................... 19
Macharius Vanquisher ................................ 69
Doomhammer ............................................... 22
Macharius Vulcan .........................................71
Doomlord ...................................................... 24
Macharius Omega.........................................73
Doomsword ................................................... 26
Malcador Chassis ...............................................75
Hellblade .........................................................28
Malcador Heavy Tank ................................75
Hellhammer ...................................................30
Malcador Annihilator ................................. 77
Helllord Alpha .............................................. 32
Malcador Defender..................................... 79
Helllord Beta ................................................. 35
Malcador Infernus........................................ 81
Hellsword........................................................ 37
Valdor Tank Hunter ................................... 84
Shadowblade .................................................. 39
Dracosan Armoured Transport................ 86
Shadowhammer .............................................41
................................ 87
Shadowlord .....................................................43
Stormsword ....................................................45

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What’s In this Book
Patron Roll of Honour
Extraordinarily special thanks to Patrick
cannot hear me, is reversing. And as I look over M., Princess Moonbeam, exball, Travis
the top of the turret and see twelve enemy Kill LaFave, Robert Mayotte and Miss Mae for
Krushas fifty yards away, someone hands me a their support.
corpse starc patron, click the link above!
-Lt. Ken Gileus, on commanding a Baneblade
This book contains tanks and tracked
vehicles, in descending order of HUGE.
Some are canon, some are not. The non-
canon vehicles are in large part based off
, with some creative extrapolation on
our part. Volume 1 here contains everything

guard arsenal, from the Capitol Imperialis

down to the many variants on the Malcador.
Lighter vehicles will be covered in a
subsequent volume.

You may notice some vehicles, like the

Minotaur and Stormsword, are missing-
this is because they have been covered in
previous fanmade and official OW books.

Almost all of the Skitarii weaponry located

herein is based off rules created by Shas for
his Only War splatbook Mars Needs Women!
Rampage of the Nerds! Thanks for making
cool stuff Shas.
Special thanks to Akklonia for the awesome
cover art.

If you have questions, comments or

concerns, please drop me a line at
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like to support my work, or just see other
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Vehicle Traits or hearing, unless it is of Size 9 or higher.
Vehicles of Size 9 gain Fear (4), while Size
SLIGHTLY USED MILITARUM 10 gains Fear (5).
TANK CHASSIS NO QUESTIONS
Hexagrammatic Plating:
-Astropathic Transmission intercepted in the is composed of layers of armour plating and
vicinity of the Spinward Front null-psy circuitry, making it highly
Heavy: Though by no means the largest or resistant to psychic attack. Anyone within
weightiest vehicles fielded by the
Imperium, heavy vehicles are still a step up to resist direct psychic attack or
from their ordinary counterparts, and manipulation. The vehicle treats its AP on
capable of powering through most minor all facings at 10 higher when attacked with
obstructions. A vehicle with the Heavy trait Psychic Powers, and its armour still counts
halves penalties for moving through when attacked by enemies with the Warp
difficult terrain, as well as penalties from Weapons Trait.
obstacles like unstable ground, tank traps,
or ruins. Walkers with the Heavy vehicle
trait can walk over obstacles 3 meters high,
or push though thin walls, thick ground
vegetation, or small buildings without
suffering negative effect. Vehicles with the
Heavy Trait suffer from a -10 penalty to
Floor It! tests unless they also have the
Enhanced Motive Systems trait.

Large Superstructure: This vehicle is

unusually tall for its size, making it an easy
target to locate or hit. Perception-based
tests to locate it visually gain a +10 bonus,
while its To Hit Modifier from its Size trait
is increased by +5.

Rolling Thunder: This vehicle is so big it

makes the ground shake and heave, and the
sheer noise it produces in motion can
deafen lesser men. It gains the Fear (2) Trait
against any eligible enemies in line of sight

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Weapon Qualities
-Archmagos Davion Bowes
Deflagrate: Ancient Martian Volkite
weapons fire beams of concentrated heat,
and can cause a target to spontaneously
combust, crumble to ashes or simply
violently explode. For every hit that
inflicted at least one Wound on an
opponent, resolve an additional automatic
hit, rolling for damage as normal. These
additional hits do not inflict further hits
themselves.
Graviton Wave: These ancient weapons are
repurposed gravity-manipulation tools.
Though not particularly deadly, their
ability to immobilize and disable the
toughest foes make them a valuable tactical
area is violently pressed to the floor and
must take a Very Hard ( 30) Strength Test
or be knocked Prone. Any character
attempting to move in the blast radius for
the next 2d5 Rounds must first pass an
Opposed Strength Test versus Strength 60
each Round. Any vehicle attempting to
move in the blast radius treats it as Difficult
Terrain and reduces its Manoeuvrability by
-10.
At the GM s discretion, the flux may
shatter brittle objects, collapse loose
flooring, rupture containment vessels,
damage vehicles and machinery, plus wreak
any other chaos deemed appropriate.
Cognis: A peculiar modification on
standard Imperial weapon patterns that is
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reserved for the Taghmata of Mars, Cognis
weapons feature activated machine spirits
that actively seek out targets. The upshot of
this is that they will continue to fire
accurately even if their user is distracted. A
weapon with this Quality never suffers a
penalty to Ballistic Skill tests worse than -
20.
Grav-Weapon: This weapon's gravitational
field emitter can be switched from a wide-
field setting to a more concentrated beam
that is significantly more destructive than
that of a traditional Graviton weapon.
When firing on a wide field, any character
caught in its blast area is subject to extreme
gravitational forces and must make a Very
Hard (-30) Strength Test or be knocked
Prone. Failing the test and being thrown
onto a solid surface inflicts 1d10 points of
Impact Damage, ignoring Armour but not
toughness. Vehicles affected by the weapon
in this setting take 1d5-2 Critical Damage
to their Motive Systems.
When firing in a concentrated beam, the
weapon halves its Blast quality. Any target
in the blast must make an Arduous (-40)
Strength Test, or be knocked down, taking
1d10 points of Impact damage ignoring
armour but not Toughness. Once pinned
the target takes 1d10 further Impact
damage ignoring armour every round until
the pinning ends. When used in this mode,
the grav-weapon can sustain the attack for
2d10 Rounds, whereupon it runs out of
energy and must be reloaded.
A character knocked down by a Grav-
weapon attack must pass an Opposed
Strength Test versus Strength 50 if the
weapon is in wide-field mode, or versus
Strength 70 if the weapon is in
concentrated mode, to move or attempt any
physical action. Vehicles affected by the
weapon in this mode automatically take
1d5-1 Critical Damage to their Motive
Systems.
Fleshbane: This weapon is designed
specifically to attack biological targets
through the use of noxious chemicals,
radiation, biological agents or other nasty
methods. Damage from this attack ignores
the target's Toughness Bonus, if it has one.
The target's Armour values function as
normal.
weapon- the cone cannot point towards the
firer.
Flash (X): Whether through atomic
discharge, focussed laser beams or
electromagnetic disruption, this weapon
emits an intense burst of light when it fires
or detonates. Any living thing with eyes
impact point must make a Routine (+20)
Toughness Test with a penalty equal to 5 x
Blinded damage condition for the next 1d10
hours. Any creature that is explicitly light-
sensitive reduces the base difficulty to
Challenging (+0)

Rad-Phage: This weapon causes

debilitating radiation poisoning, leaving
those who survive its attack wracked with
sickness. If an enemy receives a wounding
hit from this weapon, they must make a
Challenging (+0) Toughness Test or suffer
2d10 Toughness Damage. If they fail the
test by more than 4 degrees, the damage is
permanent.

Torrent: This weapon fires a massive

stream of fluid, hitting an enemy with a
veritable river of explosive or burning or
corrosive matter. Instead of using the firing
weapon as a point of origin, select a point

The cone must extent further than the

point of origin away from the original

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Titanic-Scale Vehicles
Capitol Imperialis
-Commander Ullicus Fead, moments after running
over a Khornate Tower of Skulls in his Capitol
Magna Mater
Some time in the distant past of the
Imperium, some gloriously stupid idiot
decided he wanted a vehicle that could
crush a Warlord Titan, and so he created
the Capitol Imperialis. Over 100 meters
long, and armed with literally hundreds of
weapon systems, the Capitol is quite simply
the largest multipurpose land vehicle in the
Imperial arsenal. The Ordinatii of Mars are
larger, of course, but they are mono-task
vehicles. A Capitol is a planetary command
center, troop transport, and assault vehicle
all in one, though its pathetic speed makes
it all but useless in anything other than
defensive combat.
Though it is armed with a Behemoth-class
compact Macro Cannon, and no less than 6
rapid-firing triple-barrel Executioner
is in acting as a mobile fortress. Dozens of
internal void shield generators allow it to
produce a sextuple-layer defensive energy
barrier, and its pure Adamantium hull puts
the armour complement of any other
Imperial titan to shame. A wide upper deck
combined with cavernous internal troop
bays means that significant numbers of
troops can set up their weapons across its
exterior hull- anything that can escape the
Behemoth Cannon and punch through the
voidshields runs into accurate fire from
hundreds of defenders. If they get closer,
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more than eight dozen twin-linked Heavy
Bolter turrets do even more damage, and
should they come close enough to the hull,
worth of power dumped into it,
incinerating any target that comes close.
Whole ecosystems can form inside the
monumental hull of a Capitol, and they are
used so infrequently that many mistake
those currently in active service for pieces
of stationary fortification. Fighting a
Capitol is not unlike having a famous
landmark dust itself off, walk very slowly
over to you and then punch you in the face.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 1m
Cruising Speed: 5kph
Manoeuvrability: Hellish (-60)
Structural Integrity: 250
Size: Titanic (10)
Armour: Front 80, Side 80, Rear 70
Vehicle Traits: Amphibious, Anti-Air
(Advanced), Damage Control, Enclosed,
Environmentally Sealed, Improved
Command and Control, Large
Superstructure, Ponderous, Reinforced
Armour, Rolling Thunder, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: At the very least 1 Commander, Driver
and Copilot, 72 Techpriests, 57 Gunners
(Behemoth Cannon, 6 Executioners, 50
Heavy Bolters), 5 Loaders (Behemoth
Cannon)
Carrying Capacity: 250 Guardsmen plus
light gear
Weapons:
Turret-Mounted Behemoth Macro
Cannon (1.5km | S/-/- | 10d10 + 20 X | Pen 24 |
Clip 1 | Reload Special | Blast (50), Concussive
(8), Proven (5))
6 x Sponson-mounted Triple Plasma
Executioners (3 Left Facing/ 3 Right
Facing) (180m | S/3/6 | 2d10+12 E | Pen 9 |
Clip 50 | Blast (2), Maximal)
Special Rules:
Behemoth Cannon: The Behemoth is a small
naval-calibre Macro Cannon, capable of
Harris blush. Reloading one requires two
crew.
Void Shield: Reactors the size of largeish
Void Shields, a barrier proof against all but
the most absurdly overpowered weapons or
sustained fire. Each count as barriers with 25
AP that surround the Capitol in all
directions at a 5-metre distance. To disable
a void shield, attacks must deal 20 damage
past the 25 AP. This damage is cumulative
to represent the void shield slowly
has no effect on a void shield. Attacks from
within the 5-metre projection distance
ignore the void shields and directly affect
the vehicle. The Capitol has 6 void shields,
which must be brought down before any
ranged attacks outside the void shield
radius can affect it. Once a shield is brought
down, the Tech-priests onboard can
attempt to restore them by making a
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Difficult ( 10) Tech-Use Test. Success
means one shield is restored in 1d5+5
Rounds. This time is reduced by one
Round for every degree of success, to a
minimum of one Round.
Landing Deck: The rear hull of a Capitol is
dedicated to a simple launchpad suitable for
use by an Aquila or Arvus lighter. However,
the deck is unprotected and the Capitol
lacks the internal space for a hangar- when
its void shields are down, any landed
vehicles can be targeted directly.
Apocalyptic Blast: There is a reason why
atmosphere, and the sheer force of their
muzzle blast alone is enough to reduce a
human being to mush. Anything within
200m of the front a Capitol when its
Behemoth Cannon fires must pass an
Arduous (-40) Toughness Test or suffer
2d10+10 Impact Damage and be knocked
Prone. Regardless of whether or not they
pass the Test, they are Stunned for 1d5-1
Rounds.
Unnecessary Firepower:
when firing the Behemoth Cannon against a
group of non-superheavy enemies in the
open or without massive amounts of heavy
cover, roll 1d5-1. That percentage of the
group are left alive- the rest are killed
instantly.
Defensive Weapons:
armament normally consists of so many
pairs of twin-linked heavy bolters no one
has yet bothered to count them. Anything
that gets within range is going to end up smaller than a Capitol is instantly killed if it
looking like salsa after a few seconds (or is rammed.

With this much dakka going downrange, BOOOOOM!!: Every system on a Capitol
missing is a foreign concept to the crew of a Imperialis has triple redundancies at the
Capitol, and a top-of-the-line rangefinder very least, and literally dozens of
array with cogitator-assist targeting helps techpriests doing their utmost to keep it
too. Any vehicle, creature or enemy-shaped going. When those last safeties fall apart,
piece of debris that comes within 500m of a
Capitol suffers 1d10 Twin-Linked Heavy Vehicle Critical Effects that might cause its
Bolter hits every single round. Dodging can destruction, though when it reaches zero
reduce the number of individual hits, but Structural Integrity its internal reactors
they never stop coming- by the time one explode. Everything within 10km dies
turret has run out of ammo, another is permanently. Simple, right? No burning
guaranteed to be reloaded. Any aircraft that Fate Points to survive this one, you cheeky
approaches within a 1km radius also suffers devil.
this effect.
Firedeck: The dorsal platform of a Capitol
TOO MANY BOLTER TURRETS (All has enough space for 50 passengers to
Mountings) ( -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 |
Tearing, Twin-Linked) forget that said platform is 50 meters off
the ground. Passengers on the platform
Electrified Hull: Touching the outer hull of a gain 30 AP of cover to their Body and Legs.
Capitol Imperialis in combat is almost
exactly the same experience as sticking your
hand into a bucket full of the sun. Any
vehicle or creature that attempts to touch
or climb on the outer hull of a Capitol
Imperialis takes 1d10 + 5 Energy damage
with the Shocking, Concussive (2) and
Flame qualities for every Round they
remain in contact. This damage does not
apply to a target that has been Rammed by
a Capitol.

SPLAT!: A Capitol takes no damage from

Ram attacks against targets smaller than it.
Any target which is more than 2 sizes

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Leviathan Command Vehicle
cally useless, and such a large
painted on the sides. Ah well, at least the seats
-General Bedfordium Harris, commanding the
Valkeian Potentos
A mind-bogglingly large vehicle developed
from designs loaned by (or some would say
stolen from) the long-lost Squats, the
Leviathan is the second largest command
vehicle in the arsenal of the Imperium of
Man. A fully-functional planetary
command center on tracks, it can
coordinate troops across an entire world,
and is often used for managing assaults that
include dozens of Titans or whole army
groups.
Though the Leviathan is obviously an
extremely valuable target, it is more than
capable of defending itself, boasting
internal void shield generators of a strength
comparable to that of a small voidship and a
full-blown Doomsday Cannon macro-
weapon that can cripple Titans in a single
shot. Should enemies get too close, they
must confront a hull that is meters thick at
its thinnest point, and internal troop bays
for several companies of Imperial
infantrymen. It can even act as a mobile
airfield in a pinch, with just enough room
on its rear hull for a Vulture or Valkyrie to
land and rearm.
Many in the Munitorum and the Astra
Militarum wonder why the Imperium
would ever need a literal cathedral on treads
covered with guns, but those people are no
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fun and never get invited to all the cool
parties, so they can be safely disregarded.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 2m
Cruising Speed: 10kph
Manoeuvrability: Hellish (-60)
Structural Integrity: 200
Size: Titanic (10)
Armour: Front 60, Side 60, Rear 50
Vehicle Traits: Amphibious, Anti-Air
(Rudimentary), Damage Control, Enclosed,
Environmentally Sealed, Improved
Command and Control, Ponderous,
Reinforced Armour, Rolling Thunder,
Super-Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: At the very least 1 Commander, Driver
and Copilot, 12 Techpriests, 21 Gunners
(Doomsday Cannon, Battlecannons, Heavy
Bolters), 18 Loaders (Doomsday Cannon,
Battlecannons)
Carrying Capacity: 200 Guardsmen plus
light gear
Weapons:
Hull-Mounted Doomsday Cannon (Front
Facing) (1km | S/-/- | 8d10 + 20 X | Pen 24 |
Clip 1 | Reload Special | Blast (25), Concussive
(8), Proven (5))
Special Rules:
Doomsday Cannon: The Doomsday is a small
naval-calibre Macrocannon, capable of
obliteration on a literally Titanic scale.
Reloading one requires an hour of work on
Apocalyptic Blast: There is a reason why
atmosphere, and the sheer force of their
muzzle blast alone is enough to reduce a
human being to mush. Anything within
200m of the front a Leviathan when its
Doomsday Cannon fires must pass an
Arduous (-40) Toughness Test or suffer
2d10+10 Impact Damage and be knocked
Prone. Regardless of whether or not they
pass the Test, they are Stunned for 1d5-1
Rounds.
Unnecessary Firepower:
when firing the Doomsday Cannon against
a group of non-superheavy enemies in the
open or without massive amounts of heavy
cover, roll 1d10-1. That percentage of the
group are left alive- the rest are killed
instantly.
Defensive Weapons:
armament normally consists of 12 pairs of
Twin-Linked Heavy Bolters and no fewer
than 8 Battlecannons, making it a fearsome
foe to approach. Their overlapping fields
of fire and advanced control systems ensure
it is almost impossible for their gunners to
miss- a target simply drowns under the
weight of the firepower coming their way.
may make a Difficult (-10) Command Test
to order his gunners to focus fire. For each
Degree of Success on the Test, one target
the vehicle takes an attack with the
following profile:
3d10 + 10 X | Pen 8 | Blast (10), Concussive
(3), Tearing.
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Individual hits can be dodged by the target,
but the Commander is free to direct
multiple attacks against the same target if
they so desire.
Void Shield: Though not nearly to the scale
of a Capitol, a Leviathan still has a reactor
capable of maintaining a Void Shield. It
counts as a barrier with 25 AP that
surrounds the Capitol in all directions at a 5
metre distance. To disable a void shield,
attacks must deal 20 damage past the 25 AP.
This damage is cumulative (to represent the
void shield) slowly overloading, but a
void shield. Attacks from within the 5-
metre projection distance ignore the void
shields and directly affect the vehicle. The
Leviathan has a single void shield, which
must be brought down before any ranged
attacks outside the void shield radius can
affect it. Once a shield is brought down, the
Tech-priests onboard can attempt to
restore it by making a Difficult ( 10) Tech-
Use Test. Success means the shield is
restored in 1d5+5 Rounds. This time is
reduced by one Round for every degree of
success, to a minimum of one Round.
Landing Deck: The rear hull of a Leviathan is
dedicated to a simple launchpad suitable for
use by an Aquila, Valkyrie or Arvus Lighter.
However, the deck is unprotected and the
Leviathan lacks the internal space for a
hangar- when its void shields are down, any
landed vehicles can be targeted directly.
Splat!: A Leviathan takes no damage from
Ram attacks against targets smaller than it.
Any target which is more than 3 sizes
smaller than a Leviathan is instantly killed
if it is rammed.
Boom!: A Leviathan is so massive and so full
of redundant systems that it is almost
impossible to destroy one without literally
tearing it to shreds or killing all of its crew.
A Leviathan ignores any Vehicle Critical
Effects that might cause its destruction,
though when it reaches zero Structural
Integrity its internal reactor destabilizes,
instantly killing anything and everything
within a 2 km radius. Yes, anything and
everything. No exceptions. If it can power a
crater when it goes. People hundreds of
kilometers away will be able to hear the
blast, and it may cause minor earthquakes.
The pilot of any air vehicles within 4km of
the blast must make a Very Hard (-30)
Operate (Aeronautica) Test or have their
aircraft simply be knocked out of the sky.
it to kill the party rules lawyer, or
something.

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Baneblade Chassis
Banehammer
-
of Macragge
One of numerous short-
Baneham
but its usefulness against subterranean foes
and as an area-denial weapon made it
extremely popular during the Tyrannic
Wars. Its primary armament is the Tremor
Cannon, a heavy howitzer which fires self-
guided tunneling munitions into the
ground beneath a target. When detonated,
Tremor Shells cause intense seismic
oscillations, turning even solid ground into
a semi-liquid morass and causing localized
earthquakes that swallow up infantry and
can immobilize even heavy vehicles. Targets
underground are often literally pureed by
the concussive force of the blast.
Unfortunately, as with many of the other
Baneblade specialty variants, the
Banehammer is not a flexible combatant,
having no rearward weapons save a pair of
Lascannons, and requires constant escort to
protect it against fast-moving or skimmer
targets.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8m
Cruising Speed: 25kph
Manoeuvrability: -30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear 30
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Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Ponderous,
Reinforced Armour, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 4
Gunners (Tremor Cannon/ Hull-Mounted
Bolters/Both sponsons), 2 Loaders (Tremor
Cannon). Banehammers often have a comms
operator and Enginseer as part of their crew.
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Fixed Tremor Cannon (300m | S/-/- | 4d10
+10 X | Pen 0 | Clip 1 | Reload 6 Full | Blast
(20), Concussive (4) Snare (3)
Hull-Mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters
(150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 |
Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m; S/-/-
| 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:
The Banehammer may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
casemate.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Baneblade Chassis: The Banehammer has the
same basic Special Rules as a Baneblade.
Tremors: Earthquakes are serious business.
Any terrain hit by a Tremor Cannon shot
becomes Dangerous Terrain. Any building
whose foundation is even partially within a
Tr
destroyed. Any Walker-type vehicle inside
to resist falling over in addition to any
other effects. A Tremor Cannon gains
Felling (4) and Proven (8) when attacking
targets that are digging, tunneling or
burrowing.
Aftershock Shell: A Tremor Cannon shell can
be dialed down to a low-yield setting,
turning it from a devastating offensive
weapon to a disruptive defensive one.
Constantly churning, vibrating soil can
knock even stable targets off their feet, and
the effects one such shell has on a charging
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foe are almost comedic. A low-yield shell
does no damage, but effects a blast radius
of 40 meters- any target in or moving into
this radius must test Agility at the start of
each round or be knocked Prone. Passing
one such test by more than four Degrees of
Success keeps the character upright for the
non-Skimmer vehicle in this area halves its
Tactical Speed and reduces its
Maneuvrability by -10.
Ground-Hugger: It would be patently
nonsensical for a vehicle specializing in
ground-disrupting weaponry to not be able
to operate in its own area of effect, and to
this end Banehammers, especially older
ones, are fitted with a servitor-control
suspension management system that
actively manages each suspension element,
tuning them to eke out every last foot-
pound of ground pressure. A Banehammer
may reduce its Tactical Speed to 3m, and in
doing so ignore all negative terrain effects
or uneven ground that would otherwise
slow it down.
Banelord
-Motto of the 137th
The Imperium has a long history of
advanced anti-tank gunnery, using long-
ranged platforms like the Leman Russ
Vanquisher to devastating effect. The
Banelord represents the pinnacle of the
high-mobility anti-
being a stripped-down Baneblade chassis
with its turret crammed full of an extremely
long smoothbore Reaction Cannon. This
weapon fires long flechette rounds
composed of depleted posturanium which
are capable of piercing through
unbelievably thick armour plates and then
scouring the interior of a target clean with
heat and radiation. Unfortunately, the
complicated loading systems needed to feed
the lengthy projectiles in the gun,
combined with the heavy shielding that
protects the crew from their radioactivity,
means that interior space in a Banelord is at
a premium.
The end result is a superior and
surprisingly agile tank hunter with little to
no anti-infantry weaponry, making their
use very situational. Often complained
about is the grossly oversized barrel of the
reaction cannon- while it ensures excellent
accuracy, it is so large the turret cannot be
reasonably traversed in any kind of close
quarters, and actually makes it impossible
for a Banelord to fire against vehicles that
get too close. Still, their flexibility as the
only truly turreted tank-hunting Baneblade
variant have gained them a devoted
following among the few Astra Militarum
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regiments that can afford to keep them
deployed.
Various wags among the Munitorum and
the Mechanicus have pointed out that the
name of the Banelord, by random
coincidence, is the same as the general
designation for a class of heavy Titan used
by the Traitor Legions- whether this was
deliberate on the part of the Munitorum or
Banelords are justifiably proud of their
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 12m
Cruising Speed: 50kph
Manoeuvrability: -25
Structural Integrity: 100
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 40, Side 35, Rear 28
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Reinforced
Armour, Super-Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 2
Gunners (Reaction Cannon/ Hull-
Mounted Bolters), 3 Loaders (Reaction
Cannon). Banelords often have a comms operator
and Enginseer as part of their crew.
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret-mounted Reaction Cannon (2000m
| S/-/- | 6d10 +10 I | Pen 10 | Clip 1 | Reload 3
Full | Lance, Accurate)
Hull-Mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters
(Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen
5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-
Linked)
Options:
The Banelord may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
casemate.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Baneblade Chassis: The Banelord has the same
basic Special Rules as the Baneblade.
Posturanic Shells: These truly unpleasant
rounds are dense, oily, highly radioactive
and violently flammable under the right
conditions, and even seasoned Banelord
crews treat them with a wary respect. The
effect such a solid kinetic impactor has on
an enemy target is nightmarish to behold.
and all Critical damage it might inflict upon
an enemy vehicle. Whenever it might inflict
crew damage to an enemy vehicle upon a
critical, the damage increases by 1d10 and
gains the Flame quality. Whenever a
weapons, the damage from the critical
effect is increased by 1d10 and gains the
Flame quality.
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Oversized Barrel
barrel is almost as long again as the body of
the tank, and it makes manoeuvring the
vehicle in tight spaces well-nigh impossible.
When operating in enclosed environments,
such as a cityscape, a Banelord takes a -10
penalty to all Maneuverability Tests. In
such environments, its cannon is treated as
being Hull-Mounted on the front facing
instead of being in a turret.
Overpenetration: The armour-piercing power
of a Posturanic shell means that softer
targets are often holed completely as the
shell continues on its merry way. If a
Reaction C
by 30 or more, the
shot does damage as normal, then continues
on its flight, hitting any additional targets
behind the first target. A shell will pass
through any number of targets in this way,
though it will hit the ground and dig in
after travelling over 6000 meters or hitting
a target whose Armour it does not
overcome by 30 or more. Any hit after the
first does not inflict Righteous Fury. Two
parts of the same vehicle (such as the two
legs of a Titan) count as separate hits.
Banesword
-Dedicational plaque of Town Burner, Banesword of
the 901st Koraxian Destructor Legion
Legend claims that the Quake shells fired
by the Banesword contain fragments of
planets subject to Exterminatus, which
unleash the fury of a planetary apocalypse
upon their targets. This is untrue, of course,
but it is undeniable that the Banesword is a
much-beloved part of the Imperial siege
arsenal.
Visually and structurally similar to the
Shadowsword, its primary Quake Cannon is
a dedicated bunker-busting howitzer firing
elongated Rochling-type shells at low
velocity. These projectiles hit masonry with
great force, crashing through under their
own momentum and then detonating a
powerful Melta charge once inside. Though
the effect of an individual Quake shell is
not particularly dramatic, over time they
can cause massive structural instabilities as
they fatigue the load-bearing members of a
target. While the slow velocity of the
warheads makes them functionally useless
for hitting moving targets, they can be
lobbed at high angles to bypass defenses,
and their launch vehicle is heavily armoured
enough to sit comfortably on the front
lines, picking apart enemy fortifications
piece by piece while shrugging off the
harshest incoming fire.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8m
Cruising Speed: 25kph
Manoeuvrability: -30
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Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 48, Side 40, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Ponderous,
Reinforced Armour, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 4
Gunners (Quake Cannon/ Hull-Mounted
Bolters/Both sponsons), 2 Loaders (Quake
Cannon), Vox Operator
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Fixed Quake Cannon (500 m | s/-/- | 4d10 +
20 | Pen 12 | Clip 1 | Reload 5 Full |
Inaccurate, Indirect (8), Blast (1d10 + 5))
Hull-Mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters
(Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen
5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-
Linked)
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m; S/-/-
| 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:
The Banesword may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
casemate.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I | Siege Celebrity: Baneswords are an extremely
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full) popular vehicle among siege troops, and are
renowned for their capacity to break
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen stalemates. Any soldiers from a Siege
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing) Infantry or Artillery regiment within line of
sight of an allied Banesword with more than
Special Rules: half of its Structural Integrity remaining
gains a +10 to all Willpower-based Tests,
Baneblade Chassis: The Banesword has the and can choose to reroll failed Command
same basic Special Rules as the Baneblade. Tests, but only when Commanding other
Siege or Artillery troops.
Tear it Down: Quake Cannon shells are
heavy and powerful enough to cause cracks,
shifting and general instability in even the
heaviest of buildings, and they can even
knock down whole hive stacks if given
enough time. A Quake Cannon counts as
having the Proven (5) and Corrosive
Qualities when firing against buildings or
large emplaced targets such as heavy
artillery or bunkers.

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Doomblade
-Graffiti found in barracks of the 7-80
Cybernetician Iron Column Skitarii Legion
The Skitarii of the Adeptus Mechanicus
generally prefer to use their own vehicle
designs rather than those issued to the
Militarum, seeing the latter designs as too
primitive for proper use. There are
exceptions, however, and the Doomblade is
a prominent one. The name refers to a
broad category of Mechanicus Baneblade
vehicles, replacing the conventional
armament of the original with the
specialized energy and physics-
manipulation weapons favored by the
Taghmata.
There are dozens of sub-variants of the
Doomblade, but common to all of them is
the ferocious Rotor Conversion Beamer, an
archeotech weapon using the same
antimatter-conversion technology favored
by the Space Marines. Though difficult to
use against moving targets, the ability of a
Conversion Beamer to atomically annihilate
literally all kinds of matter makes it a
devastating weapon when fired against...
anything, really. As the Beamer needs to be
stationary to launch dozens of searing
antimatter beams, the Doomblade is
primarily a defensive weapon, parked on
the Taghmata frontlines as a mobile
strongpoint.
Many outside the Mechanicus are unaware
that the variant exists, simply convinced
that the is a
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rumor or confabulation. Those who have
seen one in action, however, tell otherwise.
Though short-ranged and mostly
immobile, a functional Doomblade is a
whirling storm of electromagnetic energies,
melting, searing and crushing the enemies
of the Mechanicus with unerring precision.
Oddly enough, however, the hull of a
Doomblade seldom undergoes any kind of
modification, and thus these triumphs of
advanced technology are no tougher than
their conventional counterparts.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8m
Cruising Speed: 25kph
Manoeuvrability: -30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Ponderous,
Reinforced Armour, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 5
Integrated Cognis-Gunners (Gatling
Conversion Beamer/Hull-Mounted
Culverin/Twin Calivers/Sponsons), 3
Techpriests
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret Rotor Conversion Beamer (Range
100m | -/-/5 | Range-Dependent (See
Special Rules)| Clip 50 | Reload 2 Full)
Hull-mounted Volkite Culverin (Front
Facing) (Range 280m | S/2/4 | 2d10 + 9 E |
Pen 4 | Clip 40 | Reload 5 Full | Deflagrate)
Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Volkite
Caliver (Front Facing) (Range 165m | S/2/3 |
2d10 + 6 E | Pen 4 | Clip 60 | Reload 4 Full |
Deflagrate, Twin-Linked)
2 Sponson-mounted Twin-Linked Volkite
Calivers (Left Facing/Right Facing) (Range
165m | S/2/3 | 2d10 + 6 E | Pen 4 | Clip 60 |
Reload 4 Full | Deflagrate, Twin-Linked
2 Turret-mounted Cognis Lascannons
(300m | S/ / | 5d10+10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 |
Reload 2 Full | Proven (3), Cognis)
Options:
A Doomblade can equip two variant
weapon loadouts- older versions tend to
use graviton weapons, while newer ones use
more aggressive and powerful grav-
weapons. A Doomblade can choose to equip
any of the options from one of the
following alternate loadouts, though it can
only pick weapons from one loadout at a
time- a Doomblade cannot mount both
Graviton and Grav-weapons
simultaneously.
Graviton Weapons:
Replace the hull-mounted Culverin with a
Graviton Cannon:
Graviton Cannon (100m | S/-/- | Clip 1 |
Reload 4 Full | Blast (10), Concussive (1),
Graviton Wave, Haywire (2))
Replace the hull and/or sponson Calivers
with Graviton Guns:
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Twin-linked Graviton Guns (30m | s/-/- |
Clip 6 | Reload 2 Full | Blast (5), Concussive
(0), Graviton Wave, Haywire (1), Twin-
Linked)
Grav-Weapons:
Replace the hull-mounted Culverin with a
Heavy Grav-Cannon:
Heavy Grav-Cannon (150m | S/3/6 | 1d10 +
12 I | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 6 Full |
Concussive (4), Blast (8), Grav-Weapon)
Replace the hull and/or sponson Calivers
with Grav-Cannons:
Grav-Cannon (100m | S/2/3 | 1d10 + 6 | Pen 8
| Clip 30 | Reload 3 Full | Concussive (2),
Blast(4), Grav-Weapon)
The Doomblade may take a Pintle-
mounted weapon atop its casemate.
Pintle-mounted Cognis Heavy Stubber
(120m | -/-/10 | 1d10 + 5 I | Pen 3 | Clip 200|
Reload 2 Full | Cognis)
Special Rules:
Cognis Gunners: The inegrated gunnery
control logis engines onboard a
Doomblade are assumed to have Ballistic
Skill 45, Agility 30 and Perception 45, as
well as Awareness (Per) +10. They are
programed to prioritize incoming targets
rather than actively hunt enemies. This
makes them ferocious on the defensive, but
rather more hesitant on the offensive. All
the weapons of a Doomblade gain a +15 to
hit with Overwatch fire, but a -10 to hit
with non-Overwatch attacks.
Baneblade Chassis: The Doomblade has the
same basic Special Rules as the Baneblade.
Rotor Conversion Beamer: Conversion beamers
are, paradoxically, more effective at long
ranges.
At distances of 51m+, this weapon does 6d10
+ 12 Damage with Penetration 14, Felling (3)
and Blast (2).
The Rotor Conversion Beamer cannot be
fired on any turn in which the Doomblade
has already moved.

At distances of up to 15 m, this weapon does

1d10 + 6 Damage with Penetration 2.

At distances of 16-50m, this weapon does

3d10 + 9 Damage with Penetration 8 and
Felling (3).

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Doomhammer
-Gunnery Sergeant Mel Korb, 101st Ashorean
Originally a field expedient built on
Ordona during its millennia-long defense
against a nearby rogue Forge World, the
Doomhammer is actually a modified
Banehammer, replacing the Tremor
Cannon with a devastating Magma Cannon.
Though the short range of this weapon
forces the Doomhammer to engage at
ranges not normal for a superheavy assault
gun, the absence of a loading system for the
Tremor Cannon means the vehicle has
enough internal space in its casemate to
hold a small platoon of troops. The
addition of an armoured fire deck along the
back of said casemate allows passengers to
defend it while it gets close enough to a
target to deliver a devastating spread-blast
of Melta fire. While less of an effective
assault transport than the Doomsword, it is
still more than capable of delivering troops
to a target, often by dint of reducing that
target to a smouldering crater.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8m
Cruising Speed: 25kph
Manoeuvrability: -30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 47, Side 40, Rear 32
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Ponderous,
Reinforced Armour, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
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Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 4
Gunners (Tremor Cannon/ Hull-Mounted
Bolters/Both sponsons). Banehammers often
have a comms operator and Enginseer as part of
their crew.
Carrying Capacity: 25 Guardsmen with
light gear
Weapons:
Fixed Magma Cannon (Front Facing) (100m
| S/-/- | 4d10 +20 E | Pen 15 | Clip 12 |
Reload 4 Full | Blast (10), Melta, Scatter)
Hull-Mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters
(Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen
5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-
Linked)
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-
/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:
The Doomhammer may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
casemate.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules: with the original traction control system
still in place. At the GM's discretion, a
Heatsinks: The firing of a Magma Cannon Doomhammer can benefit from the effects
causes a tremendous amount of heat in the of the Banehammer's Ground-Hugger
outer hull of a Doomhammer, and in the Special Rule.
interest of not incinerating its crew or
passengers, it incorporates a complex
network of active and passive cooling
systems that disperse heat into the ground
beneath the vehicle. A Doomhammer
always has the Superior Plating upgrade
(factored into stats above), and takes half
damage from weapons with the Melta,
Flame or Deflagrate Qualities.

Fire Deck: A Doomhammer's fire deck is

located directly above its troop bay, and
allows for up to 15 individuals to effectively
fire without obstruction. Soldiers on the
fire deck benefit from 25 AP of cover on the
Body and Leg locations.

Ground-Hugger...?: Many Doomhammers are

still based off original Banehammer chassis,

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Doomlord
-two, and a one-two-three-
-Lord-General Raychil Cobb, shortly before the
Sack of the Balbyon Hives.
Probably the single least common
Baneblade variants, and certainly one of the
strangest, the Doomlord is a mobile
artillery platform which can best be
described as the nightmare child of three
Basilisk artillery vehicles and a half-dozen
industrial gyroscopes. Consisting of a
sponson-less Baneblade chassis with a
triple-Earthshaker turret mounted atop it,
the silhouette of a Doomlord is
unmistakable on the battlefield.
Many wonder why anyone would employ a
single gigantic triple-Earthshaker instead
of three much smaller, subtler and less
expensive Basilisks, and the answer lies in
the Doomlord's turret. This miracle of
mechanical stabilization keeps the vehicle's
fire platform rock-steady in even the most
catastrophic conditions- the gun mantlet
can take direct hits from Battle Cannon
shells and momentum compensation
systems will keep it solidly on target. The
Doomlord's advantage is its mobility- it can
maintain a constant and hyper-precise
stream of indirect fire while maneuvering to
avoid counter-battery fire or interception
from the air. For all that, however, it is not
a direct combat weapon, and the limitations
of its stabilizers keep the three
Earthshakers from being effective in
anything other than extreme-range fire.
Though they are quite capable of operating
with the full complement of secondary
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weapons afforded a Baneblade, most
Doomlords are stripped-down, removing
some of the armour of the vehicle in
exchange for somewhat higher mobility and
capacity for acceleration.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8m
Cruising Speed: 25kph
Manoeuvrability: -30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 35, Side 30, Rear 25
Vehicle Traits: Improved Command and
Control, Damage Control, Enclosed,
Large Superstructure, Reinforced Armour,
Super-Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 5
Gunners (Triple Earthshakers/Demolisher
Cannon/Heavy Bolters), 7 Loaders (Triple
Earthshakers/Demolisher Cannon), 2
Comms Operators
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Triple Earthshakers (Range 3.5km | S/3/- |
4d10 + 10 X | Pen 8 | Clip 3 | Reload 3 Full |
Blast (10 + 1d10), Concussive (5), Indirect (2))
Hull-Mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters
(Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen
5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-
Linked)
Hull-Mounted Demolisher Cannon (Front
Facing) (50m | S/ / | 4d10+20 X | Pen 10 |
Clip 2 | Reload Full | Blast (10), Concussive
(3))
Options:
The Doomlord may take a Pintle-mounted
weapon atop its turret:
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
The Doomlord may take conventional
Baneblade heavy bolter/lascannon
sponsons, though doing so adds 2 gunners
to the crew and causes it to gain the
Ponderous vehicle trait.
Special Rules:
Stable Platform: The turret ring and
elevation equipment of a Doomlord
consists of a set of massively powerful
stabilizing gyroscopes which can keep the
main guns trained on target in almost any
conditions. A Doomlord's triple
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Earthshakers suffer no penalties to aim
from vehicular movement, and halve
penalties to operate them from Critical
Damage or the Targeting Systems
Destroyed condition. However, they
cannot be used in direct fire against any
target within 100 meters of the Doomlord.
Extra Powder: The triple-
cavernous breeches can be packed full of
extra explosive charges, significantly
increasing its range at the cost of severe
An
overloaded Earthshaker increases its range
by 1000m, and gains the Inaccurate and
Unreliable Qualities. The weapon will be
permanently destroyed if it fires more than
1d10 + 11 of these shots without
maintenance or overhaul.
Specialized Shells: The Triple Earthshaker
can load any of the specialized rounds
found on page 194 of the Only War Core
Rulebook.
Doomsword
organic imaginings. You will then proceed to
reduce those terrible things to oxidized slag and
-Excerpt from basic training briefing, Agarin Lords
Superheavy Skitarii Maniple
A close cousin to the Doomblade, the
Doomsword is a far more sinister vehicle.
Used by the Taghmata in situations where
an organic infestation must absolutely,
positively be permanently expunged from
an area, the Doomsword is best described at
a nuclear area-denial vehicle. Its plasma
reactor replaced with a closed cell atomic
pile and its hull thickened by layer upon
layer of supplementary rad-wards, its
massive bulk trundles slowly and mercilessly
across the battlefield, leaving behind
nothing but desolation in its wake. Its
primary Irradiation Carronade is a short-
ranged shotgun-liked device that fires a
cloud of extraordinarily radioactive
transuranic metal powder, creating a
boiling sea of subatomic instability that
cooks the crews of tanks, scrambles sensors,
and reduces the hardiest of infantry to ash.
Doomswords are obviously an extremely
situational weapon, and one which is heavily
controlled by the Mechanicus. Their ability
to produce radioactive contamination on a
level capable of harming even combat
automata, combined with the disastrous
possibility of their reactor going critical,
makes fielding one an exercise in calculated
risk. Any wary enemy of the Doomsword
also must tread carefully when attacking
them- while a Doomsword is a slow and
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very easy target, damaging one too heavily
can render an entire battlefield
permanently uninhabitable.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 4m
Cruising Speed: 10kph
Manoeuvrability: -30
Structural Integrity: 140
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 50, Side 50, Rear 40
Vehicle Traits: Damage Control, Enclosed,
Extremely Volatile, Environmentally
Sealed, Ponderous, Reinforced Armour,
Super-Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 5
Integrated Cognis-Gunners (Irrad
Carronade/Irradiation Engine/Twin Irrad-
Cleansers/Sponsons), 2 Reactor Control
Servitors, Techpriest
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret Irradiation Carronade (Range 80m |
S/-/- | 2d10 + 12 E| Pen 10 | Clip 50 | Reload
4 Full | Spray, Flash (1), Fleshbane, Rad-
Phage, Torrent)
Hull-mounted Irradiation Engine (Front
Facing) (Range 50m | S/-/- | 1d10 + 12 E |
Pen 8 | Clip 30 | Reload 4 Full | Spray,
Fleshbane, Rad-Phage, Torrent)
Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Irad Cleanser
(Front Facing) (Range 30m | S/-/- | 1d10 + 3
E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 4 Full |
Fleshbane, Rad-Phage)
2 Sponson-mounted Twin-Linked Irad
Cleansers (Left Facing/Right Facing)
(Range 30m | S/-/- | 1d10 + 3 E | Pen 4 | Clip
20 | Reload 4 Full | Fleshbane, Rad-Phage)
2 Turret-mounted Cognis Lascannons
(300m | S/ / | 5d10+10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 |
Reload 2 Full | Proven (3), Cognis)
Options:
A Doomsword can take a remote-
controlled weapon on its casemate.
Pintle-mounted Cognis Heavy Stubber
(120m | -/-/10 | 1d10 + 5 I | Pen 3 | Clip 200|
Reload 2 Full | Cognis)
Special Rules:
Cognis Gunners: The integrated gunnery
control logis engines onboard a
Doomsword are assumed to have Ballistic
Skill 45, Agility 30 and Perception 45, as
well as Awareness (Per) +10. They are
programed for terror-weapon use and for
maximum thoroughness, prioritizing
annihilation of dug-in and resistant targets
rather than maintaining even fields of fire.
Any cognis-gunner-controlled weapon on
a Doomsword gains a non-cumulative +10
to hit any target which has already been hit
on this turn by another of the vehicle's
weapons.
Atomic Pile: This vehicle never needs to be
refuelled, and its stores of weapon 'ammo',
if depleted, will return to full after 12 hours
of recharging. If the vehicle explodes due
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to Critical Damage, the explosion gains the
Rad-Phage Quality. If the Doomsword is
reduced to Critical Damage by a weapon
with the Blast Quality or Explosive
Damage Type, it instantly explodes. When
this vehicle explodes, multiply the
randomly-determined blast radius by 1km.
Rad Vents: As an emergency expedient to
prevent enemies from getting too close, the
Doomsword's reactor may be vented to
surround it with clouds of burning-hot
radioactive dust. The Doomsword's
Commander or the onboard Techpriest
may make a Difficult (-10) Tech-Use Test
to open the reactor vents. Every enemy
within 5 meters of the vehicle's hull must
pass a Challenging (+0) Toughness Test or
take 1d5+1 points of Energy damage with
the Rad-Phage and Flame qualities. This
damage is increased by +2 for each Degree
of Success the Commander or Techpriest
scored on their initial test.
Baneblade Chassis: The Doomsword has the
same basic Special Rules as the Baneblade.
Hellblade
u look out the left-
-Vox chatter, Drumheads of Bellicos Armoured
Group, Felshan Salient
Sometimes called the "Guard Raider", for
its vague similarities to the Land Raider
assault transport, the Hellblade is an
unusual variant of the Baneblade used as a
heavy line-breaking troop-carrier. Its
chassis is reversed, with the engine in the
front, to provide extra protection to the
operators and crew. Instead of cannons, its
humpbacked hull bristles with fireports and
a small Heavy Bolter turret rigged for anti-
aircraft use.
Though its armour has been massively
increased compared to a 'stock' Baneblade,
the absence of heavy weapons or shells
makes its mobility largely unaffected, and
properly-managed Hellblades can manage
surprising turns of speed. What makes it
truly unique is the huge 'Hellroller' anti-
mine drum on its frontal hull- this massive
cylinder of thrice-hardened ceramite
detonates anti-vehicle mines ahead of the
vehicle, and is more than capable of
crushing infantry, foxholes and light field
defences flat as the Hellblade rolls towards
its destination.
This means that it is not only capable of
transporting significant numbers of soldiers
in safety, but also that it can open a path for
other soldiers. Significant numbers of
Hellblades see use in Militarum trench
regiments, especially among the Kriegers,
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and their somewhat top-heavy bulk is a
comforting presence for any Imperial
infantryman. That they carry an onboard
medical bay helps too, of course.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 10m
Cruising Speed: 25kph
Manoeuvrability: -30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental
Armour: Front 48, Side 45, Rear 40
Vehicle Traits: Anti-Air (Rudimentary),
Command and Control, Damage Control,
Enclosed, Ponderous, Reinforced Armour,
Super-Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Hull), 1 Driver, 5
Gunners (Sponsons/Turret Bolters),
Techpriest, Medical Officer, Comms
Operator
Carrying Capacity: 40 Guardsmen and gear
Weapons:
Twin-Linked Heavy Bolter Turret (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
4 Sponson-Mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (2 Left Facing/2 Right Facing)
(150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 |
Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
4 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m; S/-/-
| 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:

The Hellblade may take a Pintle-mounted
weapon atop its frontal hull:
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Baneblade Chassis: The Hellblade has the
same basic Special Rules as the Baneblade.
forwards over them. Any explosives or anti-
infantry barriers or traps in the area a
Hellblade moves over are automatically
destroyed.
Superheavy Ambulance: An oft under-
appreciated feature, the Hellblade's small
internal medical bay is compact, but
thoroughly-outfitted, and has saved the life
of many an unwary Guardsman. A medic
working in or near an intact or undamaged
Hellblade ignores any penalties to Medicae
tests due to insufficient sanitation, lack of
medical gear, etc.

Trench-Fighter's Friend: Hellblades are an Fireports:

extremely popular vehicle among line fewer than 20 fireports which its passengers
infantry, seen as a solid wall against enemy can fire through; 6 on the Front and each
attacks, as well as a mobile resupply point. Side facing, and 2 on the Rear.
Any soldiers from a Line Infantry, Light
Infantry or Mechanized Infantry regiment
within line of sight of an operational allied
Hellblade that still has more than half of its
Structural Integrity gain a +10 to all
Willpower-based Tests, and can choose to
reroll failed Command Tests, but only
when Commanding other Mechanized,
Line or Light troops.

Hellroller: the Hellblade's roller is a weapon

in its own right, powerful internal motors
allowing it to chew through even heavy
fortifications while simultaneously bearing
the brunt of impacts with enemy targets. A
Hellblade's Ram attacks have a Penetration
value of 10, and halve incoming damage as a
result of a Ram attack. Additionally, the
Hellblade is immune to ground-based
explosives such as mines, provided it moves

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Hellhammer
Reinforcements dead. Situation excellent.
-Commander Ferdus de Fosh, shortly before
winning the Crux Imperialis.
As the Leman Russ Demolisher is to the
conventional Leman Russ, the Hellhammer
is to the Baneblade. A simple and
consequently quite common variant, it is
identical to the original Baneblade in every
way save for an extremely short-barreled
Hellhammer howitzer replacing both
weapons in its main turret. Armed with
subatomic charge shells functionally
identical to those of an Eradicator Cannon,
though greater in size, it can easily level
even heavily entrenched foes, but its fully-
rotating turret makes it much more flexible
in close quarters than other assault gun-
style superheavy Imperial tanks. To further
enhance its abilities at short ranges,
Hellhammers, especially those engaged in
prolonged short-range engagements, are
equipped with flame or melta weapons in
their sponsons to give them an even
stronger punch. Though slow and often too
heavy to be of much use in open terrain, the
Hellhammer is a superb city-fighter.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 6 m
Cruising Speed: 20 kph
Manoeuvrability: 30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Ponderous,
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Reinforced Armour, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 5
Gunners (Turret/Demolisher cannon/Hull
heavy bolter turret/both sponsons),2
Loaders (Turret/Demolisher cannon).
Hellhammers usually have a dedicated comms-
operator and sometimes an Enginseer as part of
their crew.
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret-Mounted Hellhammer Cannon
(100m | S/-/- | 5d10 + 30 X | Pen 10 | Reload
4 Full | Blast (15), Concussive (4), Fleshbane,
Flash (6), Proven (4), Rad-Phage)
Hull-Mounted Demolisher Cannon (Front
Facing) (50m | S/ / | 4d10+20 X | Pen 10 |
Clip 2 | Reload Full | Blast (10), Concussive
(3))
Hull-Mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters
(Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen
5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-
Linked )
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-
/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:
The Hellhammer may take a Pintle-
mounted weapon atop its casemate.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
It may also replace its sponson Lascannons
with one of the following:
2 Turret Heavy Flamers (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5
E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
2 Turret Plasma Cannons (120m | S/ / |
2d10+10 E | Pen 8 | Clip 32 | Reload 5 Full |
Blast (1), Maximal, Overheat)
2 Turret Multi-meltas (60m | S/ / | 2d10+16
E | Pen 12 | Clip 24 | Reload Full | Blast (1),
Melta)
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Special Rules:
Baneblade Chassis: A Hellhammer benefits
from the same Special Rules as the
Baneblade.
Veteran Brawler: Many Hellhammers have
seen centuries of service in point-blank
engagements, and have acquired numerous
upgrades over the years as a result. A
Hellhammer may have a Dozer Blade,
Track Guards or Anti-Grenade Mesh
mounted by default, at the GM's discretion.
Unstable Cores
cannon is an exercise in steady hands and
strong sphincters, as the slightest slipup can
cause immediate death. Reloading an
Eradicator Cannon requires an Easy (+30)
Agility Test on the part of the vehicle's
Loader in addition to the listed time.
Failure causes the shell to explode, dealing
the weapon's normal damage to the vehicle
and its crew.
Helllord Alpha
-Archmagos Davion Bowes
The single most exotic variant on the
Baneblade in regular Militarum service, the
Alpha variant of the Helllord truly deserves
the title 'landship'. Though the exact
location of its construction is lost to time, it
is generally accepted that it began as a sort
of 'universal superheavy' design, a tank
armed with a large enough variety of
armament that it could engage any
assortment of targets with reasonable hopes
of winning. This leads to it being one of the
single least 'heavily'-armed of the
Baneblade family- it has no one single main
weapon, but a trio of multi-purpose energy
weapons effective in any situation.
This primary weapons system, the Hellfire
Array, encompasses an Executioner-class
plasma cannon, a Melta Cannon, and an
Inferno Cannon flamethrower, as well as a
complicated multifunction fuel/power
management system that manages and
recycles the vast amounts of waste heat
produced by each of these weapons.
Though bristling with armaments, the
Helllord Alpha's great vulnerability is its
heavy fuel use and substantial size. All three
of its primary weapons require gigantic
quantities of hydrogen plasma and
promethium to function, and though its
internal fuel tanks are substantial, they tend
to run dry in all but the most low-intensity
conflicts. For this reason, Helllord Alpha
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operators frequently cycle their weapons,
activating only two parts of the Hellfire
Array at once to preserve fuel and improve
the vehicle's cooling rate. The Helllord
Alpha is also gigantic even by the standards
of Imperial superheavies, its triple
overlapping turrets giving it a very high
profile.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8 m
Cruising Speed: 25 kph
Manoeuvrability: 30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Extremely
Volatile, Large Superstructure, Ponderous,
Reinforced Armour, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 7
Gunners (Executioner Turret/Melta
Turret/Inferno Turret/Demolisher
cannon/Hull heavy bolter turret/both
sponsons), 1 Loader (Demolisher cannon),
Comms-Operator, 2 Enginseers
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret Mounted Executioner Cannon
(180m | S/3/ | 2d10+12 E | Pen 9 | Clip 50 |
Blast (2), Maximal, Overheat)
Turret Mounted Melta Cannon (100m | S/-
/- | 2d10 +18 E | Pen 12 | Clip 20 | Blast (6),
Melta)
Turret Mounted Inferno Cannon (50m | S/-
/- | 2d10 + 15 E | Pen 8 | Clip 80 | Flame,
Spray)
Hull-Mounted Demolisher Cannon (Front
Facing) (50m | S/ / | 4d10+20 X | Pen 10 |
Clip 2 | Reload Full | Blast (10), Concussive
(3))
Hull-Mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters
(Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen
5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-
Linked))
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-
/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:
The Helllord may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
casemate.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
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Special Rules:
Triple Turrets: The unusual hull and weapon
configuration of a Helllord make it
function somewhat differently than a
Baneblade.
Its Executioner turret is mounted high on
the rear of the hull and offers a 360-degree
field of fire over the entire tank. Its Melta
turret is mounted on the right front of the
hull, and has a 225-degree field of fire -it
can cover the entirely of the right front
quarter of the vehicle, but cannot fire
directly backwards or across the left-hand
turret. The Inferno turret is on the left
front of the hull, covering 225 degrees over
the left front quarter of the vehicle. Like
the melta turret it cannot fire straight
backwards or directly across the hull.
The two sponson lascannon turrets are
mounted lower and further back than on a
conventional Baneblade, and both have an
approximately 180-degree field of fire-
they are unable to fire across the hull.
Power Management: Deactivating one of a
Helllord's three main weapons to adjust for
the current tactical situation is normal, and
provides cooling and efficiency benefits to
the other two active weapons. If only a
single weapon is active, it gains significant
bonuses as all the vehicle's control systems
can be dedicated to keeping it functioning
optimally.
If another weapon is inactive, the Inferno
Cannon gains the Torrent quality and
increases its range by 20 meters. If it is the
only one active, it also gains Felling (3) and
increases its range by another 30 meters in
addition to the previous bonus.
If another weapon is inactive, the
Executioner increases its Rate of Fire to
S/4/5. If it is the only weapon active, it also
gains Reliable and Flash (2) in addition to
the previous bonus.
If another weapon is inactive, the Melta
Cannon increases its Range by 10 and gains 5
extra Penetration. If it is the only weapon
active, it gains Flame and increases its Rate
of Fire to S/2/- in addition to the previous
bonus.
PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW KABOOM
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Internal Fuel Reserves: The three Hellfire
Array weapons have limited fuel supplies
and cannot be easily reloaded in the field.
When a Helllord has exhausted the Clips of
these weapons, they can only be
replenished off the battlefield, though the
tank's other weapons can be used as normal.
If any one of the vehicle's primary weapons
is out of ammo, it loses the Extremely
Volatile Trait. If it does explode due to
Extremely Volatile, the blast radius of the
explosion is increased to 5d10.
Helllord Beta
-Archmagos Iapetha Makh, not long after the
discovery of the Beta Archive.
All of Mars was abuzz when the ancient
technology cache now known as the Beta
Archive was discovered in the highlands of
Tharsis in M.38, and even more so when it
was discovered to contain only examples of
a single vehicle; a semi-finished Baneblade
variant designated the Helllord.
Confusingly enough, the exotic triple-
turret Helllord model was already well-
known, and nearly a century of politicking
followed before the 'new' Helllord was
eventually designated the Helllord Beta.
Comparable in overall design to a standard
Baneblade, its one key difference was its
massive low-slung turret, with room for
significantly larger weapons than the
original model.
With demand for superheavy tanks high as
always, the Mechanicum made do with what
they had lying around, fitting the vehicle
with a pair of outdated Ironbreaker
howitzers and a missile launcher design
adapted from the Taurox. The end result
was a relatively inexpensive multipurpose
superheavy tank, capable of acting in both
the artillery and direct-fire role. That said,
the lack of sophistication in the vehicle's
systems and its great weight have made it
less popular than other more
unconventional Baneblade variants.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 6 m
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Cruising Speed: 20 kph
Manoeuvrability: 30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Ponderous,
Reinforced Armour, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 5
Gunners (Ironbreaker cannons and missile
launchers/Hull heavy bolter turret/both
sponsons), 2 Loaders (Turret). Helllord Betas
usually have a dedicated comms-operator and
sometimes have an Enginseer as part of their crew.
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret-Mounted Twin-Linked
Ironbreaker Cannon (3000m | S/-/- | 5d10 +8
X | Pen 10 | Clip 2 | Reload 5 Full | Blast
(10), Inaccurate, Indirect (4), Twin-Linked)
Coaxial Multi-Barrel Missile Launcher
(500m | S/3/5 | 2d10 + 2 X | Pen 2 | Clip 5 |
Reload 3 | Blast (3))
Hull-Mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters
(Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen
5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-
Linked )
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-
/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:
The Helllord may take a Pintle-mounted
weapon atop its casemate.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Ironbreaker Cannons and Missile
Launchers by 1, to a minimum of 0.
High Ground Pressure: Though not actually
top-heavy, the huge weight of extra armour
on the upper half of a Helllord Beta's hull
gives them a nasty tendency to sink into
soft ground. When moving on soft terrain,
a Helllord decreases its Tactical Speed by 1
and its Manoeuvrability by -10. At the
GM's discretion, it will tend to frequently
get bogged down in mud, sand or snow.

It may also replace its sponson Heavy

Bolters with the following:

2 Sponson Heavy Flamers (Left

Facing/Right Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E
| Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)

Special Rules:

Heavy Turret: The

Helllord Beta's huge
turret provides a great
deal of extra armour
protection for its
main weapons and
loading systems,
burying them beneath
layer after layer of
reinforced
adamantium and
plasteel. A Helllord
Beta reduces any
incoming Critical
damage to its

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Hellsword
NOT BURN A TITAN DOWN. WE
HAVE PROVED THEM WRONG
-Abbess Pyrophorea Grang, Order of Our Thermite
Shroud
Initial attempts by the Adepta Sororitas to
request an 'Ecclesiarchical Baneblade' were
met with some derision by the forge-
masters of Mars, but direct intervention by
the Ecclesiarch led to the production of a
half-dozen prototypes. The Sororitas
specifically requested an emphasis on flame
weaponry, which was easily accomplished,
but also a hull integrating a vast quantity of
holy symbols and sacred Imperial Cult
anointing, much to the irritation of the
Magii charged with construction. Every
single component of the Hellsword, down
to each individual bolt and rivet, is
consecrated by an Ecclesiarchal Cardinal,
and their hulls are filled with dozens of
small devotional shrines and sacred icons.
The first six Hellswords were deployed to
the various Orders stationed around the
Eye of Terror, and almost immediately
became the stuff of legend. Frequently
painted with devotional images by local
artists, their ornately decorated hulls were
symbols of Imperial might, so holy that
their mere presence on a battlefield was
enough to banish lesser daemons.
The titanic flames of their Inferno guns,
passing through barrels deeply carved with
hexagrammatic patterns, became instantly
recognizable wherever the Sororitas
deployed. The unquestioned success of the
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Hellsword made its way back to Mars,
where production removed on the series-
that said, however, there are still relatively
few Hellswords available in the Imperium.
Few Sororitas minor orders have the
resources to maintain and field one, and
new construction is slow due to the
necessity of individually blessing each part.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8 m
Cruising Speed: 25 kph
Manoeuvrability: 30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Extremely
Volatile, Ponderous, Reinforced Armour,
Super-Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 5
Gunners (Inferno Gun Turret/Demolisher
cannon/Hull heavy bolter turret/both
sponsons), 1 Loader (Demolisher cannon),
Comms-Operator, 1 Enginseers, Priest
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret Inferno Gun (50m | S/-/- | 2d10 + 15
E | Pen 8 | Clip 200 | Flame, Spray, Reliable,
Sanctified, Torrent)
Hull-Mounted Inferno Cannon (Front
Facing) (50m | S/-/- | 2d10 + 15 E | Pen 8 |
Clip 80 | Flame, Spray, Sanctified)
Hull-Mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters
(Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen
5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-
Linked, Sanctified)
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Flamers (Left Facing/Right Facing) (30m |
S/ / | 1d10+5 E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2
Full | Flame, Spray, Twin-Linked,
Sanctified)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-
/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3), Sanctified)
Options:
The Hellsword may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
turret.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full | Sanctified)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing,
Sanctified)
Flamer (20m | S/-/- | 1d10 + 4 E | Pen 2 |
Clip 6 | Reload 2 Full | Flame, Spray,
Sanctified)
Special Rules:
Baneblade Chassis: The Hellsword has the
same basic Special Rules as the
Baneblade.
In Glory Clad: A Hellsword seems to
emanate a subtle aura of sanctity,
protection and glorious anger, inspiring
all faithful around. In addition to the
devotional imagery present all over its hull,
a system of integrated Laud Hailers play a
constant refrain of sacred hymns and
inspirational chants. Any allied Imperial
character within line of sight of a
Hellsword temporarily gains the Hatred
(Heretics and Daemons) and Unshakable
Faith Talents.
CAST IN THE NAME OF GOD YE
GUILTY: Any character or enemy with the
Daemonic Trait which comes within a 10-
meter radius of a Hellsword must make an
Ordinary (+10) Willpower Test or be
banished back to the Warp. If they make
physical contact with the Hellsword's hull,
they must Test again, with the test
difficulty increased to Difficult (-10). Any
heretical or unsanctioned Psykers that
attempt to manifest psychic powers within
the same radius receive a -10 to any
manifestation tests.
Model by Shandara
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Shadowblade
-Final words of Lord of Change Ykherekhek
Only a handful of Shadowblade super-
heavy tanks remain in operation, with the
vast majority consigned to stasis chambers
on the largest Forgeworlds, where the
Mechanicus labour ceaselessly to attempt to
understand the arcane technologies that the
Shadowblade uniquely employs. It is this
very technology that forces the Magii who
study these ancient machines to keep them
in stasis, for otherwise, the Shadowblades in
their keeping would doubtless suffer the
same fate that most have following the
Great Crusade.
The main component of the Shadowblade
that sets it apart from all other vehicles in
the Imperium is the so-called Darklight
Engine, which, when activated, cloaks the
tank in an inverted light field which renders
it entirely invisible to the naked eye, but
even more crucially, causes all known forms
of targeting and detection systems to fail.
Unfortunately for the crews of these
unstable vehicles, the Darklight Engine
functions by partially submerging the tank
into the Immaterium, effectively removing
it from real-space. As these engines age and
become more unstable, however, Warp
energy begins to penetrate the hull, and
there is no guarantee that, once a
Shadowblade is in the Warp, it can ever
return.
Crews serving on the few operational
Shadowblades report disturbing images and
sounds during Darklight operation, which
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slowly progress to acute psychosis and
insanity, and of course the occasional total
loss of a vehicle. However, the immense
tactical value of a truly invisible superheavy
tank means that even though Shadowblade
crews have very high turnover rates and the
tank itself is not particularly well armed or
armored, they continue to serve.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 12 m
Cruising Speed: 25 kph
Manoeuvrability: 30
Structural Integrity: 90
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 35, Side 28, Rear 20
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed,
Hexagrammatic Plating, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 3
Gunners (Accelerator Turret/Autocannon
Turret/Hull heavy bolters), Comms-
Operator, 2 Enginseers.
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret Twin-Linked Accelerator Cannons
(800m | S/3/- | 3d10 + 15 X | Pen 9 | Clip 12 |
Reload 3 Full | Blast (5), Concussive (3),
Reliable, Proven (4), Twin-Linked)
Turret Twin-Linked Lascannons (300m|
S/-/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload
2 Full | Proven (3), Twin-Linked)
Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Bolters (Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing,
Twin-Linked)
Options:
The Shadowblade may take one of the
following remote-controlled Pintle-
mounted weapons atop its turret.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Darklight Engine: This uncanny piece of
Warp technology can render the entirety of
a Shadowblade totally invisible, though the
vehicle's weapons cannot be fired while it is
active. As a Full Action, the vehicle's
Commander (or one of its Tech-Priests)
may attempt a Hard (-20) Tech-Use Test
to activate the Darklight Engine.
If the test succeeds, the vehicle becomes
invisible, inflicting a -30 penalty on any
vision or auspex-based Tests to detect it,
plus another -10 for each Degree of Success
after the first. If the Test fails, the Engine
requires 1d5+1 rounds to recharge. If
doubles or a 91-99 are rolled on the initial
Tech-Use Test, the vehicle also generates
Psychic Phenomena, rolling at a -10.
Effects that would normally manifest on a
Psyker instead manifest on the crew
member who activated the Engine.
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This effect can be maintained for up to 10
minutes at a time, though for each minute
spent invisible the vehicle's crew must pass a
Challenging (+0) Willpower Test or gain
1d5 points each of Corruption and
Willpower, with the test difficulty
increasing by one step for every two
minutes after the first two.
Deactivating the Darklight Engine requires
a Half Action and a Simple (+40) Tech-Use
Test, with the Difficulty increasing by 1
step for every 2 minutes spent invisible. If
at any point during activation or
deactivation of the vehicle the crew rolls a
100 on any Tests involving the functioning
of the Engine, the vehicle is sucked into the
Warp, never to return.
Stealth Systems: In addition to its primary
cloak, the Shadowblade maintains a
secondary suite of significantly safer stealth
systems to support its sneaky shenanigans.
A Shadowblade always counts as having a
Stummer field emanating from its hull, with
the field extending over a 10-meter radius
about the vehicle. The vehicle can also seal
up its engine exhaust ports and ventilation
system to prevent waste products from
being detected- it gains the
Environmentally Sealed trait, and any Tests
to locate smoke from its engine or the smell
of it being operated take a -20 penalty.
This secondary ability can only be activated
for up to 3 hours before the vehicle's hull
overheats.
Shadowhammer
ll make it rain Fighta-
-Colonel Eored Faldemann, Hadesian Armoured
A somewhat overspecialized Baneblade
hailing from the vaults of Zhao-Arkkad
(Best known for producing the Praetor
missile launcher), the Shadowhammer can
only be described as an anti-aircraft missile
vehicle.
It trades off its turret and hull-mounted
Demolisher for an Exorcist-Ultra vertical-
launch missile launcher and a substantial
internal loading bay. Though it cannot
launch more than a few rockets
simultaneously, its capacity to rapidly
reload allows it to maintain a constant
stream of ordnance against enemy aircraft-
at least until it runs out of expensive-to-
produce Praetor-type ammo. An
externally-mounted auspex-designator
system allows it to guide in allied fire
against airborne targets, and it is not
uncommon to see Shadowhammers
accompanied by Hydra flak tanks or anti-
air Manticores, where the vast quantity of
munitions they fire off can be used as
accurately as possible.
Unfortunately for the Shadowhammer,
many Imperial commanders do not see the
value of a superheavy anti-air vehicle,
preferring to distribute their AA on
smaller, more mobile vehicles. To this end,
Shadowhammers are frequently loaded with
the anti-tank and anti-infantry munitions
used by the Praetor, though they suffer in
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this role- their targeting systems are simply
not adequately designed for anti-armour
use, and they struggle to attack close-in
targets.
Some Shadowhammers have found their
way into the Sororitas arsenal, no surprise
given their technical similarities to the
Exorcist rocket tank, and their ornately
decorated hulls compete with those of the
Hellswords in opulence.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8 m
Cruising Speed: 25 kph
Manoeuvrability: 30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Anti-Air (Advanced),
Command and Control, Damage Control,
Enclosed, Ponderous, Reinforced Armour,
Super-Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 4
Gunners (Exorcist-Ultra/Hull heavy bolter
turret/both sponsons), 2 Loaders (Exorcist-
Ultra), Comms-Operator, 1 Enginseers,
Priest (if Sororitas-operated)
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret Exorcist-Ultra (Pilum Missiles) (5km
| S/4/- | 3d10 + 12 X | Pen 14 | Clip 4 |
Reload Half | Indirect (2), Proven (5),
Accurate)
Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Bolters (Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing,
Twin-Linked)
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-
/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:
The Shadowhammer may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
The Shadowhammer may replace its
sponson-mounted Lascannons with a pair
of Target Resolution Enhancers, increasing
the bonus from its Sky-Sweeper rule (see
below) by +10
Special Rules:
Missile Bay: A Shadowhammer has an
internal magazine of 80 missiles. These can
be any mix of Pilum anti-air, Foehammer
anti-tank and Firestorm anti-infantry
rounds, and can be loaded in any order. The
profile for the Foehammer and Firestorm
rounds can be found below. Any missile
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cannot be fired at any target within 50m of
the Shadowhammer, and when fired at any
range shorter than 500m gain Inaccurate.
Foehammer Missile
3d10 + 12 X | Pen 14 | Blast (10 + 1d5),
Concussive (2), Accurate
Firestorm Missile
3d10 + 15 E | Pen 4 | Blast (15 + 1d5),
Concussive (2), Flame
Baneblade Chassis: The Shadowhammer has
the same basic Special Rules as the
Baneblade.
Sororitas Variants: These elaborately-
ornamented Shadowhammer variants are
rarer, but much more holy. At the GM's
discretion, a Shadowhammer's weapons
gain Sanctified, and it benefits from the In
Glory Clad rule of the Hellsword.
Sky-Sweeper: Any allied vehicle units within
vox range of a Shadowhammer gain a +10 to
hit any airborne target which has already
been fired upon by the Shadowhammer this
round.
Shadowlord
back. Strike his eyes and ears, and then drop a rock
-Colonel-Patrician Dumontrier, Denebian Heavy
Battalion
Though every Baneblade variant is large
and well-equipped enough to function as a
command vehicle with few difficulties, a
large formation of such superheavy vehicles
demands a specialized tactical coordination
unit, and the Shadowlord fills this niche. It
replaces a conventional Baneblade's turret
with a surprisingly spacious command unit,
incorporating massive comms uplink units
and even a compact barracks with all the
conveniences a small group of officers
would need to live on the front lines.
Fitted with air recyclers, a sealed hull and
internal refrigeration systems useful for
preserving food, it can keep its crew fed
and watered for months at a time without
outside support. Though it is just as heavily
armoured as a regular Baneblade, and it
maintains the Baneblade's Demolisher so it
is not wholly defenseless, its true value lies
in regulating the chaotic comms traffic that
always arises when a large armoured force is
in action.
Naturally, the complex cogitator and data-
processing systems of a Shadowlord make
them a valuable target, in addition to being
a command vehicle, and so these vehicles
often maintain continuous contact with
Imperial Guard artillery or orbital assets,
allowing them to call in support strikes to
devastating effect.
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Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8 m
Cruising Speed: 25 kph
Manoeuvrability: 30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Amphibious, Improved
Command and Control, Damage Control,
Enclosed, Environmentally Sealed,
Ponderous, Reinforced Armour, Super-
Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander, 1 Driver, 4 Gunners
(Demolisher Cannon/Hull heavy bolter
turret/both sponsons) 5 Comms-Operators,
2 Enginseers
Carrying Capacity: 10 soldiers plus light
gear
Weapons:
Hull-Mounted Demolisher Cannon (Front
Facing) (50m | S/ / | 4d10+20 X | Pen 10 |
Clip 2 | Reload Full | Blast (10), Concussive
(3))
Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Bolters (Front Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing,
Twin-Linked)
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-
/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:
The Shadowlord may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full | Sanctified)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
A Shadowlord may replace its sponson
Heavy Bolters with a pair of twin-linked
Heavy Flamers:
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Flamers (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E | Pen 4 | Clip
20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame, Spray, Twin-
Linked)
Special Rules:
Baneblade Chassis: A Shadowlord benefits
from the same basic Special Rules as the
Baneblade.
difficulty increases by -10 for each time he
fails.
If the test succeeds, 1d5 + 2 Rounds later,
the attack strikes with apocalyptic results. It
affects an area with a blast radius of 1000m,
and utterly pulverizes anything within. Roll
1d10- that percentage of the infantry or
unprotected light and medium vehicles
within the area survive the blasts. Any heavy
or superheavy vehicles, monsters or
fortifications within the area take 7d10 + 20
points of Impact damage with pen 12, Flash
(8) and Felling (4).
Who's In Charge Here?: Any allied vehicle
within a 1km radius of a Shadowhammer
gains the Command and Control trait if it
did not already have it. Any vehicles that
already have this Trait ignore the effects of
any vox jamming or comms-disrupting
effects. Additionally, a Shadowlord carries
within its hull a Best-Quality Signal
Jammer, which can be activated or

Long-Range Fire Support: Once per session, a

Shadowlord's commander can pull a few
strings and call in heavy supporting fire
from Militarum air, space and artillery
assets. The Commander must make a Hard
(-20) Command Test as a Full Action to
make the attack, designating an area of
ground within 10km of the Shadowlord.
The attack may be called in on the
Shadowlord's position, if necessary. If the
test fails, the Commander may attempt
another test the next round, though the

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Stormsword
-Vox chatter, Tchankiboian Megassault Company
An increasingly-common Baneblade assault
gun variant, the oft-controversial
Stormsword close-quarters assault gun may
have been in service since the Great
Crusade. A debatably heretical modification
of the Shadowsword, it replaces the massive
Volcano Cannon with the rocket-launching
Hellhammer Cannon common to the tank
of the same name. Many in the Mechanics
hold that the Stormsword is the product of
desperation and foolishness, and should be
condemned as a result, but small numbers
of Forge Worlds have begun to build them
from scratch, as if to further the furious
debate.
All in all, a Stormsword functions not
dissimilarly to a Hellhammer- it is a short-
ranged dedicated city fighter, excellent at
crushing fortifications and dug-in
opponents while also more than capable of
defeating armour over short ranges.
Though its Hellhammer lacks room to fully
elevate within the vehicle's casemate, the
extra armour protecting that casemate
makes the Stormsword significantly more
survivable than some of the Imperium's
other short-ranged superheavies, and
replacing the Lascannons with a pair of
Heavy Flamers ensures its status as the king
of the knife-fight.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8 m
Cruising Speed: 25 kph
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Manoeuvrability: 30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental
Armour: Front 48, Side 40, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Ponderous,
Reinforced Armour, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 3
gunners (Hellhammer cannon/Both
sponsons), 2 Loaders (Hellhammer
Cannon). Stormswords usually have a dedicated
comms-operator and almost always have an
Enginseer as part of their crew.
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Fixed Hellhammer Cannon (100m | S/-/- |
5d10 + 30 X | Pen 10 | Reload 2 Full | Blast
(1d5 + 10), Concussive (3), Felling (2))
Coaxial Heavy Bolter (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Heavy Flamers (30m | S/
/ | 1d10+5 E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full
| Flame, Spray)
Options: Special Rules:

The Stormsword may take one of the Modified Shadowsword: a Stormsword

following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its benefits from the same Special Rules as a
hull. Shadowsword.

Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |

Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)

Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen

4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)

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Stormblade
-Last words of Big Mek Gantmayka
The great limitation of the Shadowsword
Titan-hunter superheavy is the significant
cost in materials and time that its
complicated Volcano Cannon represents,
and many Forge Worlds seek cheaper
alternatives to fill the same role. The
Stormblade is Forgeworld Ryza's
contribution, the pinnacle of their plasma-
weaponry expertise.
It keeps the same hull design as the
Shadowsword, but mounts a gigantic
Plasma Blastgun and an extensive suite of
cooling systems, heat shielding, and
emergency pressure vents that makes the
Blastgun quite stable and reliable by plasma
weapon standards.
Though short-ranged, it can discharge
relatively quickly, although it suffers from
poor ammunition capacity- the vast
quantities of energy stored in its photonic
fuel cells are only enough for 16 shots
between recharges. This often leaves
Stormblades dependent on their
Lascannons for the majority of combat, as
photonic cells are nothing if not slow to
recharge. Another hidden advantage is the
Stormblade's relatively small crew, as the
Blastgun does not require a loader.
Though it works quite well, and is indeed
cheaper than the original Shadowsword, the
great obstacle to the Stormblade's success is
that it relies on a strong grounding in
plasma technology, something which most
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Forge Worlds lack. Some have accused
Ryza of attempting to monopolize the
Titan-hunter arms market with the
Stormblade, the beginnings of yet another
internal feud within the Mechanicus'
notoriously argument-prone ranks.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8 m
Cruising Speed: 25 kph
Manoeuvrability: 30
Structural Integrity: 120
Size: Monumental
Armour: Front 48, Side 40, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Command and Control,
Damage Control, Enclosed, Ponderous,
Reinforced Armour, Super-Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 3
gunners (Blastgun/Both sponsons).
Stormblades usually have a dedicated comms-
operator and two Enginseerss as part of their crew.
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Fixed Plasma Blastgun (Front Facing)
(200m | S/3/- | 4d10 + 12 E | Pen 12 | Clip 16 |
Blast (10), Flash (4), Shocking, Maximal)
Coaxial Heavy Bolter (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
2 Sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy
Bolters (Left Facing/Right Facing) (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
2 Turret-mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-
/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2
Full | Proven (3))
Options:
The Stormblade may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Modified Shadowsword: a Stormblade
benefits from the same Special Rules as a
Shadowsword.
Photon Flux: Some enterprising Stormblade
crewmen have learned to overcharge their
Blastguns even further beyond the
weapon's Maximal setting, a testament to
the skills of the Ryzan techpriests and
the massive brass balls of Imperial
tankers. The Stormblade's weapon
doubles its Penetration, and gains the
Haywire (3), Recharge and Shocking
Qualities. Each shot consumes 8
rounds from the weapon's Clip.
Reroute Power!: A Stormblade's engine
and weapons systems are one and the
same, for both require plasma to
function properly, and redirecting
power from one to the other is child's
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play, though not very safe. As a Full Action
, the vehicle's Commander or one of its
Tech-Priests may attempt a Challenging
(+0) Tech-Use Test to shunt power from
the engines to the Blastgun, or vice versa. If
the test Fails, the vehicle becomes wholly
non-functional (with the exception of its
Heavy Bolters, because they don't need
power) for 1d5 rounds as its breakers need
to be reset. This doesn't require a Test to
do, but is guaranteed to really piss off any
Techpriests onboard.
• Directing power to Engines: For
every round removed from the
Blastgun's Clip, the Stormblade's
Tactical Movement Speed increases
by 2 for the next 1d5 rounds. While
this movement bonus is in effect,
the Stormblade loses Ponderous.
• Directing power to Weapons: The
Stormblade reduces its Tactical
Speed to 0 and gains Immobile. For
every 2 Rounds this ability is in
effect, it regains 1 round of Blastgun
ammo.
Stormhammer
-Anonymous tanker of the Bulgian Ravagers, when
The oldest known version of the
Baneblade, the Stormhammer is a Great
Crusade-era vehicle that could truly be
called a proto-Baneblade. Though its
massively armoured bulk fared well on the
well-stocked battlefields of the Crusade,
led it to become less and less effective.
An utterly monstrous superheavy vehicle,
the Stormhammer mounts the famous
Baneblade, but in a far more varied
assortment. Its primary armament is a
Stormhammer-variant Battlecannon, a
slightly longer version of the old Imperial
mainstay, but it also boasts two
conventional Battlecannons, a Lascannon,
and up to 7 Multilasers by default. Though
superb when engaging multiple targets, the
Stormhammer suffers compared to the
Baneblade in frontal attacks, for its weapon
systems are spread across its hull and it is
incapable of bringing all of them to bear
against a single target. Conditions within a
cramped, and it is often ergonomic rather
than tactical concerns which are cited when
they are replaced in Munitorum depots.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 6m
Cruising Speed: 24kph
Manoeuvrability: -30
Structural Integrity: 120
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Size: Monumental
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Improved Command and
Control, Damage Control, Enclosed,
Environmentally Sealed, Large
Superstructure, Ponderous, Reinforced
Armour, Super-Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 9
Gunners (Stormhammer
Cannon/Battlecannons/Lascannon/Sponso
ns), 3 Loaders (Stormhammer, 2
Battlecannons), Vox Operator, Techpriest
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Turret-Mounted Stormhammer Cannon
(800m | S/ / | 4d10+10 X | Pen 10 | Clip 8 |
Reload 3 Full | Blast (10), Concussive
(3), Reliable)
Coaxial Hull-Mounted Multilaser (Range
150m | -/-/5 | 2d10 + 10 E | Pen 2 | Clip 100 |
Reload Full | Reliable)
Turret-Mounted Twin-Linked
Battlecannons (750m | S/ / | 3d10+10 X |
Pen 8 | Clip 12 | Reload 3 Full | Blast (10),
Concussive (3), Reliable, Twin-Linked)
Hull-Mounted Lascannon (Front Facing)
(300m | S/-/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 |
Reload 2 Full | Proven (3))
6x Hull-Mounted Sponson Multilasers (3
Left Facing/3 Right Facing) (Range 150m |
-/-/5 | 2d10 + 10 E | Pen 2 | Clip 100 | Reload
Full | Reliable)
Options:
Some newer Stormhammers replace the
main turret with a dual Battle Cannon
mount not unlike the one found on the
Macharius. A Stormhammer with this
option loses its Stormhammer Cannon and
coaxial Multilaser, replacing them with
another pair of Turret-Mounted Twin-
Linked Battlecannons. It also gains one
extra Loader on its crew.
designed to be easily customizeable to fit
any combat scenario. Any or all of the
be replaced with any combination of the
following:
Heavy Bolter (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5
| Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Lascannon (300m | S/-/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen
10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2 Full | Proven (3))
Heavy Flamer (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E | Pen 4
| Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame, Spray)
Certain extremely rare variants, thought to
be the oldest of the bunch, lacked the
Multilasers entirely, instead bristling with 4
twin-linked Heavy Bolter turrets on each
side:
Turret-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Bolters (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip
60 | Reload Full | Tearing, Twin-Linked)
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A Stormhammer with this option gains 2
more Gunners on its crew, but reduces its
Tactical Speed to 3m. The turrets cannot
fire through each other, and cannot fire
across the body of the tank.
A Stormhammer may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
primary turret.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Distributed Weapons:
massively overburdened hull is similar to
on its weapons are significantly different.
Its primary turret has a full 360-degree field
of fire, while the twin Battlecannon turret
can only fire over a 180-degree arc centered
on the front of the vehicle. The frontmost
side sponson on each side can fire in a 45-
degree arc towards the front of the vehicle,
while the middle sponson fires in an arc
away from the body of the vehicle and the
rear one fires in an arc towards the rear of
the vehicle. This may mean that two
sponsons are unable to hit the same target,
philosophy is MORE SPONSONS.
Conditions
within a Stormhammer are, needless to say,
more than a little cramped. Any crew
damage caused by a Critical Hit to a
Stormhammer increases by 3, and any
crewmember trying to exit the
Stormhammer under any form of duress
(personal injury, vehicle damaged/under
fire, bad weather outside, etc) must first
pass a Challenging (+0) Agility Test or be
winding internal passages for one Full
Action.
Truly Ancient: There is no such thing as a
any Techpriest lucky enough to be assigned
to one knows that they have to step up their
Vehicle Trait counts against Righteous
Fury rolls and all Tests to put out fires
onboard gain a +20 bonus. If the
Techpriest assigned to a Stormhammer is a
Player Character, they count as having the
Obsession Mental Disorder, with the
subject of their Obsession being the
Stormhammer itself.

back to the 31st millennium. A

(Imperial Guard, Space Marines,

Ecclesiarchy, Adeptus Mechanicus) Talent
so long as they are operating in or on their
vehicle. A Stormhammer always has the
Artificier Hull upgrade.

Superior Technoarcana: The internal self-

repair systems of a Stormhammer are a
miracle of long-forgotten technology, and

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Gorgon Chassis
Gorgon Assault Transport
-Common Cadian saying
Seldom seen anywhere but the final
moments of Imperial sieges or trench
assaults, the Gorgon is a dedicated assault
vehicle designed to transport a large body
of soldiers to a target, and very little else.
One of the largest amphibious vehicles
available to the Imperium, and quite speedy
given their size, they possess tremendous
terrain crossing capability, a thick frontal
hull, and an open-topped troop bay with
enough space for 50 people. Though they
do well in the task of sprinting across
hostile terrain towards an attack target,
their unsealed hull and relatively poor
armament make them somewhat
overspecialized.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 10m
Cruising Speed: 29kph
Manoeuvrability: -20
Structural Integrity: 100
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear
Vehicle Traits: Amphibious, Enhanced
Motive Systems, Open-Topped,
Ponderous, Superheavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Driver, 2 Gunners (Stubbers,
Sponsons)
Carrying Capacity: 50 Guardsmen plus
light gear, or 4 Cyclops and operators
Weapons:
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2 Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Stubbers (Front Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10
+ 4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 400 | Reload 2 Full |
Twin-Linked)
4 Sponson-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Stubbers (Left Facing/Right Facing) (100m
| -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 400 | Reload
2 Full | Twin-Linked)
Options:
A Gorgon may replace its sponson weapons
with any of the following:
4 Sponson-Mounted Heavy Bolters (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing)
4 Sponson-Mounted Heavy Flamers (30m |
S/ / | 1d10+5 E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2
Full | Flame, Spray)
2 Fixed Twin-Linked Mortars (50-300m |
S/-/- | Clip 2 | Reload Full | Indirect (2),
Inaccurate, Twin-Linked)
The Mortars may be loaded with any
combination of standard Mortar Rounds
from p. 183 of the Only War Core
Rulebook.
Special Rules:
Taller than Most: While the Gorgon has the
Open-Topped trait, the vehicle is so tall
that only Indirect or Thrown weapons can
target its occupants normally. Weapons that
do not have Indirect and are not Thrown,
such as lasguns, autoguns and other
weapons, require that the attacker be on
Higher Ground (see p.253 of the Only War
Core Rulebook).
Assault Ramp: The huge frontal plate of the
Twin-Linked Stubber Gunners can choose
s sponson guns
on their turn instead of their Stubber,
regardless of which of the two Stubber
mounts they are currently using.

dropped in seconds to disgorge the troops

within. It also has the added bonus of
ensuring that troops leaving its hull have a
solid
step on any wayward land mines or hungry
burrowing Tyranids. The first turn after an
allied character disembarks off the front of
a Gorgon, they cannot take damage from
landmines or floor-based traps. On any
turn where troops have left a Gorgon, its
front Armour is reduced to 10.

Remote Sponsons: The side sponsons on a

Gorgon are remote-controlled by the

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Stheno Mobile Blockhouse
-Lady Sun Nishizumi, Ruminations on
Panzerfahren
It is unsurprising that someone would try
and find another use for the Gorgon-
waste, after all. The Techpriests of Stheno
looked at the Gorgon, looked at the
frequent naval raids that Ork Freebootas
launched on their watery homeworld, and
decided to turn the Gorgon into a
beachhead machine. They achieved this by
the simple expedient of enclosing a
combination Demolisher Cannon,
Autocannon and heavy bolter mount on a
deployable turret just inside the original
The newly-
could close rapidly with an enemy on land
or sea, use hydraulic rams to firmly anchor
itself to the shore, and then begin pouring
accurate short-ranged covering fire into an
enemy as proper Gorgons deploy troops. In
order to account for the huge weight of
such weapons, the Stheno deletes the side
sponsons of the original vehicle, and thus
most of its weapons cannot be used until it
is immobile and deployed. Unfortunately,
turning an already-overspecialized vehicle
into an even more purpose-built variant
was, to put it simply, a terrible idea, and
active Sthenos are few and far between.
Still, some see use in their original role as
assault vehicles, while others are preferred
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as a sort of heavy Leman Russ Demolisher,
much better able to smash their way
through obstructions than their smaller kin.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 10m
Cruising Speed: 29kph
Manoeuvrability: -20
Structural Integrity: 100
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear
Vehicle Traits: Amphibious, Enclosed,
Enhanced Motive Systems, Ponderous,
Superheavy, Tracked Vehicle
Carrying Capacity: 0
Crew: 1 x Commander, 1 x Driver, 4 x
Gunners (Twin-Linked Heavy Stubbers,
Demolisher Cannon, Autocannon Turret),
2 x Loaders (Demolisher Cannon,
Autocannon)
Weapons:
2 Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Stubbers (Front Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10
+ 4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 400 | Reload 2 Full |
Twin-Linked)
Options:
Some Sthenos optimized for longer-range
engagements trade off their Demolisher
Cannon (see below) for a pair of lighter,
low-recoil Conqueror Cannons mounted
side-by side. This option adds one extra
Turret-Mounted Twin-Linked Conqueror
Cannons (Range 500m | S/2/- | 3d10 + 8 X |
Pen 7 | Clip 12 | Reload 3 Full | Blast (5), Repacking a Stheno requires another Full
Concussive (1), Reliable, Twin-Linked) Action- at any time while it is being
deployed or packed, none of its weapons
Special Rules: save its Heavy Stubbers can be used.

Deployable Turret: The Stheno is effectively Ground-Lock:

the transport platform for an immobile dual elements are designed to be collapsible,
turret mounting a Demolisher Cannon, a
coaxial Heavy Bolter, and a pair of with the ground, and the addition of
Autocannons in an anti-air/anti-ground hydraulic rams along the outside of the
mount. This versatile weapon combination tracks let it partially dig in and brace itself
can be quickly deployed from an immobile against whatever is beneath it. When it is
Stheno, turning it into a powerful deployed and gains Immobile, a Stheno
stationary defensive strongpoint. crushes any uneven or Difficult Terrain
beneath it, making that
As a Full Action, a Stheno can deploy its standard. Furthermore, it halves incoming
weapon systems and anchor itself to the damage from enemy Ram attacks while
ground. It gains the Immobile, Reinforced immobile.
Armour and Anti-Air (Rudimentary)
Vehicle traits, and deploys a frontal turret.
The Demolisher cannon has a 225-degree
field of fire centered on the front of the
vehicle, while the Autocannons can fire in a
full circle, though they cannot fire back on
the body of the tank itself.

Turret-Mounted Demolisher Cannon (50m

| S/ / | 4d10+20 X | Pen 10 | Clip 2 | Reload
Full | Blast (10), Concussive (3))

Coaxial Heavy Bolter (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8

X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)

Turret-Mounted Twin-Linked
Autocannon (300m | S/3/- | 3d10 + 8 I | Pen 6
| Clip 100 | Reload 4 Full | Reliable, Twin-
Linked)

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Euryale Swarm Platform
which can deposit a hand grenade in
bed while they sleep-
-Architectus Magnus Eleamon Euryale
The Euryale is one of the pinnacles of
Imperial combat robotics, a drone control
platform which, though it cannot match the
elegance of Tau designs, is a capable
combatant and super terror weapon. The
vehicle's primary armament is a launch
platform for small 'Barrage Drones',
stripped-down servo skulls designed to
deliver small explosive payloads (usually
hand grenades) to a target with extreme
accuracy.
Barrage Drones can slip through doors,
hover down the length of trenches, and
generally insinuate themselves in places
where no enemy would ever want to find a
live hand grenade, and it is this furtiveness
that makes them so frightening. The
battlefield around a Euryale, to the
unobservant foes, seems to explode on its
own, and the blasts of the vehicle's weapons
have a knack for appearing from surprising
angles and totally bypassing cover. The
Euryale's cavernous hull not only
incorporates charging and maintenance
facilities for these machines, but also a
cogitator-controlled technomatic forge
that can slowly but steadily produce more
in combat to deal with losses.
A smaller secondary bay contains a set of
Interdiction Drones, military-grade servo-
skulls armed with compact Lascarbines.
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Though their networked intelligence is not
strong enough to allow them to hunt down
enemy units on the move, they can be set to
patrol or guard key battlefield locations,
acting as effecting and inexpensive anti-
personnel turrets. What a Euryale's inbuilt
sponson weapons or Barrage Drones won't
cut down, its Interdiction Drones
frequently will.
An ancient variant on the Gorgon, the
Euryale was mostly forgotten until the mad
scrum that was the Damocles Gulf Crusade
reminded the wider Imperium of the power
of unmanned combat platforms. Dozens of
mouldering Euryales were pulled out of
storage across Munitorum depot worlds,
and restored to working order posthaste. It
was then, unfortunately, that the vehicle's
intended operators encountered another
issue- no one outside the Mechanicus
actually knew how to use a Euryale, and the
Martian Techpriests were reluctant to issue
semi-independent robotics weapons to the
untrained novices of the Militarum.
Centuries of heel-dragging have ensured
that, even though the Imperium is
reasonably well-supplies with functional
Euryales, there are very few in actual active
service.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 10m
Cruising Speed: 29kph
Manoeuvrability: -20
Structural Integrity: 100
Size: Monumental (9)
Armour: Front 45, Side 38, Rear
Vehicle Traits: Amphibious, Enhanced
Motive Systems, Enclosed, Ponderous,
Superheavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Driver, 1 Commander, 4 Gunners
(Sponsons), 3 Techpriests
Carrying Capacity: 0
Weapons:
4 Sponson-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Stubbers (2 Left Facing/ 2 Right Facing)
(100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 400 |
Reload 2 Full | Twin-Linked)
Options:
A Gorgon may replace its sponson weapons
with any of the following:
4 Sponson-Mounted Heavy Bolters (150m |
-/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload
Full | Tearing)
4 Sponson-Mounted Heavy Flamers (30m |
S/ / | 1d10+5 E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2
Full | Flame, Spray)
2 Fixed Twin-Linked Mortars (50-300m |
S/-/- | Clip 2 | Reload Full | Indirect (2),
Inaccurate, Twin-Linked)
The Mortars may be loaded with any
combination of standard Mortar Rounds
from p. 183 of the Only War Core
Rulebook.
Special Rules
Saturation Bombing: Once per Round, this
vehicle may launch a group of up to 10
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Barrage Drones to drop small explosives
with pinpoint accuracy. The vehicle's
Commander may select up to 10 targets
within 20m of the vehicle and roll a Hard (-
20) Tech-Use or Difficult (-10) Ballistic
Skill Test. A Barrage Drone will then drop
an explosive (a Frag Grenade, Krak
Grenade or Fire Bomb) at the indicated
point, with the explosive scattering 1m (with
the direction individually determined for
each explosive) for every 2 Degrees of
Failure on the original Test.
Any character within 5m of the impact point
of a Saturation Bombing attack may make a
Very Hard (-30) Ballistic Skill Test as a
Reaction to shoot a drone out of the air.
The explosive scatters with a distance equal
to twice the character's Degrees of Success
on their Test. A Euryale Swarm Platform
maintains an active stock of 100 drones,
which can be replenished at a rate of 1/hour
in the field, provided sufficient raw
materials are available.
A Saturation Bombing attack can be
launched over ranges greater than 20m- in
theory, the Barrage Drones have an
independent payload/return range of up to
1km. For every increment of 20m greater
than the first that a Barrage Drone flies, it
takes an extra Round to reach its
destination. (Aim for a target 60m away?
Drone takes 3 rounds to get there). While in
flight, a drone can be recalled, in which case
it will take an equal number of Rounds to
return as it took to reach its current
location. Up to 50 drones can be active at a
time, and once a Drone has returned to the
vehicle it takes 2 Rounds for it to recharge
and rearm with a new grenade.
Interdiction Drones: A Euryale also includes a
distributed cogitator targeting network
slaved to a series of 25 larger servo-drones,
which can be deployed as stationary sentries
to keep targets pinned. Instead of passing a
Hard (-20) Tech-Use or Ballistic Skill test
to launch Saturation Bombing, the vehicle's
commander may make the same Test to
launch up to five Interdiction Drones to
any point within 20m of the vehicle's hull.
These drones follow the same range rules as
Saturation Bombing.
The drones have a base Ballistic Skill of 35,
an Agility of 30, a Toughness of 20, 5
Wounds, and the Machine (2) and Size (2)
(Puny) Traits. They are armed with a
Lascarbine and increase their Ballistic Skill
by 2 for every Degree of Success the
vehicle's Commander got on the initial test.
The drones spend each Round entering
Overwatch over a 90-degree field of fire
determined by the vehicle's commander,
and will always fire Semi-Auto Bursts. They
will remain in place until destroyed,
recalled, or until they run out of ammo-
whichever happens first. Up to 25
Interdiction Drones can be deployed
simultaneously, but they cannot be
constructed in the field.
Sacrificial Barrage: An emergency expedient
often frowned upon by trained Euryale
operators, this technique involves simply
hurling dozens of Barrage Drones at a
target until it is battered into submission.
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When their grav engines are overloaded,
the drones can move at great speed and hit
quite accurately as they can correct their
trajectory in flight. Unfortunately, doing
so entails the loss of the drones themselves,
and it takes time to rebuild.
When used in this mode, a Euryale gains
the following 'weapon':
Turret-Mounted Drone Launcher (40m | -
/-/10 | 1d10 + 6 I | Pen 2 | Blast (1),
Concussion (0)).
Every time a Sacrificial Barrage is used, it
consumes 10 of the Euryale's Barrage
Drones
Drone Airlift: As a Full Action, the vehicle's
Commander may make a Challenging (+0)
Tech-Use Test to order the vehicle's
Barrage Drones to lift and carry small
objects. Any number of drones may be
deployed in each way, and each can carry up
to 3kg of weight at a time. Any Servo-drone
carrying a weight in this manner cannot be
used to make Saturation Bombing or
Sacrificial Barrage attacks. The drones
cannot travel further than 500m from the
Euryale, and they cannot do any form of
fine or gross manipulation of objects, other
than carrying them. Drones can work
together to carry larger objects.
Crassus Chassis
Crassus Assault Transport
THE CRASSUS! HA HA HA H-
-Vox chatter, Cadian forces on Betalis III
A powerful, safe and reliable 'battle taxi',
the Crassus is a true up-and-comer in the
Imperial armour. Though often mocked for
its high profile and lumpy forward hull, its
somewhat unusual front-mounted engine,
and the size of that engine, makes it a
surprisingly fast and manoeuvrable vehicle
for its size. Though less effective in open
assaults than vehicles like the Gorgon, its
rear exit and heavy frontal armament allow
it to be used in a role not dissimilar to that
of a larger, heavier Chimera.
Many have noted that a great deal of the
common vehicular designs from the
notorious 'reclaimed' Forge World Zhao-
Arkkad are based on elements of the
Crassus, and rumours of tech-heresy or
traitorous origins have surrounded it since
its adoption into the wider Imperium. Still,
the Guardsmen who drive and ride in them
like them well, and they have acquired a
good reputation amongst the common
soldiery as a result.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 15m
Cruising Speed: 40kph
Manoeuvrability: -10
Structural Integrity: 80
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 40, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Enhanced Motive Systems,
Enclosed, Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
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Crew: 1 Driver, 4 Gunners (Sponsons)
Carrying Capacity: 35 Guardsmen plus
light gear, or 2 Cyclopes plus operators
Weapons:
4 Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (2 Front
Facing, 2 Left/Right Facing in Sponsons)
(150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 |
Reload Full | Tearing)
Options:
A Crassus may replace its sponson Bolters
or hull Bolters (or both) with the following:
2 Hull-Mounted Autocannons (Front
Facing or Side Facing) (300m | S/3/ | 3d10+8
I | Pen 6 | Clip 40 | Reload 2 Full | Reliable)
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Front
Facing or Side Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5
E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
2 Hull-Mounted Lascannons (Front Facing
or Side Facing) (300m | S/-/- | 5d10 + 10 E |
Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2 Full | Proven (3))
The Crassus may take one of the following
Pintle-mounted weapons atop its hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules: line of sight of an operational or largely
undamaged allied Crassus can reroll failed
The primary embarkation/disembarkation Fear Tests.
point on a Crassus is a large hatch on the
rear of its hull, though troops can climb
through the commander's cupola in a pinch.
Doing so does leave them exposed,
however.

Defender of the Trenchman: The Crassus is a

well-known symbol of Imperial might to
many trench regiments, especially those of
the Segmentum Pacificus, and few can deny
the comfort that the sight of its boxy hull
coming over the horizon brings. Whether
it's carrying reinforcements or getting
guardsmen off the battlefield, a Crassus is
always welcome. Any soldiers from a Siege
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Praetor Assault Launcher
-Motto of the Fonbron Rocket Artillery Corps
Last used in M35 during the Tellarite Wars,
the Praetor's semi-heretekal origins (it was
famously 'recovered' from the formerly-
secessionist Forge World Zhao-Arkkad)
have not stopped it from being adopted as
the Imperium's premiere heavy missile
launcher. Used all across the Segmentum
Pacificus, the Praetor is a versatile missile
platform capable of accurate long-range
fire against vehicles, infantry,
emplacements and aircraft.
Significantly tougher and faster than the
much smaller Manticore, the Praetor's
enclosed 'pop-up' missile launcher keeps its
payload protected until the moment of
firing. The vehicle's only real limiting
factor is the relatively small size of the
Praetor-class missiles. Though they hit
more consistently than Manticore missiles,
they simply do not carry the same
destructive firepower.
The Praetor has not totally eclipsed the
Manticore for the simple reason that it is
significantly more difficult to produce- the
data-loom and cogitation systems needed
to manage the firing and aiming of 13 large
missiles are necessarily complicated and
difficult to operate. For this reason, Praetor
crews are often significantly better-
educated by the Mechanicus than the crews
of other Imperial artillery vehicles.
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Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 15m
Cruising Speed: 40kph
Manoeuvrability: -10
Structural Integrity: 80
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 40, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Anti-Air (Rudimentary),
Enhanced Motive Systems, Enclosed,
Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Driver, 2 Gunners (Sponsons)
Carrying Capacity: 0
Weapons:
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (2 Front
Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip
60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Fixed Praetor Heavy Assault Launcher
(Front Facting) (5km| S/2/4 | Clip 13 |
Reload - | Indirect (2))
A Praetor Launcher may be loaded with
one of the following:
Foehammer Missile (3d10 + 12 X | Pen 14 |
Blast (10 + 1d5), Concussive (2), Accurate)
Firestorm Missile (3d10 + 15 E | Pen 4 | Blast
(15 + 1d5), Concussive (2), Flame)
Pilum Missile (3d10 + 12 X | 14 | Proven (5),
Accurate) When firing Pilums, the Praetor
gains the Anti-Air (Advanced) Vehicle Trait
Options:
A Praetor may replace its hull Bolters with
the following:
2 Hull-Mounted Autocannons (300m | S/3/
| 3d10+8 I | Pen 6 | Clip 40 | Reload 2 Full |
Reliable)
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Flamers (30m | S/ /
| 1d10+5 E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full |
Flame, Spray)
2 Hull-Mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-/- |
5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2 Full
| Proven (3))
The Praetor may take one of the following
Pintle-mounted weapons atop its hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
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Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Popup Launcher: The Praetor is generally
well protected, but its exposed missiles are
vulnerable at the moment of firing. A
Praetor gains the Extremely Volatile
Vehicle Trait on any Round in which it has
already fired at least one of its missiles.
Reloading a Praetor requires several hours'
work and a variety of heavy-lifting
equipment, and is generally done off the
battlefield in protected supply depots. In
in-game time, loading a single missile into a
Praetor requires 12 Full Actions.
Skykiller Network: Praetor systems can
effectively network with each other,
sharing basic firing solutions and targeting
data. At the GM's discretion, a Praetor can
gain the Command and Control Vehicle
Trait.
Dominus Armoured Siege Bombard
re just an iron tomb/and
when I think of you/my heart goes BOOM BOOM
-Popular song amongst Pintaxian armoured troops
A specialized assault artillery vehicle, the
Dominus is designed to accompany mobile
armoured formations while simultaneously
providing accurate artillery suppression on
the move. Unfortunately, the Imperium
being what it is, they gave the Dominus an
absurdly oversized Triple Bombard weapon
that taxes its suspension and balance to the
limits.
automated
loading system gives it a truly frightening
rate of fire, and it is accurate enough to
engage targets while the Dominus is
moving. In practice, it is a top-heavy
magnet for incoming fire, and
unsurprisingly unpopular with its crews. It
is not without justification that some call
on one is often considered a one-way ticket
to an early grave.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 12m
Cruising Speed: 38kph
Manoeuvrability: -10
Structural Integrity: 80
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 40, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Large
Superstructure, Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Driver, 3 Gunners (Sponsons,
Triple Bombard)
Carrying Capacity: None
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Weapons:
Fixed Triple Bombard (Front Facing) (1km |
S/2/3 | 4d10 + 10 X | Pen 4 | Clip 15 | Full |
Blast (5 + 1d10), Concussive (3), Indirect (4)
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (2 Front
Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip
60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Options:
A Dominus may replace its hull Bolters with
the following:
2 Hull-Mounted Autocannons (300m | S/3/
| 3d10+8 I | Pen 6 | Clip 40 | Reload 2 Full |
Reliable)
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Flamers (30m | S/ /
| 1d10+5 E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full |
Flame, Spray)
2 Hull-Mounted Lascannons (300m | S/-/- |
5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2 Full
| Proven (3))
The Dominus may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Triple Bombard:
weapon is a miracle of autoloading systems,
and would be much more respected if it
enemy fire. Reloading the Triple Bombard
takes several hours of work and cannot be
accomplished reasonably in combat
conditions.
Gun Stabilization: The Dominus suffers no
accuracy penalties due to movement.
Iron Tomb: An aura of doom seems to
pervade the Dominus and its crew.
Logically, it might simply be because
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job, but some whisper that the entire
platform is somehow cursed. The kind of
people who willingly crew a Dominus are a
devout, intense bunch, who lead very short
lives. The crew of a Dominus can reroll
failed Fear tests, but are unable to burn
Fate to avoid dying while they are inside
their vehicle.
Overstressed Suspension: The vast weight of
the Triple Bombard means most of the
structural elements of its suspension are just
-breadth away from failing at any
time. Whenever a Dominus would suffer
Critical Damage to its suspension, increase
the value of the damage by +1.
Crassus Rex Shock Tank
-Marshal Karis Venner, upon being presented with a
battlion of Crassus Rexes for field testing
Thrown together in desperation by the
Magii of Kruzibel in the Ultima
Segmentum, the Crassus Rex was a
desperate attempt to stem the endless tide
of Tyranid attacks on that world near the
height of the Second Tyrannic War.
Kruzibel was primarily a producer of
Imperial Knights, and had the misfortune
to find themselves attacked by Hive Fleet
Kraken immediately after moving most of
their stock of materiel offworld for use
elsewhere.
Cobbled together from partially-finished
Crassus transports and spare parts from
power generator connected directly to a
Lightning Cannon and a low-intensity Ion
Field generator in its rear hull. With its
gearbox reversed, it could move backwards
into combat at high speeds, dispatching
foes with the Lightning cannon and
receiving protection from the Ion Field,
but still have adequate side and rear
weaponry to keep Tyranids off it.
Though the Rex was a great success on
Kruzibel, and indeed many Rexes were
taken offworld when the Kruzibellans
evacuated their home planet, the design was
unpopular elsewhere, with many
Techpriests seeing it as a borderline-
blasphemous corruption of the form of the
Knight Titan. A few Forge Worlds
populated by expatriate Kruzibellans still
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manufacture Rexes, but they do not appear
to be destined for glory.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 15m
Cruising Speed: 40kph
Manoeuvrability: -10
Structural Integrity: 80
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 40, Side 38, Rear 30
Vehicle Traits: Enhanced Motive Systems,
Enclosed, Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Driver, 1 Commander, 1
Techpriest, 5 Gunners (Lightning Cannon,
Sponsons)
Carrying Capacity: None
Weapons:
Hull-Mounted Lightning Cannon (Rear
Facing) (750m | S/-/- | 6d10 + 20 E | Pen 5 |
Clip 1 | Reload 3 Full | Flash (1), Haywire
(2), Shocking)
4 Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (2 Front
Facing, 2 Left/Right Facing in
Sponsons)(150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 |
Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Options:
A Rex may replace its sponson Bolters or
hull Bolters (or both) with the following:
2 Hull-Mounted Autocannons (Front
Facing or Side Facing) (300m | S/3/ | 3d10+8
I | Pen 6 | Clip 40 | Reload 2 Full | Reliable)
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Front
Facing or Side Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5
E | Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
2 Hull-Mounted Lascannons (Front Facing
or Side Facing) (300m | S/-/- | 5d10 + 10 E |
Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2 Full | Proven (3))
The Rex may take one of the following
Pintle-mounted weapons atop its hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
energy fire, though it needs to be
attempt a Hard (-20) Tech-Use Test to
activate the Ionic Field Generator. If they
succeed, the vehicle ignores a number of
enemy attacks against its rear Facing equal
to the number of Degrees of Success on the
initial test. This effect lasts until the start of
make a Reaction or are injured during that
time the field shuts off.
If the Techpriest fails the Test, the shield
does not cycle properly and they are free to
attempt again the next Round. If they fail
by more than 3 Degrees of Failure, the field
cannot be used for 1d5 rounds.

Ionic Field: This narrowly-focused energy

field generator can intercept even high-

exactly
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Macharius Chassis
Macharius Heavy Tank
-Magos Nalax of Lucius, rediscoverer of the
Macharius blueprint
The classic 'second-generation' Imperial
superheavy tank, the vehicle which came to
be known as the Macharius was developed
by Nalax of Lucius sometime before M39.
He sought to resurrect an ancient STC
fragment as an inexpensive, easy-to-
manufacture superheavy substitute for the
Baneblade, which could be quickly
produced by those Forgeworlds too
underdeveloped to be capable of
manufacturing Baneblades.
Though he died before the Macharius was
officially adopted, Nalax's legacy was a
tremendous success; produced on hundreds
of worlds across the Imperium, his vehicle
is, as advertised, a perfectly effective
'budget' superheavy tank. Reasonably fast,
decently armoured and quite well-armed, it
is more than capable of supplementing or
outright replacing the Baneblade, and it is
an increasingly common sight on the
battlefields of the Militarum.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 10m
Cruising Speed: 26kph
Manoeuvrability: -20
Structural Integrity: 90
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 43, Side 35, Rear 32
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Damage Control,
Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
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Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 3
Gunners (Turret weapon, 2 Sponsons), 2
Loaders (Turret weapon), Comms
Operator/Gunner (Hull Stubber)
Carrying Capacity: 0
Weapons:
Turret-Mounted Twin-Linked
Battlecannon (750m | S/ / | 3d10+10 X | Pen
8 | Clip 12 | Reload 3 Full | Blast (10),
Concussive (3), Reliable, Twin-Linked)
Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Stubber (Front Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 400 | Reload 2 Full | Twin-
Linked)
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Stubbers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 160 | Reload 2 Full)
Options:
The sponson Stubbers on a Macharius can
be swapped out for one of the following:
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Bolters (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E
| Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
A Macharius may take one of the following
Pintle-mounted weapons atop its hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)

Special Rules:

The Legacy of Nalax: Many of the standard

components of a Macharius are lifted
wholesale from other vehicles, and even a
remotely skilled repair crew will take
advantage of this cross-compatibility. All
Repair Tests on a Macharius, and all
Logistics Tests to acquire spare or upgrade
parts, gain a +10 bonus.

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Macharius Vanquisher
ithout
-Knight Commander Pask, on his brief stint in
command of a Macharius Vanquisher
Widely considered to be the finest of the
Macharius variants, the Vanquisher is also,
much like its Leman Russ-based namesake,
the rarest. Functionally identical to a classic
Macharius save a pair of Vanquisher
cannons in the turret, it is a superb tank
hunter that also boasts enough armour to
slug it out with its targets. Its large internal
ammo bays give it a great deal of room for
anti-armour shells, but also enough space
for a significant quantity of high-explosive
munitions, making it much more flexible
than a Leman Russ Vanquisher.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 10m
Cruising Speed: 26kph
Manoeuvrability: -20
Structural Integrity: 90
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 43, Side 35, Rear 32
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Damage Control,
Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 3
Gunners (Turret weapon, 2 Sponsons), 2
Loaders (Turret weapon), Comms
Operator/Gunner (Hull Stubber)
Carrying Capacity: 0
Weapons:
Turret-Mounted Twin-Linked Vanquisher
Cannon(900m | S/-/- | 3d10 + 10 X | Pen 16 |
Clip 12 | Reload 2 Full | Accurate, Twin-
Linked)
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Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Stubber (Front Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 400 | Reload 2 Full | Twin-
Linked)
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Stubbers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 160 | Reload 2 Full)
Options:
The sponson Stubbers on a Macharius
Vanquisher can be swapped out for one of
the following:
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Bolters (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E
| Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
A Macharius Vanquisher may take one of
the following Pintle-mounted weapons
atop its hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
The Legacy of Nalax: Many of the standard
components of a Macharius Vanquisher are
lifted wholesale from other vehicles, and
even a remotely skilled repair crew will take
advantage of this cross-compatibility. All
Repair Tests on a Macharius Vanquisher,
and all Logistics Tests to acquire spare or
upgrade parts, gain a +10 bonus.
Macharius Vanquisher crews, knowing that
their vehicles have the space to carry that
much ammo, take great advantage of this
fact. The crew of a Macharius Vanquisher
gain a +10 bonus to any Logistics Tests to
acquire special-purpose shells for their
vehicle, as listed on p. 194 of the Only War
Core Rulebook.

Precision Instruments: The Vanquisher

Cannons on this vehicle gain the bonus
damage from the Accurate quality.

Versatile Loadout: Very few crews manning

Vanquisher cannons of any description
make much use of the high-ex or
specialized rounds for their weapons.

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Macharius Vulcan
-Final transmission of the Zikran 39th
The logical extension of the grand Imperial
tradition of hopelessly overgunned anti-
infantry vehicles, the Vulcan fits the Mega-
Bolter common to Warhound Titans and
the Stormlord, mounting it in a turret for
maximum fire flexibility.
Capable of unleashing a hurricane of
explosive firepower, the Vulcan can easily
tear its way across a battlefield, suppressing
anything it doesn't turn into pulp. Until it
runs out of ammo, anyways. Space inside a
Macharius hull is plentiful, but not infinite,
and Heavy Bolter rounds are, for lack of a
better word, pretty hefty. A fully-equipped
Vulcan, then, only holds enough rounds for
about 20 seconds of sustained fire before it
runs empty. Though they can be relatively
easily reloaded from within the hull, the
lack of space for a dedicated loader on the
crew (that spot is occupied by the feed
systems for the Mega-Bolter) makes it a
tedious process.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 10m
Cruising Speed: 26kph
Manoeuvrability: -20
Structural Integrity: 90
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 43, Side 35, Rear 32
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Damage Control,
Heavy, Tracked Vehicle
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Crew: 1 Commander (Turret), 1 Driver, 3
Gunners (Turret weapon, 2 Sponsons),
Comms Operator/Gunner (Hull Stubber)
Carrying Capacity: 0
Weapons:
Turret-Mounted Vulcan Mega-Bolter
(500m | -/-/20 | 3d10 + 5 X | Pen 6 | Clip 160 |
Reload 4 Full | Storm, Tearing)
Hull-Mounted Twin-Linked Heavy
Stubber (Front Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 400 | Reload 2 Full | Twin-
Linked)
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Stubbers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 160 | Reload 2 Full)
Options:
The sponson Stubbers on a Macharius
Vulcan can be swapped out for one of the
following:
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Bolters (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E
| Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
A Macharius Vulcan may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
The Legacy of Nalax: Many of the standard
components of a Macharius Vulcan are
lifted wholesale from other vehicles, and
even a remotely skilled repair crew will take
advantage of this cross-compatibility. All
Repair Tests on a Macharius Vulcan, and all
Logistics Tests to acquire spare or upgrade
parts, gain a +10 bonus.
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More Bullets!: The great limiter in any
Vulcan is its high rate of fire and poor
ammo capacity. By packing in as much
ammo as possible into nonessential spaces,
Vulcan crews can eke a little bit more
sustained fire. However, most vehicles do
not respond well to having every bit of
superfluous space with ammo, and the
Vulcan becomes that much more unstable as
a result. The crew of a Vulcan can choose to
increase the Clip Size of the Mega-Bolter
to 240, but doing so gives the vehicle the
Extremely Volatile Vehicle Trait.
Macharius Omega
-Anonymous Omega crewman
Stuck in development hell for centuries, the
Omega self-propelled plasma cannon is still
the subject of great Mechanicus
controversy. When Magos Explorator
Hum'nal discovered the STC for the
Omega-Pattern Plasma Blastgun in late
M39, he sparked a protracted schism over
the validity of the design.
While the Omega was quite light and
compact for a large-scale plasma weapon, it
was also dangerously unsafe even by the
standards of Imperial plasma technology,
and many still argue that the construction
of Macharius Omegas is little more than a
waste of a good tank chassis. Indeed, many
Omegas are lost to internal explosions,
overheating, or simple crew abandonment,
and they are rare on Imperial battlefields
despite the vast amount of resources the
Munitorum has invested in their
production.
An unfortunate side-effect of the bulky
power cells needed for the Blastgun is that
the Omega lacks hull-mounted Heavy
Stubbers, making it a much less defensible
vehicle than the other Macharius variants.
As an advantage, however, there is enough
free space for it to mount slightly heavier
sponson guns; small comfort when one is
always on the verge of blowing up.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 10m
Cruising Speed: 26kph
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Manoeuvrability: -20
Structural Integrity: 90
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 38, Side 35, Rear 32
Vehicle Traits: Damage Control,
Extremely Volatile, Open-Topped, Heavy,
Tracked Vehicle
Crew: 1 Driver, 3 Gunners (Blastgun, 2
Sponsons), Comms Operator, Techpriest
Carrying Capacity: 0
Weapons:
Hull-Mounted Omega Plasma Blastgun
(Front Facing) (200m | S/2/- | 4d10 + 12 E |
Pen 12 | Clip 16 | Blast (8), Flash (3),
Shocking, Maximal, Unreliable)
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Stubbers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 160 | Reload 2 Full)
Options:
The sponson Stubbers on a Macharius
Omega can be swapped out for one of the
following:
Sponson-Mounted Heavy Bolters (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Sponson-Mounted Autocannons (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (300m | S/3/ | 3d10+8
I | Pen 6 | Clip 40 | Reload 2 Full | Reliable)
A Macharius Omega may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I | ignoring Armour but not Toughness. This
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full) damage has the Flame quality.

Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
The Legacy of Nalax: Many of the standard
components of a Macharius Omega are
lifted wholesale from other vehicles, and
even a remotely skilled repair crew will take
advantage of this cross-compatibility. All
Repair Tests on a Macharius Omega, and
all Logistics Tests to acquire spare or
upgrade parts, gain a +10 bonus.
Sunburst: The Omega Blastgun is
notoriously unstable, and when it melts
down it melts down hard. Whenever the
Plasma Blastgun Jams, the vehicle's
Techpriest must attempt a Hard (-20)
Tech-Use Test to properly vent excess
heat. If they pass, the vehicle takes 1
damage, ignoring armour, but the gun is
otherwise undamaged.
If they fail the test by more than 4 Degrees,
the vehicle takes 2d5 damage, catches fire,
and the Blastgun gains the Weapon
Disabled repair condition. Every member
of the crew takes 1d5+1 points of Energy
Damage to the Body, ignoring Armour but
not Toughness. This damage has the Flame
and Flash (1) quality.
Run away!: The crew of an Omega that
hasn't extensively practiced on how to get
the hell out of their vehicle at a moment's
notice won't survive very long. An Omega's
crew gains a +10 bonus to any Test to
evacuate their vehicle or put distance
between themselves and it.

If they fail the test, the

Omega takes 1d5
damage, ignoring
armour. If they fail the
test by more than 2
Degrees, the Omega
takes 1d5+1 damage, and
both the Techpriest and
the Gunner operating
the Blastgun take 1d5+1
points of Energy
Damage to the Body,

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Malcador Chassis
Malcador Heavy Tank
not mean it literally. There is only so much metal
-Lady Sun Nishizumi, Ruminations on Panzerfahren
The origins of the Malcador are lost to
time- some believe it was built during the
Great Crusade as a trench-assault or
second-line support vehicle, while others
hold that it was produced during the
Scouring as a cheap and sturdy combat
vehicle. Regardless, it is an ancient model,
which unfortunately has aged like milk.
The Malcador generally is a shoddily-
constructed vehicle, with numerous 'design
features' which reek of amateurish or hasty
construction. Poorly designed weapon
mountings greatly limit its field of fire, and
a while its advanced engine is supposed to
be quite fast, it does not hold up well with
age, making it remarkably sluggish and
prone to breakdowns. Though it carries the
armour plating of a superheavy, the
Malcador lacks the firepower or mobility to
be truly effective.
Thousands of Malcadors lie mouldering
away in Munitorum supply depots across
the Imperium, awaiting the day when they
are finally consigned to oblivion or
reactivated for one terrible, apocalyptic
End of Days.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 20kph
Cruising Speed: 8
Manoeuvrability: -25
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Structural Integrity: 85
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 42, Side 40, Rear 35
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Heavy,
Ponderous, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: Commander, Driver, 4 x Gunners
(Battlecannon, Heavy Bolter, Heavy
Stubbers), Loader (Battlecannon)
Carrying Capacity: 0
Weapons:
Turret-Mounted Battlecannon (750m | S/ /
| 3d10+10 X | Pen 8 | Clip 12 | Reload 3 Full |
Blast (10), Concussive (3), Reliable)
Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolter (Front
Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip
60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Hull-Mounted Heavy Stubbers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 160 | Reload 2 Full)
Options:
A Malcador may replace its Sponsons with
one of the following:
2 Hull-Mounted Autocannons (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (300m | S/3/ | 3d10+8
I | Pen 6 | Clip 40 | Reload 2 Full | Reliable)
2 Hull-Mounted Lascannons (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (300m | S/-/- | 5d10 +
10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2 Full |
Proven (3))
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E
| Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
A Malcador may take one of the following
Pintle-mounted weapons atop its turret.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Questionable Armament: Just about
everything about the layout of the guns on
a Malcador (save its hull weapon) is
only traverse over a 90-degree angle
centered on the Front Facing of the
vehicle, while its two
sponson weapons are
limited to the standard
45-degree cone on
either side of the
vehicle. This means that
only two of a
can be brought to bear
on a single target at a
time.
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Questionable Engines:
powerplant is a brilliant piece of
technology that has not aged well,
becoming increasingly cantankerous and
unstable with time. A Malcador increases all
Critical Damage to its Motive Systems by 1.
Despite their unreliability, on
engine functions properly it is easy to see
th millennium. Once per
combat, the Driver of a Malcador may
spend a Fate Point to cause their vehicle to
lose Ponderous, gain Enhanced Motive
Systems, double its Tactical Speed, and
increase its Maneuvrability to +10. This
ability lasts for as many Turns as the
choose to end it at any time. For each turn
this ability is active, the vehicle loses 1d10
Structural Integrity, not reduced by
Armour. When this effect ends, the
Malcador gains the Immobile Vehicle Trait
for a number of Turns equal to the number
of Turns the ability was active.
Malcador Annihilator
-Assayer Tigyus,
#46
On paper, the Annihilator is a reasonable
attempt to polish the turd that is the
standard Malcador. A simple field
expedient that has become not uncommon
amongst the few regiments that still use
Malcadors, it uses a double lascannon in its
main turret and crams an entire Demolisher
siege howitzer into its frontal hull.
Heavy weaponry goes a long way towards
justifying th
maneuverability, and few heavy weapons
can rival the consistency and reliability of
twin-linked Lascannons and a Demolisher.
The problem is, of course, that while
Lascannons and a Demolisher work well
individually, they do not work well together.
The optimum ranges at which a Demolisher
functions are, of course, much too close for
Lascannons, and vice versa.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 20kph
Cruising Speed: 8
Manoeuvrability: -25
Structural Integrity: 85
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 42, Side 40, Rear 35
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Heavy,
Ponderous, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: Commander, Driver, 4 x Gunners
(Lascannons, Demolisher, Heavy Stubbers),
Loader (Demolisher)
Carrying Capacity: 0
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Weapons:
Turret-Mounted Twin-linked Lascannons
(300m | S/-/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 60 |
Reload 2 Full | Proven (3), Twin-Linked)
Fixed Demolisher Cannon (Front Facing)
(50m | S/ / | 4d10+20 X | Pen 10 | Clip 1 |
Reload 3 Full | Blast (10), Concussive (3))
Hull-Mounted Heavy Stubbers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 160 | Reload 2 Full)
Options:
A Malcador may replace its Sponsons with
one of the following:
Hull-Mounted Autocannons (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (300m | S/3/ | 3d10+8
I | Pen 6 | Clip 40 | Reload 2 Full | Reliable)
2 Hull-Mounted Lascannons (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (300m | S/-/- | 5d10 +
10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2 Full |
Proven (3))
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E
| Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
A Malcador may take one of the following
Pintle-mounted weapons atop its turret.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Questionable Armament: Just about
everything about the layout of the guns on
a Malcador Annihilator is questionable. Its
Turret has can only traverse over a 90-
degree cone centered on the Front Facing
of the vehicle, while its two sponson
weapons are limited to the standard 45-
degree cone on either side of the vehicle.
This means that only two of an
bear on a single target at a time.
Questionable Engines: A Malcador
of technology that has not aged well,
becoming increasingly cantankerous and
unstable with time. A Malcador Annihilator
increases all Critical Damage to its Motive
Systems by 1.
Despite their
unreliability,
on the few
occasions
where a
Malcador
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engine functions properly it is easy to see
why they were classif
th millennium. Once per
combat, the Driver of a Malcador
Annihilator may spend a Fate Point to
cause their vehicle to lose Ponderous, gain
Enhanced Motive Systems, double its
Tactical Speed, and increase its
Maneuvrability to +10. This ability lasts for
Bonus, but they can choose to end it at any
time. For each turn this ability is active, the
vehicle loses 1d10 Structural Integrity, not
reduced by Armour. When this effect ends,
the Malcador Annihilator gains the
Immobile Vehicle Trait for a number of
Turns equal to the number of Turns the
ability was active.
Cramped: The hull of an Annihilator is a
terrible place to work- all the space freed
up by removing the shells and stabilization
systems for the Battlecannon are instead
replaced with a noisy, stripped-down
Demolisher cannon mount and dozens of
heavy shells. The guns crews are
particularly vulnerable to injury as a result.
Any time an Annihilator suffers Critical
Damage to its Demolisher Cannon, both
the Gunner
and Loader
assigned to
the
Demolisher
must test
Toughness
or gain 1 level
of Fatigue.
Malcador Defender
- if you can
find a sound tactical reason for lugging a wall
around a ba
- Lady Sun Nishizumi, Ruminations on Panzerfahren
The least worst of the Malcador variants,
the Defender is a limited, but quite
effective heavy breakthrough vehicle. With
its turret replaced by a casemate packing
not one, not two but five Heavy Bolters, it
can lay down effective fields of suppressing
fire long enough to bring its hull-mounted
Demolisher to bear. Though operating one
is an overheated nightmare of noise, fumes
and cramped spaces, Defenders are by
definition vehicles that cannot function
effectively without support, so battles in
them are often blessedly short.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 20kph
Cruising Speed: 8
Manoeuvrability: -25
Structural Integrity: 85
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 42, Side 40, Rear 35
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Heavy,
Ponderous, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: Commander (Operates one Heavy
Bolter), Driver (Operates Demolisher), 6 x
Gunners (Heavy Stubbers, Heavy Bolters)
Carrying Capacity: 0
Weapons:
5 Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (2 Front
Facing, 1 Left Facing, 1 Rear Facing, 1
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Right Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen
5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
Fixed Demolisher Cannon (Front Facing)
(50m | S/ / | 4d10+20 X | Pen 10 | Clip 1 |
Reload 3 Full | Blast (10), Concussive (3))
Hull-Mounted Heavy Stubbers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 160 | Reload 2 Full)
Options:
A Malcador Defender may replace its
Sponsons with one of the following:
Hull-Mounted Autocannons (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (300m | S/3/ | 3d10+8
I | Pen 6 | Clip 40 | Reload 2 Full | Reliable)
2 Hull-Mounted Lascannons (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (300m | S/-/- | 5d10 +
10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2 Full |
Proven (3))
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E
| Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
A Malcador Defender may take one of the
following Pintle-mounted weapons atop its
casemate.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Fields of Fire: The Defender is designed to
engage the maximum number of targets
simultaneously, but suffers in its ability to
front Heavy Bolters each cover a 95-dgree
field of fire, allowing them to shoot
sideways, but not backwards, or both fire
on a single target in front of the Defender.
The side Bolters and sponson weapons are
limited to the standard 45-degree cone on
either side of the vehicle. The rear Bolter
can manage a 90-degree cone of fire,
though it is positioned far back enough that
this will seldom overlap with the fields of
the side Bolters. Oof. I need a diagram.
Questionable Engines:
powerplant is a brilliant
piece of technology that
has not aged well,
becoming increasingly
cantankerous and unstable
with time. A Malcador
Defender increases all
Critical Damage to its
Motive Systems by 1.
engine functions properly it is easy to see
th millennium. Once per
combat, the Driver of a Malcador Defender
may spend a Fate Point to cause their
vehicle to lose Ponderous, gain Enhanced
Motive Systems, double its Tactical Speed,
and increase its Manoeuvrability to +10.
This ability lasts for as many Turns as the
choose to end it at any time. For each turn
this ability is active, the vehicle loses 1d10
Structural Integrity, not reduced by
Armour. When this effect ends, the
Defender gains the Immobile Vehicle Trait
for a number of Turns equal to the number
of Turns the ability was active.
Box on Tracks: The hull of an Defender is a
pretty rough place, especially when all
eight of its weapons are opening up. For
every half-hour the crew of a Defender
spends in sustained combat, each crew
member must make a Toughness Test or
gain a level of Fatigue.

Despite their
unreliability, on the few
occasions where a

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Malcador Infernus
-Captain Ash Sanser, Sujaillan Stokers Armoured
Regiment
In the triumphant and glorious history of
bad decisions by the Techpriests of Mars, a
few truly spectacular ones stand out.
giant metal dragon we found in the ancient
hell-
Gun on the hull of one of our slowest and
most cantankerous assault vehicles, then
Needless to say, every Infernus crewman in
the Imperium breathed a sigh of relief
when the Hellhound was introduced, and
most sensible regiments that still own
Infernii keep them very, very far from any
serious combat.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 20kph
Cruising Speed: 8
Manoeuvrability: -25
Structural Integrity: 85
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 42, Side 40, Rear 35
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Environmentally
Sealed, Extremely Volatile, Heavy,
Ponderous, Tracked Vehicle
Crew: Commander, Driver, 3 x Gunners
(Inferno Gun, Heavy Stubbers)
Carrying Capacity: 0
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Weapons:
Fixed Inferno Gun (Front Facing) (50m |
S/-/- | 2d10 + 15 E | Pen 8 | Clip 40 | Flame,
Spray, Reliable, Torrent)
Hull-Mounted Heavy Stubbers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 +
4 I | Pen 3 | Clip 160 | Reload 2 Full)
Options:
A Malcador may replace its Sponsons with
one of the following:
2 Hull-Mounted Autocannons (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (300m | S/3/ | 3d10+8
I | Pen 6 | Clip 40 | Reload 2 Full | Reliable)
2 Hull-Mounted Lascannons (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (300m | S/-/- | 5d10 +
10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 | Reload 2 Full |
Proven (3))
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E
| Pen 4 | Clip 20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame,
Spray)
2 Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (Left
Facing/Right Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8
X | Pen 5 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
An Infernus may take one of the following
Pintle-mounted weapons atop its hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Questionable Engines:
powerplant is a brilliant piece of
technology that has not aged well,
becoming increasingly cantankerous and
unstable with time. A Malcador Infernus
increases all Critical Damage to its Motive
Systems by 1.
Despite their unreliability, on
the few occasions where a Malcador
easy to see why they were classified as a
th millennium.
Once per combat, the Driver of a Malcador
Infernus may spend a Fate Point to cause
their vehicle to lose Ponderous, gain
Enhanced Motive Systems, double its
Tactical Speed, and increase its
Maneuvrability to +10. This ability lasts for
Bonus, but they can choose to end it at any
time. For each turn this ability is active, the
vehicle loses 1d10 Structural Integrity, not
reduced by Armour. When this effect ends,
the Malcador Infernus gains the Immobile
Vehicle Trait for a number of Turns equal
to the number of Turns the ability was
active.
If at any point while this ability is active the
Driver fails an Operate Test by more than 3
degrees, the fuel feed from the external
tank is cut, and the Inferno Gun gains the
Weapon Disabled condition.
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External Tanks:
wheeled trailer that trundles along behind
the main vehicle. This trailer (and the
Inferno Gun) cannot be reloaded in
combat. Needless to say, if this vehicle is hit
with something that might cause a spark,
Very Bad Things can happen. The trailer is
assumed to have an Armour Value of 40. If
hit with a Called Shot that would overcome
this Armour Value, or caught in an attack
with the Blast Quality that would overcome
this Armour Value, one of two things can
happen:
If the attack had the Impact or Rending Type:
Halve the current amount of ammo for the
Inferno Gun as fuel leaks out before the
fuel-tank can self-seal.
If the attack had the Energy or Blast Type:
KABOOOOM! The Infernus, and
everything within 4d10 Meters of its Rear
Facing, takes 1 point of Energy damage for
every shot that was left in the Inferno
cumulatively into a single hit with the
Flame and Concussive (1) Qualities. The
Inferno Cannon gains the Weapon
Destroyed Condition.
Mine Clearer: One of the less dangerous uses
for an Infernus is its strength as an
engineering vehicle, literally cooking away
mines or anti-infantry traps. Any traps,
mines, tripwires, poisonous plants, etc.
caught in the area of effect of an Inferno
Gun are immediately destroyed.
Chem Payload: It says a lot about the
Infernus that loading its Inferno Gun with
compressed poison actually makes it
substantially less dangerous. With this
modification in place, change the Inferno
If its fuel tank is damaged by Energy or
Blast Damage due to the External Tanks
special rule, the damage dealt is 1 point of
Impact damage per shot left in the clip,
cumulatively added, with the Toxic (2) and
Crippling (1) Qualities.

Fixed Inferno Gun (Front Facing) (20m |

S/-/- | 3d10 + 5 I | Pen 2 | Clip 40 | Toxic (2), does not apply while this modification is
Crippling (1), Spray, Reliable, Torrent) active.

If this modification is installed and the

Infernus explodes, replace the Test to catch
fire with a single hit that has the Toxic (2)
Special Quality. The gas cloud lingers for
1d5+2 rounds, and anyone who stays within
the cloud suffers another hit each Round
and gains the Suffocation Special
Damage Condition until they leave the
cloud or the cloud dissipates.

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Valdor Tank Hunter
-Eyescorcher Townes of the Steel Brethren, Valdor
commander during the Siege of Vraks
One of the most exotic tank killers in the
Imperial arsenal, the Valdor dates back to
the Scouring, and is still used in limited
numbers by the Adeptus Mechanicus and
Astra Militarum. It trades off most of the
internal space and armament of a Malcador
to mount a single gigantic Neutron Laser
Projector, a powerful directed-radiation
cannon that can melt though armour while
simultaneously causing electromagnetic
bursts that disable vehicular systems.
Though it is an absolute terror against large
and hardened targets at long range, the
Valdor must be closely protected in
combat, as its complement of defensive
weapons is mediocre.
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 20kph
Cruising Speed: 8
Manoeuvrability: -25
Structural Integrity: 85
Size: Immense (8)
Armour: Front 42, Side 40, Rear 35
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Extremely
Volatile, Heavy, Ponderous, Tracked
Vehicle
Crew: Commander, Driver, 2 x Gunners
(Neutron Laser, Heavy Stubber),
Techpriest
Carrying Capacity: 0
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Weapons:
Fixed Neutron Laser Projector (Front
Facing) (500 | S/-/- | 4d10 + 8 E | Pen 6 | Clip
10 | Reload 2 Full | Flash (2), Lance,
Recharge, Haywire (3))
Hull-Mounted Heavy Stubber (Right
Facing) (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I | Pen 3 |
Clip 160 | Reload 2 Full)
Options:
A Valdor may replace its Sponson with one
of the following:
Hull-Mounted Autocannons (Right
Facing) (300m | S/3/ | 3d10+8 I | Pen 6 | Clip
40 | Reload 2 Full | Reliable)
Hull-Mounted Lascannons (Right Facing)
(300m | S/-/- | 5d10 + 10 E | Pen 10 | Clip 30 |
Reload 2 Full | Proven (3))
Hull-Mounted Heavy Flamers (Right
Facing) (30m | S/ / | 1d10+5 E | Pen 4 | Clip
20 | Reload 2 Full | Flame, Spray)
Hull-Mounted Heavy Bolters (Right
Facing) (150m | -/-/6 | 1d10+8 X | Pen 5 | Clip
60 | Reload Full | Tearing)
A Valdor may take one of the following
Pintle-mounted weapons atop its hull.
Heavy Stubber (100m | -/-/8 | 1d10 + 4 I |
Pen 3 | Clip 80 | Reload 2 Full)
Storm Bolter (90m | S/2/4 | 1d10 + 5 X | Pen
4 | Clip 60 | Reload Full | Storm, Tearing)
Special Rules:
Neutron Blast: Through poorly understood
Neutron Laser can induce catastrophic
radiation effects in soft targets. If it misses,
however, its internal systems can cause
catastrophic feedback. When firing at non-
loses Lance and gains Rad-Phage.
than 3 Degrees of Failure on a Ballistics
Test to hit a target, the vehicle takes 1d5+1
points of damage, ignoring Armour, and its
Neutron Laser cannot be fired for 3
Rounds.
Inadequate Shielding: Though a Neutron
Laser is relatively compact given its massive
output, fitting it on a Malcador chassis
requires sacrificing a great deal of reactor
shielding, with unfortunate long-term
results for the crew. Any time a Valdor
crewman spends more than 8 hours
continuously in the hull of their vehicle
while it is active, they must test Toughness
or permanently reduce their Toughness
by 1d5. All Valdor crewmen receive a -10
penalty to any tests to resist Mutation
effects.
Questionable Engines:
powerplant is a brilliant piece of
technology that has not aged well,
becoming increasingly cantankerous and
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unstable with time. A Valdor increases all
Critical Damage to its Motive Systems by 1.
n the few occasions where a
thmillennium.
Once per combat, the Driver of a Valdor
may spend a Fate Point to cause their
vehicle to lose Ponderous, gain Enhanced
Motive Systems, double its Tactical Speed,
and increase its Maneuvrability to +10. This
ability lasts for as many Turns as the
choose to end it at any time. For each turn
this ability is active, the vehicle loses 1d10
Structural Integrity, not reduced by
Armour. When this effect ends, the Valdor
gains the Immobile Vehicle Trait for a
number of Turns equal to the number of
Turns the ability was active.
Truly Ancient: There is no such thing as a
Guard regiments maintain them in service.
Guard, Adeptus Mechanicus) Talent so
long as they are operating in or on their
vehicle. A Valdor always has the Artificier
Hull upgrade.
Dracosan Armoured Transport
Options:

what you can count on A Dracosan may replace its Lascannons

-Archmagos Durendelle, during the Great Crusade
One of the primary transports of the
Imperial Army used during the Great
Crusade and the Horus Heresy, the
Dracosan was a simple, sturdy and generally
high-quality assault vehicle. Sharing many
components with the later Malcador,
especially suspension and frontal hull
elements, it is nonetheless an almost
entirely different machine, and lacks the
severe engine issues of the newer Malcador.
Obviously rare amongst the Imperial
Guard, the few remaining Dracosans are
only used in dire emergencies, treated as
museum pieces or sacred relics when they
are not in action.
with a Demolisher Cannon, though doing
so reduces its Transport Capacity by 5 and
adds a Loader to the Crew.
Fixed Demolisher Cannon (Front Facing)
(50m | S/ / | 4d10+20 X | Pen 10 | Clip 1 |
Reload 3 Full | Blast (10), Concussive (3))
A Dracosan may also take a Pintle-mounted
Multilaser, adding one extra Gunner to its
crew.
Pintle-Mounted Multilaser (Range 150m | -
/-/5 | 2d10 + 10 E | Pen 2 | Clip 100 | Reload
Full | Reliable)

Special Rules:
Type: Tracked Vehicle
Tactical Speed: 8m Truly Ancient: There is no such thing as a
Cruising Speed: 20kph
Manoeuvrability: -20 venerable Guard regiments maintain them
Structural Integrity: 85
Size: Immense (8) (Imperial Guard, Ecclesiarchy Adeptus
Armour: Front 42, Side 40, Rear 35 Mechanicus) Talent so long as they are
Vehicle Traits: Enclosed, Heavy, Tracked operating in or on their vehicle. A Dracosan
Vehicle always has the Artificier Hull upgrade.
Crew: Driver, 1 x Gunner (Lascannons)
Carrying Capacity: 20 Guardsmen with
light gear
Weapons:

Hull-Mounted Twin-linked Lascannons (

Front Facing) (300m | S/-/- | 5d10 + 10 E |
Pen 10 | Clip 60 | Reload 2 Full | Proven (3),
Twin-Linked)

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