Stormraven



The Stormraven Gunship is a relatively new addition to the armoury of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter, seamlessly combining the roles of dedicated gunship, dropship, and strike aircraft. It is unclear just how the craft came into being; there are rumors of its STC file having been discovered early in the 41st Millenium in a forgotten Martian archive by a Blood Angels Techmarine, but there is equal evidence of the Stormraven seeing active use by the Grey Knights of the Ordo Malleus even earlier than that. Smaller than the far more common Space Marine Thunderhawk Gunship, the Stormraven is surprisingly not much more agile than its more well-known sibling, thanks to the Thunderhawk's wide array of vectored thrusters. It is this maneuverability and its smaller overall size that makes the Stormraven an ideal support craft in environs (such as the crowded spires of a hive city) where the deployment of Thunderhawks would be impractical or simply foolish.

Weapons
The Stormraven's default load-out is composed of a twin-linked heavy bolter, a twin-linked assault cannon, and four Bloodstrike missiles, but these weapons can be reconfigured depending on the required mission parameters (or simply the commander's personality). The heavy bolter can be replaced with either a typhoon missile launcher or a twin-linked multi-melta, and the assault cannon with either a twin-linked plasma cannon or a lascannon. Finally there is the choice of adding a pair of hurricane bolters on the aircraft's side sponsons.

Transport Capacity
The Stormraven can carry a squad of up to 12 Power Armoured Space Marines or a half-dozen jump pack-equipped Assault Marines, as well as a Dreadnought in the vehicle's rear magna-grapple.