Maulerfiend

A Maulerfiend is a Chaos Daemon Engine used by the Chaos Space Marine Traitor Legions and the forces of the Dark Mechanicum. Unlike the Chaos Forgefiend daemon engine the Maulerfiend was designed by the Warpsmiths of the Dark Mechanicus for close-range combat, they thunder towards their foes like giant attack beasts loosed from the leash. The eyes of the beasts glow with balefire and ectoplasmic drool drips down through their great fanged maws. The Maulerfiend's primary limbs end in prehensile Power Claws powerful enough to tear a Dreadnought limb from limb. The Maulerfiend takes great satisfaction in scissoring apart or simply squeezing less protected warriors into paste. Unlike the Forgefiend, which is powered by an internal warp furnace the Maulerfiend is powered and fulled by the rage of the daemon that inhabits it, and this amplifies the power of its weapons.

Armament
The Maulerfiend is also known as stalker-tanks or scalers to Imperial soldiers, as these multi-limbed monsters have the strength and agility to climb even the most sheerest of walls, and no place is truly safe from a Maulerfiend that has the scent of prey. Chaos Lords often deploy Maulerfiends to disable or destroy enemy heavy armour, the beasts will grasp a hold of vehicles or emplacements and use its front Power Claws to hold its target while the Magma Cutters that protrude from its torso focus its inner anger into a white-hot flame that can melt through anything. There have been many Imperial Titans that have fallen to Maulerfiends clambering up its legs and shearing through its joints with its claws and pinpoint magma blasts. Some Maulerfiends serve their masters as massive daemonic battering rams, they run crashing through enemy lines and fortifications, using long, segmented Lasher Tentrils that whip out from their midsections to defend themselves by cutting or crushing any who tries to stop their advance.

Any machine or fortification that is trapped within a Maulerfiend's grasp is almost assuredly lost, as even a single Maulerfiend has the ability to take down an entire fortress by scaling its walls and breaching its way inside through weak points or simply by climbing over its defences. Due to their utility in siege warfare, Maulerfiends are used extensively by the Warpsmiths of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion.

Ordo Malleus Departmento Analyticus Technical Specifications
The technical specifications of the Decimator have not yet been determined by the Ordos of the Inquisition.

Also See

 * Chaos Vehicles
 * Forgefiend

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