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"We are coming. Look to the skies for your salvation."

Captain Kayvaan Shrike to Commissar Leet, prior to the Blindhope planetstrike
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Drop Pods of the Space Wolves Chapter in flight.

Drop Pods are atmospheric assault transports that are primarily used by the Adeptus Astartes and their Chaos Space Marine counterparts for orbital insertion and planetary assaults where achieving tactical surprise is often an important factor.

Drop Pods, along with Thunderhawks, Thunderhawk Transporters, Storm Eagles, Stormravens, Caestus Assault Rams and teleportation make up the majority of a Space Marine Chapter's means to deploy their forces to the surface of a planet quickly.

Drop Pods resemble the standard Imperial Life Pod that is used to evacuate the crews of severely damaged starships. These craft are used as a one-way, environmentally sealed armoured landing craft to insert forces right into the heart of a battle or deep behind enemy lines.

The ultimate weapon of terror and surprise, when a Drop Pod lands directly in the midst of an enemy line or formation and its occupants disembark and start wreaking havoc, there is little escape for the foe. Drop Pods are fired with colossal acceleration from an orbiting Strike Cruiser or Battle Barge, after which it screams through a planet's atmosphere with oversized rocket thrusters boosting it even further beyond terminal velocity; even the most advanced air defence systems have difficulty locking on to a Drop Pod travelling at up to 12,000 kilometres per hour.

At these velocities, it takes only a matter of solar minutes, or even seconds, for a Drop Pod to reach its destination as it plummets through the atmosphere, only firing its retro thrusters at the last possible moment before making a devastating impact on the planetary surface with enough force to crush most structures.

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Deathstorm Drop Pods of the Ultramarines Chapter clearing the way for Space Marine landing forces.

Drop Pod assaults are fraught with peril as the craft possesses few defences against enemy anti-aircraft fire or other aircraft or debris present in the air while they are plummeting downwards at full speed. Additionally, the passengers must lend their trust to the guidance systems of the craft's Machine Spirit (artificial intelligence) to safely deliver them to their destination.

During the descent it is common for Space Marines to give voice to prayers to the Emperor and hymns of vengeance, steeling themselves against the danger of violent orbital entry and preparing themselves for the battle ahead.

While many Astartes Chapters use Drop Pods for quick insertions or deep strikes, others such as the Invaders or the Black Consuls will use Drop Pod assaults to launch the majority of their entire Chapter into combat. In these situations, massed Drop Pod assaults light up the sky of the target world as hundreds of these screaming harbingers of woe streak across the firmament.

There are few enemies who can withstand this tactic, as the Space Marines will land in and amongst places that only moments before were considered a safe haven. After a Drop Pod is used it will remain on the battlefield until it can be retrieved by the Chapter's Techmarines, usually by use of a Thunderhawk Transporter.

History

"Er...Boss? Remember on Borsk when da sky caught fire and we saw them comet-fings with da Emperor's Boyz in 'em? Well, here they come again..."

— Grudley, assistant to Big Mek Ognutz
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A Drop Pod with its squad of Space Marines disembarking after landing.

The Adeptus Astartes has made use of the Drop Pod since the very beginning of the Great Crusade when they were still full-sized Space Marine Legions. These spacecraft, which could quickly rain down forces comprised of hundreds or even thousands of Astartes, were used to quickly bring a world into Imperial Compliance.

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Deathstorm Drop Pods sitting silently after expending all of their ammunition

Drop Pods were deployed by both sides in the great interstellar civil war known as the Horus Heresy, when thousands of Drop Pods brought both Traitor and Loyalist Astartes down into combat against their former brothers. Drop Pods assaults were the preferred method of planetary insertion for several of the Space Marine Legions, such as the World Eaters and the Space Wolves.

Drop Pods are still used by most of the Traitor Legions even after the passage of 10,000 standard years, yet many Heretic Astartes warbands now favour the use of the ancient Dreadclaw Drop Pod, as it is more advanced than the standard pattern Drop Pod. The Dreadclaw was the most advanced assault boat used during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, yet a dangerous flaw in its Machine Spirit, which allowed it to become highly self-aware, led to it no longer being used by the Loyalist Astartes.

Unit Composition

  • 1 Drop Pod (41st Millennium Only)
  • 1 Legion Drop Pod (31st Millennium Only)

Wargear

A standard Drop Pod is armed and equipped with:

  • Storm Bolter
  • Inertial Guidance System - The Drop Pod's Inertial Guidance System is an on-board flight-control system that helps safely guide the Drop Pod to its target, avoiding enemy fire and obstacles. This system controls the descent so that the Space Marines on board are able to use the time to prepare for the coming battle.

A Drop Pod may replace its Storm Bolter with any of the following:

Drop Pods may also have a variety of vehicle equipment such as:

  • Locator Beacon

Horus Heresy Wargear

During the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy the Drop Pods of the Legiones Astartes featured different weapon loadout options than those still found during the 41st Millennium.

A standard Legion Drop Pod is armed and equipped with:

  • Twin-linked Bolters
  • Inertial Guidance System - The Legion Drop Pod's Inertial Guidance System is an on-board flight-control system that helps safely guide the Drop Pod to its target, avoiding enemy fire and obstacles. This system controls the descent so that the Space Marines on board are able to use the time to prepare for the coming battle.

Variants

There exist many variants of the standard Drop Pod, from smaller single-man versions to large Drop Pods capable of delivering a Dreadnought into combat. The following are known Space Marine Drop Pod variants:

Standard Drop Pod

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A squad-sized Drop Pod capable of carrying ten Astartes, armed with a Storm Bolter for heavy fire support

The standard pattern of Adeptus Astartes Drop Pod is capable of carrying up to 12 Space Marines into combat. They are launched from a vessel in low orbit towards the drop zone, usually in the midst of or near a battlefield. Once launched, the Drop Pod plummets through the atmosphere until its retro rockets fire to slow its descent.

A Machine Spirit (on-board computer) guides the Drop Pod to its destination and can receive further commands from the Pod's mothership. Although a Drop Pod becomes immobile after having landed on a planetary surface, it can later be recovered by the Chapter's Techmarines and reused.

These spacecraft are capable of being armed with a single Storm Bolter or Deathwind Missile Launcher that is able to provide covering fire for the disembarking Astartes. During the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy Drop Pods were equipped with a set of twin-linked Bolters.

Although it is not standard, Drop Pods are able to be modified to carry Space Marines in Terminator Armour; though this practise is rarely utilised due to Terminator Armour's capability to teleport directly into combat. When a Drop Pod is modified to carry Space Marines in Terminator Armour, two standard-sized restraints must be replaced with a single large restraint due to the sheer bulk of Terminator Armour.

Thunderfire Drop Pod

The Thunderfire Drop Pod is a standard pattern Drop Pod with most of its internal seating restraints removed, so that the craft is capable of carrying a single Thunderfire Cannon and its crew into combat to provide heavy fire support for the occupants of other Drop Pods in a single assault, as Drop Pods are not large enough to deliver vehicles into combat from orbit.

Rapier Drop Pod

The Rapier Drop Pod is a standard pattern Drop Pod with most of its internal seating restraints removed, so that the spacecraft is capable of carrying a single Rapier mobile heavy-weapon platform and its crew into combat to provide heavy fire support for the occupants of other Drop Pods in a single assault, since Drop Pods are not large enough to deliver vehicles into combat from orbit. These Drop Pods were commonly used during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras of the late 30th and early 31st Millennia by the Space Marine Legions.

Squad Drop Pod

A smaller variant of the standard pattern Drop Pod, this variant carries only a single squad of 10 Space Marines into combat. Like the standard Drop Pod, this variant is also capable of being armed with a single Storm Bolter or Deathwind Missile Launcher that is able to provide covering fire for the disembarking Astartes.

Combat-Squad Drop Pod

An even smaller variant of the standard pattern Drop Pod, this variant can carry a demi-squad of 5 Astartes into combat, although it is usually used to insert forces behind enemy lines to conduct covert operations against the enemy.

Single-Man Drop Pods

These very small variants of the standard Drop Pod are capable of delivering a single person to the battlefield, and are usually used to deliver important Astartes officers such as Captains or Librarians to the planet's surface. These small spacecraft can also deliver other needed cargo such as special wargear or even Servitors if needed.

Dreadnought Drop Pod

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A Dreadnought Drop Pod ready to unload its cargo.

The Dreadnought Drop Pod was developed alongside the more common Legion Drop Pod in general service at the time of the Great Crusade, specifically designed Dreadnought Drop Pods, such as the Lucius Pattern Heavy Drop Pod, were somewhat larger than the standard Drop Pods of the Legiones Astartes and had a more powerful engine, allowing for a dangerously meteoric descent to the battlefield. This served to protect the cargo during approach and allowed it to strike with unprecedented speed.

Dreadnought Drop Pods are still highly valued by many Space Marine Chapters. This Drop Pod pattern is the largest known Drop Pod variant used by the Adeptus Astartes, and is capable of delivering a single Dreadnought into combat. This variant is slightly larger than the standard Drop Pod, yet lacks any and all internal non-essential equipment, such as restraints and weapon holders, which are not present to make room for the bulk of the Dreadnought. The Dreadnought Drop Pod uses three or four large external door ramps as opposed to the smaller ones used on other types of Drop Pods. These Drop Pods are capable of delivering both Contemptor Dreadnoughts and now-standard Castraferrum Pattern Mars Mark IV and Mark V Dreadnoughts to the battlefield.

Deathstorm Drop Pod

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A Deathstorm Drop Pod armed with five Assault Cannons.

Deathstorm Drop Pods were first conceived and prototyped by the Raven Guard Legion during the Great Crusade, who sought to augment the firepower of their precision-orbital assaults. The Raven Guard's preference for such surgical-strike tactics would, upon occasion, leave them at a disadvantage in the case of both protracted engagements and in assaulting very heavily fortified targets where heavy units such as Legion tanks and artillery could not be used.

The Raven Guard's solution spoke much to their own nature and preferred tactics -- a weapon that would strike with merciless swiftness and expend its force in a lethal fury that left little need for prolonged endurance.

The Deathstorm Drop Pod is a variant pattern of the standard Drop Pod that carries heavy weaponry instead of Space Marines. Built around a standard drop pod chassis, the Deathstorm pattern utilises heavy weapons which are slaved to a targeting Cogitator, and once the assault ramps have opened, the weapons will open fire on anything outside of the spacecraft. These weapons will only fire in the direction of the ramp they are positioned at and will strafe the immediate area with weapons fire.

These weapons do not possess auto-targeting capabilities and will fire indiscriminately at the area around them until all ammunition is expended, although by the time this happens the Drop Pods carrying the Space Marines themselves will have landed and started disgorging Astartes onto the battlefield to face any enemies that survived the onslaught unleashed by the Deathstorm Drop Pod.

The Deathstorm Drop Pod can be equipped with either five Assault Cannons or five Whirlwind Missile Launchers, one of these weapons positioned at each of the spacecraft's assault ramps.

Deathwind Drop Pod

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A Deathwind Drop Pod armed with Deathwind Missile Launchers.

The Deathwind variant of the Drop Pod is no longer used by the Adeptus Astartes. This variant, similar in nearly every way to the Deathstorm variant that ultimately replaced it, was originally armed with Deathwind Missile Launchers to provide fire support. This variant has been replaced with the Deathstorm variant due to Whirlwind Missile Launchers being more powerful than Deathwind Missile Launchers and just as easy and cost effective to manufacture.

Supply Drop Pods

Supply Drop Pods are Drop Pods that can be delivered to Space Marine forces operating behind enemy lines or otherwise away from an area where it is possible for them to readily resupply. Supply Drop Pods can be used to deliver anything that is needed to a squad, such as foodstuffs, weapons, ammunition, and wargear such as Jump Packs.

Chaos Drop Pods

The following is a list of all known Chaos Drop Pod variants and crafts of similar function:

Chaos Drop Pod

The Traitor Legions and Renegade Space Marines also make use of the Drop Pod. Chaos Drop Pods are similar in every way to their Loyalist counterpart, although they are usually warped and twisted beyond recognition by their time spent in the Eye of Terror. They often have various non-standard customisations added to them by their Chaos Space Marine masters and are covered in blasphemous Chaotic iconography. The standard Drop Pod is used alongside the rarer and more advanced Dreadclaw.

Anvillus Pattern Dreadclaw

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An Anvillus Pattern Dreadclaw of the Night Lords Traitor Legion

The Anvillus Pattern Dreadclaw Drop Pod was initially designed during the Great Crusade to insert Legion Space Marine boarding forces onto enemy void-craft in the midst of battle. As such they had a minimal profile and a heavily armoured hull designed to survive fire from smaller ship-based close defence weaponry, while a series of melta cutters allowed it to slice through a ship's outer hull and deliver its cargo into the heart of a vessel.

Unlike some earlier boarding craft, which were incapable of returning their cargo to friendly ships, the Dreadclaw was also fully capable of operating as an independent dropship. Indeed, many Legions favoured using the Dreadclaw in this role instead of the more common Storm Eagle, dropping from the sky like a flaming comet and employing the craft's thermal jets and Melta cutters to scorch the landing zone clean before disembarking the assault troops contained within.

Though lacking in any subtlety or elegance, this tactic was undeniably effective, and many crew had developed a dark notoriety for their skill at reckless low altitude strafing runs, leaving great swathes of the enemy's lines aflame with each pass.

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A Chaos Dreadclaw of an unknown or warped pattern

In the 41st Millennium, the Dreadclaw is an ancient Drop Pod pattern still utilised exclusively by the Traitor Legions as an assault boat for ship-to-ship combat. Unlike other Drop Pod patterns, the Dreadclaw is able to take off after landing. The Dreadclaw was the most advanced assault boat used during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, yet a dangerous flaw in its Machine Spirit, which allowed it to become highly self-aware and nearly sentient, led to it no longer being used by Loyalist Astartes.

Once the Heresy began a number of fatal incidents on starships that were part of the Loyalist forces increased exponentially and led to many Imperial starship captains simply jettisoning their entire complement of the assault boats into the cold vacuum of space.

The Dreadclaws present on Traitor vessels did not suffer nearly as many problems. In fact, after the end of the Heresy and the retreat of the Traitor Legions into the Eye of Terror, the Dreadclaws became as warped by constant exposure to Chaos energies as the rest of the Chaos Space Marines' equipment and vehicles. The malevolence of these assault boats' Machine Spirits has only grown, though now they serve the agenda of the Ruinous Powers.

Kharybdis Assault Claw Drop Pod

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An Imperial Fists Legion Kharybdis Assault Claw

The Kharybdis Assault Claw is a rare pattern of Drop Pod of ancient provenance. Once employed by many Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras as a ship-to-ship assault craft, the Kharybdis was a monstrous Drop Pod capable of carrying large assault forces through the void and mounting significant firepower to blast a path through defending small craft. The arrival of a flight of these ominous Assault Craft, boarding hooks extended as they approached their target, signalled the end for the crew of any vessel that dared opposed the Legiones Astartes.

As fully operational dropships, Kharybdis Assault Claws also served as surface-to-orbit transports. This was a role that allowed them to use the firepower of their Storm Launchers and Melta-cutters to scour clean their chosen landing zone before disembarking their deadly cargo into the midst of the enemy's shattered formation.

Many more aggressive commanders employed the Kharybdis as an effective tank hunter, ramming enemy armour in daring low-altitude attack runs, clamping hold with the Kharybdis' hook-claws and burning through even the thickest ceramite plating with Melta-cutters designed to breach the much-thicker hulls of starships. The secrets of the Kharybdis' construction were lost by the Imperium in the centuries following the Horus Heresy, but still persists in the hands of the Dark Mechanicus and their Chaos Hell-Forges, who offer them up to the Forces of Chaos in return for a bounty of souls and slaves.

Non-Astartes Imperial Drop Pods

The following is a list of all known non-Astartes Imperial Drop Pod variants and crafts of similar function:

Eversor Temple

The Imperial Assassins of the Officio Assassinorum's Eversor Temple are deployed in special Drop Pods that prepare them for their missions. These Pods are equipped with neuro-links that feed the details of the mission directly to the Assassin's mind while remote links activate and begin to prepare his body for the task at hand.

Once the Drop Pod lands at the appropriate destination the Assassin is fully briefed on the mission at hand and is fully awoken from his or her stasis.

Adepta Sororitas

The Battle Sisters of the Adepta Sororitas occasionally deploy via Dominica Pattern Drop Pods when undertaking missions behind enemy lines. This includes the Dominica Pattern Deathwind Drop Pod, which may be armed with either Heavy Bolters or Multi-Meltas.

Imperial Knights

When the circumstances of war dictate for a rapid deployment of their troops, the Nobles of the Questor Imperialis make use of a far larger version of the Drop Pod to deploy their Imperial Knights, the Drop Keep, but even those are dwarfed by the titanic macrolanders in use within the Titan Legions of the Collegia Titanica.

As its name may suggest, a Drop Keep is heavily armoured; its size is such that it may be mistaken for an Imperial fortification dropped out of low orbit rather than a troop transport. A single Drop Keep can easily accomodate two full lances of Imperial Knights -- up to twelve suits of Knight Armour -- while boasting a firepower just short of an Imperial super-heavy tank.

Once the Keep's weapons have cleared a space for the Knights to disembark, its troops lead the charge to the tunes of auto-fanfares, easily overwhelming the most dug in enemy.

Life Pods

The Life Pod is the ancestor spacecraft from which all Drop Pods are derived. Life Pods are used by many intelligent, space-faring species throughout the galaxy to evacuate their starship crew members during an emergency. These pods are known by many different names and designations, yet they all are designed to do the same thing: get their passengers away from danger.

Life Pods are usually equipped with advanced life support systems and navigation equipment, allowing them to safely remove themselves from danger. Life Pods can be used to land the escaped crew on a planet's surface or simply make their way to a nearby friendly starship or space station to be retrieved. Sometimes these spacecraft may be captured by the enemy, the escaped crew held as hostages or simply enslaved or killed.

The quality of the spacecraft's life support, navigational equipment, comfort and safety features, and overall ability to keep its cargo from dying, varies from species to species. T'au Life Pods feature ample room, comfortable seating, and even shielded view ports, while Imperial Life Pods tend to be more spartan and utilitarian.

Non-Human Drop Pods

The following is a list of known xenos craft of similar function to a Drop Pod:

Ork Roks and Krash-Kapsuls

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Various Ork Roks.

The Orks have their own version of Drop Pods, from the small (yet much larger than an Imperial Drop Pod) Krash-Kapsul to the massive Roks. Krash-Kapsuls are rarely used by Orks as they much rather prefer to use the larger Roks to get their forces into the fight quickly.

Ork Roks are essentially a hollowed-out asteroid that is plated in thick armour, outfitted with large engines, and armed with a vast number of very big weapons. The Orks will deliberately slam these craft straight into the ground of a target world, causing massive amounts of damage to whatever it hits. After the Rok hits its destination, the surviving Orks will quickly swarm out of the wreck and engage their targets.

Tyranid Mycetic Spores

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A Tyranid Mycetic Spore delivering a Carnifex to a planet's surface.

Mycetic Spores are large, living shells used to transport Tyranid bioforms from Tyranid Hive Ships to a planet's surface. They are considered the Tyranid equivalent of an Imperial Drop Pod, as they function in much the same way.

Mycetic Spores are designed to survive the gravitational and thermal stresses of orbital insertion and to protect their organic cargo from impact with the planet's surface. Once through the upper atmosphere, the spores alter their shape to slow descent.

The spores themselves die soon after impact, having safely released a swarm of Tyranid creatures.

Notable Deployments of the Drop Pod

Adeptus Mechanicus Technical Specifications

Drop Pod
Type Orbital Drop Pod Operational Ceiling N/A
Vehicle Name Drop Pod Max Speed 12,000 kph descent
World of Origin Lucius Range Unlimited
Known Patterns IV - XXXVI Main Armament N/A
Crew N/A Secondary Armament N/A
Powerplant 1 x FV-50-75 Retro-Rocket Main Ammunition N/A
Weight 14.0 Tonnes Secondary Ammunition N/A
Length 5.2 Metres Armour
Wingspan N/A Superstructure 60 millimetres of armour
Height 7.7 Metres Hull 70 millimetres of armour
Vehicle Designation: 2109-044-8657-DP 010 Transport Capacity

12 Space Marines or 6 Terminator Marines (Modified)


Dreadnought Drop Pod
Type Orbital Drop Pod - Dreadnought Operational Ceiling N/A
Vehicle Name Dreadnought Drop Pod Max Speed 12,000 kph descent
World of Origin Lucius Range Unlimited
Known Patterns I - XVII Main Armament N/A
Crew N/A Secondary Armament N/A
Powerplant 1 x FV-50-75 Retro-Rocket Main Ammunition N/A
Weight 19.0 Tonnes Secondary Ammunition N/A
Length 7.5 Metres Armour
Wingspan N/A Superstructure 60 millimetres of armour
Height 11.1 Metres Hull 70 millimetres of armour
Vehicle Designation: 2109-044-8661-DP 013 Transport Capacity

1 Space Marine Dreadnought


Deathstorm Drop Pod
Type Orbital Drop Pod - Weapons Operational Ceiling N/A
Vehicle Name Deathstorm Drop Pod Max Speed 12,000 kph descent
World of Origin Lucius Range Unlimited
Known Patterns I - VII Main Armament 5 x Whirlwind Missile Launchers or 5 x Assault Cannons
Crew N/A Secondary Armament N/A
Powerplant 1 x FV-50-75 Retro-Rocket Main Ammunition Unknown
Weight 16.5 Tonnes Secondary Ammunition N/A
Length 5.2 Metres Armour
Wingspan N/A Superstructure 60 millimetres of armour
Height 7.7 Metres Hull 70 millimetres of armour
Vehicle Designation: 2109-044-8659-DP 013 Transport Capacity

N/A

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Gallery

Space Marine Forces
Chapter Command Chapter MasterMaster of the KeepMaster of SanctityChief LibrarianMaster of the ApothecarionMaster of the ForgeMaster of the WatchMaster of the FleetMaster of the ArsenalMaster of the MarchesMaster of the RitesMaster of RelicsChief VictuallerLord ExecutionerMaster of RecruitsMaster of ReconnaissanceMaster of the SignalChapter AncientPrimaris AncientChapter ChampionHonour Guard
Company Command Command SquadReclusiam Command SquadCaptainPrimaris CaptainLieutenantPrimaris LieutenantCompany AncientCompany Champion
Specialists Librarian (EpistolaryCodicierLexicaniumPrimaris LibrarianVanguard Librarian) • Chaplain (ReclusiarchPrimaris ChaplainJudiciar) • Apothecary (Primaris ApothecaryApothecary BiologisHelix Adept) • Techmarine
Veteran Squads Veteran Marines (Sternguard VeteranVanguard VeteranVeteran IntercessorVeteran Assault IntercessorBladeguard Veteran) • Terminator SquadTerminator Assault Squad
Battleline Squads Tactical SquadIntercessor Squad (Heavy Intercessor Squad) • Infiltrator Squad
Close Support Squads Assault SquadAssault Intercessor SquadJump Pack Intercessor SquadInceptor SquadReiver SquadIncursor SquadSuppressor SquadBike SquadOutrider SquadCenturion Assault Squad
Fire Support Squads Aggressor SquadDesolation SquadDevastator SquadHellblaster SquadEradicator SquadEliminator SquadInfernus SquadCenturion Devastator Squad
Neophyte Squads Scout SquadScout Bike Squad
Light Vehicles Assault BikeAttack BikeScout BikeRaider Pattern Combat BikeInvader ATVLand Speeder (Land Speeder StormLand Speeder TempestLand Speeder TornadoLand Speeder TyphoonLand Speeder VengeanceLand Speeder ProteusDarkshroud) • Storm Speeder (Storm Speeder HailstrikeStorm Speeder HammerstrikeStorm Speeder Thunderstrike)
Combat Walkers Dreadnought (Castraferrum DreadnoughtSiege DreadnoughtHellfire DreadnoughtIronclad DreadnoughtVenerable DreadnoughtMortis DreadnoughtChaplain DreadnoughtLibrarian DreadnoughtFurioso DreadnoughtDeath Company DreadnoughtRedemptor Dreadnought (Brutalis DreadnoughtBallistus Dreadnought) • Wulfen DreadnoughtDoomglaive Dreadnought) • Nemesis DreadknightInvictor Tactical Warsuit
Armoured Personnel Carriers RhinoRazorbackDamocles Command RhinoRhino PrimarisRhino AdvancerImpulsor
Main Battle Tanks Predator Destructor (Predator AnnihilatorBaal Predator) • Land Raider (Land Raider PhobosLand Raider CrusaderLand Raider RedeemerLand Raider AchillesLand Raider PrometheusLand Raider Terminus UltraLand Raider AresLand Raider ExcelsiorLand Raider Wrath of MjalnarLand Raider Angel InfernusLand Raider Solemnus AggressorLand Raider Anvilarum) • Deimos Vindicator Laser DestroyerRepulsorRepulsor ExecutionerGladiator (Gladiator ReaperGladiator ValiantGladiator Lancer) • Astraeus
Artillery WhirlwindVindicatorStalkerHunterWhirlwind HyperiosLand Raider HeliosThunderfire CannonFirestrike Servo-turret
Aircraft/Air-Deployed StormtalonThunderhawkThunderhawk TransporterShadowhawkStormravenStorm EagleFire RaptorStormhawk InterceptorCaestus Assault RamDark TalonNephilim JetfighterStormfangStormwolfCorvus BlackstarOverlordDrop PodHammerfall Bunker
Rare, Relic or Retired Vehicles Contemptor Pattern DreadnoughtDeredeo Pattern DreadnoughtCerberus Heavy Tank DestroyerLeviathan DreadnoughtJavelin Attack SpeederJetbikeDeimos PredatorDeimos RhinoSabre Tank HunterLand Raider ProteusKratos Heavy Assault TankMark IIb Land Raider PhobosMalcador Assault Tank (Malcador Annihilator) • Sicaran Battle TankSicaran VenatorSicaran Punisher Assault TankSicaran Arcus Strike TankSicaran Omega Tank DestroyerSpartan Assault TankTyphon Heavy Siege TankFellbladeFalchionMastodonDeimos Whirlwind ScorpiusXiphon Pattern InterceptorStormbirdKharybdis Assault Claw
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