A Drukhari Reaper
The Reaper is a high-speed Drukhari attack gunship.
Unlike its more common cousin, the Ravager, its dart-like hull is built around a single powerful weapon -- the Storm Vortex Projector. This sophisticated cannon, like the portable Haywire Blaster, unleashes a cascading pulse of electromagnetic energy harvested from the spires of Commorragh. When combined with the Reaper's speed and manoeuvrability, it makes the skimmercraft an elegant but devastatingly lethal weapon, capable of crippling heavy vehicles and roasting living targets from within.
Role[]
Akin to the more commonly encountered Drukhari skimmercraft known as the Ravager, the Reaper is a high-speed attack gunship, but unlike its brother-craft, its sleek, dart-like hull is built around a single powerful weapon -- the Storm Vortex Projector. This cannon -- like the smaller, infantry-portable Haywire Blaster -- unleashes a cascading pulse of electromagnetic energy but on a scale far more powerful than anything possible in a hand weapon.
The vortex chamber at the heart of the Reaper is a cage for howling energies harvested from the spires of Commorragh, which when unleashed creates a hurricane of lightning capable of crippling the heaviest enemy vehicles and burning out the nervous system of living creatures, roasting enemy soldiers alive from within.
For all its offensive power, the Reaper, like most other Drukhari warcraft, relies on speed and manoeuvrability to survive on the battlefield, and disdains the brute attrition of armoured warfare as practiced by the Imperium or the Orks in favour of bloody ambush and predation.
The Reaper, though a rare and costly device, is greatly loved by the Kabals and Haemonculi covens who field them, as the Storm Vortex Projector can be used to easily disable fleeing refugee transports and shuttlecraft with the minimum of collateral damage -- all the better for the Drukhari themselves to get at the delectable living contents within.
Wargear[]
- Enhanced Aethersails
- Prow Blades
- Bladevanes
- Shock Prow (Optional addition)
- Torment Grenade Launchers (Optional addition)
- Retrofire Jets (Optional addition)
- Chain-snares (Optional addition)
- Grisly Trophies (Optional addition)
- Envenomed Blades (Optional addition)
- Night Shields (Optional addition)
- Flickerfield (Optional addition)
Sources[]
- Imperial Armour Compendium (9th Edition), pg. 183
- Dark Reaper on the Forge World website
- Dark Reaper Forge World Datasheet