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If you already have an account, login here - otherwise create an account for free today! Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Land Raiders, how viable are they? Started by Ultramarine vet , Apr 03 PM. Please log in to reply. Posted 03 April - PM. So I know there is a lot going on with primaris marines, but I myself am not into them. I am pro firstborn marines.
So I'm wondering, how viable is it to field 2 land Raiders? A lot of points to be sure, but they are very survivable and a ton of firepower. I wanna try pushing them up the board with assault terminators. It sounds really fun. Anyone with any experience doing this? Posted 05 April - AM. Ultramarine vet likes this. Posted 07 April - AM. Yeah, that's what I was thinking, is how expensive the unit and the "transport" are together. I'll probably want to field some predator tanks and whatnot so I don't make them an incredibly easy target choice.
I think it'll be a whole lot of fun. Edited by Ultramarine vet, 09 April - PM. Posted 08 April - PM. Posted 12 April - PM. As listed, the Landraider can carry 5 terminator models or 10 troop models.
Do you live in the Metro Detroit Area? They have not commented on it because it is impossible from a rules standpoint. You may only have one squad in a transport at a time,and if your Lord is in Terminator armor his Command squad must also all be equipped with Terminator armor.
See the HQ section of the Marines codex for details. Burn the Sister of Battle. Kill the Space Marine. Purge the Grey Knight. Destroy the Imperium. During the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy the Land Raiders of the Legiones Astartes featured different loadout options than those still found during the 41st Millennium.
The Land Raider blends armoured transport with firepower that can best that of many forces' main battle tanks.
Its armour is so thick that it is virtually immune to weapons as powerful as the Leman Russ Tank 's own Battle Cannon. Power to the Land Raider is provided by a Mars Pattern adaptable thermic combustor reaction engine, situated in the rear of the vehicle.
It is kept cool by a nitro-ammonium cooling system, and protected from malfunction and daemonic possession by Adeptus Mechanicus manufacturing sigils and Purity Seals.
It even carries Rites of Awakening purity markings to ensure the smoothest of operations. The Land Raider and its many variants have seen combat in many conflicts across the galaxy, some of the more notable ones are as follows:.
Several variants preceded the development of the Phobos Pattern and were widely in use during the Imperium's early days in the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras of the late 30th and 31st Millennia. A Land Raider Proteus. A Spartan Assault Tank. The Land Raider Crusader is a close-assault version of the standard Land Raider geared towards transporting more troops.
The Land Raider Crusader was originally developed by the Black Templars Chapter and was eventually approved by the Adeptus Mechanicus as an authorised pattern, allowing other Space Marine Chapters to field them in abundance. The Land Raider Crusader's main differences from the standard Land Raider lie in its weapons loadout. Instead of the 2 Lascannons deployed on the original pattern, the Land Raider Crusader's side sponsons are armed with Hurricane Pattern Bolters.
The Crusader replaces the standard Land Raider's Twin-linked Heavy Bolters mounted on the top of the tank with shorter-ranged, gatling gun-like Twin-linked Assault Cannons. Finally, the Crusader sports a Multi-melta mounted right beside the commander's cupola, instead of the standard Storm Bolter. The removal of the massive plasma generators used by the Lascannons freed up space inside the hull of the Land Raider chassis, increasing the vehicle's transport capability to 17 Space Marines in Power Armour or 9 Terminators.
Other variants of the basic Land Raider exist as rarer modifications of the standard Phobos Pattern Land Raider that are in service with select Chapters of the Space Marines. The Land Raider Achilles is a variant of the Land Raider designed during the Great Crusade by the Imperial Fists Legion to deal with a very specific and now long-forgotten xenos threat.
Because of its age and its very specific design, it is almost never found in use outside of the Imperial Fists and their Successor Chapters. The Land Raider Achilles is most famous for its extraordinary durability as a result of the ancient and now-lost secrets of forging its special armour plating which provide an incredible array of immunities against a variety of different attacks.
The Land Raider Achilles is also armed with a mobile version of the Space Marines' Thunderfire Cannon , a massive multibarrelled, rotary assault cannon that is capable of firing three different varieties of shot. The first type of shell detonates on surface contact, commonly used against infantry in the open, while the airburst shell is employed against infantry taking cover. The most devastating, however, are the subterranean shells, programmed to burrow into the ground before exploding.
The resulting explosion causes seismic disruptions which can knock the enemy off-balance, making them easier targets for follow-up fire. This affects even anti-gravity vehicles, whose anti-gravity generators are negatively impacted by the sub-surface shockwaves unleashed by the impact of these shells. The Land Raider Helios , like the Prometheus variant, replaces some of the standard Land Raider's existing weaponry with a more specialized loadout.
Purportedly, the extra space required for storing the Whirlwind Launcher's missiles reduced the personnel transport capacity of the vehicle.
The Land Raider Prometheus was developed specifically to serve as a Space Marine unit's command tank. The original Phobos Pattern Land Raider's Lascannon sponsons have been replaced with two pairs of Twin-linked Heavy Bolters each and the hull-mounted Heavy Bolters have been replaced with special Vox-communications and sensor equipment. This variant is supposedly used by Space Marine commanders as their mobile base of operations as its heavy armor can withstand the most hard-hitting attacks.
The Terminus Ultra forfeits its troop carrying capability completely in order to mount a battery of extremely powerful Lascannons capable of punching through defensive Conversion Fields , Void Shields and the thickest armour. The huge power build-up generated when a Terminus Ultra fires can cause irrevocable damage to the vehicle's systems, and so it is only used when all other options have been exhausted.
Only when the largest armoured targets are encountered are these venerable machines deployed from a Chapter's Armorium, if they even possess any.
Against the power of the Terminus Ultra, the massive war engines of the Emperor's foes have no hope. The Land Raider Excelsior is a specialised variant of the Adeptus Astartes Land Raider intended for use by the Primaris Space Marines that serves a command and control function for a Space Marine planetary assault as well as a role as a heavy main battle tank and armoured transport.
As a designated command vehicle, it possesses an unusually powerful array of Augur sensor arrays, Cogitators and advanced communications gear to carry out ship-to-surface coordination of a planetary assault. It often acts in concert with the Rhino Primaris , a variant of the standard Rhino APC also intended to carry out command and control functions, to help target orbital bombardments from a Space Marine fleet in high orbit of an embattled world.
The Anvilarum pattern of the Land Raider is an open-topped, uplink-modified heavily-armoured transport that was large enough to ferry an Iron Father Dreadnought to war, including its Tech-Priest attendants. The vehicle's design was reminiscent of the chariots of ancient Aegypt or the Roma, with the rear hold capable of carrying multiple passengers, which were able to disembark easily over the vehicle's sides and rear.
The Land Raider Anvilarum is armed with a Quad Lascannon , which was under the direct neural control of its principle passenger. The vehicle's Adamantium -slabbed sides featured ramparts for infantry carried within to engage the enemy from the relative safety of the vehicle. Land Raider of the Dark Angels during combat. Land Raiders are also equipped with a Machine Spirit , an artificial intelligence crafted by the Adeptus Mechanicus.
The Machine Spirit is smart enough to move the tank and continue combat operations even if the crew is injured or otherwise incapacitated, increasing the durability and firepower of the Land Raider considerably. A Land Raider is a blessed artefact to the Techmarines that oversee its repair and maintenance. This is not least because a Land Raider's Machine Spirit is so much stronger than that of lesser tanks, a fact taken to mean that a substantial portion of the Machine God 's essence resides within the Land Raider's impenetrable adamantium hull.
Accordingly, should even a Land Raider's sponson be lost in battle, the rest of the Chapter will fight like men possessed for its retrieval, often calling in further reinforcements to ensure that the component is not lost.
So it is that lives of men can be stilled in order to preserve the spirit of a machine, but the Space Marines honour such a sacrifice and go willingly into a battle of this kind. Regardless of its value in matters of faith, the Land Raider's Machine Spirit is a potent asset.
The Machine Spirit allows the tank to function with a smaller number of crew than comparable vehicles, and is capable of taking control of engines, weaponry or other systems if the Astartes crew is incapacitated or otherwise absent.
Rynn's Might did not survive the encounter, but its example serves as a reminder that a Land Raider is not a machine to be taken lightly, whether its crew is aboard or not. Many can trace their history all the way back to the earliest days of the Imperium. These tanks rolled forwards amidst the earth-shaking armoured spearheads deployed during the Great Crusade. They ground alien oppressors beneath their treads as they fought to liberate Humanity from the horrors of Old Night , and turned their guns mercilessly upon the Traitor Legions once their betrayal was revealed.
For ten thousand years these noble war engines have fought for the Imperium, and each has built a legend every bit as magnificent as those possessed by the greatest Imperial champions.
Venerable Land Raiders possess Magos-class Machine Spirits , noble and aggressive entities that can independently aim and fire the tank's guns and coordinate its auto-repair rituals when circumstances require it.
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