Editing Land Raider (section)

==={{anchor|Achilles}} Achilles Pattern (Forge World)===
[[File:Achilles_Pattern.jpg|280px|right|thumb|It's like [[Rogal Dorn]] thinking to himself, "Hmmmm...fortifying a Land Raider? Challenge accepted."]]
The Achilles Pattern is the most heavily armored Land Raider, and was originally created by the Imperial Fists. The Achilles Pattern is a giant derpy hunk of metal, bristling with guns and designed to get in close, firing off heavy firepower before discharging its payload of troops right into enemy formations. In other words, it is exactly the sort of thing that comes to mind when you hear the words "land raider". Its armor is impervious to the Lance and Melta special rules and most other weapons suffer a -1 on armor penetration rolls (essentially its armor is the same as a Necron Monolith's prior to the 5th Edition codex, it's just that the rules are given different names). The only things killing it are heavy-bore anti-vehicle weapons like the [[Leman Russ Vanquisher]], outside of lucky shots with high-strength armor-piercing weapons like a [[Baneblade]] or Terminus Ultra firing all of its weapons (thus using the law of averages to help in its attempt to pierce the armor), or anti-vehicle Titan guns (like those used by a [[Shadowsword]] or like the epic beamspam that can be unleashed by a [[Reaver Battle Titan|Reaver]] or [[Warhound Scout Titan|Warhound]] dual-wielding [[Turbo-Laser Destructor]]s), or some weird shit like haywire, gauss, entropic touch and so on (because xenos are dirty cheaters). It mounts a devastating [[Thunderfire Cannon]] (which is a massive quad-barreled mortar that can cause several flavors of infantry death) and twin-linked [[Multi-Melta]] sponsons, but it carries only 6 people (that means only three termies), have no assault ramp and costs more than Ares and Terminus Ultra - generally those 6 places are for techmarine and his servitor retinue, or for command squad loaded with Plasmaguns. The earlier Achilles Alpha prototype swapped the Thunderfire Cannon for a [[Lucius Pattern Heavy Quad-Launcher|Quad Mortar]] and was equipped with twin-linked [[Volkite Culverin]]s as sponson weapons. The Achilles Alpha also had even ''more'' absurd armor, and if also given Ceramite or Extra Armor on top of that, was functionally invulnerable to damage. No, we are not kidding, it could only be really threatened by anti-titan weapons or a heavy artillery weapon that could deliver a massive kinetic impact like a [[Quake Cannon]].

Chaos Space Marines recently got access to this version of Land Raider as well through [[Imperial Armour]] volume 13. Along with access to all the typical upgrades for Chaos Space Marine vehicles, the Chaos Achilles swaps out the [[Thunderfire Cannon]] for a [[Lucius Pattern Heavy Quad-Launcher|Quad Mortar,]] which is weaker and less capable of penetrating armor but compensates with the Pinning rule- and as a bonus, its pinning tests are made with a -1 penalty. On top of that, the Quad Mortar's Strength, AP, and Pinning test penalty all increase as the Chaos Achilles loses hull points, making it more and more deadly as it takes damage. This is, of course, assuming it isn't killed in one turn like most vehicles do in the current meta when they draw the ire of the nearest D-strength weapon. God fucking damn it.

As of 8th, it's gotten far nastier, with a pair of heavy 2 [[Multi-Melta]]s and the Quad Launcher now has access to shatter shells, a set of short-range shots with [[Rape|performance similar to battle cannon shells]]. Its armor has received the same buff, as its previous collection of special rules have been removed and replaced with a blanket [[Awesome|4+ invul save]].

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