Editing Flamer (section)

===Inferno Cannon===
[[File:Inferno_Cannon.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Inferno Cannon]]

{{topquote|It occurred to me, watching his Zippo hose down enemy strongpoints with napalm, that fighting in an RPG-rich environment while perched on a 300-gallon tank of napalm might qualify as dangerous duty.|Captain Dale A. Dye, U.S.M.C (Ret.)}}


The Inferno Cannon is yet another huge, vehicle mounted Flamer Weapon.

The primary weapon of the [[Hellhound Tank|Hellhound]], this Inferno Cannon focuses on the "thrower" aspect of "flamethrower." Similar in strength to the Heavy Flamer, the Inferno Cannon has an extra perk of being capable of projecting its fiery payload over a considerable distance, and if correctly utilized, can fuck up even vehicles if they happen to have poor armor. It is used by the Imperial Guard and can also be equipped on Astartes Dreadnoughts, where it had an interesting special rule (basically it gave it proto-torrent). The amount of damage it does is magnified by the explosive force it was fired with. The particular Promethium from the Inferno Cannon causes fear amongst those enemies that unluckily has to face it, and rightly so – the sheer amount of flame that leaves the vehicle is immense, enough to melt through aforementioned armor and even some defensive structures. The vehicle carrying it also has to carry a large barrel or two of Promethium as fuel, making it extremely volatile, especially under explosive fire. And when it fires, the vehicle must not be moving, as a disastrous back wash of flame would fry everyone inside the vehicle. The crew themselves are often seen as pyromaniacs. Speaking of maniacs, the Immolator tank of the Sisters of Battle can be installed with a Twin-linked Heavy Flamer which produces a similar effect.

Inferno Cannons on most Hellhounds are simply bulkier Heavy Flamers at the size for cannons, other Hellhounds such as the Artemia pattern as well as Siege Dreadnoughts are typically the long tubular kind of flamethrowers. Now, despite the similar appearance, these two are quite different in practice. While the Dreadnought kind has half the range, the Artemia variant is slightly superior as an Inferno Cannon. Initially, the Artemia debut along with the tank it is mounted on in ''The Anphelion Project'', and absent from then on in the Second Edition. 

The Dreadnought version was made distinct thanks to the ridiculous range, having the same range as a bolter, and the following special rule: '''''Inferno Cannon:''' When firing the Inferno Cannon, designate a target unit and place the normal Flamer template so that it is at least partially over as many enemy members as possible. The whole template must be in range and line of sight. Roll to hit once, using the Dreadnought's BS. If you hit, then all models partially or wholly under the template are hit. If you miss, they are each hit on a roll of 4+. The Dreadnought can only carry a limited amount of fuel for the Inferno Cannon. After each shot roll a D6, on a 1 the Dreadnought is out of fuel and cannot fire its Inferno Cannon again.''

Once fifth edition rolled around, Dreadnoughts could no longer get Inferno Cannons, they got Flamestorm Cannons, even though the image used for the Dreadnought was still an Inferno Cannon and described as such. This is probably a Forge World fuck up, and they likely forgot to update the text to reflect the new wargear.

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