Editing Drop Pod (section)

=== Deathstorm Drop Pod ===

[[File:Death2-drop-pod.jpg|200px|thumb|right|When your forces surrounds a drop pod, guns ready and prepared to open fire on some juicy [[Space Marines|canned humans.]] But instead, [[Trap|the doors opens with five Assault Cannons primed and ready]]...[[Just As Planned|must have been some]] [[Tactical genius|tactical gen]]-[[Creed|CREEEEEEEED!]]]]

A drop pod that holds weapons instead of soldiers. Ergo, the ultimate [[Trap]] Drop Pod bristling with [[Just As Planned]]. If a drop zone is just too hot to land in, the Space Marines will use Deathstorm Drop Pods (equipped with [[assault cannons]] or [[Whirlwind Multiple Missile Launcher|Whirlwind missile launchers]]) to clear the way. [[Orks|They're only BS 2, but they compensate through volume of fire]] (they fire [[D3]] times at ''every'' unit within 12" the turn they come in).

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. So they compensated by loading a bunch of heavy weapons on each end of the Drop Pod's door and voila! The Deathstorm was born! 

Of course, such unorthodox modifications caused the AdMech to have a [[Butthurt|bitchfit]] and would have sanctioned it as tech-heresy if it weren't for the fact that it was approved by [[Corvus Corax|Emo Kid no#1 himself.]]

It would be a heartening sight if the Navy were to use these en-mass to support the Guard. Come to think of it, a massive volley of these things would be highly effective against Orks, Tyranids, and possibly Necrons. They could also be useful as a rapid, highly potent response to daemons. After all, the fluff says fighting daemonic hosts is very difficult because they can poof anywhere on the battlefield, so there are no real battle-lines in such an engagement. In that vein, they may be useful against Eldar of all types, too. Hell, just shoot huge numbers of them at anything that looks at you wrong.

Its predecessor, the Deathwind 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 Launcher]]s 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. But not launched from a drop pod and therefore we can assume either the Deathwind is secretly used or, more likely, they just slapped Whirlwind Missile Launchers on and called it "Deathstorm" and hoped the AdMech didn't notice.