Editing Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer

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The '''Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer''' is a super-heavy tank used by the Space Marine Legions during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]]. It is built with the chassis of the [[Spartan Assault Tank]], but instead of twenty-five Marines, it carries a twin-linked [[Neutron Laser Projector]] (the same weapon as the [[Valdor Tank Hunter]]) and the attendant arc reactor and radiation shielding -- in fact, the extra structure makes it even tougher than the Spartan.

*'''Length:''' 12.4m; approx
*'''Mass:''' 174 tonnes
*'''Crew:''' 3 crew 
*'''Max Speed:''' 35kph
==Overview==
Apparently, the [[Adeptus Mechanicus|Mechanicus]] went to a lot of trouble to get the plans for the neutron laser -- they had to recover wreckage "at great cost" from a battlefield dating to the [[Dark Age of Technology]] in the Hyades system (a star cluster well-known for its appearance in [[Cthulhu Mythos|The King In Yellow]], by the way) and reverse-engineer the neutron laser from that. Still, it did provide an alternative to the bulkier [[turbo-laser]] weapons, with the "bonus" of risking backlash to the vehicle if the beam bounces off the target.

Miraculously enough, the Neutron Laser Projector is not a lost technology, given Valdor tanks can still be produced in a scant few Forge Worlds like [[Imperial Armour#Fires of Cyraxus|Cyraxus II]]. The knowledge to manufacture the Spartan chassis though? It's kaput.
Naturally, the few tanks who survived the [[Horus Heresy]] are treasured relics of a [[Chapter]]'s armoury. The [[Exorcists]] for example, had not fielded their Cerberus for more than a millennia before the Ashen War, and have yet to awaken it ever since.

== History==
The Cerberus model was created by [[Forge World]] as part of their [[Horus Heresy]] line, specifically as part of the release of [[The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal]]. It later received rules for use in regular [[Warhammer 40,000]] games in [[Imperial Armour Volume 2 Second Edition - War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes]]. As part of the [[Horus Heresy]] reboot, a new plastic version has been revealed.

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