Drop Pod

Oh, God-Emperor, why don't they do this on tabletop?

Just about every modern sci-fi setting has a military that uses Drop Pods to deploy; if you take a sufficiently broad interpretation, you could say that the Martian cylinders from H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds were the very first drop pods, but it was Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers that really crystallized the concept as we know it: a means of deployment for super-elite soldiers right where they are needed, when they are needed, and in style.

Warhammer 40,000

The Deep Strike is the Space Marine's iconic deployment method. A pod holds ten Marines, one Dreadnought, or one Thunderfire cannon with gunner. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of Deep Striking because it avoids obstacles automatically -- that's why Boreale loves them so much. For entirely unexplained reasons, once the pod lands, no one can stand (or sit) inside it again - everyone has to get out, and then some sort of miracle bars them from re-entry.

Normal humans cannot use Astartes drop pods to deep strike, even with power armor. The sheer amount of explosive force they experience upon landing would shatter their bones and liquefy their organs upon impact without the aid of Astartes-enhanced physiology and power armor.

Adeptus Astartes Drop Pod

STEEL REHN! DROP PODS FALLING FROM THE SKY AGAIN!

The classic and original STEEL REHN! The drop pod is capable of carrying up to 12 Space Marines into combat. They are launched from a vessel in low orbit towards the drop zone, usually in the midst of or near a battlefield. Once launched, the Drop Pod plummets through the atmosphere until its retro rockets fire to slow its descent. Although certain overly zealous marine chapters are known to use their drop pods as giant orbital bombs; dropping the drop pod at full speed until it eventually crushes any unfortunate heretical bitches underneath and indirectly/directly killing their occupants from sheer impact. A Machine Spirit (on-board computer) guides the Drop Pod to its destination and can receive further commands from the Pod's mothership.

Like most drop pods, they become immobile and pointless once they land, with the only use they have post-crash is to act as some sort of limited cover for the marines and fire support from its internally built weapon turrets (Usually in the form of a single Storm Bolter or Deathwind Missile Launcher). However, it can later be recovered by the Chapter's Techmarines and reused if it is not destroyed.

When a Drop Pod is modified to carry Space Marines in Terminator Armour, two standard-sized restraints must be replaced with a single large restraint due to the sheer bulk of Terminator Armour.

Certain versions of Drop Pods such as the Dominica Pattern Drop Pod used by the Sisters of Battle and inquisitorial strike forces, last seen in 2002, only holds five people, the rest of the space probably being used with shock dampeners to make up for the occupants' lack of superhuman physiology, or a votive shrine.

A support variant exists, equipped with multi-meltas or twin-linked heavy bolters instead of assault cannons and missile launchers like their Space Marines counterparts.

Additionally, the assassins of the Eversor Temple are deployed in special Drop Pods that prepare them for their missions. These Pods are equipped with neuro-links that feed the details of the mission to the assassin while remote links activate and begin to prepare his body for the task at hand.

Deathstorm Drop Pod

When your forces surrounds a drop pod, guns ready and prepared to open fire on some juicy canned humans. But instead, the doors opens with five Assault Cannons primed and ready...must have been some tactical gen-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 missile launchers) to clear the way. 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 bitchfit and would have sanctioned it as tech-heresy if it weren't for the fact that it was approved by 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 Launchers 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.

Dreadclaw Assault Pod

The only drop pod that is the most cost effective and reusable. Unfortunately, its heretical nature turns this machine into a flying blender.

The only drop pod that could actually be reused.

The Dreadclaw was one of the most advanced if not the most advanced drop pod that the Imperials actually got a hold on. The fact that it could fly back up to its mothership and still be able to be 'resupplied' with even more marines without being limited to the amount of drop pods you can use, makes the Dreadclaw absolutely Awesome....if you ignore the fact that the Dreadclaw is also the most notorious drop pod, notable in turning its occupants into mincemeat, not so Awesome.

The Imperium used to use the Dreadclaw, until they learned that its design made it receptive to the influence of Chaos during the Horus Heresy. This was not a problem for Chaos Space Marines, who use them to this day. Unfortunately, they are both more versatile and more deadly than drop pods; capable of being used as assault boats or drop pods and then return to orbit to get more marines. They also have plasma cannons to blast everyone with.

Its machine spirit had been described as being unusually blood thirsty, which often caused lethal "incidents" with maintenance crews, and even Marines themselves, even before the pods fell to Chaos, hence why the Dreadclaw wasn't very popular amongst legions, who actually gave a fuck about their mortal serfs. And then when the Heresy kicked off and the Dreadclaws began actively sabotaging ships, the last thing Imperial Navy captains wanted was a bunch of murderous pods with heavy Melta guns right next to their bulkheads.

That said, for the Chaos Legions, they've become much more safe and docile.

Also, somehow, evidence suggests it's daemon proof. When daemons are too scared or can't even possess them, you know it's good.

Forge World used to make these in Battlefleet Gothic scale.

Lucius Pattern Dreadnought Drop Pod

A more sensible way on creating a flying dreadnought than the other alternative that GW coughed up.

A drop pod with all the restraints and harnesses taken out, and only three fins instead of five. The Lucius was a obviously much larger variant than the standard Drop Pods of the Legiones Astartes and had a more powerful engine to compensate, allowing for a dangerously meteoric descent to the battlefield. This means that only a Dreadnought can survive landing in it.

This Drop Pod pattern is the largest known Drop Pod variant used by the Adeptus Astartes save for arguably the Kharybdis Assault Claw, and is capable of delivering a single Dreadnought into combat.

The Dreadnought Drop Pod uses three or four large external door ramps as opposed to the smaller ones used on other types of Drop Pods. These Drop Pods are capable of delivering both Contemptor Dreadnoughts and now-standard Castraferrum Pattern Mars Mark IV and Mark V Dreadnoughts to the battlefield.

Previously, it allowed it to assault as soon as it landed, but now, when nothing can assault from reserves Lucius DP have been changed to granting Shrouded for himself, and everything hiding behind it or on it on the turn it deep strikes, likely to represent cloud of dust, dirt and debris, raised by its meteoric descent. Oh, and the dread can stay inside the pod, to use it as ablative hull points, and even fire his weapons from the inside, as it's open-topped. All in all a great way to deep strike your dread, and be sure he won't be shot off board the turn it drops.

Found in IA2:2nd, these pods also have drop pod assault and can get precision deep strike for 20pts using Dropsite Massacre legacy rules in the appendix, but as drop pods they already had the ability to reduce scatter. Yes it still has the assault vehicle rule (despite already having it for being open toped - typical Forge World rules stupidity for you), but that still doesn't actually allow things to charge the turn they deep strike, very few things get around the BRB that way.

Kharybdis Assault Claw

The biggest falling Space Marines-in-a-Can of this isle. If it was any bigger, it would have been classified as an Ork Attack Rok.

A Super Heavy Drop Pod used during the Great Crusade, capable of carrying twenty Marines or a pair of Dreadnoughts. Also used for burning shit with its engines as it flies over it, and melting shit it lands on (not to mention having the ability to fly back to its ship for another batch of soldiers to make planetfall). Sadly, the Kharybdis suffered similar problems as its smaller brother, the Dreadclaw. While the latter had a malevolent AI that caused lethal "accidents" (which became much more frequent when the Horus Heresy started and which forced Imperial Commanders to simply jettison them into the blackness of space), the Kharybdis (while also having an AI) had it differently.

The AI of the Drop Pod tended to bond with a person and became violently unpredictable whenever its preferred handler wasn't around. If the handler somehow died or became unable to tend to it, then the bonded Kharybdis had to be jettisoned or destroyed since it would refuse to allow anyone else inside its hold- and tended to demonstrate this by opening its doors in mid-drop to incinerate anyone riding in it. Thus few Space Marine Chapters have one these days, though Chaos Marine Legions still have some in their armouries.

Because of its ability to essentially punch through meters thick armor like butter, they were popular as makeshift boarding vehicles in the Imperial Navy. The arrival of a flight of these ominous Assault craft, boarding hooks extended as they approached their target, signaled that asses are going to be creamed whoever that dared opposed the Legiones Astartes.

Some unorthodox commanders who have watched one too many Mad Max movies or grew up on a Ork infested world; thereby prompting these individuals to employ the Kharybdis as a tank hunter, ramming enemy armor in low-altitude attack runs. It is basically the marines' equivalent of the Tyrannocyte. This also demonstrates how maneuverable drop pods and their various types are and how insanely tough Astartes are.

Starship Troopers

Each member of the Mobile Infantry gets his own pod, containing his suit of armor. The armor itself is supposedly capable of surviving re-entry (a ship making a drop is on a sub-orbital, ie, falling, trajectory during the drop before accelerating back to orbital speed; for the troopers the reentry is more like SpaceShipOne than say Dragon), and can even fly ("a little," as Heinlein writes). The purpose of the pod is to improve the accuracy of the drop by controlling for the aerodynamic factors, as well as disintegrate on the way down producing chaff and debris to distract enemy defenses and blend in with a much larger number of decoy pods used to screen the dropping force. The decoys contain additional tricks such as flares, jammers, bombs, and dumb rockets to increase the amount of visual and electromagnetic noise in the drop area.

Command and Conquer

In the Command & Conquer universe, by the era of Tiberian Sun, GDI makes use of drop pods, fired from their orbital space station Philadelphia as very quick response troops. The pods are rather small, holding only one trooper each, and have forward mounted machine guns which give off a nice hail of gunfire while dropping to at least somewhat clear the landing zone. While the soldiers come as Elite ranked, they are only otherwise regular Light Troopers and Disc Throwers (though the first mission's FMV depicts them having some kind of crazy Railgun/beam weapon). Was only available when mission triggers dropped them, but as of Firestorm, the Upgrade Center gave you the choice of building a plugin for a rechargeable targeted power, fuck yeah.

By the time of the 3rd Tiberium War , GDI is capable of dropping 3 squads worth of Zone Troopers, elite, jumpjet and heavy power armour equipped infantry specialized in operating in tiberium infested areas who use fucking railguns to shit fury down Nod's alien radioactive crystal loving throat and punch its tank divisions in the dick.

BattleTech

Appearing in the BattleTech universe in 2449, they were developed as a method to rapidly deploy a vanguard of BattleMechs without exposing vulnerable DropShips to heavy anti-aircraft fire. The idea was rather than loading and losing entire lances/stars of Mechs by the dozen in the landing metal eggs as they’re shot to hell, it’s better to disperse them individually so at least some of them survive deployment. It consists of an ablative ceramic “Drop Cocoon” with the supporting thrusters, external sensors, navigational computer, and parachute to deploy a BattleMech from orbit to the lower atmosphere. Once there, it falls apart for the BattleMech to use its own thrusters to maneuver to the ground while avoiding anti aircraft fire from fighter craft or ground installations. Used only for elite special operations due to costs, Inner Sphere combat doctrine insists that command elements of a unit be deployed last for situational awareness and coordination while the Clans prefer deploying commanders first to ensure they earn their rank and glory.

Halo

The UNSC, Covenant, and Banished are known to use utilize drop pods. The UNSC uses the S.O.E.I.V.(Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle) to deploy Spartans and more commonly ODSTs. The pods are fitted with a viewport, several screens to monitor their squadmate's descent, and a rack to holster several weapons. The covenant and banished use several types of pods that can contain 1 troop up with only the ground to slow their descent, to several that are designed with rockets to slow descent and energy shielding for the personnel.

Gallery

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  A Jokaero Drop Pod.

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  A Blood Ravens Drop Pod in Dawn of War.

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Codex-compliant Adeptus Astartes	Non-compliant Adeptus Astartes	Other Imperials
Forces of the Codex Compliant Astartes Command: Apothecary - Brother-Captain - Brother-Sergeant - Chaplain - Chapter Master Command Squad - Honour Guard - Librarian - Techmarine Troops: Assault Squad - Centurion Squad - Chapter Serf - CATs - Devastator Squad Scout Squad - Servo-skull (Data Skull - Skull Probe) - Tactical Squad Terminator Squad - Veteran Squad Great Crusade-era: Breacher Siege Squad - Consul - Despoiler Squad - Destroyer Squad Legiones Decurion - Legion Herald - Legion Outrider Squad - Legion Vigilator Moritat - Master of the Signal - Praetor - Reconnaissance Squad - Seeker Squad Sky Hunter Squad - Tactical Support Squad - Inductii Structures: Castellum Stronghold Walkers: Dreadnought (Castraferrum - Contemptor - Deredeo - Leviathan) Transports: Land Raider - Mastodon Heavy Assault Transport - Razorback Transport Rhino Transport - Spartan Assault Tank - Termite Vehicles: Bike Squad - Javelin Attack Speeder - Jetbike - Kratos Heavy Assault Tank Land Speeder - Predator Tank - Sabre Tank Hunter - Sicaran Battle Tank Vindicator Ordnance: Hunter - Legion Arquitor Bombard - Rapier Armoured Carrier - Stalker Thunderfire Cannon - Whirlwind Flyers: Caestus Assault Ram - Fire Raptor - Orgus Flyer - Storm Eagle - Stormbird Stormhawk - Stormraven - Stormtalon - Thunderhawk - Xiphon Interceptor Superheavy Tanks: Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer - Fellblade Super-Heavy Tank Typhon Heavy Siege Tank Spacecraft: Boarding Torpedo - Drop Pod - Space Marine Landing Craft Allied Space Marines: Fallen Angel - Primaris Marine - Blood Angels - Dark Angels Deathwatch - Grey Knights - Space Wolves - Black Templars Forces of the Ultramarines Command: Apothecary - Brother-Captain - Brother-Sergeant - Chaplain Chapter Master - Command Squad - Librarian - Techmarine Ultramarines Honour Guard - Victrix Guard Troops: Assault Squad - Centurion Squad - Chapter Serf - CATs Devastator Squad - Scout Squad - Tactical Squad - Terminator Squad Veteran Squad (Tyrannic War Veterans) Great Crusade-era: Fulmentarus - Invictus Guard - Locutarus Nemesis Destroyers - Praetorian Breacher Squad Walkers: Dreadnought (Castraferrum - Contemptor - Deredeo - Leviathan) Transports: Land Raider - Land Speeder Storm Razorback Transport - Rhino Transport Vehicles: Bike Squad - Javelin Attack Speeder - Land Raider Terminus Ultra Land Speeder - Predator Tank - Sicaran Battle Tank - Vindicator Ordnance: Hunter Multi-Launcher Vehicle - Stalker - Thunderfire Cannon - Whirlwind Superheavy Vehicles: Fellblade (Falchion) Flyers: Fire Raptor - Storm Eagle - Stormhawk Stormtalon - Stormraven - Thunderhawk Spacecraft: Drop Pod - Boarding Torpedo - Space Marine Landing Craft Allies: Fallen Angels - Space Marines - Primaris Marines Forces of the Imperial Fists Command: Apothecary - Brother-Captain - Brother-Sergeant Chaplain - Chapter Master - Command Squad Huscarls - Librarian - Techmarine Troops: Assault Squad - Centurion Squad - Chapter Serf - Devastator Squad Scout Squad - Tactical Squad - Terminator Squad - Veteran Squad Great Crusade-era: Breacher Siege Squad - Templar Brethrens - Phalanx Warders Structures: Castellum Stronghold Walkers: Dreadnought (Castraferrum - Contemptor - Deredeo - Leviathan) Vehicles: Bike Squad - Imperial Jetbike - Javelin Attack Speeder Land Raider (Land Raider Achilles) - Land Speeder - Predator Tank Razorback Transport - Rhino Transport - Vindicator Ordnance: Hunter Multi-Launcher Vehicle - Legion Arquitor Bombard Rapier Armoured Carrier - Stalker - Thunderfire Cannon Whirlwind Flyers: Caestus Assault Ram - Storm Eagle - Stormhawk Stormtalon - Stormraven - Thunderhawk Special Vehicles: Ætos Dios Spacecraft: Drop Pod - Boarding Torpedo - Space Marine Landing Craft Allies: Fallen Angels - Space Marines - Primaris Marines Forces of the White Scars Command: Apothecary - Brother-Captain - Brother-Sergeant Chaplain - Chapter Master - Command Squad Stormseer - Techmarine Troops: Assault Squad - Chapter Serf - Scout Squad Tactical Squad - Veteran Squad Great Crusade-era: Ebon Keshig - Falcon's Claws - Golden Keshig Karaoghlanlar - Legion Outrider Squad - Sky Hunter Squad Vehicles: Bike Squad - Imperial Jetbike - Javelin Attack Speeder Kyzagan Assault Speeder - Land Speeder (Tempest) Predator Tank - Rhino Transport Flyers: Nephilim Jetfighter - Fire Raptor - Storm Eagle Stormhawk - Stormtalon - Thunderhawk Spacecraft: Drop Pod (Adeptus Astartes - Deathstorm) Allies: Fallen Angels - Space Marines - Primaris Marines Forces of the Raven Guard Command Apothecary • Brother-Captain • Brother-Sergeant • Chaplain • Chapter Master • Command Squad • Librarian • Techmarine Troops Assault Squad • Chapter Serf • Devastator Squad • Mor Deythan • Scout Squad • Tactical Squad • Veteran Squad Great Crusade-era Dark Furies • Deliverers • Shadow Wardens • Moritat • Raptors • Legion Vigilator • Reconnaissance Squad Transports Land Speeder Storm Vehicles Bike Squad • Imperial Jetbike • Javelin Attack Speeder • Land Speeder (Land Speeder Tornado • Land Speeder Typhoon) Flyers Chiropteran Scout • Storm Eagle (Darkwing) • Stormhawk • Stormtalon • Stormraven • Thunderhawk • (Shadowhawk) • Whispercutter Spacecraft Drop Pod • Space Marine Landing Craft Allies Fallen Angels • Space Marines • Primaris Marines Forces of the Iron Hands Command: Apothecary - Brother-Captain - Brother-Sergeant - Chaplain Command Squad - Iron Father - Librarian - Techmarine Troops: Assault Squad - Centurion Squad - Chapter Serf - CATs - Devastator Squad Scout Squad - Tactical Squad - Terminator Squad - Veteran Squad Great Crusade-era: Breacher Siege Squad - Morlocks - Gorgon Terminators - Medusan Immortals Walkers: Dreadnought (Castraferrum - Contemptor - Deredeo - Leviathan) Vehicles: Bike Squad - Imperial Jetbike - Javelin Attack Speeder Land Raider - Land Speeder - Predator Tank Razorback Transport - Rhino Transport - Sabre Strike Tank Sicaran Battle Tank - Vindicator Ordnance: Hunter Multi-Launcher Vehicle - Legion Arquitor Bombard Stalker - Thunderfire Cannon - Whirlwind Flyers: Storm Eagle - Stormhawk - Stormtalon - Stormraven - Thunderhawk Superheavy Vehicles: Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer - Fellblade - Land-Behemoth Spacecraft: Drop Pod - Boarding Torpedo - Space Marine Landing Craft Allies: Adeptus Mechanicus - Fallen Angels - Space Marines - Primaris Marines Forces of the Salamanders Command: Apothecary - Brother-Captain - Brother-Sergeant - Chaplain - Chapter Master Command Squad - Forgefather - Librarian - Pyre Guard - Techmarine Troops: Assault Squad - Centurion Squad - Chapter Serf - CATs - Devastator Squad Scout Squad - Tactical Squad - Terminator Squad - Veteran Squad Great Crusade-era: Breacher Siege Squad - Firedrakes - Pyroclasts Walkers: Dreadnought (Castraferrum - Contemptor - Deredeo - Leviathan) Transports: Land Raider (Land Raider Redeemer - Land Raider Prometheus Land Raider Crusader) - Mastodon - Razorback Transport - Rhino Vehicles: Bike Squad - Predator Tank (Predator Annihilator Predator Deimos Annihilator - Predator Infernus) Vindicator Ordnance: Hunter Multi-Launcher Vehicle - Stalker - Thunderfire Cannon - Whirlwind Superheavy Vehicles: Fellblade (Glaive) Flyers: Storm Eagle - Stormhawk - Stormtalon - Stormraven - Thunderhawk Spacecraft: Drop Pod - Boarding Torpedo - Space Marine Landing Craft Allies: Fallen Angels - Space Marines - Primaris Marines	Forces of the Space Wolves Command: Wolf Lord - Wolf Guard Priesthood: Iron Priest - Rune Priest - Wolf Priest Troops: Blood Claw - Fenrisian Wolf - Long Fang - Skyclaw Swiftclaw - Thunderwolf Cavalry - Wulfen - Grey Hunter Great Crusade-era: Consul-Opsequiari - Deathsworn Grey Slayer - Jorlund Hunter Pack Walkers: Dreadnought - Eldthursar - Hrimthursar Space Wolves Dreadnought - Wulfen Dreadnought Vehicles: Bike Squad - Rhino - Razorback Land Speeder - Predator - Vindicator Whirlwind - Land Raider (Land Raider Crusader Land Raider Redeemer - Wrath of Mjalnar) Special Vehicles: Stormrider Flyers: Stormfang - Stormwolf Spacecraft: Boarding Torpedo - Drop Pod Space Marine Landing Craft Allies: Space Marines - Primaris Marines Forces of the Dark Angels Command: Apothecary - Company Master - Interrogator-Chaplain Chaplain - Librarian - Techmarine - Deathwing Knight Dark Angels Grand Master Troops: Assault Squad - Deathwing - Deathwing Strikemaster Devastator Squad - Company Veterans - Scout Squad Tactical Squad - Ravenwing Black Knight Watcher in the Dark Great Crusade-era: Interemptors - Knights Cenobium - Deathwing Companion Structures: Fortress of Redemption Walkers: Dreadnought (Deathwing Dreadnought - Contemptor Dreadnought) Contemptor-Mortis Dreadnought - Mortis Dreadnought Transports: Land Raider (Land Raider Phobos - Land Raider Crusader Land Raider Redeemer - Land Raider Ares Land Raider Solemnus Aggressor) - Rhino Vehicles: Bike Squad - Razorback - Predator - Vindicator - Hunter Stalker - Whirlwind - Land Speeder Vengeance Ravenwing Darkshroud Flyers: Dark Talon - Nephilim Jetfighter - Stormraven - Storm Eagle Thunderhawk Spacecraft: Boarding Torpedo - Drop Pod - Space Marine Landing Craft Hexagrammaton Deathwing - Dreadwing - Firewing - Ironwing - Ravenwing - Stormwing Allies: Space Marines - Primaris Marines Forces of the Blood Angels Command: Apothecary - Brother-Captain - Brother-Sergeant - Chaplain Chapter Master - Librarian - Sanguinary Priest - Techmarine Troops: Assault Squad - Devastator Squad - Sanguinary Guard - Scout Squad Tactical Squad - Terminator Squad - Veteran Squad Death Company: Death Company - Death Company Chaplain - Death Company Terminator Great Crusade-era: Angel's Tears - Crimson Paladin - Dawnbreaker Walkers: Contemptor-Furioso Dreadnought - Contemptor-Incaendius Dreadnought Death Company Dreadnought - Dreadnought - Furioso Dreadnought Librarian Dreadnought Transports: Razorback - Rhino Vehicles: Baal Predator - Land Raider (Land Raider Crusader - Land Raider Phobos Land Raider Redeemer - Land Raider Angel Infernus) Predator Tank - Vindicator - Hunter - Stalker - Whirlwind Flyers: Stormhawk - Stormraven - Stormtalon - Storm Eagle - Thunderhawk Spacecraft: Boarding Torpedo - Drop Pod - Space Marine Landing Craft Allies: Space Marines - Primaris Marines Forces of the Black Templars Command: High Marshal - Marshal - Castellan - Emperor's Champion Brother-Captain - Chaplain - Techmarine - Apothecary Troops: Sword Brethren - Terminator Squad Black Templar Neophyte - Initiate Crusader Squad Walkers: Castraferrum Dreadnought Vehicles: Bike Squad - Rhino - Razorback - Land Speeder Predator - Vindicator - Whirlwind - Stalker - Hunter Land Raider (Land Raider Redeemer - Land Raider Crusader) Flyers: Thunderhawk - Stormraven - Stormtalon Stormhawk - Storm Eagle Seacraft: Cross of Dorn-class Maritime Cruiser Spacecraft: Drop Pod - Boarding Torpedo Space Marine Landing Craft Allies: Sisters of Battle - Space Marines - Primaris Marines Forces of the Deathwatch Command: Forge Master - Keeper - Deathwatch Chaplain Watch Captain - Watch Master - Deathwatch Epistolary Deathwatch Librarian Troops: Deathwatch First Company Veteran - Deathwatch Champion Terminator Squad - Veteran Squad - Kill Team - Kill Marine Blackshield Walkers: Venerable Dreadnought - Deathwatch Dreadnought Vehicles: Bike Squad - Rhino - Razorback Land Raider (Land Raider Redeemer - Land Raider Crusader) Flyers: Corvus Blackstar Spacecraft: Kill-Ship - Boarding Torpedo Drop Pod - Space Marine Landing Craft Allies: Space Marines - Primaris Marines Forces of the Grey Knights Command: Brotherhood Champion - Grand Master - Librarian Techmarine - Chaplain - Apothecary Troops: Grey Knight Paladin - Interceptor Squad - Justicar Purgation Squad - Purifier - Strike Squad - Terminator Squad Walkers: Dreadknight - Doomglaive Dreadnought - Venerable Dreadnought Vehicles: Land Raider (Land Raider Crusader - Land Raider Vortimer) Rhino - Razorback (Razorback Vortimer) Flyers: Stormraven - Stormtalon - Stormhawk - Thunderhawk Spacecraft: Aquila Lander - Boarding Torpedo Drop Pod - Space Marine Landing Craft Allies: Inquisition - Sisters of Battle	Forces of the Sisters of Battle Command: Triumph of Saint Katherine - Canoness Ecclesiarchy Battle Conclave - Imagifier Ministorum Priest - Palatine - Dogmata Sororitas Command Squad Troops: Avenging Angel - Arco-flagellant - Battle Sister Squad Celestians - Crusaders - Death Cult Assassin Dominion Squad - Novitiate Squad - Retributor Squad Seraphim Squad - Sisters Repentia - Zephyrim Squad Walkers: Paragon Warsuit - Penitent Engine - Mortifier (Anchorite) Vehicles: Castigator Tank - Exorcist Immolator - Repressor - Rhino Special Vehicles: Pulpit of Saint Holline's Basilica Superheavy Vehicles: Mobile Cathedral Flyers: Avenger Strike Fighter Spacecraft: Aquila Lander - Drop Pod Saints: Living Saint - Geminae Superia Non Militant: Orders Dialogous - Orders Famulous - Orders Hospitaler Orders Pronatus - Hagiolater Allies: Black Templars Forces of the Adeptus Custodes Command: Companions/Hetaeron - Shield-Captain - Blade Champion Troops: Allarus Custodians - Aquilon Terminator - Custodian Guard Custodian Warden - Sagittarum Guard - Sentinel Guard Vexilus Praetor - Venatari - Warder Walkers: Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought - Telemon Heavy Dreadnought Venerable Contemptor Dreadnought Transports: Coronus Grav Carrier - Grav-Rhino Rhino - Venerable Land Raider Vehicles: Caladius Grav-Tank - Dawneagle Jetbike Gyrfalcon Pattern Jetbike - Pallas Grav-Attack Flyers: Ares Gunship - Orion Gunship - Stormbird Titans: Warlord-Sinister Pattern Battle Psi-Titan Spacecraft: Drop Pod Auxiliaries: Sisters of Silence - Solar Auxilia

Chaos

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Forces of the Traitor Legions of Chaos Leaders: Chaos Champion - Chaos Lord - Daemon Prince - Dark Apostle Master of Execution - Sorcerer - Master of Possession - Lord Discordant Unaligned: Chaos Chosen - Chaos Raptors - Chaos Space Marine Squad - Chaos Spawn - Chaos Terminators Cultist - Havocs - Mutilators - Obliterators - Possessed - Tech-Assassin - Warp Talons - Warpsmith Negavolt Cultist - Greater Possessed - Dark Disciple - Heretek Faction Aligned: Khorne Berzerkers - Plague Marines - Noise Marines - Rubric Marines Great Crusade-era: Breacher Siege Squad - Consul - Despoiler Squad - Destroyer Squad - Esoterist Consul - Legiones Decurion Legion Herald - Legion Outrider Squad - Legion Vigilator - Moritat - Master of the Signal - Praetor Reconnaissance Squad - Seeker Squad - Sky Hunter Squad - Tactical Support Squad - Inductii Structures: Noctilith Crown - Skull Altar Walkers: Chaos Dreadnought (Ferrum Infernus - Chaos Contemptor Hellforged Leviathan - Hellforged Deredeo) - Helbrute Vehicles: Bike Squad - Chaos Land Raider (Land Raider Hades Diabolus) - Infernal Relic Predator Kratos Heavy Assault Tank - Mastodon - Predator Tank - Rhino Transport - Sicaran Battle Tank Stalk Tank - Vindicator - Typhon Heavy Siege Tank - Spartan Assault Tank - Rapier Armoured Carrier Whirlwind Scorpius - Termite - Cerberus Destroyer - Fellblade Flyers: Harbinger - Hell Blade - Hell Talon - Fire Raptor Storm Eagle - Xiphon Interceptor - Thunderhawk - Stormbird Spacecraft: Dreadclaw Assault Pod - Kharybdis - Doomfire Bomber - Swiftdeath Fighter Titans: Daemon Knights - Chaos Emperor Titan - Feral Scout Titan Ravager Battle Titan - Chaos Warlord Titan - Woe Machine Unaligned Daemon Engines: Decimator - Defiler - Death Wheel - Forgefiend - Heldrake Maulerfiend - Soul Grinder - Wirewolf - Venomcrawler - Helstalker Daemon Engines of Khorne: Blood Reaper - Blood Slaughterer - Brass Scorpion - Cauldron of Blood - Death Dealer Doom Blaster - Kytan - Lord of Skulls - Skull Reaper - Tower of Skulls Daemon Engines of Nurgle: Blight Drone - Contagion - Foetid Bloat-Drone - Myphitic Blight-Hauler Nurgle Plague Tower - Plague Hulk - Plagueburst Crawler Daemon Engines of Slaanesh: Hell-Scourge - Hell-Knight - Hell-Strider Questor Scout Titan - Slaanesh Subjugator Daemon Engines of Tzeentch: Aether Ray - Doom Wing - Fire Lord of Tzeentch Mirrorfiend - Silver Tower of Tzeentch - The Auruntaur Auxiliaries: Chaos Daemons - Death Guard - Thousand Sons - Emperor's Children - World Eaters - Fallen Angels Forces of the World Eaters Leaders: Berzerker-Surgeon - Chaos Champion - Daemon Prince The Eightbound - Lord of Khorne - Master of Execution Troops: Chaos Spawn - Chaos Terminators Jakhals - Khorne Berzerkers Great Crusade era: Caedere - Devourers - Rampager Red Butcher - Red Hand Walkers: Berserker Dreadnought - Helbrute Vehicles: Chaos Land Raider - Predator Rhino - Vindicator Seacraft: Ragnarok-class Oceanic Battleship Spacecraft: Dreadclaw Assault Pod - Kharybdis Daemon Engines: Blood Slaughterer - Brass Scorpion - Forgefiend - Defiler Heldrake - Kytan - Lord of Skulls - Maulerfiend Daemons: Bloodletters - Bloodcrushers - Flesh Hound Auxiliaries: Cultists - Khorngors Allies: Chaos Daemons - Chaos Space Marines

Forces of the Fallen Command: Cypher - Fallen Champion Troops: Fallen Flyers: Stormtalon - Thunderhawk Spacecraft: Drop Pod Allies: Chaos Space Marines Space Marines (Dark Angels Exempted)