Repulsor Tank

"So in summation, what you have before you is a troop transport that can't carry troops, a skimmer that's too heavy to clear any terrain worth mentioning... a quasi-tank with less armor than a Land Speeder but with enough firepower to take out half of Macragge City?"

– Adept Fanning, on reviewing the STC design notes of the Repulsor Tank.

A lightly armored transport that traded most of it's troop capacity and armor for an absurd amount of guns to negate it's low survivability. This thing really is the M2 Bradley of the 42nd millennium.

The Repulsor, aka. the Landraiderspeeder, aka. Landspeeder 2; Electric Boogaloo, aka. Chadmarine Wave Serpent, is another brainchild of Magos Belisarius Cawl (and presumably his huge fucking supply of drugs, seeing as it looks like a GI Joe vehicle). For a long time it was the only vehicle capable of carrying our Chadmarines. Yes, not even fucking Land Raiders and Mastodons are capable of carrying these guys ...for some reason. I guess these humble Space Marine vehicles just weren't hip enough with the NuMarines.

The Repulsor, though clearly derived from the same Standard Template Construct patterns as other vehicles of the Adeptus Astartes, is the first armored vehicle deployed by the Imperium of Man to make use of anti-gravitic technology since the days of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. The Repulsor is manufactured by the forges of Mars under the command of Archmagos Dominus and everyone's favorite mad scientist cyborg, Belisarius Cawl; like most of the new wargear produced for the Primaris Space Marines. It is unknown whether Cawl incorporated recently recovered ancient technology to produce the design, or whether it emerged from his own mind as part of his radical turn towards the former heresy known as "innovation." Given Cawl's reputation and history with such things, the latter is the more likely explanation.

The ventral plates of the Repulsor came about through Archmagos Dominus Cawl’s desire to create a transport worthy of his Primaris Marines; a vehicle that could strike suddenly and repeatedly at the enemy until the day was won. The tank he designed is indeed capable of traversing almost any terrain, even lava streams or lakes of boiling acid should the need arise. However, it moves little faster than the armored behemoth of the Land Raider, for its power is directed more into the manipulation of clashing gravitic energies than forward motion (translation: messing with gravity so it stays in the air). Anyway, unlike other skimmer vehicles it has the effect of crushing any terrain it floats over, making sure anyone trying to hit its underside gets a nasty surprise, as one unfortunate chaos marine found out. Even getting close to it is difficult due to the strength of the gravitational fields that surround it.

The Repulsor is also notorious for the amount of guns it carries. Seriously, this thing is fucking ridiculous. Its turret alone makes a Battlefortress blush in shame. Even a Baneblade would go, "Woah there buddy, calm the fuck down!" (Except for the Stormhammer, which wept a single tear in pride). I mean, it has even a gun on its rear end, so yes, it is one of the few ground vehicles not vulnerable from surprise butt sex from the occasional sneaking Catachan Devils. The weapons found on this nasty tank includes the las-talon or onslaught heavy gatling cannon in the tank’s turret that blasts apart enemy vehicles that could conceivably pose a threat, whilst the extensive suite of bolt weaponry, auto launchers, heavy stubbers, and grenade launchers lay down a storm of horde-killing firepower. Orks wet themselves when they see this. At least there are no fucking multi-lasers.

So far the Repulsor has only been seen extensive use during the Indomitus Crusade started by Papa Ultrasmurf. More variants is coming under way to further boost the forces of the Imperium.

For some bizarre reason, the Las-Talon (Fun fact: it's the same gun on Stormhawk) has the exact same profiles as the Twin Lascannon just with a shorter range, even though its in the turret and therefore the primary weapon. Also in Dark Imperium novel the Repulsor Tank has ability to drop from orbit into the midst of battle like a drop pod. Sadly this ability does not tranfer to the tabletop. I guess 20 S8 Ap-4 D2 plus 4 Lascannon shots on the first turn is too OP.

Repulsor Executioner

Anti-tank and a battle tank? It's even reasonably designed? What is this world coming to?

And for some reason, GW only recently realized that the Primaris Marines lacked both a dedicated battle tank and a dedicated anti-tank unit, so they decided to implement a new tank with the coming of Apocalypse. Enter the Repulsor Executioner, which on first glance appears to be the Primaris answer to the Predator Tank, until you learn it STILL has transport capacity, making it a true Primaris Razorback (or Falcon). One must fear what a Primaris Predator will look like. It has the Aquilon Optics special rule which is basically the Leman Russ's Grinding Advance, being able to shoot twice (with the main Turret) if you move half or less. Just as well, because this thing has a stupid amount of firepower.

The tank appears very similar to the previous version of Repulsor, but most of its guns are now on the turret... which is... better, as there's a more realistic chance most of this thing's absurd dakka can actually aim at things. It also maintains the Onslaught Heavy Gatling Cannon of the original Repulsor as a turret mount, with a hull Twin Heavy Bolter and only an Ironhail Heavy Stubber as a pintle mount as far as we know (oh, and two more Ironhail Heavy Stubbers still inexplicably mounted on its backside). However, it's the main weapons that give this vehicle its functions. The first of its new armaments is the familiar Macro Plasma Incinerator, previously seen on the Redemptor Dreadnought, which may actually find a purpose for once, since it's not competing too heavily with other weapons. The other option is the Heavy Laser Destroyer, which is the Lascannon's angrier big brother with a 72" Heavy 2 S10 AP-4 Dd6 that treats all Damage rolls of 1 or 2 as 3 statline. If Aquilon Optics activates then you get at least 12 wounds and if the dice gods smile upon you, that is a potential 24 wounds at S10 AP-4. Prepare thy anuses, for it is going in dry.

Gallery

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  Now all we need is a picture of the one with more guns photoshopped onto it.

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  Why does this look so famili- Dammit Cawl, stop stealing the work of better Magi.

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  They made a movie about the making of the Repulsor.

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  Plasma version of the Repulsor Executioner.