Baneblade
It's a big fucking Imperial tank. Known for an impressive arsenal (OF GUNS), and disappearing en masse.
The Baneblade is a super-heavy tank fielded by the Imperial Guard in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Besides looking totally kickass, it stomps a lot of ass as one of the bad-assest machines of war in the Imperial armories. It is supposedly one of the oldest, and largest tank designs used by the Imperium, simply because it kicks that much ass. Baneblade models for WH40k Tabletop have been available from Forge World for some time, but recently, GW has released a model of the Baneblade for the new Apocalypse expansion of the tabeltop.
Besides being XBAWX HUEG, the Baneblade is renowned for its shootiness; it can deliver death to the enemies of the Imperium from any of it's weapon mounts including: a turret main cannon (causes much rape and rage) and coax autocannon, a secondary hull-mounted demolisher cannon, 2 turreted lascannons and 6 (twin-linked) heavy bolters in side sponsons brings the grand total of ELEVEN BARRELS OF HELL for smiting enemies. And if that's not enough some fa/tg/uys like to add 4 more sponsons which would bring it up to 22 weapons of mass rape turning the Baneblade into a mobile fortress. If you didn't understand any of that, it means lots of death to go around.
In the Dawn of War PC game the Baneblade is the IG super-heavy unit, equivalent to the Chaos Bloodthirster Daemon, or Eldar's Avatar of Khaine. Only it's better because instead of a winged cow with an axe or a big flaming homosexual in a loincloth, it's a fucking giant tank.
This thing is so awesome Commissar Yarrick uses a customized, "commandeered" Baneblade as his own transport. It's known as THE FORTRESS OF ARROGANCE.
The chassis of the Baneblade, like all imperial guard tanks, has variations one of which is the Shadowsword class superheavy. Like the Baneblade its fucking huge but unlike the Baneblade boasts a really hugefuckingmassiveass lazor of mass rape called a volcano cannon which can rip the shields off of titans and eat tanks for fucking breakfast, from a very, very long distance of course. The Shadowsword also has its own set of variants, the Banesword for example has a shitfuck huge gun which is more generalized in eating tanks, kinda works like a Basilisk except its bigger and has more guns. Another variant is the Stormsword which has a pair of short barrelled Gau-8's or megabolters shoved in place of the hugefuck cannon. This megabolter tears infantry and tanks to shreds as it spams bullets like a motherfucker (It's bullets are also Rocket propelled grenades).
If you still don't get it, the Sword class generally sports weapons that normally go on titans.
Its a well known fact that the crewmembers of baneblades are chosen exclusively on the grounds of how big their balls are. This makes them able to shout "Failure is the weakness of the enemy" "Releasing ELEVEN barrels of hell" and "All guardsmen, Follow ME to GLOOREEEEY" and being the only badass non Hero unit in the entire Imperial Guard. Template:Wh40kStub
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