AAVP7

2018-06-21T04:32:04Z

2601:147:4200:6280:ACBD:1398:1CA4:6433: /* IRL */

[[File:AAVP7.png|300px|right|thumb|Its a boat, with tracks!]]
The AAVP7 (Assault Amphibious Vehicle, Personnel 7) is a tracked amphibious assault landing vehicle employed by the United States Marine Corps. The AAVP7 is armed with a MK19 40mm automatic grenade launcher and a coaxial M2 .50cal. Crewed by four and with enough space to load up to 25 men, two AAVP7s are quite capable of carrying an entire Marine platoon to the beaches of a foe and beyond.

==In Team Yankee==
[[File:AAVP7 stat card.png|300px|left|thumb|The Stats]]
Hoo-RAH Marines! Our AAVP7 is the largest transport in the entire goddamn game. Capable of carrying a full 7 infantry teams into battle, more than twice that of any other tracked personnel carrier. It also has the strongest frontal armor of any transport, tied with the M113 at an armor rating of 3 (<s>in fact its more like an overgrown M113 than we would care to admit</s> THATS ENOUGH OF THAT BULLSHIT PVT. PILE! DO YOU SUCK DICKS?!). Aside from carrying more than double the number of infantry teams then [[M113 Armored Personnel Carrier|that other amphibious transport]] the AAVP7 has a 40mm Grenade launcher in addition in to its .50 AA MG. Both weapons are good for suppressing enemy infantry but will struggle against any armor it runs up against.

Marine Rifle Platoons get 2 of these amphibious monsters, which with a combined max occupancy of 14 is fully capable of transporting the entire unit.
This lethal combo will cost you 6 points at minimum strength, 9 points at with out any additional weapons teams and a max of 14 points with all the fixins.

Truly, we have the best buoyant box in the entire god damn world.

==IRL==
[[File:AAVP7 IRL.jpg|300px|right|thumb|To the Shores of Tripoli!]]
Manufactured by United Defense, the [[wikipedia:Assault Amphibious Vehicle|AAVP7 "Amtrak"]] replaced the LVPT-5 in 1972 as the US Marines Corps' primary assault transport. The AAVP7 and has served a multitude of conflicts around the world since its introduction Seeing Service in the intervention in Lebanon, Grenada, the Persian Gulf War, and the War on Terror.

The AAVP7 is slated to be replaced by the USMC with the Iveco Super AV in the near future. While Japan is building an upgraded version called the AAV7A1. For the JGSDF buying the AAV makes sense as their a nation of islands. Allowing them to deploy a larger number of squads. As their nearest ally is still angry about what happened during WW2. While America is slowly becoming an unreliable partner as China continues to build up its Navy.
{{US Forces in Team Yankee}}

Destroyer Squad

2018-06-21T03:42:13Z

2601:147:4200:6280:ACBD:1398:1CA4:6433: /* Dreadwing */

An elite formation of the [[Space Marine]] [[Legiones Astartes|Legions]] of old, Destroyer Squads are the guys tasked with doing the dirtiest work other Space Marines would shun. They were formed to fight in a very destructive way, so what was the problem? They did so by using forbidden and proscribed technologies, including horrendously radioactive and toxic weaponry originating from Terra's accursed Old Night epoch, along with such nasty gear like the now-lost Phosphex weapons (bombs in this case). This horrific stuff was as devastatingly effective as it used to be in Terra's dark past, but was so morally questionable and considered dishonorable in general from the P.O.V. of even the most pragmatic Legions (and that's a lot), that they fell into general disuse--after all, what's the point in using weapons like these to reduce enemies to radioactive and/or toxic ash when the ground you gain becomes so inimical to human life as to be useless to you or most anyone else for centuries or even millenia, as had been the case during Terra's Old Night?

The origins of this unit came during the Unification Wars of all things, as they were inspired by the various enemies The Emperor faced when he was conquering Terra in preparation for the Great Crusade. Despite the destructive potential, the Legiones Astartes shunned them, seeing in the Marines that were part of Destroyer Squads as the equivalents to [[That Guy]] (as in the marines themselves were morally dubious for even willingly joining those formations). Nevertheless, Destroyers were seen as a necessary evil by Imperial Commanders for being so damn efficient against Xenos (who had no chance of joining the Imperium at large) or dug-in humans who would not submit and held nothing of strategic value but still needed to be made an example of, though most of the Legions either shunned them, as mentioned previously, or simply didn't have them at all. Fittingly, the only real command personnel who would regularly deploy alongside units of generic Destroyers would be [[Moritat|Moritats]].

Due to the loadout that would make [[Nurgle|Papa Nurgle]] happy, the Legionnaires who were part of the Destroyer corps were heavily affected by their own weapons. Marines would have as [[Grimdark|side-effects abnormally pale skin, said skin rotting away due to cellular degeneration, tainted veins and blood bruises on the flesh, yellow eyes, and finally various aggressive forms of cancer that were so bad they required cybernetic replacements]]. The fact that being assigned to a Legion's Destroyer Corps virtually guaranteed a particularly nasty and slow death, even without any efforts on the part of the Imperium's enemies, meant that such an assignment was a ''de facto'' death sentence for many legionnaires who either stepped out of line or got on the wrong side of their Primarch (though very few tougher-than-nails bastards, such as [[Traitor Legion Loyalists|Crysos Morturg]], would survive for a long time and even thrive in such a lethal occupation).

Needless to say, the one Legion that would be associated the most with these guys would be the Death Guard. Having their superhuman resistances further boosted with capabilities of Mortarion's geneseed, the Death Guard would become the experts on biological warfare and send to places that would prove fatal for normal Space Marines. And because of their love for this type of warfare, the already dubious Legion would be seen with even greater suspicion by the rest of the Legio Astartes for even emitting an aura of taint and horror. A prelude to what the Legion would turn into in the future.

A brief list of Legiones Astartes that had special formations or specialized variants of destroyers in their forces follows below.

===Dreadwing===

"We are here! We are death!" The battle cry of the Dreadwing.

The [[Dark Angels]] had their own formation built around Destroyers called the Dreadwing, which is not surprising since the Emperor had the First Legion originally outfitted with stores from Old Terra, including the formerly-forbidden ones, in his crusade to first take back the Sol System and then conquer the Milky Way Galaxy at large. Due to Destroyers being part of their "standard operating procedure" right from the beginning (since so many of Sol's planets were already naturally lifeless to begin with, ergo having no natural biospheres to taint with the use of Destroyer weaponry aside from Terra's), the Dark Angels were no slouches in deploying Destroyers when the situation called for it, and even armed them with some of the most devastating vehicles and ammunition the proscribed vaults of Old Terra had to offer, such as Phosphex and Vortex weapons. This extended even to heavily armoured vehicles, such as Fellglaives equipped with Warp Cannons, Vindicators firing Vortex Shells, Whirlwind tanks firing radiation missiles and at least one vessel with an Annihilator Cannon. As such, the Dreadwing got the call whenever the Legion needed some really nasty shit to get rid of a target immediately and collateral damage was not an issue. However, a contentious deployment of this formation got the Primarch [[Lion El'Jonson]] and his Legion kicked out of [[Imperium Secundus]].

===Pyroclasts===
A specialist unit based on the Destroyers and unique to the [[Salamanders]] Legion, Pyroclasts are pyromaniacs even by the Salamander's fire fetish standards. [[Vulkan]] saw little place in his Legion for Destroyers (due to their status as That Guy), so he reduced their number to a required minimum he used for xeno-purging, whereas the now naked majority of them he armed with Pyroclast Flaming Projectors, weapons they were named after and which Vulkan himself designed.

The weapons of these warriors were essentially equivalents to Fusion Projectors or [[Ork]] Burnas, they could burn large swatches of enemies or focus their streams in order to cut through armor. Apart of this fancy weapon, every Pyroclast wore a suit of armor called a Mantle of Ash. Power Armour that was even more heat proof and boosted further the Salamander's heat resistant capabilities.

===Ashen Circle===
A specialist division that stood alongside the [[Word Bearers]] Destroyer units. Rather than being tasked with the absolute destruction of the enemy, their duty was to obliterate their enemy's culture, knowledge, and faith; everything which would give the foe the heart to continue fighting. Interestingly, this formation predated [[Lorgar]]'s induction to the Legion, echoing from a time when the Word Bearers were originally the '''Imperial Heralds''', who would bring the truth of the Great Crusade to newly encountered human civilizations.

This meant that they would specifically seek out and burn libraries, schools, churches, and government buildings as well as targeting enemy priests, officials and standard bearers so that it would be easier to replace them with the Imperial Creed when the time came for compliance. To this end they were armed with Hand Flamers and specialist Axe-Rakes, which were designed for tearing down icons and symbols, but were also good for dragging down fleeing targets. They were also uniformly equipped with Jump Packs and combined their drop assaults and charges with bursts of flame.

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