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Invader ATV

2021-01-13T02:44:02Z

2601:4C1:C400:4050:2082:B60D:DE2D:8FCE: /* Gallery */

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[[File:Invader_ATV.jpg|300px|right|thumb|*Cue Mario Kart music*]]

''Not to be confused with [[Invaders]] chapter.''

{{Topquote|In the grim darkness of the distant future there is only *BING* *BING* WAHOO!|Brother Mario}}

In a complete first for the [[Primaris Marines]], the power-armored wonders finally got a vehicle that is neither a motorcycle nor a hovertank. This probably sounds great, at least until you realize that it's just a doubled-up Primaris Attack Bike- and one paired with a design that stretches 40k's expected suspension of disbelief to near-absurdity. Seriously, look at it.

The Invader All-Terrain Vehicle, also known as the Invader ATV or simply as the Invader, is a light scout vehicle that can be armed with either an [[Onslaught Gatling Cannon]] or a [[Multi-Melta]] with a twin-linked [[Astartes Boltgun|Bolter]] on the driver's front. This allows the Invader to lay down some serious supporting firepower. Unfortunately, it also ''looks'' more like a go-cart than a proper combat vehicle, which is the main reason why people hate it.

Immediately after its reveal to an unsuspecting world, this wonderfully dopey thing spawned a metric fuckton of memes and [[skub]]. While the 'ATV' space marine bike conversion is not unknown the Invader is... well, let's just say the [[Wolfquad|Genestealer Cults]] did it better. Even hardcore Primaris players find the Invader difficult to like. Still, it does have its boons, it's... damn. No, on second thought, it's really pretty bad.

Alternative take: Come on! It's a dune buggy with power armour! That's fun in a bun, and who doesn't like Mario Kart? Just fire up the Rainbow Road theme of your choice and you're good to go! It also states in the fluff that it can fold itself to modify its ground clearance; this is most evident with the back wheels. Why the model doesn't actually do that is a mystery.

==On The Tabletop==
While undoubtedly silly looking, this face lifted Halo Warthog DOES have it's uses. Compared to the other fast attack options like the [[Land Speeder]] or [[Bike Squad|Attack Bike Squads]], it's by far the toughest, but can't cover the same ground that the other two can. At 80 points in 9e, it's exactly what it looks like, two attack bikes stuck on top of each other with an extra wound, with the option to upgrade to an Onslaught Gatling Cannon or a Multi-Melta of your choice, which you should always be choosing one or the other. The gatling cannon gives it better shooting than an Attack Bike squad with heavy bolters, while putting the melti-melta on this thing has the potential to be a strong dedicated anti-tank platform.

There's also the fact that it has the biker keyword instead of vehicle, so while it can be healed by apothecaries the Jan 2021 faqs put a stop to '''combat revival''' shenanigans.

It's definitely not the worst, and has a place in certain chapters that appreciate tough units, just be ready to be laughed at as hard as possible for taking the Primaris Go-Kart unless you're good at kitbashing.

The laughing will stop when they realize they have multi-meltas.

== Gallery ==
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image:Invader1.jpg|I CAN'T HEAR MY OWN PURGING OVER YOUR ROTOR CANNON BROTHER
image:Invader2.png|Double Dash was the shit!
image:Invader3.jpg|It's not the ATV we deserve, and not the one we need right now...
image:Yfrfw5y91p651.jpg|"Let's-a-go you blue sons-a-bitches."
image:Invader-invictor-transform.jpg|"Evidence of Cawl plundering more [[Transformers|Xenos tech!]]. If your wondering where the gunner went. He has to get out and walk like a sucker."
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Destroyer Squad

2021-01-12T18:51:48Z

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:''Not to be mistaken with the [[Destroyers]] Chapter''
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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?[[File:Destroyer_Legiones_Astartes.jpg|border|thumb|right|300px|The fact that the paint is coming off just tells you how messy their weaponry is]] 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 millennia, as had been the case during Terra's [[Age of Strife|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 using a 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 [[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 the capabilities of Mortarion's geneseed, the Death Guard would become ''the'' experts on biological and chemical warfare and were sent to places that would prove fatal for normal Space Marines. And because of their love for this type of warfare, the already dubious XIV Legion would be seen with even greater suspicion by the rest of the Legiones Astartes. 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]]===
{{Topquote|We have come! 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 of weapons 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, whose own biosphere wasn't exactly in good condition either), 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 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]]. After the Horus Heresy, it is suspected that the Dreadwing were formed into the [[Star Phantoms]] Chapter, given they share the skull hourglass insignia.

===Grave Wardens===

The alchemical warfare specialists of the [[Death Guard]]. While the XIV Legion's regular Destroyer squads contented themselves with plain old rad and phosphex, the Grave Wardens used stuff that made those weapons seem tame by comparison, like cullgene gas and vasgotox fluid. This meant that they had to wear heavily modified Cataphractii Terminator armor so they wouldn't be killed by their own munitions. Their armor also contained special gas projectors, which allowed them to shroud themselves in a toxic fog known as the Death Cloud.

===Pyroclasts===
A specialist unit based on the Destroyers and unique to the [[Salamanders]] Legion, Pyroclasts were pyromaniacs even by the Salamanders' 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 flame 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 swathes of enemies or focus their streams in order to cut through armor. Apart from this fancy weapon, every Pyroclast wore a suit of armor called a Mantle of Ash, which was even more heatproof than typical Astartes armor.

===Angel's Tears===
The Destroyers of the [[Blood Angels]] legion. Much like the Dreadwing of the First Legion, they were drawn from the ranks of other companies. Service in the Angel's Tears was temporary, and they were deployed only on the orders of [[Sanguinius]] himself when the complete and utter annihilation of an enemy civilization was called for. Each member donned a silver mask and set aside his identity for the duration of the deployment, [[Aspect Warrior|taking on the guise of a true angel of destruction]]. The anonymity insulated the chose Marines against the stain of atrocity that they committed while serving in the Angel's Tears, allowing them to return to their original rank and company afterwards without any censure from their brothers.

Angel's Tears deployed as jump pack-equipped Destroyers armed with twin [[volkite]] serpenta pistols, and could swap their weapons for a wide variety of guns including rotor cannons, assault cannons, heavy flamers and rad grenade launchers.

===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.

In ''Lorgar: Bearer of the Word'', it's revealed that the original Ashen Circle were all hardcore Imperial loyalists who, for obvious reasons given the whole faith-obliterating thing, were extremely unhappy with the religious nature of the Word Bearers. When the smackdown came at Monarchia, they were pretty pleased that the Word Bearers were going to get back on the track of obliterating faith as opposed to engaging in it, but their excitement at the turnaround didn't last long. [[Kor Phaeron]] and [[Erebus]] promised them the chance to burn a bunch of Lorgar's religious works, which caused much rejoicing among the Ashen Circle. However, joy soon turned to ashes (see what we did there?) in their mouths when the obliteration opportunity turned out to be a giant trap and they were slain to a man before they even really realized what was happening. Then Kor Phaeron and Erebus had their remains torched to hide the evidence, which is a classic bit of hamfisted irony from Black Library.

===[[Nemesis]] Chapter===
The 22nd Chapter of the [[Ultramarines]] Legion, known as the Nemesis Chapter, was a conglomerate chapter consisting of a number of specialized units, most famously two whole companies of Destroyers. [[Roboute Guilliman]] didn't care for them very much, since their specialization in completely wiping out anything that ever lived on a planet went against his general desire to colonize and civilize worlds, as opposed to just nuking them back to the [[Stone Age]]. In order to try to get them back into the fold, Guilliman appointed a new, young hotshot Captain named Eleon Iasus to try and get them moving towards the Ultramarines ethos. It sort of worked, despite the fact that some of the captains in the 22nd went so far as to outright disobey Iasus during the Battle of Thoas (resulting in a geological catastrophe that killed the disobedient officers, whoopsy daisy) and Guilliman reluctantly began to incorporate them a little bit more into the battle lines of the Ultramarines as the Heresy got worse and worse.

Some elements were present at the [[Battle of Calth]], where they mustered in the highlands far away from civilian population centers. At Pyrrhan, the 22nd led the way laying waste to unending ranks of daemons with their devastating weaponry, because sometimes the best way to deal with Chaos is just to coat it in Phosphex and radiation until it stops moving. They also participated in boarding actions against the Word Bearers at the Battle of Anuari. After the splitting of the Legions, the 22nd went to form the Nemesis Chapter, a Second Founding Ultramarines successor chapter. Maybe they kept their love of horrifically devastating weaponry, but we don't know. Their last recorded action was when they committed their entire chapter to fight the Necrons in the [[Orphean War]] because sometimes the best way to deal with Necrons is just to coat them in Phosphex and radiation until they stop moving (or phase out or pray to Ra or whatever they do these days).

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Moritat

2021-01-12T18:50:59Z

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The suicidal one-man armies of the [[Legiones Astartes]], the marines that comprised the ranks of the '''Moritat''' were known to be a special case of psychological disorders and who abandoned any self-preservation, just to get to the enemy and murder them in the most violence-fuelled ways imaginable. Always attacking with determination that no other warriors in Imperial history had, Moritat Marines were the epitome of one-man army.

Originally being exclusive to the [[Raven Guard]] and being called there the Ash Blind (Sable Blind by the people of Deliverance), these warriors were veterans, who by some strange means, succumbed to a mental condition that caused them to fight with suicidal fervor and determination, as well as with a urge to murder the closest enemy. Most of these warriors died, yet those who survived were recovered and nursed back for later use. [[Corvus Corax|Corax]] organized these Raven Guard marines into Shadow Killers. Highly effective shock troopers and assassins due to their great usefulness. In fact, the Ash Blind proved to be so good at their job of [[FATAL|anal annihilation]] that during simulated battles, the [[Ultramarines]] suffered a large number of defeats when they sparred with the sons of Corax in simulation battles when the latter deployed those suicidal maniacs.

[[Roboute Guilliman|Robbie]], being the tactical analyst, looked at the Ash Blinds and pulled the same stunt like in the case of [[Perturabo]] and his Tyrant Siege Terminators when the former created his Fulmentarus Terminators. He declared the Ash Blind worthy of refining and thus created the Moritat. Unlike the Fulmentarus, the Moritat did find its way into every Legion.
The Ash Blind mutation makes more sense than what [[Wulfen|two]] [[Red Thirst|other Legions with]][[Wulfen| genetic defects]] did to Astartes (and way cooler than turning into Furries or being used as cannon fodder). As it could be seen as a gene flaw that only comes out when a Raven Guard has a flash of PTSD. Instead of flipping out to [[Rip and Tear]] he loses his shit and decides to shoot or assassinate anything that isn't an ally.

Armed with an arsenal of Volkite Serpentas or Plasma Pistols linked to their jump-pack's power-source via feed cables, the Moritats proved to be very nasty warriors who could jump in, unleash a never-ending hailstorm of Volkite/Plasma fire and jump out to look for more prey. Volkite and Bolters are options when waiting for their handguns to cool down from the intense volleys.

So spake the fluff. The crunch is rather less forgiving to them, having been heavily nerfed since their inception and making them a rather expensive, limited, one-trick pony, only able to be joined by [[Destroyer_Squad]]s who are also somewhat of a one-trick pony. Which is a pity because the models are baller. The best way to use them is kit them out with all the upgrades. Take a Plasma and Volkite Pistol, a Volkite Charger so he can overwatch without losing shots, and a jump pack to get out of dodge. The pack also synergizes well with [[Destroyer_Squad]]s. Who can also have jumppacks so they don't have to take what they dish out.

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