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FV510 Warrior

2021-03-07T01:08:10Z

2601:4C1:C400:4050:6151:73B1:BA84:47F5: /* IRL */

[[File:WARRIOR.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Warrior without its skirts]]
[[File:WARRIORARMOR.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Customization for your mission parameters!]]

While the rest of the world was working on their own equivalent to the BMP, the Brits were busy with The Troubles. Funding was focused on the development of small arms, infantry and special operation forces doctrine, leaving projects like the challenger and FV510 in the dust.

Eventually, the Brits would release the FV510 Warrior to the world in 1988. Like other British vehicles, this was a heavy vehicle with the mobility of a crumpet, the armour of an egg carton, and enough firepower to level a small village before morning tea.

==In Team Yankee==
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The FV510 Warrior is an infantry fighting vehicle designed to engage and destroy enemy IFVs with its 30mm autocannon while having enough armour to survive a peppering of autocannon fire.

British players may note the similarities to the Scimitar: this is a small-ish vehicle that can threaten almost anything on the field besides tanks. Essentially, you're trading the ability to spearhead and scout for some armour, transport capacity and filling out troop slots. Spearhead is key to the threat range of the Scimitar; allowing a platoon of Scimitars to immediately threaten your enemy's artillery and command units. This means your Warriors would usually be used on the defensive, given that most players would use spearheads to entrench infantry on the flanks.

As with other IFVs, the Warrior can take a Milan mount if you wish to turn a stationary, nigh-indestructible missile team into a fragile moving metal box of tank explodey goodness.

The uparmored warrior is a knife fighter, and boasting an assault value of 3+ it will quickly rack up kills in assault with applique armor covering it against most light anti-tank weapons. Get in there and get grinding!

==IRL==
IRL the warrior was created as an armoured transport to keep speed with British Tank units and provide armour and fire support. Armed with the 30mm RARDEN autocannon and L7 general purpose machineguns, warriors have become the standard IFV of heavy infantry and mechanised regiments such as elements of the Rifles, Mercians and Foot Guards.
Warriors would see service in West Germany, Desert Storm (where famously one was hit by a US airstrike killing its whole crew it happened to have driven off course slightly into an active killzone), Afghanistan and Iraq, still remaining as the main UK IFV.

As of 2020 the Warrior is undergoing upgrades. The 30mm RARDEN will be replaced with a caseless 40mm cannon made by CTA International. A joint program between Nexter and BAE Systems. The same weapon mounted are mounted the (french made) EBRC Jaguar & General Dynamics Ajax. The latter is a recon vehicle based on the ASCOD APC. The Ajax itself will replace the [[CVRT]]. If this sounds like a roundabout way to grandfather in the ASCOD with commonality as an excuse. It probably is. Which is better than what the American military industrial complex is doing. As their developing a 30mm caseless automatic cannon instead of joining a program that is already years ahead. So their future combat vehicle won't be adopted until the mid 2030's. [[Fail|About five years or more after the Brits will deploy their own into combat.]]
[[File:DlmP6q279XOjRLvlfF3nYkh3Jn8x1es4xh9vOrTsWy0.jpg|300px|right|thumb|It's like an FV432 with confidence issues.]]

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{{British Forces in Team Yankee}}

[[Category:Vehicles]]

Bradley Fighting Vehicle

2021-03-07T00:52:17Z

2601:4C1:C400:4050:6151:73B1:BA84:47F5: /* IRL */

[[File:TUBX19-03.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Base model]]
[[File:TUBX19-07.jpg|right|thumb|300px|uparmored]]

{{Topquote|A troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance..." "And a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snowblower, but has enough ammo to take out half of DC.|The Pentagon Wars}}

The quintessential Infantry Fighting Vehicle. If you watched the movie ''Pentagon Wars'' starring Cary Elwes or played any sort of FPS or a wargame set during the modern era. You would already know what it is. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was created in response to the Soviet Union's BMPs. It is obviously named after US General Omar Bradley.

==In Team Yankee==
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The Bradley, like any good God-fearing American, is defined by it's impressive arsenal, particularly the TOW-2. As the most powerful missile mounted on an IFV in the game, the TOW-2 is fully capable of penetrating any tank from the front, making hilariously short work of 3rd gen tanks like the Leopard 2, Merkava, and T-64 while also being capable of keeping gen 3.5 tanks like the Challenger and T-80 honest. On top of that, the Bradley is one of a select few vehicles that mounts a RoF 3/3 autocannon in the game, with the fully stabilized, AT8, fp 5+ M242 Bushmaster chaingun. A relatively easy gun to overlook compared to the God-tier missile, the moving RoF and stabilizer on the M242 make it a great weapon for liberating the shit out off the lightly armored BMPs and other support vehicles in your opponents army once you've cleaned out their MBTs.

This would all be great, if it wasn't for one major issue: the armor. The Bradley, also like any God-fearing American, is fat and thin-skinned. Other vehicles get away with this by being relatively insignificant, but not the Bradley. No, the Bradley is fully capable of threatening everything in your opponents force, and if your enemy is keen to that, your Bradleys will have a bad time. Armor 3/2/1 will protect you from enemy MGs and some of the lighter autocannons (pen 6 and below, don't go too crazy), but any tank, missile, or even heavy autocannon will go right through you. Uparmoring helps, bringing you up to 5/4/1 with 13 against all the rockets the infantry in this decade field, but it still struggles against most heavier autocannons and on top of that makes you eligible for deep reserves, forcing you to play a more offensive role. This is exacerbated by the moving RoF 0 of the Bradley's missile, forcing you to sit in sight of the enemy for a sec before you can actually shoot.

This is where the last of the Bradley's strengths come in. The mobility is decent, with a 10" move and all, but it has a 2+ cross. This lets the Bradley abuse cover to block enemy lines of sight and get in good firing positions.

A heavy arsenal and good cross country mobility contrasted with weak armor define the Bradley as a phenomenal ambush unit, exploitation vehicle, and backline support unit. Sneak around the flanks to your opponents artillery for a cheeky surprise. Leave them in ambush and pop them at just the right moment, shoving 12 autocannon or 4 AT23 missile shots down your opponents throat when he least expects it. If you don't have the option to put them in ambush, leaving them in woods or cover, gone to ground until the time is right often has a similar effect. If you get the first shot with these things, they'll do great. You let the enemy get the initiative, and you've lost.

In terms of difference between the M2 and M3, the M3 has 1 more Assault, and drops passengers for Spearhead and Scout.

{{clear}}

==IRL==
[[File:Maxresdefault (1).jpg|300px|right|thumb|[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snnFrwzTDJs| Ba! Ba! BAAAAAAAAA!]]]]

As mentioned before the Bradley was a subject of the Pentagon Wars, two works of fiction presenting itself as a factual documentation of the Bradley's development but being anything but. Both the book created by Colonel James Burton and the movie are completely wrong with the role Burton played in the program and how we has portrayed, and swaths of events are completely bullshit. In reality, Burton's claims of [[What|the trails being rigged were both fueled by his misunderstandings to what the Bradley was capable of as a vehicle in its category,]] [[Fail|And also by his failure to see why using a HEAT-round ballistic test on a IFV that was already known to not have the capability to withstand such rounds is a waste of time]]. Burton believed that the Bradley was going to be an APC much like the M113 and that people just kept adding more cannons and missiles on to it. Not only is this retarded, it seems to undermine that from the very start of the program in 1965, the Bradley was meant to be and IFV in response to the soviets BMP1.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmuVYVREGgE Here's a video from Spookston wish also shows some sources of his research on the subject in the description.]

To be entirely fair to the Military-Industrial Complex, the Pentagon changed its mind about the program requirements and aspects of vehicle design over and over for fifteen years. They wanted it wheeled. No, tracked. No, wheeled again. They wanted a turret with an autocannon. No, a lightweight recoilless rifle. No, a missile launcher. No, we want an autocannon AND a missile launcher. And on and on. It is a small miracle that the program ever settled on a design checklist at all so that the manufacturers could finalize designs. [[derp|Pentagon procurement policy has been like that more or less since Cold War.]]

Fortunately, the Bradley would eventually become a reasonably successful vehicle (depending on who you ask). In real life the Bradley was finally adopted in 1981, four years before Team Yankee takes place.

Redesigned just in time for the Gulf War after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Bradley is currently armed with a M242 Chaingun, TOW missiles, and a M240 Machine Gun. The TOW missiles, of course, are the vehicle's biggest threat. During Operation Desert Storm Bradleys killed more Iraqi Soviet Tanks and armored vehicles than the M1 Abrams. Most losses came from friendly fire incidents, as IFF systems weren't a thing until the early 2000's. The Bradley remains a flexible vehicle that can back up or substitute for the Abrams in both anti tank and urban warfare. However, due to the changing face of warfare with the proliferation of Anti-Tank missiles and Improvised Explosive Devices, it didn't do so well during the Iraq War of 2003-2011: during that period the US Army lost around 150 vehicles with around 700 damaged. Partially due to this the Army began to use the MRAPS after 2007, while Bradleys expecting to fight in urban conditions are often upgraded with the Urban Survival Kit.

The Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle is a updated version of the Bradley that will replace the [[M113_Armored_Personnel_Carrier|M113]], causing mindless fanboys like Mike Sparks to have autistic rage. The AMPV is a bit larger than a Bradley, though, with at least seventy percent of the vehicle being new, making the vehicle more of a cousin to the Bradley than a sibling. AMPVs can be fitted with a variety of weapons including a 30mm remote turret and Javelin Missiles, so now pretty much anything that can be put on top of a Stryker can also also be used by the AMPV.

The Bradley itself (not the AMPV) will be replaced with another IFV in the future; potential candidates include the ASCOD GDLS, the Griffin, or any other Next Generation Combat Vehicle winner, [[Fail|but any new vehicle probably won't be adopted until at least 2035.]] Due to the Pentagon's concurrency bullshit. At a pace this slow, America may as well start buying weapon systems directly from their European allies (BAE bought out United Defense making the European Union the largest arms supplier to the US).

If you're wondering what the IRL difference between the M2 and M3 are, the latter is a ''Cavalry'' Fighting Vehicle, rather than an infantry one. Essentially this means that it carries a small scout section in exchange for better storage of ammunition and other recce related upgrades, allowing it to act as a cavalry style recon unit. And no, sadly Cavalry Fighting Vehicle does not imply it carries horses.

{{US Forces in Team Yankee}}

Helfrost Weaponry

2021-03-07T00:16:35Z

2601:4C1:C400:4050:6151:73B1:BA84:47F5:

'''Helfrost Weaponry''' are basically reverse [[Flamer|Flamers]]. They are a type of specialized weapon class that is deployed solely by the [[Space Wolves]] [[Space Marine Chapter]]. These weapons are powered by rare crystals found only in the most remote corners of the Fenrisian wilds. [[Derp|So mass production would be impossible]] even if they were turned over to the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. [[Fail|Due to being made from a finite resource. Good thing Space Wolves are Mary Sue enough for adversaries to not take advantage of this via orbital bombardment.]]

Helfrost Weapons fire a beam of sub-zero energy that can instantly encase enemies in blocks of ice close to absolute zero, colder than the vacuum of space. Unless the foe can move away from the beam or break free quickly if hit by it, they might remain trapped within their glacial tomb forever, or even shattered into a thousand bloody ice shards. The beam of energy fired by these weapons can either be a focused beam for use against large single targets, or a dispersed beam (AKA a 'icethrower') effective against groups of enemies.

Helfrost weapons might be a type of [[Lasgun|las-weapon]]. "Laser Cooling," as the name says, utilizes lasers to cool down objects by using photons to screw around with their atoms. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling Insert any lame pun as you click the link.] Obviously Helfrost weapons are between decades to centuries more advanced than a laser used by an university or government laboratory.

Example of Helfrost Weaponry at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOWiF8VM-Vg

==Variants==
There are currently three known Helfrost weapons.

===Helfrost Pistol===
[[File:HelfrostPistol.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Helfrost Pistol]]
A Helfrost Pistol is the smallest, man-portable version of the specialized Helfrost Weapons. Helfrost Pistols are weapons used by the Space Wolves ground forces but is more commonly seen among [[Iron Priest]]s and project a short-range but devastatingly effective beam of sub-zero energy at its target.

Flesh hit by the beams blacken with catastrophic frostbite. Armour and weapons buckle and crack. Soon enough, unless the victim can fight their way free, they are entombed forever as a withered mummy in a jagged tomb of ice [[Star Wars|Han Solo style]]. Its a shame it doesn't come in rifle form...yet. Wouldn't it be cool to have an army of reverse [[Sisters of Battle]]/[[Salamanders]]?

In 8th and 9th Edition, the Helfrost Pistol, has been nerfed and therefore, is not quite as absurdly powerful as it used to be. It is basically an Inferno Pistol that deals Mortal-on-6 instead of the Melta at a 2 pt discount. Nevertheless, this Iron Priest-exclusive pistol still packs quite a punch, at double the range of an Inferno pistol.

===Helfrost Cannon===
[[File:Helfrost_Cannon.png|200px|right|thumb|Helfrost Cannon]]
The Helfrost Cannon is a large weapon of the specialized Helfrost Weapons type that is deployed solely by the Space Wolves Space Marine Chapter that is obviously an enlarged Helfrost Pistol given growth hormones and protein shakes. These big guns work on the same way; being powered by rare crystals found only in the most remote corners of the Fenrisian wilds. of course, given the size of these guns, it is unsurprising that these crystals mined must be of such size and therefore, of such rarity that it would most likely be worth more than gold.

The Helfrost Cannon is only mounted on Space Wolf vehicles like the [[Stormwolf]], [[Stormfang]] and [[Dreadnoughts]] due to its large size, and the weapon can fire either a focused beam against large single targets, or a dispersed beam at groups of enemies.

A Twin-linked version of the Helfrost Cannon can be found on a unique and special Space Wolf [[Land Raider]] called the [[Land Raider#Wrath of Mjalnar Pattern (Chapter Approved, only for Open Play)|Wrath of Mjalnar]] and in earlier times exclusively only on the [[Stormwolf]]. Double Helfrost cannons, for twice the frosty power. <s>Lets kick some Ice!</s> {{Blam|BLAM! Referencing Batman and Robin is MOTHERFUCKING HERESY!}}

In 8th and 9th Edition, the Helfrost Cannon was hit with the proverbial nerf bat. Dispersed, it's worse than the plasma cannon. Focused, it's worse than the lascannon. Just take one or the other, and you'll have a much better life.
{{Clear}}

===Helfrost Destructor===
[[File:HelfrostDestructor.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Helfrost Destructor]]
The Helfrost Destructor is the largest of the specialised Helfrost Weapons that are deployed solely by the Space Wolves Space Marine Chapter. The Helfrost Destructor is only mounted on [[Stormfang]] Gunships, [[FAIL|one of the worst looking piece of Imperial Avionics EVER.]] The weapon can fire either a focused beam against large single targets, or a dispersed beam at groups of enemies like all other Helfrost weapons.

Other than the above mentioned twin-linked variety of the Helfrost Cannon mounted on the special Furry Land Raider. The Helfrost Destructor remains one of the most potent Helfrost weapons and anti-infantry weapons of the Yiffers in Space. Which is kind of needed due to the (un)surprising lack of flamers or meltas compared to other Space Marine chapters.

Tabletop wise, Helfrost Destructor lets it shoot once more on Focused mode and D3 more times on Dispersed mode. Dispersed mode is also D2, unlike regular Helfrost Cannons which gives it huge wound potential against heavier infantry.

[[Tl;dr]], much better than the Helfrost Cannon, so take it.
{{40k-Imperial-Weapons}}

Helfrost Weaponry

2021-03-07T00:14:11Z

2601:4C1:C400:4050:6151:73B1:BA84:47F5:

'''Helfrost Weaponry''' are basically reverse [[Flamer|Flamers]]. They are a type of specialized weapon class that is deployed solely by the [[Space Wolves]] [[Space Marine Chapter]]. These weapons are powered by rare crystals found only in the most remote corners of the Fenrisian wilds. [[Derp|So mass production would be impossible]] even if they were turned over to the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. [[Fail|Due to being made from a finite resource. Good thing Space Wolves are Mary Sue enough for adversaries to not take advantage of this via orbital bombardment.]]

Helfrost Weapons fire a beam of sub-zero energy that can instantly encase enemies in blocks of ice close to absolute zero, colder than the vacuum of space. Unless the foe can move away from the beam or break free quickly if hit by it, they might remain trapped within their glacial tomb forever, or even shattered into a thousand bloody ice shards. The beam of energy fired by these weapons can either be a focused beam for use against large single targets, or a dispersed beam (AKA a 'icethrower') effective against groups of enemies.

Helfrost weapons might be a type of [[Lasgun|las-weapon]]. "Laser Cooling," as the name says, used lasers to cool down objects by screwing around with their photons. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling Insert any lame pun as you click the link.] Obviously Helfrost weapons are between decades to centuries more advanced than a laser used by an university or government laboratory.

Example of Helfrost Weaponry at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOWiF8VM-Vg

==Variants==
There are currently three known Helfrost weapons.

===Helfrost Pistol===
[[File:HelfrostPistol.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Helfrost Pistol]]
A Helfrost Pistol is the smallest, man-portable version of the specialized Helfrost Weapons. Helfrost Pistols are weapons used by the Space Wolves ground forces but is more commonly seen among [[Iron Priest]]s and project a short-range but devastatingly effective beam of sub-zero energy at its target.

Flesh hit by the beams blacken with catastrophic frostbite. Armour and weapons buckle and crack. Soon enough, unless the victim can fight their way free, they are entombed forever as a withered mummy in a jagged tomb of ice [[Star Wars|Han Solo style]]. Its a shame it doesn't come in rifle form...yet. Wouldn't it be cool to have an army of reverse [[Sisters of Battle]]/[[Salamanders]]?

In 8th and 9th Edition, the Helfrost Pistol, has been nerfed and therefore, is not quite as absurdly powerful as it used to be. It is basically an Inferno Pistol that deals Mortal-on-6 instead of the Melta at a 2 pt discount. Nevertheless, this Iron Priest-exclusive pistol still packs quite a punch, at double the range of an Inferno pistol.

===Helfrost Cannon===
[[File:Helfrost_Cannon.png|200px|right|thumb|Helfrost Cannon]]
The Helfrost Cannon is a large weapon of the specialized Helfrost Weapons type that is deployed solely by the Space Wolves Space Marine Chapter that is obviously an enlarged Helfrost Pistol given growth hormones and protein shakes. These big guns work on the same way; being powered by rare crystals found only in the most remote corners of the Fenrisian wilds. of course, given the size of these guns, it is unsurprising that these crystals mined must be of such size and therefore, of such rarity that it would most likely be worth more than gold.

The Helfrost Cannon is only mounted on Space Wolf vehicles like the [[Stormwolf]], [[Stormfang]] and [[Dreadnoughts]] due to its large size, and the weapon can fire either a focused beam against large single targets, or a dispersed beam at groups of enemies.

A Twin-linked version of the Helfrost Cannon can be found on a unique and special Space Wolf [[Land Raider]] called the [[Land Raider#Wrath of Mjalnar Pattern (Chapter Approved, only for Open Play)|Wrath of Mjalnar]] and in earlier times exclusively only on the [[Stormwolf]]. Double Helfrost cannons, for twice the frosty power. <s>Lets kick some Ice!</s> {{Blam|BLAM! Referencing Batman and Robin is MOTHERFUCKING HERESY!}}

In 8th and 9th Edition, the Helfrost Cannon was hit with the proverbial nerf bat. Dispersed, it's worse than the plasma cannon. Focused, it's worse than the lascannon. Just take one or the other, and you'll have a much better life.
{{Clear}}

===Helfrost Destructor===
[[File:HelfrostDestructor.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Helfrost Destructor]]
The Helfrost Destructor is the largest of the specialised Helfrost Weapons that are deployed solely by the Space Wolves Space Marine Chapter. The Helfrost Destructor is only mounted on [[Stormfang]] Gunships, [[FAIL|one of the worst looking piece of Imperial Avionics EVER.]] The weapon can fire either a focused beam against large single targets, or a dispersed beam at groups of enemies like all other Helfrost weapons.

Other than the above mentioned twin-linked variety of the Helfrost Cannon mounted on the special Furry Land Raider. The Helfrost Destructor remains one of the most potent Helfrost weapons and anti-infantry weapons of the Yiffers in Space. Which is kind of needed due to the (un)surprising lack of flamers or meltas compared to other Space Marine chapters.

Tabletop wise, Helfrost Destructor lets it shoot once more on Focused mode and D3 more times on Dispersed mode. Dispersed mode is also D2, unlike regular Helfrost Cannons which gives it huge wound potential against heavier infantry.

[[Tl;dr]], much better than the Helfrost Cannon, so take it.
{{40k-Imperial-Weapons}}