Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

2020-09-14T21:59:09Z

2604:2000:1200:C347:E013:FEC9:404D:9EF3: /* Pre-Heresy */

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[[Image:Rogue trader cover no text.JPG|400px|thumb|''''<s>Is that an Ork's head being used as a stick grenade? You bet.</s>'''' No you sperg look closer, he just ripped it clean off da gitz head but it certainly does ''look'' like a stick grenade and both images are ''metal as fuck which is the point.'' (also, here are the [[Crimson Fists]] making their debut)]]
{{Topquote|In the nightmare future of the 41st millennium there is no time for peace. No respite, no forgiveness. There is only war.|Ad in [[Dragon Magazine]] 147}}
Remember when GW was good?

Remember when [[Spaaaaaace Marines]] were the coolest Wombles ever?

Remember when [[Warhammer 40,000]] wasn't all about depressing [[grimdark|GRIMDARK]] WAR at all times?

Remember when [[Leman Russ|a certain furry]] wasn't yet a [[Primarch|demigod]] but merely captain of a Codex compliant legion?

<s>Pepperidge Farm Remembers.</s> So do we.

Welcome to Rogue Trader. Make sure your rose-colored glasses are on nice and tight.

(Warning: Contains dangerous amounts of '80s. <s>987.M2</s>1987, to be precise. Its art and style possessed a sort of indefinable, hand-drawn aesthetic and charm that immediately set 40k apart. Best read when listening to George Michael, Starship, U2, and/or Belinda Carlisle).

''Not to be confused with the [[Rogue Trader (RPG)|Pen and Paper game]] by [[Fantasy Flight Games]], the [[Kill Team]] 2018 expansion, or [[Rogue Trader|actual Rogue Traders]].''

== Background ==
[[Image:Fuckyeahwh40krt.png|100px|frame|right|This '''IS''' Warhammer 40,000]]
This book, the first supplement ever released for Warhammer 40k, was written WAY back in the day when all [[Games Workshop]] put out was [[Warhammer Fantasy|Warhammer]] ([[Age of Sigmar|RIP]]). As in the fantasy kind. People back then would look at you funny if you asked them which one they were talking about because THERE WAS ONLY ONE. Anyway, this archaic tome was created as a GW-supported add-on adaptation of Warhammer, so players could experience the new, futuristic world of [[Warhammer 40,000]]. Needless to say, some people thought it was pretty cool.

Just for clarification, this was written IN THE '80S. This book contains less [[grimdark]] and more hair metal than most [[Neckbeards]] could stand before [[Rage|raging]], but luckily this book is a [[Grandpa Dreadnought|Venerable Dreadnought]]. No joke. It inspires awe and sometimes even [[Fist of the North Star|manly tears]] in neckbeards, its legendary reputation has been passed down for centuries, and it has a wealth of information with which to aid anyone in their quests to create homebrew rules or craft inspired custom models. [[Deoderant Dispenser Land Speeder|This includes how to make a Land Speeder out of a deodorant dispenser, so your army can smell as manly as it looks.]] <s>[[That Guy|Whether or not you do]]</s>. The [[Beakie]] and the [[Squat]] call this book home. This is the impenetrable fortress which crusty old neckbeards sometimes fall back on to defend their arguments and rage about how things suck in <s>5th</s> <s>6th</s> <s>7th</s> <s>8th</s> 9th Edition; and its reputation alone makes all but the hardest-core troll or newest newfag concede defeat. This is where fluff reigns supreme, and everybody was [[awesome]]. It is also a book so enormous that most copies are lost from being used to moor battleships, as anchors proved insufficiently manly. It contains the [[Old School Roleplaying|MOST COMPLICATED THING EVER]] in the form of the Imperial Robot rules.

This is the original source of Warhammer 40,000.

At the time, this was the finished product, what the original creators ''intended''.

This '''IS''' Warhammer 40,000.

==Pre-Heresy==
[[Forge World]] has released a long lineup of so-called "pre-[[Horus Heresy|Heresy]]" models inspired by art from this era. They started with [[powered armor]], like the Mk. III "Iron" and Mk. VI "Corvus" patterns, and moved on to special weapons, including banana-mag-fed [[Missile Launcher]], the old (and still horrendous) [[Flamer]], and of course the AK-47 [[Bolter]] (but the magazine isn't [[Derp|completely unaligned with the ejection port]] anymore). They moved on to re-make the old Land Raider Spartan as the [[Land Raider Proteus]] and brought back the bubble-turret [[Predator Tank]], and now that they're making a whole game line set in the [[Horus Heresy]], they're going all-out. Even the Speed Stick speeder makes a return, as the [[Javelin Attack Speeder]]. These look just as amazing as you think they should, and really live up to the nostalgia; you just have to pay Forge World prices to get them.

==See Also==
* [[Hrud]]
* [[Saharduin]]
* [[Ork#Rokkas|Goff Rokkas]]
* [[Illiyan Nastase]]
* [[Zoats]]
* [[D-Rok]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:ultrawombles.jpg|ULTRAWOMBLES
File:womble_eating_imperial_rations.png|idk, a beakie eatin fish'n chips or summat, innit? (Actually, it's apparently a medic harvesting geneseed.(Nah. Look at those eyes; it's Miller time.))
File:deoderant3.jpg|[[Deoderant Dispenser Land Speeder|This was once a deoderant dispenser.]] With a little love, a little labor, and a little time in the Aspergarium, one can create a thing of true beauty.
File:Grimdark allahuakbar.jpg|allahu akbar
File:Realm of chaos rt era.jpg|That's some pretty edgy shit. "Recommended for Mature Readers"
File:Erewego rtera.jpg|OH FUCK YES
File:Spacedorfs.png|YES, YES...
File:Bikersquats.jpg|space dorf bikers ... B-B-BAD TO THE BONE
File:Spacedorf2.png|SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH .... Mad Max, [[Dwarf|dorf]] edition
File:Firsteditionad.jpg|An ad for Rogue Trader Space Marine models, circa 1988. Features [[Johnny|Brother Craig, aka "Johnny"]], the prophet of /wip/.
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Javelin Attack Speeder

2020-09-14T21:52:16Z

2604:2000:1200:C347:E013:FEC9:404D:9EF3: /* Model history */

[[File:JavelinSpeeder.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Hahahahaha! Fuck your Hull Points!]]
The Javelin Attack Speeder was the [[Land Speeder]]'s older brother, dating back to the Legiones Astartes during the [[Horus Heresy]]. As such, they have become an almost irreplaceable relic, and the ability to manufacture the craft as of M41 (thanks to a ''certain'' mishandling and hoarding of [[Mechanicus|two]] [[Administratum|Adepti]]) <s>has</s> had long since been lost. Apparently, [[Roboute Guilliman|the spiritual liege]] managed to locate an STC of the thing while on a blackstone fortress controlled by the [[Red Corsairs]]

The Javelin was larger and more heavily armored than the common pattern of Land Speeder, its advanced gravitic nullification allowed it to mount an array of heavy weaponry more akin to a tank destroyer than a nimble Land Speeder, allowing them to make pinpoint strikes on enemy armor or infantry with devastating Lascannons or Missile barrages. Those Chapters of Space Marines who date back to the days of the Heresy may still possess a few Javelins if they are fortunate enough.

Basically, if one considers the [[Jetbike]] to be a flying [[Bike Squad|Assault Bike]], then the Javelin is a flying Attack Bike.

[[image:JavelinAttackSpeeder.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Lascannon variant]]
==History==
The Javelin, as mentioned, used technology that has since been lost by a mountain of Administratum red tape. The technology, originating from the [[Dark Age of Technology]], was first designed and manufactured for the Space Marine Legions by the Mechanicum during the Emperor's [[Great Crusade]] near the end of the 30th Millennium. Its late production and the high technology needed to craft these vehicles made them quite rare even in the waning years of the Great Crusade, and moreso during the 41st Millennium. Only Chapters dating back during this era have access to a few of them at most.

On the other hand, the Javelin is also available in small numbers to the [[Chaos Space Marine]] Traitor Legions and Warbands that trace their lineage back to the time of the Horus Heresy.

=== Model history ===

[[File:Gravtank-RT.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Arctic Rush Pattern Grav Tank]]

In the real world, the Javelin's history begins way back in the early days of Warhammer 40,000 (after [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]] but not by much), when [[White Dwarf]] had an article about scratch-building models from everyday objects. One example given was [[Grav-Attack Tank|turning an old stick of deodorant into a speeder]] (with the addition of some plasticard and spare weapons from the bitz box). Forge World made their model in the grand [[Horus Heresy]] tradition of updating goofy things from the late '80s and early '90s.

== Weaponry ==

As previously mentioned, the Javelin is a far more heavily armed variant of the Land Speeder. The Javelin is armed with either a set of twin-linked Cyclone Missile Launchers or Lascannons as its main weapons. These weapons are located on the vehicle's flanks. The Javelin is also armed with a pintle-mounted Heavy Bolter that is used for close-range protection from enemy infantry. The pintle-mounted Heavy Bolter can be replaced with either a Heavy Flamer or a Multi-Melta. The Javelin can also be outfitted with a searchlight and up to two Hunter-Killer Missile Launchers for added firepower.

If you want to have a fast attacking tank killer, take these.

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