Editing Malcador Heavy Tank

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The '''Malcador Heavy Tank''' is an ancient pattern of super-heavy tank, dating to the [[Horus Heresy]], or shortly thereafter (it is named for [[Malcador the Sigillite]], right-hand man of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] and founder of the [[Administratum]]).  Like the [[Macharius Heavy Tank]], it resembles an oversized [[Leman Russ Battle Tank]], but while the Macharius looks like it's been cut and extended in the middle, the Macharius looks like someone at [[Forge World]] made a Russ out of silly putty and stretched it.

Its engine is prone to malfunction (represented in-game as a fifty-fifty chance of being completely immobilized rather than slowed down by engine damage), and in the [[grimdark|grim, dark]] future, a static tank is a dead tank, and so it has since been superseded by the more reliable and cheaper [[Leman Russ Battle Tank]].  That said, the tanks were never destroyed, merely stored; many armory worlds still have large stocks of Malcador tanks on hand in case they are needed for an urgent engagement.

Like every other tank operated by the [[Imperium of Man]], the Malcador comes in many flavors:

== Malcador Heavy Tank ==

The stretched Russ, except with weaker front and side armor, an unreliable engine, and a turret that can't spin all the way around.  The only advantages that this tank has are that its rear armor is slightly better and that it can soak a few more hits since it's a super-heavy.

== Malcador Annihilator ==

Like the [[Predator Tank|Predator]] variant of the same name, the Malcador Annihilator has a set of twin-linked lascannons in its turret (though unlike the Predator, these cannons can only turn 30 degrees to either side), and it also mounts a [[Demolisher Cannon]] in its forward hull.

== Malcador Defender ==

Recognizing that the mostly-fixed-forward turret was a problem, the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] thought up the Malcador Defender.  The turret was given five [[heavy bolters]], each of which covers a roughly 90-degree arc, so the tank can shoot at least one and up to two heavy bolters at anything in any direction (in addition to the sponson weapons).  For anti-armor, they kept the hull-mounted Demolisher Cannon.

== Malcador Infernus ==

It's an Inferno Cannon taken from a [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)|Titan]] and mounted on a tank.  When the tech-priests realized that they had run out of room for fuel tanks, they decided to put them in a trailer towed behind the tank.  In retrospect, this is not one of their smarter designs.  Though it has a longer range and higher strength than the mini-Inferno Cannon used by the [[Hellhound]], it has the unreliable engine (compared to the Fast Hellhound) and a tendency to explode when catastrophically damaged.

== Valdor Tank Hunter ==

This variant was not named for Malcador, but for Constantin Valdor, Captain-General of the [[Adeptus Custodes]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]].  The Valdor tank mounts a Neutron Laser that somehow causes an electromagnetic pulse in tanks it shoots (in addition to putting a big hole in them), but also risks getting damaged by the feedback if it misses.  Because there wasn't enough room in the tank to put shielding around the reactor that powers the laser, the tank is more prone to catastrophic damage and its crew is at an increased risk of getting [[cancer]].

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