Editing DOOMWHEELS (section)

== Lore of the DOOMWHEELS ==
The DOOMWHEEL is [[Clan Skryre]]'s crowning achievement, and the very greatest work of that absolute madrat [[Ikit Claw]], who was obsessed with outdoing himself on pretty much every weapon he'd had a hand in developing up to that point. The DOOMWHEEL is the result of that obsession; a terrifying design so openly and unabashedly "Skaven" that even the imperial college of engineers look at this mechanical monstrosity and scratch their heads at the thought of how the hell these things even manage to stay upright without exploding immediately. The team of rats inside the wheel both power the guns by charging the warpstone generator, and also keep the thing moving, while the drugged out Warlock-Engineer directs the DOOMWHEEL forward, blasting warp-lightning until it runs out of things to shoot. Part of its genius is the sheer audacity of it: most don't know what the hell the Skaven are doing when they first see it, and are often caught very off-guard by the team of mutant ratmen getting into this overturned barrel of warpstone. They are usually then completely smashed flat or zapped into dust by said warpstone barrel moving faster than most cavalry charges.

That said, as engineeringly and aesthetically perfect as they are, they do have at least a ''few'' downsides. Inevitably the rats rolling around in the wheel itself eventually get exhausted or begin to pass out from inhaling warp fumes, and the DOOMWHEEL slows to a crawl, and a stationary DOOMWHEEL is a near-dead one; as it can't recharge after it fires its blasts of warp-lightning, and more importantly, can't run over any man-things that might be interested in its immediate and total destruction. The [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarfs]], having long been victims of the DOOMWHEEL, have a suitably grimdark strategy of sacrificing their own cannon crews to get these things slowed down enough that their artillery can hopefully blast them apart in a suitably wild explosion.

Tactically, they are the Skaven's ultimate linebreaking behemoth, designed to just run over anyone or anything that happens to be in the Warlock-Engineer's ''very'' addled vision, and cause absolute havoc. They're good for just about that and that alone, but it's saying something that even after the [[The End Times| world got butt-fucked]] [[Age of Sigmar|and then rebooted]], DOOMWHEELS didn't even change much, because they didn't have to.