Editing Rapier Armoured Carrier (section)

==History==
In the [[Great Crusade|early years of the Imperium's history]] the Rapier was a common weapons platform used by the Imperial Army at both the company and regimental level. Under ideal conditions each company would have a support squad with five Rapier carriers plus other weapons, while regiments had support companies of ten machines each, such as five Rapiers and five [[Mole Mortar Team|Mole Mortars,]] though attrition often accounted for fewer numbers of these weapons.

Of course nowadays, the Rapier is now exclusive solely for the Space Marines as difficulties in manufacturing these complex devices coupled with the increasingly stubborn hoarding of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus|Mechanicus]] and competition with smaller, lighter, easier to maintain and cheaper to make anti-tank weaponry such as a pintle-mounted Lascannons or Plasmacannons among the growing Imperial Guard has resulted in a drastic decline for these dedicated tank-hunters.

Of course even in the 41st millennium, the Rapier still found some company in Chapters which descend from the [[Imperial Fists]] and [[Iron Hands]] Legions who are now known mass users of Rapiers, and have even employed them for boarding assaults.