Editing Baneblade (section)

===Other Imperial Models===

====Fellblade====

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[[File:Fellblade.jpg|thumb|left|THIRTEEN BARRELS OF HELL.]]

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The Fellblade is the [[Space Marines]]' main super-heavy tank, not used very much since the [[Horus Heresy]]. It's not so much a variant of the Baneblade as a sibling tank, with a unique [[Forge World]] kit to make it and a couple of its own unique subtypes.

====Fortress of Arrogance====

[[File:Yarrick34b.jpg|thumb|left|Yarrick's fortress of WHERE ARE MY PRUNES.]]

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It is of no surprise that [[Yarrick]] has his own personal Emperor-mobile in the form of the '''Fortress of Arrogance'''. [[Awesome|The Fortress is a sweet-ass black and gold plated Baneblade with unique decals and armaments.]] The Fortress was refitted with an armored cupola, giving Yarrick a "pulpit" from which to command and inspire. While he's clearly in sight of everyone, the cupola is protected by a special force field. The turret also includes enhanced sensor and communications arrays making it far more accurate and have a longer range and penetrative shot than the regular Baneblade. This makes the Fortress of Arrogance an excellent HQ command choice as the ability to inspire nearby troops provides a good morale boost in the midst of battle. Unfortunately Yarrick was [[Herp|pretty bad at maintaining his mobile house of pimps.]] During the the Battle of Golgotha, the tank was crippled by a [[Stompa]], and Yarrick was forced to abandon it when the Imperial forces were routed from the planet. This is the scene of the above mentioned boggle of stupid. An Adeptus Mechanicus Reclamator expedition found the remnants of the venerable Baneblade, [[Fail|after losing like several hundred Guardsmen, 9 companies of battle tanks and ''The Angel Of Apocalypse'' (A Shadow Sword which is arguably rarer than the Bane Blade in question)]]. In a scene of a miracle, the Fortress was barely [[Looted|defiled]] by the [[Orks]] and was able to be fixed by the [[Mechanicus]] in prime condition. As soon as he could, Yarrick had his Baneblade transported to Armageddon, where he would most likely have proceeded to pile-drive it into [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka|Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka's]] [[Anal circumference|anus]] in [[Octarius War|Octarius.]]

====Stormblade====

[[File:Stormblade_Arkurion.jpg|thumb|left|When you need that horde of [[Tyranids]] to fuck off right now. Accept no substitutes.]]

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The Stormblade is armed with a titan-scale [[Plasma Blastgun]]: a [[plasma]]-hurling death weapon that eats [[MEQ]]'s, hordes, hordes of MEQ's, and even light tanks for breakfast. With better range than the Stormlord and a blast radius so big that [[Grey Knights|Plasma Siphons]] feel even worse about existing, it excels at killing hordes of anything in [[Apocalypse]]. Even vehicle hordes. Its origin story starts on the Forge World of Ryza, where despite having the best reputation with regards to plasma technology, they couldn't build Volcano Cannons for Shadowsword tanks. So as an alternative to a giant D-Gun they slapped a giant plasma gun instead. Luckily, because the Shadowsword chassis was so massive, removing the laser generators meant there was plenty of space for a cooling system, so the tank never ''Gets Hot!'' from overuse. As mentioned above, Stormblades in Epic used to have Hellion Missile launchers to add to the amount they could [[Rape]] Titans, however in current 40k they no longer have them. The fluff reason is because the missiles had a tendency to self detonate when exposed to enemy fire, resulting in several tanks being destroyed by their own missiles. So it was figured that the tank and plasma blastgun were more precious than the limited-use ordnance that came as an aftermarket extra, so the missiles were withdrawn. There is also a Legion Astartes version because Forge World got tired of making additional versions of the [[Fellblade]].

====Stormhammer====

[[File:Stormhammer1.jpg|thumb|left|If it weren't so weirdly asymmetrical, it would have been a decently designed tank.]]

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The Stormhammer is a [[Solar Auxilia]] tank for 30K. It differs from the old epic version in that it only has three barrels of [[Battle Cannon]]s - a twin linked two shot hull mounted battlecannon and the (if we use naval terminology for the thing) Superfiring S9 AP2, 7" blast [[Stormhammer Cannon]] with shred and pinning. The standard secondary weapons are six [[multilaser]] sponsons which can be swapped out for [[Heavy Bolter]]s or [[Heavy Flamer]]s for free or [[Lascannon]]s for a cost, a coaxial [[Multilaser]] and a hull mounted [[Lascannon]]. Optional toys are a pintle mounted [[C.S. Goto|multilaser]] or [[Heavy Flamer]] and up to 4 (!) [[Hunter-Killer Missile]]s. All the firepower is rounded out by a 6+ invulnerable save against blast and template weapons, and the ability to reroll failed dangerous terrain tests. The sponson weapons can be traded out individually, letting you choose any combination of multilasers, heavy bolters, heavy flamers and lascannons you want. It fills the same role as the Baneblade as a general purpose superheavy, with a gun for every target. The Stormblade offers more flexibility in loadout, and having 6 sponsons that can be individually customized for any situation allows it to engage even more targets compared to the Baneblade. The original Stormhammer was outfitted with two twin-Battle Cannon turrets and four pairs of Heavy Bolters, along with options for pintle storm bolters and four more sponsons, meaning it could mount seventeen fucking bolters if you were willing to pay for it. The problem? Its turrets all pointed different directions. Parking this thing in the intersection of a city table and pointing its turrets down the streets, however, was as good as denying the area to the enemy completely, unless somebody brought a Deathstrike. Now that 8th has removed facing, when/if Horus Heresy gets updated this thing will be a mean piece of work.

In 9th edition, the Stormhammer remains much the same as in 30K, the main difference being it can't swap out those [[multilasers]] for free anymore- regardless of what you want to swap it for. This makes it the favored vehicle of...fine, I'll say its name. [[C.S. Goto]]. There, I said it. Happy?

====Stormsabre====

[[File:Stormsabre3.jpg|thumb|left|The BAWKSIEST of METAL BAWKSES.]]

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The [[Spartan Assault Tank|Spartan]] of Baneblades, the Stormsabre is a larger and more heavily armored variant of the Baneblade super-heavy vehicle used by the Imperial Guard. In fact, this thing is so heavily armoured ([[Heresy|And most likely illegally modified]]) that it no longer has any reasonable place to put in secondary hull weapons or sponsons. It is also the [[METAL BAWKSES|BAWKSIEST]] superheavy out of the family. Seriously, look at it; it will give [[Firaeveus Carron]] a god damned aneurysm.

Being a kitbashed vehicle that was canonised by Warhammer Community, the original creator, Pete Harrison, states that it is the equivalent to the ancient Terran battering rams; with the Stormsabre's single giant cannon - which is larger than a volcano cannon - being not out of place among the Imperium's space fleets. In battle, the Stormsabre will make short work of any fortifications unfortunate enough to find themselves in front of its hulking frame.

Whilst this means that the Stormsabre is directly competing with the Banesword when it comes to siegecraft, the main difference is one of specialisation. The Stormsabre being even ''more'' of a dedicated siege platform than the Banesword, removing all secondary weapons for a single, FUCKOFF cannon that has a longer range and higher penetrative power than the Banesword's quake cannon, being a full on self-propelled gun dispensing with all that siege tank/assault gun compromise in favor loading the fuckingest gun possible and leaving at that.