Editing Legio Cybernetica (section)

===Thanatar-Class Robot=== 
[[File:ThanatarRobot.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The Thanatar. For when you need the Biggest Robot in the room.]]
A giant monstrous walking engine of death, the Thanatar is the size of a Tau [[Riptide]], and comes with a twin linked [[Mauler Bolt Cannon]], a massive [[Hellex Plasma Mortar]] or [[Solex Heavy Lascannon|Solex-pattern heavy Lascannon]], as well as a [[Graviton Ram]]. The Hellex Mortar is a ridiculous weapon that is able to launch dense spheres of blazing plasma on arcing trajectories over defensive barriers and into the heart of enemy fortifications, [[Rape|incinerating anything in their blast radius with a liquid tide of sun-hot fire]].

The Thanatar's frame, built to accommodate the huge weapon and its power system, is considerably larger than even the bulking Castellax. Its frame is also heavily reinforced, both to withstand the recoil of firing its weapons and protect it from incoming attacks.

Its armor makes it essentially impervious to small arms attacks no matter how advanced. Due to the enormous power required to power its colossal weapons, the Thanatar was considerably larger than other Battle-Automata. Unlike many of the models produced for the Legio Cybernetica, the origins of the Thanatar pattern robot remain unclear. Save that its Hellex Plasma Mortar is only produced on the Forge World of Ryza.

In the 30k tabletop, the basic Thanatar is 240 a pop, but they're T8,S8 2+. They get the infamous Hellex Plasma Mortars, which are ordnance barrage Str 8 AP 2 plasma blasts which force rerolls on cover saves. Go look up a picture and see how sexy they are.

If you want a moronic looking list, take them in a full-size unit of five. If you are a [[That Guy]], you can take one Thanatar and give him Paragon of Metal. <u>'''He'll never freaking die.'''</u> BS5 and -1 to enemy cover from Advanced Targeting will fit well too.

There are two variants of the Thanatar:

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====Thanatar-Calix Class Siege-Automata====
[[File:Thanatar-Calix.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The Thanatar-Calix [[Anal circumference|ripping holes into the rear ends of countless vehicles.]]]]
The first is the '''Thanatar-Calix Class'''. The Calix-Class was a variant of the standard Thanatar design developed during the later part of the Great Crusade. Rumored to have been developed by the [[Sollex Myrmidon]] and [[Omega-Shevar]] covenants of the [[Ordo Reductor]] alongside the [[Legio Cybernetica]], this design combines deadly tech-arcana from all three factions into a single deadly weapon. Calix Class Thanatars are geared towards the vanguard of siege assault warfare, able to sunder the strongest fortifications and conduct targeted strikes to neutralize defensive hardpoints. Its primary weapon was its [[Solex Heavy Lascannon]], and so precious were these engines that in the rare cases they were deployed many other lesser battle-automata were fielded to protect them.

The Thanatar-Calix's most destructive armament though is the [[Graviton Ram]], a weapon whose origins are lost in the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. The ram's crushing waves of gravitational force can pulverise infantry and vehicles alike, and it can be utterly devastating at both range and close quarters.

If you don't already know, the Thanatar-Calix is a god damned monster. This is the guy who puts the "Siege" in "Siege-Automata". the mortar is replaced with an S10 Lascannon ([[Derp|yes, a single, one-shot-per-turn lascannon, unfortunately]]) but this Thanatar gets an additional Graviton Ram in return, which can be used in shooting as a moderately effective template weapon with Haywire or in melee as an S10 AP 1 armorbane weapon which gets bumped up to str D against buildings(!) However this guy is a [[Powergamer|whopping 295 points,]] so make those potential Strength D hits happen or you're not getting those points back. Unsurprisingly, this Thanatar is a death sentence against vehicles. If it can get close enough, a single turn can see it firing a [[Cheese|S10 AP2 Lascannon and a haywire template, then charging in with 3 S10 AP1 Armorbane hits in melee.]]

Also, never, ever let him be assaulted by infantry (and don't be dumb enough to charge infantry with him). The template weapon forces a strength test instead of rolling to wound - in HH most infantry are S4, so you're going to need 5+ to wound and they can still make 3+ saves. However, against weak tarpit units with low strength, it could work quite well - morale checks caused by this template are taken with a Ld -2 modifier, so you can scare off potential tarpits. A S10 AP1 close combat attack is mostly wasted on infantry, being not at all any more effective than the base S8 AP2 that a normal Thanatar would have.

====Thanatar-Cynis Class Siege-Automata====
The second is the '''Thanatar-Cynis Class''' which was a variant of the standard Thanatar-Calix class designed by the Forge World of Estaban III with an attempt to increase their power and standing within the greater Mechanicum. However due to their competition with Ryza, Estaban III was unable to acquire their plasma technology, resulting in the Cynis pattern of Thanatar being more prone to [[Fail|self-destruction]] despite its fierce power.