Editing Vindicator (section)

==Variants==
Vindicators are used by both the Loyalist and Traitor Marines, seeing more use with the latter due to the Chaos Marines' version being a hell of a lot better for the faction fielding it. In addition to obvious upgrades, like Extra Armor, the Chaos Vindicator can pack a Combi-Weapon (Bolter, plus a one-shot secondary weapon, useful for that initial rush into combat), can mount a Dirge Caster (no Overwatch within six inches), and most notably, a [[Havoc Launcher]], which lets the Vindicator fire off a long-range weapon for when it can't move into close-combat. The king of upgrades for it, by and large, however, is Daemonic Possession, which eliminates Crew Stunned and Crew Shaken results on a two up, but reduces the Vindicator's BS to 3. Any Vindicator with this upgrade is virtually guaranteed to last long enough to get a shot off, and it's not as if you care if a template that large scatters two inches anyway.
[[File:99590101422_DeimosVindicatorLaserDestroyer01.jpg|300px|right|thumb|It's like one fine day, someone just had to say, "Hmmmm...no....the [[Sabre Tank Hunter|Sabre]] just ain't good enough..."]]
===Deimos Pattern Vindicator Tank Destroyer===
One day some Space Marines saw the Imperial Guard shooting rapier laser destroyers out of Chimeras, and got mad that they couldn’t do that party trick with their no-bulky-allowed Rhinos. So they sat down, had a beer (the Space Wolf representative brought enough Fenrisian ale for everybody), and thought: “We can’t put the rapier in a metal box so…let’s just take the gun and mount it ON a metal box!” “And give it MOAR POWAH!” shouted a techmarine from the other end of the table. And thus the Vindicator Tank Destroyer was born.

Unfortunately, 10 thousand years of misplacing the url files of the Vindicator Tank Destroyer's schematics mean that not a lot of these guys are made nowadays. [[Fellblade|Whilst]] [[Jetbike|fairing]] [[Spartan Assault Tank|better]] [[Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer|than]] [[Typhon Heavy Siege Tank|other]] [[Sicaran Battle Tank|Imperial]] [[Orgus Flyer|vehicles]] [[Dreadnought#Deredeo Pattern|of]] [[Dreadnought#Leviathan Pattern|its]] [[Dreadnought#Contemptor Pattern|era,]] cost upkeep in terms of its maintenance kind of made this bad boy an uncommon sight nowadays. Only fielded under the most intense and murderfuckingtastic of battlefields.

Unlike the rapier’s 36” range and AP2, the Tank Destroyer’s [[Laser Destroyer Array]] has 48” range and AP1. On top of that, if the tank doesn’t move it becomes Ordnance 2, and can choose to overcharge to Ordnance 3, at the cost of a pseudo Gets Hot.

The Vindicator Tank Destroyer can also be taken by Chaos Space Marines too. Daemonically possessed laser destroyer? Yes, please.
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