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The '''Stormraven Gunship''' is a vehicle used by certain [[Space Marine]] Chapters in the [[wargame]] [[Warhammer 40,000]]. | [[File:Stormraven_gunship_iron.jpg|Just like that, but even LESS aerodynamic|250px|thumb|right]]The '''Stormraven Gunship''' is a vehicle used by certain [[Space Marine]] Chapters in the [[wargame]] [[Warhammer 40,000]]. | ||
Space Marines are, at their core, a surgical strike force, and so they have developed many ways of delivering Marines into precise, heavily-guarded locations. The [[Thunderhawk]] can carry a relatively large number of Space Marines from orbit, but it is an extremely large, inviting target (and, from a [[crunch]] perspective, it is an [[Apocalypse]]-only unit). Sometimes, a smaller aerial insertion is what is required, and the Stormraven fills that role. | Space Marines are, at their core, a surgical strike force, and so they have developed many ways of delivering Marines into precise, heavily-guarded locations. The [[Thunderhawk]] can carry a relatively large number of Space Marines from orbit, but it is an extremely large, inviting target (and, from a [[crunch]] perspective, it is an [[Apocalypse]]-only unit). Sometimes, a smaller aerial insertion is what is required, and the Stormraven fills that role. | ||
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The Stormraven Gunship is a vehicle used by certain Space Marine Chapters in the wargame Warhammer 40,000.
Space Marines are, at their core, a surgical strike force, and so they have developed many ways of delivering Marines into precise, heavily-guarded locations. The Thunderhawk can carry a relatively large number of Space Marines from orbit, but it is an extremely large, inviting target (and, from a crunch perspective, it is an Apocalypse-only unit). Sometimes, a smaller aerial insertion is what is required, and the Stormraven fills that role.
On The Tabletop
At the moment, only Grey Knights and Blood Angels armies may take the Stormraven, because apparently, the Stormraven didn't exist when Roboute Guilliman wrote the Codex Astartes, and because the Grey Knights have not seen fit to allow others to use the technical plans in the millennia that they have employed the Stormraven (while the Blood Angels only got their hands on some Stormravens in M41), and because both chapters have been subjected to the loving attentions of Matt Ward.
The model was only recently released, around the same time as the new Codex: Grey Knights; its initial entry in Codex: Blood Angels didn't even have a picture. As it was a fairly tough transport capable of taking 12 Marines, it became known as a "flying Land Raider," and was often kitbashed as such.