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[[File:Stormraven_gunship_iron.jpg|Just like that, but even LESS aerodynamic|250px|thumb|right]]The '''Stormraven Gunship''' (also known as The Brick, The Hindenburg Class Gunship, Dorn's Nightmare, The Pig ("I'll stop mutilating corpses when Pigs fly!"), The Anvil, The I Can't believe It's Not Aerodynamic and The Dude This Shit Will Not Fly) is a vehicle used by [[Space Marine]]s in the [[wargame]] [[Warhammer 40,000]]. | [[File:Stormraven_gunship_iron.jpg|Just like that, but even LESS aerodynamic|250px|thumb|right]] | ||
[[File:Stormraven-2.jpg|Hey look, an actual picture|250px|thumb|left]] | |||
The '''Stormraven Gunship''' (also known as The Brick, The Hindenburg Class Gunship, Dorn's Nightmare, The Pig ("I'll stop mutilating corpses when Pigs fly!"), The Anvil, The I Can't believe It's Not Aerodynamic and The Dude This Shit Will Not Fly) is a vehicle used by [[Space Marine]]s 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. Sometimes, a smaller aerial insertion is what is required, and the Stormraven fills that role. It is built for maximum air resistance so that the air can never defeat the Space Marines. | 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. Sometimes, a smaller aerial insertion is what is required, and the Stormraven fills that role. It is built for maximum air resistance so that the air can never defeat the Space Marines. | ||
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== Tabletop == | == Tabletop == | ||
It used to be that only [[Grey Knights]] and [[Blood Angels]] armies could take the Stormraven, because apparently, the Stormraven didn't exist when [[Roboute Guilliman]] wrote the [[Codex Astartes]], and because the Grey Knights did not seem 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), but when the Death From The Skies Compendium was released the [[Ultramarines]] and [[Black Templars]] gained access to the Stormraven as well. Now with Angels of Death and the Ravenhawk Assault group, the [[Raven Guard]] get it as well. [[Retcon|Why they were never mentioned as having it before, no one knows.]] [[File:Stormraven_Conversion.jpg|Thank god for conversions|250px|thumb|left]] | It used to be that only [[Grey Knights]] and [[Blood Angels]] armies could take the Stormraven, because apparently, the Stormraven didn't exist when [[Roboute Guilliman]] wrote the [[Codex Astartes]], and because the Grey Knights did not seem 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), but when the Death From The Skies Compendium was released the [[Ultramarines]] and [[Black Templars]] gained access to the Stormraven as well. Now with Angels of Death and the Ravenhawk Assault group, the [[Raven Guard]] get it as well. [[Retcon|Why they were never mentioned as having it before, no one knows.]] [[File:Stormraven_Conversion.jpg|Thank god for conversions|250px|thumb|left]] | ||
Revision as of 11:46, 25 April 2017
The Stormraven Gunship (also known as The Brick, The Hindenburg Class Gunship, Dorn's Nightmare, The Pig ("I'll stop mutilating corpses when Pigs fly!"), The Anvil, The I Can't believe It's Not Aerodynamic and The Dude This Shit Will Not Fly) is a vehicle used by Space Marines 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. Sometimes, a smaller aerial insertion is what is required, and the Stormraven fills that role. It is built for maximum air resistance so that the air can never defeat the Space Marines.
Thankfully for those of us who don't like the stumpy appearance, Chapter House is selling a conversion kit that extends the fuselage into something that could actually hold 12 people.
Tabletop
It used to be that only Grey Knights and Blood Angels armies could take the Stormraven, because apparently, the Stormraven didn't exist when Roboute Guilliman wrote the Codex Astartes, and because the Grey Knights did not seem 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), but when the Death From The Skies Compendium was released the Ultramarines and Black Templars gained access to the Stormraven as well. Now with Angels of Death and the Ravenhawk Assault group, the Raven Guard get it as well. Why they were never mentioned as having it before, no one knows.
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," due to it AV 12 12 12, and was often kitbashed as such. As far as actual preformance goes it's fairly versatile for a flyer, being capable of being given plasma cannons, twin-linked multi-meltas, hurricane bolter sponsons, and a mish-mash of other weapons. With solid armour all around and three hull points, the Stormraven can take as much damage as it dishes out.