Daemon Engine

A daemon engine is, as the name suggests, a machine which has been constructed/fused with a daemonic entity and resulted in the combination of the two into a living mechanical creature that often is all but unstoppable.

Daemon Engines can be found in many shapes and forms in a number of RPGs and miniature games, often representing some of the greatest horrors in those settings.

In Warhammer it was first used in Warhammer 40k with possessed vehicles which could be controlled by daemons. The first proper one has to be the Defiler though, a giant six leg crag/spider walker with a big cannon, claws and an intense amount of terror added. After that a few years later more daemon engines would be popping up in the later edition of the Chaos Marine codex and now you can field armies of these monsters with your chaos marines, a host of clanking, oil and blood leaking horrors.

In Warhammer Fantasy the Chaos Dwarfs, always such cheery fellows, decided to get on in the action and create their own hell cannon, which is powered by feeding people into the maw of the cannon which then fires their spiritual remains as powerful barrages. For a while the chaos dwarfs that came with the cannon as crew were the only official ones made by GW. Thankfully Forge World have now made a whole load of chaos dwarfs models so you field an army of the tusky psychos and whats more they have a whole host of daemon engines now, including a daemon train powered by death to pull all of your engines into battle. All hail the rape train of dwarfy death!