Study of one of many darkest, blight-ridden instruments of the Adeptus Astartes, the sinister Area Marine Destroyers, and their forbidden weaponry.
Destroyers
Area Marine Destroyers have been a sort of elite Area Marine squad employed through the Nice Campaign and Horus Heresy.
World Eaters Destroyer in Mk.IV Maximus armor.
Outfitted with in any other case forbidden or proscribed weaponry from the Age of Strife comparable to radioactive, organic, or different horrific strategies of loss of life, Area Marine destroyers have been usually shunned or appear as dishonorable by their Legion counterparts. Nonetheless, as a consequence of their fight effectiveness, they have been thought-about a essential evil by Imperial commanders.
Led by a Area Marine Sergeant, Destroyer Squads have been most sometimes outfitted with Missile Launchers armed with Rad Missiles or Volkite Serpenta. Additionally they generally carried Phosphex Bombs, Rad Grenades, and Melta bombs. To raised rain loss of life upon their foes, they have been typically outfitted with Leap Packs.
Forbidden Weapons
Rad Missiles
Rad Missiles have been a sort of Rad Weapon deployed through the Nice Campaign and Horus Heresy. These Terran-derived missiles are a horror of the genetic wars waged through the Age of Strife, utilizing customized loaded-warheads which mix excessive explosive fragmentation expenses lined with radioactive isotopes. The impact is to create an intensely poisonous radiation weapon that inflicts a hideous loss of life on its sufferer regardless of their resilience. Due to its contaminating and hideous nature, it was deployed sparingly, mostly by Destroyer Area Marines.
Phosphex Bombs
Phosphex Bombs are lethal Phosphex Weapons used through the Nice Campaign and Horus Heresy.
These bombs include phosphex, a uncommon corrosive toxin, and incendiary compound. It expands on contact with the air right into a seething, liquid mist which burns with an eerie white-green flame that’s drawn to motion. This flame ignites metallic and eats into dwelling tissue, and extra ominously cannot be extinguished by any means wanting publicity to a vacuum. However as efficient as this horrific weapon is, its use shouldn’t be widespread because it has a tainting impact on planets past even radiation or nuclear weapons. Thus they have been solely sparsely deployed by Destroyer Area Marines or in Imperial Military Medusa‘s, the place they have been often known as Phosphex Shells.
Rad Grenades
Rad Grenades are weapons utilized by Inquisitors of the Ordo Xenos or Area Marines. Rad grenades detonate in a bathe of tiny, radioactively-contaminated fragments. Every particle’s radioactive emissions have a millisecond half-life, guaranteeing that the thrower can cost in with out exposing himself to contamination. However, these enemies caught within the preliminary blast will really feel the rad grenade’s debilitating affect for a while afterward.
Volkite Serpenta
Volkite Serpenta – Pistol model of the Volkite household.
Subscribe to our publication!
Get Tabletop, RPG & Pop Tradition information delivered on to your inbox.
Volkite weapons are a Mechanicum time period for a sort of historical thermal ray weapon courting again to the Age of Strife.
Possessing a killing energy surpassing most armaments of their measurement, Volkites have been little-understood and tough to copy on even essentially the most succesful Mechanicus Forge Worlds. Volkite weapons might Deflagrate natural matter, explosively burning flesh into ash and jetting hearth. A direct hit by a Volkite weapon might trigger a goal to easily combust, usually taking close by comrades with them.
At one level they have been comparatively frequent within the fledgling Area Marine Legions, however by the point of the Horus Heresy have been a rarity and had been changed by the extra versatile and simple to fabricate bolter. The lack of Forge Worlds throughout The Horus Heresy sped the decline of Volkite weapons within the Imperium.
Telerac sample weapons are way more historical and ill-omened than even these designated ‘Proteus’, the title implying darkish associations with the technological horrors of the Age of Strife. The scarcity of dependable provides of Volkite weaponry noticed many Telerac sample weapons restored to service, and thoroughly maintained within the Area Marine armories.
World Eaters “Crimson Hand” Destroyer.
Notable Destroyer Formations
Angel’s Tears – Blood Angels Legion
The Angel’s Tears, also referred to as the Erelim, Damaged Blade, Silver Masks, or Lifeless Hand, have been warriors of the Blood Angels through the Nice Campaign and Horus Heresy.
These Leap Pack-equipped infantry have been identified for the merciless devastation that they delivered to the foe. Every particular person warrior bore the title Erelim and served as Sanguinius‘ wrath set forth by his will to scour away these he decreed unworthy of being saved. They have been among the many mostly seen warriors of the Innermost “Sphere” of the Legion, serving the function different Legions seek advice from as Destroyers. Befitting their darkish responsibility, they wore silver loss of life masks etched with oaths of retribution. As with the opposite warriors of the First “Sphere” of the Blood Angels, such because the Sanguinary Guard and Crimson Paladins, the Angel’s Tears forsook their previous names and identities and took up new ritual titles, symbolic of their new roles as true Angels of Demise. Angel’s Tears have been mentioned to finally return to regular Legion service, eradicating their loss of life masks and taking on their previous names. This was to distance them from the loss of life and slaughter they triggered whereas in service because the Angel’s Tears.
The Angel’s Tears took to the sector solely on the direct order of Sanguinius himself, solely when the whole destruction of an enemy was deemed essential. They have been armed with a wide range of taboo and unique weapons comparable to Phosphex Grenades, Volkite Serpentas, and Rad Grenade Launchers.
Dreadwing – Darkish Angels Legion
The Dreadwing was one of many six specialised formations referred to as Wings of the Darkish Angels Area Marine Legion through the Nice Campaign and Horus Heresy.
The specialty of Dreadwing was whole warfare the place the voted-lieutenant bearing title Dreadbringer used Interemptor Squads supported by different varieties of squads to carry whole annihilation of a foe on particular battlefield. The Dreadwing additionally utilized mass armored assaults of Land Raiders, Spartan Assault Carriers, Mastodons, Whirlwinds, Vindicators, Arquitor Bombards and Fellglaives with superior Warp weaponry. They have been additionally identified to make use of weapons of mass destruction comparable to Phosphex and Vortex Weapons. The superior weaponry of the Dreadwing was designed by the Emperor‘s personal armorers.
Their emblem was described as a cranium in an hourglass design. As of M41, the unit not exists.
Karaoghlanlar – White Scars Legion
The Karaoghlanlar, translated from Chogorian because the Darkish Sons of Demise, have been a formation of the White Scars through the Nice Campaign and Horus Heresy. The Karaoghlanlar consisted of squads just like that of Legion Destroyers and answered on to the council of Stormseers. They have been deployed in fight when the utter annihilation of the enemy was required, in addition to for sure ritual roles throughout key campaigns
Pyroclasts – Salamanders Legion
Shunning typical Destroyer models inside his legion (save a small pressure for Xenos extermination operations) because of the unclean and tainted nature of the weapons they wield, Vulkan as an alternative created the Pyroclasts and gave them highly effective thermal-incendiary weapons of his personal creation, the Pyroclast Flame Projector. To the Salamanders hearth itself has virtually a mystical operate and fact, embodying purity, rebirth, and redemption. However for the renewal to happen, what has gone earlier than should be purged by hearth. The Pyroclasts embody the final idea faithfully.
Pyroclasts wore Mantles of Ash, finely wrought artificer plates long-established with flecks of obsidiax crystal from the volcanoes of Nocturne and draped with the hides of the Damen-Salamanders who dwelt inside their fiery depths. This gave them added safety in opposition to flame weapons
Crimson Hand – World Eaters Legion
Solely these Destroyers who bore the World Eaters‘ Blood Hand on their energy armor might have the fitting to enter its ranks. This mark was earned by those that had demonstrated exemplary ferocity or violence within the title of their Legion. In battle, the Crimson Hand have been constantly within the World Eaters’ vanguard, as they sought to show themselves ever-worthy of bearing the Blood Hand. This led them to fireside their Destroyer weaponry at their foes, even when their fellow World Eaters could be caught within the blast. Thus the Crimson Hand weren’t drawn collectively by way of brotherhood or camaraderie, however as an alternative by way of rivalry and enmity. Because the Horus Heresy developed, they have been all the time discovered within the vanguard, reaping a bloody toll and dressing themselves in gory gildings.
In battle, they might be outfitted with Leap Packs and carried melee weapons, that have been paying homage to the ritualistic gladiatorial weapons of historical Romanii. Additionally on account of their Destroyer weaponry which included Phosphex, Melta, and Radiation Grenades, the Crimson Hand’s energy armors have been left closely broken, although have been additionally nonetheless operational. Once they have been grouped in squadrons, the Crimson Hand have been individually known as Ravagers and have been led by officers often known as the Blood Bonded.
Ultramarines Destroyer in Mk.II Campaign armor.
~Maybe it’s best for the galaxy that such horrors have been misplaced to the flames of the Heresy.
Dad, Gamer, Writer, Pilot, Texan. All video games on a regular basis since junior-high.
I began BoLS Interactive in 2006. I’m a lifelong tabletop & RPG gaming fanatic, and web writer working to entertain and inform my readers each day.
I have been taking part in RPGs and Tabletop Video games for the reason that Nineteen Seventies. I am been taking part in and masking Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for over 35 years.
