Picture the scene – foul Traitors/foolish Loyalists (delete as appropriate) cower behind their latest fortress. Your squadron of Deimos-pattern Predators, though great at tearing other tanks to tatters, aren’t cutting the mustard against such enormous ramparts. You need something bigger! You need something that hits like a haymaker from the Emperor’s own fist. You need a Vindicator.
The last word in mobile wall-removal packs a massive centerline-mounted demolisher cannon – a huge shell-lobbing bombard that trades the long range of artillery for awesome destructive power. It’s quite content to turn anything it hits into confetti, but excels at cracking Fortifications and other buildings.
During the Age of Darkness, it was common to fit Vindicators with magna laser destroyers to take on super-heavy vehicles and Titans. These batteries of up-gunned lascannons toss out more shots than the Sicaran Venator’s lone neutron beam laser, and trade the extreme range and destructive power of the neutron laser battery found on the Cerberus for the privilege of not occasionally blowing up in your face.
Both loadouts are included in the new kit, plus a hefty dozer blade and the usual bevvy of pintle-mounted guns. The rules for this mighty armour-cracker can be found in the Liber Astartes and Liber Hereticus rulebooks – the Vindicator can be fielded in squadrons of up to three, so get to planning your armoured division and you’ll soon feel… vindicated.
That’s not all for the Age of Darkness – more reveals from Warhammer: The Horus Heresy are coming next Thursday, just as planned.