The Leagues of Votann are here. The first wave has already reached people throughout the community, and the rest of the army is preparing for deployment. Chief among the reinforcements is the crown jewel of any League's garage – the Hekaton Land Fortress.
Living up to its name, the Land Fortress is hefty with a capital H. It’s covered in thick void armour panels, has a cavernous transport capacity of 12 Hearthkyn Warriors or Cthonian Beserks,* and positively bristles with the deadliest guns the Kinhosts can bring to bear. It’s a statement in maximalist design from some of the greatest engineers in the galaxy.
Each of these rugged battle tanks starts as three stuffed sprues – with a cheeky fourth sprue of transparent plastic for its many canopies. These don’t just contain the robust side panels, terrain-tested wheels, and formidable undercarriage of the Land Fortress – they also supply its immense armoury.
Ferrying Kin across the battlefield is an important job in its own right, but the Land Fortress is also a weapons platform. Stock, this beauty comes with a pan spectral scanner for sweeping terrain, a cyclic ion cannon that unleashes high-powered blasts, a rear-mounted MATR autocannon, and a whopping four bolt cannons – the latter on spherical mountings for maximum field of fire.
The discerning user can swap out some or all of the bolt cannons for ion beamers, and exchange the primary turret for an SP heavy conversion beamer, a Brôkhyr-enhanced STC weapon that the Imperium especially covets. And when the Leagues absolutely need to obliterate a heavy vehicle or turn an elite infantry squad into a fine mist, the Land Fortress can mount the truly fearsome heavy magna-rail cannon.
The utility of the pan spectral scanner can also be traded for a missile launcher hardpoint, with a choice of three devastating once-per-game munitions. Take your pick from the haywire havoc of an Ancestor’s vengeance warhead, the tank-busting power of a mountain breaker warhead, or an infantry-shredding Kin’s wrath warhead.
The Hekaton’s multipurpose design is evident in the plethora of details strewn across its looming chassis. Tough roll cage bars and various heavy-duty lamps hark back to the Kin’s industrial mining expertise, while the reinforced canopy covers the Hearthkyn driver and his Ironkin co-pilot – a totally faction-defining image.
These indomitable battle tanks will be rolling out of Holds worldwide very soon. Sign up for the Warhammer Community newsletter to find out when your Kinhosts requisition request is ready to be fulfilled.
* Or you can squeeze in six exo-armoured Einhyr Hearthguard.