Legiones Astartes – Legion Sokar Stormbird
- Legion Sokar Stormbird 850 pts
The Sokar pattern Stormbird is a dedicated attack lander, developed from the various Warhawk and Nephoros class Stormbird assault transports utilised by the Yndonesic Bloc during the Unification Wars on Ancient Terra, and adapted by the Emperor for his early Legions. The Sokar itself was one of the later patterns developed and was the design precursor to the smaller, more widely produced Thunderhawk Gunship. It was conceived as a specialised, highdurability orbital assault craft — almost a mobile bastion and firebase — which could land a Space Marine strike force and withstand heavy ground fire while its passengers forced a landing zone. To this end, the Sokar’s design features allround gun turrets and particularly dense composite armour plating comparable to a main battle tank. It is further protected by void shield generators which it can extend to protect disembarking troops and war machines. Multiple thruster units ensure that even if several engines are damaged, the Sokar is still airworthy, making it a powerful if somewhat ungainly flyer.
| Armour | Transport Capacity | ||||||
| M | BS | Front | Side | Rear | HP | ||
| Legion Sokar (⌀No official base size) | |||||||
| Legion Sokar (⌀No official base size) | 16 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 52 |
- Two Hull (Left) Mounted twin-linked lascannon
- Two Hull (Right) Mounted twin-linked lascannon
- Two Turret Mounted twin-linked heavy bolters
- One Hull (Rear) Mounted twin-linked heavy bolters
- Six Hull (Front) Mounted hellstrike missiles
- A Legion Sokar Stormbird has one Access Point on each side and one Access Point via the rear ramp.
- Legiones Astartes (X)
- Assault Vehicle
- Power of the Machine Spirit
- Transport Bay
- Auxiliary Vehicle Bay
- Void Shields (2)
- Vehicle (Flyer, Hover, Lumbering, Transport)
- A Legion Sokar Stormbird may exchange all of its hellstrike missiles for:
- - One Hull (Front) Mounted macro-bomb cluster+50 points
- A Legion Sokar Stormbird may exchange any of its Hull (Left) Mounted twin-linked lascannon for:
- - Hull (Left) Mounted Gravis heavy bolter batteryFree
- A Legion Sokar Stormbird may exchange any of its Hull (Right) Mounted twin-linked lascannon for:
- - Hull (Right) Mounted Gravis heavy bolter battery Free
The Space Marines of the Emperor’s Legions are genetically engineered, psycho-indoctrinated warriors with superhuman abilities, and minds and souls tempered for war. Each of the Legions has its own idiosyncrasies and character – the product of their gene-seed and the unique warrior cultures fostered by their masters.
Any unit with this special rule will have a number of additional special rules and abilities specific to their ‘named’ Legion, all of which will be defined in other Horus Heresy – Age of Darkness publications. A Space Marine unit may only have one such ‘named’ rule, e.g., Legiones Astartes (Sons of Horus). Space Marine units from a different Legion may only be included in an army using an Allied Detachment and in conjunction with the Allies in the Age of Darkness chart.The interface between this vehicle’s advanced machine spirit and its fire control mechanisms allows the crew to target foes with incredible accuracy.
A Vehicle with this special rule may attack different targets with each Ranged weapon it is permitted to fire during any Shooting Attack.This vehicle is specifically designed to disgorge troops into the thick of the action.
Passengers Disembarking from Access Points on a Vehicle with this special rule can Charge on the turn they do so (including when forced to make an Emergency Disembarkation) unless the Vehicle arrived from Reserves that turn.This datasheet has Lords of War Battlefield Role. Full list of Legiones Astartes units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:
Some of the largest transport vehicles are specially designed to carry both infantry and engines of war into battle, allowing versatile battle groups to be deployed to the battlefield at once. These rare war machines are often restricted to the most elite of an army, and used to tackle the most perilous of missions.
A model with this special rule may carry models of the Dreadnought and Automata Unit Types, as well as models with the Cavalry Unit Type but not the Antigrav Sub-type. Each Dreadnought model uses 10 points of Transport Capacity, while each Automata and Cavalry model uses up a number of Transport Capacity points equal to twice its starting Wounds Characteristic.The largest of transports are so vast that they can carry smaller vehicles into battle. Such huge engines of war are rarely deployed, save to the most dangerous of conflicts where an army must bring the maximum possible force to bear upon the foe or must traverse the most dangerous of terrain.
Models with the Vehicle Unit Type may Embark on a model with this special rule, Embarking and Disembarking as per the normal rules for Embarking/Disembarking. A model with this special rule may carry one model with the Vehicle Unit Type whose starting Hull Points Characteristic is 4 or less. A model with the Vehicle Unit Type Embarking or Disembarking from a model with this special rule may do so from any point on the model’s base, or its hull if it has no base.Some vehicles are equipped with almost impenetrable shields of energy, relics from ancient times known as void shields.
A model with this special rule has a number of void shields, as listed on its profile. Shooting Attacks which Hit a model with this special rule instead target this model’s void shields while at least one remains active. Void shields have an Armour Value of 12. A successful Glancing Hit, Penetrating Hit or any successful Hit from a Destroyer weapon which targets a void shield causes it to collapse, reducing the number ‘X’ by -1. When the number of void shields is reduced to 0, this special rule has no further effect and subsequent Shooting Attacks target the model instead. Void shields have no effect on close combat attacks, and may not be affected by close combat attacks.