Legiones Astartes – Legion Rapier Battery
- Legion Rapier Battery 40 pts
One of a number of similar designs utilised by the Imperium’s armed forces, Rapier carriers are semi-automated tracked weapons carriers with on-board targeting systems and power generators. Designed to mount support weaponry too large and cumbersome for even the superhuman strength of a Space Marine to carry, the Rapier’s relatively small size and mobility makes it a perfect support weapon both in defence and offence where larger field artillery and armoured vehicles cannot go due to their size or weight. The most common armaments mounted on the Rapiers of the Space Marine Legions are quad heavy bolters and laser destroyer arrays, for anti-personnel and anti-armour use respectively, while so-called ‘thudd gun’ multi-launchers are favoured for siege warfare and suppressive fire. More rarely, a Legion’s Techmarines will also use Rapier carriers as mounts for more exotic weaponry for special operations, such as the graviton cannon.
| LD | CL | WP | IN | |||||||||||
| M | WS | BS | S | T | W | I | A | LD | CL | WP | IN | SAV | INV | |
| Legion Gunner (⌀32mm) | 7 | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| Legion Gunner (⌀32mm) | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | - | - | - | 3+ | - |
| Rapier Carrier (⌀Use model) | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| Rapier Carrier (⌀Use model) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3+ | - |
- Bolt pistol (Legion Gunner only)
- Bolter (Legion Gunner only)
- Power armour (Legion Gunner only)
- Gravis heavy bolter battery (Rapier Carrier only)
- Legiones Astartes (X)
- Bulky (4) (Rapier Carrier only)
- Relentless (Rapier Carrier only)
- Legion Artillerists
- Legion Gunner: Infantry (Heavy)
- Rapier Carrier: Infantry (Artillery, Heavy)
- A Legion Rapier Battery may include:
- - Up to 2 additional Rapier Carriers* +40 points per model
- Every Rapier Carrier in the unit may exchange its Gravis heavy bolter battery for one of the following (all Rapier Carriers in the unit must take the same upgrade):
- - Laser destroyer +25 points each
- - Graviton cannon+20 points each
- - Quad launcher (with frag shells only)+20 points each
- A Rapier Carrier Battery that includes Rapier Carriers with quad launchers may take any of the following additional shell types The same upgrades must be taken for all Rapier Carriers in the unit:
- - Incendiary shells+5 points per model
- - Shatter shells+20 points per model
- - Splinter shells+10 points per model
This datasheet has Elites Battlefield Role. Full list of Legiones Astartes units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:
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.Made from high grade composite armour plating over an augmenting musculature of electro-fibre bundles, power armour features its own energy systems, sensors and environmental seals. Legiones Astartes power armour is the signature wargear of the Space Marine Legions and subject to an on-going evolution in design stretching back to the Thunder Warriors of the Unification Wars of Old Earth, fused with the wisdom of the Mechanicum of Mars and technological relics recovered over the years of the Great Crusade. At the outset of the Horus Heresy, the most common patterns employed by the Legions are the ‘Crusade’ and ‘Maximus’ types, with the ‘Iron’ pattern favoured for siege and close assault work, although there are considerable customised panoplies and many other Legion-specific sub-patterns in service.
Power armour provides a 3+ Armour Save.Skilled beyond the arts of mortal warriors in the employment of artillery to its most deadly effect, these artists of shot and shell know best how to place each strike from their guns.
A Legion Rapier Battery must have one Legion Gunner per Rapier Carrier in order for all Rapier Carriers to make Shooting Attacks in the Shooting phase. If, at the start of any of the controlling player’s Shooting phases, the Legion Rapier Battery contains fewer Legion Gunners than Rapier Carriers then only a number of Rapier Carriers equal to the number of Legion Gunners may make Shooting Attacks in that Shooting phase. In addition, as long as there are at least as many Legion Gunners in the unit as there are Rapier Carriers then the unit cannot be Pinned, automatically passing any Pinning tests it is called upon to take without any dice being rolled, and all Legion Gunners in the unit gain a bonus of +1 to their Leadership Characteristic (this bonus is lost immediately once the number of Legion Gunners is reduced to less than the number of Rapier Carriers in the unit).