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A Stompa is a small type of Gargant, usually mounted with various anti-infantry, anti-vehicle or sometimes anti-titan weaponry. Usually they are deployed when a Warboss can't find the available resources to build a proper Gargant. They are still very effective in use but are smaller and weaker than a Gargant. When a Stompea reaches a certain size, it becomes a Super-Stompa, or occasionally, Mekboy Gargants.

Sometimes, Warbosses will put aside their differences and join their Stompas into Stompa Mobs ², highly effective en masse. In the case of the Third War for Armageddon, thousands of these were brought to Armageddon, making them a common sight on the battlefield.

Contents 1 Big Mek's Stompa 2 Goff Klawstompa 3 Goff Rokk n' Rolla 4 Sources

Big Mek's Stompa

Sometimes a Big Mek gets so influential and powerful, they decide building themselves a walking battle fortress bristling with large and unreliable weapons is the best thing to do². Unlike a regular stompa the Big Mek's Stompa have large tractor beam units called Lifta-Droppas² to literally pick up and throw enemy tanks. Of course no budding big mek wants his prize stompa getting blown to pieces, so he fits it with crackling energy fields to prevent too much damage.

Goff Klawstompa

Goff Klawstompas are very similar to regular stompa's apart from they have a pair of large piston driven "Big Klaw's" instead of a large gun and a regular titan close combat weapon³. These are rarer Stompa variations, unless a huge Goff Waaagh! ensues, because they are built by Goff meks, who normally build infantry-centric engines of war⁴.

Goff Rokk n' Rolla

Goff Rokk n' Rollas are gargants that, like their Klawstompa counterparts, forgo ranged weaponry for titan-sized close combat weapons. This time, however, the weapon of choice is a huge, spiked roller⁴. Similar to a deffrolla, this massive roller is attached to the ends of the gargants arms, and is used in devastating charges against infantry, fortifications, and vehicles. These usually end in the targets flattened or bloodily pasted against the roller. This type of stompa is even rarer than the Klawstompa due to their building facilitated by meks in Goff employ.

Sources

• ¹ Epic - any editions
• ² Warhammer 40k Apocalypse ISBN 1-84154-838-3
• ³ Warhammer 40k Apocalypse Reload ISBN 978-1841548937
• ⁴ White Dwarf Edition WD 350, March, 2009 (US)