Falchion Super Heavy Tank Destroyer
The Falchion Super Heavy Tank Destroyer, also known as the Mammoth, was a Super Heavy Tank of the Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.[1]
Overview
The Falchion was developed long before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy and as such its prey was not the enemy Titans it would later see such extensive combat against. As the Great Crusade expanded ever outward, the Expeditionary Fleets encountered a staggering array of foes, some of whom were of a truly gargantuan scale, but all were set to ravening flame by the touch of the Falchion’s Volcano cannon. [1]
During the Great Crusade, records of the Falchion devastating firepower were kept by the Ultramarines in their conquests of the formless overlord beings of the Psiom Reach, and from a company of Iron Hands to topple the mountain-fortresses of the Thulos Deeps.[1]
Weaponry
The Falchion’s twin-mounted Volcano Cannon is one of the most powerful vehicle-mounted, anti-tank weapons in the Imperium’s arsenal and it requires such an investment in resources to construct just a single example that its use is limited to the Legiones Astartes. Even then, the Falchion is so rare that most Legions maintain but a handful, reserved for use against the largest of enemy war machines. [1]
Known Mammoth Tanks
- Mordant — Used by the Death Guard at the Drop Site Massacre[2]
- Zarathruttrax — Used by the Sons of Horus during the Horus Heresy[3]
Images
Falchion Super Heavy Tank Destroyer[6]
Falchion Super Heavy Tank Destroyer[5]
Death Guard Falchion Tank during the Horus Heresy[2]
See also
- Glaive - a similar tank pattern equipped with a Volkite Carronade
- Fellblade - a similar tank pattern equipped with an Accelerator Cannon
Sources
- 1: The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination, pg. 241
- 2: Collected Visions, pg. 287
- 3: The Horus Heresy: Legions - Shadow of the Warmaster: Sons of Horus Expansion Card Description
- 4: Liber Astartes, pg. 90
- 5: Forge World webstore : Falchion Super Heavy Tank (saved archive)
- 6: Forge World webstore : Legion Falchion Super Heavy Tank Destroyer (saved archive)
