Styx Heavy Cruiser

Chaos Portal Chaos Fleet

This article is about the Type of Heavy Cruiser; for the Planet, see Styx.

Styx Heavy Cruiser.^[2]

The Styx Heavy Cruiser is a Chaos starship.

Overview

The Styx is a fleet support vessel. Its huge launch bays provide much-needed Attack Craft for Chaos fleets, and its long-range lances and weapons batteries pack an impressive punch. All of this allows the Styx to hang back and rip apart enemies at distance as its fellows close in.^[1]

Originally used throughout Segmentum Obscurus and Ultima Segmentum during M32-M33, the Styx was eventually phased out in favor of new Battlecruisers coming out of Mars. It lives on in the fleets of Chaos, which greatly appreciate its abilities: Styx class ships fought against the Imperium in no fewer than thirty-nine major fleet engagements during the Gothic War.^[1]

Notable Styx Heavy Cruisers

• Ayamandar - Word Bearers^[5]
• Darkblood^[3]
• Heartless Destroyer (allegiance unknown)^[1]
• Horrific^[1]
• Well of Souls - Black Legion^[4]

Images

Styx Heavy Cruiser

Sources

• 1: Battlefleet Gothic Resources: Ships of the Gothic Sector, ^{[Needs Citation]} (accessed 2010.11.17)
• 2: Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook, pg. 120
• 3: Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition), pg. 13
• 4: Champions of Fenris - A Codex: Space Wolves Supplement — The War of the Wolf
• 5: The Lords of Silence (Novel), Chapter Ten