Rapier Carrier with Laser Destroyer

Rapier Carrier with Laser Destroyer

The Rapier Carrier is an automated weapons platform made mobile by an integral track drive system. Intended for frontline operations, Rapiers are more

sturdily constructed than most field guns, with an armoured shield protecting them from small arms fire and requiring only a single crewman to operate.

The Rapier’s most singular feature is the presence of an inbuilt reactor which allows the carrier to mount diverse powerful energy weapons of various

kinds, although a laser destroyer array — a relatively rare weapon design dating back to the era of the Great Crusades — it is almost exclusively found on

examples in service in the 41st Millennium.

Rapier Carrier with Laser Destroyer........................................................40 points each

Armour

          BS  F    S   R

Rapier 3   11  10 10

                                WS BS S  T W  I  A  Ld  Sv

Imperial Guard Crew 3    3   3  3  1  3  1   7    5+

Unit

• 1-3 Rapiers each with a single crewman

Type

• Artillery

Wargear

• Laser Destroyer Array

• Flak armour (Crew)

• Lasgun (Crew)

• Frag grenades (Crew)

Special Rules

• Explosive Demise

Options:

• Any Rapiers in the battery may have one additional crewmen each

for................................................................................ +6 points each

Laser Destroyer Array

The laser destroyer is a powerful reactor-charged anti-tank weapon

that uses multiple laser generators to fire staggered, near simultaneous

blasts of energy focused on a single target point. This

has the effect of boring through the densest armour in a series of

powerful impacts micro-seconds apart, enabling the weapon to

breach the most well-protected tank or shatter an armoured bulkhead

in a single blazing volley.

Weapon Range     Str   AP      T ype

Laser Destroyer 36" 9       1      Ordnance 1,

                                                   Twin-linked

Explosive Demise

Unlike other artillery, if the Rapier is destroyed by a Penetrating hit,

roll a D6. On a 4+ it explodes, just as if it had been subject to the

Explosion result on the Vehicle Damage chart.

A Rapier Battery is a Heavy Support choice for a Codex Imperial

Guard army or a Defenders of Vraks army (see Imperial Armour

Volume Five).

In addition a Rapier Battery may also be taken in a Death Korps

of Krieg Siege Regiment army (see Imperial Armour Volume Five)

as an Elites choice (in which case its crew have an identical profile

to the Death Korps crewmen listed for the army at no additional

cost).