Woe Machine
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"Woe Machine" was the peculiar appellation given to the bizarre war machines created by Heritor Asphodel during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.
Besides being a brilliant tactician, Asphodel's talent for designing war machines was so great that some Imperial analysts speculated a past connection with an Imperial Forge world or even with the Adeptus Mechanicus (though the latter speculation was hotly denied by Mechanicus adepts).[1a]
Like their creator, these machines were both destructive and terrifying in appearance. They were first encountered on Ashek II, against which the Imperial Guard's infantry forces proved so impotent that Marshal Blackwood transmitted urgent pleas to Warmaster Slaydo for Titan reinforcement. The "duels" between the Imperial Titans and Asphodel's Woe Machines traumatized many of the witnessing Guardsmen far beyond any wounds they had taken.[1a]
These grotesque machines were later encountered as products of the Hive city of Ferrozoica on Verghast, where the Heritor mobilised the city's entire population to exterminate its neighbour, Vervunhive.[2]
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- 1: The Sabbat Worlds Crusade (Background Book) by Dan Abnett
- 2: Necropolis (Novel) by Dan Abnett