Inferno cannon
The Inferno Cannon is a huge, vehicle mounted Flame Weapon. It is used by the Imperial Guard on the Hellhound tank[1] and can also be equipped on Space Marine Dreadnoughts.
Overview
The cannon can hit targets up to 150 yards away.[2] The amount of damage it does is magnified by the explosive force it is fired with. It causes fear amongst those enemies that face it, and rightly so. The sheer amount of flame that leaves the vehicle is immense, enough to melt through most armour and even some defensive structures. The tank has to carry large barrels of Promethium, making it extremely volatile, especially under explosive fire.[1] When it fires, the vehicle must not be moving, as a disastrous back wash of flame would fry everyone inside the vehicle. The crew are often seen as pyromaniacs.[3]
The Immolator tank of the Sisters of Battle uses twin-linked Heavy Flamers which produces a similar effect.[4]
Sources
- 1: Imperial Armour Volume One - Second Edition: Imperial Guard, pg. 72
- 2: Cadia Stands (Novel), Part 3, Ch. 3
- 3: Codex: Imperial Guard (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex), pg. 51
- 4: Daemonifuge, Book I
Uncited
- Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook,
[Help] - Codex: Imperial Guard (3rd Edition, 1st Codex), [Help]
| Flame Weapons | |
|---|---|
| Portable | Imperial Flamer • Pyreblaster • Fire Pike • Brazier of Holy Fire • Exterminator • Hand Flamer • Pyre Pistol • Combi-Flamer • Flamestorm Gauntlet • Incendine Combustor • Warpflame Weapon |
| Heavy | Heavy flamer • Pyre Cannon • Incendium Firepike • Incinerator • Atalan Incinerator • Flamestorm Cannon • Inferno cannon • Inferno gun • Incendium Cannon |
| Xenos | Ork Flame Weapons • Eldar Flamer • Dragon Breath Flamer • Tau Flamer • Phased Plasma-Flamer • Gauntlet of Fire • Flamespurt |