Achilles Ridgerunner
The Achilles Ridgerunner is a type of Imperial vehicle that is traditionally employed by mining guilds and geological surveyors as exploration vehicles that is often used by Genestealer Cults.
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A common mining, exploration, and construction vehicle in the Imperium, the Achilles Ridgerunner is employed by mining guilds and geological surveyors. Ridgerunners range into deadly frontier environment, their pilots scanning for promising resources and communicating their locations back to base. The Mining Lasers mounted on the vehicle are typically used to unearth rich seams of minerals, but these powerful energy emitters can also be lethal to armour and flesh. Standard armament also includes Heavy Stubbers to repel hostile fauna, raiders, or xenos threats. Their heavy chassis and rigorous suspension also makes them well-suited for bombed-out cities and urban terrain.[2]
Like many civilian vehicles, the Achilles Ridgerunner has been converted to military use by Genestealer Cults. Made into an efficient outrider and scouting vehicle, upgrading its weaponry to include Mortars and Missile Launchers. Their main duty in Genestealer hands is to ride ahead of the Cult's main forces, scouting out potential ambush sites and new routes of ingress into the foe's territory. Many Ridegerunner crews include a spotter equipped with magnoculars, whose task it is to identify and relay enemy troop movements and weak points. This vital data is then sent back to their brood's lair, where it is then disseminated by Nexos strategists. Other Ridgerunners will carry Flare Launchers, usually employed for signalling and coordinating ambushes and outflanking manoeuvres as well as providing a smokescreen to hide the vehicle's advance.[2]
There is a known case of an Achilles being stolen from a Genestealer Cult by resistance fighters, and repurposed for supply raids.[4]
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Achilles Ridgerunner
Achilles Ridgerunner with Missile Launcher[3]
See also
Sources
- 1: Genestealer Cults Preview: The Achilles Ridgerunner
- 2: Codex: Genestealer Cults (8th Edition), pg. 60
- 3: Games Workshop Webstore - Achilles Ridgerunner (saved archive, last accessed 29 January 2024)
- 4: White Dwarf November 2019, pg. 57
| Genestealer Cult Forces | |
|---|---|
| Leadership | Patriarch • Magus • Primus • Abominant • Jackal Alphus |
| Specialists | Biophagus • Clamavus • Kelermorph • Locus • Nexos • Reductus Saboteur • Sanctus • Benefictus |
| Troops | Acolyte Hybrid • Neophyte Hybrid • Metamorph Hybrid • Brood Brother • Purestrain Genestealer • Aberrant • Familiar (Mindwyrm • Soulsight • Alchemicus) • Atalan Jackal |
| Vehicles | Dirtcycle • Wolfquad • Goliath Truck • Goliath Rockgrinder • Achilles Ridgerunner • Chimera • Sentinel • Leman Russ (Eradicator • Exterminator • Vanquisher) |
| Other | Tectonic Fragdrill |
