Annihilation Barge
Necron Annihilation Barges are light anti-gravitational skimmers used by the Necrons.
Overview
Primarily used as anti-infantry vehicles, Annihilation Barges are armed with twin-linked Tesla Destructors - enormous energy cannons that fire devastating arcs of lightning. The tesla destructor is primarily an anti-personnel weapon, though it still effective against all but the heaviest armoured vehicles. The Annihilation Barge is similar in design to the Catacomb Command Barge but foregoes carrying capacity in favour of heavy firepower.[1] In their usual configuration, Annihilation Barges are set in fixed positions in the lowest sanctums of Tomb Worlds, where they are used as the last line of defense against any intruders. In times of war, they are coaxed back to life and used to obliterate enemies.[2]
Annihilation Barges are seldom swift enough to keep pace with Necron advances, and so they are often deployed as defenses for strategic locations. Additionally, most Necron Overlords task a squad of Immortals as guards. Such partnership proves deadly to enemy assaults.[2]
Nowhere are these Barges more commonly employed than by the northern Akannazad Dynasty, where they prove vital against Ork assaults. They are also popular within the Mephrit Dynasty, which has a special obsession with obliterating the living and thus find great appeal in its anti-infantry Tesla weaponry.[2]
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Sources
- 1: Games-Workshop Necron Annihilation Barge (last accessed 17 March 2015)
- 2: Codex: Necrons (8th Edition) pg.56
- 3: Codex: Necrons (5th Edition), pg. 49
