Cthonian Earthshaker
Cthonian Earthshakers are Leagues of Votann high tech mole mortars that are a hybrid of different technologies and are manned by three kin.[1]
Description
Cthonian Earthshakers consist of both gun and crew, both of which carry the same name. They embody the terrifying ease in which the Kin can turn their industrial might into military lethality at any given moment. Their Mole Mortars are part geomantic echolactor and part tectonic fracturer, and in times of conflict can also easily serve as battlefield artillery. The weapons can fire highly advanced subterranean payloads along expertly calibrated underground vectors. During resource harvesting, these crews use their mortars to drive sensitive augur probes deep into the bedrock to sniff out chemical and mineral traces. They can crack open promising streams of exotic strata whether within planets, Space Hulks, or even large organic creatures. They even might still continue to stubbornly harvest even as battle rages around them.[2]
When an enemy directly threatens their prize or Kin, Earthshakers quickly turn their equipment on the enemy. Their mortars can utilize Tremor Shells, which are timed to detonate beneath their target. Such explosions usually result in deadly sinkholes and sudden chasms, sending the foes above falling to their deaths. The resulting shockwaves can also send out reverberations that throw nearby enemies off their feet, twist armour seals, and snap limbs. These waves can surge further even higher into the atmosphere, disrupting jet turbine intakes and anti-technology, giving them an anti-aircraft capability.[2]
Meanwhile Breacher Ordnance are more similar to more primitive the Mole Mortars used by the Imperium. These shells drill their way to the surface to explode amidst the enemy's ranks, utilizing hyperbore bits to easily chew through reinforced ferrocrete. This allows them to quickly explode in the confines of defensive trenches or bunkers. They can even bore into armoured fuel cells and Promethium tanks, triggering conflagrations or rupture geothermal wells and shield capacitators to devastate enemy bases. They can also be used to hunt down elusive targets using semiautonomous or guided geomantic tracking.[2]
Sources
- 1: Warhammer Community: The Big Summer Preview – Reinforcing the Kindred (Saved archive page, dated 18 July 2025, last accessed 18 July 2025, original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/chuafiji/the-big-summer-preview-reinforcing-the-kindred/)
- 2: Codex: Leagues of Votann (10th Edition), pg. 57
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