Dracosan
The Dracosan Armoured Transport was an armoured personnel carrier used by the Imperial Army during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy,[1] employed almost exclusively by forces following the Solar Auxilia order of battle or similar formations, like the household troops of certain Rogue Trader Militants or the elite retainers of high status Imperial Commanders.[2b]
Overview
The Dracosan Armoured Transport was manufactured on several dozen forge worlds across the imperium to standards only usually required of war machines destined for service with the Legiones Astartes.[2b]
The Dracosan was large enough to accommodate a full-strength Infantry Section of twenty troops, and heavily armoured enough to protect them from intense enemy fire.[2b] Its armour was greater than the ubiquitous Rhino and included an inherent rad/alchem protection as well as a life support system of greater endurance.[2a]
Equipped with a fearsome array of weapons of its own, including either a powerful twin-linked lascannon or a mighty demolisher cannon at the expense of some of its transport capacity, the Dracosan could steadfastly defend itself against enemy counter-attack and pound an adversary’s emplacements to dust before those on board disembarked to storm enemy positions.[1] In addition, the Dracosan was equipped with a searchlight, extra armour and a smoke launcher. It could also be further outfitted with a flare shield, a dozer blade, an auxiliary drive and armed with a pintle-mounted multi-laser or heavy flamer and up to two hunter-killer missiles.[2b]
A cargo transport variant of the Dracosan is known as the Brontosan.[3]
Miniatures
Dracosan top view (2014)
Dracosan plastic miniature (2024)
Epic-scale Dracosan for Legions Imperialis
Sources
- 1: Forge World Dracosan (last accessed 30 March 2015)
- 2: The Horus Heresy Book Four - Conquest:
- 3: Saturnine (Novel), Part 1, Chapter 5
