Firestorm

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This article is about the the Eldar vehicle. For other uses of Firestorm, see Firestorm (disambiguation).

Eldar Firestorm

The Firestorm is a rare Eldar grav-tank based on the Falcon chassis. Designed for anti-aircraft warfare, the Firestorm is employed only in unique cases where Eldar aircraft are not available to achieve air superiority over the enemy, such as the Baran War where only vehicles Falcon-sized or smaller could fit through the wraithgates.^[1a][3b]

Firestorms are never deployed in great numbers, and only when there are not enough Nightwings to provide effective fighter protection or the great threat of enemy air attacks.^[4]

Technical Information

While retaining many of the same features as found in the Falcon, including its transportation capacity, the Firestorm's primary difference is its armament. Firestorm Scatter Lasers are a complex array of triple-barreled Scatter Lasers which combine high accuracy with the capability of sustained fire. These are ideal for protecting Eldar hosts from enemy aircraft as well as potent anti-infantry weapons useful against hordes of Orks and Tyranids. The Firestorm is also armed with twin-linked Shuriken Catapults and/or a Shuriken Cannon, and can be further equipped with Vectored Engines, Star Engines, Holo-fields and Spirit Stones.^[1a][2][3b]

The Firestorm has more than one aesthetic design as a result of differing consensus between Bonesinger Design Schools. Both have the same weapons and characteristics, but as dominant schools changed the older designs are seen less often but both are known as Firestorms to Imperial Scholars.^[1b]

Images

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  Mymearan Firestorm^[3a]

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  Epic scale Firestorms^[5]

Development History

The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here.

• The Firestorm was one of several Eldar vehicles with more than one model. Design Schools were introduced in Epic Swordwind (2005) as an in-universe explanation for this difference in Eldar vehicle designs in Epic.

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  Firestorm (Epic)^[6]

Sources

• 1: Epic: Swordwind:
  • 1a: pg. 22
  • 1b: pg. 76
• 2: Imperial Armour - Apocalypse, pg. 54
• 3: Imperial Armour Volume Eleven - The Doom of Mymeara:
  • 3a: pg. 132
  • 3b: pg. 176
• 4: Saved Forge World Archive Page (last accessed 29 February 2016)
• 5: 2010 Forge World Catalogue, pg. 52
• 6: Titan Legions (game), pg. 58