Hellion Missile

This article is about the missile. For other uses of Hellion, see Hellion (disambiguation).

The Hellion Missile is a powerful missile designed to destroy Titans and other heavily-armoured targets. The missile's warhead consists of an adamantium penetrator sleeve within which is encased a relatively small plasma warhead. The armoured sleeve ensures that plasma warhead has penetrated deep into the target before it detonates, releasing white-hot plasma.^[1]

It was once common for Imperial Guard Stormblades to mount whole racks of these missiles to assist in bringing down the heaviest Titans. Unfortunately this arrangement left the missiles exposed to enemy fire, which could cause the warhead to suddenly detonate if it suffered damage, and led to the loss of a number of Stormblades before the practice was officially stopped.^[2]

Trivia

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• It is feasible that Hellion Missiles are a reference to the earlier Epic editions of Stormblade miniatures which had racks of missiles on their models.^[3]

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  1st Edition Epic-scale Stormblade^[3]

Sources

• 1: Codex Titanicus, pg. 34
• 2: Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy, pg. 99
• 3: White Dwarf 179 (UK), pg. 30