Land Raider Ares
"The city must fall. Our chapter's purity depends on it!"
- Litany spoken by Interrogator Chaplain Bish on the 42nd day of the siege of Murus.'''[1]
The Land Raider Ares is a Land Raider variant created exclusively by the Dark Angels Chapter.[2]
It was first used in the Siege of Murus when it was discovered by the Dark Angels that three of their Fallen brethren[2] (calling themselves The Tribunal)[1] had taken control of the local forces. The Dark Angels found that their Vindicator siege tanks could not withstand the great cannons of the city and so created a Land Raider that could mount the Vindicator's Demolisher Cannon.[2]
The battle for Murus itself did not go as planned - the Tribunal managed to escape and, although the city was taken, only one of the six Ares survived. After the battle, the Ares designs were submitted to the Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars for review, but they never made a decision on officially approving the pattern. Despite this, the Ares designs were passed on to the rest of the Unforgiven, so Ares Land Raiders may well exist among other descendants of the Dark Angels.[1]
Weapons Configuration[1]
- Hull-mounted Demolisher Cannon
- Hull-mounted twin-linked Assault Cannon
- Two sponson-mounted twin-linked Heavy Flamers
- Dozer Blade
Sources
- 1: Games-Workshop Site, Datasheet - Land Raider Ares '(archived 22 May 2016, last accessed 4 Jan 2025)
- 2: Land Raider Ares 4th Edition Datasheet - PDF (from original creator)
- 3: Land Raider Ares 8th Edition Datasheet - PDF (from original creator)
