List of armour

Energy Fields	Imperial Armour
Conversion field - Displacer field - Stasis field	Bodyglove Flak Boarding Armour Solar Auxilia Void Armour Void Suit Carapace Powered Artificer Centurion Terminator

Armour includes any equipment which provides protection to its wearer. Most forms of armour provide solid protection, while the most advanced use different types of energy fields.

Energy fields

Devices which generate some form of protective energy field around the user.

• Rosarius
• Holo-suit
• Holo-field
• Conversion field
• Displacer field
• Refractor field
• Void shield
• Shadow field

Imperial armour

Terminator Armour

Terminator Armour, or Tactical Dreadnought Armour, is a massive powered exoskeleton that affords the wearer unmatched protection, enhanced strength and the ability to fire heavy weaponry whilst on the move at the cost of agility and speed. It is incredibly rare, and worn only by the most revered veterans of Space Marine chapters.

Artificer Armour

Artificer Armour is a type of exceptionally well-crafted power armour, that affords a greater amount of protection to the wearer.

Power Armour

Power Armour is worn by all Space Marines, and is a powered suit that enhances the wearer's attributes and protects them in hazardous environments as well as in battle. Power Armour is also worn by the Sisters of Battle and members of the Inquisition, although they lack the implants required to take full advantage of the suit's benefits.

Centurion Armour

Centurion Armour is worn by Space Marine Centurions, turning them into what are essentially walking tanks.

Carapace armour

Carapace armour is thicker than flak armour but less effective than power armour and is used primarily by Space Marine Scouts and Imperial Guard Storm Troopers.

Flak armour

Flak armour is thin, composed of several layers of different absorbent material, which is most effective against energy attacks. It is the primary armour of the Imperial Guard.

Mechanicum Armour

The forces of the Mechanicum operate an array of different armours, including Skitarii War Plate, Sicarian Battle Armour, Kastelan Battlehide, and Kataphron Breacher Plate.

Void Armour

Various forms of armour exist to permit battle in the vacuum of space. Void Suits themselves count as a form of armour, as do heavier similar protections such as the Void Armour of the Solar Auxilia or the Boarding Armour of Imperial Navy Voidsmen, which may integrate Void Suits or void suit capabilities.

Ork armour

'Eavy Armour

'Eavy Armour is made up of several metal plates, often actually riveted to the Ork. The solid plates give good protection against incoming damage but it is cumbersome to wear.

Mega Armour

Mega armour is a suit of massively thick and heavy armour over a powered exoskeleton, that gives its wearer great resilience and incorporates Power Klaw and Kombi-Weapon or twin-linked Shoota, but slows him down because of its weight.

Eldar armour

Aspect armour

Aspect armour is worn by the Aspect Warriors of an Eldar army, it is a unique product of their highly advanced technology and their psychic engineering abilities. The actual material of the suit reacts to the psychic emanations of the wearer and as such won't work for any other race.

Mesh armour

Mesh armour is formed of tens of thousands of individual pieces of thermoplas interwoven to produce a dense material resembling reptile scales or chainmail. It becomes momentarily rigid when hit, spreading force across a larger area, thereby reducing the damage.

Holo-suits

Holo-suits (Eldar: dathedi, or "between colours") are worn by Eldar Harlequins and produce a holographic field which splits up the user's image as it moves, making the wearer harder to target.

Dark Eldar armour

Ghostplate Armour

Favoured amongst Archons.^[6]

Gnarlskin

Favoured amongst Haemonculi and their creations.^[6]

Kabalite Armour

Basic armour used by Kabalite Warriors.^[6]

Incubus Warsuit

Used by Incubi.^[6]

Wychsuit

Used by Wyches.^[6]

Necron armour

Living Metal

Living Metal is a metallic substance that forms the basis of Necron technology and has amazing protective and regenerative abilities.^[1]

Sempiternal Weave

Sepiternal Weaves are pieces of equipment used by the Necrons, particularly Necron Lords. The Weave is threaded with filaments of phase-hardened amaranthite and adamantium, vastly increasing the hardiness of the wearer.

Tau armour

Battlesuit

Battlesuits are advanced mechanical suits worn by Tau pilots and are among the most advanced pieces of equipment in the Tau Armoury.^[4]

Iridium armour

Iridium Armour is highly advanced Tau battlesuit armour, coming in the form of extra iridium armour plates spread across the surface of the battlesuit.^[4]

Other

• Combat Armour
• Recon Armour
• Kroot Armour

Kin armour

Exo armour

Exo-armour is similar in design to Terminator Armour in that it uses a mobile exoskeleton (hence the name) with thick armour plating. It was developed from their sealed environmental suits for mining and adapted during the Age of Isolation to make them into effective pieces of wargear.

See also

• List of Lists

Sources

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• 1: Warhammer 40,000: Wargear (2nd Edition)^[Help]
• 2: Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition), pg. 8
• 3: Codex: Necrons (5th Edition), pg. 82
• 4: Codex: Tau Empire (4th Edition), pgs. 26–27
• 5: Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus (8th Edition) - Armoury of the Forge Worlds
• 6: Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition), pgs 62-^[Help]