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[[Image:Stalk-tank.jpg|thumb|250px|A rendition of a stalk tank by a [[Mechanicus]] [[Magos]].{{Fn|22b}}]]

The '''Stalk Tank''' was a light armoured vehicle fielded by the [[Blood Pact]] during the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]]. Resembling a smaller, nimbler version of the [[Defiler]] [[Daemon Engine]] utilized by [[Chaos Space Marines]], a typical stalk tank was powered by six spider-like piston limbs, and armed with double pulse-[[laser]]s in mini-turrets.{{Fn|1}} It was driven by a single pilot, sometimes often hard-wired into the cockpit; other variants were designed to carry battlefield [[psyker]]s into combat.{{Fn|22a}}

Cheap and quick to manufacture in large numbers, especially after the Blood Pact occupied the [[forge world]] [[Urdesh]], stalk tanks fulfilled a "niche" role on the battlefield, providing mobile support to Blood Pact infantry forces, rather than to engage enemy tanks. The {{Fn|2a}} [[Mechanicus]] [[Adept]] [[Imperial TacticianRomulus Gwelt]]s advising , on observation with the [[crusade9th Roane Deepers]] force were forced to acknowledge that it was a niche for which the on [[Imperial GuardTarnagua]] had no effective counter., compiled several important observations of the enemy armour{{Fn|22a}}:{{QuoteBox|quote = '''''Of all the nefarious engines of destruction I have seen the Archenemy field, the so-called stalk tanks are the most divisive. Light and fast, they deploy like an infantryman, or at least like a fire team, yet the type of normal fire [which would kill an infantry man] is soaked up by their segmented armour plating. In my experience, it takes an anti-tank missile at least, normally a shoulder-fired round, to damage one of these mechanisms. They occupy, as it were, a space in the food chain between fighting man and battle tank, a light, supportive, fluid role, and one that we do not have an equivalent response to. If the Ruinous Powers win this Great and Holy War, I would attribute a portion of that victory to the niche predator that is the stalk tank.'''''|}}<br clear=all>

*{{Endn|2}}: [[The Sabbat Worlds Crusade (Background Book)]] by [[Dan Abnett]]**{{Endn|2a}}: Phase Five, pg. 88**{{Cite ThisEndn|2b}}: Phase Five, pg. 89