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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, often hard-wired into the cockpit; other variants were designed to carry battlefield [[psyker]]s into combat.{{Fn|2a}}
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 engaging enemy tanks.{{Fn|2a}}
[[Mechanicus]] [[Adept]] [[Romulus Gwelt]], on observation with the [[9th Roane Deepers]] on [[Tarnagua]], compiled several important observations of the enemy armour{{Fn|2a}}:
