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|quote = '''''The scale of the enemy woe machines is almost unimaginable, the sheer cruelty... extraordinary: great flywheels fixed with blades, scissoring jaws, vast wheels designed purely for crushing, insectoid crawlers breathing flame from draconian snouts.'''''
'''''They are the mechanisms of an insane torturer made real and magnified to giant proportions. The Imperial Guard is many things, but in the end, it is only flesh and bone and blood, and these... are fashioned simply to strip and rend and break those mortal substances quite utterly.'''''
|source=- ''Marshal [[Blackwood]]'', 757.[[M41]], in his private journal.{{Fn|1a}}
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[[Image:WoeMachine.jpg|thumb|right|150px|An artist's rendition of a "{{PAGENAME}}" encountered by the Imperial Forces on [[Ashek II]].{{Fn|1b}}]]
'''"{{PAGENAME}}"''' was the peculiar appellation given to the bizarre war machines created by [[Heritor Asphodel]] during the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]].
Still later, Asphodel produced several new woe machines from the manufactories of [[Hive]] [[Ferrozoica]] on [[Verghast]], where the Heritor mobilised the city's entire population to exterminate its neighbour, [[Vervunhive]].{{Fn|2a}}{{Fn|2b}}
==DescriptionSee also=={{QuoteBox|quote = '''''The scale of the enemy woe machines is almost unimaginable, the sheer cruelty... extraordinary: great flywheels fixed with blades, scissoring jaws, vast wheels designed purely for crushing, insectoid crawlers breathing flame from draconian snouts.''''' '''''They are the mechanisms of an insane torturer made real and magnified to giant proportions. The Imperial Guard is many things, but in the end, it is only flesh and bone and blood, and these... are fashioned simply to strip and rend and break those mortal substances quite utterly.'''''|source=''Marshal *[[BlackwoodThe Spike]]'', 757.[[M41]], in his private journal.{{Fn|1a}}|}}
== Sources ==
*1: [[The Sabbat Worlds Crusade (Background Book)]]
**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 23
