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The '''Deimos Pattern Vindicator''' was an early type of Vindicator used by the [[Legiones Astartes]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]]{{Fn|9}}, although many still operate as of [[M41]] in Space Marine [[Chapter]]s.{{Fn|6}}
It could be equipped with a '''Magna [[Laser Destroyer]]''' array{{Fn|12a}}, allowing him it to tear through the armour plating of enemy vehicles.{{Fn|12b}}. The laser destroyer's rate of fire could be greatly increase increased through mounting a '''power capacitor''' in the vehicle's internal volume, which is normally taken up with a munitions store for the more common Vindicator's Demolisher cannon. Stability is required for this overcharged firing , however, and it is possible for the capacitor to overload the vehicle's energy grid , with disastrous consequences.{{Fn|11}}
Several [[Space Marine Legion|Legions]] took to fielding this variant as a mainline battle tank, proving itself on many occasions as an able tank hunter.{{Fn|9}}
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition)]], pg. 55
*{{Endn|6}}: [https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NZ/Legion-Deimos-Pattern-Vindicator Forge World] ''(last accessed 19 April 2016)''
*7: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes]]:
**{{Endn|7a}}: pgs. 96-97
**{{Endn|7b}}: pg. 100
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Hunt for Voldorius (Novel)]], Chapter 9
*{{Endn|9}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal]], pg. 221
*{{Endn|10}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150426160947/http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/DEIMOS_VINDICATOR_LASER_DESTROYER.html Forge World webstore : Deimos Vindicator Laser Destroyer] (saved archive)
*{{Endn|11}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Six - Retribution]], pg. 241
*12: [[Liber Astartes]]:
**{{Endn|12a}}: 76pg. 78**{{Endn|12b}}: 131pg. 132
*{{Endn|13}}: [[Apocalypse]], pg. 117
*{{Endn|14}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20041208165046/http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/vindicator.htm Forgeworld webstore : Vindicator Gallery] (saved archive)
*{{Endn|15}}: [[Epic Armageddon]] Rulebook, pg. 81
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Epic Battles 1997]], pg.47*{{Endn|17}}: [[Armies of the Imperium]] - ''Space Marines''
*18: [[White Dwarf 231 (UK)]] — ''Vindicator'':
**{{Endn|18a}}: pg. 56
**{{Endn|18b}}: pg. 57
*{{Endn|19}}: [[White Dwarf 334 (UK)]], pg. 45 — ''Apocalypse''
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