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[[Image:Stalk-tank.jpg|thumb|250px|A page from [[Tech-Adept]] [[Gwelt]]'s sketchbook, showing a stalk tank variant.{{Fn|2b}}]]
The '''Stalk Tank''' was a light armoured vehicle fielded by the [[Blood Pact]] during the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]]. {{Fn|1}} ==Overview==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}} capable of slicing infantry in two. The pulse-laser's impact blasts even produced enough overpressure to lift persons into the air.{{Fn|4a}}
The vehicle 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}} These variants lacked weapon pods, instead featuring a glassteel bubble in which the psyker is seated, connected to hundreds of plug wires. They were used for electronic warfare, jamming [[Vox|vox-links]].{{Fn|4b}} Stalk Tanks can also alternatively be armed with an oversized head turret featuring a [[plasma weapon]] or [[multi-laser]].{{Fn|5}}
