Talk:Stormbird

Concerning the unsourced information in the Trivia-section:
Information on Stormbird weaponry, transport capacity and piloting cabin can be found in Horus Rising, in the chapter right before Garviel Loken's company attacks the rebel hold-out in the Whisper Mountains. Too busy right now to source it myself. --DetlefK 12:55, 14 February 2012 (CET)

I checked that part of the book and it provides some of the info needed, but not all -

• Their wings can be folded or collapsed in some manner. - the text states "They sat in two rows of three, wings extended"; this could be interpreted as meaning they have folding wings, or it could simply be artistic prose (for example we could say "the sky-scrapers extended towards the sky", that doesnt mean that they have the ability to extend themselves up and down). I have added the source tag atm, but Im not really convinced that the quote is clear enough to justify entry

• The Stormbird can carry up to the equivalent of a modern Space Marine Company, between 60 and 100 marines - the chapter does not support this info, it simply states that 300 marines line up to board 6 stormbirds

• It is also described as having missiles slung under both wings and a cannon mounted on the nose^{[Needs Citation]}. - Text mentions an "underwing cannon", but I dont see any mention of nose cannon or missiles.

• Stormbirds are piloted by two Marines sitting back-to-back, along with two hard-wired servitors.¹ - confirmed by the text, source tag added.Thelemur 16:52, 14 February 2012 (CET)

False Gods, chapter 5:

...while gunnery servitors calibrated the cannons slung beneath the cockpit.

Hundreds of Astartes surrounded them, standing before their allocated Stormbirds - monstrous, fat-bodied flyers with racks of missiles slung under each wing and wide, rotary cannons seated in forward pintle mounts.

He pulled open the hatch where the flight officers and hardwired pilots fought to bring them in through the swirling yellow storm clouds.

...as the debarking ramp dropped from the rear of the Stormbird.

Salamander, chapter 13, part 2: Stormbirds have an external loudspeaker and can take off vertically (mentioned in neither chapter, whether they can land vertically)

And I think the number of 60-100 Space Marines is a human error from within the Lexicanum. Let's keep it with "at least 50". --DetlefK 22:01, 14 February 2012 (CET)

Sounds good :) Thelemur 22:13, 14 February 2012 (CET)

New Image

Okay, 1) where'd this image come from? and 2) how do we know it's a Heresy-era Stormbird?--Proteus77 07:43, 30 March 2012 (CEST)

That's a Stormeagle Dropship, a brand-new miniature by Forgeworld (the site isn't even online yet [1]). I found no hints about any connection Stormeagle<->Stormbird and it doesn't look like a Stormbird from the novels anyway: too small, no missiles under the wings, no gun-pods and the debarkation ramp seems to be at the front. --DetlefK 11:13, 30 March 2012 (CEST)