Tank Goodness: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|takes this Trope and makes sweet, sweet love to it]]. All races have access to some form of armored death machine, with the exception of the Tyranids (who have a broad variety of armored death ''biomechanoids'', but they all walk, crawl, hover, fly or slither rather than rolling). But it is the [[Imperial Guard]] who have access to the widest range of vehicles - from the ubiquitous Leman Russ main battle tank and Chimera armored personnel carrier/infantry fighting vehicle to the Baneblade super-heavy tank, pictured above in all its glory. As for the other armies, the Space Marines and their Chaos counterparts (who can ''daemonically possess'' their tanks) have access to Predator tanks based on the Rhino APC along with the awesome [[Military Mashup Machine|troop transport/battle tank]] that is the Land Raider, while the Eldar and Tau use highly maneuverable skimmer tanks, although they tend to take their personnel carriers and turn them into tanks by adding an appropriately powerful gun that removes the capacity to carry troops. The Orks? Well, they use cobbled-together battlewagons and looted Imperial vehicles that shouldn't even be able to ''move'', let alone fight in combat. The Necrons have the titanic Monolith, a horribly-beweaponed flying tomb that is ludicrously hard to kill.

** Of the superheavies, Baneblade (yes, it [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Baneblade#Armament_and_Upgrades really does have] [[More Dakka|eleven barrels of hell]].<ref>If you want a quick breakdown: Baneblade battle cannon mounted in the turret, with a co-axial autocannon, Demolisher cannon mounted in the hull, two sponsons mounting twin-linked heavy bolters with two lascannons mounted on top of those, and a further twin-linked heavy bolter mounted in the hull</ref>) is the most widespread. But then there's the Shadowsword, which is basically a Baneblade chassis housing a [[Wave Motion Gun|Volcano cannon]]—usually the main armament of [[Humongous Mecha|Titans the size of buildings]]. And so on. See the [https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2020/06/40k-esoteric-baneblade-variants.html table of Baneblade variants] (not quite complete — there was also Deathhammer back in [[Horus Heresy]] era).

*** A lot of the credit also has to go to [https://web.archive.org/web/20150809212706/http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/ Forge World], which is apparently what happens when you give Warhammer 40K fans/World War II buffs a Games Workshop license and a load of resin. Even counting old discontinued designs, they're responsible for about half the tanks of the [[Imperial Guard]], and up to 70% of the tanks for the Eldar and Tau.

** The Imperial Guard's Leman Russ has to be considered the most successful design of them all though, in terms of overall utility and practicality (Baneblades may be powerful, but are exceedingly rare and used sparingly). The vanilla Leman Russ is already an excellent vehicle that is powerful against infantry (even Space Marines) with a decent anti-vehicle punch, but it can be customized using a wide variety of variants. The long-barreled Vanquisher, for example, is an excellent tank killer, while the Exterminator mows through infantry like a scythe through wheat.