OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a heavy weapon for the Rim-Guard Order.
- Image Source: Games Workshop, Forge World
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Apocalypse Missile Launcher
- Manufacturer: Macharian Industries Corporation
- Affiliation: Rim-Guard Order
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: RG Mark CX "Hellfire" Missile Launcher
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Missile launcher components
- Classification: Missile Launcher
- Size: Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Missiles
- Ammunition Capacity: Average
- Effective Range: Extreme
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Damage Output: Very High
- Recoil: Very High
- Firing modes: Single Missile (potential as stated), multiple missiles (requires stationary position, increases potential by fired missile)
- Extreme range allows it to engage targets far beyond its view.
- Very high damage output per missile, can be increased by sending all missiles in an apocalyptic attack swarm.
- A high recoil requires the weapon to be mounted on a strong chassis.
- Its weight and size are additionally requiring it to be mounted on strong enough vehicles or machines, as infantry is incapable of carrying or using it.
- Limited amount of missiles carried.
- Reloading takes a good amount of time.
- To fire more than one missile at once the vehcile has to stand still.
After the Csilla campaing and the encounter with the war engines of the Tech-War Hosts of Vandemar, the engineers of the Rim-Guard Order were tasked with developing weapons to be carried by a heavy-tank-grade wardroid. The result was the development of a set of weaponry together with the Dreadnought Wardroid.
The Hellfire Missile Launcher was developed as a support weapon for heavy vehicles as well as weapon emplacements. Its incredible range and devastating potential to deliver strikes with maximum accuracy gives the ground forces a very useful addition to its arsenal.
