OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a heavy weapon for the Rim-Guard Order.
- Image Source: Games Workshop
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Inferno Cannon
- Manufacturer: Macharian Industries Corporation
- Affiliation: Rim-Guard Order
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: RG Mark LX Inferno Cannon
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Flamethrower components, liquid-gas tanks
- Classification: Massive Flamethrower
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Liquid gas tank
- Ammunition Capacity: Very Large
- Effective Range: Long Range
- Rate of Fire: Average
- Damage Output: High
- Recoil: Average
- None
- Long range for a flamethrower.
- Strong against enemies in fortifications.
- 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.
- A critical hit at the gas tank could turn the carrying vehicle into an immense explosion.
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 Inferno Cannon was designed as a giant flamethrower to be used in urban or heavily fortified terrain. With its extremely long range for a flamer, it was capable of clearing large buildings or bunkers with ease, filling entire trenches and halls with fire without getting too close. The heat developed by the weapon would easily melt most non-high grade steel parts or simply cook the people in armour or tanks to death.
