Rogal Dorn Tank and updated tank stats

Warhammer Community has posted an article on the Rogal Dorn size comparison with the venerable Leman Russ tank and the BANEBLADE!!!.

As you can see, the Rogal Dorn is a nice middle ground between the trusty Leman Russ and the steel behemoth that's the BANEBLADE!!!!. Cool. And the poor guardsman is...tiny when put next to them. Just the way I like it, since I'm a treadhead.

We also have new stats for our tanks - the Leman Russ tank now has 6 attacks, a 2+ armor save (outside of the balance slate), 13 wounds and the Rogal Dorn has Toughness 9. Whoa. That's pretty tough. 17 wounds too, cool.

The Baneblade has also seen an upgrade.

Toughness 9 Baneblade now? 30 wounds? Awesome. I'll probably have to proxy my Stormblade as one of the other Baneblade variants unless the Forge World Compendium gets an update, but yeah. I'll just feel kind of awkward running a Toughness 8 Stormblade with 26 wounds while everyone else's superheavy tanks are...better. Like, way better. So we'll see if they update the Stormblade's profile in the Imperial Armor Compendium FAQ, if not I'll just proxy him as a Stormsword or whatever profile that fits his plasma blastgun most closely. We'll see. It just sucks, you know? Not only does the Solar Auxilia no longer have Stormblades and other super-heavy tanks and Baneblade variants in the Liber Imperium - with the sole exception of the Stormhammer - I can't really use my Stormblade in 40K or 9th edition because of the discrepancy between his profile and the other Baneblade variants. Give me a break. Don't punish me for running Forge World models, will ya? I'm not really that much of a power gamer - though, let's be honest, we all prefer winning to losing - but a difference of 1 Toughness and 4 wounds, as well as the obsolete weapon profile just makes me feel kind of bad when fielding my Stormblade. Well, I'll mostly play narrative missions instead of competitive, so it's not like I'll show up with my Stormblade at a Renegade GT.

Oh, and before I go, I might as well post the cool stats that we have for the battle cannon and oppressor cannon.

Cool. I think my plasma executioner cannon gets a similar upgrade, though I'll say that my plasma cannon sponsons are a little...out of place. Not that I care, I'm sticking to them as long as the option remains in the codex. Anyway, we'll see how tanks work in the new edition, as well as in Liber Imperium (or Horus Heresy). I love my plasma tank regiment, and I'll try to adhere to it as much as possible. Honestly, I think my all Leman Russ Executioner tank regiment fits Horus Heresy more because that's the lore, isn't it? During the Great Crusade, there were entire Imperial Army armored regiments consisting of Executioners, and I wanted to do an army like that. I don't care that plasma has been nerfed in Horus Heresy 2.0 or that I need a 4+ wound roll for AP2, like I said, I'm not a power gamer. I don't need like super overpowered rules, but at the same time, I'm not a fan of handicapping myself severely when everyone else's Baneblade variant is straight up superior. In any event, we shall see. For Rogal Dorn and the Emperor! For Draconis and the Omnissiah!

Also, as a nice bonus:

Redaxe, The Edgelords and Weeb Knights

"We is gonna krump some beakies! So ya gitz betta get movin', or I'll krump yer heads first!"

Ardgit Redaxe stomped on the ground, bellowing at his Boyz in exasperation. The Orks had crash-landed on the humies' world that they named "Hamlicar" or "Ham licker" or whatever, but there was way too much green for the Warboss's liking. He was sick of seeing his own fellow greenskins, after all. Nonetheless, he had targeted the feudal planet as his staging base for his ever-growing Waaagh! Clad in his vaunted mega-armor that deducted one from enemies' wound rolls against him, Redaxe was confident that his Waaagh! would claim this humie world before long.

And then he could proceed to conquer the rest of the galaxy, and prove to the other mobs that he was da bestest of da bestest. The kunnin' of Mork, combined with the brutal of Gork!

If only his Boyz weren't so dimwitted...he wished he had brought along Beastsnagga Boyz instead. Those primitive gitz might stubbornly cling to their squigs and reject his favored forms of dakka, but they were tougher and meaner than the Boyz he was saddled with.

"Look, boss!" The Nob leading the Boyz pointed. "Green beakies!"

"GAH! Green again!" Redaxe swore and smacked the poor Nob in the head. "That's it, Boyz! We gonna go krump some beakies and paint their armor red! WAAAGH!"

"WAAAGH!"

His unruly mob followed him as he recklessly charged toward the Salamanders detachment that had been sent down to investigate strange signals on the surface of Hamlicar. A squad of Incursors immediately took cover when a volley of dakka blasted in their direction. The Kommandoes disappeared, but Redaxe wasn't too worried. They were always sneaky, those Kommando bastards. He didn't trust them, and they didn't trust him, but they got the job done.

"Yer up, Dred!" He snapped at the clunking contraption behind him. The Deff Dread lumbered forward clumsily, its pistons hissing nosily. Its skorcha lit up, a wailing gas slowly igniting.

Then Dred's machine exploded.

Redaxe blinked stupidly, not sure what had just happened. Then another ruby beam lanced in their direction, smashing apart the wrecked Deff Dread. A humie tank - painted in the same color as those absurd green beakies - was hovering over the rocky terrain, bristling with anti-vehicle weapons.

"Get that, Boyz!" He shouted, leading his Boyz in a charge. The Incursors opened fire at something, probably the Kommandoes, but when Redaxe didn't hear any shots being fired back, he turned to snarl at his reserves. "What iz ya waitin' for? An invitation? Get 'em, ya gitz!"

The warbikers roared forward, the three crazy Orks yelling in exultation. Firing haphazardly at the Incursors, who dove into cover, they swung their choppas and power klaw at the scattering infantry. Redaxe was pleased to see them bisect at least one of the beakies who was too slow to escape.

However, his joy turned into dismay when the surviving Incursors swung about, a couple of them hopping onto the smoking bikes. The bikers snarled and tried to turn around, but the Incursors slit their throats from behind like the cowardly, sneaky bastards they were.

Fortunately, the Kommandoes matched them in their cowardice and sneakiness, the kunnin' fools dropping on the Incursors from above. Having climbed a broken hab-block, they waited for their dying comrades' warbikes to shoot toward their position before springing their ambush.

Then the Gladiator Valiant fired, its superheated weaponry disintegrating a bunch of his Boyz. Redaxe roared and tried to blink the blinding lights out of his beady eyes, staggering and swinging about wildly. As his vision cleared, he saw that only he and his nob had survived. With a sneer, he charged the tank, only for a beakie in red armor to intercept him.

"Finally something that's not green!" He spat, swinging his axe. The beakie, for some reason, also wielded an axe and sported a mechanical arm hanging above. Redaxe wondered if his mekboyz would love that weird metal arm. Perhaps he could salvage one for them after he was done with the beakie. Without much effort, he cleaved the Techmarine into two with his massive axe, the latter's meticulously crafted armor no match for his brutal strength.

The Gladiator Valiant hammered him with its lethal array of anti-tank weapons. Multimeltas, las-talons, whatever. Redaxe staggered, but his kustom forcefield held sturdy, protecting him from the deadly beams. He grinned.

"Hey, whaddaya know...these beakies aren't so tough, after all!"

With a laugh, he charged the tank, cleaving its front armor off. The driver calmly pulled his Gladiator into reverse, despite it listing to the side and thick, black smoke arising from its front. He snap-shot another blast from the twin multimeltas, only for Redaxe's kustom forcefield to flare up again, deflecting the superheated ray. The warboss's green skin reddened for a moment, blistering from the extreme temperatures, but he wasn't cooked. Yet.

"Ya can shoot all ya like, but ya ain't killin' me! For I iz Ardgit Redaxe! The bestest Ork there is!"

Those were his last words before a las-talon shot finally shorted out his kustom forcefield. Unaware that the invisible field of protective energy around him had collapsed, Redaxe continued hurtling forward, his axe raised for a killin' blow.

"I gonna turn ya into scrap! And use ya for my Waaagh! Ya will make the bestest battlewagon!"

The tank driver was not amused and simply squeezed the trigger. A multimelta shot caught Redaxe and all but vaporized him.

The last thing the Warboss saw was his sole surviving Nob cut down by a spray of mass-reactives. As his head fell to the ground, he caught sight of two battered Incursors hunkering down, the corpses of their brethren mingled with the dead Kommandoes.

"Ya had one job," Redaxe cursed the supposedly kunnin' bastards. "One job."

Then everything went dark.

*

"Apparently, I'm supposed to swear to a quest or something?"

Tanaka wasn't very pleased with what he was hearing, but since he was participating in an Imperial Knight Crusade, he had to follow the rules.

"Well, I've received an Imperial Petition, so I might as well help them out."

The agri-world of Hamlicar had come under attack from the Orks, and so the governor had put out an astropathic call for aid. As a feudal world, it had some ties to Knight Houses, and as such, House Yato of Draconis III had answered the call for aid.

Or the Imperial Petition, as it was called. Tanaka would rather call it an Agenda, and since he was getting experience points from it, he couldn't complain.

"Let's go save some Imperial citizens and kick some xenos' asses," he told his fellow Lance mates. Kazan loped across the grassy plains, the Armiger Warglaive's machine spirit in search of enemies. Tanaka swept Kazan's thermal spear across the open space, consulting the auspex for any sign of intruders.

"Over there!" Suzuki suddenly shouted, guiding Hebi forward. He frowned. "But they're not Orks. They are...Traitor Astartes!"

Apparently, a renegade warband had also landed on Hamlicar. Tanaka didn't know what they were scheming, or if they had anything to do with the Orks, but he couldn't let the Traitors run free. Whatever they were up to, it couldn't be good.

He had no way of knowing that the Edgelords - the Renegade Warband led by the famed War Warrior - had just fled to Hamlicar after a spanking by the Necrons that had awoken in Barca. What the Edgelords were doing in Barca, Tanaka didn't know and wouldn't want to even if he had heard about their desperate flight.

He was just here to kick heretics' asses and chew bubble gum. Not that there was bubble gum in the Imperium, but you know what he meant.

The Edgelords had seen the Knights as well and were advancing. A squad of legionnaires swiftly took cover in a hab-block and began laying down suppressive fire, but their bolter shells were turned away by the ion shields. Taking the lead, Suzuki's Hebi came under fire, but he turned away their shells with his ion shield. He wasn't as lucky when a lascannon smashed through the protective field and tore away a chunk of adamantium.

"Ouch! Hey!" Suzuki complained.

"Hang in there! I'm coming to back you up!" Tanaka assured him. Behind Kazan, Kanda's Armiger Knight Moirax followed, though Kanda had his knight suit hang back in a distance to lay suppressive fire.

Then the Possessed came.

Howling in berserk rage, the swollen forms of Traitor Space Marines hit Suzuki's Hebi like a truck, tearing the Armiger Warglaive apart. Suzuki retaliated with one of his meltaguns, turning one of them into slag, but the rest came on in a frenzy, smashing and slashing at his buckling suit. Suzuki yelled in fear and ejected before Hebi blew up, the explosion buffeting one of the Possessed and knocking it over.

Not letting the opportunity that Suzuki created go to waste, Kanda immediately opened fire, the silvery arcs leaping from his paired lightning locks to incinerate one of the Possessed. Their armor held strong, the Possessed displaying contempt for the weapons crafted by servants of the Omnissiah, but even the resilient heretics couldn't withstand such lethal energies for long. One of them went down, its body charred beyond recognition.

Then Tanaka barreled into them, Kazan's reaper chain-cleaver cleaving them apart. The carapace meltagun and thermal spear spat superheated beams, disintegrating one of them before the whirring chain-cleaver finished the rest of them.

"Ugh!"

Just after combat, Tanaka reeled when a lascannon shot slammed into the flickering ion shields of Kazan. That was enough to collapse his ion shield, and a volley of bolter rounds followed to dent his armor, causing Kazan to sway from the explosive impacts. To make matters worse, the Master of Possession, who was left behind by his Possessed, charged at him, breaking a couple of rivets with his force stave.

"Watch it!"

Annoyed, Tanaka lashed out with the reaper chain-cleaver. While he was preoccupied with the skillful Master of Possession, who deftly avoided his first few blows, Kanda fired at the legionnaires, who ducked under cover. Despite seeking refuge behind ferrocrete walls, one of them was caught and his convulsing body toppled over, hissing with acrid smoke.

While the survivors went to ground, Kazan finally beheaded the Master of Possession, who had tripped up when backing away from Tanaka's maneuver. The panting Bushi reared up just in time to spot a fully buffed up War Warrior charging straight at him.

"Uh oh...that doesn't look good."

Tanaka didn't know what was up with the edgy Chaos Lord, but the dude just looked...wrong somehow. Juiced up with the powers of the warp, wings sprouting out from his back, being possessed by a daemonic entity to further augment his already incredible strength, the possessed War Warrior would hit like a truck. Capable of bringing down even a venerable Knight, such a foe couldn't be underestimated.

Swallowing, Tanaka fired overwatch.

It was just a single melta shot. The other two shots missed, but the first hit home. For some reason, the Dark Gods that War Warrior worshipped had chosen to forsake him. The Chaos Lord shrieked as the superheated ray disintegrated his warp-fuelled body and obliterated him from existence.

"...huh?"

Tanaka stared in disbelief at the blackened smear that used to be such a formidable foe. Shaking his head and reminding himself that there were still Legionnaires hiding in the ruins - particularly the one handling a lascannon - he and Kanda proceeded to finish them off, with Kazan charging vengefully into them and finishing them off in time-honored combat.

With that, Hamlicar was currently safe from the dark designs of the Chaos Gods. For now, anyway.

That still left the Orks to deal with, unfortunately. Right after hasty repairs where the Sacristans of House Yato restored what remained of Suzuki's wrecked knight suit, they set out again upon hearing rumors of a Waaagh! massing in the grasslands.

Ardgit Redaxe was back, fuming over the defeat handed to him by the green beakies, and he was looking for more scrap. Tanaka was determined to stop him, especially since the Salamanders had already left. The commander of the Salamanders detachment, Captain Faye, had traveled to Carthage instead.

"I'm not sure about this," Suzuki complained as he dragged his Armiger Warglaive across the agri-field. "Hebi isn't fully restored. In a standup fight, he'll probably fall apart. The Sacristans did their best, but there's only so much they can do."

"Don't worry, I'll take point this time," Tanaka assured him. "I'll lead from the front."

"Isn't that what you've been doing all this time?" Kanda muttered, but both Tanaka and Suzuki ignored him. This time, Hebi hung back with the Armiger Knight Moirax, allowing Kazan to forge ahead by his own. Tanaka paused when he caught sight of the approaching mob.

"A Deff Dread," he murmured, and leveled his thermal spear. A couple of volcanic beams lanced out and melted the haphazardly constructed walker in seconds. Smoke billowed as it felt apart, the softening and melting metal giving in and the Ork machine seeming to implode.

"Not again!" Redaxe complained, turning on the Mek who piloted it. "Dred, why is it every time that ya get blown up right at the start!? Ya never get ze chance to show off what that thing can do!"

"Not my fault, boss. All the humies always shoot me first."

That was actually very true. However, the "humies" weren't done with their shooting. They were going to out-dakka the Orks.

Kanda opened fire on the sprinting Kommandoes, almost wiping out the entire squad in a single volley. For now, Suzuki ignored the reeling Kommandoes and focused fire on the warboss, his thermal beams piercing through Redaxe's kustom forcefield and gouging out a huge chunk of his mega-armor.

"HEY! That hurt, ya git!" Redaxe bellowed and swung his axe about. "Fight me like a humie! Not like a coward! Face to face, mano a orko! Capisce?!"

Tanaka ignored the warboss for now and met the warbikers in a charge, kicking one over and stomping him into oblivion. Spinning Kazan about, he then cleaved the other two with a couple of swift, decisive strokes of the reaper chain-cleaver. On the other side, Suzuki charged into the stunned Kommandoes and finished them off, annihilating the whole squad.

"HEY! Iz ya ignorin' me?!"

With a roar, Redaxe charged, along with his Boyz. Despite not being Beastsnagga Boyz, the mob did well to carve open parts of Kazan.

"Ugh!" Tanaka fought to control his knight suit as he did his best to fend off the sheer volume of choppa attacks that were peeling layers of armor away from Kazan's legs. Determined not to fall ignobly, he launched a counteroffensive, his reaper chain-cleaver puncturing through mega-armor and stabbing through Redaxe's chest.

For a moment, the Warboss stared at the mortal wound in disbelief. Then he roared furiously, refusing to accept that he was going to die without fighting back.

"Frakkin' humie! I iz the bestest! I'm gonna fight on death!"

"What the?!"

Taken completely by surprise, Tanaka tried to retreat, but Redaxe's axe scythed through his Armiger Warglaive, punching through the carapace armor and sinking deeply into his Throne Mechanicum. Tanaka reacted quickly, moving to the side and avoiding getting chopped in half by the growling weapon, but Kazan was evidently out of the fight for now.

"Um...some help, you guys?"

"Trying my best," Kanda said, frying half of the Boyz mob with his lightning locks. Suzuki snickered as Hebi crashed into them, cutting the remnants of the routed mob apart with his snarling reaper chain-cleaver.

"How does it feel to be a casualty now? It's your turn to get blown up!"

Because I rolled a 6 for my Out of Action test...

"Well, actually..." Climbing out of his damaged Knight suit and standing proudly on the fallen Kazan, Tanaka raised a hand to display a thumb's up. "...I feel like I've just been marked for greatness."

Painted Numerologist Cabal and Warmaster Titan

I've finally finished painting my Numerologist Cabal (Order of Ruin) and Warmaster Titan! Yay!

I tried to follow the Exemplary Battles color scheme, but yeah, I'm not sure if it worked out well. Anyway, my Numerologist Cabal is done. The Order of Ruin has officially joined my Thousand Sons forces! Oh, and I cut off the bolt pistol and replaced it with a volkite charger for my Legion Previan. So he'll be firing volkite beams as usual, but his model actually reflects it now.

Right, and the Warmaster Titan took quite a lot of time and work, but I'm glad he's done now. Yay! So now I can field a fully painted Warmaster Titan alongside my Knight Household Army!

Liber Imperium content page

Seems like someone posted the Liber Imperium content page on Reddit - in the other words, leaks. Yay. Most people are interested in the Sisters of Silence expanded roster with loads of new units. I'm not a Sisters of Silence player, so I'm not that interested in that. Instead, I'm more interested in Solar Auxilia.

Interestingly enough, it seems that Veletaris Storm Section has been moved to Elites as Veletaris Tercio, and we have Auxilia Armored Tercio now. I think, depending on the Cohort Doctrines (or maybe Solar Auxilia Tercios?), you can take specific Tercios as Troops. So if you want to take an armored Cohort Doctrine, the Armored Tercio becomes Troop choices, and maybe Veletaris Tercio becomes Troop choices if you take a more elite Cohort Doctrine. I don't know. The Armored Tercio interests me greatly - I believe we'll get Leman Russ tanks and maybe Carnodon tanks in it. The Carnodon is not listed at all, even though the Aurox is. I'm not saying the Carnodon will be in the book for sure, but if it is, it probably is in the Armored Tercio. And I don't know if Leman Russ tanks get sponson options. I hope they do. I suspect that you can upgrade one of your tanks into a Tank Commander similar to the Armored Spearhead Rite of War if you choose a particular Armored Cohort Doctrine, but right now, everything is up in the air.

There is a reason to hope the Armored Tercio has both Leman Russ and Carnodon tanks. I mean, the Solar Auxilia Infantry Tercio, for example, should have the lasrifle sections and the flamer sections (who are support squads). So there's no reason to think they will only have a single unit in it. The only question is whether they will have sponson options for Leman Russ tanks, or if Carnodon tanks are an option there. I hope they are.

Another thing that dismayed me is the lack of super-heavy tanks. We have a Stormhammer...and that's it? No Baneblades? No Stormblade? What am I supposed to do with my Stormblade now? Well, I should calm down. Most likely, they'll be in a PDF document like Legacies, but that's disappointing. Most likely, they will get nerfed heavily, be overcosted, and just suck in general. That doesn't bode well for my armored Solar Auxilia army. It'll suck if I have to bring the Legion Stormblade using the Age of Darkness Legacies PDF because it's simply overcosted and not as good. But I doubt the Solar Auxilia has better options, ugh.

Anyway, we'll see. Let's hope for the best and pray to the Emperor. Till then!

Zone Mortalis

To be honest, I didn't get a Zone Mortalis game today, but I watched two of my friends play it, and it was fun! I even have a few pictures here.

A World Eaters detachment was assaulting a fortress manned by the Iron Warriors, probably because Horus ordered the World Eaters to drag part of a retreating company of Iron Warriors back to Terra to continue the siege when Perturabo decided to up and leave during the events of Mortis. At least that's the narrative. The World Eaters had 3 Contemptor Dreadnoughts in a single talon, a Praetor in Cataphractii armor, Red Butchers and 2 15-men Despoiler squads. The Iron Warriors had a Warsmith, 2 15-man Despoiler squads, an Apocethary, Siege Tyrant Terminators and Cataphractii Terminators (can't remember if they are supposed to be Dominators or something), as well as 3 Contemptor Dreadnoughts in a single talon.

This being our first Zone Mortalis game in the new edition, we made quite a few mistakes - I think we had way more than four doors, for example, and the Defender (Iron Warriors) controlled all the doors while the Attacker (World Eaters) were forced to break them down because they were locked even though the mission (Force the Breach) said nothing about that. Oh, well.

Notable moments - the World Eater Contemptor Dreadnoughts piled in and tried to smash the Siege Tyrant Terminators, who tanked the hits, but in the end, all the Contemptor Dreadnoughts either destroyed each other in combat, or were smashed apart by krak grenades. That was brutal.

The Dreadnoughts failed to kill the Iron Warrior Despoilers, though one of the Iron Warrior Dreadnoughts blew up and killed the World Eaters Praetor, Instant Death-ing him because it was Strength 8. Ouch. The World Eaters did get one objective, but the Iron Warriors had two in the end, and with Slay the Warlord (and Attrition), they won the game 5-2. Oh, well.

The Reactions for Zone Mortalis also made things more interesting. So we have Suppress for the movement phase where the reacting unit makes snap-shots. We have Displace for the shooting phase where they move up a number of inches up to their Initiative, if I remember correctly, and Brace for the assault phase where you do a morale check. If you fail it, you move 1D6" away, but if you pass it, you automatically pass all morale checks for sweeping advances or losing a combat. That allowed the Iron Warriors to use Displace to retreat his Terminators or Contemptor Dreadnoughts out of line of sight to avoid getting shot by the World Eaters Dreadnoughts.

There was also an instant where the World Eaters attacked the Warsmith and his Despoiler squad, as well as the Apocethary, but the Praetor managed to tank a load of chainaxe hits and even caused the poor Despoiler squad to run away (though they did avoid getting sweeping advanced). But they were locked in combat for quite a while, and the World Eaters managed to kill all but one guy in the Despoiler squad!

That said, the Iron Warriors still had the Warsmith, Apocethary, that single Despoiler, another 10 Despoilers and the Cataphractii Terminators (Dominators?) by the end of the game. On the other hand, the World Eaters only had 2 Despoiler squads, one of which was falling back. Yikes.

Well, that was brutal. Glad to see a Zone Mortalis game being played!

Painted Phalanx Warders

I finally finished painting my Phalanx Warders. Oh, and I also painted my Spartan Assault Land Raider as well. They took me over 10 hours to paint. I'm exhausted now, so I'll just show the picture for now.

They look really cool. I look forward to playing them. I think I'll have a Zone Mortalis game tomorrow night, so I'll be able to see what they can do! In any event, my Stone Gauntlet is finally ready, and I'll be running my Shield Company in future Horus Heresy games alongside my Knights! And my Cataphractii Terminators finally have a transport to ride in!

The Rogal Dorn Tank

Warhammer Community finally revealed the Rogal Dorn Tank! YAY! We've been waiting for this for so long, and we finally see it!

We had the Leman Russ tank, and Leman Russ, quite frankly, isn't my favorite Primarch. I love tanks, though, so it doesn't really matter. That said, the Rogal Dorn tank looks really cool and I might get one. I'm a little disappointed there isn't a plasma option, but you can't have everything in life, eh?

There are several options - you have have twin-linked battle cannons or you can have an oppressor cannon and an autocannon. I probably prefer the oppressor cannon, though I wish we have plasma.

You can also have a castigator gatling cannon or a pulverizer cannon on the hull. I almost though that was a demolisher cannon when I first saw it, but I guess the Rogal Dorn tank is one step down from a Baneblade, so...yeah. It's totally fine. You can also have meltaguns or heavy stubbers, as well as heavy bolter or multimelta sponsons.

I'm not sure I like the idea of a pintle-mounted heavy stubber or bolter, though. Imagine swinging it around to shoot and accidentally hitting your commander or fellow tanker in the cupolas with the barrel - or worse, a hail of mass reactive rounds. Ouch. That's pretty dangerous, and I think firing right next to the commander is gonna make him deaf. The other options are cool too.

I might just get one for my armored company, for collection sake, or maybe I will wait and see if they will ever come up with a plasma option. I doubt it, but hey, we will see. Oh, and will we get to use the Rogal Dorn tank in the Horus Heresy? That will be cool. But if we don't, then oh, well. Speaking of which, Rogal Dorn is one of my more favorite Primarchs, so I'm glad we have a tank named after him. Leman Russ isn't, and I have a bunch of those tanks, so I'll definitely get a Rogal Dorn tank someday.

Looking forward to the new Imperial Guard codex! Ahem, I mean Astra Militarum.