Legion Sicaran Battle Tank

Rare even among the armouries of the Great Crusade, the Legion Sicaran Battle Tank was a jealously guarded pattern, and the artificers of the XVIII Legion counted every hull they fielded a treasure. Its twin-linked accelerator autocannon loosed hyper-velocity rounds that punched clean through the flank armour of lesser tanks, while its advanced auto-targeting cogitators, patiently recalibrated by Nocturne's forge-adepts, tracked even the swiftest quarry across a broken battlefield. The Salamanders favoured the Sicaran not for reckless speed but for the certainty of its guns, positioning it to shepherd their slower siege armour and to break any counterattack that threatened the mortal columns they escorted. Every Sicaran of the XVIII was maintained to a standard that shamed other Legions' Techmarines, its machine spirit coaxed and honoured until it answered its crew like a living hound, hunting traitor armour through the smoke and ruin of the Heresy's darkest battlefields.