It was updated in Imperial Armour Volume Six as a heavy-support choice for the "Servants of Decay" and "Servants of Slaughter" variants of the Renegades and Heretics army list as well (they only showed up when the leadership of Vraks went full Chaos). Forge World also included it in the Chaos army list in Aeronautica Imperialis. It was a Heavy Support choice for Chaos Space Marines and the Lost and the Damned.
#HELL TALON CHAOS FIGHTER BOMBER UPDATE#
Like its little brother, the Hell Blade, the Hell Talon was made by Forge World around 2006 and given rules in the Imperial Armour Update volume of that year. When enough of them fly together, they often seed storms in their wake which can cause enemy aircraft to experience extreme turbulence and lightning strikes. The Hell Talon is extremely daemonic - it's not a full Daemon Engine like the Heldrake, but it tears rips in the warp as it flies and has a tendency to cause vox distortions and hallucinations for forces below. It can be specialized for anti-infantry by swapping the autocannon for a havoc launcher or heat-seeking krak missiles to better engage enemy fighters. They do have a good reason to do this though, daemonic vehicles will eventually eat their crews, and Chaos Space Marines don't like being locked in a machine for the rest of their lives.įor its role as a fighter, the Hell Talon mounts a twin-linked lascannon and an autocannon, while also carrying eight firebombs or blight bombs, nurglite forces in particular prefer the latter. Ah, but what about psych-out Exterminatus? Or rigging up the ship Daemon Killer with Kill-Ship stealth capabilities and swapping out its Warp cannon with a giant version of that beam weapon Culexus Assassins have and then hooking that up to a shit ton of Pariahs and Blanks and such? There, Exterminatus designed for Daemon Worlds.Įvidently, Chaos Space Marines never watched Top Gun and therefore never learned how glorious being a fighter pilot could be, so they hard-wire three servitors into the cockpit to fly the Hell Talon instead of "demeaning" themselves. But no, that wouldn't be grimdark enough and, additionally, most Dark Mechanicum Forge Worlds are basically daemon worlds, which give zero fucks about Exterminatus. You'd think the Imperium would send a Kill Ship to destroy Xana (and any other Chaos Forge World they know of). Like the Hell Blade, it is made by the heretical Forge World of Xana II from souls, flesh, metal, and daemons (or so the Imperium surmises - considering that they disintegrate on destruction, it's hard to be sure).
The Hell Talon is the Chaos Space Marines' heavy fighter-bomber. And this thing turns into a Heldrake when it goes too Daemonic.