Horus Heresy - Mechanicum

The Thanatar Calix Siege-automata is a mobile artillery platform.

The Krios Battle Tank originated on Mars, and arcane integrated systems well outside the purview of most facilities are used to build or maintain them.

The Karacnos is a dedicated assault tank, based on the Triaros Armoured Conveyor chassis, but with the transport compartment replaced with a mortar battery of Karacnos radiological warheads.

The Ursarax are heavy, rapid-moving close combat killing machines. Like the Thallax, Ursarax are thralls rather than servitors – selected from suitable human candidates for conversion.

The Taghmatas of the Mechanicum march to war supported by a variety of bizarre and deadly war machines.

Stalker Constructs are a stark example of the Dark Mechanicum’s pervasive touch.

The Serperos Heavy Stalker is a heavily armoured and heavily armed siegebreaker for the Dark Mechanicum. Thick armour plates and several shield generators provide protection against all but the heaviest of firepower.

The Thanatar Siege-Automata is a mobile artillery platform built to accommodate an array of heavier weapons..

An Archmagos Prime is a commander of the Taghmata Omnissiah – a high adept of the Machine Cult, chosen from amongst their peers to lead in battle, armed and girded for war with the finest armaments and defences their arcane arts can provide.

The Thallax are hulking, heavily augmented cyborg shock troops originating within the Ordo Reductor faction of the Mechanicum.

The Triaros is the primary armoured battlefield transport of the Mechanicum Taghmata in the Age of Darkness, relying on unique technologies held as arcana by the magos autokrator and never divulged for wider Imperial use, even by the Legiones Astartes.

The Thanatar Siege-automata is a mobile artillery platform rather than a general battle unit, with a heavy frame built to accommodate its huge weaponry and requisite power systems.

Tech-thralls are a source of expendable labour on many forge worlds, typically created from those poor souls who transgress against their Tech-Priest masters.

The Castellax Battle-automata are general purpose combat robots, developed from older designs during the Great Crusade.

Having declared its secession from Imperial rule at the very dawn of the Horus Heresy, Mars sat like a viper upon the doorstep of the Loyalist Throneworld.

The mysterious Mechanicum of the 31st Millennium marched to war armed with esoteric and arcane science.