Warzone Unit Spotlight: Imperial Greyhound LAFV

Spotlight: Imperial Greyhound LAFV
In the Lore:
The Greyhound Light Armoured Fighting Vehicle (LAFV) was presented to Imperial’s automotive factories on sheets of heavily thumbed cobalt paper, covered in frantic pencil drawings, notations made in the immediately recognisable harsh language of the Bauhausians. Heading each blueprint, printed in gold leaf and bracketed within two unmistakable cogs of Bauhaus, were the words ‘Fieldhausen Autowerks – LBT-49 Kleingrizzly’. The designs put before the Imperial engineers were like none they had seen before; sleek, considered and perfectly formed, the vehicle itself resembled the silhouette too often seen on the skyline of a Bauhausian formation, the Grizzly MBT. It was decided that Imperial must begin the manufacture of Fieldhausen’s fantastic tankettes, though rebranded as the ‘Greyhound LAFV’.

In open war, the Greyhounds have been used to great effect, mobilising quickly to deal destruction wherever possible. The modest design and simple mechanics allow crewmen to perform field engineering on broken elements with little automotive experience. Each Greyhound LAFV is significantly smaller than a standard road-faring automobile and is crewed by just one trencher who both drives and mans the weapons. The conditions within the cockpit are dirty, wet and cramped just like the trenches the crew are so used to. The traditional armament of a Greyhound LAFV is a fore-mounted gas cannon traditionally known as the ‘Chimney’ or a 160mm mortar known as a ‘Slinger’. When the mortar is fired the entire vehicle recoils, leaving great ruts in the ground. The crew of both variants are armed with standard Trencher equipment, so in the exceedingly unlikely occurrence that they survive the destruction of their tankette, they can continue the good fight and avenge their lost ride.

On the Tabletop:
The Greyhound is heavily armoured for a vehicle of its size, it is also a fast moving low profile target. This is awesome when you consider that you can have four of them in a squad!

Its main armament is the “Chimney” gas cannon, this is a nasty little chemical weapon that ignores armour forcing models to test on the Con stat or become a casualty.

You can swap out the “Chimney” for a “Slinger” 160mm mortar which can rain large explosion templates on your opponent!

Defensively you can use the Greyhounds Active: Toxic Discharge Special Skill to force a -4 RS modifier on any enemy model shooting at the Greyhound.

You can purchase the Greyhound in the online shop: http://shop.prodosgames.com/en/imperial-light-vehicles/78-greyhound-lafv.html

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