Steel Behemoth
“Driver, give me flank speed. I want this tank on that ridge and I want it there ten seconds ago.”
“Loader! HE shells. I want to smell them cooking from here.”
“Demolisher! Ridgeline, 12 o’clock. Clear the way for the driver, will you?”
“Sponsons! Anything that moves within kill range that isn’t iron and bronze, you shred it.”
“Gunner! Step aside a moment. I’m taking this one myself...”
Though the Fellblade was nominally the standard issue heavy battle tank for Legiones Astartes superheavy echelons, its formidable strength came from several archaic and difficult to maintain systems - a luxury many battalions, having not received a resupply from the Legion itself in decades, could not afford. The Menoítios Super-heavy Armoured Company was one such formation, an independent formation attached to the 117th Grand Battalion that instead resorted to sourcing Baneblade-class hulls for its ranks - less potent, yet near ubiquitous in the Imperial Army's ranks, and far simpler to maintain.
Pictured are the tanks 12 Titan and 02 Behemoth, each the second tank of the first and command squadrons respectively. The former was a typical Baneblade-class main battle tank, by far the most common chassis in the company at a nominal 3 of its 6 units, while the latter was - in theory - one of the company's two Shadowsword heavy tank destroyers. In practice, Behemoth was often refitted in-field by the battalion's Techmarines to fit several roles, mainly when its temperamental Volcano Cannon was being repaired from field use. In fact, 02 most often saw use as what Imperial scholars many millennia later would call a Banesword-class configuration, fitted with a modified Quake Cannon from a Legionary gun emplacement and tasked with reducing fortifications from afar.
