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#MASTODONTE WARZONE DRIVER#

The entire vehicle can be sealed closed in case the enemy makes use of chemical or viral weaponry.

#MASTODONTE WARZONE DRIVER#

The vehicle's upper deck is where the driver and crew are stationed, with hatches and portholes allowing officers to direct the battle around them.

The interior is subdivided into different sections with armoured bulkheads that protect the different areas from fire and damage, opening to allow infantry to progress through. The interior and exterior of the Mastodon is heavily armoured, with an armoured shell acting the interior tunnel portion of the vehicle and armoured ceramite plating protecting the exterior from enemy fire. The Mastodon is designed as the ultimate siege transport, carrying a large group of infantry straight up to the enemy's walls, breaching said walls, and protecting the infantry as they pour through the vehicle and into the interior of the enemy fortress or stronghold. Once the Space Marines begin to cross through the breach the rear ramp lowers, allowing more squads to funnel through the Mastodon and into the enemy stronghold all the while being protected by the Mastodon's heavy armour and weaponry as the Mastodon itself acts as an armoured breach tunnel.Ī cutaway of the interior of a Mastodon showing the armoured tunnel and bulkheads Once the Mastodon creates a breach powerful interior servos fire the assault doors open, smashing aside debris and unfortunate enemies and allowing the Space Marines within to press directly into the heart of the enemy's position.

The Mastodon's forwards Siege Melta Array could create a breach through even the thickest of enemy walls, few fortifications could withstand this fearsome weapon. The primary combat role of the Mastodon was the safe delivery of its Astartes passengers directly into the enemy defences, and usually used to breach fortified walls or structures using its forwards firing Siege Melta Array and heavy armoured prow.

8 Adeptus Mechanicus Technical SpecificationsĪ Mastodon of the Sons of Horus crossing the battlefield.

This was because deploying them was a major operation in itself, as they were used during long, protracted siege operations where one or more entire Legion had amassed to destroy a foe that no other was capable of engaging.Īs the Horus Heresy ground ever onward, the Mastodon saw an increase in its deployment rate, as both sides of the conflict committed every last weapon and vehicle to utterly destroy their hated foe. The Mastodon was one of the heaviest assault transports ever used by the Space Marine Legions, and was reserved for use against only the most heavily fortified of enemy positions.Īt several times the size of a Land Raider, the Mastodon was a truly formidable war machine, capable of ferrying up to forty Space Marines, or twenty Astartes and two Dreadnoughts through the most perilous of battlefields and protecting them from the most powerful of enemy weapons, including Titans.Īlthough Mastodons were used by nearly every Legion, they were used sparingly during the later Great Crusade. The Mastodon Heavy Assault Transport, or simply the Mastodon, is a super-heavy assault transport that was utilised by the Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. A Mastodon of the Space Wolves Legion during the Scouring of Prospero