BATTLESHIPS Battleship (BC) CRUISERS Grand cruisers (CC): Cruisers (CA): Cruisers are the backbone of most interstellar fleets. Big enough to engage anything short of a battleship in open combat. The Lunar-class cruiser is the most common major comb… more »

On the few occasions where the learned adept has a need for explaining the working of the warp to a layman he often resorts to using the parable of the ocean: The ocean is the warp and the voidship is just a ship sailing across the watery surface. Solar… more »

The galaxy has a million different types of starship weapons, but they can be grouped into the following broad categories based on their role and performance: Torpedoes: Torpedoes are massive guided missiles. How massive depends on the size of the vess… more »

SPACE MARINE WEAPONS Standard armament for Marines is the ubiquitous boltgun, a weapon which has been in use since pre-Unity. A very rugged and reliable weapon, the bolter is also highly accurate and extremely deadly thanks to its high-penetration capa… more »

SPACE MARINE WARGEAR The warriors of the Adeptus Astartes have access to the most potent and deadly wargear the Adeptus Mechanicus can fashion for them. Potent and deadly is not the same as the most archaic or capricious. Marine wargear is invariably… more »

The Sword-class Frigate has been an important part of Battlefleet Calixis even since before its founding. Numerous Sword-class vessels accompanied Angevin's armies into the Carlyx Expanse. Their role was to scout out new systems and watch out for enemie… more »

The Cobra-class destroyer is one of the smallest battle-worthy ships in Battlefleet Calixis, with a main hull measuring a little over 500 meters in length (the forward 'beak' and plasma baffles are in addition to this). As a military ship the Cobra is f… more »

The Imperial Lunar-class Cruiser is an uncomplicated but highly effective Cruiser that forms the backbone of the Imperial Navy, with over six hundred in service with the Imperium in Segmentum Obscurus alone. More than twenty served in the Gothic War. Pe… more »

The Imperial Dauntless-class light cruiser is optimized for scouting and escort duties. The Dauntless forms the mainstay of the CL component of Battlefleet Calixis, with an aestimated <censored> number of ships in active service at any given time.… more »

Timestamp: 6.086.998.M41 Location: Somewhere in the warp, between the Markayn Marches and the Golgenna Reach, Calixis Sector Situation: After Haarlock's last will has been read - there will be blood! Body: For those chracters who are unfortunate enou… more »

Many warriors choose – or are forced – to undergo some form of augmentation work; a catch-all for a variety of procedures that interfere with the purity of the human form in an attempt to create better warriors. Such augmentation work can be broadly… more »

Though there are few that can claim to truly understand the lore that dictate the workings of power fields, even among the Archmagi of the Mechanicus, such fields are a known factor in the 41st Millennium. Since so few know how to make them each such… more »

One of the most important rules of personal combat is – if you are going to draw that pistol, better wear armour. Other important rules include 'avoid detection', 'avoid getting hit', and 'always carry a bigger gun than the other guy'. But if you make… more »

Surprisingly perhaps, but various forms of melee weapons continue to be employed even in the distant dark future. Hi-tech melee weapons can be extremely potent, able to cut down power-armoured warriors with ease or ripping open armoured fighting… more »

Humanity's mastery of the laws of physics during the Dark Age of Technology led to the creation of many techno-arcane devices of unbelievable power – gravitic weapons capable of tearing any target to shreds, molecular disintegrators that quite literally… more »