Helblaster Volley Gun
The Helblaster Volley Gun is a powerful war machine of the Empire. [1a]
It is also known as the macro-mainspring of multudinous precipitation of pernicious lead. [3a]
History
The first Helblaster was created by the Dwarf Runemaster Gimlit Bareshanks, a famously embittered misanthrope eccentric using a discredited design of his own people. [2a]
Many are still maintained in Nuln. [2a]
Luigi Giovanni created the Helblaster Wagon using a salavaged helbalster to help deal with raiders attacking supply trains. [4]
Mechanism
Nine barrels are formed around a central crank which enables the machine to fire devastating volleys of cannon balls into a enemy. However not only is it unable to easily reloaded as each barrel must be removed and reloaded individually but it is prone to jamming or misfiring, rending the entire machine useless. [1a]
Weapons and Equipment
Gallery
Helblaster of Nuln
Miniatures
Helblaster for Warmaster
Notes
- White Dwarf 147 states that Heinrich Von Klomp invented the volley gun. [5a]
Sources
- 1: Warhammer Armies: The Empire (4th Edition)
- 1a: Empire War Wagon, pg. 20
- 2: Warmaster Armies
- 2a: The Empire, pg. 7
- 3: Warhammer Armies: The Empire (6th Edition)
- 4: The Citadel Journal 1: Helblaster Wagon, pg. 10
- 5a: White Dwarf 147 (UK)
- 5a: Empire Army List, pg. 36
- 6: Forces of Fantasy (TOW): War Machines, pg. 72