Champion Cliesthenes Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Were there drop pods during the Crusade Era? thanks Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulkansFury Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Yep, most of the Horus Heresy novels mention their use. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2879162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zincite Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Aye. Fallen Angels shows them in quite a lot of detail compared to any other's I've read. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2879481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMan Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Its how the Blood Angels, Emperors Children and Luna Wolves arrived on Murder. :mellow: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2879889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champion Cliesthenes Posted September 19, 2011 Author Share Posted September 19, 2011 Alright thanks guys...............now are drop pods actually a solid choice for marines if i do a pre-heresy army or should i use rhinos? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2879959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightrawenII Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 *sigh* Never heard of Dreadclaws? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2880319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Or you could try scratch-building one of the older, spherical drop pods. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2880357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Broken Knife Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Spherical drop pods - the conditioner bubble things from the late 80's early 90s I believe.... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2880412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Asmodeus Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 The clue is in Istvaan dropsite Massacre! They just did it on a big scale in some battles! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2882209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquamarine Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 As others have said they are certainly in use, and they are in use enough to have become notorious among the common citizenry...just reading "Liar's Due" in AoD, and even the citizens on some obscure agri-planet way off the map, see trails in the sky and panic that Horus' drop pods are coming down to their world. Though they can't remember the right name for the things :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2886901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John C Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Can't remember where i read it maybe in the BFG rulebook but drop pods came in towards the end of the crusade kind of like the thunderhawk is to the stormbird and began replacing dreadclaws which had a bad reputation among the crusade fleets although their were still pleanty of dreadclaws in the fleet, although this was prior to BL series so it might no longer be current fluff. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2889022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heru2012 Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 They use drop pods in Blood Reaver, and the Night Lords in that state their ships clocks show only 100 yrs have passed for them in the 10,000 since the heresy. So I'm guessing they had them in the Crusade era. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2896198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NemFX Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 On the Beta, the Alpha Legion (the newest, and therefore least likely to have harder to get equipment) had at least one dedicated launch bay for them. The launchers themselves are described as being four pods in a large revolver shaped object. It's in Legion. I forget what page. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/238696-drop-pods/#findComment-2897337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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