The Land Raider is among the most powerful and revered battle tanks in the Space Marine armoury, a massive armoured behemoth that combines heavy firepower with the ability to carry warriors into the fiercest fighting. Clad in thick, ancient armour plate, it can shrug off punishment that would destroy lesser vehicles while bringing devastating weapons to bear on the enemy. It serves at once as an assault transport and a main battle tank, a dual role that makes it invaluable to the Space Marines.
Within its armoured hull it can carry a squad of warriors, even those clad in bulky Terminator armour, delivering them safely into the teeth of the foe. Its sponson-mounted weapons, often powerful anti-armour guns, allow it to destroy enemy tanks and fortifications even as it advances, laying down a storm of fire to cover the disembarking troops.
Each Land Raider is a treasured relic, its design preserved from an ancient template and its construction a painstaking, ritual-laden process that few forge worlds can undertake. So precious are these machines that their loss is mourned and their machine spirits honoured across the centuries of their service. Rolling forward amid the din of battle, armoured like a fortress and armed like a warship, the Land Raider embodies the crushing might of a Space Marine assault at its most unstoppable.