Though the Death Guard were a Legion of foot-slogging attrition rather than swift manoeuvre, they valued the Legion Sicaran Battle Tank for the sheer weight of fire its accelerator autocannon could pour into an enemy. Rather than range far ahead as faster Legions did, the XIV used their Sicarans to pace the grinding advance of their infantry, hanging back just far enough to shred any armour that threatened the columns and to break counterattacks before they gathered momentum. Its hyper-velocity rounds punched through vehicle flanks with contemptuous ease, and its advanced targeting cogitators let it cut down anything that moved across the poisoned killing grounds the Death Guard favoured. The sons of Barbarus asked of the Sicaran not speed but certainty, the assurance that whatever the enemy sent to blunt their remorseless march would be gunned down before it arrived. In the Legion's slow, crushing wars of endurance, that steady curtain of fire was worth a dozen swifter tanks.
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