The Power Lance is a weapon of the charge, a long hafted arm sheathed in a lethal field of disruptive energy that tears through armour and flesh alike. Wielded couched or thrust, its crackling tip is at its most terrible when driven home with the momentum of a headlong assault, impaling foes upon a spear of shimmering destruction before they can close to grips.
Borne into battle by mounted warriors and elite champions among the space-marines, the Power Lance rewards audacity and speed. A rider who thunders into the enemy line delivers a strike of shattering force, the energy field ensuring that even the toughest plate offers no protection against the impaling blow. Once the charge is spent, the lance may be reversed or wielded anew, its reach lending its bearer an advantage in the swirling chaos of melee.
The weapon carries an air of ancient nobility, a martial tradition echoing the knightly orders of forgotten worlds and the chivalric ideals that some Chapters still cherish. To wield it well demands courage above all, for the lance-armed warrior must hurl himself into the very heart of the foe to unleash its full power. In that instant of contact, when energy meets armour and the enemy is thrown broken from the point, the Power Lance proves itself a weapon of glory and death intertwined.
The armoury continues
