Vindicator - Chaos Vindicator: The Vindicator has been in use by Imperial forces since the Great Crusade, and it has hardly changed since those turbulent days so long ago. The Space Marine Legions that sided with the corrupted Warmaster and primarch of the Luna Wolves, Horus Lupercal, used their Vindicators against the Loyalist forces of the Emperor during the Horus Heresy.The Traitor Legions deployed hundreds of Vindicators during their Siege of Terra at the end of the Heresy, where the vehicle's extreme firepower overwhelmed the extensive Imperial fortifications and helped the Traitors get ever closer to the Imperial Palace.After the Horus Heresy ended in a pyrrhic victory for the Emperor's Loyalists, the Traitors fled into the Eye of Terror, and luckily the number of Vindicators they still have in their possession is quite low in the late 41st Millennium, due to the Traitor Legions' inability to easily replace their losses. The only Traitor Legion that still commands a large number of Vindicators is the Iron Warriors Legion and their various warbands.The Iron Warriors maintain enough to field them in entire squadrons. The Iron Warriors, masters of siegecraft and heavy munitions, are infamous for fielding entire "linebreaker squadrons" of Vindicators emblazoned with Chaos symbols and adorned with the defaced statuary of Imperial cities that have fallen to their assaults.When such tank formations combine their fire, it is as though the gods have spoken, and even a fully-garrisoned Fortress of Redemption or Proteus-class battle bunker can be reduced to bloodstained rubble in a single catastrophic salvo.There are rumours of Vindicators that have become corrupted and infected with the power of the Warp, making them all but unstoppable on the battlefield. These Vindicators have nearly impenetrable armour adorned with chains, talismans, and cursed, glowing Chaotic sigils that are driven by no living creature but animated by the possessing spirit of a Daemon.The Vindicators under the control of Chaos Space Marine warbands are usually armed with either pintle-mounted twin-linked Bolters (Combi-Bolters) or other Combi-Weapons. Vindicators in use by Chaos and Renegade warbands that have recently betrayed the Imperium, or recently captured Imperial Vindicators, may be armed instead with a Storm Bolter or even a Hunter-Killer Missile Launcher. They can also be armed with a Havoc Missile Launcher, an ancient weapon system that has long fallen out of use in the Imperium.Chaos Vindicators can also be equipped with Siege Shields, Destroyer Blades, Dirge Casters, Extra Armour Plating, unholy Chaos Icons or Marks, or Warpflame Gargoyles. They may also be possessed by a Daemon, or be bestowed with other "gifts" from the Chaos Gods.Though it is based on the hull of the Rhino personnel carrier, the Vindicator gives all of its interior troop space over to carrying the ammunition for its Demolisher Cannon, a siege weapon so large that it occupies much of the area where the transport deck would be located, and as such cannot transport any passengers.While it lacks the range of a standard Battle Cannon, the Demolisher is far more potent and can breach a bunker or blast apart a tank with a single shell. Usually protected by an enormous metal siege shield that juts out from its front, the Chaos Vindicator can barge its way into position even under intense enemy fire, grinding towards the walls of a fortified stronghold until its devastating armament comes into range.