Editing Macharius Heavy Tank (section)

== Macharius Heavy Tank ==

[[File:Machariusbc.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Macharius Heavy Tank.]]

The main standard variant of the Macharius line of tanks. The Macharius Heavy Tank as you can already imagine, cannot hope to match the [[Baneblade]] in firepower, armor, engine performance or advanced logic-engines due to its smaller size and fewer weapons. Despite these failings it is still a powerful heavy tank and a ''whole load more useful'' than that [[Malcador Heavy Tank|silly looking Malcador;]] to reiterate what has been said before, the Macharius carries very thick frontal armor and [[Macharius Battle Cannon|twin synchronized Battle Cannons]] in its main turret. Secondary fire comes in the form of a hull-mounted twin-linked [[Heavy Stubber]] and two sponson-mounted [[Heavy Stubber]]s, although the latter can be switched out for [[Heavy Flamer]]s or [[Heavy Bolter]]s. Some tanks will also carry a pintle-mounted [[Storm Bolter]] or [[Heavy Stubber]] and/or a single [[Hunter-Killer Missile]].

The tank requires a large crew to operate, with the commander, gunner and two loaders in the turret, while the hull seats the driver, comms-operator/heavy stubber gunner, and two sponson gunners, totaling of up to 8 or 9 crew members.

As is common in WH40K, the fluff does not equal the crunch. While the regular Macharius is meant to be a baseline heavy tank, in terms of price efficiency, it struggles competing with its Leman Russ counterpart in terms of sheer utility. A twin-linked battle cannon may sound appealing, but without a Heavy 2 buff, twin-linked sponson weapons, or a modest price reduction, at the end of the day the Macharius is really little more than a bigger, more expensive Russ with twin-linked, with no other gimmicks going for it.
That said, twin-linked weapons alone have stolen victory from the jaws of defeat on more than on a few occasions so the call is yours. ''Frankly, running some psykers with your Russes will do the job for cheaper.''

If only it could mount a Stormhammer Cannon instead...