Editing Baneblade (section)

====Stormsword====

[[File:Stormsword.jpg|thumb|left|The Guard miraculously avoided a war with the AdMech over this tank.]]

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Originally built from salvaged Shadowsword or Stormblade tanks, because [[Volcano Cannon]]s and [[Plasma Blastgun]]s are blisteringly difficult to manufacture, the Imperial Guard just put wide-bore Cannons on the hulls and gave them spare Hellhammer Shells to fire. Needless to say these [[Heresy|"unsanctioned" modifications]] got the Mechanicum's collective jimmies rustled up. But because the vehicles were still good at what they did, the Imperial Guard commanders kept the vehicles listed on the roster in spite of what anyone else was thinking. Yet, in an uncharacteristically grown-up move, the Mechanicum actually capitulated on the matter and started making Stormswords themselves, upgrading the "Hellhammer Cannons" with dedicated "[[Stormsword Cannon]]s" which have much the same range and effect, but a bigger blast radius. The '''Stormsword''' excels at city fighting. It is able to turn entire building blocks to dust with a single shot. The tank's main weakness is the short range on its [[Stormsword Cannon]] and lack of a hull-mounted Demolisher cannon. The Stormsword Cannon is almost identical to the Hellhammer's main weapon, but the Stormsword cannon also has the benefit of re-rolling 1's to wound. That being said, the Stormsword doesn't really have anything to recommend it except for cost; lacking both the flexibility and wizzbang firepower of some of the other variants, it is nevertheless the cheapest member of the Baneblade/Shadowsword family by a noticeable margin. It is essentially a cheaper alternative for the expensive models giving a turretless Hellhammer with a bit more power in its shells, making it a full assault gun to the Banehammer's IFV hybrid.