Editing Boarding Torpedo

[[File:Boarding_Torpedo2.PNG|450px|right|thumb|[[Hades Breaching Drill]] in [[Boreale|SPEHSS!]]]]

Boarding torpedoes are (as the names suggests) a type of [[Torpedo|torpedo]] used by the Imperial Navy to board enemy ships. Due to their role they act more like spacecraft than a weapon of war, and thus fulfill a role not too dissimilar from [[Shark Assault Boat|Shark Assault Boats]]. On the flip side of the coin, however, boarding torpedoes are less maneuverable and armoured than assault boats; on the gripping hand, they are a smaller target and thus more difficult to intercept. Boarding torpedoes are seen in the new [[Space Hulk: Deathwing|Space Hulk: Deathwing game]] where our fabulous [[Dark Angels]] embark on the heroic mission to cleanse a dastardly [[Space Hulk]]. Due to this, we may have the first canonical picture of the boarding torpedo, looking more akin to a giant, flying drill than anything else.

They are essentially giant [[Hades_Breaching_Drill|Hades Breaching Drills]] in space. Puncturing the side armor and anyone else who is unfortunate enough to stand in front of the giant drill into [[FATAL|a fine minced meat.]]

If it goes off course, however, you're fucked - [[Grimdark|you'll be sent screaming into the Void]].

*'''Length:''' 60m
*'''Mass:''' 100 tonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' 0 crew plus 4-80 Space Marines or Imperial Guardsmen; approx

===Battlefleet Gothic Armada===
In [[Battlefleet Gothic: Armada]], boarding torpedoes act as the smaller and nimbler cousin of the Shark Assault Boat. Space Marines are the primary users of these for some reason ([[Boreale|maybe for tactical and surgical deep strikes?]]).

While they are meant to behave like smaller Assault Boats in theory, in practice there is almost no difference between a boarding torpedo and a Shark Assault Boat, except that torpedoes only work in a cone in front of the ship's torpedo tube.

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File:Boarding_Torpedo.PNG|If you can't tell, they're the big ass drills about to fly right into your face.

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