Summary
Anti-grav battle tank of the Adeptus Mechanicus that drifts beside advancing Skitarii phalanxes and delivers salvoes from a Belleros energy cannon or Ferrumite cannon.
Lore
The Skorpius Disintegrator is an armoured vanguard craft of the Adeptus Mechanicus that drifts above the dunes on hushed anti-grav motors, its thundering primary cannon set in stark counterpoint to the silence of its drive. It accompanies the advancing phalanxes of the Skitarii, delivering punishing salvoes from its Ferrumite cannon or Belleros energy cannon while its cognis heavy stubbers and disruptor missile launcher answer any who would threaten the armoured vessel.
It shares its hull and design lineage with the Skorpius Dunerider transport, but its enclosed superstructure and dedicated turret make it the heavier weapons platform of the pair — a long-ranged executioner kept close behind the Skitarii Vanguard and Skitarii Ranger cohorts as they push toward the foe.
Pattern and Function
The Skorpius hull is a Mechanicus skimmer: an anti-grav chassis that crosses broken terrain without yielding firepower for mobility. Its primary turret is manned by a Servitor gunner hard-wired into the weapon mount, the cogitator-link replacing the lag of flesh with the certainty of doctrina-imperatives.
Its armament selects role by pattern:
- Belleros energy cannon — a rapid-pulse short-range energy weapon, well-suited against infantry formations.
- Ferrumite cannon — a long-ranged, high-strength gun for the breaking of monsters and armoured engines.
Both are supplemented by three cognis heavy stubbers for sustained suppressing fire and a disruptor missile launcher that rakes the field with twin-linked warheads.
In Battle
On the tabletop the Skorpius Disintegrator is a Heavy Support skimmer of the Adeptus Mechanicus, a fast-moving fire base that pairs with the Onager Dunecrawler as the long-range backbone of a phalanx. In the 10th-edition codex its profile is M10”, T10, 2+ save, 12 wounds, OC3; the Blistering Salvoes rule grants accuracy bonuses keyed to its primary weapon — Belleros against INFANTRY, Ferrumite against MONSTER and VEHICLE — while a Broad Spectrum Data-tether echoes Mechanicus stratagems back into the Command pool when the tank is targeted.