Desolation Squad

This article is about something that is considered by the overpowering majority of /tg/ to be fail. Expect huge amounts of derp and rage, punctuated by /tg/ extracting humor from it.

The Flash Gitz called. They want their guns back.

"Fire missiles! Fire again! Fire them all!"

– Arcturus Mengsk, StarCraft II: Co-op Mode

"Uh... brothers, what's a backblast?"

– Desolation Primaris Marine

The Desolator Desolation Squads are a new addition to the Primaris roster as of Strike Force Agastus. Following the traditions of the Eldar, this primaris unit takes an idea off of the Dark Reapers and somehow outderped them in terms of design and usability. It would only be so long until the Orks inspired someone else for once, though the Infernus Heavy Bolter was probably designed on a similar basis.

Overview

The Desolation Squad has been directly compared to the Devastator Squads of the firstborn marines, being the ones that carry the heavy weapons (albeit limited to explosives, with the other weapons the Devastators use being covered by Heavy Intercessors, Hellblasters with Heavy Plasma Incinerators, Eradicators, and Eliminators with las-fusils). Their heavy weapon of choice is a hilarious-looking Castellan Launcher which can be fired indirectly as well as a selection of sub-weapons ranging from the Superfrag Rocket Launcher and the Superkrak Rocket Launcher. Their sergeant is equipped with a Vengor Launcher that allows it to indirectly attack at enemies when your other troops can’t target them. What makes them so super? It's because they're Space Marine weapons Well, it's the inflated stats: Just as the Guard got Field Ordnance Batteries with an Anti-Tank, Anti-Horde, and Middle option, so too did the Space Marines: the Anti-Horde has minimum 3+D3 shots, the Anti-Tank does 3+d3 damage, and the middle option gets to fire outside of LOS. The belt-fed Castellan is also a D3 bolter with AP-1,Blast and also non-LOS shooting, and is basically an underslung addon to whatever launcher you picked.

If all this sounds familiar, their inflated stats and reliability is a lot like Eliminators when they first came out, except Eliminators pick their ammo before each shot, but Desolation Squads pick their loadout before battle.

For some reason, it looks like it has a big, thick power cable or ammunition chain connected to the gun and leading to...somewhere. Event though none of the weapons require more power than it takes to ignite the propellant and use the targeting sensors and none of them have ammo that can be fed through that belt. Maybe the underslung launcher could be fed ammo, but that one clearly uses a set of several weapons at once instead of one after the other. Besides, the Marine is not wearing a power pack or ammo pack heavy weapons use.

TL;DR: each Marine gets a souped up version of the base Missile Launcher that is very special because of how reliable they are for each role.

Gallery

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Potential fixes

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  Just delete the ammo belt, it's the biggest sin of the mini.

And the memes

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  It's Nerf or Nothin'!
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  The ork are fast
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  If you want to go it all the way, you might as well commit to it. Model by CPNFSM
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  An accurate depiction of everyone's reaction to this...thing
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  Zorg sends his regards
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  What is seen cannot be unseen
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  Overcompensator 40,000 (hang on a moment...)
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  Accept No Substitutes
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  Radical problems require radical solutions
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  Makes you really wonder huh?
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  Papa G's reaction to Uncle Cawl's latest work (how or why he even allowed them to exist is another question). Now dubbed by DreadAnon.