#Warhammer 40k plasma cannon full#

#Warhammer 40k plasma cannon full#

Macrocannon crews also have to contend with sitting on top of a magazine full of enough munitions to level a city. Once the breech is closed and secured, the crews move to a safe distance waiting for the gun to fire and the loading cycle to start anew.

Next, the second crew loads the gargantuan shell into the breech, and quickly clears the way as the first crew starts closing the breech as soon as the shell is aligned with the barrel. Once the breech is open, the spent casing is extracted and the breech quickly cleaned by the third crew, under the watchful eye of a junior Tech-priest or Enginseer who checks for any damage or impurity.

Located upon the gun decks of voidfaring capital ships, projectile-firing Macrocannons require large crews to handle and load their enormous shells into the waiting breeches.ДЇirst, the breech must be opened by one crew pulling on massive pinions or chains, while the second crew ready the next shell to be loaded. The greenskinned and savage xenos known as Orks are also known to make extensive use of crude Macrocannons on their kroozers, and refer to these monstrous weapons simply as 'Gunz.'ДЄ battery of Macrocannons fires a lethal broadside. Macrocannons can also be deployed to serve as potent artillery weapons by Imperial ground forces, though such instances are rare as these weapons are not very mobile, and their range and accuracy drops tremendously when deployed within the confines of a gravity well and atmosphere, to the point that their massive firepower can present as much danger to friendly forces as to the foe. Macrocannons are giant, edifice-size weapons covered with gantries, cranes, power lines and pipes manned by a crew that stands hundreds strong. These massive ballistic weapons are deployed in batteries, and destroy their targets through the delivery of powerful broadsides of shells fired in volley to overwhelm their enemy in a barrage of destruction. A Macrocannon is the largest member of the family of Auto Weapons and it has been used as a main armament on the starships of the Imperium of Man since the time of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium.