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**BrianDavion**

NauticalKendall wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
RaptorusRex wrote:
In all honesty, I'm actually surprised that the Imperial Knights don't have a Dropship in the vein of Battletech. It'd be perfect for planetary incursions and delivery of the walkers themselves to strategic positions.

they actually do from the sounds of it. the IK novel IIRC mentioned some sort of transport ship. it just doesn't get mentioned. cause 40k doesn't pay too much attention to orbital to surface delivery that isn't thunderhawks or droppods. kinda like how 90% of all the dropships described in battletech are mech carriers despite the fact that a conservitive estimate places 5 times as many tanks and 7 times as many infantry on the battlefields

Over on the Tau forums (advanced tau tactica) they had a lengthy discussion about how a Riptide is transported to the battlefield. Like long range. They decided that it either was self sufficient and got there on it's own, special Mantas brought them in laying down or something, annnnd Orca drop ship in either the same folded up or underslung like a Thunderhawk does with Dredds.

I think they decided on the Manta dropping one off from orbit and it just made it's way down, sort of like a paratrooper. Or if it was already on planet it would be picked up or just make it's way there dependin on the distance.

That said, I would like them to create a "everyone quit your crying about everything in the game and just" relax button and the a "Nobody likes a cry baby button" but meh, oh well some people are just sour sallies.

seems like a silly question to me. as I said 40k has hardly covered many transports. really the only army in 40k that has an answer to how everything gets on the ground is Space Marines. we know the IG has landing craft but we've certinly not seen any details on it, for example