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As per title, I am curious to see/hear about bits of kits and vehicles the Guard uses in novels but we don't get on the TT. Some of the stuff I read about:

Laser designator for mortar strikes, underbarrel grenade launcher/Hellgun combo. Both seen in the short story Bluebloods, but the latter also shows up in various Gaunt's Ghosts novel, carried by the Bluebloods.

''Hornet'' motorbike, used in a reconaissance role in Gunheads.

Hellshot antimaterial sniper rifles used by Stormtroopers in Redemption Corps.

A pattern of truck or half track used in Gaunt's Ghost.

A transport version of the Tauros Venator, I forgot if it was armed or not, in the Kasrkin novel.

Those are the things that sprung to mind at first, I'd like to know about the stuff I missed

We have seen the under-barrel grenade launchers on Elysians.

The trucks used in Gaunt's Ghosts were Cargo-8's which have models via Necromunda.

I specified with Hellguns because of the Elysians, yeah

 Bobthehero wrote:


A transport version of the Tauros Venator, I forgot if it was armed or not, in the Kasrkin novel.

That one is called the... Tauros, and was the "original" Tauros, on the table in Forgeworld Resin, and long since OOP. The Venator variant is a later addition.

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tauros

Tsagualsa wrote:

 Bobthehero wrote:


A transport version of the Tauros Venator, I forgot if it was armed or not, in the Kasrkin novel.

That one is called the... Tauros, and was the "original" Tauros, on the table in Forgeworld Resin, and long since OOP. The Venator variant is a later addition.

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tauros

The original Tauros wasn't a transport, it fit at max 3 people in one variant(Driver, gunner, and navigator) and was a recon vehicle.

The transport version is mentioned there as the Masakari-pattern and hasn't had a model version.

 Platuan4th wrote:
We have seen the under-barrel grenade launchers on Elysians.

The trucks used in Gaunt's Ghosts were Cargo-8's which have models via Necromunda.

though there are also Cargo-4's and Cargo-6's in the books, which seem to be smaller transports comparable to the 1 1/2 ton and 4 ton trucks used in ww2.
he's also got bigger trucks like the cargo-10

there is also the cargo-12 and cargo-20 in some non-abnett books. the cargo-20 is said to have wheels three times bigger than a man, and appears in a short story as an ore hauling vehicle. so i'm guessing it's like those Caterpillar 797 mining trucks in size, if not bigger.

apparently there is a cargo-9 in a short story as well


Abnett introduced a lot of Guard related vehicles from Urdesh forgeworld, mostly as Bloodpact units but after urdesh was recaptured, they show up in guard hands (and not just in urdeshi units)
the AT70 Reaver tank is a medium weight tank with a turreted 105mm gun and a hull lascannon, lacks auspex and things like gun stablization, and uses volute spring suspension. it's lighter armored than a Leman russ, and its main gun can't normally penetrate a russ except to the rear. the description honestly sounds like a M-50 Super Sherman.
the larger AT83 Brigand is basically a Russ analog built off an enlarged AT70 chassis.
the SteG-4 is a 6 wheeled armored car with a 40mm "hypervelocity" gun in a turret, used as a recon vehicle and fast tank destroyer.
the SC-3 Carrier is a 8 wheeled APC roughly comparable to a rhino (even having room to carry space marines)

Oh, another that sprung to mind, Valkyrie Specter, which was large enough to carry Centaurs and had four Heavy Bolters sponsons.

The ghosts had some fancy auto guns at one point didn’t they?

 Flinty wrote:
The ghosts had some fancy auto guns at one point didn’t they?

in Guns of Tanith. not the whole unit, just the platoon or so that were assigned to the infiltration mission. they were provided with "U90 Assault Cannons" to deal with the lasrifle proof Loxatl mercenaries. they were described as a .45 caliber autorifle, fed from either stick or drum magazines. (basically a Thompson SMG) said weapons were produced (of course) on urdesh.
that same infiltration team were issued and trained in the "Type Five Icarus-pattern Personal Descent Unit" from the forgeworld of Lucius. which while often conflated with the Grav-chutes of later 40k lore, were actually full on jumppacks using gravity systems and jets. the description matches the old art of rogue trader/1st edition 40K imperial guard jumppacks.

I have the Gaunts Ghosts Omnibus "The Lost" and there in the novel "His last command" around page 425 a "multi laser carriage" is mentioned as vehicle of an Artillery unit from Dev Hetra. From the context it seemed to imply some form of self propelled gun for anti infantry support rather then a tank.

 Pyroalchi wrote:
I have the Gaunts Ghosts Omnibus "The Lost" and there in the novel "His last command" around page 425 a "multi laser carriage" is mentioned as vehicle of an Artillery unit from Dev Hetra. From the context it seemed to imply some form of self propelled gun for anti infantry support rather then a tank.

That just sounds like a multi-laser Rapier. Vulkan Lives even mentions Rapiers in drive mode are capable of keeping pace with Rhinos.