Owing its origin to the lost knowledge of millennia, the Onager Dunecrawler is based on the Mars Universal Land Engine; itself inspired by the bad-tempered beasts of burden that transported their masters across Holy Terra in ancient times. The Onager Dunecrawler, rather than being a mere people-carrier, is absolutely brimming with advanced, powerful weaponry capable of reducing worlds to wastelands.
A light walking tank, the Onager Dunecrawler features four crab-like legs with optional armour plating. The armoured cabin and reactor are complemented by a huge variety of modelling options, with searchlights, smoke launchers, cognis manipulators and mindscanner probes; and the cupola can be modelled closed or open, featuring a Princeps wielding a heavy stubber. You get a massive amount of configuration and customisation available even before applying weaponry.
On the subject of weaponry, included in the box are four variants: an eradication beamer, twin phosphor blasters with sensors, a neutron laser featuring a coaxial cognis heavy stubber or an Icarus array - an awesome anti-air assault package comprising twin autocannons, a gatling flak launcher, an armour-piercing missile launcher and a radar dish.
Included with this 119-component multi-part plastic kit, making one Onager Dunecrawler, is a small Adeptus Mechanicus transfer sheet and a 130mm round base.
The Onager Dunecrawler is one of the most ancient and revered war machines in the arsenal of the Adeptus Mechanicus, its design dating back thousands of years to the colonisation of Mars, predating both the Imperium and the Adeptus Mechanicus by a considerable span. With the creation of the Skitarii Legions, the Onager was adapted for the rigours of war, the scuttling stalker-tank outfitted with a devastating array of weapons including the deadly neutron laser and the equally-horrible-sounding eradication beamer.
The forces of the Imperium have fielded plenty of two-legged walkers in the past, but this is the first time they’ve brought a four-legged walker to the battlefields of the 41st Millennium. Designed for crossing the inhospitable terrain of Mars, the Onager is adept at clambering over rocky terrain, rubble, rolling dunes, tundra, marshlands – you name it, the Onager can cross it.
