40K RUMORS: The Tantalus Lander?

So we’ve all been hearing crazed stores of a new marine flying vehicle headed our way with Codex: Blood Angels. A flying machine somewhere in the “baby thunderhawk” style.  Here’s the latest we hear:

Tantalus Lander
Skimmer, Fast, Deep Strike
Front:13 Side:11 Rear:10 BS:4
Two assault cannons, and a forward twin-linked special weapon
Transport Capacity:
16 models (Terminators/Jump pack troops count double)
OR
5 bikes (attack bikes count double)
OR
1 dreadnought

Special Rules: Models equipped with jump packs may assault the turn they disembark if the vehicle moved less than 12″ or deepstruck.

This is said to be a transport upgrade for many units.No word on point cost, but its basically a flying Baal with transport capacity.  I think looking towards those rules and the cost of the Valkyrie will give us a decent ballpark.

~Now standard caveats apply everybody, but this could be the most revolutionary transport to hit the Imperium since the Valkyrie.  In fact it seems just as good as the Valk to me; both having subtle strengths and weaknesses which work in concert with the armies they support.  So who wants a few of those, and who thinks its only a matter of time before the optional rules and Apoc sheets to allow its use by all the other marine chapters show up?  No idea on the model’s looks, but the inspiration for this model is now certainly in question.

Author: Larry Vela

Dad, Gamer, Publisher, Pilot, Texan. All games all the time since junior-high. I started BoLS Interactive in 2006. I’m a lifelong tabletop & RPG gaming enthusiast, and internet publisher working to entertain and inform my readers every day. I've been playing RPGs and Tabletop Games since the 1970s. I'm been playing and covering Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for over 35 years.