As well as its main weapon the Stormblade is also armed with turret mounted lascannons and sponson mounted heavy bolters, making it a fearsome opponent. It is believed the Stormblade, mounting a massive Plasma Blastgun to replace the ShadowswordÂ’s Volcano cannon, was first constructed on Ryza, where the ancient art of plasma weaponry construction are still remembered and practiced. Many Forge Worlds build their own variants of the STC Shadowsword design, armed with different weapons. More pictures of the Shadowswords can be found here The Shadowsword was developed as Titan-Killer and war machine hunter, its Volcano cannon also gives it great stand off fire power against regular armoured vehicles. Shadowswords are armed with a Volcano cannon, a huge laser powered by large capacitors which draw power directly from the tank's engine. There is immense demand for the Baneblade, both for its highly destructive abilities and survivability, and also for the morale boost seeing such a behemoth gives the troops. Created using Dark Age Standard Template Construction technology, It uses many systems that are now unique to its construction. The Baneblade and its variants is one of the oldest Imperial tank designs still in use. For example, there is no Mars Alpha punisher cannon turret, but you can use one in game, so you'd either have to convert, or use the regular plastic kit for those weapon options.These aren't really Leman Russ variants, but they sure would be. One other thing to note is that although Mars Alphas can take all the weapon options regular russes can, Forge World don't sell (and in some cases never did sell) all those options. I don't see any situation where someone is going to complain that you're using the plastic russ kit instead of mars alphas. They're still the same basic shape and silhouette. To answer your initial question, yes the Mars Alpha russ does look different to the regular variant, but I would say no more so than an ironclad dreadnought may look different to a venerable dreadnought. However, Death Korps tank commanders use the codex datasheet for tank commanders, so don't get the mars alpha rules. The Death Korps Leman Russ Mars-Alpha Battle Tanks unit can only contain mars alphas. The bit in the index saying one regular leman russ can be added to the unit is a typo that was subsequently changed in an errata.
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