Kastelan Robot
Source: The High Altar of Technology
| Name | Rating |
|---|---|
| Strength | 8 |
| Agility | 4 |
| Toughness | -- |
| Intellect | 2 |
| Willpower | -- |
| Fellowship | -- |
| Initiative | 4 |
| Name | Rating |
|---|---|
| Defence | 4 |
| Speed | 8 |
| Max Wounds | 10 |
| Max Shock | -- |
| Determination | 8 |
| Resolve | -- |
| Conviction | -- |
| Passive Awareness | 3 |
| Resilience | 17 ( 17 Walker) |
| Name | Rating |
|---|---|
| Ballistic Skill | 6 |
| Weapon Skill | 6 |
| Default | 5 |
Attacks
| Name | Range | Damage | AP | Salvo | Traits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kastelan Fists | melee | 18 + 2 ED | -3 | Brutal | |
| Incendine Combustor | 16 m | 12 + 2 ED | -1 | 2 | Blast (Large), Blaze, Heavy (6), Spread |
| 3x Heavy Phosphor Blaster | 72 m | 14 + 2 ED | -2 | 3 | Blaze, Heavy (6), Phosphor |
Blast: Target a point (DN 3) and deal damage to anyone in the blast radius. You can´t shift for damage.
Brutal: When rolling damage dice, add +1 to the result of each Extra Damage Die.
Heavy: You need (X) Str or you suffer +2 DN to attacks and are knocked prine on a Complication. Or, the Brace (p.189) Action.
Spread: When fired at Short Range, a Spread weapon can hit any number of targets as long as they are all within 3 metres of one another. When you fire a Spread Weapon at a Mob you gain +3 bonus dice.
Special Abilities
Repulsor Grid: A Kastelan Robot has a Force Shield with AV *5. When attempting to soak wounds, if two or more 6s are rolled on the soak roll, the enemy that made the attack suffers a mortal wound.
Battle-Automata: A Robot is not alive, and therefore ignores any effects that would affect the mind or physiology, such as poisons, radiation, disease, or mind-affecting psychic powers. A Robot does not have a toughness, willpower, fellowship resolve or conviction score and is considered to automatically pass those tests if it is required to make them, except where the GM determines otherwise.
Battle Protocols: Kastelan Robots can have one of three battle protocols active at a time. A Kastelan Robot begins combat with Aegis Protocol active and cannot change to another except by the actions of a Cybernetica Datasmith. (1) Aegis Protocol: The Kastelan robot adds 2 to its resilience and increases the AV of its Repulsor Grid force shield to 7.(2) Conqueror Protocol: The Kastelan cannot fire any ranged weapons it has equipped, but may ignore up to 2DN penalty for making a melee Multi-Attack.(3) Protector Protocol: The Kastelan cannot use any melee weapons it has equipped and cannot move, but doubles the Salvo rating for all its ranged weapons.
Description
An echoing remnant of the once-great Legio Cybernetica, the Kastelan is a true robot, capable of making combat decisions without the input of a human operator. Edging dangerously close to the Silica Animus the Mechanicum fears, every Kastelan Robot is programmed with special data-chips, sanctified and warded against what the Adeptus Mechanicus fears above all else: another uprising of Artificial Intelligence. To help prevent this, Kastelan robots are usually fielded alongside Cybernetica Datasmiths, tech-priests who dedicate themselves to monitoring and feeding combat data to these walking automatons.
While the Kastelan Robot is technically classed as a vehicle and is treated as such for most purposes, it operates on its own will without a human intelligence, and therefore much in common with a normal enemy as well. For all purposes that involve the vehicle’s pilot, consider the profile below to represent both the Kastelan itself and its “pilot”.