Kin Land Fortress-Type Vehicle

Saves: Toughness +12

Senses: Auspex array ignores dim light, smoke, and camouflage within 120 feet

Ancestral Plating. The fortress is immune to small arms: attacks that deal 10 or less damage deal none. Heavy weapons, demolitions, and attacks against exposed weak points (identified with a Tech check DC 16) deal full damage.

Rolling Bastion. Kin infantry adjacent to the fortress's hull count as in Heavy Cover. The fortress is the line.

Weapon Redundancy. Each weapon mount can be attacked and destroyed individually (Defense 18, Vitality 40 per mount). The party can disarm the fortress piece by piece even when killing it outright is unrealistic.

Multiattack. The fortress fires its Cyclic Ion Cannon once and its Bolt Cannon Sponsons twice, at the same or different targets.

Cyclic Ion Cannon. Ranged Attack: +10 to hit, range 120/360 ft., one target. Hit: 4d10 + 8 energy damage, any cover protecting the target is destroyed, and vehicles or armored targets hit suffer -1 Defense until repaired.

Bolt Cannon Sponsons. Ranged Attack: +9 to hit, range 80/240 ft., one target. Hit: 2d10 + 4 ballistic damage, and creatures within 5 feet of the target make a Willpower Save DC 16 or become Suppressed. Approaching the flanks is a Suppression problem.

Deploy the Oathband. The fortress disembarks a squad of Kin Warriors or Hearthguard through its armored ramps, fresh and in formation, into any space adjacent to the hull.

Point-Defense Sweep. When a creature moves within 30 feet of the hull, one surviving sponson makes Reactive Fire against it.

Morale: Does not make Morale checks as such: the crew is disciplined Kin who withdraw the fortress only under direct order, and the machine itself has no opinion about dying.

Tactics: Run the fortress as a mission structure, not a stat line: the party disables mounts, mines its path, boards it through maintenance hatches, or lures it onto ground that fails under its weight - straight shooting should feel like petitioning a mountain. It advances on a schedule, deploying troops at the worst moments, and its sponsons make every approach lane a cost. Give the party a sabotage route and make the interior its own encounter.

Loot / Evidence / Hooks: An intact Land Fortress is a company's ransom in ancestral plate and weapon mounts - and the Leagues pay recovery bounties, or collect them.

A Kin Land Fortress-Type Vehicle is exactly what it sounds like: a mobile bastion of ancestral plate, weapon mounts, and disembarking Hearthguard, grinding forward at the pace of inevitability. The Kin do not build fast tanks; they build permanent ones.

Use this threat as the centerpiece of a Kin assault or the objective of a sabotage mission — a war engine the party must outthink rather than outshoot.

War-engine durability, multiple heavy weapon mounts, troop deployment, slow implacable advance, objective-grade encounter design recommended.

Ancestral Plating. Immune to small arms; only heavy weapons, demolitions, or point-blank sabotage against marked weak points accumulate real damage.

Rolling Bastion. Kin infantry adjacent to its hull count as in Heavy Cover; the fortress is the line.

Weapon Redundancy. Its mounts are destroyed individually; the party can disarm it piece by piece even when killing it outright is unrealistic.

Cyclic Ion Cannon. Main gun: heavy damage, armor degradation, and cover destruction in a wide lane.

Bolt Cannon Sponsons. Secondary anti-infantry fire covering its flanks; approaching it is a Suppression problem.

Deploy the Oathband. Disembarks a Hearthguard or Warrior squad through armored ramps, fresh and in formation.

Morale: None as such: the crew is disciplined Kin who withdraw the fortress only under direct order, and the machine itself has no opinion about dying.

Tactics: Run the fortress as a mission structure, not a stat line: the party disables mounts, mines its path, boards it through maintenance hatches, or lures it onto ground that fails under its weight — straight shooting should feel like petitioning a mountain. It advances on a schedule, deploying troops at the worst moments, and its sponsons make every approach lane a cost. Give the party a sabotage route and make the interior its own encounter.

Full Stat Block Priority: Boss