Battlekit Glossary

t is theorised this horrific grenade is based on the same technology as the weapon that destroyed the city of Antioch. Its explosion seems to cause no physical damage, but releases an eerie, bright green light that brings rapid, agonizing death to those caught within its reach. Why the Heretics do not use the grenades in greater numbers remains a mystery.

Fragmentation grenades or hand bombs are a staple of trench warfare. Usually referred to as frag grenades, they can kill the enemy underground or behind cover. They can also force the enemy into the open, providing targets for rifle and machine gun fire.

Gas grenades are insidious weapons, attacking the lungs and other internal organs with noxious fumes. Devil alchemists of the Fifth Circle are especially clever in creating these fiendish and hated weapons.

The shells of these grenades are forged from the church bells of the original city of Antioch, and imbued with the Lord’s spirit of vengeance against all evil, (such as animals possessed by demons).

Incendiary grenades can set their target alight with sulphur, phosphorous or flammable gas captured from the Lake of Fire in the Seventh Circle of Hell.

Developed on the desperate Finnish battle frontier against ice demons, this improvised weapon consists of a glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as gasoline, alcohol or a napalm-like mixture plus a source of ignition.

Gifted from the Lord of the Flies, these grenades are filled with parasitic mind worms whose bites cause fever dreams and terrifying hallucinations. They are used to force the mortals away from the safety of defended bunkers and trenches.

Battlefield explosives designed to break apart enemy fortifications and to crack even the toughest of armour.

A warcross (also known as a wurfkreuz in the Holy Roman Empire) is a fourpronged throwing weapon in the shape of a cross. It is engraved with prayers and psalms that guide it on an unerring path.