Designed to pulverize both buildings and armored warjacks with equal ease, the Marauder is armed with a pair of pneumatically driven battering rams. Though originally developed to aid in siege warfare, these crushing rams are even more useful for obliterating or displacing enemy warjacks, and they provide unsurpassed tactical control to their battlegroup commanders. The Marauder can hurl ten tons of enemy warjack to the side with no more difficulty than a rampaging bear knocking aside a man.[1]
An industrial mechanik named Targh Fedro was inspired to try this design after observing stonemasons in a quarry. After replacing an old laborjack’s broken arms with battering rams, he tested it against the quarry walls and nearly brought down the entire face with a single blow. Excited at the military potential, he took the design to the Mechaniks Assembly to build a prototype using the ubiquitous Juggernaut chassis. Those who witnessed trials against similarly heavy Khadoran ’jacks were astonished at the power wielded by the piston-driven rams.[1]
Though any warjack can knock away an adversary if it has sufficient distance for a full charge, the Marauder can achieve similar results standing still. With the devastating power of its twin rams, a Marauder can send lesser machines flying through stone walls to become mere wrecks of torn metal and shattered pistons.[1]