The Black Order's artillery division comprised of a variety of war machines the Order had either constructed itself, repurposed from ancient machines no longer in service or liberated from the battlefield. Of these, the field trebuchets employed by the Order against various of the castles and fastnesses of their foes quickly gained infamy for the skill of their engineers. It was not uncommon for machines to be named, whether after figures from the old religion or after the frenzied imagination of the artillerators manning them. Malignant, pictured below, was so named after 'cracking open the fortress at Hollow...setting ablaze the garrison's stockpiles and hospitals like the most malign of diseases'.
The Order further utilised all manner of ballistae and bolt-throwers as evinced below in the defense of Greathold:
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