Winter's Breath shell

"FREEZING EARTH! WAHAHAHAHHAHA!"

- A slightly unstable Imperial general watching Winter's Breath shells being tested

The Winter's Breath shell was an advance piece of Imperial ordnance developed a century after the. It was unusual in the way that upon detonation it released a wave of pent-up liquid nitrogen which solidified everything in a radius depending on the concentration of liquid nitrogen. It proved useful for terrain-altering tactics, as it could make surfaces unusable for vehicles and could freeze rivers for troops to cross. Nonetheless, it proved useless on hot planets such as. It was usually fired from an All Terrain Variable Artillery walker.