Lets make a list of all weapons with "Ignores Cover" from all armies

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**Btothefnrock**

Just as the title says- Please post up what you know so we can make a list of all the weapons that ignore cover that every army has access to, with their AP value. Very Curious to know what different armies have available to them, and what the typical amount of Ignores Cover weapons each army has. Also began adding wargear/special rules/etc that give Ignore cover or reduce cover saves.

If you know of anything missing, Please add it and I'll edit this post to reflect it.

Space Marines

Flamer AP:5
Heavy Flamer AP:4
Flamestorm Cannon AP:3
Dragonfire Bolter Ammo AP:5
Airburst TFC shells AP:6
Incendiary Castellan Missiles AP:5
Any weapon carried by LoTD
*Auspex gives -1 cover

Orks

Burna AP:5
Burna Bomb AP:4
Scorcha AP:4
Scorcha Missile AP:4

Blood Angels

Flamer - AP:5
Heavy Flamer - AP:4
Flamestorm Cannon - AP:3
Hand Flamer (Pistol) - AP:6
Dragonfire Bolter Ammo (Sternguard) - AP:5
Incendiary Castellan Missiles - AP:5

Imperial Guard

Heavy Flamer - AP:4
Flamer - AP:5
Inferno Cannon- AP:4 Torrent
Chem Cannon- AP:3 Template
DeathStrike Missile - AP:1 (One shot/game)
Eradicator Nova Cannon - AP:4
Stormshard Mortar - AP:6
* "Fire on my Target" order give any infantry Ignores Cover

Chaos Space Marines

Flamer - AP5
Heavy Flamer - AP4
Baleflamer - AP3 (Also Torrent and has Soul Blaze)
Burning Brand of Skalathrax - AP3 (Also Torrent, has Soul Blaze and is a Relic)
Doom Siren - AP3
Blastmaster - AP4 or AP3 (depending on the mode)
Sonic Blaster - AP5

Chaos Daemons

Skull Catapult -S8 ap5 Large Blast
Flames of Tzeentch - S4 ap4 template
Pink Flames of Tzeentch - S5 ap3 torrent
Baleful Torrent - S6 ap4 torrent
Corrosive Breath - S5 ap5 template (note: random gift on daemon reward table)

Tyranids

Template weapons:
Thorax biomorphs (ap 5)
Stranglewebs (ap:-)
Flameburst (ap4)
Drool Cannon (ap4)

Torrent weapons:
Acid Spray (ap4)

Non-template weapons:
Impaler Cannon (ap4)
Spore mine living bomb (ap4)
Mucolid spore mine living bomb (ap3)

Adepta Sororitas

Flamer (AP5)
Heavy Flamer (AP4)
Dominion Bolter (AP5)
Dominion Storm Bolter (AP5)
Dominion Flamer (AP5)
Dominion Meltagun (AP1)
Dominion Combi-Weapons (AP 5/2/1)

Necrons

Gauntlet of Fire 5
Heat Ray 4

Mechanicus/Skitarii/Knights

Cognis Flamer 5
Incendine Combustor 5
Heavy Flamer 4
* Luminagen Phosphor + Omnispex

Eldar

Flamer
Dragons Breath Flamer
D-scythe
Destructor
Serpent Shield
Hawk Grenade pack
Doomweaver shooting as a torrent
Bio cataclysm from Maugan Ra's shrieker shots
Mind War

Situational weapons
Dark Reapers (ignore Jink)
D-cannon, Wraithgun, Heavy Wraithgun (D weapons)

Dark Eldar

Eyeburst AP3
Liquifier Gun APd6
Spirit Siphon AP3
Phantasm Grenade Launcher* (Effectively AP2)
Torment Grenade Launcher* (Effectively AP2)
Crucible of Malediction* (Effectively AP2)
Archangel of Pain* (Effectively AP2)

Tau

Flamer, 5
SMS, 5
Airbursting Frag. Projector, 5
*Markerlights subtract cover

**Co'tor Shas**

Tau:
Flamer, 5
SMS, 5
Airbursting Frag. Projector, 5

**Hanskrampf**

For Space Marines:
Everything a Damned Legionaire can equip.

**Frozocrone**

Tyranids
Thorax weapons 3
Impaler Cannon 1
Acid Spray 1
Forget the one that the Pyrovore has, but you'll never see it action.

**Red__Thirst**

Imperial Guard:

Heavy Flamer - AP:4
Flamer - AP:5
DeathStrike Missile - AP:1 (Strength 10 too, though it's one shot only)
Eradicator Nova Cannon - AP:4
Stormshard Mortar - AP:6

Note #1: The Hydra Flak Tank makes cover saves more difficult if my memory serves versus skimmers or jetbikes (They don't get cover saves from turbo boosting or going flat out, so that's kind of ignores cover? Sort of?)

Note 2: Any infantry portable weapon can have ignores cover in the I.G. Codex thanks to the Senior Officer's "Fire on my target!" order. It grants the receiving squad the ignores cover special rule. Granted, the majority of the squad will only have lasguns more often than not, but having a trio of plasma guns or meltaguns in a veteran squad receive the Ignores Cover USR is pretty swanky. It's situational (Can only issue the order from a Company Command Squad, and only out to 12" max, or 18" if you get the right warlord trait), but can be fun.

Blood Angels:

Flamer - AP:5
Heavy Flamer - AP:4
Flamestorm Cannon - AP:3
Hand Flamer (Pistol) - AP:6
Dragonfire Bolter Ammo (Sternguard) - AP:5
Incendiary Castellan Missiles - AP:5

Take it easy for now.

-Red__Thirst-

**Matt.Kingsley**

Chaos Space Marines:

Flamer - AP5
Heavy Flamer - AP4
Baleflamer - AP3 (Also Torrent and has Soul Blaze)
Burning Brand of Skalathrax - AP3 (Also Torrent, has Soul Blaze and is a Relic)
Doom Siren - AP3
Blastmaster - AP4 or AP3 (depending on the mode)
Sonic Blaster - AP5

I think that's everything.

**CrownAxe**

Chaos Daemons
Skull Catapult - S8 ap5 Large Blast
Flames of Tzeentch - S4 ap4 template
Pink Flames of Tzeentch - S5 ap3 torrent
Baleful Torrent - S6 ap4 torrent
Corrosive Breath - S5 ap5 template (note: random gift on daemon reward table)

**topaxygouroun i**

Frozocrone wrote:
Tyranids
Thorax weapons 3
Impaler Cannon 1
Acid Spray 1
Forget the one that the Pyrovore has, but you'll never see it action.

I don't think you understood the question.

Tyranids:

Template weapons:
> Thorax biomorphs (ap 5)
> Stranglewebs (ap:-)
> Flameburst (ap4)
> Drool Cannon (ap4)

Torrent weapons:
> Acid Spray (ap4)

Non-template weapons:
> Impaler Cannon (ap4)
> Spore mine living bomb (ap4)
> Mucolid spore mine living bomb (ap3)

**Furyou Miko**

Adepta Sororitas;

Flamer (AP5)
Heavy Flamer (AP4)
Dominion Bolter (AP5)
Dominion Storm Bolter (AP5)
Dominion Flamer (AP5)
Dominion Meltagun (AP1)
Dominion Combi-Weapons (AP 5/2/1)

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Adepta Sororitas;

Flamer (AP5)
Heavy Flamer (AP4)
Dominion Bolter (AP5)
Dominion Storm Bolter (AP5)
Dominion Flamer (AP5)
Dominion Meltagun (AP1)
Dominion Combi-Weapons (AP 5/2/1)

**Vaktathi**

Red__Thirst wrote:
Imperial Guard:

Heavy Flamer - AP:4
Flamer - AP:5
DeathStrike Missile - AP:1 (Strength 10 too, though it's one shot only)
Eradicator Nova Cannon - AP:4
Stormshard Mortar - AP:6

Note #1: The Hydra Flak Tank makes cover saves more difficult if my memory serves versus skimmers or jetbikes (They don't get cover saves from turbo boosting or going flat out, so that's kind of ignores cover? Sort of?)

Not anymore sadly, they made got rid of the ability to ignore Jink saves, and made it open-topped, just to make it bad apparently.

Also, to add to the above list

Inferno Cannon, AP4 (torrent)
Chem Cannon AP3 (template)
Hellfury Missile AP5 (though I don't think anyone has ever used these) Large Blast

If we want to include Imperial Armour
Collossus Siege Mortar AP3 (Ordnance Large Blast)
Carcass Shells for Heavy Mortars AP4 (Ordnance Large Blast)

Superheavies:
Praetor Launcher (firestorm) AP4 (Massive 7" blast)
Hellhammer Cannon AP1 (Massive 7" blast)
Inferno Gun (from Macharius Infernus) AP3 (Firestorm)
Stormsword Siege Cannon AP1 (Apocalyptic 10" blast)

**Frozocrone**

topaxygouroun i wrote:
Frozocrone wrote:
Tyranids
Thorax weapons 3
Impaler Cannon 1
Acid Spray 1
Forget the one that the Pyrovore has, but you'll never see it action.

I don't think you understood the question.

Tyranids:

Template weapons:
> Thorax biomorphs (ap 5)
> Stranglewebs (ap:-)
> Flameburst (ap4)
> Drool Cannon (ap4)

Torrent weapons:
> Acid Spray (ap4)

Non-template weapons:
> Impaler Cannon (ap4)
> Spore mine living bomb (ap4)
> Mucolid spore mine living bomb (ap3)

My bad, looking at OP I thought that's how many units could take those weapons.

I wouldn't count the Spore Mines, since they have to be in CC to use their rules.

**Oberron**

Would dominion squads count or you only want weapons?

Sisters of battle
hand-flamer ap6
flamer ap5
Heavy flamer ap4
Tl Heavy Flamer ap4

**Nocturus**

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the Markerlight makes all Tau weapons capable of ignoring cover. Because, you know, that is the number one complaint I keep reading about...

**Alcibiades**

Neither army has much. Eerily almost as if they were designed that way.

Necrons

Gauntlet of Fire 5
Heat Ray 4
That relic thing ?

Mechanicus/Skitarii/Knights

Cognis Flamer 5
Incendine Combustor 5
Heavy Flamer 4

but possible reduction of cover saves due to the Luminagen rule that phosphor weapons have and/or omnispexes

**commander dante**

Tau-
Everything
(due to Markerlights)

**gmaleron**

We're not talking about things that give weapons ignore cover but weapons that come with ignore cover in their base profile is what I think the OP was getting at

**Happyjew**

Eldar:
Flamer
Dragons Breath Flamer
D-scythe
Destructor
Serpent Shield

Situational
Dark Reapers (ignore Jink)
D-cannon, Wraithgun, Heavy Wraithgun (D weapons)

**vipoid**

Dark Eldar:
Eyeburst AP3
Liquifier Gun APd6
Spirit Siphon AP3
Phantasm Grenade Launcher* (Effectively AP2)
Torment Grenade Launcher* (Effectively AP2)
Crucible of Malediction* (Effectively AP2)
Archangel of Pain* (Effectively AP2)

**oldzoggy**

ehm onl mentioning the weapons with the rule is useless if you don't mention the special rules or models that give it such as IG orders, or those fw tank (upgrades) and Tau marker lights.

**Tinkrr**

Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tau:
Flamer, 5
SMS, 5
Airbursting Frag. Projector, 5

Two Markerlights Gue'la.

Also a Seeker Markerlihgt D:

**vipoid**

oldzoggy wrote:
ehm onl mentioning the weapons with the rule is useless if you don't mention the special rules

In case someone is confused and thinks DE might actually have access to useful weapons?

**roflmajog**

Happyjew wrote:
Eldar:
Flamer
Dragons Breath Flamer
D-scythe
Destructor
Serpent Shield

Situational
Dark Reapers (ignore Jink)
D-cannon, Wraithgun, Heavy Wraithgun (D weapons)

Also:
Hawk Grenade pack
Doomweaver shooting as a torrent
Bio cataclysm from Maugan Ra's shrieker shots
Mind War

And we have reveal which removes stealth and shrouded, even if it doesn't completely ignore cover saves.

**Co'tor Shas**

Tinkrr wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tau:
Flamer, 5
SMS, 5
Airbursting Frag. Projector, 5

Two Markerlights Gue'la.

Also a Seeker Markerlight D:

We're talking about base here. Else we'd have to mention stuff like orders, chapter tactics, psychic powers, ect.

**vipoid**

Co'tor Shas wrote:

We're talking about base here. Else we'd have to mention stuff like orders, chapter tactics, psychic powers, ect.

Isn't that the point though?

It does skew things a fair bit. As does only giving the name and AP.

**Co'tor Shas**

Of course, but I don't think anybody really needs to be told that tau can ignore cover relatively easily. In fact, I'd say the reason they only have 3 weapons that do so base is because of that.

**Rune Stonegrinder**

nevermind someone beat me to it

**123ply**

Tau: everything

**Btothefnrock**

oldzoggy wrote:
only mentioning the weapons with the rule is useless if you don't mention the special rules or models that give it such as IG orders, or those fw tank (upgrades) and Tau marker lights.

Its def worth mentioning ANY method of giving ignores cover that your army can give. For example, the IG order, or even psychic powers/wargear, etc.

What I'm trying to see here (and share with everyone) is the amount of ignore cover weapon options available to each faction. 7th edition 40k is riddled with cover saves and Jink being a keystone of many top builds, so this seems like great knowledge for everyone to either build a list, or to know what they are facing

**Btothefnrock**

Edited the original post with updates from the thread. If you see something missing, or something is wrong, please post up.

**CrashGordon94**

You forgot the IG's Hellhammer Cannon and Stormsword Siege Cannon, both AP1.