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p.58 of the BGB states that a vehicle with an ordinance barrage weapon can choose to shoot a normal, direct shot or fire a barrage. If it chooses the latter, according to the rules, "the crew must carefully calculate the firing trajectory, so only vehicles that remained stationary may fire an ordinance barrage weapon (and may, of course, fire no other weapons that turn)." So how would POTMS apply in this case? Can a vehicle move 6" and fire a barrage? Can it remain stationary and fire a barrage and an additional weapon?

Do any Land Raiders have ordinance barrage weapons?

gaylord500 wrote:Do any Land Raiders have ordinance barrage weapons?

Yeah, the Land Raider helios (Imperial Armor).

The machine spirit simply allows the vehicle to fire one more weapon than it is normally able to fire, it doesn't override any other basic restrictions required to fire a weapon.

This is a very similar situation with the people who had the mistaken idea that if a unit had fleet it could now disembark out of a vehicle, run, then charge in the same turn, when in reality, fleet only overrides the restriction about running and charging in the same turn, not any other restrictions against charging.


So in short, no a vehicle with a POTMS cannot move and fire an ordnance barrage, but yes it could fire another weapon along with firing the ordnance barrage (provided it didn't move, of course).

gaylord500 wrote:Do any Land Raiders have ordinance barrage weapons?

The Land Raider Helios