yakface wrote:No that cannot be argued and here is why:
Vehicle weapons are listed as having different mounting types in the rulebook (hull, sponson, turret, pintle). Although GW has gotten lazy about including what every weapon on a vehicle is mounted as (likely because true LOS makes it a bit pointless), the fact remains that there are specific rules for how walker weapons are mounted.
Walker weapons are *not* pintle, hull, sponson or turret mounted. They have their own specific rules for walkers that state (LIKE a hull mounted weapon) that they only fire 45 degrees to the front arc of the vehicle. It does not matter how the weapons look to be mounted on a vehicle, the rules are clear: they only fire 45 degrees to the front arc of the walker.
The rule you quoted is specific that a vehicle which is immobile cannot pivot and we know for certain how walker weapons are treated (45 degrees to the front arc), therefore there is no confusion and there is backing for an argument. Once a walker is immobile, its weapons may only fire 45 degrees to the vehicle's front arc.
Except, of course, your own admission in the fact that
gw has gotten lazy about including what every weapon on a vehicle is mounted as.
Hell, a turret isn't even defined in the
brb.
I play it the way that most folks seem to subscribe to in this thread, i.e. that immobilized walkers can't pivot and the rules seem to support this.
However, there is just enough grey area to make this another sore spot with
gw's laziness with the rules.
