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yo dudes! Why do people insist on paying for 2 weapons on a waveserpent for survivability? If you buy a shuriken cannon, it has 2 weapons anyway, so doesn't it make it just as survivable?

Because, IIRC, the Shuriken Cannon is a single twin linked weapon, not two seperate weapons. Therefore, one weapons destroyed result eliminates your big guns right there and then.

Do you mean giving it multiple weapons so it can survive more "damaged" results before being wrecked?

A wave serpent always comes with 2 guns. never more.

This is more a Tactics question than a rules issue. Moving it over now...

Buying another weapon to make the serpent more resilent? That doesnt make any sense. You cant change the number of weapons on the serpent, no matter if they are upgraded or not.
A twin linked weapon is also only 1 weapon. So as robpro already stated a serpent has never more or less than 2 weapons

ya just as every one is saying you get 2 weapons on a serpent...the biggin and the piddly one underneath. however i feel if you actually manage to shoot your big gun your doin something wrong...but that really doent apply to a bright lance or a eml

I'm pretty sure they mean 2 tanks are better than one. Why not have two incase one gets blown to hell right off the bat?

You can have 3 guns IIRC. The two different ones on the turret, and the shuriken catapults/ cannon underneath.

Mattieau wrote:You can have 3 guns IIRC. The two different ones on the turret, and the shuriken catapults/ cannon underneath.

No, you're thinking of the Falcon.

Well, I play a mech Eldar army.
But I never take additional weapons for my Serpents.
Its a trade-off: costs vs effectiveness.

Vaktathi wrote:

Mattieau wrote:You can have 3 guns IIRC. The two different ones on the turret, and the shuriken catapults/ cannon underneath.

No, you're thinking of the Falcon.

You are entirely correct. Ignore my post.

Waveserpents always have a TL heavy weapon turret. And also a TL shuriken cat at the bottom, which can be replaced by a cannon for 10 points