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I'm currently building quite a few Chimeras for my IG army but i'm not sure what weapon is best on the turret.
I'm already using heavy flamers on the hull but I don't know wether to use Multi-Lasers or Heavy Bolters.

Thanks

Against MEQ's I use multilasers for the 2+ to wound
for horde armies either go with the heavy flamer or heavy bolter due to the 2+ wound and their superior ap

I really like the multi-lasers. They're a pretty darn multi-purpose gun.

Multi-laser. Wounding on 2s and the potential to hurt vehicles is much better than AP5.

L. Wrex

Stick with the Multi-lasers. They provide you with a tool to more tactical situations. Don´t let the
better AP of the Heavy Bolter blind you. Cover is plentiful in 5th and MEQ armies don´t care about AP4 anyway.
S6 is the real ace in this match up. It enables you to threaten light armor, high Toughness monsters and wound
basic troopers of most armies on a 2+.

Multi-laser, S6. it has ap6 ,but wounds on a 2+ and gets three shots.

Gogo multi lasers. As said, S6 wins out.

A good mix of both, I have list now with two of each. My Multilaser Chimeras tend to be in the thickest fighting and having that extra bump of S is a big help. My heavy bolter Chimeras are my runners, they tend to be hitting flanks and pick apart enemy squads out of cover. They usually carry my melta vets. My Multilaser Chimeras carry plasma vets and my CCS.

I've also had good success with putting a heavy stubber with multilaser + heavy bolter, that way I can still get 6 shots all the time. I like hull heavy flamers too, just don't use them as much.

It depends if you want a weapon that is crappy at everything, or a weapon that is slightly crappier at everything, but vaguely decent against at least one thing.

Not that it is really going to matter much, as the purpose of a transport is to transport, which usually precludes all that much weapon fire most of the time.

Hb, S5 Ap4 3 shots, ml S6 Ap6 3 shots. You do nothing with better ap if you dont wound. Domt worry about ap, if you need to blast something w ap 4 or lower, your lemans,manticores etc. will take care of that!

Jone96 wrote:You do nothing with better ap if you dont wound.

You do nothing with wounding if your opponent passes his armor saves.

Ailaros wrote:

Jone96 wrote:You do nothing with better ap if you dont wound.

You do nothing with wounding if your opponent passes his armor saves.

AP isn't all that important unless you get to marine armor values. Anything with worse save is going to be in cover assuming decent terrain and competent players. I personally would only go with multilasers, since they are decent against light tanks, and wound nearly everything at a decent number (short of the talos, C'tan, wraithlords, wounds on no worse than a 4).

I've personally have found more dakka to be more important than AP most of the time.

Thank you for the advice, I think I will use the Multi-Lasers.

(IMO they are the best looking weapon as well)

Multi-Lazors!!!?!!?!

I would go for the multilasers because of the higher str will help get more wounds.

Just go C.S. Goto on your army and have multilazors everywhere. They work.

The ability to instant death t3 models shouldn't be over looked either, multi lasers can reall hurt guard heavy weapon teams and DE with FNP

EmilCrane wrote:The ability to instant death t3 models shouldn't be over looked either, multi lasers can reall hurt guard heavy weapon teams and DE with FNP

My pycannon inquisitor died from a S6 hit the other day, failed his termie armor save. Serves him right for being alone in the open against guard.

notabot187 wrote:

EmilCrane wrote:The ability to instant death t3 models shouldn't be over looked either, multi lasers can reall hurt guard heavy weapon teams and DE with FNP

My pycannon inquisitor died from a S6 hit the other day, failed his termie armor save. Serves him right for being alone in the open against guard.

There's a reason CS Goto endorses multi lasers, they're killy

A fellow guard player killed a greater daemon in one turn with them.

What about dual HF?

Dual HF is kinnda not impressive, you can only fire 1 if you move with short range. And if the opponent are so close that you can fire both you are dead anyways.

Multilaser + hull heavy flamer is the best allround setup. ML can threathen many units and heavyflamers are useful when they get close.

On a related point, when do you think it worth it to splurge for the Heavy Stubber? Its only S4 so you can still move and fire both it and another weapon.

I'm the first to agree that Dakka's search is a bit wonky, but simply typing "Chimera Turret" into the tactics search box picks up these threads:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/315772.page#1908274

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/291692.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/285900.page#1445823

To sum it all up: stick with multilasers.