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heavy weapon teams are good for this. you have good options. i usualy take a team with autocannons and a team with missle launchers. other good options are what all guard should take. either LRBT or bassilisks. the roll two dice and chose the best for armour pen is great. other light armour for foot armies is done by either taking a melta or plasma in an infantry squad. dont take special weapon teams (my oppinion).

the best upgrade(s) to heavy weapon teams is putting a lord commissar near them so they can use leadership 10 to follow orders and be stuborn. Or, use kell and creed to make them use creeds leadership 10 for orders.

i would totaly agree that creed/kell is a better option than a lord commissar. however, a lord commissar at cheapest is 70 points, over the (i have no idea) points of kreed/kell. if you do run a power blob, auto cannons are a great upgrade. lascannons are great too. i just dont run them in hvy weapon squads due to the fact that, i havent modeled any that way. I do run one in my CCS with two snipers (that is up for debate later, not here).

If you are running hvy wpn sqds, i would add a lord commissar just for the bubble of leadership 10. When i do run the heavy weapon squads in objective games, I usualy put them on an objective during deployement if i can, with the lord commissar near by.

an odd suggestion from me. if you are worried about transports, auto cannons are good, but, lascannons are good too.

for 30 points, add the demo to a vet squad. each person getting melta bombs is huge.