Heavy Weapons Teams

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**Clumpski**

Really fast question, i always play them as being 2 troops per base rather than 2 wounds, loosing a would allows me to still move and fire like normal due to help from other guards men/shared load, is this correct?

**Happyjew**

The HWT is 1 model with 2 wounds. if the model loses 1 wound, it can still shoot as normal. Also, playing it as 2 models on 1 base, if you were to suffer a S6+ wound, only 1 model would be removed, instead of the entire HWT.

**ToBeWilly**

As Happyjew said. Also, a HWT being one model means it can only fire one weapon per shooting phase. No shooting the heavy weapon with one model and a lasgun with the other. It can only shoot one.

**Clumpski**

admittedly i only shot the heavy weapon rather than that and the las because someone needs to load and spot ofc! i was just wondering about the wound allocation since it has 2 models rather than just 1

**insaniak**

It's a 2-wound model that is just represented by two models that share a base.

**Spetulhu**

Kind of similar to a Space Marine Attack Bike... You remove the whole, not the passenger first. Ofc Bikes have it better in that they can fire one weapon per rider.

**grendel083**

One model, 2 Wounds. It means if you have a IG Heavy Weapons Squad you sadly can't kill of the three 'loaders' before removing a heavy weapon.

**Clumpski**

thats fine =D thanks folks

**Cheex**

grendel083 wrote:One model, 2 Wounds. It means if you have a IG Heavy Weapons Squad you sadly can't kill of the three 'loaders' before removing a heavy weapon.

You could, but it would require arming the teams differently, at which point any benefit you gain from wound allocation shenanigans gets outweighed by the drawback of having a sub-optimal mix of weapons.

**Clumpski**

one of the main reasons i was confused is looking at the steel legion heavy weapons team in the 10 man squad, its 2 people, 2 bases o.o

**insaniak**

That's because the Steel Legion were designed for previous codexes, where they were two separate models.