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So my friend and I played our very first game of 6th edition the other day (yeah, I know we're way behind) but we couldn't decide of his missile launcher was legally allowed to fire it's krak missiles into an oncoming assault. I know you can't fire blast weapons, but if the blast weapon as an alternative firing mode, can it still fire as a snapshot?

Thanks!

Yes, you can snap fire the Krak missile. In that mode, its not a blast weapon.

As stated above, you can Snap Fire the Missile Launcher on Krak mode only. Not that you will hit anything but, thats another story.

 TheCrazyCryptek wrote:
As stated above, you can Snap Fire the Missile Launcher on Krak mode only. Not that you will hit anything but, thats another story.

Well a Devastator squad with four Missile Launchers scores one hit when firing Overwatch about 51.77% of the time.

But the tactical squad only scores one hit with its Missile Launcher 16.6% of the time when firing Overwatch.

Snapfiring missiles...

... I'm getting more and more tempted to take the plastic off my copy of 6th ed.

Why did you buy a copy and not open it?

You can totally snap fire a missile.
Don't you remember this:


http://c10566323.r23.cf2.rackcdn.com/03-29-13_michael-douglas-in-falling-down_original.jpg

And this is what you look like if the snap fired missile actually hits:

Nice thing about shooting a ML on the move, take the shot at a flyer. No easier to hit if you hadn't moved and do worth it for the 1/6 times you do.

 MasterSlowPoke wrote:
And this is what you look like if the snap fired missile actually hits:

I remember National Geographic interviewing that guy like 15 years after the photo was taken. Interesting article.

Is that in Mogadishu?

Yes. It is a lott like when you use smallarms fire with frag misiles on 5th edition landspeeders.