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The other day I was going through my bits box and hit a flash of inspiration with a Chimera dozer blade and some misc pieces.


Now I like how it looks and am wondering about rules and points cost for it.

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Light Battle Cannon

Type: Artillery

Hp: 2 F/S/R: 9
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Cost: 75 points

Crew: 3

Weapon:
Light Battle Cannon

Light Shells:
S: 8 Ap: 4 Blast 2 - Range 72"

Heavy Shells:
S: 8 Ap: 4 Large Blast 1 - Range 36"

Anti Armour Shells:
S: 9 Ap: 2 Heavy 1 - Range 36"

Upgrades:

May take up to 3 more crew at 5 points each

May take Bullet shield for 5 points: + 1 Front Armour

Its a bit High strength for a "Light" Weapon.

If anything a Light weapon would be an auto cannon

So a base auto cannon with shell options of Standard, Anti armor ( st7 ap1 armor bane heavy 1), and a frag shell (st 6 blast ap 4-5) would be about right

Use the artillery rules and the Taurox battle cannon.

T7 W2

S7 AP4, heavy 1 blast.

This should be in the proposed rules section.

75pts for it is silly. For 85pts you can get an actual battle cannon on an av14 all round platform with a vengence weapon battery.
As to its rules, it looks a lot bigger than an autocannon, but a small blast will only realistically be giving you the same damage output as an autocannon. Make it large blast with st7 ap4.
TheSilo is on the money when saying use artillery rules.
Conaidering a basilisk artillery piece is 75pts, I would say cost this with the above changes at ~60pts. 2 less st, 1 less ap, no barrage, less range, no ordinance. You lose a lot for 15 pts - but you have to pay premium if making your own rules.

There are already rules rather close to that

75pts base for a basilisk battery that you can upgrade with different weapons and extra crew

I'm not going to talk about rules, but it sure will look cool!