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Alright, in the middle of a huge ass game with a friend of mine and I have 2 thunderfire cannons hiding out under something. I was debating whether or not to rotate them when it suddenly occurred to me that they are treated more like infantry than a vehicle. This intrigued me so I went to see if there is an artillery firing arc. There is not. This leaves me in an interesting dilemma. If I treat it like any other unit, the firing arc is essentially 360 degrees with no line of site or rotation required. If I treat it like a vehicle it needs to be specified so I can determine what it can hit.

Honestly, it's a turret on tracks so I'm inclined to give it the 360 degree firing radius but still, hard to say for certain.

It's not a vehicle. It has no AV value, nor does it follow any vehicle rules.
It's not limited by fire arcs.

Yes but...this seems -really- counter intuitive. I mean....It's not limited by firing arcs or line of sight? That seems...silly. In a good way, mind you.

It is limited by line of sight per the 'Shooting with Artillery' section of the rules.

Well with the Barrage special rule, they ignore LoS at a scatter penalty. Which essentially means it has a 360 degree arc at 60 inches?

its got an infantry statline so treat it as such.

its good that you're being cautious about it though; stops anyone feeling burned by a mistake.