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I think the fact that a huge-ass missile launcher can be mounted on a Land Raider is absolutely awesome, but what are your thoughts. Have you seen it being played? Do you know the best way to use it? Is it a viable option?

The biggest question you need to ask yourself when taking a unit, especially one which costs 260 points, is why you are taking it.

Landraiders inherently do not put out good firepower for their points. Their purpose has always been as an elite dedicated transport.

The landraider helios puts out better firepower than than the standard landraider, but its transport size of 6 makes it useless as an assault transport.

Ultimately you are paying 260 points, for 2 lascannons and a whirlwind missile launcher.

I haven't actually used mine yet, but I do think the transport capacity of 6 can be put to good use: transporting a character + command squad (in my case, Sevrin Loth and his Honor Guard).

If only they could convert it to a roc pattern ML. Then it'd be worth its points as a mobile fireplatform!

A command squad or techmarine with servitors in a LR spam list. The techmarine may be more suited to the achilles. Id say dakkabanner command squad anchoring 3 LRCs

I wish the assault ramp could open up a gun bay. Stack that with 3 assault cannons. The 8 side doors to be replaced with a total of 8 sponsons guns.

Call it the dakka raider.

The chaos version should have 8 heavy bolter sponsons, and the front assult hatch should have 2 quad heavy bolter rapier batteries. Give it maelfic ammo and it all rends! Add warp gargoyles for soul blaze.

the helios is fun in apocalypse but it isnt practical in regular games because it wants to stay at range with its lascannons and whirlwind launcher, but it wants to be up close ferrying elite infantry because its a land raider.

if you want a gun platform take the land raider achillies, and if you want a transport the standard raider options, the spartan assault tank, and the land raider prometheus do the job better

now this doesnt mean it doesnt have a place, it would be pretty sweet as a gun platform against hrde armies like tyranids because you can punish their chaffe units with your missles and blast holes through their medium broods and monstrous creatures. as a dark angel prior to the recent faq it was actually pretty smart to own one because you could put a techmarine with a pfg, his servitors inside and now you have a 4++ granting whirlwind, lascannon beast machine at a price cheaper than a land raider and a whirlwind saving your heavy support slots for other things i debated a goofy raider spam forgeworld apocalypse list using one of them as lynchpin unit around which i would have other things like lr's and achillies

It's a cool defensive anchor, but its primary targets are light infantry and light ground vehicles, both of which are more easily and efficiently destroyed by smaller models. I like it but it's never the most efficient way to do anything it does.

Take the Hyperios upgrade and you get an up armored Hunter.