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Exactly what it says on the tin. Is it because of Relentless/Slow and purposeful? Because of the weapons themselves? who does the best with the most Dakka?

I am inclined to say vanilla Marines (due to their use of grav weapons on Relentless models).

The Grey Knights are able to put it to good use, due to troop Terminators, Paladins, and Nemesis Dreadknights. They can take psilincers and psycannons in every unit

*notes it's ironic that the armies that use salvo best, basicly are the ones that ignore the rules*

Splinter cannons from dark eldar aren't bad. The units that use them generally either don't want to assault too badly or else have relentless (Talos).

Space wolf long fangs are just a standard devastation squad, except they have split fire. Pretty useful.

Wyldhunt wrote:
Splinter cannons from dark eldar aren't bad. The units that use them generally either don't want to assault too badly or else have relentless (Talos).

Yup. Its worth noting that the splinter rifles on the also are twin linked as well so you get 6 4+ poison shots and reroll all misses.

Nifty stuff guys keep it up.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned 'nids yet despite them seeming to have a lot of mcs. Or are their options for this just bad?

Noise marines with sonic blasters/blastmasters and Havoks with heavy weapons fit the bill. Termis can take a few heavy weapons, and then there is forgefiend with three move and shoot plasma cannons.

Best relentless salvo that I know of are DA Ravenwing bikers with command squad with Sacred Standart of Devastation. That's alot of bolt rounds flying without downsides.

Raven Cowl wrote:

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned 'nids yet despite them seeming to have a lot of mcs. Or are their options for this just bad?

Nids don't have a single Heavy or Salvo weapon in the main codex. Everything is Assault. From the smallest S3 gun to the S10 and even the 20 shot Fleshborers Hive only available to one creature who is an MC, they are all Assault Weapons. They are exempt from this idea.

Salvo and Heavy aren't special rules to worry about taking advantage of. They're just there, attached to a bunch of random weapons. Some armies have more of it than others.

 SharkoutofWata wrote:

Raven Cowl wrote:

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned 'nids yet despite them seeming to have a lot of mcs. Or are their options for this just bad?

Nids don't have a single Heavy or Salvo weapon in the main codex. Everything is Assault. From the smallest S3 gun to the S10 and even the 20 shot Fleshborers Hive only available to one creature who is an MC, they are all Assault Weapons. They are exempt from this idea.

Huh, That's interesting. Thanks.

BrianDavion wrote:
*notes it's ironic that the armies that use salvo best, basicly are the ones that ignore the rules*

Well, yes, this is basically how half of the great units in 40k work... they get to benefit from the good stuff, and have a way of avoiding the bad stuff