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Hey all I really love how powerful mek guns are and I am looking for more ways to keep them away from my opponent.

Would it be possible to put a big mek with mega armor in the squad to give them slow and purposeful,
Then put them in a battle wagon ?

I'd still be able to move the battle wagon and shoot the gun right?

Transports can only carry infantry unless otherwise stated so your mek gunz can't get in the battle wagon as they are artillery.

Mek guns are insanely cheap and a major pain to shoot off the board. Just use to your advantage that the enemy is wasting lots of powerful shooting trying to kill T7, 3 point grots (or spending the 2-3 turns getting to the mek gun to actually charge and get in close combat with them). If you really want them to have some mobility then give them a mega armor big mek and shoot while walking.

They can't go in a vehicle as noted above. Also if they could then they don't need the big mek because passengers have relentless.

So choices;

Aegis defense line would give you a cover save, to back up the T7 and big wound pool.

MegaMek, gives a 2+ and SNP for movement

Or probably the best choice; more mek gunz. For the cost of a Megamek you can bring 3 gunz. So you could run 2x4.

Honestly if you wanted to have a powerful back line then 3x5 KMK's would be brutal. You'd pump out so much AP2 that lots of stuff would struggle dealing with it.