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I understand that each weapon has its own niche, but if I'm taking a list up against random opponents what's my best choice? As it stands I'm liking rockets, as they can stay out of LoS, do decent damage, etc. Balanced they seem.

Cannons are the best if you have an engineer I think, as they're fairly likely to hit and do heavy damage to literally anything.

Volley gun was my next choice, but it's risky to fire three volleys.

Last was mortar, which unless I go up against 20+ squads seems kinda disappointing.

Does this sound about right?

 kingbobbito wrote:
I understand that each weapon has its own niche, but if I'm taking a list up against random opponents what's my best choice? As it stands I'm liking rockets, as they can stay out of LoS, do decent damage, etc. Balanced they seem.

Cannons are the best if you have an engineer I think, as they're fairly likely to hit and do heavy damage to literally anything.

Volley gun was my next choice, but it's risky to fire three volleys.

Last was mortar, which unless I go up against 20+ squads seems kinda disappointing.

Does this sound about right?

Sounds about right. I would also look at what else is in your army and take ranged support to fill the gaps. As an example, you'd never want a mortar if you already have units that can deal with big blobs.

I don't play Empire, but I do play Dwarves and I have a good friend who plays Empire. I would say cannons are the best, as they're capable of doing massive amounts of damage to nearly anything. Second favorite being the volley gun.