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Is there any 40k literature that the antique 'light weight' artillery piece that comes before Stokes Mortar and Recolless gun? like this one, any IGs using this?. The Mountain Gun
Is there any referrences that an imperial guard regiment use this weapon or similar ones ? (aside of regular heavyweapons on wheeled carriage) which weapons rule is is the best proxy for it? (Mortar, AC, Missile Launcher or Lascannon)?
Mountain guns have been outdated for decades. Why would the IG be using them? Like modern armies, the IG has mortars and missiles that could easily fulfill the same roles as a mountain gun. And if they need heavy artillery they can just use air transports to move their artillery pieces in a mountainous area. With modern equipment, there is just no need for mountain guns anymore. I am not aware of the IG using them in any fluff, and I doubt most BL authors even know that specialised mountain guns were ever a thing. I myself only know because I collect Gebirgsjäger in FoW
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Iron_Captain wrote: Mountain guns have been outdated for decades. Why would the IG be using them? Like modern armies, the IG has mortars and missiles that could easily fulfill the same roles as a mountain gun.
IG have a massive mix of weapons and tech levels. A recoilless gun would probably be used by at least one IG force somewhere
Autocannon = recoiless gun (the successor to this piece)..See Death Korp of Krieg artillery pieces for the rest ..(DKOK has a ton of carriage mounted towable artillery)..
Otherwise you have shown us a very nice looking Ork Kannon.
Many IG regiments are raised with the equipment of their home world as a starting point (although usuaully i guess they would be resupplied at some point) so I dont think it too extreme to think a regimnet "might" have almost any type of weapon we already know from more "primitve" times.
IG equipment seems to be mostly standardised actually. Even regiments from feral worlds are supplied with lasguns and modern equipment. I don't think you would find an IG regiment without mortars, autocannons or missile launchers anywhere. Certainly I have never read about one. PDF equipment on the other hand... That could be anywhere from standard IG stuff on industrial worlds to stone spears and arrows on feral worlds.
To answer the OP, autocannon rules would definitely be the best to proxy mountain guns.
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Iron_Captain wrote: IG equipment seems to be mostly standardised actually. Even regiments from feral worlds are supplied with lasguns and modern equipment. I don't think you would find an IG regiment without mortars, autocannons or missile launchers anywhere. Certainly I have never read about one.
PDF equipment on the other hand... That could be anywhere from standard IG stuff on industrial worlds to stone spears and arrows on feral worlds.
To answer the OP, autocannon rules would definitely be the best to proxy mountain guns.
I would agree that much is standardised if not on exactly the same thing at least general tech level parity but far from all.
Dan Abnett novel, sadly I cant recall exactly which, talks of regiments with bolt rifles and prop engined fighters.
For me the setting is jsut too vast to not think that anything can happen.
Back in the day the fluff was that every regiment got given exactly the same, same uniform same gun same everything but over time they have given into the size of that task and shown more and more often how the adminstratum and munitorm just cant deal with the numbers nor need to.
For me it makes sense that if only initially it would be too much effort to train some feral savage how to use modern weapons when all he is needed for is to die in a meat grinder battle in the first week of an invasion.
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