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In our last game a penitent engine assaulted through terrain a unit of Necron Praetorians. My Opponent claimed that the Engine having no access to grenades it should fight at initiative 1 and supported his claim through the BRB chapters of Walker Movement and Assault chapters.

Now my question is why I haven't this elsewere in the past 3 editions of WH40k. Has there been a change in the rules that i missed? Am I remembering older editions again Or are walkers in melee subject to another rule that allows them to fight at initiative.
Thanks in advance for your answers...

There is no other rule, I'm sorry.
Walker is one of the worst unit type unfortunately.

konst80hummel wrote:
Or are walkers in melee subject to another rule that allows them to fight at initiative.

Walkers ignore the Unwieldy rule (from power fists, etc) - perhaps that's what you were thinking of? Otherwise, no. They suffer the initiative penalty from charging through cover just like any other unit.

I think that space marine ironclad dreadnought might be an exception - I think that it has a similar set of grenade launchers to the ones that certain land raiders/centurions can get, allowing it to ignore the initiative penalty. However, it's the only walker that I know of that can do it.

Thank you very much!

Iron clad I belive are fitted with grenade launching panals and a upgrade you can take like the hunter killer missiles