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Does a unit of Tarantula Sentry Turrets all shot the same target? Or do they fire at closest target even if there is different targets?

What is the exact wording?

If it states the unit must fire at the nearest target then all turrets fire at the closest target.

If it states each turret must fire at the closest target then I would assume codex overules the BRB and they can fire independently.

Which enemy unit within range is the tarantula sentry gun's prefered target is determined by its armament. If no preferred target exists in its line of sight it Will simply attack the nearest target in range

Once again though, does it refer to the unit or the model when explaining it's prefferred target rule?

Im not sure, this is what it says

Since it doesn't specifically say you can fire each gun at different targets then you are still restricted by the rulebook's rule that a unit must all fire at the same target.

Alright

But what If there was one with heavy bolter and one with lascannon?

 ThunderfireMac wrote:
Alright

But what If there was one with heavy bolter and one with lascannon?

I suggest not mixing guns in the same unit

It would not really matter if they fire at different targets. The bolter will fire at nearest infantry unit and the lascannon at the nearest vehicle or monstrous creature. But what happens if they are in the same unit?

 ThunderfireMac wrote:
It would not really matter if they fire at different targets. The bolter will fire at nearest infantry unit and the lascannon at the nearest vehicle or monstrous creature. But what happens if they are in the same unit?

The game breaks. Its impossible to follow the rules in this situation because there only only 3 options

a) You let them fire at their appropriate targets in which case you are breaking the "fire at the same unit" rule
b) You let them fire at the same target in which case you are breaking the targeting rules
c) You only let the appropriate guns fire in which case you are still breaking the targeting rules

That's why i said don't mix guns in the same unit.

I think my head broke aswell

B) does not break the targeting rules: they have a caveat for fire at non-preferred targets.

B would likely be the best choice in a mixed-weapon unit where you fire at the nearest preferred target in the weapon's arc.

A unit of more than 1 sentry gun set for long-range, limited-arc also runs into an issue of effectively forcing the models to completely overlap their arcs: there is no independent firing so a unit of 3 models covering 270° of fire would only allow 1 model to ever fire as the whole unit only targets the nearest enemy unit in one of the 90° arcs.

I would advocate house-ruling them to be treated like emplaced weapons on a building: each gun targets separately.

I think that you have to select which mode you are firing with them, then dependant upon the firing mode which ever condi you on is satisfied first. I don't have the book with me but I will get back to y'all.


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I think that you have to select which mode you are firing with them, then dependant upon the firing mode which ever condi you on is satisfied first. I don't have the book with me but I will get back to y'all.

You select firing mode for the entire game when you are deploying them. Both targeting modes lack consideration of different guns in the unit.