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I am about to start building a Primaris Repulsor and have decided on most of the weapon options with one exception. On the Repulsor you get a choice between two Fragstorm grenade launchers or taking auto launchers. The grenade launchers will give me 2 assault D6 S4 D1 attacks at 18" for 8 points and the auto launchers for 0 points work like smoke launchers but can be used as many times as I like. Not sure which to take. Thoughts?

 KingGarland wrote:
I am about to start building a Primaris Repulsor and have decided on most of the weapon options with one exception. On the Repulsor you get a choice between two Fragstorm grenade launchers or taking auto launchers. The grenade launchers will give me 2 assault D6 S4 D1 attacks at 18" for 8 points and the auto launchers for 0 points work like smoke launchers but can be used as many times as I like. Not sure which to take. Thoughts?

Giving up shooting on this thing is a pretty rare choice, so unless you need it to survive at all costs...probably not. If you need to save points then auto launchers it is.

With all the guns on that thing, I just can’t see forgoing a round of shooting.

It's a tough call, usually this thing also having the duty of transporting some other strong shooting units like Hellblasters or Aggressors into their optimal range. The auto launcher might allow it to live a while longer when facing things such as Shadowsword, double Fire Prisms, Hive Guard spams, etc, so it can let those Hellblasters to live till at least fire one round.
Its survivability can be even enhanced by Tigirius, giving it a total -2 to hit, or even T9 to the thing.