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im watching battle reports and people are only using 3 shots with las gun arrays on their chimeras, but there are 2 of them so shouldnt it basically be rapid fire 6? I know in previous editions the gun itself would need line of sight, but I thought that as of 8th edition all the weapons can hit if the vehicle has line of sight

The chimera indeed has 2 Lasgun array, and each is a Rapid Fire 3 weapon.

ok ya some reason these guys were only shooting 3 las guns via lasgun arrays and the not the full 6

6 is long range fire for 6 lasguns,
12 is short range fire.

Even a single 25 point commisar can hit those buttons and shoot all six of them, and they can even be used if your chimera is in melee

This can be pretty useful even with the -1 to hit, if you end up surrounded by unarmored foes.

When was this battle report posted?

I saw it happen twice in 2 diff 9th edition battle reports on youtube

Dukeofstuff wrote:
6 is long range fire for 6 lasguns,
12 is short range fire.

Even a single 25 point commisar can hit those buttons and shoot all six of them, and they can even be used if your chimera is in melee

This can be pretty useful even with the -1 to hit, if you end up surrounded by unarmored foes.

Lasguns arrays are not 'heavy' and do not get a -1 to hit for shooting at targets within engagement range...

ah, that's right! my bad, my very bad!
There aren't a lot of not heavy options for weapons on gaurd vehicles, sometimes I get tunnel vision.

the bane vehicles with firing points do suffer the -1 to hit from heavy weapons squads, you could try and keep it alive with psychers making it tougher to hit and wound, and maybe a techpriest, but apparently they often get blasted off the table with the enemy alpha strike, it would sure be hilarious to hide a wall of lascannons and the new heavy bolters inside one assuming it can stay still


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tho it would be super funny to take like a bunch of plasma guns via veterans,command squads, or scions inside like a stormlord and march it up the field