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I kind of get the image of it coming out of a ditch, covered in tall jungle grass with a few surprised Orks in front of it. Maybe even trying to take a shot at it as a kneejerk reaction.

A guy standing on top of the main crew compartment, waving the Catachan Flag.

If I add Ork figures on the base, I'm pretty sure I would only be able to enter it into the diorama category. I don't really want that, if I were going to enter something into the Diorama category, I would've picked a different subject from the start.

I was thinking of adding the Catachan Flag to the tank itself.

Remember guys, they aren't going to be BBQ-ing in the middle of a battle, I can't add part comical, at-rest scenes with action poses, one or the other. It'll look stupid otherwise.

I was, in all honesty, seeing this as being parked at a NASCAR race. Catachan tailgating. Sorry.

LMAO... brian that would be such a cool idea!!!

and dave i totally see your point here... mixing poses of that kind would look not the part... tho i still get a charlie don´t surf vibe from that thing... which is dumb as it is a tank and not a heli

if it is more big death on tracks...then maybe a sniper taking potshots?

The flat top of it would make a great place for a sniper to be Checking range

well when you have such a beast you aren´t gangpressed to always just use the big guns

and taking out a rocket launcher on foot is quicker bysniper than any other weapon system i bet...

heh..No a lascannon is quicker, albeit a waste of a shot, but it WILL do the job very quickly

why quicker? i mean a sniper is very quick when it comes to targeting... but the actual shot maybe slower...but the lascannon is as i am currently thinking slower in the uptake but quicker in shooting?

Well, In-game:

a Lascannon shoots 48", Str. 9 AP2 Heavy1.

a sniper rifle max range is 36", Str. X, and AP 6 Heavy1, Sniper


This means that besides the increased range of the lascannon, the Str 9 means that a Guardsman firing at another guardsman with a Lascannon gets to use the STR9 of the weapon, where if he was using the sniper rifle, he is limited to his own BS3 (or BS4 if he is a vet) -That is what the X in the sniper rifle profile means.

The AP2 (lower AP=better at armor piercing) of the lascannon means the shot is effective, but wasteful when targeting a guardsman, since a lascannon is really an anti-armor weapon.

In 6th Ed, any model that takes an unsaved wound from a weapon more than twice it's own toughness value (a reg guardsman has a toughness value of 3) causes instant death. The lascannon is Str9, so a hit with a lascannon incinerates the guardsman 3 times over -aka quicker

ok...even as a rules noob i get that^^...and i see three tmes over= quicker

Yeah, see, on the most basic level, the lascannon has a better chance of frying your hypothetical "guy with a missile launcher" in one shooting phase, but dice rolls are ultimately what determines the hit, and the wounding of course.


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But if your possible targets for a lascannon shot are:
1. A Chimera
or
2. A guy with a missile launcher

You'd be silly to target the guy, since the Chimera loaded with more guys is really the bigger threat, and only a foolish commander would do that

Now we are frying!!!!!

Just saying 'hi' after the weekend. *waves*

Hi Skalk!

yeah hi!

er..when i down a transport...doesn´t the crew get out and commence fighting? i never really understood that... because if i fry a chimera...surley evryone inside is toast too???

Well, if they destroy the transport far across the board, this means the enemy squad is walking to their object under fire, or just exposed for other units to pepper it with p0lenty of shots, but it is a better thing for you to make then enemy walk slowly at a mere 6" per turn than a 12" or better move via a transport.

Flying chermia?

well i see... but that rule is not really realistic , non? i mean if a shellshot from a LR would hit a chimera... the next job is for a dustpan?

I still miss the good ol' days when blowing up a transport meant blowing up the occupants.

It all depends on the damage roll, on a Wrecked result, the passengers must immediately disembark 3" from the vehicle, any models that cannot disembark within that 3" are instantly dead, then the survivors are pinned. On an Explodes result, the unit inside suffers a Str 4, AP- hit, then any survivors are placed inside the crater or wreck, those that can't fit are instantly dead, and the survivors are pinned.

Viktor von Domm wrote:well i see... but that rule is not really realistic , non? i mean if a shellshot from a LR would hit a chimera... the next job is for a dustpan?

ka boom, then flying in cirlces... then a Chaos guy apperas and turns into a deamon prince then destroys everything...

everything

Muhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (ironicly I'm a loyicaist to the imperium, well thats what they think)...

^right!!! that makes sense... and for a grim dark universe... loosing ten men by one lucky shot...how grim dark can you get?

Well, in 6ed, now we have cool overwatch and snap shots- meaning that you can take extra shots (only at BS1) during your opponents turn but it's a free shot, and the dice gods may smile upon you and you might get lucky

Well..Do ya?

Wait... did he shoot 6 times, or only 5?

well...any punk knows now

I think it was 7.............

no... it goes to eleven...