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A friend of mine sold me some of his old guard stuff recently, a couple of Russ tanks, a hellhound, and a Basilisk, I was trying the Basilisk out against my friend's daemons, and it has a really decent gun, but I'm finding the 36' range where I couldn't fire to be annoying to deal with. Is this just me, or have some of you dealt with this too?

I'm pretty sure that you can fire within 36" so long as you're firing directly.

You just need LOS within 36" to fire it directly. The downside is that you don't ignore intervening terrain as you would with indirect fire. I've found them useful in my meta, which is often against chaos marines, space marines, and tau. First blood from a whole squad of battle suits was pretty awesome one time, but I will say that two of them were used for that.

SGTPozy wrote:I'm pretty sure that you can fire within 36" so long as you're firing directly.

Oh? I'm learning them right now, so I probably just missed that, thanks

ghastli wrote:You just need LOS within 36" to fire it directly. The downside is that you don't ignore intervening terrain as you would with indirect fire. I've found them useful in my meta, which is often against chaos marines, space marines, and tau. First blood from a whole squad of battle suits was pretty awesome one time, but I will say that two of them were used for that.

So, try using them in a Squad then? That might help a bit, thanks

Compare the Earthshaker cannon with a battle cannon. Crappier armor and open-topped, yes, but 25 points cheaper than a LRBT and doesnt have to have LoS beyond 36" and ignores cover as well, provided there is no barricade between the central hole and any models the hit lands on.

S9 + 2D6 pick the highest as armor pen is also workable as a way of stripping hull points off anything other than AV14.

Chop it up and turn it into a Artillary carriage, that way you can get orders.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Chop it up and turn it into a Artillary carriage, that way you can get orders.

There is that if you have FW rules handy. But I've run a squad of two in friendly games that do okay. They aren't the most cost effective option but they are handy and fun imo.