Best Anti-Tank Weapons in the game?

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**vipoid**

Outside of D-weapons, what do you guys think are the best anti-tank weapons in the game?

**Desubot**

Haywire

Mostly because IIRC no vehicles have a real immunity to it.

also HPing out is soo much better than going for the 1 shot miracle melta no matter how awesome it is when it does happen.

**aw_man**

What I would like to see, but will never happen.

A volcano cannon shoehorned into something tiny like a tracked rapier carrier.

All in all I'd just throw my hat for the Imperial trio, quad rapier lascannons, volcano cannon, or vanquisher cannon.

**Vaktathi**

Haywire obviously, getting to "wound" on a 2+ (regardless of AV) against a unit type that typically has no innate saves and fewer "wounds" than MC's do is rather strong.

Meltaguns obviously too.

Rapier Laser Destroyers are great as well.

Just about anything getting into base contact with a vehicle is usually amazing anti-tank as well, given how 95% are getting hit on rear armor, and almost all of those are rear AV10. Powerfists, Krak grenades, etc are all still incredible AT.

**jhe90**

Melta in general is well proven with the right position and timing.

Some tanks and veichals of various races mount some potent anti tank armamernt.

**niv-mizzet**

The skitarii rapid fire haywire gun is definitely a top contender, especially being in an army that can just "decide" to be BS7 on a turn.

I originally came in to say D-scythes without a doubt just by the title, but then read your "no D" addendum.

**Bobthehero**

Medusa Siege gun with bastion breacher shell.

STR 10 AP 1 Armourbane doesn't forgive, doesn't forget.

**Iron_Captain**

Haywire weapons.

**cosmicsoybean**

Fusion guns for fire dragons. Ap 1 melta that can blow anything up on a 4+

**Talys**

Haywire is great, of course. I would argue grav is generally better, as a squad will also eat vehicles and it's highly effective against a broad range of targets.

Distortion weapons, obviously, will turn a tank into scrap metal in record time, now.

**Vector Strike**

1. Haywire
2. Armourbane
3. Melta
4. Tank Hunters/Primary/Ordnance
5. Grav
6. Gauss
7. 48"+ S10 without special rules

**the_scotsman**

Fire dragon melta guns

Skiitari haywire guns

Ork MANZ bomb (gak hurts for like...150 points)

Ork KMK (laugh, but that's a S8 AP2 blast on a T7 W4 model for 30pts... And you can buy 2 more wounds per gun for 3 points apiece.)

Sternguard melta bomb just for pure effectiveness

**Engine of War**

Non-D weapon wise for AT work. No melee weapons cause... There are too many to count and general... they all work the same so you can't really separate them. (Well I suppose you could separate them but meh)

Its my list but here goes.

Long Range

1. Vanquisher (longest range, essentially a Melta that can reach out and kill a tank at 72 inchs)
2. Medusa Siege Gun + Bastion Breacher (far shorter range than Vanquisher but MUCH more brute force to make up for it)
3. Transuranic Aquebus. Its a MAN-PORTABLE weapon and a Sniper Rifle, with ARMORBANE. It potentially could get up to 16 on the pen (duel 6s on the armor bane roll) and it reaches out to 60 inchs away. A full squad of Rangers can take 3 of them. Imagine stuffing a whole bunch of Ranger Squads with these into a Stormlord? Vulcan Mega bolter with the Transuranic Arqubuses in the back and the Galvanic Rifles adding more shots (with precision shots) to the already bullet spitting monster that is the Stormlord.
4. Neutron Laser weapons: The Neutron Laser on the Onager. The platform it sits on boosts it up.
5. Laser Destroyers and their Variants. Essentially the beefier non-turbo laser big brother to Lascannons. Covers the Rapier.
6. Railgun.
7.Earth Shaker Cannon. Its range, ST and Ordinance can't go wrong. Its an Artillery piece sure, but it can work as an AT weapon even if its not dedicated to the task
8. Hunter killer missile. Unlimited Range puts it on the map. but that's it.

Shorter Range (definition is variable. but generally these have shorter range than the ones above)
Melta of every kind: They only barly ekk out over Haywire due to the bigger melta weapons such as the Titan Melta Cannon, or the Errants Thermal cannon (Still a Melta!) or even the Melta Cannon the Hellhound variant can carry and their longer range (only just so due again to their larger size)
Haywire (The Skittarri Arc weapons are all up there together)
Grav
Gauss

**Vankraken**

Tankbustas can do work with the combo of assault 1 Str 8 rokkits and can charge for melta bomb spam. Plus the bustas get Tank Hunter so those melta bombs basically can't fail to pen.

**Loborocket**

This /\. /\

**vipoid**

With regard to Grav, one thing I only learned recently was that it only takes 2 6s to destroy a 3hp vehicle (since additional immobilised results on an already-immobilised vehicle result in an additional hull point).

Engine of War wrote:

1. Vanquisher (longest range, essentially a Melta that can reach out and kill a tank at 72 inchs)

Bear in mind that the Vanquisher Cannon is AP2, not AP1.