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Suppressors move 12” (jump packs) and have an Heavy weapon.
Am I right thinking that by givin’ the Stealth specialization they will shoot the heavy Autocannon without malus if they moved just 6” (therefore counting as readied) respecting the Stealth free ability?

 Toban wrote:
Suppressors move 12” (jump packs) and have an Heavy weapon.
Am I right thinking that by givin’ the Stealth specialization they will shoot the heavy Autocannon without malus if they moved just 6” (therefore counting as readied) respecting the Stealth free ability?

Readied doesn’t counter moving as far as I can tell. Why would it? It just determines what order you shoot in.

A level 1 stealth specialist counts as ready if they made a normal move of half or less of their move characteristic.

Suppressors have a move characteristic of 12".

Therefore you can make a normal move of 6" and count as readied.

However, it has still moved so you do get the penalty for moving and shooting a Heavy weapon as there is no text in the ability to counter movement related penalties.

Stealth is a Commander only specialty. Suppressors can't be Commanders.

If you did have a Commander with a Heavy weapon and Stealth specialty, it would still have -1 from moving. Readied doesn't care about that.

 DarknessEternal wrote:
Stealth is a Commander only specialty. Suppressors can't be Commanders.

If you did have a Commander with a Heavy weapon and Stealth specialty, it would still have -1 from moving. Readied doesn't care about that.

Stealth is in the commander book, but its a specialty option for several of the marine units in the elites book. Even though in the commander book it does describe it as something for commanders. Unless GW writes a faq, it appears to be intended for an option for regular troops as well.

edit: Infiltrators, suppressors, eliminators, all have it on their data sheet as an option.

 DarknessEternal wrote:
Stealth is a Commander only specialty. Suppressors can't be Commanders.

If you did have a Commander with a Heavy weapon and Stealth specialty, it would still have -1 from moving. Readied doesn't care about that.

The specialisms in the commander book were effectively only for commanders because no core units listed those specialisms on their datasheets (obviously) but that is not true of elites.