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I was once told by someone (Blackmoor?) that assistant gunners can fire thier lasguns in Heavy Wpn squads.  I understand that in regular squads two make up a crew. 

However in HW squads it says 6 guardsmen make up 3 crews.  I does NOT say 2 per crew.  One can say 1 per crew then three lasgunners.  Similar to Special Wpn squads where there are 3 with special wpns and 3 with lasguns, Id say HW sqds have 3 guys with heavy wpns and 3 with lasguns.  Think of those marine/chaos units that have 3 heavy wpns, dont the other 3 get to fire thier bolters?. 

In addition in the codex, under WEAPONS:  It says Lasguns, then it says they are armed with 3 of the following: ...... Blah blah.  So I say assistant gunners may fire thier lasguns while the gunners fire the hvy weapons. 

Whats your call?

I think the assissant is alittle to busy reloading the weapon too fire his weapon and plus most guard heavy weapons have a greater range then 24 right??
Just my though on the subject.

th assistant gunner is just fluff, it only takes one man to actually use the heavy weapon so you can fire 3 las guns and 3 las cannons.  though generally the las guns wont affect the targets of your las cannons.

Josey is quite correct. The Gunner fires the heavy weapon and the AG fires his lasgun.

Cool thanks. Thats three extra flashlights per turn. ALthough they suck, you never know they might do somthing for once.

I'm fairly sure this is one of those things that GW never really clarified in their FAQs....they more-or-less confirmed that lasguns do indeed exist in HW teams and squads.