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Read a post recently that stated,

Generally you want to hit them with sheer volume of fire from medium/high strength weapons. If you kit out your wave serpent with a scatter laser and shuriken cannon you will have seven twin linked S6 shots at it, and potentially 1d6+1 twin linked S7 shots as well. Outside of some truely epicly bad rolling, you should be popping light tanks like that almost every time with that load out

How do you get seven twin linked S6 shots?
And how do you get the 1d6+1 S7 shots?

Grendlefly

The Scatter Laser fires four shots, and the Shuriken Cannon fires three, for a total of seven S6 shots.

The Serpent Shield now fires 2D6 S6 Ignores Cover shots at 24 inches once per game. Wave Serpents are now no longer one of the best tanks in the game, but are still one of the best transports.

Only the Scatter Laser is Twinlinked. The Cannon and the Shield are not unless there are some psychic happenings.

Probably an old post using the 6th ed rules for serpents.

Read a post recently ...

You may have read it recently, but it won't have been a recent post.

Scatter Lasers used to give twin-linked to anything fired from that model afterwards. That was in the old codex, and is not in the latest codex.

The 1D6+1 is the amount of shots a WS shield used to be able to fire.
Again, this is in the previous codex, and not the latest version.

If you get to know when codexes were published, you can work out whether the posts you read are still valid.

Thank you for all the information. That clears up a lot. I havnt played in 8 yrs, so trying to do a catch up