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Hey guys,

I have salvaged a predator off my old ork army and not sure what main gun to give it. It currently has heavy bolters and the annihilator turret which can't be used.

So thoughts on main gun to use instead?

Standard Pred Autocannon would be my choice. Cheap and cheerful.

yeah cheap as chips. Lascannon sponsons sometimes, especially in armoured breakthrough where they are fast.

Predator cannon and lascannon sponsons for me. I use it mostly to pop rhinos.

I normally only run Predators in an Armoured Breakthrough list, and a Predator with the regular Autocannon and some cheap Heavy Bolter Sponsons (With a Storm Bolter pintle mount) is a pretty scary anti-infantry tank (that can also take on most Monstrous Creatures in a pinch too) - particularly with Armoured Breakthrough making them Fast. But generally for tank hunting I find other Heavy Support slots to fill the role better for the points you spend.

My Blood Angels' Baal Predators sometimes see use because they have access to Iliastus Pattern Assault Cannons. But for other legions the Predator Infernus is fun (though not particularly effective I find).

Standard Pred cannon (4 shots actually makes this worth it to me) and heavy bolters, with a pintle heavy bolter, its worth the points, sometimes I throw on machine spirit, Ironwing makes them BS5 if in a squadron of 2 or more, which is also pure gravy.

I run 3 for my DG:
2 w/ autocannon + heavy bolter sponsons
1 w/ flamestorm cannon + heavy flamer sponsons (gotta love shredding flamestorm )

Play Blood Angels and run an assault-cannon-spam Armoured Breakthrough list. A wave of 105pt Fast Predators with twelve S6 Rending shots each sounds hilarious enough on paper that someone should try it in practice.

I often see people running plasma preds in my local groups and they can be horrifying.

OK I decided on the Plasma Destroyer as I could only find a Leman Russ Plasma cannon that slotted into the pred turret (with a bit of trimming).

It took out a Terminator squad and a handful of marines. It also attracted 4 rounds of medusa shells so thats one thing.

If I give it machine spirit will that allow for the main gun to fire in the event of crew stunned?

Daston wrote:
OK I decided on the Plasma Destroyer as I could only find a Leman Russ Plasma cannon that slotted into the pred turret (with a bit of trimming).

It took out a Terminator squad and a handful of marines. It also attracted 4 rounds of medusa shells so thats one thing.

If I give it machine spirit will that allow for the main gun to fire in the event of crew stunned?

As of the most current FAQ you can. It used to be assumed that PotMS applied only to the restrictions on how many weapons a vehicle could fire based on how far it's moved, but this FAQ has also allowed it to override Jinking (Fire Raptors take note), Shaken/Stunned, and firing Ordnance weapons.

The argument that it gives you Skyfire or lets you target invisible models used to be dead, but may have a gasp of life in it left still after this.

I ran 2 predators and a vindicator in my last game. Gave the predators the plasma turret and lascannon sponsors with PotMS, and even managed to get all 3 shred from the warlord trait.

Lascannons target tanks, shredding plasma blasts without gets hot targeted elite infantry. The small blast sucks, but 3 of them isn't that bad. I had abysmally abnormal scatter results, but still managed to do fairly well.

I'm wondering how the new plasma reactor fortification will fair with one. The turret isnt that long ranged, but next to the reactor the blasts are stronger, and it still doesnt get hot.

Mr ghoti wrote:I ran 2 predators and a vindicator in my last game. Gave the predators the plasma turret and lascannon sponsors with PotMS, and even managed to get all 3 shred from the warlord trait.

Lascannons target tanks, shredding plasma blasts without gets hot targeted elite infantry. The small blast sucks, but 3 of them isn't that bad. I had abysmally abnormal scatter results, but still managed to do fairly well.

I'm wondering how the new plasma reactor fortification will fair with one. The turret isnt that long ranged, but next to the reactor the blasts are stronger, and it still doesnt get hot.

Mr ghoti wrote:I ran 2 predators and a vindicator in my last game. Gave the predators the plasma turret and lascannon sponsors with PotMS, and even managed to get all 3 shred from the warlord trait.

Lascannons target tanks, shredding plasma blasts without gets hot targeted elite infantry. The small blast sucks, but 3 of them isn't that bad. I had abysmally abnormal scatter results, but still managed to do fairly well.

I'm wondering how the new plasma reactor fortification will fair with one. The turret isnt that long ranged, but next to the reactor the blasts are stronger, and it still doesnt get hot.

Sadly the Haemotrope Reactor only works on non-vehicle models.