Support Weapon Team

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"At the Damoncles Gulf Crusade, members of the Earth caste noticed that the Imperial Guard used different heavy weapons to give their infantry some mobile fire support. After a few battles they discovered that the Broadside XV88 wasn't mobile enough to support the Fire warriors. After some field-testing, two Fire warriors armed with a heavy weapon commonly mounted on a battlesuit seemed just right, the Support weapon team was born"

Heavy Support choice; Stats of Support Weapon Team

Stats of Support Weapon Team
Name	Cost	Ws	Bs	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Save
Support Team	20	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	7	3+

Additional Rules

Team: The team consists of 1-3 Support Weapons.
Unit Type: Infantry
Equipment: Stealth field generator. The team must take one of the (modified) weapons listed below.
Options: They may take any of the following support systems:
Blacksun filter 3 pts, Targeting array 10 pts, Target lock 5pts.
Special Rules: Cover. The crew of the Support weapon has been especially trained to use cover to hide themselves and their weapon. This gives them a +1 bonus when taking cover saves.

Stats of the Support Weapon Team's Weapons
Name	Range	Str	Ap	Type
Fusion Cannon	32"	8	2	Heavy 1
Heavy Plasma Rifle	36"	6	3	Heavy 2
Long-barreld Burst Cannon	36"	5	5	Heavy 3
Missile Pod (Different from codex)	36"	7	4	Heavy 2

Below are a couple of pictures of these units as part of my army:

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Comment made by obsidian_k3 on 03:43:58, 22 February 2008
they DO look very cool

Comment made by Monolith on 14:21:56, 30 November 2007
because they are stationary ^^

Comment made by shas O shojin on 05:07:50, 31 August 2007
interesting idea but most of those weapons are assault 1,2, or 3 and how often do you see a moving heavy weapon squad?

Comment made by Tau Online on 04:30:55, 19 August 2007
This article has now been updated as per the author's request.

Comment made by Jon-azz on 09:47:13, 16 August 2007
Ohhh and Meltastorm i got the idea from the IG Hw teams.

Comment made by Jon-azz on 09:41:32, 16 August 2007
Thanks For all comments i will make an update of the article soon (The Earth caste is working on it :P )

Comment made by Metalstorm on 13:57:16, 14 August 2007
Seems like a remake of IG heavy weps teams, I'll bet it is. Anyways the Guards Heavy weps options all have a range of 36"+. If you used the plasma rifle on marines that would be awful close to them, including you don't have the mobility of a battlesuit you'd be mince meat in a matter of seconds. Also the weapons of IG heavy weps teams are well, heavy, this is why they stay away and shoot at tanks instead of getting in 'too' close. If you want and armoured weapons platform for 30pts use a battlesuit.

Comment made by Metalstorm on 13:57:16, 14 August 2007

Seems like a remake of IG heavy weps teams, I'll bet it is.

Anyways the Guards Heavy weps options all have a range of 36"+. If you used the plasma rifle on marines that would be awful close to them, including you don't have the mobility of a battlesuit you'd be mince meat in a matter of seconds. Also the weapons of IG heavy weps teams are well, heavy, this is why they stay away and shoot at tanks instead of getting in 'too' close. If you want and armoured weapons platform for 30pts use a battlesuit.

Comment made by Jon-azz on 06:07:51, 20 July 2007
The armour is improved becuase the warriors hide behind the gun .It is a should be a point cost but the admin dident include it in the article. but the points is as follows: Fusion blaster melta gun 15pts plasma rifle 20pts burst cannon 8pts Missile pod 12pts

Comment made by BurntEskimo on 19:04:04, 19 July 2007
hmm, I dont see why they have a 3+ save. If they are just support platforms, they're armour is no better than what it was before. Also, it seems that the weapons choices should have a certain points cost to be effective. Otherwise, everyone would just take the plasma rifle. Also, 30 points for a BS4 plasma rifle toter with +1 to cover, 2 wounds and a 3+ cover save seems a little to good to me. Nice Idea though, just needs a little tweaks BE

Comment made by BurntEskimo on 19:04:04, 19 July 2007

hmm, I dont see why they have a 3+ save. If they are just support platforms, they're armour is no better than what it was before. Also, it seems that the weapons choices should have a certain points cost to be effective. Otherwise, everyone would just take the plasma rifle. Also, 30 points for a BS4 plasma rifle toter with +1 to cover, 2 wounds and a 3+ cover save seems a little to good to me. Nice Idea though, just needs a little tweaks

BE

Comment made by Jon-azz on 09:14:26, 19 July 2007
Aye. Tauonline have done wrong :P

Comment made by Alexander on 08:54:33, 19 July 2007
By the way, this shouldn't be on "House Rules"?

Comment made by Jon-azz on 06:19:04, 17 July 2007
Im Jonazz. maybye you could have an option that replaces the stealth field generator with a shield generator.

Comment made by Walrus man on 23:57:30, 16 July 2007
Also, awsome conversions/paint job ;D

Comment made by Walrus man on 23:53:46, 16 July 2007
10/10 ;D however, I would consider removing the shield generator as an option as they already have a stealth field generator.

Comment made by Alexander on 12:10:43, 15 July 2007
In fact, 10/10. :D

Comment made by Alexander on 12:09:04, 15 July 2007
Excellent idea. 9/10