Heavy Weapons Squads

[Oztoon]

So ive been thinking bout dooing a full 5 HWS's of mortars. No am i just crazy or would that amount of templates out weigh most downsides?
thanks Oz

[WestRider]

In Games without a Time Limit*, I think it could be awesome. It can take bloody forever to resolve Wound Allocation from Multiple Barrages, tho, so if time is a concern for your Games, I wouldn't go for it.

It also has the advantage that Mortar bits are usually available cheaply, since they're one of the least-used Heavy Weapons, and they can be built with standing crew.

I think if I were going to run Barrage Spam, tho, I'd kick it over to Heavy Support and drop 675 Points on Griffons. At 2K, that leaves plenty of Points for all kinds of other fun stuff ;D

*Whether official or de facto.

[bman]

The problem is now with snap fire you can't move and fire them like other hwt guns, although they shouldn't move anyway.

[optimat]

It's something I thought about for a meta when I started Guard because it sounds like a lot of fun, but the highlighted above by others are all legitimate points against. Griffons are a good choice instead.

[treadiculous]

Massed mortar fire is awesome. I highly recommend you go for it!

I have 6 mortar heavy squads, though normally only field 5, they accompany my blob of 50 with 5 missile launchers and 5 grenade launchers.

My opponents get sick of the sight of small templates!

[iggy666]

That was my plan.

My 1st Platoon has 30 guardsmen with grenade launchers and missile launchers with a mortar squad. Working on more.

[commisarblur]

In my area most of the players are heavy Astarte users. To that end I typical field an anti-armor team compossing of
1 missle launcher, 2 lascannons
or
1 morter, 2 missle launchers.

I don't field heavy bolters cause they just don't have enough ap puching cabilite against the likes of a razorback with lascannons.