Help, Heavy Weapons In Infantry Platoons.

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If I want a Heavy Bolter In My Infantry Platoon, do I Just use the Heavy Bolter Team from the Heavy Weapons squad box. And Do I have to use any guardsmen.

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Yeah, just use the heavy bolter team from the heavy weapons box. Just make 8 guardsmen from your infantry box, and add in a heavy bolter to make a squad of 10. (It has 2 crew, remember.)

[Turtleboy(AWOL)]

putting together an IG infantry platoon is a bit of a challenge for the newly enlisted guard commander - the cadian shock troops box has your riflemen, sergeants, and flamer or grenade launcher dudes, if you want plasma guns or melta guns they come in their own blister packs, and the heavy weapon teams either come in boxes of 1 or 3. officers come in blister packs too. it's really quite a production to put together a platoon but it's really rewarding to see it on the table in all its glory

the above is assuming your'e using the cadian model line - there's also the catachans (which have a virtually identical selection of products) and the vostroyans (who're all blister pack based except for boxes of 10 riflemen which are metal compared to the box of 20 plastic troopers that the other IG lines have).

I hope I haven't overwhelmed ya!

[thefishki345]

yes, and to get the most out of your hvy weapon set you can do this:

either get the 1 weapon one or the 3 one if you get the 1 one just make it, put it in your squad then convert another however many from the guard troops and put them in your squad
(mix the cadian shock troops with the leftover hvy weapons) this is especially easy with rocket launchers where you can just mount the rocket launcher on the guy and say that a normal guy is a loader.

if you get 3 make them, put them as maybe an add on for your hq, then do the same as the 1 but you get heaps more of em so almost every squad _could_ have a heavy weapon, dont know why i haven done that yet!.

[twerd]

yeh i did that for my mortors and missle luancher surrport squads

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Yeah never use the missle-tripod setup dealy, just give the bazooka to a regular guardsmen and have another carrying the rocket(s).