Heavy Weapon Squad (Mortor) in a Stormlord?

[glutebite]

A Stormlord is an open topped vehicle and up to 20 passengers may fire from it. If I have a HWS Mortar team in the vehicle can they fire if the Stormlord moves? For that matter can any HWS (Lascannon, etc) fire if the Stormlord moves?

I'm actually thinking of putting in 2 SWS with FLAMERs (6 flamers) with 2 HWS with MORTARs (6 blasts) in one and running around and plinking off a few different targets. The question is really about HWS ability to fire if moving in a vehicle.

To make this really interesting - I'm also thinking about deploying a Techpriest with 3 or 4 servitors in the vehicle to repair hull points lost.

Stormlord with:

a. PCS with 3 Flamers + 1 Heavy flamer
b. 2 SWS units with 6 flamers total
c. 2 HWS units with 6 Mortars total
d. 1 Tech priest with 4 servitors

Total Models in Stormlord 34 - 6 units.

So assume I could fire a total of 10 Flamers (1 hvy, 9 regular), 6 Mortars for a total of 16 firing passengers. And each unit could fire a different targets.

Am I screwing up here or playing the cheese factor? <grin>

[Julian Sharps]

Models firing from fire points aboard a vehicle that moved at combat speed count as moving for the purposes of shooting. Unless the Stormlord or super-heavy vehicles have a special rule that negates this, you won't be able to fire the mortars period if the vehicle moves, and if you go to cruising speed, the flamers won't be able to, either.

[dangerrod]

If your using the stormlord you're better off not moving at all to take advantage of the Vulcan Mega Bolters special rule

That way you can put as many HWT inside to fire out!

[glutebite]

Yea.. I just read that HEAVY x weapons can't move and fire in the same turn. So HWS in vehicle probably isn't the best idea for what I had in mind.

Dangerrod - yea I saw that and actually did that one turn. Tore up a bunch of Thousand Sons. BUT since we were playing Relic -- I had to move the Stormlord up and get my guys close to the Relic to pick it up. My opponent got the Stormlord down to 1 hull point before game end. I had a bunch of flamers in the Stormlord that had fun.