rasputindarksyde wrote:
Ok, sounds good. Another question if you will. If you fire the manticores do they still fall under slow rate of fire? Even if you don't use the disrupt.
And where can we find they rules for your answer. What Pg#.
Slow fire would apply regardless. Special abilities/weapons are generally not linked to each other.
The barrage special ability is discussed in the intro to section 2.0, and it's in the official FAQs.
Rulebook, 2.0, third paragraph, emphasis added:
Quote:
Sometimes situations will occur where some units have a
special ability and others do not, raising the question of
whether the ability may be used. For example, some units in a
formation may be able to fire a barrage that ignores cover or
has the macro-weapon effect, while other weapons taking part
in the barrage do not. If such a situation occurs in a battle then
you may only use the ability if all of the units taking part can
use it – so the barrage would only ignore cover or count as a
macro-weapon if all of the units participating in the barrage
had these abilities.
FAQ:
Quote:
2.2.2 Disrupt
Q: If an Imperial Guard Artillery Co.
contains Basilisks and Manticores
(with the Disrupt ability) does a
barrage fired from this formation use
the Disrupt rules since not all of the
units in it have the Disrupt ability?
A: Special Weapon abilities are only used if
all the units firing have them. So if you
wanted to use the Disrupt ability in this
case you could only fire with the
Manticores. A barrage that used both types
of units would not have the Disrupt ability.
As someone else noted, though, Basilisks could use their direct-fire mode and still be able to fire without contributing to the barrage.
And one other thing... you may know this, but the way you phrased the original question makes me want to make sure it's clear.
There is not an option to split barrage fire. If you fire a BP weapon, ALL weapons contribute to a single barrage. There is no splitting. You can't do something like "3 Manticores fire a Disrupt barrage and the 6 Basilisks fire a normal barrage."
