Quote: (Lion in the Stars @ 16 Oct. 2008, 18:08 )
One 30cm AP5+ weapon per HHead is festooned?  A LRuss has 2 Heavy Bolters and a lascannon.  A predator has 2 Heavy Bolters.  Even a Chimera has a HB.  Tau tanks are lighter in the short-range AP department than any imperial tank.
? The Hammerhead has a 30cm ignore cover AP5+ weapon. I would take that over 2 heavy bolters any day of the week. That means no cover save for the infantry and no modifier to hit. Even on sustain it beats firing at infantry with the bolters. This could be a function though of how much terrain you use. I'm use to 12 pieces on a 6x4 table and infantry standing next to transports when in the open. And of course the las cannon isn't AP
Now, what units have
Coordinated Fire? Crisis Shas'O/'El, Pathfinders, and Tetras. If the player is willing to spend the upgrade slot for it, he could have a co-fire unit in each formation. I note that most AMHC units don't include PF or Tetras. A Crisis formation probably will have a Shas'El, and FW would probably have a PF attachment (I know that's how I'd set mine up).
To use your AMHC v. LRuss company example, you sacrificed the Tetras activation to break one LRuss company. The counterattack was assumed to break one of the AMHCs, and would probably also break-or-destroy the Tetras (since they got really close to ML the target formation).
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