Heavy Weapons Team

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Dawn of War Squad

Heavy Weapons Team
Race	Imperial Guard
Version	Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey H	Build Cost 225 50  2 Build Time 40 s Built From Infantry Command Unit Size 1 Requires Battle Command Limit None
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	650/1
Armour	Infantry Medium
Morale	500/10/50
Unit Mass	10 (500 while entrenched)
Move Speed	16
Sight Radius	25 (40 while entrenched) (cannot detect)
Weapons
Ranged	Lasgun (mobile) Heavy Bolter (entrenched)
Melee	Bayonet (mobile)

Contents 1 Heavy Weapons Team 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Entrench 4 Weapons 4.1 Lasgun 4.2 Bayonet 4.3 Heavy Bolter 5 Weapon Upgrades 5.1 Lascannon 5.2 Autocannon 6 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Heavy Weapons Team

"Nothing will get through our field of fire."

Responsible for fortifying trenches and key positions, Heavy Weapon Teams are very crucial in defenses. Wielding heavy weapons more powerful than what normal Guardsmen can carry, they are useful in taking out heavily armored targets.

Tactics

Heavy Weapons Teams are expensive and take a considerable amount of time to build - almost the same amount of time as a Leman Russ! To compound this, they are utterly unspectacular when undeployed, with poor firepower and only medium infantry armour, so be careful not to carelessly lose them before setting them up properly!

However, when deployed, the Heavy Weapons Team only takes 50% damage from ranged fire and 60% damage from melee attacks due to the sandbags. The armor class of the Heavy Weapons Team also changes from medium infantry to infantry_heavy_high, that is, Terminator-class armor. That armor class further reduces damage taken on top of the sandbag bonus. These two features extend longevity tremendously, and a Heavy Weapons Team in Heavy Cover is a difficult thing to remove.

Once deployed, the reasons for a Heavy Weapons Team's high cost become apparent quite quickly - even the default Heavy Bolter loadout inflicts massive damage on all but the most heavily armoured troops and has very long range.

The Autocannon is marginally less effective against lightly armoured infantry, but does more damage against heavy infantry armour and vehicles and has even more range, so is a very good all-round weapon - it even does very good damage versus Daemon High armour, which is something of a rarity.

By comparison, the Lascannon only proves useful if you intend to use it against vehicles and nothing else. However, the Lascannon deals far superior anti-vehicle damage to the Autocannon in every way, and has a longer range than even the Tau Hammerhead Gunship's Railgun.

Heavy Weapon Teams can deploy and undeploy quite quickly, in 3 seconds, which is useful if you place them in a precarious position and the enemy figures out what's going on - jump troops and artillery can make short work of them, so leaving them static for long periods of time and unguarded against such enemies is asking for trouble. Used in conjunction with other forms of base defense, Heavy Weapons Teams can be incredibly difficult to overcome.

Abilities

Entrench

	Entrench			Hotkey: E
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Self
	Range	0
	Area of effect	None	Cooldown time	0 s
Effects	The Heavy Weapons Team deploys its heavy guns. This renders it immobile but brings to bear far greater firepower. The armor type is changed to Heavy Infantry High while entrenched and the team only takes 50% damage from ranged attacks and 60% damage from melee attacks. The Heavy Weapons Team's sight radius increases to 40 while entrenched. Weapon upgrades can only be performed while entrenched. Entrenching and uprooting take 3 seconds each.

Weapons

Lasgun

	Lasgun
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.1 3.5 1.5 1.7 1.5 1.0 1.5 1.0 1.7 2.5 1.0 1.0 1.3 2.5 9.6 10.6 0.5
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	30	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	50%	Refire Rate	0.5 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Bayonet

	Bayonet
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 7.7 7.0 6.4 4.2 5.2 1.5 1.0 1.3 1.0 1.0 1.4 1.0 1.0 2.5 1.0 1.0 2.0 13.0 15.0 1.0
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	Melee	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	1 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Heavy Bolter

This is the default weapon of the entrenched Heavy Weapons Team.

	Heavy Bolter
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 127.0 112.5 93.8 93.8 78.4 37.5 37.5 37.5 37.5 37.5 22.5 11.3 7.5 74.1 1.3 10.1 4.05 31 44 0.25
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	45	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	75%	Refire Rate	0.15 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Entrench

Weapon Upgrades

Max allowed: 1

Lascannon

	Lascannon				Hotkey: S
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 42.7 42.7 28.5 28.5 71.1 35.6 142.3 128.0 71.1 142.3 28.5 21.3 14.2 32.7 14.2 1.3 2.5 126 158.5 0.5
Cost	50 50	Range	55	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	20 s	Accuracy	50%	Refire Rate	0.5 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Entrench

Autocannon

	Autocannon				Hotkey: C
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 108.0 108.0 108.0 108.0 108.0 43.2 86.4 64.8 43.2 86.4 43.2 43.2 21.6 108.0 54.0 8.0 10.05 120 150 0.5
Cost	75 30	Range	55	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	26 s	Accuracy	80%	Refire Rate	0.5 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Entrench, Regimental Command

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