Predator

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Predator
Race	Space Marines
Version	Dark Crusade v1.2 Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey P	Build Cost 165 300  5 Build Time 45 s Built By Machine Cult Requires Fortress Monastery Limit 2
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	5820
Armour	Vehicle Medium
Unit Mass	65
Move Speed	24
Sight Radius	35 (cannot detect)
Weapons
Ranged	Autocannon, 2x Heavy Bolters
Melee	None

Contents 1 Predator 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Death Explosion 4 Weapons 4.1 Autocannon 4.2 Heavy Bolter 5 Weapon Upgrades 5.1 Twin-Linked Lascannon 5.2 Lascannon 6 Researchable Upgrades 6.1 Heavy Armor Deployment 7 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Predator

"Predator deployed."

The Predator is the mainline battle tank of the Space Marines. A standard Rhino chassis fitted with improved armour, Heavy Bolter sponsons, and an Autocannon turret, this is an infantry munching machine. Once Heavy Armor Deployment is researched, the Predator's weapons can be swapped out for Lascannons, giving it incredible firepower against enemy vehicles. Heavily armed and armoured, it is a fearsome opponent on the battlefield.

Tactics

With Dark Crusade 1.2, the Predator is once again a versatile tank that can fill any role needed by the Space Marines in the closing stages of the game. Although each one requires it's own Support Cap Increase, their firepower against infantry is withering and their high health will let them stay in the fight for a long time. Once Heavy Armor Deployment is researched the Predator can be outfitted quickly and cheaply with Lascannons to give it great punch against other vehicles.

For maximum versatility, only upgrade to the Twin Lascannon. It has the best anti-vehicular damage for its cost out of the available upgrades, while the Heavy Bolters have better anti-infantry damage than the sponson Lascannons have anti-vehicular damage. The sponson Lascannons also have very low damage against vehicle high, making them somewhat ill-suited against the very targets they are meant to attack. Although the Autocannon is a good weapon, it has negligible effect against masses of lightly armoured infantry, and despite good performance against heavily armoured infantry and all vehicles, is significantly outperformed by the Lascannon in the anti-vehicle field. So the Autocannon should only be retained when facing large heavy-infantry armies. Otherwise in most cases it is best traded for the additional anti-building and anti-vehicle firepower provided by the turret Lascannon.

Abilities

Death Explosion

	Death Explosion
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Any
	Range	Self
	Area of effect	10	Cooldown time	None
Effects	When the Predator is destroyed, there is a 25% chance that any units within the area of effect will be sent flying (35-45 force) and take 10 morale damage.

Weapons

Autocannon

	Autocannon
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: 9.8 52.0 48.0 38.9 38.4 13.4 48.0 48.0 40.0 48.0 63.0 33.6 37.3 38.1 13.5 6.5 20 185 225 5
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	35	Setup Time	None
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	65%	Refire Rate	1 s
Area of Effect	None	Requires	Nothing

Heavy Bolter

The Predator has a single sponson mounted Heavy Bolter on each side of its chassis. They have been listed only once here because the values are the same for both.

	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: 36.1 44.6 35.1 24.1 11.8 11.6 27.5 13.7 6.9 27.5 17.2 9.2 4.6 24.1 6.9 9.8 12 64 77 2
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	35	Setup Time	None
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	65%	Refire Rate	0.4 s
Area of Effect	None	Requires	Nothing

Weapon Upgrades

Twin-Linked Lascannon

	Twin-Linked Lascannon				Hotkey: W
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: 5.3 20.0 20.0 21.8 21.0 5.3 146.2 118.2 75.1 146.2 154.0 67.8 79.6 18.0 25.0 6.7 50 675 825 20
Cost	15 10	Range	40	Setup Time	None
Build Time	15 s	Accuracy	80%	Refire Rate	3 s
Area of Effect	None	Requires	Heavy Armor Deployment
Notes	The Twin-Linked Lascannon permanently replaces the Autocannon.

Lascannon

The Predator can have a single sponson mounted Lascannon on each side of its chassis. They have been listed only once here because the values are similar for both.

	Lascannon				Hotkey: L
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: 18.0 21.0 16.2 13.8 6.0 4.3 52.6 31.5 8.7 52.6 28.1 10.9 15.2 14.4 7.7 5.4 50 249.2 304.6 20
Cost	10 5	Range	35	Setup Time	None
Build Time	7.5 s	Accuracy	65%	Refire Rate	3 s
Area of Effect	None	Requires	Heavy Armor Deployment
Notes	Each Lascannon upgrade permanently replaces the Heavy Bolter on that side of the vehicle. In Dark Crusade the right Lascannon does 14.3 DPS to building high.

Researchable Upgrades

Heavy Armor Deployment

	Heavy Armor Deployment
	Cost	450 450	Research Time	100 s
	Researched From	Machine Cult
	Requires	Fortress Monastery.
Effects	Allow construction of new vehicles and allow new weapon upgrades: New vehicles available for Machine Cult : Whirlwind and Land Raider. New weapon upgrades available for Predator: Twin-Linked Lascannon and Lascannon. Note: In Dark Crusade, this research costs 400/400 and takes 96s.

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