I was playing an apoc game a while back and there was a chaos player with a converted LR with the las sponsons on top. can he do this, i mean all the other tanks are like this. is there something saying it cant be done?
raven925
according to the dictionary, no
2. (Military / Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) a semicircular gun turret on the side of a tank
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sponson
the rest refer to Naval things, so they wouldn't apply
2. (Military / Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) a semicircular gun turret on the side of a tank
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sponson
the rest refer to Naval things, so they wouldn't apply
So long as he's using the proper rules for a LR and isn't trying to exploit it by having them in a different possition, in other words, its just a cosmetic thing, then I don't see why not.
Technically a Landraider pattern has to have the sponsons side mounted and has the weapons arcs of them being side mounted... but cosmetically, he can do whatever he likes with his army.
However, if he's trying to claim being top mounted they have a greater feild of veiw, or offer any other benefits not in teh official rules.. then yeah, its totally illegal.
Technically a Landraider pattern has to have the sponsons side mounted and has the weapons arcs of them being side mounted... but cosmetically, he can do whatever he likes with his army.
However, if he's trying to claim being top mounted they have a greater feild of veiw, or offer any other benefits not in teh official rules.. then yeah, its totally illegal.
I suppose if he VDRed it and paid the extra points as well as got permission from his opponent it would be totally legal.
Stella is bang on, sponsons are side mounted only , if its on top its a turret or pintle mount.the design is taken from ww1 tanks (mkV i think)
short and answer is No. Long is NOOOOOOOOOO!
It is all well and good doing cosmetic changes such and altering the look and build of the turrt. I have seen someone's chaos Reditor that had if Turret upside down to look more demonic and worked well how the GW rules speciacally say agianst converting modals to give an unfair advantage.
For example if i where to covert a Baal Preditors Flamstorm cannon so it was a little longer that would be an unfair advantage as it now gives me extra reach with my template weapon. This applys to all thinks troops and tanks and so putting a Sponson Lascannon ontop is illigal as it is changing the way a modals acts to obtainand unfair advantage. If he still counted it as being on the side and this was just cosmetic it should be fine but since he is trying to use it as an alsot Staionry turret to give it a better field of vision rather than the hull blocking it's view then it is unfair and unsortsman like but more importantly illigle.
P.S. Please excuse my poor spelling.
It is all well and good doing cosmetic changes such and altering the look and build of the turrt. I have seen someone's chaos Reditor that had if Turret upside down to look more demonic and worked well how the GW rules speciacally say agianst converting modals to give an unfair advantage.
For example if i where to covert a Baal Preditors Flamstorm cannon so it was a little longer that would be an unfair advantage as it now gives me extra reach with my template weapon. This applys to all thinks troops and tanks and so putting a Sponson Lascannon ontop is illigal as it is changing the way a modals acts to obtainand unfair advantage. If he still counted it as being on the side and this was just cosmetic it should be fine but since he is trying to use it as an alsot Staionry turret to give it a better field of vision rather than the hull blocking it's view then it is unfair and unsortsman like but more importantly illigle.
P.S. Please excuse my poor spelling.
Basically what everyone else said. It's illegal unless he measures all line of sight and all distances from the places where the sponsons would be mounted if he had assembled it normally.
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