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Okay, I noticed a while ago, someone said the Thunderfire had poor armor value, so I looked in my codex to see what it was.
Codex Space Marines doesn't give a statline at all for the Thunderfire Cannon on page 73 (the fluff/rules page), 142 (the army list entry) or 144 (the statistics summary page).
Where can I find this information???
Also, the codex says you're allotted one squad of Servitors per Techmarine in your army. Does this mean you can field a squad of servitors, and a thunderfire cannon under one Heavy Support slot? Since the Thunderfire rules entry does detail that there is a Techmarine manning the gun.
I also noticed a discrepency in the rules page and the army list page. The Army list page doesn't say Independent Character, but does list Blessing of the Omnissiah for special rules the unit has, but the Rules page says that the Techpriest gets both only after the Tfire Cannon's been blowed up. Does this mean the Techmarine don't get to repair his gun while he's gunning it? (If it's weapon-destroyed result, is the Techpriest unable to repair it? Supposing the immobilized result or the vehicle destroyed result isn't also rolled?)
Also, if you can take a squad of servitors when you take a Thunderfire, can they stand by the Techmarine and lend their fire without having to roll for mindlock? Or do they still need to wait for the techmarine to leave the broken tfire cannon behind to get his attention.
I'd guess that the Tfire requires too much of the techmarine's attention for him to designate targets for the servitors, or give directions, but for the sake of determining whether he can have reliable heavy-bolter/multimelta or plasma fire from the servitors while also pounding out four Tfire shells a turn or not, I just figured I'd ask.
Codex Space Marines doesn't give a statline at all for the Thunderfire Cannon on page 73 (the fluff/rules page), 142 (the army list entry) or 144 (the statistics summary page).
Where can I find this information???
Also, the codex says you're allotted one squad of Servitors per Techmarine in your army. Does this mean you can field a squad of servitors, and a thunderfire cannon under one Heavy Support slot? Since the Thunderfire rules entry does detail that there is a Techmarine manning the gun.
I also noticed a discrepency in the rules page and the army list page. The Army list page doesn't say Independent Character, but does list Blessing of the Omnissiah for special rules the unit has, but the Rules page says that the Techpriest gets both only after the Tfire Cannon's been blowed up. Does this mean the Techmarine don't get to repair his gun while he's gunning it? (If it's weapon-destroyed result, is the Techpriest unable to repair it? Supposing the immobilized result or the vehicle destroyed result isn't also rolled?)
Also, if you can take a squad of servitors when you take a Thunderfire, can they stand by the Techmarine and lend their fire without having to roll for mindlock? Or do they still need to wait for the techmarine to leave the broken tfire cannon behind to get his attention.
I'd guess that the Tfire requires too much of the techmarine's attention for him to designate targets for the servitors, or give directions, but for the sake of determining whether he can have reliable heavy-bolter/multimelta or plasma fire from the servitors while also pounding out four Tfire shells a turn or not, I just figured I'd ask.
