Do Hunter Killers Have to Fire First Turn?!

[Diagramdude]

This is a pretty glaring issue in the core rules for shooting that I think almost everyone is overlooking?

 

1. Choose Unit to Shoot With

In your Shooting phase you can shoot with models armed with ranged weapons. First, you must pick one of your units to shoot with. You may not pick a unit that Advanced or Fell Back this turn, or a unit that is within 1" of an enemy unit. Unless otherwise stated, each model in the unit attacks with all of the ranged weapons it is armed with. After all of the unit’s models have fired, you can choose another unit to shoot with, until all eligible units that you want to shoot with have done so.

 

It would seem then that if any vehicle with a hunter killer missile wants to shoot its weapons on turn 1, that it is required to shoot ALL of its weapons, including any hunter killers.

 

Thoughts?

[tychobi]

Raw possibly. Rai and in practice fire when you want to as a legal shot.

[FallenSoldiers]

I would say no because a hunter killer missile is listed as “vehicle equipment” and not a ranged weapon. It’s equpiment that you elect to use to make a shooting attack.

 

It’s not listed as a “ranged weapon”.

[Mileposter]

There's also the "unless otherwise stated".

 

I state that my Knight is not firing all of its weapons. Done.

[FallenSoldiers]

Also of HK note:

 

No where does it say 1 HK per tank only, or only 1 per round.

 

At 1500 points Pask can take approximately 160ish missiles

[Bluflash]

LRBT does say "Any model may take a hunter killer missile".

[FallenSoldiers]

Not in my Codex..

 

Simply says “any model may take items from the vehicle equipment list”

 

Vehicle equipment list says:

“Hunter-killer missile”

 

 

Now the Baneblade chassis do specially say A HK missile.