Hello my fellow Battle Brothers.

I need your help and insigth to resolve a question of some urgency.

Do the Astartes ignore the bracing for heavy weapons (i.e Heavy Bolter) or do they still need to brace?

I am asking because I see that, thanks to the Emperors foresigth, all the Astartes got Bulging biceps. But those biceps are making me question the utility and usefulness of some of the weapon upgrades (i.e Deathwatch Suspensor).

As always your help in this matter would be most welcome.

Praise the Emperor.

They don't need to brace and the Suspensors are still highly useful because they make the Devastator very mobile without any penalty to shooting.

Alex

Deathwatch suspensors allow a Deathwatch marine to treat a heavy weapon as if it were a basic weapon ONLY for the purposes of using the option of movement given with the Full Auto action in the rulebook. I.e. you may move up to your Agi bonus when making a full auto attack with a basic weapon (not a heavy weapon) with a small penalty. One of the armor histories works in a similar manner.

If you have the similar working armor history AND deathwatch suspensors you can make the special move with no penalty.

Deathwatch Suspensors does a couple of things:

1. Bracing wouldn't be required if you didn't have Bulging Biceps.
2. You can move as with a basic weapon while semi-/full-auto shooting.
3. You don't get any negative modifiers normally incured for such movement.
4. Going semi-/full-auto costs only Half Action, which means you can move another AG(+1 in PA) in meters or do something else.

Alex

How does the reduction in action required translate under Black Crusade rules where autofire is already a Half Action?

Using BC, Bulging Biceps does all you need.

Nathiel said:

Not got BC but I'm aware of that rule. Sounds like it needs it's own official rules, one would assume it would do something like reduce the penalty for auto fire and semi autofire (compared to single shot) by a step or something.