Shooting with war engines

War engine detachments do their shooting after all vehicle and infantry detachments have completed theirs. Draw initiative again for the war engines shooting and then alternate firing war engine detachments, starting with the player who won the initiative.

War engines usually mount multiple weapons, either batteries of heavy weapons or individual super heavy weapons. A war engine can split its firing between several target detachments if desired, but the Firepower of individual weapon batteries may not be split up.

War engine heavy weapon batteries may combine their firepower together if they are shooting at the same target detachment. Super heavy weapons are fired individually.

Each war engine data sheet shows the arcs of fire for the various weapons carried by the war engine. A weapon may only be fired at targets that fall within its fire arc and are also in range and line of fire of the war engine.

War engine fire arcs

The various weapon mounts on a war engine are limited in their field of fire. The different fire arcs are:

• Left/right side — The weapon has a 180° field of fire to that side.
• Front — The weapon can fire in an arc 90° to the war engine's front.
• All round — The weapon has 360° traverse and can fire all round the war engine.