Macro weapons

[dc0315]

Can you advance and fire Macro Weapons? Asking if i could use opporrunistic advance on a Hierophant to move loads, cast onslaught on it, then shoot, then charge. Thanks

[dc0315]

Anyone can help? As ive got a game tomo, thanks!

[Kitane]

Probably not.

It depends on whether Onslaught allows firing non-assault weapons after advancing or not, which has no clear consensus across the wider community. Just check the previous discussions on the topic here on this forum.

[dc0315]

Sept 13, 2019 7:11:47 GMT Kitane said:

Probably not.

It depends on whether Onslaught allows firing non-assault weapons after advancing or not, which has no clear consensus across the wider community. Just check the previous discussions on the topic here on this forum.

It ssys you can move+ advance and shoot assault weapons and ignore penalty and move and fire heavy weapons without penalty.

On the other hand macro weapins doesnt mention anywhere you cant 🧐

[Kitane]

It's not a weapon type that prevents you from shooting after advancing (except moving with Macro weapons on non-titanic models, which is very rare).

The block comes from the core rules for the shooting phase, preventing you to shoot with any unit that advanced in this turn. The assault weapons have a poorly worded exception to it (RAW it's not working, but no one takes it seriously in this particular case).


The discussion about Onslaught revolves around whether Onslaught only strips -1s to hit from heavy/assault weapons per their rules, or whether it also allows you to ignore the entire restriction on not being eligible for shooting after advancing.

Taken literally as written, it only strips -1s. The intent is debatable (especially when you look at Onslaught in the index and index FAQs) and GW should've addressed this issue a long time ago in a new FAQ.