HW squad or Heavy Mortar Battery?

[Shamansky]

Sorry if i start a topic which was discussed. If it was, than show me where to look please, beacuse search engine messed up a lot in all 'mortars' nad 'heavies' of the forum .

 

So the question is pretty obvious from subject. What do you think is better a squad of 3 mortars or a single heavy mortar with the crew?

Squad is 3d6 4/0/1, mortar is d6 6/-1/d3. squad is 6 wounds with 5+, moratr is 6 wounds, 4+ save and 3 crew guardsmen. 

I'm not asking about per point effectiveness. Just what do you think is better? I became curious because i can get one or two of those mortars for a quite a low price. But i have enough models that are stuck on a shelf already. 

Edited February 27, 2018 by Shamansky

[major higgins]

Well I'm used to use three in past edition. O run them ad thudd gun for a wile, but now I dropped them. Theoretically mortars are anti infantry where HM are for heavy infantry, medium/light veihcles, but practically they suck at this. Although the models are awsome!!

[Colonel Cross]

Heavy weapons squad with mortars it's going to outperform the heavy mortars in almost any situation. And I've tried the heavy mortars a bunch in 8th because they look cool, I use old metal Catachan heavy weapon team models as crew, and they're a lot of fun for some reason.

 

If you want fun, go with heavy mortars. If you want efficiency, regular infantry mortars.

[Shamansky]

Heavy mortar looks like having more survivability than a squad. Is that true? 

[Colonel Cross]

Yeah slightly if you compared 1 HWS to 1 heavy mortar. But that's not a big issue considering they can fire out of LoS.

[depthcharge12]

I enjoy running heavy mortars, I grab 2. Most people ignore them because they don’t put out Star Destroyer levels of damage, but they absolutely annihilate 2W units like Sang Guard, terminators, etc.

[Shamansky]

Thanks a lot for your time. Looks like tests are needed. So i'll lend one for a couple of games.