micahwc Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Long story short, I have four Leman Russ tanks but don't have any sponsons. I've ordered some heavy weapons from Anvil to make heavy bolter sponsons, but I was wondering if anyone had a template for the sponsons so I could make some out of heavy card stock. I'd also be interested in plans and/or templates for track guards, trench rails, and mine plows. I will be converting my turrets to dual laser cannons and running triple heavy bolters on all four of them. I figure its a solid base of anti-everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dice4thedicegod Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 I’m interested as well. Particularly about scratch built sponson housing (I have weapon and mounting point to the tank side, but it looks odd without some housing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas7 Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Can never go wrong with antieverything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HallofStovokor Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 The annihilator is not a particularly good tank variant. It only gets 4 shots with grinding advance. The D6 damage is nice, but it the invulnerable saves out there limits the usefulness of AP -3 and above weapons. The best tank variants in order of effectiveness is as follows: Battle Cannon Executioner Punisher Demolisher Annihilator Exterminator Eradicator Vanquisher The logic behind this is that battle cannons and executioners are great against everything. They also have low damage per shot, so necrons quantum shielding is less likely to work. The punisher is great for number of shots. With 40 S5 AP0 shots will destroy infantry and even sneak wounds through onto knights. The Demolisher is good at killing infantry and wounds all vehicles on a 3+, but D6 damage makes it sub optimal against things with quantum shielding. The Annihilator is good at killing SM, Tau, and Guard vehicles, okay against knights and terrible against necrons and infantry. Exterminators are good against light vehicles and heavy infantry, but are underwhelming against high toughness vehicles and infantry blobs. Eradicator are good against only infantry. And the Vanquisher is the worst turret gun out there. Even with grinding advance it gets 2 shots. It costs the same as an executioner, but isn't likely to do half as much damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micahwc Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 In my local meta I have played against Tau, Eldar and Necrons once; every other game has been some form of guard and marines. Whether chaos with cultists or loyalists with guard. I have a dark eldar army but I haven't seen any other players with them locally. I've played against Grey Knights, Death Watch, Blood Angels, Nurgle Daemons with Death Guard, Chaos in various flavors, Inquisition with guard, Guard by itself (a hoard player), and I think that's it. The anihilator with heavy bolters seems like it would be good for what I fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RADU LYKAN Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 I’d go with a hull lascannon as well, 5 shots is better than 4 lol while 3 heavy Bolter shots is neither here nor there. Have you looked at carnodons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyr13 Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Personally, I like the annihilator. 5 LC shots is pretty decent. Obviously, if youre running just one or teo tanks, it shouldnt be your first choice. But if youve already filled out your spearhead and could use some extra AT, its a totally reasonable choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Caine 24th Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Hmmm. I should be able to throw some measurements together. Instead of cardstock, I used Evergreene Styrene Sheets with Tamiya glue (green cap) and it worked very well. Let me see here... Well, it's not actual plans, but if I was going to do it over again, I'd definitely design it better. I'll post these photos for something to build off of. I use UMM-USA precision punch set and mini punch set to create rivets out of styrene nowadays. Before I made rivets out of rod, then out of beads. It was dumb. You'll need a tweezers or sharpe blade to place the rivets on the styrene. I'm looking back to find some pictures... it's been a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Caine 24th Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Here's the actual track guards.Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duz_ Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 I bought track guards from Ratgard They were cheap and look great :D Cpt Caine that's some good work :tu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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