Squad Flamethrower Mechanics

[Eric T Holmes]

There are options where the flamethrower is incorporated into an “engineer’s” squad. My question is this. May the flamethrower pick its own target, or must it attack the same target as the rest of the small arms carrying squad members?

[Darin]

I believe that you can only fire the flamethrower at a different target if it is a vehicle in range. Like the rules for panzerfausts…

[Nat]

You can only split fire (that is shoot at more than one target per firing squad – pg 49) if one of the these two three conditions are met
i) your squad is a vehicle (pg 105)
ii) its a single use weapon (pg 72)
iii) read post below… missed that one!

edit – flamethrowers are NOT a single use weapon, they just have a possibility of running out of ammo..

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Nat.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Nat.

[Stuart Harrison]

One addition to Nat’s comment – indirect fire weapons in a squad can also split fire, last para of the indirect fire weapons special rules, p72.

There is no provision for flamethrowers in a squad to pick a separate target from the rest of the unit (German eintoss flammenwerfers can split fire based on the one shot rule, not because they are flamethrowers).

[Greg S]

A squad in a building can split fire against targets on different sides.

So jusr put you engineers in a house and wait for the Tiger to come withing 6″ 🙂 🙂

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