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Walkers: Fire Support

October 2006·pp. 81–83

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Fire-support walkers are divided between machines that remain back with a clear lane and those advancing behind the infantry. The article encourages choosing a target class before buying weapons, using cover to protect vulnerable platforms and considering several machines when one would be too easy to remove. Dreadnoughts can exchange close-combat equipment for guns, Defilers offer indirect fire and lighter squadrons provide a concentrated barrage if their loadouts are kept coherent.

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