Legion Heavy Support Squad

A Legion Heavy Support Squad was a specialised unit of the ancient Space Marine Legions used during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras in the late 30th and early 31st Millennia. Heavy support squads provided Legion infantry forces with mobile heavy firepower against enemy ground troops or armoured vehicles in withering hails of fire.

History
The Legion Heavy Support Squad was the precursor of the modern Devastator Squads of the Adeptus Astartes still utilised in the late 41st Millennium. During the Great Crusade heavy support squads were formed to provide a mobile platform of heavy firepower when needed against enemy troops or to smash armoured vehicles. Although tanks and field artillery outranged and outgunned heavy support squads in most cases, as well of course often being much more heavily protected by armour plate, heavy support squads had the flexibility of the infantryman to their advantage, able to disperse in terrain, climb to heights to attain a better vantage point and fields of fire, and go where a battle tank or even a Dreadnought could not.

Wargear

 * Power Armour
 * Heavy Bolter
 * Bolt Pistol
 * Frag Grenades
 * Krak Grenades

Optional Wargear

 * Hardened Armour
 * Heavy Flamer
 * Missile Launcher (with frag & krak missiles)
 * Flak Missiles]]
 * Multi-Melta
 * Plasma Cannon
 * Volkite Culverin
 * Lascannon

Optional Wargear (Sergeant Only)

 * Artificer Power Armour
 * Nuncio Vox
 * Chainsword or Combat Blade
 * Augury Scanner
 * Melta-Bombs
 * Bolter
 * Combi-weapon
 * Bolt Pistol
 * Plasma Pistol
 * Power Weapon
 * Power Fist