autocannons are iffy for me. they lack the strength to take out real tanks, the rate of fire to deal with massed infantry, and the AP to deal with heavy infantry reliably. simply, heavy bolters are more effective against infantry, and missile launchers and lascannons are more effective against tanks. the thing the autocannon has going for it is its probibly the most versitile gun the guard has access to. It is capible of performing just about any role effective enough. (it should eb noted that my AC seem to do pretty well against monstrous creatures though)
i use a mix of different heavy weapons squads, but i definatly love russ exterminators, and like to replace the multilasers on my chimera with AC as well
(just recently got some sentenels, havent tested them yet, so dunno weather to put lascannon or AC on them. probibly AC though.)
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