Why does the Rhino Lascannon upgrade cost no power?

[appiah4]

It's a pretty effective weapon against armor, yet requires only 75 req? I just discovered this and I find it strange. Can anyone tell me why it requires no power?

[Orkfaeller]

because the Rhino itself and its vehicle armour upgrade allready costs power, I guess?

[appiah4]

because the Rhino itself and its vehicle armour upgrade allready costs power, I guess?

Only 25 Though. Ok, so granted the Devastators also cost only 30 power to buy and arm with a lascannon too but they have none of the mobility or durability.

Compare with Lascannon Devastators:

LCD: 625HP, HI, Speed 5, Setup/Teardown Time, can be suppressed, knocked down, tied up, prone to model bleed, cost 325/30
LC Rhino: 900HP, SHI, Speed 8, No setup/teardown, can not be suppressed, knocked down, tied up, no model bleed, cost 325/25

Weapon stats:

Devastator LC: 165 dmg, 65 range
Rhino LC: 140 dmg, 47 range, 100% accuracy on the move (wat? Higher than a Predator!)

[Orkfaeller]

I for one believe LasCannon Devs perform pretty.... "eh",

so I really dont need to be convinced that most other AV options outperform them.^^

[Torpid]

Well las-devs also snare and the rhino's 100% FOTM is severely dampened by the fact that it often targets infantry instead of vehicles and it's more than 25 power for a lascannon rhino, I think the vehicle armour is 25 but the original rhino is another 20, something like that.

[Nurland]

Lascannon Dev range is 65 not 60.

[appiah4]

My bad, I will edit that in.

[Cyris]

Well las-devs also snare and the rhino's 100% FOTM is severely dampened by the fact that it often targets infantry instead of vehicles

I had pretty much stopped using this unit because of that reason. Even when choosing a vehicle as target, it would often fire at infantry as it got closer, then be on cooldown when it got in range. Is the unit setup the same as lasdevs and such for target selection? I wonder if it would actually be more consistent if it lost fire on the move, in exchange for range or damage or something... Luckily it doesn't matter as much anymore, since the VA is an amazing AV option now!

[Sub_Zero]

Luckily it doesn't matter as much anymore, since the VA is an amazing AV option now!

It does matter! We can't leave underpowered things behind

[Forestradio]

Well las-devs also snare and the rhino's 100% FOTM is severely dampened by the fact that it often targets infantry instead of vehicles

I had pretty much stopped using this unit because of that reason. Even when choosing a vehicle as target, it would often fire at infantry as it got closer, then be on cooldown when it got in range. Is the unit setup the same as lasdevs and such for target selection? I wonder if it would actually be more consistent if it lost fire on the move, in exchange for range or damage or something... Luckily it doesn't matter as much anymore, since the VA is an amazing AV option now!

So basically, GK T2 sucks overall but the VA is OP so everything is ok, right?

[ThongSong]

I happen to like the GK rhino a lot. It's lascannon is actually pretty decent against clumps of light infantry because of it's splash. the only problem is it's retarded targeting