The Commander Series Forum

As the topictitle already says, I have a question about the use of arty in a Bug Colony battlegroup.

How do you use Arty in a Bug Colony battlegroup/horde/swarm?
The Army List on page 116-117 doesn't list an FAO, nor does it provide some sort of special rule to call in Arty without an FAO. The special rules detailing the Swarm doctrine on page 54 don't seem to provide an answer either.
Do you call in the Arty simply with the CV of the swarm?
Do you measure the distance to the target from the nearest unit with LoS to the target?

They either use off-table scheduled support OR on-table artillery units. There is no requesting off-table arty for them.

Ok, thank you for the answer. It makes taking off-table arty kind of expensive if you can only use them when buying assets for them but I guess the list has plenty of powerfull tricks as it is to compensate for this.

Continuing on this theme, if 1 SPG unit in my swarm can see a target, can it call in all SPG units within the swarm that are in range as indirect fire? This could be a lot of fire points!

Yes, I think that's how it works

Following up my previous query, if all the SPG units can fire at once, can some fire HE and some obscurants? I assume a -1 deduction on the command role would be applied but would the same scatter result apply to both types of ammo?