Las Rifle Soldier Bounty Hunter Build

Create a Support DPS Soldier Bounty Hunter build in warhammer 40k rogue trader focusing on high Ballistic Skill and Perception to strip armor and lower enemy dodge.

• Homeworld: Fortress
• Origin: Astra Militarum Commander

Characteristics:

• WS: 30
• BS: 45
• STR: 30
• TGH: 30
• AGI: 40
• INT: 30
• PER: 50
• WP: 35
• FEL: 25

The general idea is you need a high Ballistic skill (BS), so starting with 40 allows you to reach that ideal 70. You want 70 BS since after you add another 30, you’ll make it a 100% chance to hit while fighting in your recommended range as listed on each ranged weapon. The other major stat you want to look into is the Perception stat since that lowers enemy dodge chance against your shots. This is important for how Soldiers function, especially for the supporting aspects of CC, armor penetration, and other stat-stripping penalties this build will take in the Bounty Hunter section.

While we are here, we strongly advise taking characters with stronger damage builds. This build will not do that much damage, since its concentration lies on stripping armor, dodge, and CC. The burst fire weapon likely won’t deal much, but your Las Sniper will deal solid damage to the focus kill target you’re bursting with your skills. Ideally, you want one Vanguard and then two pure DPS characters in any form you want, followed by an Officer and an Operative.

Soldier Build Talents:

1. Row 1: Run and Gun
2. Row 3: Revel in Slaughter
3. Row 4: Firearm Mastery, Fired Up
4. Row 5: Ballistic Skill, Spare Magazine
5. Row 6: Ballistic Skill, Rapid Fire
6. Row 7: Perception, Nimble
7. Row 8: Unflattering Fire
8. Row 9: Firearm Mastery 3
9. Row 10: Hail of Steel, Perception
10. Row 11: Controlled Shot
11. Row 12: Agility, Las Weapon Expert
12. Row 13: Trace the Trajectory, Suppression Fire!
13. Row 14: It Will Not Die
14. Row 15: Firearm Mastery 2

The general idea of the Soldier build here is that you’re setting yourself up as a Support DPS-type character. The Abilities and Talents you are getting will be for key burst fire moments, improving your own survivability, and then ramping up your bonus free attacks using your Fortress World and Militarum features to get your bonus damage and bonus attacks off.

Bounty Hunter Soldier Build Talents:

1. Row 1: Hunt Down the Prey
2. Row 2: Piercing Shot
3. Row 3: Heightened Concentration
4. Row 4: Wild Hunt
5. Row 5: AP increase + Ballistic Skill, Familiar Kickback
6. Row 6: Agility, Pierce the Armour
7. Row 7: Cull the Bold
8. Row 8: Pierce and Ruin
9. Row 9: Ballistic Skill, Shoulder to Shoulder
10. Row 10: Gruesome Kill
11. Row 11: Perception
12. Row 12: Wild Hunt 2
13. Row 13: Catch
14. Row 14: Perception
15. Row 15: Characteristics Training: Ballistic Skill, Ensnare the Prey
16. Row 16: Hunter’s Ambush
17. Row 17: Agility
18. Row 18: Pounce
19. Row 19: Characteristics Training: Agility
20. Row 20: Wild Hunt 1

The general premise of this build is that you are going to be fighting a lot of really armored enemies and a lot of enemies that have high dodge. The general idea is that your Las guns are going to be useful at lowering dodge, alongside your near 100% hit chance via getting Ballistic Skill and Perception to 70. Those annoying Aeldari and Drukhari enemies during Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are going to have trouble dodging you now. Now you can land your shots reliably, you can easily start stripping away enemy armor, and thus provide assistance to your allies. For example, Arch-Militants can get a talent called Exploit Weakness, so this allows them to get a huge talent to reshape builds around your supporting features. Throw in the Agility lowering debuff once you can score kills via Gruesome Kill or lower dodge via Cull the Bold, this makes allies’ damage per round increase, as they’ll land their shots more often alongside because of you.

In addition, you now have more reliable ways to land crits, to take advantage of the Fired Up talent from the previous Archetype in Soldier. Applying Prey to an enemy and then using the Piercing Shot skill will allow you to auto-crit an enemy, not to mention hit another target via Overpen, and start shredding their armor too. You can use this to hit multiple targets or start focusing on a boss.

It is also worth mentioning that at this stage of the game, you’ll be using your four or five Rate of Fire Lasguns on Burst Fire. Chances are you’ll have a vanguard in your party, and that means stacking multiple enemies in a block. As long as you can land either one of your eight or ten Las rounds against a foe, you will begin the process of big damage, armor, and dodge shred across multiple enemies. Throw in an Ensnare the Prey for Immobilization bonuses, and you can become a pretty solid support gunner character for your team. This will make it a lot easier for your primary snipers and Heavy Bolter builds, such as how we recommend building Argenta, Yrliet, or an assassin like Marazhai to make it much easier to fulfill their role. This is where you can make the most use of your Regimental Tactics, as you’ll get big perception bonuses against enemies adjacent to the Vanguard, taunting enemies to attack it.

Recommended Exemplar Talents:

• Master Precision (if you use Deadly Repeater)
• Grievous Wounds
• Cataclysm

Master Precision will grant you over 205 more damage when you use Deadeye Shot. The only weapon you can really get value out of using this build is the Deadly Repeater sniper rifle, which is a solid Las-themed sniper s