The Battle Barn

This seems to be a bit unclear to me and I checked both the GW and INAT FAQ's and couldn't find an answer. IF a vehicle with Power of the Machine Spirit rams a vehicle can it still shoot one weapon? The ability to still fire when stunned, shaken or having moved too far to shoot normally would suggest yes, however the inability to shoot after using smoke launchers makes a no a distinct possibility as well.

What do you think? Should we possibly come up with a house rule for the Barn?

Well, PotMS always lets you fire one more weapon than normal. I'd say yes to shooting after ramming.

I also threw this up on Dakka and though I didn't get many responses there either, the few I did get seem to share Mikes ruling that it can still shoot after ramming.

This does tend to be my thought as well, but I think the smoke launcher ruling does open up room for debate. I think without some sort of official ruling I will play it that it can shoot after ramming.

I'm not a fan of the things PotMS lets you get away with, but I agree. Unless you destroy a Machine-Spirited vehicle or blow off all of its guns, it's going to get at least that one shot.

I emailed GW once, and was given a different email to ask a rules question to, and they did actually reply to it.. I posted a link to the email address they gave me in my post about twin linked wpns on crisis suits a while back