Rise of the heavy burst cannon?

Everyone knows that the ion accelarator (IA) is superior to the heavy burst cannon (HBC). To make the HBC work, you need to novacharge it every turn, risking wounds. On average, on a 6 turn game, a riptide nova charging every turn with a HBC will take about 3 wounds (gets hot, etc). This will leave it for easy picking for your opponent.

But, with the new farsight supplement there is a piece of wargear that will revolutionise the HBC:
earth caste pilot array – 30pts
- models with battlesuits only. The model re-rolls all rolls of 1 to hit in the shooting phase. May also re-roll the dice when using a nova reactor. Weapon skill is also reduced to 1

• Rerolling 1's: This means less gets hotting, and more hits
• Reroll failed reactor rolls: More shots and less wounds taken
• WS 1: You shouldn't be in assualt anyway

So with the ECPA and a HBC, thats a 210 point riptide. Not bad considering the amount of firepower it can let out. Comine this with a SMS to let out even more firepower (or a plasma rifle if you want plasma fueled glory blasting).

I will definitely be picking up a riptide for my farsight enclave army and trying out a HBC with ECPA. Maybe even give it a veloctiy tracker and see how it does.

Until then.