Listening Post (Imperial Guard)

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This article has been updated for Soulstorm. The Dark Crusade version is now archived.

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Listening Post
Race	Imperial Guard
Version	Soulstorm v1.0
Build Info
Hotkey L	Build Cost 100 0  Return Value 50 0  Build Time 30 s Built By Techpriest Enginseer Requires Strategic Point or Relic Limit None
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	2500
Armour	Building Low
Resource Bonus	+6
Resource Gift	50
Control Radius	35
Sight Radius	30 (detection 7 by Strategic Point or Relic)
Weapons
Ranged	4x Lasguns
Melee	None

Contents 1 Listening Post 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Bunker 4 Add-ons 4.1 Fortified Position Add-on 4.2 Heavily Fortified Position Add-on 5 Researches 5.1 Escalate Engagement 5.2 Ordo Exterminatus 6 Weapons 6.1 Lasguns Bunker 7 Weapon Upgrades 7.1 Heavy Bolter 8 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Listening Post

By placing a Listening Post on a Strategic Point or Relic, the Imperial Guard can prevent the point from being immediately decapped and receive a bonus to the Requisition provided by the point. Upgrades can arm the Listening Post and further improve its Requisition rate.

Tactics

Build Listening Posts on captured Strategic Points and Relics to improve requisition gained by +6 ( +12 total for the point) and provide a greater sight radius of the surrounding area (though it still relies on the Strategic Points base detection range for infiltrated units). In addition when the Listening Post has finished construction you are given a gift of 50 . This means that the listening post will have paid for itself just under 75 seconds after it has been finished.

You can also upgrade your Listening Posts for 100 55  which further improves requisition gained by another +6 ( +18 total) and adds a useful point-defense gun which is effective on infantry. This time the upgrade takes nearly 3 minutes just to pay for its requisition costs so it should only be done if you expect to hold the point for a while or you want the turret that the upgrade provides.

Never get the second upgrade for the Imperial Guard Listening Post. Neither the weapon nor the health of the Listening Post is improved with the add-on so the only reason to upgrade is for the improved requisition, but it would take nearly 7 minutes to get a return on the requisition investment needed to build the LP3 add-on from the added 6 requisition every 10 seconds that it generates. This is shortened to around 5:45 with Escalate Engagement researched, and around 4:40 with Ordo Exterminatus researched as well, still both very long times to finally start seeing a return on an investment that would probably be better spent elsewhere.

The Imperial Guard Listening Post is unique in that a squad can be garrisoned inside to improve attack or transfer through tunnels to another building. This is a great way to make use of fragile Guardsmen Squads in Tier 1.

Abilities

Bunker

	Bunker
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Friendly infantry capable of being transported
	Range	0
	Area of effect	0	Cooldown time	0 s
Effects	The Listening Post has 1 slot to bunker a unit inside. This unit mans the mounted guns and can quickly transfer to any other building with bunker slots. Because Ogryns require two bunker slots they cannot enter or use tunnels to transfer to a Listening Post. Transportation between buildings takes 5 seconds, no matter the distance or squad type/size.

Add-ons

Fortified Position Add-on

	Fortified Position Add-on				Hotkey: U
	Cost	100 55	Build Time	35 s
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Increases the hitpoints of the Listening Post by 200 to 2700 Enables the Heavy Bolter on the Listening Post Increase the Requisition rate of the Listening Post by +6 ( +18 total ).

Heavily Fortified Position Add-on

	Heavily Fortified Position Add-on				Hotkey: U
	Cost	250 100	Build Time	45 s
	Requires	Fortified Position and Battle Command
Effects	Increases the hitpoints of the Listening Post by another 200 to 2900 Increase the Requisition rate of the Listening Post by another +6 ( +24 total ).

Researches

Escalate Engagement

	Escalate Engagement			Hotkey: R
	Cost	75 250	Research Time	60 s
	Researched From	Listening Post
	Requires	Battle Command
Effects	Provides a 20% bonus to the global Requisition rate. It does not effect the requisition gift from completing an Listening Post.

Ordo Exterminatus

	Ordo Exterminatus			Hotkey: R
	Cost	100 300	Research Time	75 s
	Researched From	Listening Post
	Requires	Regimental Command and Escalate Engagement
Effects	Provides a further 25% bonus to the global Requisition rate. It does not effect the requisition gift from completing an Listening Post (Imperial Guard). This bonus stacks with the bonus from Escalate Engagement giving a 50% bonus total.

Weapons

The Listening Post weapons must be manned by Imperial Guard squads bunkered inside the building. Commissars, Psykers, Priests, and the Vindicare Assassin cannot man guns although they still take up a bunker position. Ogryns cannot fit inside a Listening Post as they require two bunker slots.

The Lasguns are mounted on all four sides of the building and can fire at their own targets without reducing the damage dealt by any other gun. This allows the Listening Post to target and attack at full damage four different targets when completely surrounded.

Lasguns Bunker

	Lasguns Bunker
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 30.6 28.1 25.5 23.0 20.4 7.9 12.8 7.9 7.9 12.8 7.9 7.9 7.9 23.0 7.2 3.8 10.05 52 84 10.5
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	25	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	75%	Refire Rate	1 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Weapon Upgrades

Heavy Bolter

	Heavy Bolter
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 19.4 30.8 26.9 33.3 27.2 10.7 7.8 7.2 7.2 13.0 16.3 8.9 11.1 27.1 7.2 3.3 5.05 45.3 55.0 5.5
Cost	See Fortified Position Add-on	Range	25	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	See Fortified Position Add-on	Accuracy	65%	Refire Rate	0.5 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Fortified Position Add-on

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