Let me guess, you need more?
Why yes, I do.
Let me tell ya, sonny.
>>65150980>TWO GALACTIC WARS
>>65150980How does the machine spirit on that behave?
I'm a plasma enjoyer. For the Emperor!!!
>>65150980>chambered in .40S&W
>>65151068It's probably .460
>>65151096fuck off Ms. HOA
>>65150976>not a rail rifle
>>65151009>implying you have to choose
>>65150976>Eldar
>>65150949Bolter's alright, more of an arc rifle man myself.
I like lasriflesI like melta either single or multi
>>65151420So has GW ever given a definitive answer on just what meltas shoot? It can't be plasma otherwise there would not be a separate category for plasma weapons. Eldar call their version fusion guns so maybe there's a clue there.
>>65151096Go home to /lgbt/ newfag
I mean, know of any other man portable weapon able to destroy an enemy titan?
>>65151420They are thermal weapons capanle of heating up air in short-distance beams. It's like openong up and oven and getting blasted by the hot air, just several times more powerful
>>65151973>getting blastedYou should stop doing that.
>>65151973Love me some melta gun.Also, it's funny how inconsistently they are presented in the media. They are exactly what it says on the tin: melta gun. It melts things. A hig-intensity energy beam that melts pretty much anything in front of it. But how they exactly work and at what ranges tends to depend on ...whoever is writing the current novel.We know that they are used as anti-tank/anti-armor weapons becase they CAN melt a tank into a slag, but it's often mentioned that they are quite short-range weapons. Something-something-energy-distance-square-law-bullshit. Meaning, you have to get close to said tank in order to melt it. Otherwise, you will be just puffing hot air at it. What constitutes as "close range" seems to differ quite a bit. During Horus heresy there were specific mentions of Astartes fighting against some weird alien tank-equivalent with very hard outer shells, which seemed impervious to most weapons until Sergeant Bigh'bhalls took his melta, sneaked around some ruins into it's flank and melt it into a puddle of red-hot metal amalgam. but he was still like 100m away from it, or something. So it isn't really "shot-gun range" weapon.I never liked how they were essentially a shotgun in Space Marine games. They should have been exactly that: a specialist anti-armor weapon with very specific operational niche, but highly effective in that role.
>>65152528I like shotty meltas
>>65152528The longest range ive seen youncan get is 200 meter with
Less, I want less. Less Warhammer in general
>>65152593Good idea.I'll make a BattleTech thread.
>>65151436The closest they've come is occasionally referring to them as 'fusion guns', but that's a powerplant rather than a projectile. You can't shoot 'fusion' at something. Considering that they 'melt' tanks etc it's probably some kind of 'super-heated particle projector'. Then again, if you're looking for understandable, reasonable, or even consistent descriptions of 40k tech it might not be the franchise for you. Maybe they're loaded with tech-priest piss, and their collective hatred for unapproved tech (transported by said piss) causes enemy tanks to shut down when they get sprayed with it.
>>65152528>have to get close[Laughs in fire dragon exarch]
>>65150949Yes, actually. I demand a Multimelta.
>>65150949I need less. Give me a 4 pound lasgun with 200 shots and no ballistic drop, not a chunky steel terror weapon weighing 20lb with ammo that's half a pound each.
>>65150980>>65150989By the time of 40k it's around five galactic wars, two crusades, a heresy, and about 500,000 cleansings of heretics.Heretics carry communist crap.
>>65151436There's three different explanations, heavily abbreviated here:Microwave-like radiationYes, basically just plasmaA heat beamBest not to worry about it, it's 40K after all. It's not a setting where writers care about consistency. What's funny is that despite the ubiquity and cheapness of meltaguns, meltapistols are extremely rare, because otherwise they would canonically wreck space marines and terminators in close combat, and we can't have that.
>>65150949Oops! you posted this in /k/ instead of >>>/tg/. Making sure your posts are on the right board is key to maintaining the discussion quality of our little forum here. Unfortunately, due to pay cuts, we've had to lay off some janitors whose job it is to clean up off-topic posts like the one you made. So you're gonna get off without as much as a warning this time, but for the sake of our community, please refrain from posting content not related to weapons on this board. I'm sure the folks on /tg/ would love to discuss your little doll game with you though!
Fantasy is better.
