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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2007 21:30:25 GMT -5
Ok, i know they can be given to stormtroopers and i know they a really good against tanks, but i can not find there stats anywhere! (strength,ap,etc.) can anyone help me?
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Post by thefishki345 on Apr 19, 2007 21:37:50 GMT -5
look in the reference in the back of the codex, if you have it.
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Post by thefishki345 on Apr 19, 2007 21:38:17 GMT -5
oh wait, you said meltabombs, not meltaguns uh hmm i dont no
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Post by fatuous on Apr 20, 2007 5:23:30 GMT -5
The rules for melta bombs are in the main rule book, in the CC sections. I think it is in the nades bit but might be in the vehicle in assault section.
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Post by Woz on Apr 20, 2007 20:55:12 GMT -5
Page 72 rule book, under the section titled 'Grenades'.
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Post by thefishki345 on Apr 20, 2007 21:17:27 GMT -5
there is only rules for frag and krak i think
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Post by Warmaster Stabwhiskers on Apr 21, 2007 3:16:07 GMT -5
Look carefully, its either under melta weapons or grenades
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Post by thefishki345 on Apr 21, 2007 4:55:51 GMT -5
yeh propably
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Post by Woz on Apr 21, 2007 8:08:00 GMT -5
Read the Rulebook page 72 under Grenades
It has the stats for
Frag/Photon, Krak, Melta, Plamsa and Tankbusta's.
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Post by thefishki345 on Apr 21, 2007 21:31:08 GMT -5
ok, i need to check that out to.
hehehe im using full stops.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2007 0:06:56 GMT -5
Ok Meltabombs are grenades against tanks. They hit tanks in close combat like any other grenade. Their strenght is the same like a melta gun. And they roll the same dice for armour penetration like a Meltagun at short range.
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Post by thefishki345 on Apr 23, 2007 0:32:44 GMT -5
cool
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Post by Warmaster Stabwhiskers on Apr 23, 2007 0:32:45 GMT -5
Cant they just be called melta grenades?  ? |
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Post by thefishki345 on Apr 23, 2007 0:34:11 GMT -5
lol yeh
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Post by Woz on Apr 23, 2007 4:34:36 GMT -5
Cant they just be called melta grenades? ? Maybe they're just to big to be called a grenade. Like a demolition charge. |
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Post by thefishki345 on Apr 23, 2007 4:52:29 GMT -5
yeh propably
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2007 7:01:46 GMT -5
If you ever see them modeled by like space marines or on the sprues they are big things with a handle, so they look more like a bomb than a grenade.Assaulting a tank is kind of tricky though in my opinion, i would rather shoot it from a distance but if you need to get close to one at least take a melta.Hope that helps.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2007 20:12:21 GMT -5
Grenades are designed to be thrown. Melta Bombs are like a Limpet Mine, they're attached directly to the surface of the target, armed, and left to detonate on their own.
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Post by thefishki345 on May 4, 2007 20:22:02 GMT -5
cool
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Post by Colonel Grammissar Azalar on May 5, 2007 19:14:35 GMT -5
Cant they just be called melta grenades? ? Maybe they're just to big to be called a grenade. Like a demolition charge. A Melta bomb is a 2 small conjoined disks that are twiseted, there is a centeral switch which is pressed to activate it, and you are able to set the time for 5 - 15 seconds. They have a magnectic clasp on them to latch them into the tank or other tiem requiring Destruction, E.g Bulkhead |
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Post by thefishki345 on May 5, 2007 20:00:40 GMT -5
yeah...
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Post by knight (M.I.A) on May 6, 2007 17:03:51 GMT -5
Meltabombs can be thrown more easily then demolition charges. The problem with melta bombs is that they're not blast weapons, they're weapons that only have a small and focused blast.
I'm not sure if everyone here knows how melta weapons work, so a short explenation. Melta weapons use super heated gases that well melt everything in their way. But unlike plasma techology it's not that instable but only works on short range.
Azalar already said that they are made of two cylinders. In these two cylinders are the two gases that are required to cause the melta reaction. But as such a cylinder has only very few "fuel" you have to focus the "beam" into one direction so that the bomb has the most effect. So I hope everyone sees, that throwing a meltabomb would be gambling at it's finest as you'd never know to which side the beam will focus. But if it's attached directly to a tank the beam will force it's way through the tank and melt everything.
(Source is the main rulebook and some of the 40k novels I have read)
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2007 7:39:06 GMT -5
nice explanation....just got an image in my head of a nearly dead veteran sergeant priming the timer on his melta bomb as a chaos predator lumbered dangerously close over towards where he lay...and well i think u know the rest...but that is a sweet description knight...have u read the ultramarines omnibus...a squad of ultramarines had to blow up a bridge...and their techamrine used melta charges to blow up a really...really large bridge...by blowing out the metre thick supports under the bridges and stuff....graham mcniel (author) made some pretty fine descriptions on how they blew up...hehehe...melta bombs
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