Plasma just got even hotter - I mean better-er!

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Reading through fifth edition I stumbled across the following:

All rapid fire weapon have to fire their maximum shots if within 12"!

OH CRAP I thought quietly to myself. Now it's 1-2 to immolate on the gets hot roll everytime.

But then I read on to the universal rules and found the following:

"For each result of 1 rolled on its to hit roll the firing model suffers a wound. Normal saving throws apply."

Err - yippee! I believe the rule was 1 or 2 on two shots from the plasma. This now no longer apllies. That's a 1/3 chance dropped to a 1/6 chance over 2 shots.

Additionally, rerolls can now reroll 1's (although codex take precident so sharpshooters doesn't count) that said could be very handy for city fight?

[Rolling Thunder]

For anything.

A nice little upgrade that.

[Turtleboy(AWOL)]

sharpshooters doesn't work on plasma weapons, but that IS a really cool thing about the gets hot rule!!

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this is great news for my army which practicly lives off plasma

[SgtBilko]

Where does it say Sharpsooter doesn't work on plasma? I've been cheating then. I figured that a more experienced plasmagunner would be able to nurse his gun better and avoid overheats

[zumbaz]

I thought it stated ''except from plasma (which few man survive long enough to master) and sniper rifles (where the slightest inaccuresy ruins the shot).

But something I thought of to make plasma even saver:
Master crafted plasma! now how does that sound?
it may be a bit expensive though.

[SgtBilko]

Well a master crafted pistol obviously overheats less.

However I don't use plasma pistols, too expensive for what little use they get and they could kill the character/vet sgt.

[lordcastellenjon]

well I use them and I have even turnd around a termi squad with them before killed 2 with the flashlights ^^ and then melted 2 with the plasma shots ^^ polasma works tell your friends okay and this makes it even better

[Mabus]

I think plsama pistlos are great.

I once had a game which went very badly for me when I lost with my Black Templars against my freind's valhallen imperial guard. He moved his Sentinel squadron, armed with Heavy flamers, within 12" of my lone Marshall. I chose not to move with him and shot twice with his plasma pistol. He managed to kill 2 Sentinels. It's fair to say that I was pretty pleased with his peformance in that game!

[control]

Though you can't double shot with pistols anymore aye?

[GuardsmanPatch]

Nope, afraid not.
Plasma cannons are somewhat more inaccurate now. While the Guard don't get man-portable cannons, so they can avoid the overhead possibility (Marines still have to roll a dice before they fire the plasma cannon - it overheats on a one), they scatter now like any other blast template - 2D6-BS", which is 0" to 9".

[3ff3ct]

Sept 14, 2008 7:22:25 GMT -5 GuardsmanPatch said:

While the Guard don't get man-portable cannons....

This still upsets me

Yay for plasma though! The medic can put his feet up for a bit now...!