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Hi there, I was wondering if, in the lore or some obscure supplement or something (including lost archeotech designs that are specifically mentioned), there was an example of some sort of human laser weapon that splits the difference between a multilaser (which is bad against even light vehicles) and the lascannon (which fires slow and isn't that great aganst large amounts of heavily armored super-infantry and masses of light vehicles)? Something that is sort of in the rough conceptual space as a heavy bolter, autocannon, or some plasma something or other?

Not that I can think of.

Las weapons generally go in 3's, Lasguns as S3, Multilasers at S6, and Lascannons at S9.

I can't think of anything that's laser based between a Multilaser or Lascannon off the top of my head.

I always thought a Multilaser WAS the Heavy Bolter of the Las family...

Las weapons exist in a million different patterns and formats across the Imperium. It would not surprise me if there were a multi-las with the armor-penetrating power of a hellgun, for example.

There's also all kinds of archaeotech weapons that pack the strength of much larger weapons into pistol-sized packages and the like... not to mention digital weapons.

The main problem being that the tabletop only allows for so much granularity, so all lasweapons of a given type do basically the same thing. So a lasgun is a lasgun, even though in another mechanics system, they may have markedly different profiles. The TT game simplifies it to a single, universal profile.

Ain't volley gun shooting lasers?

Weapons in 40K usually come in sets of 3 main weapons and then variants. The 3 mains are usually a pistol, rifle and heavy weapon.

Bolt Pistol
Boltgun
Heavy Bolter

with variants being
Stormbolter - better Bolter
Avenger Mega-Bolter - Tank weapon
Vulcan Mega Bolter - Titan sized
Combi-weapons


Laspistol
Lasgun
Lascannon

variants being
Hot-shot Lasguns/pistols - Armour penetration
Multi-lasers - Heavy Weapon
Icarus Lascannon - AA weapons
Turbo Laser Destructor - Small Titan weapon
Volcano Cannon -Large Titan weapon
Vengeance Cannon - Huge Titan weapon


Plasma

Pistol
Gun
Cannon

variants
Blaster - Stormbolter equivalent
Destroyer - Tank weapon
Blastgun - Superheavy and Warhound weapon
Destructor - Warlord level
Annihilator - Emperor Titan level





All works in 3s, usually a pistol, rifle and heavy version.