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Favorite weapon in 40K would have to be either:

Heavy Bolters for Damage + Range
Typhoon Missile Launcers for Damage + Range

Hard call, but I'd give my vote prolly to HB for all round most useful and points effective.

Burnas ,smooth and sexy
and have helped me cleaning out Dark Angels and Chaos Space marines

Power sword followed closely by the assault cannon.

Valkyrie wrote:

BrainDeleted wrote:(Mastercrafted) Blast Pistol. The power to kill anything (Including a land raider or monolith or their ilk)...In your hand!

Fixed

So much truth, easily my chosen addition. It goes well in any squad and packs enough punch to be well worth the risk. I've had a VSS take down 2 leman russes in 1 battle before (her model received a purity seal for that). While they should never be relied upon for taking out tanks, they are a good addition to ensure that every squad has something it can do against whatever is in front of it.

But I love Imperial Plasma weapons in general. Gets hot is funny, and leads to some hillarious stories (i had a friend whose IG Company Command Squad killed themselves off in 1 round (except the officer himself)). In 4e they were the quintessential special weapon (like melta weapons are now).

S6 AP 5 Assault 4 Rending Pinning (can choose extra shot and no cover saves) fired at BS7 in game- can ruin infantry and any armor value regardless of cover
in assault it is a strength 6 power weapon

Fixed it for you

As the pure definition of orkiness I would have to say the tankhammer is my favorite. Some might say the shokk attack gun is the true definition of orkiness but I say nay the tankhammer beats it out. Only an ork would think to take a rokkit, a seemingly one time use rokkit, and attach it to a metal bar an intend to use this as a multiple use weapon. By the orks shear force of will that rokkit will fire every single time the ork swings the hammer, be it one time or one hundred times, giving him the strength to crack any tank he comes across and make a fine mist of any soft bodies it might speed through. So while the shokk attack gun runs a close second with the deff gun running a third close behind it the tankhammer comes in first as my favorite weapon in 40k.

Shokk Attack Gun...no doubt...fear my snotlings as they warp inside of you!

Shokk Attack Gun / Vulcan Mega-Bolter

Tadashi wrote:Just like lasguns then. Only if the weak points are hit can the marine be hurt. Most hits would be ineffective.

Yeah, but the marine could withstand several hits to joints. A splinter rifle on the other hand would down him as soon as it draws blood.


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Tri-linked heavy railgun that also counts as an a TH in CC.

I just made it up but it would be sick.

im2randomghgh wrote:

Tadashi wrote:Just like lasguns then. Only if the weak points are hit can the marine be hurt. Most hits would be ineffective.

Yeah, but the marine could withstand several hits to joints. A splinter rifle on the other hand would down him as soon as it draws blood.


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Tri-linked heavy railgun that also counts as an a TH in CC.

I just made it up but it would be sick.

Not necessarily. Space Marines have superhuman endurance. They might be able to take the pain and resist the paralysis from a few hits.

Tadashi wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Tadashi wrote:Just like lasguns then. Only if the weak points are hit can the marine be hurt. Most hits would be ineffective.

Yeah, but the marine could withstand several hits to joints. A splinter rifle on the other hand would down him as soon as it draws blood.


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Tri-linked heavy railgun that also counts as an a TH in CC.

I just made it up but it would be sick.

Not necessarily. Space Marines have superhuman endurance. They might be able to take the pain and resist the paralysis from a few hits.

For it to be a weapon that big, an XV88 or XV9 would have to be swinging it. That means either str 8 or str 10. ID.

And when it shoots it would wreck their faces.

Vortex grenade...

though I do love the traditionals - power swords (Cadian sabre looks sweet and so do the Death Korps) and plasma pistols. I particularity love how GW managed to make CC weapons believable in a sci-fi setting and power weapons are so much better than lightsabres

Teh wailing doom.

Demolisher Cannon (either w/ Vindicator or towing rig)

Just the thing to keep the neighbors/relatives/salespeople/general pricks from bothering me.

The Epic Chaosdude!!! wrote:Thunder hammers. Its just so nice to be able to say "Now I bring down the thunder".

Or "Stop! Hammer time!"

Lol.

MC? Hammer.

War Scythe, Cuts through anything what more can you ask for?

hmm for practical use its the heat lances. For fun it's easily the shock attack gun. My favorite overkill weapon is by far the vortex apocolypse missle launcher. It one shots almost anything including the freaking terrain.

NL_Cirrus wrote:War Scythe, Cuts through anything what more can you ask for?

War Scythe+Lysader's Thunder hammer? Str 10 2d6 for pen strike at initiative no save ever? One in each hand?

NL_Cirrus wrote:War Scythe, Cuts through anything what more can you ask for?

One that still does, perhaps

Shokk Attack Gun for me, or Dark Gate..

Nothing says 'feth you!' like something popping out of an alternate dimension to mess you up

Ascalam wrote:

NL_Cirrus wrote:War Scythe, Cuts through anything what more can you ask for?

One that still does, perhaps

Shokk Attack Gun for me, or Dark Gate..

Nothing says 'feth you!' like something popping out of an alternate dimension to mess you up

!!! Idea! Load TH into shokk attack gun!

I'm a huge fan of Power Swords. I have always been fascinated by medieval warfare and I always dislike history for inventing gunpowder weapons and "ruining," warfare. I like the fact that in the Warhammer-universe armor and shields and swords have made a comeback because bullets aren't always the endgame. I love it. It's like a new age of feudal chivalry without the chivalry.

ObliviousBlueCaboose wrote:Lasgun. Cheap, reliable, efficent. And you could recharge it by plugging it into a wall socket...

you sound like an electric car salesman...

Campbell1004 wrote:I'm a huge fan of Power Swords. I have always been fascinated by medieval warfare and I always dislike history for inventing gunpowder weapons and "ruining," warfare. I like the fact that in the Warhammer-universe armor and shields and swords have made a comeback because bullets aren't always the endgame. I love it. It's like a new age of feudal chivalry without the chivalry.

Meh. As a tau player I like guns. I do however think that warfare would be more civilized should the art of swordsmanship still be a factor.

And I think they made the whole "swords in sci-fi" work better in Dune.

gorechild

im2randomghgh wrote:

Campbell1004 wrote:I'm a huge fan of Power Swords. I have always been fascinated by medieval warfare and I always dislike history for inventing gunpowder weapons and "ruining," warfare. I like the fact that in the Warhammer-universe armor and shields and swords have made a comeback because bullets aren't always the endgame. I love it. It's like a new age of feudal chivalry without the chivalry.

Meh. As a tau player I like guns. I do however think that warfare would be more civilized should the art of swordsmanship still be a factor.

And I think they made the whole "swords in sci-fi" work better in Dune.

Dune trumps all, this is fact. Sardaukar with stun-guns and knives, very cool scene.

Campbell1004 wrote:I'm a huge fan of Power Swords. I have always been fascinated by medieval warfare and I always dislike history for inventing gunpowder weapons and "ruining," warfare. I like the fact that in the Warhammer-universe armor and shields and swords have made a comeback because bullets aren't always the endgame. I love it. It's like a new age of feudal chivalry without the chivalry.

The power Swords thing reminds me of a post on dakka, that if you drop a power sword, would it fall to the centre of the earth and then go into a loop constantly falling. I know this is nonsense, but I loved the mental image of a Power Sword dropping and cutting itself into the centre of the earth.

Avenger Shuriken Catapult

What could be more bad ass than shooting ninja stars??!?!?!?!?!?

Bolt weapons are the best in ranged.

Tadashi wrote:Bolt weapons are the best in ranged.

Pulse rifle>Bolter


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Campbell1004 wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Campbell1004 wrote:I'm a huge fan of Power Swords. I have always been fascinated by medieval warfare and I always dislike history for inventing gunpowder weapons and "ruining," warfare. I like the fact that in the Warhammer-universe armor and shields and swords have made a comeback because bullets aren't always the endgame. I love it. It's like a new age of feudal chivalry without the chivalry.

Meh. As a tau player I like guns. I do however think that warfare would be more civilized should the art of swordsmanship still be a factor.

And I think they made the whole "swords in sci-fi" work better in Dune.

Dune trumps all, this is fact. Sardaukar with stun-guns and knives, very cool scene.

Couldn't agree more.

A fiction universe where lasguns are the most powerful ranged weapon? Stark contrast to 40k