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The reason I don't bring lascannons or plasma cannons in my dev squads is the cost. at 50 points a model, it's just really expensive.

35 points for Lascannon or Plasma Cannon
vs
20 for a ML
or 15 for a HB


The gets hot sucks, and when you're shooting off 4 pops around, it does start to be a factor, but you're still only losing a marine around 5% of the time.

I recently put together some plasma cannon guys and I was thinking about running them just to try it out. It is a lot of dakka. Has anyone done this with success?

I forgot to multiply that 5% by 4 marines...