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Someone posted this pic in another thread and I always wondered what this weapon was supposed to be what do ya all think

Matched the description of a Digital Weapon, I believe.

Hobgoblyn wrote:Matched the description of a Digital Weapon, I believe.

Ummm IIRC Jakro <sp> Digital Weapons were worn on the fingers and were created by a lost alien race

My book is packed away right now. But you had a lot more weapon choices in first edition, customizing every member of a squad with all sorts of randomly generated goodness. More like the options you would have in an RPG. I always considered it a gauntlet mounted melta weapon. Think hand-flamer.

Looks like the gauntlet mounted bolters
Grey Knights use?

Well, do also remember that the picture is one of the first pictures of Space Marines fighting that was ever created. So during the time the picture was being drawn and painted, not every weapon option had been printed officially in black and white and the door shut and sealed on any and all creativity.

Really, when it comes down to it, the options that armies in 40K are limited to is a bit... ludicrous. We are to believe that these are the most elite warriors from across an entire galaxy, countless Earths-worth of warriors vying for the top position... countless cultures, tactics and fighting stlyes to draw from, unfathomable numbers of weapon manufacturers, tech priests... hundreds of unexplored Xenos species each of which would surely have had an even more extreme culture with their own sciences and styles to have drawn from... and yet the weapon options available to the Space Marines, even the Imperial Guard, are fewer than the options available to your typical modern military from any given country.

Things were still open to exploration, GW still encouraged free thought and creativity on the part of those involved in building the hobby and invited and encouraged people to come up with things that were new, interesting and exciting. These were the days when new rulesets for new armies were being rolled off-- so people starting coming up with individual rulesets for specific Space Marine chapters, there were rules for playing various Ork Klans or even FreeBootas or Wild Orks, there were rules for playing Eldar, Eldar Harlequins, Dark Angels, Exodites.... ideas were sparking, things were happening...

Not like today when things have been carved in steel and armies have been reduced to cold, hard, prepackaged, prepressed, soulless clones of one another.

And so the artist exercized some personal creativity in this case, because artists and gamers were still allowed to have creativity and no one threw them out the window for not playing the identical army of that specific type or having weird custom mods on their weapons or equipment. One could still hit the board with a squad of Eldar in Cold Ones or Orks on Boars... if someone wanted to play a Space Marine on a bike with a lance or to equip each member of their squad in an unique manner instead of making them Clone Troopers... they were applauded for it!

Today... it just doesn't work that way.

On a less serious note, maybe Brother Mega Man (Rock Man for the Japanese amongst us) just got a differently shaped buster cannon?



But, honestly, it looks like the Psycannon could trace it's lineage back to that...

I have asked my self the same question a lot of times.

I always assumed that was a master-crafted plasma pistol.

just had this thought pop in...
judging by his helmet colors, insignia on his shoulder pad, and what ever that is in his other hand, it seems to me like a special (or atleast higher ranking) marine...

possibly a custom made weapon made either by or for some noteworthy marine?

krusty wrote:just had this thought pop in...
judging by his helmet colors, insignia on his shoulder pad, and what ever that is in his other hand, it seems to me like a special (or atleast higher ranking) marine...

possibly a custom made weapon made either by or for some noteworthy marine?

Good point about the helmet and such, ya get so used to elite SM's not having a helmet that i did not even consider the idea

Stormbolter mounted on powerfist.

Dey iz flash gitz innit? Itz da Mekz bestest kustom blastah like!

Looks like a wrist mounted cannon, but it obviously isn't too effective if he's about to bludgeon a fellow with an Ork's head.

Also the guy to his right looks constipated.

Hobgoblyn wrote:Well, do also remember that the picture is one of the first pictures of Space Marines fighting that was ever created. So during the time the picture was being drawn and painted, not every weapon option had been printed officially in black and white and the door shut and sealed on any and all creativity.

Really, when it comes down to it, the options that armies in 40K are limited to is a bit... ludicrous. We are to believe that these are the most elite warriors from across an entire galaxy, countless Earths-worth of warriors vying for the top position... countless cultures, tactics and fighting stlyes to draw from, unfathomable numbers of weapon manufacturers, tech priests... hundreds of unexplored Xenos species each of which would surely have had an even more extreme culture with their own sciences and styles to have drawn from... and yet the weapon options available to the Space Marines, even the Imperial Guard, are fewer than the options available to your typical modern military from any given country.

Things were still open to exploration, GW still encouraged free thought and creativity on the part of those involved in building the hobby and invited and encouraged people to come up with things that were new, interesting and exciting. These were the days when new rulesets for new armies were being rolled off-- so people starting coming up with individual rulesets for specific Space Marine chapters, there were rules for playing various Ork Klans or even FreeBootas or Wild Orks, there were rules for playing Eldar, Eldar Harlequins, Dark Angels, Exodites.... ideas were sparking, things were happening...

Not like today when things have been carved in steel and armies have been reduced to cold, hard, prepackaged, prepressed, soulless clones of one another.

And so the artist exercized some personal creativity in this case, because artists and gamers were still allowed to have creativity and no one threw them out the window for not playing the identical army of that specific type or having weird custom mods on their weapons or equipment. One could still hit the board with a squad of Eldar in Cold Ones or Orks on Boars... if someone wanted to play a Space Marine on a bike with a lance or to equip each member of their squad in an unique manner instead of making them Clone Troopers... they were applauded for it!

Today... it just doesn't work that way.

I think you are being a little overzealous here.

For one thing, if they represented the sheer volume of possible futuristic weapons available in the 41st millenium, there would be so many weapons that you could fight a thousand battles and still not use/see them all used. That's too many statlines to be in any way realistic. The same goes for customizing rules. Before long, you have too many variants to learn about each army, and people will make up rules that are overpowered or broken.

There is absolutely NO restriction on how you build your models in the game. If I want a SM on a bike with a lance, I can make one, and bam, there's a space marine with a power weapon in the form of a lance. It's entirely believable and would almost undoubtedly be acceptable to put some orks on boars and count them as bikers. Also, alot of those variant lists - Harlequins, Feral Orks, etc, lasted until 4th ed, and when they went, some of the best units were incorporated into the main codices so that less hardcore players could have a chance at them.

Custom Pointy Stick Launcher.

One of the greatest 40k pics of all time that one!

The new Marine dex leads me to believe this weapon is infact Dorns Arrow.

well, i have a model with one of those gloves on it. its a plasma gun IMO

phillpowell wrote:well, i have a model with one of those gloves on it. its a plasma gun IMO

Can you post a pic?

there you go

Wow, cool, thanks! I looked through you're gallery as well, nice work!