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If a person rolls a 1 when hitting with the plasma weapon shouldnt he just die????
and if its a cannon shouldnt it make a blast because its a F'ing cannon it has sooo much power it should just explode and kill everything around it!!.
The model shouldnt have saves agains the plasma because its super hot with AP2!!! its the same thing hitting him as the enemy so it should be AP2 and should only get saves if they have invulnible because its like if someone was cooking a frag grenade and he throws it then it blows up and kill people but he forgets to throw it for some strange reason its the same thing as if he threw it not if it became weaker like it shoots hot water out.... it will still F'ing explode and kill the slow for not throwing.

A malfunction in a weapon doesnt mean it have to be exploded at the same pwoer its fired at.

After all doesnt a weapon go through different energy reactions before letting out the blast?

It could be just random energy leaking or something.

"Gets hot!" rolls suggest that the weapon gets hot, not explodes.
so minor burns / heated armour, not explosive damage.

Like the others said, Gets Hot refers to a part of the weapon failing, rather than the plasma exploding in a very entertaining way. For example, the LMA on the weapon could fail, causing the heat to build up and causing burns on the user. Other examples like that make up the Get Hot rule.

I've always assumed that when a Plasma weapon Gets Hot!, it's just venting excess heat or plasma, rather then the containment coils failing.

Hence the armour/invulnerable saving throw, rather then a Str7 AP2 hit.

yeah it auto wounds and forces a save, this may seem unfair against models with MEQ saves, but it is balanced as is

If you fail your save, your gun exploded. If you pass it, the venting worked as designed.

therefore explaining why the marine is fine and the mek got burned

Grey Templar wrote:therefore explaining why the marine is fine and the mek got burned

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