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I always thought of a lascannon like a Spartan laser from Halo except it would have cool-down instead of warm-up. Also I'd say it's RoF would depend on how its mounted. ex on a vehicle having a greater energy supply and better cooling a lot faster, rather than being hefted around by a Space Marine or Imperial guard heavy weapons team, where it'd have a lesser energy supply and less-than-fantastic cooling er-go slower RoF.

Fezman wrote:I never really think of lascannons having a rate of fire per se (though that is how I imagine lasguns and laspistols), I imagine them more as firing a continuous beam that bores through the target as long as the trigger's held (same goes for melta guns).

That's more like a lance weapon.

A lascannon would be a "PEW" gun with a recharge period.

IMO.

Fezman wrote:I never really think of lascannons having a rate of fire per se (though that is how I imagine lasguns and laspistols), I imagine them more as firing a continuous beam that bores through the target as long as the trigger's held (same goes for melta guns).

Thats closer to the Helllgun actually, but only because its supposed to have a very fast fire rate and pretty much infinite ammo due to the backpack being its power source.

If you take the Dark Heresy lascannon ROF then one shot every 5 seconds, with 5 shots in each laspack.

The reason the hand-moved Lascannon takes so long to recharge is because it's battery is limited by the person carrying it.

On a space ship, Gunship, or a bomber you have much more room for large batteries which means a shorter recharge.