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@evil kiwi his Warp Spiders are range 6". They are terrible assuming Assault 1, maybe okay with Assault 2, still range 6". Fusion pistol Harlequin Players also exist, they can fall back and shoot and have an open-topped transport with Movement 16.

@Pyroalchi and warpedpig you should design for lore, but you should view the lore in context of other lore, like the lore for lasguns and gauss blasters.

@ vict0988: I'm totally on board with you. I might have come across wrong: I meant it in a sense of: going purely by lore leads to places that don't make sense for gaming. So in my example as much as a lasgun should be incredibly precise from a lore perspective, it makes little sense from a gaming perspective.

I brought the Devildogs Chemcannon as example of something that - in the lore - is described as more or less equally devastating to organic enemies as what Warpedpig described for the monofilaments, yet on tabletop it has rather moderate stats, mostly because autokilling anything that is not completely acidproof would make little sense gamewise (or should cost a fortune in points).

Edit: and my commentary to warpedpigs Warp Spider proposition was mainly meant as: If one argues that the weapon should be "distinctive and very special" it should not have a Strength and damage value that makes it still acceptable against nonoptimal targets.

The lasgun would still be hard to hit targets with because the user of the lasgun is being shot at. Has an elevated heart rate. The targets are moving. Explosions are going off. He is running. Stopping. Running again. The target is not just holding still while you take careful aim and fire. And within most engagement distances the difference between an instantaneous laser shot and a projectile traveling around 1’000 meters per second is irrelevant. For all intents and purposes they are both hitting their targets instantly. You’d have to be shooting hundreds of meters for it to really make much meaningful difference. Or at a very small target.