Melta and RF?

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**Captain Solon**

was thinking this afternoon, and I thought about this:

Melta can be 2D6 up to half range

RF shoots and moves up to half range.

HOWEVER:

RF effectively reduces range to half, so then, wouldn't melta = 1/4 range?

What I mean:

24" Melta RF weapon
12" to shoot
6" to melta

if he moves.

is that right?

**kirsanth**

If two things require half range, they both apply at half range. . . .

**don_mondo**

And RF does not fire up to half range, it fires 12". Just ask Tau players......................

**spongemonkee**

well melta's are assault 12" not rapid fire so I'm not sure why you are combining the 2.

**ComputerGeek01**

don_mondo wrote:And RF does not fire up to half range, it fires 12". Just ask Tau players......................

IMPORTANT TO NOTE THIS I for the longest time thought the same way, why doesn't GW just say half range? But they say 12" because they mean 12".

**kartofelkopf**

Are there even any RF melta wepaons...?

**Kommissar Kel**

No.

But if there was one The Melta rules states that you get the bonus dice vs armor penetration for being at or under half range(that is range of the weapon) so if we had a 24" RF, Melta weapon you would get the bonus dice at or under 12", and you would get to fire twice.

but since there are no RF melta weapons, and there are likely never going to be; this whole thread is moot.

**xxBlazinGhostxx**

ComputerGeek01 wrote:
don_mondo wrote:And RF does not fire up to half range, it fires 12". Just ask Tau players......................

IMPORTANT TO NOTE THIS I for the longest time thought the same way, why doesn't GW just say half range? But they say 12" because they mean 12".

They do. BRB pg.28, second paragraph, "Models armed with a RF weapon can move and fire two shots at targets up to 12" away."

**Gwar!**

The main reason people think it is half range is because before the Tau, there were no RF weapons that had a range other than 24"

**insaniak**

Gwar! wrote:The main reason people think it is half range is because before the Tau, there were no RF weapons that had a range other than 24"

The 3rd Edition Eldar Codex had Rapid Fire Deathspinners with a 12" max range.

It's more a case of most people just not realising that there were any RF weapons with anything other than a 24" max range...

**Gwar!**

Huh... Learn something new every day it seems.