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I know this may be bit of a obvious answer, but...I'll ask it anyway.

The First rank, FIRE! Second rank, FIRE! rule states that models firing Lasguns can shoot up to three shots at targets more than 12" away, and two up to 24" away.

Now...does this mean that the Storm Trooper 'Hot-Shot Lasgun' can do the same? I'm not entirely sure, and am stuck, as it DOES say 'Lasgun', but with Hot-Shot being in front of it, and am wondering if this would negate that order from being valid to Storm Troopers, because of the two simple words 'Hot-Shot'.

Just wondering here, and thanks!

Its a hotshot lasgun. Not a lasgun. FRFSRF does not work on it.

Yeah.

Games Workshop fluff says "The energy packs on Hot-Shots require more energy, and so cannot maintain such a high rate of fire..."

Or something like that.

A "hotshot lasgun" is a different weapon from a "lasgun", just as a "flamer" is different from a "heavy flamer" and a "hurricane bolter" is different from a "bolter."

CleverAntics wrote:I know this may be bit of a obvious answer, but...I'll ask it anyway.

The First rank, FIRE! Second rank, FIRE! rule states that models firing Lasguns can shoot up to three shots at targets more than 12" away, and two up to 24" away.

Now...does this mean that the Storm Trooper 'Hot-Shot Lasgun' can do the same? I'm not entirely sure, and am stuck, as it DOES say 'Lasgun', but with Hot-Shot being in front of it, and am wondering if this would negate that order from being valid to Storm Troopers, because of the two simple words 'Hot-Shot'.

Just wondering here, and thanks!

Firstly:
It's three (3) shots at UP to 12" away (not further than 12") and two at between 12" and 24" (provided the unit were stationary). Rapid fire weapons rules+FRFSRF rule.
HSL are not Lasguns. They have a different profile and are different weapons (YES, that different AP value IS enough to make it a different weapon).
Pretty sure it was also covered in one of the FAQs.

Which really makes me wonder why they switched the name off of "hellgun". Yes, you'd have different stats for a weapon of the same name in two different codecies, but that didn't stop GW when it came to storm shields...

Ailaros wrote:Which really makes me wonder why they switched the name off of "hellgun". Yes, you'd have different stats for a weapon of the same name in two different codecies, but that didn't stop GW when it came to storm shields...

Yeah, that annoyed the beejeezus out of me when I first read the Guard 'dex, and then I was like, "Oh, maybe it lets Stormies work with FRFSRF." And then I read the eratta, and my appreciation of Games Workshop dropped a little more. Well, it would have, if I had any.