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Page 56 of the 6th Edition Rulebook has an entry for the "Vulcan Mega Bolter".

Range 60", S6 AP3, Heavy 15

Holy crap! Is this a new weapon? What model has one of these things?

Its a weapon found on Titans

It says they're common on super-heavies. So, like, titans and baneblades and gak. Probably nothing that's not apocalypse

Ah...

I guess I'm relieved. But maybe I sort of want one

=)

It's the new standard weapon in the next Mat Ward codex.
But seriously, this is interesting. It was confined to Titans before, will we now see it on Imperial vehicles?

Isn't there leman-russ like tank armed with it in one of the IA books?

I think the Stormlord super-heavy is the smallest model with a mega-bolter.

Hopefully we'll see a 6th-edition-compatible version of Apocalypse soon!

I could have sworn I once saw a leman russ-sized tank with a megabolter in an apoc game. Might have been a conversion though.

the Vulcan Mega bolter is a weapon enployed by Super Heavys.

Its mounted on the Stormlord, the Macharius heavy Tank chassis (vulcan mega bolter in the turret in-place of battle cannons).

and every kind of titan you can think of.

Its what a Punisher Cannon wants to be.... punisher is the closest thing you can get to a Vulcan on a Leman Russ, it has 5 more shots but is weaker.






somethign tells me in a normal battle the power of a V.M.B would shred through anything short of terminators and even termis would be in danger from the sheer weight of fire. That and armor 13+ would ignore the rounds and armor 12 would be glanced to death.... but kiss your Rhinos good bye, they will get multched along with anything on foot.

I think you may be thinking of this;-



Bllod Angels Baal Predator. Much nicer looking guns IMHO than the LRP

Grugknuckle wrote:

Page 56 of the 6th Edition Rulebook has an entry for the "Vulcan Mega Bolter".

Range 60", S6 AP3, Heavy 15

Holy crap! Is this a new weapon? What model has one of these things?

One of the shadowsword variants has a Vulcan Mega Bolter. They are also found on titans.

Skriker

Ross74H wrote:I think you may be thinking of this;-

Spoiler:

Bllod Angels Baal Predator. Much nicer looking guns IMHO than the LRP

I'm not. The vulcan mega-bolter is about half the size of that tank, it's pretty easy to spot

the baal pred does not have a mega bolter. it has a twin linked assault cannon - though they have sorta the same style...

Hum, I have done a quick bit of Googleage and found...

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6176/6179982588_4dc64d6424_z.jpg

Was on a flikr photo account.

Not sure if I like that or not TBH, turret looks a bit TOO big for the Russ. Maybe with the VMB cut down a bit to make it somewhat smaller, otherwise, just seems to not be quite right.

image broke

Only other thing I can think of with a big rotary cannon style gun on it is the "original" punisher variant which is this thing;-



Would look ok if you did this to it;-



but with Punisher cannons either side (Hydra stylee but still obviously not really an AA tank)

I have found a few pics of LR's running Megabolter turrets but not sure if that what the OP meant, would think its highly unlikely.