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What do you think of this as a rule for twin-linked weaponry:

When you shoot (overwatch not included) a twin-linked weapon roll a d6 to hit and on the roll of a 6 (unless your ballistic skill 1) you hit the enemy twice!
Simplicity!

I prefer the re-roll...

I once had the idea of you hit, dont wound, then fire the second one to hit + wound, ideally

blood guard26 wrote:What do you think of this as a rule for twin-linked weaponry:

When you shoot (overwatch not included) a twin-linked weapon roll a d6 to hit and on the roll of a 6 (unless your ballistic skill 1) you hit the enemy twice!
Simplicity!

Would that mean that twin-linked tesla would hit 6 times for each 6 (since non TL tesla is 3 times for each 6 rolled)? I don't think people would like that.

Also, why the restriction for BS1? Overwatch? etc. It's still twin-linked, even if you are BS1. That would make tesla overwatch deadly! 10 Necron Immortals with Tesla would average 10 Str5 hits on Overwatch since 1 in 6 tesla shots would roll a 6 to hit, which means 6 hits. In reality, overwatch from a TL tesla squad would be either totally awesome or a complete dud! Roll 2 6s out of 10 rolls and you get 12 hits, roll none and you get none. Imagine a slightly above average roll of 3 6s out of 10 and that's 18 hits!

The BS1 combined with TL Tesla is what makes the Annihilation Barge so awesome for killing flyers under the current rules. You hit on 6, re-roll anything that's not a 6, and every 6 you get is 3 hits.

The counteract for that would be that twin-linked weapons would HIDEOUSLY expensive or negative in some other way.

Or it could be twice as many shots with -1bs (to a minimum of 1) the -1 because the weapons will have to be aligned properly so the shots both hit the right place with each shot. (otherwise it will be like I . I the lines being the shots and the dot the target.