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Today I found out while postin that mah talos's big tail gun(twin linked splinter canons. They fire 6 times in one turn.) only count as one splinter canon. There's two barrels, but each only fires 3 shots? Mathimaticly (big word. Learnt it at school today), since the two guns count as one, their basicly downgraded versions of a splinter canon a kabalite would use? I don't own the new rule book, so can someoneexplain this for me?

The weapon fires six accurate shots.

Cinematically, it would be firing more, and six are on target from one barrel or the other.

Twin linking rerolls represent the volume of fire bolstering the weapon's accuracy.

A twin-linked weapon represents two identical weapons connected together and linked to fire at the same time, often through one pull of the trigger or push of a button. Twin-linked weapons are built this way in order to increase the chances of scoring a hit through the crude expedience of blasting more shots at the target.

It counts as one weapon with re-rolls on any misses to represent the greater chance of hitting. I preferred it in second where if you hit both weapons scored a blow but I digress...

I'm no deldar fan, but if I understand correctly, it just means you reroll to hit with all 6 shots. Honestly I wouldn't even look at the actual gun when trying to determine the rules for it. It's all about the stats.

Pretty sure twin linked stays the same in 6th from 5th

First, buy the rule book, otherwise you cannot play the game, at least not at a lot of stores or with a lot of people. Secondly, the twin linked rules are in the 5th ed rulebook as well under weapon types.. And finally, allow me to elucidate for you. The twin linked rule allows you to reroll all misses. For example, my TL SC fires, 3 hits, 3 isses, I can reroll the misses because of twin linked, I reroll 3 misses, two of which are hits, I now have a total of 5 hits, one miss. Each barrel of the cannon is firing 6 shots, both at the same target, making accurate hits redudndant, but allowing near misses to be adjusted for due to the volume of fire in a given area. In conclusion, buy the rulebook before you buy anything else for 40k.

Twin-linked = More Dakka hehehe.

like said twin linked means your going to be able to re roll any dice that miss so your using six dice any that miss you can rereoll once

Twin linking is a clever way of boosting a weapon's theoretical accuracy to a finer degree than just boosting the unit's ballistic skill.

There's a real world example of this (believe it or not). An american company called Dillon Aero who created the Dillon Aero M134 Minigun, during it's testing they compared it to it's main rival for helicopter mounted light armaments, specifically the m240. What you're looking at is shot density. Because the minigun fires so much faster it encounter's a phenomenon where it no longer hits proportionally to it's fire rate, it hits at an exponentially higher rate. You can see them explain the result here.