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Would it be ludicrous from a fluff perspective for a 40k-era chapter of Space Marines to have a sizable stockpile of heresy-era volkite weapons?

I love the look of the volkite caliver (I'd use these as bolters) and volkite charger (I'd use these as storm bolters/bases for combi-bolters) models and I've been trying to nail down a "fancy bolter" model for my marines for a few years. Obviously, crunch-wise, they'd be bolt weapons, and I'd justify that power reduction fluff-wise with a line or two about retrofitting xenos power sources or something.

Is my fantasy of laser beam marines too silly?

Do it, my friend uses heresy marines for his space marine army because he prefers the look. And frankly i (and everyone else does too). i say do it and have fun.

Go for it. I think it would look awesome.

As long as you are consistent with the weapon models in terms of counts-As, go for it. Weapon swaps are a common thing to do.

 Flinty wrote:
As long as you are consistent with the weapon models in terms of counts-As, go for it. Weapon swaps are a common thing to do.

DO EET for the rule of cool, but be consistent as this man says!

Alright, I'll do it! I'm ordering 10 volkite calivers from Forge World. Someday I'll actually have some free time for hobbies and I'll post some images of the models.

Go for it, man. Space Marines are obsessed with ancient crap and are willing to put thousands of man hours into preserving something that's no better than modern technology. I know my Blood Ravens first army will have a crap ton of horus heresy junk in it.