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The Lasgun is a brilliant weapon for its ease if use, durability, adaptability and rechargeable ammo packs. Who knows how many versions or modifications are out there, I think that goes for power pack capacity as one's standard may be completely different to another planets. I say power packs can hold as much or as little amount of shots as you want depending on quality and size. E.g from single shot Las-locks to the hundreds of shots in the highest quality. Indeed in the novel Sons of Dawn the 'Roaring Blades' Emperor's Children Auxiliary Infantry Regiment still had a few working Lasguns (albeit in their final spurt of shots) 10,000 years after they were first issued. Of course you could argue well they must have been using up the last of their power packs, but I think Lasguns built in the Great Crusade probably had a higher capacity of shot than those in the current 40k due to the superior technology and quality that was later lost in the Heresy and Mars uprisings

Interesting Information:

It operates on a nineteen megathule range and can utilise any Departmento Munitorum sanctioned power pack.
It can either be fired in two settings 'low or high' in either single or burst shots.
Rate of fire (cyclic) 220 shots per minute.
Can be recharged in sources of heat or good light and can even be placed in fire without threat of explosion.

Litany of the Lasgun:
Bringer of Death, speak your name, For you are my life, and the foe's Death

As a little bonus, test your skills with a Lasgun on the Tyranid firing range in this classic mini game from GW!

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20060203023328oe_/http://uk.games-workshop.com/tyranids/xenos-hunt/1/


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 EmpNortonII wrote:
The Tau Empire is able to mass-manufacture a far more powerful weapon.

The pulse rifle is also an incredibly widely-available, standardized weapon... that also shoots farther and harder than a bolter.

'Most Fire Warriors carry a cumbersome projectile weapon called a pulse rifle. Like most tau technology, it is of outlandish design and prone to malfunction. They are noisy and produce a brightly flared pulse of concentrated ion. Only prolonged, sustained barrages are capable of killing a strong, armoured human'

-Quote from GW-

 Nerak wrote:
Lasgun hype!

I hold in my left hand DH 2nd Ed rulebook and in my right the Imperial Infantrymans uplifting primer (damocles gulf ed).

Well I was holding the Damocles Gulf Primer in my left hand and Dark Heresy Second edition in my right!


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epronovost wrote:

 Ynneadwraith wrote:


Isn't the Guard's primer full of propaganda about the capability of the Guard and the inneffectiveness of the enemy so new recruits don't crap themselves?

The description of weapons is very acurate compared to other sources. The propaganda is in the tone more than in the content before they start to talk about xenos.. You don't want to present bs that be exposed in training. The survival tricks are all very good for example.

The propaganda becomes ridiculous with the xenos and than againt. With the orks, it's mostly true with some elements of pure bs and some misrepresentations. It make sense since most guards will fight orks at some point. When it comes to eldar, there is a lot of bs and misrepresentation. Logical since guardsmen will relatively fight them. Tyranids info are full of bs because they are terrifying, a new threat (its the Damocles Gulf eddition) and the guards will be sent to die against them not win.

Primer:

'Orks are big, stupid and bestial' - Correct

-Tyranid weapons are formed out of living tissues; they often fall apart' - Correct

-'Eldar are weak and impure' - Technically correct

-'Tau are cowards, hiding behind their pathetic armour' - Correct, you never see unarmoured Tau in melee.