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2012/06/23 02:09:53
Subject: Re:Explanation for bulky power armor?
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Confessor Of Sins
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Connor MacLeod wrote:ItAnd heavy bolters (I always wondered where the 'fist sized' bolt references came from...  )
That's just the size of the holes they blow in unarmored targets - fist-sized. Marine-in- PA-fist-sized most likely.
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2012/06/23 02:23:34
Subject: Explanation for bulky power armor?
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Lady of the Lake
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I think it was to do with the diameter of the round. Kind of think it'd do more damage than that.
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2012/06/23 02:24:41
Subject: Re:Explanation for bulky power armor?
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The Conquerer
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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Yeah, regular bolt shells would be blowing fist sized chunks out of people. A heavy bolter would outright vaporise them.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
MURICA!!! IN SPESS!!! |
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2012/06/23 03:23:55
Subject: Re:Explanation for bulky power armor?
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Hallowed Canoness
Ireland
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It really was referring to the projectiles, not the damage they do. It was a line in the Marine Codex, if I remember correctly. Yet, heavy bolter shells still have a diameter of "only" 1 inch, hence my theory that the "fist size" refers to the length. If you take one of these babies into your hand, it probably is long enough. 
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2012/06/23 04:42:19
Subject: Explanation for bulky power armor?
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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This is starting to sound dirty.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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2012/06/23 04:51:10
Subject: Re:Explanation for bulky power armor?
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The Conquerer
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
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And another perfectly good discussion winds up with marines and sex 
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
MURICA!!! IN SPESS!!! |
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2012/06/23 04:56:44
Subject: Re:Explanation for bulky power armor?
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
Thousand Sons Battleship wandering the galaxy...
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Grey Templar wrote:And another perfectly good discussion winds up with marines and sex
I know. Honestly, why is whenever Sisters and Astartes are put together, it ends the same way?
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I should have left him there. He had served his purpose. He owed me nothing - yet he gave himself to me willingly. Why? I know not. He is nothing more than a pathetic human. An inferior race. A mon-keigh. But still I broke off my wings so that I might carry him easier. I took him from that place, into the snowstorm where our tracks will not be found. He is heavy. And he is dying. And he is slowing me down. But I will save him. Why? I know not. He is still warm. I can feel his blood ebbing across me. For every beat of his heart, another, slight spill of heat. The heat blows away on the winter wind. His blood is still warm. But fading. And I have spilled scarlet myself. The snow laps greedily at our footsteps and our lifeblood, covering them without a trace as we fade away.
'She sat on the corner, gulping the soup down, uncaring of the heat of it. They had grown more watery as of late she noted, but she wasn't about to beggar food from the Imperials or the "Bearers of the Word." Tau, despite their faults at least didn't have a kill policy for her race.' |
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2012/06/24 05:26:34
Subject: Re:Explanation for bulky power armor?
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Fireknife Shas'el
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Grey Templar wrote:Yeah, regular bolt shells would be blowing fist sized chunks out of people. A heavy bolter would outright vaporise them.
7.62mm (.308 cal) rounds already blow fist-sized chunks out of people.
n0t_u wrote:I think it was to do with the diameter of the round. Kind of think it'd do more damage than that.
It is. Fist-sized Bolts, not fist-sized holes.
Spetulhu wrote:Connor MacLeod wrote:ItAnd heavy bolters (I always wondered where the 'fist sized' bolt references came from... )
That's just the size of the holes they blow in unarmored targets - fist-sized. Marine-in- PA-fist-sized most likely.
You mean like what normal rounds today do? .50 caliber rounds tear people in half, shear off limbs, etc. You don't get much worse than that.
In fact, old muskets blew fist sized chunks out of people.
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