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Unless Heavy Bolters in the HH FW books have different rules?

An extra shot? Something different? Anything?

(Reaching here...)

I didn't thing it looked like a bolter, I thought it was just a trigger with a targeting mechanism.

Having the standard bolter shape though should make it easy to use with any standard SM arms, which was probably part of the reason for the design.

 Eisenhorn wrote:
My guess 7th company Blood Angels or 7th Company World Eaters that are part of Angrons Warrior cult,not red Imperail Fists.
Why does FW make a decal sheet with just roman and gothic numerals,all of them not just four numbers,all ten.

It probably says XVII, they are coloured as Word Bearers after all...

 Kroothawk wrote:
Glueing a heavy bolter to the bottom of a bolter looks ridiculous and like an amateurish conversion by someone too lazy to remove the original weapon.

It's the carrying handle, apparently.

It could look much better though.

It could look a lot less like a shaved down bolter!

Between this and the somewhat substandard (but still better than me!) paint jobs of late, I'm starting to wonder about what's going on over at FW.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, they could've given it a special arm treatment, bumping the price of the pack up by a few quid.

I think it's supposed to be a targeting thing for the Heavy Bolter. But yea, it does look like a half-assed combi-weapon.

The Target Scanner is apparently the little bit in the upper left corner.

That view makes the "scanner" (aka: bolter-muzzle) a bit more sensible.

It also makes the iron sight that much more stupid...

Could lead to some epic looking sawn-off or sub-machine Bolter conversions though...

 Kanluwen wrote:
It's the carrying handle, apparently.

The carrying handle has a muzzle, trigger and aim.
And would you hold a heavy weapon of that size at the rifle scope?
Well, I am not the target customer I guess.

 Kroothawk wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
It's the carrying handle, apparently.

The carrying handle has a muzzle, trigger and aim.
And would you hold a heavy weapon of that size at the rifle scope?
Well, I am not the target customer I guess.

It has a hole at the front which you're assuming to be a muzzle. More on that in a second.
The trigger mechanism for the weapon is going to have to be somewhere, unless it is psychically activated.
I don't see anything suggesting the bit on top of it is a sight, but people keep inferring that it is. If it's an iron sight it is a godawful one since it would be useless to Astartes, given that the "nub" on the end is supposedly a "camera" connected to their HUD allowing them to see what the gun sees.

To be fair, surely there's got to be advantages to being able to wield the weapon like a Bolter, considering they predominantly train/fight with a Bolter?

It's not an iron sight, it's too big for that, besides, we all know that Astartes shoot it from the hip like bosses.

Well, if I want badass troops holding heavy bolters like a man, I'd rather take these

Thanks kroothawk. I am sorry but that new bolter needs to be rethought.

Meh on the Heavy bolters. I'd going to double down on those Autocannons, though!

...It would be an awful convenient way to vary the ratio of tracer to explosive ammunition used if it were just a regular bolter on top
But yeah, the iron sight has got to go!

meh i need rotorcannons.

Yes where are the rotorcannons. They put up that video that had a few sneak peaks in it, and it had painted Justarian Termies and some PH Lascannon guys, but where are the rotocannons? I want to see them!

Rotorcannons?

Please explain!

 Alpharius wrote:
Rotorcannons?

Please explain!

In the FW HH book, Techmarine Servitors can take Rotor Cannons.

Str3 AP6 30" Salvo3/4 special weapons that can be taken by the all special weapon support squads. They're a bit pricey to my mind, but some people like throwing down 40 dice, even if it only kills 3 marines.

I forgot that the support squads can take them. Mainly because there are much better choices for them.

Support squads are hideously overcosted for all but the basic flamer setup. The cost of the flamer is reflected in the base cost, but not in the cost of the weapon options, as though they forgot that you're paying to upgrade a flamer, so you're paying inflated prices for special weapons on top of an already expensive marine. Cheap 10 man plasma gun squads would be disgustingly dominant, but they swung too far in the other direction. Terminators with combi-weapons cost a trivial amount more and are worth twice as much.

oh come on. plasmaguns and heavy bolters are so passé.

Wow! The new heavy-bolters look cool! Now I know where to get my heavy weapons for my Havoc squads!

Not sure if this squad deal is new or counts as real news but with a slight saving 3 ten man squads of MK3 armour, bolters and command upgrades for £160.








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 Melcavuk wrote:
Not sure if this squad deal is new or counts as real news but with a slight saving 3 ten man squads of MK3 armour, bolters and command upgrades for £160.

Link for the Legion bundle?


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