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So I was looking at my space marine codex I noticed all of them can take melta bombs. I also noticed that melta bombs can be used like any melee weapon so you can use them as a 5 point better power fist or thunder hammer. Is this cheese?

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There are some drawbacks to melta bombs in melee. One attack, and you can't use them against everything. It's not a bad idea to hand a few out, but far from cheese.

 Nevelon wrote:
Welcome to Dakka.

There are some drawbacks to melta bombs in melee. One attack, and you can't use them against everything. It's not a bad idea to hand a few out, but far from cheese.

Unwieldy too, so dropping one on a Monstrous Creature is probably not going to work, though Concussive weapons can help prevent that.

I think you're confusing how melta-bombs work.

You cannot use them on infantry, only Vehicles and Monstrous Creatures (or bigger) and can only be used as 1 singular attack. Think of them as a 5pt, highly specific tool for use against vehicles with AV 12+. Against creatures they're only S8, AP1, with no gain from the "Melta" rule.

While a powerfist is more expensive, you can use it against all targets, gaining all of your attacks in your profile at pretty much the exact same stats as a meltabomb (S8, AP2).

Meltabombs are a convenience/hail mary pass type of weapon. You never -need- them, but they're a good contingency plan.

Izural wrote:
I think you're confusing how melta-bombs work.

You cannot use them on infantry, only Vehicles and Monstrous Creatures (or bigger) and can only be used as 1 singular attack. Think of them as a 5pt, highly specific tool for use against vehicles with AV 12+. Against creatures they're only S8, AP1, with no gain from the "Melta" rule.

While a powerfist is more expensive, you can use it against all targets, gaining all of your attacks in your profile at pretty much the exact same stats as a meltabomb (S8, AP2).

Meltabombs are a convenience/hail mary pass type of weapon. You never -need- them, but they're a good contingency plan.

Thanks did not notice it was a grenaid I was only looking at the profile in my space marine codex.

 mew28 wrote:

Izural wrote:
I think you're confusing how melta-bombs work.

You cannot use them on infantry, only Vehicles and Monstrous Creatures (or bigger) and can only be used as 1 singular attack. Think of them as a 5pt, highly specific tool for use against vehicles with AV 12+. Against creatures they're only S8, AP1, with no gain from the "Melta" rule.

While a powerfist is more expensive, you can use it against all targets, gaining all of your attacks in your profile at pretty much the exact same stats as a meltabomb (S8, AP2).

Meltabombs are a convenience/hail mary pass type of weapon. You never -need- them, but they're a good contingency plan.

Thanks did not notice it was a grenaid I was only looking at the profile in my space marine codex.

Heh nps, I thought alot of stuff was awesome until I re-read it. Easy mistake to make.