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If the guns have different names, they are different guns.

The fact that they use identical profiles for range, damage, AP, etc... is irrelevant.

You can't roll twin linked weapons and regular weapons together at the same time, without differentiating which dice represent which weapon being fired.

The point is "Twin Linked" is a description of the heavy phosphor blaster.

It has to be or the weapon simply does not exist(and therefore would not benefit from the -1 cover saves anyways as it cannot be fired at all since it doesn't exist).

If you want to treat a "twin linked X" as a differently named weapon as X, be my guest; as such a weapon(as opposed to the Twin Linked special rule's "described as") doesn't exist.

The only option to fire anysuch weapon is if it follows the twin linked definition.

 adamsouza wrote:
If the guns have different names, they are different guns.

The fact that they use identical profiles for range, damage, AP, etc... is irrelevant.

You can't roll twin linked weapons and regular weapons together at the same time, without differentiating which dice represent which weapon being fired.

A Chapter Master wielding a Bolter (not that anyone would ever take this combo) in a squad of tactical marines still has to roll his bolter shots with everyone else. You can physically roll them at different times (or use different colored dice) but the game counts as them all firing at the same instance.

i'm late and lazy is there a consensus here?

 axisofentropy wrote:
is there a consensus here?

First time visiting YMDC?

 axisofentropy wrote:
i'm late and lazy is there a consensus here?

You can and cannot get cover saves from their own weapons.

Schrödinger's Robots.