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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/07 07:47:09
Subject: Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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Can chaos marines [in this case, one of my Iron warriors] take plasma cannons as wargear?
I moddeled an Iron warrior last night with a plasma cannon and it dawned on me that i cant recall ever seeing a CSM with a plasma cannon [not to say they dont exist]. Can they have plasma weapons or have i just been a bit thick and misread something in the rulebook?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/07 08:16:13
Subject: Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Dakka Veteran
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Unfortunatly for you(us) the only plas cannon in the csm is on a helbrute (dread).
Sorry.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/07 08:37:25
Subject: Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Obliterators also can morph plasma cannons... Maybe bulk the dude up a bit, give him some weapon tendrils, and a servo arm and count him as an obliterator?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/07 10:29:37
Subject: Re:Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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DO'H i just finished painting him
The CSM rulebook i have says havocs can have plasma guns. Can i throw him into the havocs unit and 'count' him as having an ordinary plasma gun. Or is that no longer allowed?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/07 10:44:21
Subject: Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I don't think too many would be too upset by that.
Perhaps you can even create a bit of back story to it; it's a particularly ancient and venerable mark of plasma weapon, an early example before they were able to either minimise the size of the weapon or maximise its potency. As such it fires as a plasma gun despite being the size of a heavy one.
Or perhaps the logistic issues chaos marines face means the owner downgraded its output to maximise its field life?
Perhaps it has damaged fuel cells and simply doesn't fire as well as it used to.
Lots of options, perhaps you could even modify the paint job to reflect something along these lines?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/07 10:51:50
Subject: Re:Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Wicked Warp Spider
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Skymate wrote:DO'H i just finished painting him
The CSM rulebook i have says havocs can have plasma guns. Can i throw him into the havocs unit and 'count' him as having an ordinary plasma gun. Or is that no longer allowed?
Since the CSM have no Plasma Cannon, I would be ok with that because there is not ambiguity and is a weapon very close.
Just imagine that havoc looted the cannon from loyalists and learned to shoot it with less power to spare the power cells or something because is not familiar with a full power cannon. Or something like that.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/07 11:49:54
Subject: Re:Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
Australia
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I don't understand why CSM [especially Iron warriors in this case] cant have plasma weapons. Iron warrior lore states they scavenge and loot weapons from the battlefield. Surely a plasma rifle is easier to steal than a basilisk. It'd certainly be easier to carry.
I might just glue a las cannon barrel in the guns barrel. That might work
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/08 14:20:26
Subject: Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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When you become a traitor space marine, you turn in your plasma and grav guns and are issued autocannons.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/08 15:05:48
Subject: Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Locked in the Tower of Amareo
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Plasma cannons are bad anyway.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/08 15:47:18
Subject: Re:Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Skymate wrote:I don't understand why CSM [especially Iron warriors in this case] cant have plasma weapons. Iron warrior lore states they scavenge and loot weapons from the battlefield. Surely a plasma rifle is easier to steal than a basilisk. It'd certainly be easier to carry.
I might just glue a las cannon barrel in the guns barrel. That might work
In 2nd edition they lost plasma cannons and multimeltas because at the time of the Heresy those weapons didn't exist in marine-portable forms. Vehicles had them, the dreadnought did anyway, but that was it. Forgeworld added those back in though with the big legion update and now there are volkites and so on, so who knows?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/08 18:04:03
Subject: Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Oozing Plague Marine Terminator
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I don't think anybody would mind if you used him either as plasma gunner or missile launcher. Especially if you painted him already. I wonder though, which CSM codex you have that allows plasma cannons as I can't think of any  Pictures of it are in there, though. As some posters said, Obliterators and Dreads are the only source of Plasmacannons for CSM (aside from Ectoplasma on forgefiends and rapier weapons of course).
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/08 18:17:10
Subject: Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Pulsating Possessed Chaos Marine
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kronk wrote:When you become a traitor space marine, you turn in your plasma and grav guns and are issued autocannons.
Another QFT. Kronk has the answers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/09 04:09:26
Subject: Re:Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
Australia
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I cut the arms off and gave him a las cannon instead. Didn't take me long to fix. I like playing by the rules anyway
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2017/01/09 04:15:06
Subject: Chaos marine plasma weapoins
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Locked in the Tower of Amareo
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Plasma guns on plague marines is $$. Other plasma weaponry is very meh.
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