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I feel I am overthinking this but:

'bolt rifles that models in that unit are equipped with have a type characteristic of rapid fire 2'

By saying bolt rifles are they also referencing stalker bolt rifles?

RAW seems clear... really powerful especially in combination with the target sighted stratagem.

Bolt rifles and Stalker bolt rifles are two different weapons, so yeah, RAW is clear, but your thinking is wrong.

Any rapid fire weapon with the word "bolt" in it is affected by the bolter discipline rule.

 p5freak wrote:
Any rapid fire weapon with the word "bolt" in it is affected by the bolter discipline rule.

a swing and a miss

 Aijec wrote:

 p5freak wrote:
Any rapid fire weapon with the word "bolt" in it is affected by the bolter discipline rule.

a swing and a miss

Bolter discipline
For the purposes of this ability, a Rapid Fire bolt weapon is any weapon with the Rapid Fire type whose profile includes the word ‘bolt’ (e.g.
boltgun, bolt rifle, storm bolter, combi-bolter, hurricane bolter, inferno boltgun, etc.).

Where is this a swing and miss ??

 p5freak wrote:

 Aijec wrote:

 p5freak wrote:
Any rapid fire weapon with the word "bolt" in it is affected by the bolter discipline rule.

a swing and a miss

Bolter discipline
For the purposes of this ability, a Rapid Fire bolt weapon is any weapon with the Rapid Fire type whose profile includes the word ‘bolt’ (e.g.
boltgun, bolt rifle, storm bolter, combi-bolter, hurricane bolter, inferno boltgun, etc.).

Where is this a swing and miss ??

because the content of your posts have NOTHING to do with the threads OP haha

Ah, I see. Misunderstood the question. A stalker bolt rifle isn't the same as a bolt rifle.

 p5freak wrote:


Where is this a swing and miss ??

Because the title of the thread is about the Rapid Fire Stratagem (probably the 2CP update to the 1CP Vigilus stratagem in the new UM Supplement), not the Bolter Discipline.

To give a more complete answer to the OP - in this case Bolt Rifles should have been capitalized as a proper noun (The name of one of the three Intercessor bolt rilfe (lower case as an improper or common noun) (Auto, Stalker, and Bolt Rifle) options. There is a different Stratagem for each of the three options. Auto Bolt Rifles pairs up with Boltstorm, Bolt Rifles with Rapid Fire, Stalker Bolt Rifles with Target Sighted

In short, no, it does not. Anyone who says otherwise is simply wrong.