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I've been thinking long and hard about this and I doubt I'm the first to say this but ya'll know how everybody says a bolt round is rocket propelled? Well you may have heard that a bolter is effectively a gyrojet style gun, and that's really cool considering its a really arcane munitions system from the Cold War, but the problem with that is gyrojets have like very little penetration up close because the rocket has to have time to spin. Gyrojets also have very little recoil because a rocket doesnt have recoil by default and that sucks because of course you want a fucking bolter to tear somebody's arm off if they tried to shoot it.

What I propose is therefore bolters must be some gyrojet/pin and cartridge hybrid. Maybe the gyrojet device is so it can operate in low gravity (the whole reason that technology was invented) but also still function to full capacity in close quarters, and still have fun recoil.

NVM, apparently all this shit is already canon. for whatever reason i thought it wasnt fully explained. I didnt think about the fact bolters eject shells, so its some kind of two stage munition.
 
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Replaying the campaign to nab a few Dataslates, and man they really missed a trick by having no sort of progression carry over into multiplayer. The campaign is really enjoyable...that first time. Without the carrot of experience points and shiny cosmetics being dangled in front of me, it feels empty.

Also, a shout out to the legendary autist who noticed my Heavy was using Stormwatcher colours from Inquisition: Martyr. Given they're basically indistinguishable from Ultramarines, that is incredible dedication to tiny plastic men.
 
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Orkeosaurus said:
I've been thinking long and hard about this and I doubt I'm the first to say this but ya'll know how everybody says a bolt round is rocket propelled? Well you may have heard that a bolter is effectively a gyrojet style gun, and that's really cool considering its a really arcane munitions system from the Cold War, but the problem with that is gyrojets have like very little penetration up close because the rocket has to have time to spin. Gyrojets also have very little recoil because a rocket doesnt have recoil by default and that sucks because of course you want a fucking bolter to tear somebody's arm off if they tried to shoot it.

What I propose is therefore bolters must be some gyrojet/pin and cartridge hybrid. Maybe the gyrojet device is so it can operate in low gravity (the whole reason that technology was invented) but also still function to full capacity in close quarters, and still have fun recoil.

NVM, apparently all this shit is already canon. for whatever reason i thought it wasnt fully explained. I didnt think about the fact bolters eject shells, so its some kind of two stage munition.
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I get where you're coming from so I suggest one should remember this was all a bunch of stuff some nerds came up with in the 80's. If it sounded cool and looked cool that was good enough. The bolts as described by the canon lore would be rather awful munitions (unless they had access to some basically magic propellants), the chainswords would be damn ineffective swords, and the space marines ribs fusing into a solid plate means they'd no longer have anything resembling human respiration. And for all the advanced tech they have in the 41st millennium they're still using magazine fed projectile weapons?

You can't think about it too much. Just kill bugs and heretics. For the Emperor.
 
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Orkeosaurus said:
I've been thinking long and hard about this and I doubt I'm the first to say this but ya'll know how everybody says a bolt round is rocket propelled? Well you may have heard that a bolter is effectively a gyrojet style gun, and that's really cool considering its a really arcane munitions system from the Cold War, but the problem with that is gyrojets have like very little penetration up close because the rocket has to have time to spin. Gyrojets also have very little recoil because a rocket doesnt have recoil by default and that sucks because of course you want a fucking bolter to tear somebody's arm off if they tried to shoot it.

What I propose is therefore bolters must be some gyrojet/pin and cartridge hybrid. Maybe the gyrojet device is so it can operate in low gravity (the whole reason that technology was invented) but also still function to full capacity in close quarters, and still have fun recoil.

NVM, apparently all this shit is already canon. for whatever reason i thought it wasnt fully explained. I didnt think about the fact bolters eject shells, so its some kind of two stage munition.
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The Wiki says that standard bolter rounds are .75 caliber, or 3/4" in diameter, which would make them approximately the same width as a 12 gauge slug. I think of them like that, but with futurey explode-on-contact technology.

Probably future Fudd Heresy, but that's my frame of reference.
 
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New tankbusta killteam has strong supermutant vibes, very much approve

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I'm getting a 500 error when trying to get on the community website does any body have pics of the Christmas boxes? Ngl the ones you could actually see on the the YouTube preview like the knights look pretty lackluster.
 
Don't have the pics, but this is the breakdown of the contents
Dark Angels - 374
Lion 70
Chaplain 44
10 DWK 140
6 ICC 120

Necrons - 339.50
Void Dragon 127.50
Shroud Lord 40
Lychguard 120
Warriors 52

Tau - 335
Riptide 118
Broadside 62.50
Commander 62.50
Ghostkeel 92

Sisters - 347.5
Repentia 60
Arco flagellants 60
Penitent Engines 62.5
Priest 35
Rhinos 130

Knights - 368
4 Armigers 189
Paladin 179
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I'm getting a 500 error when trying to get on the community website does any body have pics of the Christmas boxes? Ngl the ones you could actually see on the the YouTube preview like the knights look pretty lackluster.
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Lazily copy pasting from my discord

tau is riptide, broadside, commander, ghostkeel, bunch of drones
crons is shard, teleporting lord, triarch praetorians x2, warriors (x2?)
sisters is penitents x2 , rhinos x2, flagelants, repentia x2, priest
knights is armigers x4 and a knight errant/paladin
Da is, lion, knights x2, termie chap, 2x inner circle companions
 
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Because someone at GW broke warcom, it also seems to have fucked up authentication on warhammertv so everything on warhammertv right now is free at the moment
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The best part about it is that I've already caught up with the shit that I've wanted to watch. But I was kind of expecting for their Tithe series to include an Deathwatch episode, at the very least.
 
Pumpkin Girl IRL said:
Replaying the campaign to nab a few Dataslates, and man they really missed a trick by having no sort of progression carry over into multiplayer. The campaign is really enjoyable...that first time. Without the carrot of experience points and shiny cosmetics being dangled in front of me, it feels empty.

Also, a shout out to the legendary autist who noticed my Heavy was using Stormwatcher colours from Inquisition: Martyr. Given they're basically indistinguishable from Ultramarines, that is incredible dedication to tiny plastic men.
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I appreciate the first time run not shoving xp and shit in my face but yeah I think there should have been an unlockable replay multiplayer mode with match making
 
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Orkeosaurus said:
I've been thinking long and hard about this and I doubt I'm the first to say this but ya'll know how everybody says a bolt round is rocket propelled? Well you may have heard that a bolter is effectively a gyrojet style gun, and that's really cool considering its a really arcane munitions system from the Cold War, but the problem with that is gyrojets have like very little penetration up close because the rocket has to have time to spin. Gyrojets also have very little recoil because a rocket doesnt have recoil by default and that sucks because of course you want a fucking bolter to tear somebody's arm off if they tried to shoot it.

What I propose is therefore bolters must be some gyrojet/pin and cartridge hybrid. Maybe the gyrojet device is so it can operate in low gravity (the whole reason that technology was invented) but also still function to full capacity in close quarters, and still have fun recoil.

NVM, apparently all this shit is already canon. for whatever reason i thought it wasnt fully explained. I didnt think about the fact bolters eject shells, so its some kind of two stage munition.
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Yes it is a two stage mechanism. The initial charge is rumored to kick hard enough to heavily injure a human should he try to use a boltgun, maybe even ripping the arm off.

So the tau in Fire Warrior picking up a boltgun is very funny. It would punt him backwards at best with each fire, even if he could somehow lift it.
 
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Yes, watch all of the 2 hours of content they've produced in 3 years lol.

But yeah, fuck 'em might as well watch it for free without even needing to find it elsewhere.
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Hey now, i knew from the start it's not worth it, but why not use the source while you can, when you would had to scrounge 3rd party sites/torrents for it?

I revel in the irony that i can watch all this khantent for free on their very site.
 
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New tankbusta killteam has strong supermutant vibes, very much approve
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Pretty sure with this, the only Ork kit that's still finecast is the Weirdboy. All the other finecast kits/characters either got updated or discontinued. Also browsing the store, I'm noticing they don't sell the Swampcalla Shaman anymore (AoS ork caster). I know it was part of the Dominion box that came out a few years ago, but typically the only time they don't sell these things separately is when they're on a combined sprue. The Shaman had its own sprue.
 
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