Veeky Forums, I'm getting into wh40k because of peer pressure (and wanting to have good times over some beer and a game). But I'm really bothered by how bad engineering is in the 41st millennium.
Let's compare the ostensibly best flier in the game, the Crimson Hunter, to an old U.S. F-16. There don't seem to be that many advantages to the Crimson Hunter.
First of all, it's Armor 10. It's vulnerable to bolter rounds i.e. explosive AA bullets from the ground. This makes it arguably worse than the A-10 but we can say it's on par with the F-16 here. Other than you can't actually hit the F-16 from the ground because it flies at a more reasonable altitude of 40-50,000 feet. Then, the Crimson Hunter has 3 laser guns that fire to a range of about 6-8 apartment buildings' height, so it fires to a range of about 300 feet, hits about 50% of the time and can penetrate the F-16's armor 70% of the time. Wait what? The F-16 on the other hand can have up to 6 Sidewinder guided missiles with a range of 22 miles that will definitely fuck any aircraft up, not to mention several hypersonic AIM-120 missiles with a range of 140 miles and several redundant guidance systems. And of course should that fail, a gatling gun which can fire explosive rounds 10x faster than a bolter and at a much higher range. I think we know who's going to win this one.
In general I'm having a lot of trouble believing this is how warfare would look in the year 40k. I'm not even convinced the combat weapons, even as described in the fluff, are better than the stuff we had in the 80s. But then my friends act like these are super cool weapons and get all excited about them like ooh, I have this poison rifle that has 30% chance to kill a man. Guess what cyanide would do?
Well /rant. I wanted to rant cause I'm spending $200 on dumb bs. For the friends though. But can you make me more excited about this technology?
