>can sever limbs and explode torsos >can drop an ork nob in an eyeshot by frying its brain >extremely accurate >doesn't suffer from bullet drop, wind resistance >significantly faster than a projectile weapon >durable, reliable, sturdy, cheap >almost infinite charge packs that can be regenned by putting them in sunlight or a campfire >can be supercharged and used to explode dreadnought armor >can be overcharged and used to cut through multiple squishy targets >often volley fired by thousands of soldiers at once >these volleys are capable of disintegrating titans and dreadnoughts
It just goes to show how much the memes have taken over the percetion of the 40K universe.
Christian Reed
And yet has nearly the same statline as a normal slugthrower in Derp Hurresy
Carson Stewart
In our modern world the Las Gun would be an incredible weapon, almost overpowered for an infantry rifle. The problem is that 40k starts with enemies who can take a grenade to the face and works it's way up from there in strength.
Evan Rodriguez
Not that I disagree with you, but: >almost infinite charge packs that can be regenned by putting them in sunlight or a campfire Isn't really ideal. I have to imagine the former takes forever and the latter ruins the charge pack.
Still, Lasguns are rad and I wish they got more love.
Anthony Russell
The lasgun and flak armour are really fucking good compared to our standards, it's just that compared to bolters, gauss flayers, shuriken cannons, and pulse rifles they are a bit lacking
Dominic Ramirez
>thatsthejoke.jpg its funny because it IS incredibly powerful, its just that the every other weapon is stronger still
the last part isnt true, as S3 will never penetrate a dread, much less a titan, no matter how many volleys you fire, and even in the fluff lasguns are told to fire at the infantry at the titans feet, not the titan
Liam Perry
>and the latter ruins the charge pack I would assume they're fireproof, and designed so that you can do that. OP would be really dumb if he just assumed you could put them in campfires without reading it or something somewhere.
James Price
Nope, at least to the second bit. Old lore (which, while old, has yet to be retconned AFAIK--it just hasn't been brought up one way or another in a long time) had battery packs--indeed all batteries--be science-fantasy crystals that easily took in most forms of energy with incredible efficiency and stored them indefinitely. Tossing one in a fire is less "emergency last-ditch hack" and more of a standard recharging method.
Hell, IIRC, the crystals took in all forms of energy, including kinetic. Bang it against a rock to charge it up! That might have just been a joke between me and my friends, though.
Asher Baker
They updated that bit of lore. As early as 6th Ed Imp Guard, throwing your las pack into the fire was a last ditch method due to it having a good chance to ruin the pack, or in the parlance of their time "offend the weapon's spirit." I don't have the codex on-hand to quote, however, so grain of salt.
