Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-203.134.114.240-20130706042929/@comment-203.134.114.27-20130714024438

Legionaire22 wrote: Well, they have to downsize it or else they would eclipse the Tau (Tau being a very, very small faction in comparison to the Imperium, but they are still the largest full xeno empire)

Furthermore: A Salamanders Power Armor held against Lava for 5 minutes. Lava/Magma melts Titanium in a matter of moments

And the Lascannon doesn't cause an explosion, the reason a lascannon is so powerful is because it fires tiny little particles at extreme-near-light speed, meaning the thing hit by a lascannon blast is hit with about the same force of an asteroid slamming down on you, which is why no known armor can survive lascannons (also why starships need to maintain void shields to deflect it) But still, the size of the Covie Empire being shown in the Codex is stil...underwhelming.

Too be fair they are the Salamanders, they are known to customised said power-armor that could survive such places, we also see instances of Astartes killed by substain Flash-Light attacks and how Heavy Stubbers AKA M2-Brownings were damaging Space Marine Armor, so all in all the calcs for Astartes armor depends on which source you take.

About the Lascannon, uhh Baneblades and Terminators? There are some instances where we see a god damn Lemun Russ survivng shots of a Lascannon...Could we agree that WH40K calcs is all over the place -_-