Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-211.26.90.25-20130827133032/@comment-8881468-20131117234736

I wanted the source for the astartes bolt being a .998 shell

because according to canon the heavy bolter shell is a .998, the standard bolter is a .75 and non astartes bolt weapons are, merely, sized down but still use the same size of ammunition (something which you will pr0obably find in every decent role playing literature of warhammer 40k like the roleplay rulebooks or the codexes of the using armies ;)

imperial guard uses laser weapon or automatic weapons ;) they field the heavy olter normally only on tripod or vehicles aka: with suspension means

next sidenote: the boltgun actually has less recoil (in relation to size of projectile) than an assault cannon or autogun because of the way the projectile is accelerated. the main propellant is actually ignited after the projectile has left the barrel of the gun, the initial recoil only comes from the first acceleration propellant that is used iside the barrel.

the bolter is essentially a downscaled rpg, whereas with automatic weapons, the full amount of the propellant is ignited within the weapon.