Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-211.26.90.25-20130827133032/@comment-21719124-20131215224714

Your forgetting one tiny detail, the the standard issue bollter and bolt pistol  is a status symbol. To own one is to equate yourself on the level of an Astartes. If you are found owning even the tiniest modicum of the proplellent of a shell of a bolter, you end up as an Arco-flagellatite. To say nothing of how finicky the machines are considering the fact that if any rocket residue is left in the barrel and improperly cleaned before battle, the gun mushrooms and you lose your hands. Astartes train for decades on how these uber gyro-jets work, a guardsmen is lucky to last a half a decade or so. Still, if one could get over the over-zealous idiocy of obssesive symbolism, I suppose it might become an appropriate tool for the Kasrkin to use.