Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-211.26.90.25-20130827133032/@comment-8881468-20131019074443

then let make make this nice and simple for you ;) as I doubt you have understood my point thus far.

to quote you"And how was I making assumptions exactly? all I said was that the Bolter fires a explosive rocket with a force of a 20mm grenade, and because it is Diamantine-tipped, it could penetrate the armor of an Astartes hence why Bolts are always known for their high AP nature for a small-arm, both in fluff and crunch."

What are the phsyical and chemical properties of "Diamantine", "Ceramite" or "Plasteel"? Oh wait, we don't have any definite data on that, no basis for calculations and so on, as we don't really know what they are, how they are produced or how thick the material of the armor actually is.

How big is the load of the propellant used in what type of cartridge, what of muzzle velocity is achieved? What type of propellant is used, how quickly does it burn/what kind of force do both charges generate, what is the impact speed of the projectile, how big is it, how much does it weigh?

Just to give you some small insight: nowadays you have f.e.

Gunpowder Based stuff, Cordite,Ballistite, Smokeless Powders, Nitrocellulose based propellants, Composite Propellants, depending on form of the propellant, amount of it, length of the barrel and so on, you will have different speeds, whcih will also be modified by the form of the projectile, rifling yay or nay and some other effects. many of those things are not included.

"Depleted Deuterium Core "

you really wanna use that, sorry to inform you but Deuterium is an isotope of Hydrogen, aka: a not very dense but let's do some good old calculating and comparing ;)

Melting Point of deutrium is at -254,6 °C

The gas density is at ~ 2.5 kg/m3

For comparison reasons: depleted Uranium (Uran 235) has a density of ~ 19,1 g/cm3, do me a favor and do the math.

I wonder where you wanna go with crunch as you have no real basis for data ;)

Would you please be so kind as to look into a physics book and fill in the variables into the calculations for f.e. e= mc²