Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-67.141.249.249-20130713231947/@comment-7232811-20130715102028

Actually, brother, they sometimes do if they're desperate enough. As Neithan's ben saying, the narthecium has both a small chainblade & a diamond-tipped drill. & it does say in some of the black library books that they do use it to gut an opponent if things go badly enough. In Nocturne, there was a crippled Salamander's apothecary who'd got attacked by a mandrake. He didn't have his pistol with him, so he resorted to slicing at it with the saw & drill, & using a couple of other spray & chemicals in it to both freeze it (& so prevent it from going into its shadow form) & blind it I think, because some of them were like acid.