Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141214213749/@comment-198.86.248.188-20160404190509

Back to the Imperium! I was discussing with a friend about the two universes, and one topic we keep bringing up are weapons.

when compared to the WH40K universe's vast armory, SW is pretty much screwed. the Warhammer 40k universe has such an extensive plethora of weapons, armor, powers, and technology that by this point it's not even funny. It is almost one-sided.

Examples

From what i have read, seen, and heard from the SW Universe, the standard blaster shoots a beam of plasma at the target. Some people thought that it was a laser rifle, but I proved my point when the new SW film came out, in the scene where the Darth- Vader wannabe Force-caught the blaster bolt in middair. you cannot stop a laser beam as it is just a concentrated beam of light. I also saw that a blaster bolt travels slower than a laser beam. If you get hit, it will leave a scorched wound on the area of impact.

In Warhammer 40,000, the equivilent (?) to the blaster is the Imperial Lasgun. Unlike the Blaster, which is like a Plasma Gun, the Lasgun instead projects " a beam of highly energetic, focused, coherent photons", which is so powerful that it can vaporize the immediate surface area in a small explosion, able to sever limbs clean off. if Stormtrooper armor is the same as Imperial Carapace Armor, which protects against small-arms rounds (ballistics?), then it will offer little to no protection against energy weapons. Stormtrooper armor seems suprisingly weak, as i have seen many troops felled by a single blaster round. That same armor against Las weapons stand no chance.

As I said earlier, SW Blasters are really plasma guns. The equivilents to the Blaster (in terms of possible functionality) are the Plasma guns of the Imperium. To say that a SW Blaster is the same as a WH40K Plasma gun.... ehhh it is like comparing a honeybee to a hornet. Imperial Plasma weaponry are FAAAR more powerful than the blaster weaponry of the Republic, generating the destructive heat of a small sun. When compared damage-wise, the SW blaster will leave the target with a scorched, open wound on his body, while the WH40K plasma gun will flat-out just VAPORIZE the target outright. Even though I side with WH40K, I hate to agree that SW blasters are ...sliiigghhtly better than Imperial plasma guns? Function-wise, of course (Don't hate me i am new to this!). whereas the imperial plasma gun is prone to overheating and sometimes even exploding if overused, the SW blaster doesn't have this problem. Also is the fact that simply reloading imperial plasma weapons can be dangerous. I haven't seen this issue in SW. But, as I said before, WH40K plasma guns are more powerful than blasters. Also, both sides seem to be semi automatic, though there are exeptions.

What I (and hopefully most of us) have seen thus far is that in the SW universe, there are no ballistic weapons to be seen. there are mentions of there being kinetic weapons, but have been depicted as being the same as old style black-powder rifles and shotguns. In WH40K, solid ballistic weapons (Auto-Weapons) are still used, though not as muched. It is, however, more advanced than the ballistics used, if even, in SW. perhaps the most fearful of all is the .75 Cal. Boltgun, or Bolter for short, used by the superhuman Adeptus Astertes. This is not even like a gun at all, as it is more akin to a rapid-firing rocket launcher than a gun. Anyone who is shot by this is instantly gibbed, blown apart either by the impact, the explosive payload, or both. Stormtroopers are pretty much dead already because, althogh they have blasters- they're just that. a WEAK plasma gun that can't use specialty ammo. The Bolter has so many models and ammunition types that one could make a library out of it. examples include Helfrost rounds, which use cold, expanding glimmerfrost crystals to kill their target, to the Metalstorm Fragmentation Round.