Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-211.26.90.118-20130803022053/@comment-203.134.114.55-20130821102935

Shas'o'Kais wrote: The plasma burns a mere hole in a chest. A Boltgun round vaporises the upper half of the body with a chest shot. Shas you are using high-end levels for WH40K which is pants on head retarded even for its own setting for being over the top.

A Standard Bolt is a .75 calibre explosively charged, gryojet, rocket propelled grenade that explodes with the affect of a 20mm grenade, this is shown almost throughout WH40K fluff to blow off limbs, heads or turn their victim into large chunks of meat. Are they strong? Yes they are however they are not powerful enough to completely "vapourise" or turn a person into a mist, even though it is shown is some fluff to be capable of doing so; most of us agree to just ignore those calcs since it contradicts what has been shown repeatedly, this could be said the same for Encyclopedia Halo and ICS Star Wars.

This means that the average Bolt comes in the force of at least 300Kj to 1Mj, in order for the Bolt to actually vapourise something you must have at least have a high double-digit Megajoules, which is still ridiculous since even at low-end it should be enough to blow apart a group of Humans, something a standard Bolter has never done.

However for calcs such as the Covie Plasma Rifle, the Calcs are inconsistent and all over the place. For absolute low-end, they turn into flaming tennis balls...on the other end they suddenly turn into super-charged plasma cannons that could blow apart Scorpions and Warthogs in a few shots. This is why it is so difficult to calc Modern Halo, if I could use the mid-end for the Plasma Rifle, then it would be the ones shown in The Fall of Reach, Cole Protocol and The Flood as the most consistent. This means that they create dinner-size holes, glass or boil off nearby concrete and have fist-sized explosions.