Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-211.26.90.25-20130827133032/@comment-8881468-20131125220434

look it up, normal bolter is .75, heavy bolter is .998 as is stated in the codexes or the core rulebooks of the rp section or the imperial armoury books. give us the books and page numbers and I can assure you, i can do the same with a lot of the official sources.

you can reiterate all you want, the problem being the construction of the bolt shell with the main propellant being ignited AFTER it leaves the barrel, hence the recoil actually being much smaller than that of an auto weapon of the same caliber.

and if the game "space marine" was canon, it would not state that the bolter fires a .998 shell simply because you start off with what knife and bolt pistol, and the bolter fires the same caliber as the pistol in canon (you might wanna read up on that) (sidenote, in canon, Cato Sicarus is captain of Ultramarine 2nd company and not titus)

also as the heavy bolter fires a bigger caliber shell.. what caliber does that shell have according to your sources?

Also take a look at the Godwyn-De'az bolter and pistol, locke, Perinetus Mark II Solo,Hesh M38 Mark II,inder grad forge mauler and many other patterns..

to quote from the bolt pistol article about f.e. one pattern of bolt weapon

"The fanes of Gunmetal City on the world of Scintilla in the Calixis Sector, among their most important duties, hold an oath-bond to manufacture the casing and primary propulsion charges forAdeptus Astartes-calibre bolt shells. Production of the Astartes bolts is carefully controlled and monitored, and once made, each case is stamped with the Aquila and its maker's mark before being passed on to the Adepts of the Machine God. Despite the security and precautions inherent in this sacred duty, it is said a few of these shells never see the Aquila stamp. These so called "blind shells" are both utterly illegal and highly desirable, but on their own, blind shells are useless without a weapon to fire them. Consequently, the Fane of Fykos makes in secret a weapon known as the "Angelus". Bluntly elegant in shape and crafted from the finest materials, the Angelus' lacquered stock houses its magazine and unlocks to take three Astartes-calibre bolt shells snugly nose to tail. Provided only to their richest and most trustworthy of clients, the exclusivity and terrible killing power of the Angelus is favoured by the wealthiest of bounty hunters and the most accomplished of beast-slayers in the Calixis Sector. Carrying one of these powerful, but highly illegal, weapons entails certain risks all of its own."