An Einhyr Hearthguard of the Greater Thurian League wearing a suit of exo-armour and armed with a Volkanite Disintegrator, shoulder-mounted Exo-armour Grenade Launcher and a Plasma Blade Gauntlet.
A Plasma Blade Gauntlet is a Leagues of Votann melee Plasma Weapon that has been integrated into an exo-armour gauntlet. When activated, it unleashes a plasma field in the form of a Plasma Sword. Plasma Blade Gauntlets often serve as an alternative melee weapon for the Einhyr Hearthguard.
It is a fact of war for the Kin in the 41st Millennium that many foes -- not least the hated Greenskins -- cannot always be halted by ranged firepower alone. Such enemies must be battled blade to blade, and defeated quickly in the resulting melee.
Kin close combat weapons embody this ethos. They make substantial use of integrated plasma fields, either to wreathe sword and axe blades or to form the blades themselves. Such melee weapons scythe through physical shields and body armour with equal ease, and reduce the foe to cauterised chunks of charred meat and bone.
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- Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition), pp. 32-33, 94, 100