Maese Mateo said:
WHAT KIND OF NECROMANCY IS THIS!?
=P
2.5 years. Sweet.
Hellgun has Pen 7???
You know I was looking for this thread a year ago. Heh, don't need it now, but atleast I realize why I never Houseruled to drop the Pen 7 Hellgun in RT to Pen 3-4 from DH and IH. I do like the idea that a character has to carry around the 10kg backpack to get the Pen 7, but it isn't stated in the rules, so sticking with what is listed. To many Houserules makes a game confusing. Besides, the Errata fixed the errors I needed anyways. Thanks for bringing this thread back from the dead to ease my wondering thoughts.
schoon said:
Hellguns in Dark Heresy were Pen 3, and even the special Forge World variety was only Pen 4, so I suspect this is a typo.
First of all, the Hellguns in Rogue Trader is not the same pattern as Dark Heresy hellguns.
Secondly, both the Lucius-pattern Hellgun of Rogue Trader and the Cadian-pattern Hellgun of Dark Heresy: Ascension are Pen 7.
You are probably thinking of the D'laku Crusade-pattern Hellgun from Dark Heresy: The Inquisitor's Handbook , which has Pen 4 .
However, the D'laku Crusade-pattern Hellgun has 10 higher Clip size ( 40 compared to 30 ) and twice the range (100 compared to 50) of the Cadian-pattern Hellgun . The D'laku Crusade-pattern Hellgun also only have a scarcity of Scarce , compared to the Rare availability of the Cadian-pattern Hellgun .
Lower damage (+3 instead of +4) but higher Clip size and longer range, higher availability on the planet that created it, sounds exactly like something that is mass-produced for regular troopers (Skitarii).
tldr; I don't think that's a typo.