Is there a Dark Heresy page cite for Eviscerator stats? I lack the DH books and I'm wanting a Missionary/Priest NPC with the two-handed chainsword that priests use in tabletop. Or would it just be acceptable to double the Hecate Chainsword's damage and make it unbalanced with tearing?
1d10+10, Pen 5, Special: Tearing, Unwieldy, Special (Any character that rolls 96-00 on their attack roll with an eviscerator must succeed at an agility test or take Damage as if struck by the weapon including the wielder's SB), Wt 12kg, Scarce.
From Blood of Martyrs.
It always astonishes me that IH and BoM stat Eviscerator as Chain weapon when in fact it is a Chain AND Power weapon. This fact is even mentioned in the fluff text. Now of course I understand that a 1D10+10 Chain and Power Weapon will be a bit munchkin-esque, but still... Has anyone ruled in their games that Eviscerator is also Power?
You're mistaking game rules for fluff. Eviscerators are treated as power fists (Or Terminator chain fists, which is probably the more apt description) that gain +2d6 armour penetration. They do not actually have power fields. That said, with the Unwieldy trait you don't get the weapon destruction bonus since you can't parry and the increased damage and penetration of a Power Weapon upgrade haven't been quantified in the rules.
Well, I just wanted it to be more fluff-wise, so to say. After all, it states "... weapon fitted with a crude version of the disruption field generator more commonly found on power-blades... capable of ripping an armored man in half... blah-blah", this thing cuts through tanks! So I thought that it could have a greater Pen with a drawback of the user's having to learn both Chain and Power weapon use. I've also read on this forum that some players use power weapons for cutting through various solid objects like walls etc. I don't think that even a large pure-chain weapon could make a substantial hole in a wall without having a power field.
Though eviscerator's being Unwieldy and thus having no chance to parry (and break the opponent's weapon in case it has Power field) is making my inner munchkin sad.
Wait, where are you getting that it has a disruption field from? It's not in any of the Imperial codexes that I can find...
Page 187 of the Inquisitor's Handbook mentions the eviscerator having a very basic disruption field generator.
However I've been under the impression for a number of years that most chainweapons have some manner of field as that's what keeps the blades from being clogged up or slowed down.
1d10+10? Wow, that's pretty insane damage output.
George Labour said:
Page 187 of the Inquisitor's Handbook mentions the eviscerator having a very basic disruption field generator.
However I've been under the impression for a number of years that most chainweapons have some manner of field as that's what keeps the blades from being clogged up or slowed down.
The power field is why it has pen 5 instead of 2, like other chain weapons.
from france
the errata 3.0 say:
"The Eviscerator described on page 188 and in the Collected
Melee Weapons table on page 250 should have a damage of
1d10+10 R and the Tearing quality."
that closed this part but yes it is unwieldy
Biggest disadvantage is its two handed nature making parries all but impossible, even with something like a forearm blade. Best hope your AGI is good.
Still, a nasty piece of work and likely far better at hacking open bulkheads than the so called lascutters listed in one of the books. In 40k they count as powerfists, but in RT they're basically short ranged high pen lascannons with a rule on how much metal they can cut in a turn. Kind of useless in close combat. XD