I read a post here titled “Zealot infinite crossbow ammo” or something to that effect, and I got a bit excited before realizing it was for VT2 and not DT.
That said, it had me thinking. There’s a lot of medieval influence in 40k, so I’m a bit surprised I’ve not seen any futurized crossbows, like something that fires superheated bolts or a “Gaussbow” or something? That seems like something an enthusiastic ecclesiastic would dig, but I can’t recall any particular examples.
Could someone more versed in the 40k lore let me know if there’s any precedence for this?
They’re literally crossbows. They don’t fire exotic ammo, necessarily. The technology levels in the Imperium can vary wildly from world to world, or even between societies or classes on the same world. It would be absolutely useless in Darktide given the rate of fire, however
Well, you can’t go wrong with the classics I suppose. I am a bit surprised in the lack of modified varietals. We can get a sword that’s a chainsaw but no auto-loading, burst fire crossbows? I mean, even Dark Souls had one of those. Seems a missed opportunity.
But I agree, I can’t see a bog-standard crossbow being that effective in Darktide. They’d need to jazz it up. But without any prexisting examples of note I don’t see them doing this until they’ve run dry of the more iconic weapons and have to start inventing new ones.
Now this probably won’t be added to Darktide, but I could see it having a “Special Ammo” function like the shotguns that loads/primes the bolt. It could be more effective at dealing with Infested types, assuming it’s made out of a psuedo-magical material like silver. And of course, being able to pierce multiple targets, despite that generally not being a function of crossbows it very much follows the rule of cool.
Yeah it did take a while before we got the sorcerer enemies in VT2, but it makes total sense for us to fight something like that eventually in this game too.
I’d love to see a boss with chaos sorcery or psyker abilties too.
Ah, I thought the blightstormer and the teleporty fat guy disabler were sorcerers. I would not mind seeing them in DT, you know those nobles were up to some nasty heresy.
Probably due to Gauss being overly used by the Necron faction (FLayer, Blaster, Cannons…).
Reynbows, also referred to as a mag-bow or reyn-bow, are a crossbow-like weapon from the planet Gereon. Used by the local ‘Sleepwalker’ tribesmen, the weapon fires fifteen centimeter long, iron quarrels, tipped with resin imbued with the venom of a local species of moth which is incredibly lethal to unaugmented humans. Resembling a machine bow, instead of a traditional string launcher, reynbows magnetically sling their darts at the target. Each reynbow is handmade and individualised, though they all follow the same basic design of a long, hollow tube of metal or hardwood with a trigger grip set behind it, and a shoulder-stock behind that. A power cell appears to be built into the shoulder stock, while the metal arms of the bow are coiled back more sharply than any conventional crossbow and are weighted at their tip. The bows are virtually silent and fire with tremendous force.
Ah man, forgot about the Necrons, they ruin everything.
Also, thanks for the blurb! Doesn’t answer my question about why it’s called a “Reynbow” so I’ll assume it’s just for the pun. Maybe the poison has one of those oily multicolored sheens to it.
Would make a good premise for a psyker weapon. We’ve got a lot of staffs and guns, but I’d like to see a hybrid. A Purgatus or set of crossbow pistols whose special generates a lot of peril but imbues the shot with special properties. Increased damage, penetration, soulblaze, maybe even assail-adjacent homing abilities? Something along those lines.
The idea of a space witch using traditionally witch-hunting weaponry has a nice irony to it. The zealots would hate it. But they love to hate psykers so it all works out, win-win!
