Lol please don’t try to pretend GW is forcing them to make the power sword OP, do you actually think there’s some dedicated lore dude crawling through weapon stats making sure they’re all lore accurate?
The stats in the actual GW published tabletop game aren’t accurate to the lore, I’ve got no idea why you think they’d have to be here.
Also please proofread at least a little bit in future, this is super hard to follow at points.
You are saying about lore, but why do you not respect the lore that mere rejects like our characters shouldn’t have power weapon?
Why do you not respect the fact that guard men isnt sturdy and strong enough to run all the map, and kill over 800 heretics?
Why weapon performance is okay, and these lore not?
Because this is a game. In game, balance is the important thing. Weapon balance deepen game mechanic, it makes player can choose.
I personally dont use power sword on t5 and t4 since my vet is lv20, personally cant argue about nerf,
but since FS ll nerf it, and they were reasonable in VT2, so I believe they are right in general.
And about Flamethrower, I dont think it can kill ranged mobs, specials easily which is the foremost important thing in this game, FT sacrifice this to deal with horde and elite who isnt Crusher. And use resource unlike powersword.
Maybe it’s too poweful, but then there will be nerf someday.
wanna bet?
I mean i was being fairly sarcastic in that first statement if that went over your head, like the whole post was ridiculing the idea of nerfing flamers for being good at horde clearance lol
We are not rejects, tbh, after 30 at least. With a place in the warband and all.
Yeah the rejects thing feels more like a prologue more than anything, not at all out of place as an origin story for a member of an inquisitorial retinue. You’re still an expendable, but by level 30 you’ve reasonably proved that youre worth investing some actual equipment into so you can achieve more important objectives before you die.
Aqua knows what’s up. We are the Inquisitor’s bullies. Inquisitor has access to the best, and at level 30 they make our position ‘formal/official.’
Still you can buy power weapon your level is under 30.
Even when we are 30, we are not inquisitor, we are not high class that normally can have powersword.
Even powerweapon is on the market i donlt think former rejects can buy it with their salary
…and there you go. The nerf brigade got what they wanted. Read the latest patchnotes, powersword has been nerfed.
Yes but it’s not that heavy, and can be halfway circumvented with a blessing. Pretty damn sure power sword will still see plenty of use.
Powers weapons are not some arcane secret technology, they are quite common in the guard for example, at least when it comes to people who are projected to see close quarter combat or for squad leaders. We are a step above a common Guardsman quite early, imho the moment you are noit forced to wear your penal shirt anymore. Those guys, the equivalent of Guardsmen, are slaughtered by us in droves.
It is not something to feasibly kite out a whole regiment, not only because humans simply don’t excel in melee compared to the possible opposition the Guard may face (Orks are too big, Eldar too nimble, Chaos to “ARRRRGH” and for fights against fellow humans, gun fire has proven to be more cost effective, also) and look at the Marines, even there chain weapons are more commonplace for the broader mass of close combat troops, but if it comes to specialist and the like, something we definitely belong to, power weapons are, in multiple styles, quite common.
It’s more of a logistics thing, really, and we are in a situation with an organization that has better and more direct access to gear, supposedly. You are overestimating, in a quest for maximum grim darkness maybe, how rare power weapons are^^
A lot of things started as a joke about class, weapons, gears, and even factions in starcraft being OP.
Then when people started losing out… they cry nerf
Easy to tell you were never in the military. Sgt’s work for a living. Down in the holes with the other Non-Coms. If a Private, Corporal, or Specialist is down in the dirt fighting for their lives, so is the Sgt. What you are describing is more of an officer. Never confuse a Sgt for an Officer. It is highly insulting to a Sgt.
Oh shove it up your tail pipe. Management is management. Maybe you do it in six inches of mud or maybe you do it in an office, it’s still managing people.
No it was actually more about your comment on the rank and file getting the equipment and the Sgt’s do not. You are dead wrong. If anything Sgt’s equipment is a grade above the rank and file. Also, nice to know my post riled you up. Made my day, “Mate”.
I am not the 40K lore guy, more like WHF guy, but I read power sword lore in 40k wiki before, I will copy some of contents of that.
in the 41st Millennium, most power weapons are considered rare and greatly coveted personal close combat melee weapons used on the battlefields. Only Few members of the Adeptus Mechanicus retain the knowledge necessary to make these weapons.
And most of them are old enough to say they are relic in real life.
power swords are typically reserved for high-ranking members of the Adeptus Astartes or other powerful and influential members of the Imperium, such as Inquisitor, Comissar, or Astra Militarum officers.
Is this lore wrong?
In dark heresy Warhamer 40k TRPG, power sword are 10x expansive than chain sword even.
If wiki’s lore is correct then, mere reject or slightly better or squad leader whatever, I don’t think our characters are at level of Inquisitor, comissar, or officers. If market sells these rare weapon, then our characters receive Ordo well to buy this expensive weapon?
What I want to say is Typical lore can’t support this. If there’s some explanation of this, Fatshark bend the lore to give us some 40k fantasy weapon. Fatshark put aside accurate lore to give players gameplay, that gameplay that satisfy 40k fantasy. Still Fatshark prioritize gameplay, so they care about weapon balance, so they’ll nerf power sword, so they gave downside to chain weapon and power weapon.
Yeah, doofuses who can’t read bug me, since I specifically mentioned Hathcock, who had some interesting stories with his sniper rifle.
Maybe before you throw weight around you should actually have some weight to throw around?
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Veteran… aka, experienced.
In the real world most sgts would have less (except coms gear) because their job usually focuses on management, not being a champion. The regular troops would get the serious weapons since their job is on the line, though it is true the more experienced ones and those in elite units are trusted with more and more. AKA, the vets. Because they’ve proven themselves. [/quote]
Hmm… nothing about reading here. But I am done. Your military knowledge comes from books not experience so you are basically “talking out your tail pipe”, if I could coin your phrase. Have a great day my friend.
Don’t use expressions you don’t understand.
Not the first bozo I’ve seen off, won’t be the last.
40k Lore is messy in a way where a lot of potentially contradictory things may still make sense together. Rare by imperium standards isnt exactly saying much, psychers are rare but they still find 10k to feed the throne every day.
As for powerswords it is worth noting the tabletop lets you equip every sergeant (1 in 10 of your little guys) with one instead of a chainsword for no extra cost, and this was before they made all special weapons free. A rare weapon among the countless planets of the imperium? Sure but the imperial guard seems to be where a lot of them turn up, and we’re working for an inquisitor now.