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JoeGuardsman · 03-08-2008

To say you are stupid to not take a bolt pistol when you can even when it is really cheap isn't right really. Officers side arms are fairly in consequential, unless we are talking about a plasma pistol that might kill them or you. I've had a handful of times where a bolt pistol killed a model that a laspistol wouldn't have wounded but it isn't enough for me to go remodeling all of my minis or miss out on a special weapon for another squad.
I have started to equip more people with power weapons however. The cost is incredibly cheap and I feel the loss of casualties keenly when I know I would have killed them with a power weapon. Though I'm sure I wouldn't have rolled those 5s and 6s if I had taken them.

03-08-2008	#11 (permalink)
JoeGuardsman Corporal Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Back in NYC Posts: 475 Rep Power: 2 Thanks: 3 Thanked 34 Times in 26 Posts	Re: you have to be a total idiot to not equip officers with a bolt pistol To say you are stupid to not take a bolt pistol when you can even when it is really cheap isn't right really. Officers side arms are fairly in consequential, unless we are talking about a plasma pistol that might kill them or you. I've had a handful of times where a bolt pistol killed a model that a laspistol wouldn't have wounded but it isn't enough for me to go remodeling all of my minis or miss out on a special weapon for another squad. I have started to equip more people with power weapons however. The cost is incredibly cheap and I feel the loss of casualties keenly when I know I would have killed them with a power weapon. Though I'm sure I wouldn't have rolled those 5s and 6s if I had taken them. __________________ "Only the insane have strength enough to prosper, only those that prosper may truly judge what is sane."