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I dont care about your star sign or whatever i care about your Chaos worship

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Mine has yet to encounter one and will regard it with deep suspicion whenever she does.

with regards to meltas isnt the beam vs blast thing one of those topics people are always debating? like, from what ive read in guard and knight books they are described more like a short blast than any continous beam or torch, hissing sound to big bright flash to pile of molten slag in front of you. The SM2 effects seems like a relatively consistent, if aenemic, version of that interpretation, though yeah ive also see the beam/torch effect in other places

Back in 2e the multi-melta had a blast template.

Are there training chainswords in canon, and if so is there any indication of how they work? Or do people just have to like... make do with a normal training sword? I feel like the vibration and gyroscopic effects are going to make it feel different just to hold and move, let alone cut things with.

It’s such an awkward weapon to conceptualise a training variant of. The teeth can’t be totally rounded/smoothed, or the behaviour of the swords wouldn’t result in adequate training (which scholams probably pride themselves on) but a live chainsword could potentially just shear someone’s arm off.

Are there training chainswords in canon, and if so is there any indication of how they work? Or do people just have to like... make do with a normal training sword? I feel like the vibration and gyroscopic effects are going to make it feel different just to hold and move, let alone cut things with.

It’s such an awkward weapon to conceptualise a training variant of. The teeth can’t be totally rounded/smoothed, or the behaviour of the swords wouldn’t result in adequate training (which scholams probably pride themselves on) but a live chainsword could potentially just shear someone’s arm off.