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The ''''Laspistol'''' is the pistol-sized variant of the [[Lasgun]], which is built for Imperial Guard assault troops (they have assault troops in the Imperial Guard?!?) and officers. A laspistol can be made in many different ways ranging from your standard factory-built for your typical IG squad sergeant to ornately crafted ones for Governor Generals and can be easily stored in a holster or in a coat pocket. | The ''''Laspistol'''' is the pistol-sized variant of the [[Lasgun]], which is built for Imperial Guard assault troops (they have assault troops in the Imperial Guard?!?) and officers. A laspistol can be made in many different ways ranging from your standard factory-built for your typical IG squad sergeant to ornately crafted ones for Governor Generals and can be easily stored in a holster or in a coat pocket. | ||
Virtually all [[Imperial Guard]] officers ( | Virtually all [[Imperial Guard]] officers (aside from [[Commissar]]s, who generally prefer [[Bolt Pistol]]s), combat personnel, and assault troops who can't get access to shinier bits like [[plasma]] or [[Bolter|bolt]] pistols will pretty much be armed with this pistol since it's fuckeasy to make, maintain, use, and die with. Expecially the latter. The laspistol lacks the range of the lasgun but when in range it has the same effect as the lasgun so basically if the Lasgun is a flash light, the Laspistol is your pocket light. | ||
But this is all a big fat lie - ''real'' Imperial Guard assault troops, like [[Krieg]] combat engineers, prefer shotguns to laspistols, because they do not hold illusions about their close combat capabilities. And because a boomstick is fucking manly weapon, approved by | But this is all a big fat lie - ''real'' Imperial Guard assault troops, like [[Krieg]] combat engineers, prefer shotguns to laspistols, because they do not hold illusions about their close combat capabilities. And because a boomstick is a fucking manly weapon, approved by [[Straken|Colonel "I kick Chaos Terminators in the balls for fun" Straken]]. | ||
Of course, like the lasgun, a laspistol is quite capable of shooting through (at least) ten feet of modern-day concrete in one shot and dealing a similar amount of damage as a high velocity 30mm armor piercing shell (which is to say it pops people like water balloons). Unfortunately, the power of a modern day anti-materiel rifle isn't very impressive in 40k because flak armour makes reinforced concrete look like a soggy piece of paper smeared with dog shit. | Of course, like the lasgun, a laspistol is quite capable of shooting through (at least) ten feet of modern-day concrete in one shot and dealing a similar amount of damage as a high velocity 30mm armor piercing shell (which is to say it pops people like water balloons). Unfortunately, the power of a modern day anti-materiel rifle isn't very impressive in 40k because flak armour makes reinforced concrete look like a soggy piece of paper smeared with dog shit. | ||
Revision as of 09:56, 26 June 2013
The 'Laspistol' is the pistol-sized variant of the Lasgun, which is built for Imperial Guard assault troops (they have assault troops in the Imperial Guard?!?) and officers. A laspistol can be made in many different ways ranging from your standard factory-built for your typical IG squad sergeant to ornately crafted ones for Governor Generals and can be easily stored in a holster or in a coat pocket.
Virtually all Imperial Guard officers (aside from Commissars, who generally prefer Bolt Pistols), combat personnel, and assault troops who can't get access to shinier bits like plasma or bolt pistols will pretty much be armed with this pistol since it's fuckeasy to make, maintain, use, and die with. Expecially the latter. The laspistol lacks the range of the lasgun but when in range it has the same effect as the lasgun so basically if the Lasgun is a flash light, the Laspistol is your pocket light.
But this is all a big fat lie - real Imperial Guard assault troops, like Krieg combat engineers, prefer shotguns to laspistols, because they do not hold illusions about their close combat capabilities. And because a boomstick is a fucking manly weapon, approved by Colonel "I kick Chaos Terminators in the balls for fun" Straken.
Of course, like the lasgun, a laspistol is quite capable of shooting through (at least) ten feet of modern-day concrete in one shot and dealing a similar amount of damage as a high velocity 30mm armor piercing shell (which is to say it pops people like water balloons). Unfortunately, the power of a modern day anti-materiel rifle isn't very impressive in 40k because flak armour makes reinforced concrete look like a soggy piece of paper smeared with dog shit.
So remember, the pistol is actually very powerful by our standards, it's just that it's in a setting where the standards are guns loaded with miniature rockets for ammunition, lightweight guns that fire super-heated bolts of energy capable of penetrating heavy armor as if it were wet tissue paper, guns capable of disintegrating anything that it's fired at, literally recoiless guns that are capable of sending out a flurry of jagged disks capable of severing limbs, or somewhere along those lines.
See Also
- Commissar - The famous users of the
laspistolBolt pistol, which they use to motivate their troops. - Lasgun - Laspistol's mommy.
- Multilaser- Laspistol's big bro.