Editing Tesla (section)

== Warhammer 40,000 == 

For the fifth edition [[Codex]]: [[Necrons]], [[Games Workshop]] decided that the Necrons' iconic weapon, the [[gauss flayer]] (and its bigger brothers, the blaster, cannon, heavy cannon, and flux arc), needed some [[nerf]]ing. Being able to automatically wound any infantry target on a six ''and'' automatically deal a glancing hit to a vehicle on a six was too much. If the Necron rule development team knew that [[6th edition (Warhammer 40,000)|6th edition]] would include "hull points" that would cause vehicles to be wrecked after a certain number of hits (regardless of the results of rolls on the damage table), that was probably also a factor. The gauss rule's auto-glance property was retained, and the anti-light infantry effectiveness was moved to the Necrons' new ''tesla'' weapons, horde-killing assault guns that fire off high-strength bolts of lightning that ground themselves on the enemy. Their gimmick is that each to-hit roll of six grants two additional automatic hits on the same unit. Like Gauss weapons only ''kinda'' insta-gib vehicles, these weapons only ''sometimes'' insta-gib infantry. It does however make Snap Firing (like at Flyers or from Stunned vehicles) a right pain for your enemy, doubly so if the weapon is twin-linked.

They are similar to the Imperium's [[Arc Weaponry|Arc guns]], but more advance and filled with more esoteric [[Bullshit|bullshit.]]

===Tesla Carbine===
[[File:Tesla_Carbine.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Tesla Carbine]]
A Tesla Carbine is a form of Necron Tesla Weapon that unleashes a bolt of living viridian lightning that crackles from foe to foe after hitting its target, charring flesh and melting armor. Tesla bolts feed off the energy released by the destruction, and the lightning discharge becomes more furious with every fresh arc, moving as if it had a mind of its own. In some cases, these energetic projectiles have even been observed to crack ceramite and plasteel.

[[Derp|Somehow,]] the Imperium still remembers the name of Nikola Tesla (or the term of "Tesla coil" just stuck around that long), thus they named these weapons after him. A Tesla Carbine is the smallest form of Tesla Weapon, and its "rifle" (the damn thing is as big as the wielder!) size makes it easily portable.

A unit of [[Necron Immortal|Immortals]] or [[Tomb Blade]]s can choose to use Tesla Carbines instead of [[Gauss blaster]]s, sacrificing the Gauss rule and 4+ armor-piercing ability for the chance to land extra hits.

===Tesla Cannon===
[[File:Tesla_Cannon.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Tesla Cannon]]
The Tesla Carbine's [[Lascannon]].

Like its smaller brethren, the Tesla Cannon is a form of Necron Tesla Weapon that unleashes a large bolt of living viridian lightning that crackles from foe to foe after hitting its target, charring flesh and melting armor. Tesla bolts feed off the energy released by the destruction, and the lightning discharge becomes more furious with every fresh arc, moving as if it had a mind of its own. In some cases, these energetic projectiles have even been observed to crack ceramite and plasteel.

A Tesla Cannon is a large Tesla Weapon that is like a Tesla Carbine with another point of strength and twice as many shots. It is found underneath a [[Annihilation Barge]]s and [[Catacomb Command Barge]]s operators' pedals and acts as a secondary weapon. [[Tesseract Ark|Tesseract Arks]] are also able to mount two Tesla Cannons as secondary weapon systems for twice the [[Rape|rapey]] power.

Tesla Cannons are powerful weapons that are most effective against infantry squads and light vehicles.
 
===Tesla Destructor===
[[File:Tesla_Destructor.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Tesla Destructor]]
Like its smaller brethren, the Tesla Destructor is a form of Necron Tesla Weapon that unleashes a heavy blast of living viridian lightning that crackles from foe to foe after hitting its target, charring flesh and melting armor. Tesla bolts feed off the energy released by the destruction, and the lightning discharge becomes more furious with every fresh arc, moving as if it had a mind of its own. In some cases, these energetic projectiles have even been observed to crack ceramite and plasteel.

A Tesla Destructor is the largest known type of Tesla Weapon, and such is the shocking rapidity of its fire that the lightning unleashed is capable of leaping from target to target so quickly that they are unable to ground themselves. A single direct hit from a Tesla Destructor might incapacitate an entire squad, leaving a trail of smouldering carnage across a broad swathe of the battlefield behind them. Due to a Tesla Destructor's large size, it is most commonly found mounted on vehicular platforms

The Tesla Destructor is again, another point of strength and twice as many shots compared to the Tesla Cannon. The [[Annihilation Barge]], [[Night Scythe]], and [[Doom Scythe]] all mount a twin-linked set of them for vaporizing infantry blobs.

=== Tesla Sphere ===

[[File:Tesla_Sphere.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Tesla Sphere]]

A Tesla Sphere is a form of Necron Tesla Weapon that unleashes a bolt of living lightning that crackles from foe to foe after hitting its target, charring flesh and melting armour. A Tesla Sphere is an arcane Tesla Weapon only found mounted on Necron [[Obelisk|Obelisks.]] 

Each Obelisk will be armed with four such weapons around its hull capable of defending it against anything that enters the airspace around the war machine. Tesla Spheres have an extremely high rate of fire, even more so than a Tesla Destructor, and possess a similar range and degree of power output per shot to most other large Tesla Weapons.

Tesla bolts feed off the energy released by the destruction, and the lightning discharge becomes more furious with every fresh arc, almost as if moving with a mind of its own.

Also as of the Skitarii Codex the Adeptus Mechanicus is heavily implied to have Nikola Tesla's preserved skull which they occasionally carry into battle to [[Wat|shoot lightning out of]] ([[Derp|despite the fact that Nikola Tesla was cremated and his ashes put into a gold plated sphere]]).

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