Editing Twin-Linked (section)

==In Game Terms==

When trying to hit a target, you can reroll if you miss. This is useful especially if you are using a weapon that [[Plasma|has a good chance of melting your face off rather than firing]], as it means that if you get a Gets Hot! result you can reroll, though template Gets Hot! weapons roll for it before resolving scatter, [[Leman Russ Battle Tank#Leman Russ Executioner|so don't put too much faith in plasma cannons]]. Weapons that scatter reroll an undesirable result if they are twin-linked as well. This can be exploited to allow you to reroll ordnance (for example, coupling a [[Necron|Triarch Stalker with a Doomsday Ark]]).  

This, however, resulted in a rather odd display of mechanics over common sense: if you hit with your first shot, rolling the second bullet would cause it to just disappear into the warp itself. This made twinlinking always flatly worse than just having a second shot: Two of the same gun have the same odds to get at least one shot, but the two guns have a chance to score a hit and wound with the second shot.

===8th edition===
Twin-linked no longer gives you a reroll - in an incredible display of common sense, [[Games Workshop|our overlords]] have decided that a twin-linked autocannon is simply two autocannons duct taped together, and twin-linked weapons now give you twice as many shots as a non twin-linked weapon.

Aside from the logical improvement to its advantages, since the additional shots now actually go somewhere (they can all hit the target), it also logically makes twin-linked plasma weapons more likely to melt your own face, instead of less likely. Which really does make sense.

=== 10th edition ===
...and now we're back to them simply granting a re-roll to hit, while good for mechanics (as GW had issues balancing the 8th and 9th edition style), it once again makes them [[Derp|the most inaccurate weapons in the game]]. [[Matt Ward|Plus a number of the new Marine guns previewed still get the two shots, most notably the Land Raider's Twin-Linked Lascannons]].

Why GW doesn't just take [[Age of Sigmar|AoS']] notes for once and have twin-linked weapons proc an additional hit on a natural 6 eludes even /tg/'s greatest minds.