Editing Melta (section)

===Thermal Lance===
[[File:ThermalLancePlaceholder.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Thermal Lance (''Placeholder'')]]
This is a weapon to choose when you want your Multi-Melta to be more precise, no matter the cost.

The Thermal Lance is a rare weapon, nearly as large as a standard Multi-Melta, though they both weigh about just the same. This one, however, fires a more accurate and directed heat beam using a much longer barrel with added directional containment beams to reduce dispersal, at the cost of lowered damage to the target compared to what the similarly-sized Multi-Melta can achieve (but logically the damaged is focused into a smaller location, which would significantly increase penetration). So what does this tell us about its appearance to imagine? The main barrel is explicitly stated to be longer, and that's definitely not something you see every day on a Meltagun. The presence of directional containment beams, which probably serve to do exactly what it says on the tin, likely suggests that there are additional smaller barrels which fire them. Since it's plural, we can be certain that there are at least two directional containment beams to keep the heat beam linearly together. Battlefield applications for the Thermal Lance is unknown, but for its pitiful range comparable to that of the Inferno Pistol, whatever that carries the weapon must be big and thrives in one-on-one close quarters combat. The big guy that carries this weapon is likely to be more of a "hunter" type since accurate beams allow for targeted strikes which isn't something you can just do with the regular, spread-out Meltagun.

All in all, the Thermal Lance is an alternative to a Multi-Melta for when what you want is a rifle with a range of a SMG and not a shotgun.
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| Heavy
| 10m
| S/–/–
| 2d10 + 10E
| 12
| 2
| 2 Full
| Accurate
| 40
| Rare
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