Editing Bolter (section)

===Bolt Rifle===
[[File:Bolt_Rifle.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Bolt Rifle]]
There is a [[Primaris Marines|new type of Space Marine]], and with them comes a new type of Bolter which only they get to use too. The '''Mark II Cawl-pattern Bolt Rifle''' looks like an extended-out Bolter and operates somewhere in between a Bolter and Heavy Bolter in effectiveness, with the same fire rate and strength as a normal Bolter, but greater range and armor piercing capabilities.

Re-engineered, re-crafted, and perfected, the Bolt Rifles are proof that when the Mechanicus get off their asses and actually try to create something (or when you have an Archmagos with highly unorthodox ideas about innovation working directly for you to bypass such pesky matters), sometimes they can improve upon a classic. However, looking at the profile for the thing, a long in the tooth space marine player might think "'''''Hang on, isn't that, like, Kraken rounds?'''''" Well, yes; as you may recall from above, the Special Issue Ammunition for Sternguard Veterans has been replaced with Special Issue Bolters, which have a static AP-2 but lack the increased range. The Deathwatch still gets Special Issue Ammunition, though, for your information. And yes, Kraken Bolts work just like Bolt Rifles. Moving on; since the Astartes Bolter can be compared to our assault rifle, then the Bolt Rifle here should be comparable to our battle rifle which essentially fires bigger cartridges compared to its assault counterpart. Since the Astartes Bolter has around ten thousand years to prove that its sizes are perfect for Space Marines, the Bolt Rifle wouldn't be able to find its way to their armouries; you know, it should be able do more than that to be worth the increased size that is probably at about the same weight as a Storm Bolter.

Two variants of the Bolt Rifle design exist: the '''Auto Bolt Rifle''', designed for a greater fire rate at the expense of range; the '''Stalker Bolt Rifle''', which has a slower rate of fire, but possesses better range and armor piercing capabilities. The Stalker Bolt Rifle can be identified by its different scope model, as well as a straight magazine instead of sickle. The Auto Bolt Rifle is even easier to identify since what you will be looking for is a distinctive drum magazine. Another distinctiveness it has is a cylinder mounted on the place where a scope would be. It is interesting to note that this component in particular looks rather identical to the energy source used by the Plasma weaponry of the Primaris Space Marines. On the other hand, this cylindrical part can also be found on the Assault Bolter. With this, we can conclude that in exchange of having a scope, the Auto Bolt Rifle is equipped with a high-speed autoloader in order to sustain a higher rate of fire fitting the "Auto" designation.

Incidentally, calling this Bolter a "rifle" implies that all other Astartes Bolters are Carbines, which given how short and stubby Firstborn Boltguns are compared to Primaris Bolters (plus the wide variety of patterns) isn't that much of a reach: Firstborn boltguns could have had their barrels shortened for ergonomics and because recoil/aim isn't that much of a problem when you're wearing [[Power Armor]] that has its own targeting HUD. Conversely, some also take it to mean that Bolters are [[Wikipedia:Smoothbore|smooth bores]] by default (which is not unheard of for rocket weapons which can spin via fin's or thrust vectoring, or tank shells, since the spin fucks up the penetration of HEAT shells), but that's just semantics: pretty much every solid slug weapon is rifled anyway, with the "rifle" distinction being more about grip, design, and role rather than ballistics.

Three more variants were unveiled by Cawl and were placed in use with the [[Intercessor#Heavy_Intercessors|Heavy Intercessors]] who use [[Power_Armour#Gravis|Gravis armor]], all three corresponding to a heavy variant of the standard Bolt Rifle variants. The '''Heavy Bolt Rifle''', which fires Heavy Bolter shells with lesser damage, the '''Hellstorm Bolt Rifle''' (corresponding to the Auto Bolt Rifle) which fires Heavy Bolter grade shells with less armor piercing and less damage at a high rate of fire and the '''Executor Bolt Rifle''' (corresponding to the Stalker Bolt Rifle) which fires Heavy Bolter grade shells with better armor piercing and higher damage but with a lower rate of fire. Heavy Intercessors can take corresponding Heavy variants of these weapons (a squad has one variant and one in five Astartes can get the big guns), but these will be discussed in the Heavy Bolter section below.

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