Editing Bolter (section)

===Heavy Bolter===
[[image:593245-heavy bolter large.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Heavy Bolter]]
The heavy machine gun variation of the Bolter ejects even bigger casings containing bolts with heavier, armor-piercing tips, and nearly double the range of the standard breed. Naturally, this kind of advantage usually translates to how the weapon can cut through infantry with horrifying ease, and it remains a "must have" weapon when facing mass-based armies such as Orks or Tyranids, or the Imperial Guard if you or your opponent are not playing home team on the God-Emperor's side. Sadly, the Heavy Bolter is so big that it takes two people to transport and operate; one if the person wears a Power Armour. In normal circumstances, it cannot be fired on the move – unless you are the Imperial Guard [[Gunnery Sergeant "Stonetooth" Harker|Gunnery Sergeant Harker]] or you take the proper bad ass talents in Dark Heresy, in which case you can because you are concentrated manliness of such a degree that you make your whole squad fearless in the process.

Heavy Bolters are usually seen on vehicles if not carried around by heavy weapons teams that do deploy them. The [[Imperial Guard]] requires two people to use one of them as mentioned. [[Space Marines]] carry them around with ease, usually by [[Devastator Squad]]s, and Sternguard Veterans if they fancy it. By merit of wearing Power Armour, a [[Sisters of Battle|Sister of Battle]] is also capable of carrying one by herself, specifically Retributors. The forces of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] are known for modding a few of their [[Servitor|Servitors]] for the sole purpose of carrying and firing a Heavy Bolter, presumably so the Tech-Priest can get some fucking work done while a bunch of [[Orks]] are screaming and brandishing pointed sticks in their general direction. Special recognition goes to the [[Leman Russ Battle Tank]] for mounting ''three'' of these fucking things in most configurations. If you want to [[FATAL|rape]] an entire squad of infantry, accept no substitutes save perhaps a [[Baneblade]] – or a [[Dakka|Leman Russ Punisher]].

In fluff terms, the Heavy Bolter uses a 1.00 (25.4mm wide) caliber round as opposed to the regular Bolter's 0.75 caliber, allowing it to tear through all but the most heavily-armored of targets. It also attains a higher rate of fire than standard-sized Boltguns, and so it commonly comes with a large ammunition feed such as large box and drum magazines, or the large backpack-mounted feed belts used by Space Marines. This allows for sustained fire, although it can still feed from free-hanging ammo belts, as commonly utilized by Chaos Space Marines. As stated above, the weapon is massive, requiring either a vehicle, two human operators, or a super soldier to carry. Thus, the operator(s) commonly have to entrench themselves before firing the weapon in order to control and accurately fire the weapon. To give you an understanding of just how deadly a Heavy Bolter can be, consider that a .25 inch difference in terms of caliber is pretty enormous. The relationship between the radius and volume of a cylinder is proportional to the <s>cube</s> square (x²) of the radius rather than linear. A 1.00 caliber round would have almost twice the volume (and mass) of a 0.75 caliber round if it was the same length; on top of that, Heavy Bolter shells are also proportionally longer, judging by the size of the ammunition feed chute. And of course, volume is extremely important when it comes to determining the power of an explosive.

Worthy of special note are the Hellfire Rounds which may be fired from this weapon by Space Marine Scouts. It is a poisoned (2+), blast shell – particularly useful against Tyranid Biomorphs or simply blob armies in general.

There is also a supposedly better Heavy Bolter Pattern existing only within the Cult Mechanicus. The '''Knight Pattern Heavy Bolter''' is only mounted on Knight Titan chassis, and it is somehow designed to more effectively combat vehicles, monstrous creatures, and heavy walkers. How this is accomplished is uncertain, but it was apparently more suited to the task than the Imperial Autocannon. Supposedly two of these weapons can equal the power of a Vulcan Mega Bolter, which probably puts these Bolters soundly at a Vulkan stat-line, though only Heavy 6. Too bad we will never know, because Games Workshop hates Knights – but not anymore due to the new knights being released in plastic ERMAHGERD.

We can, however, infer that it is not the weapon itself but the ammunition used that makes it so devastating. That is how bolters work, after all. It most likely uses flux-core heavy bolt shells with a vastly superior explosive (and maybe better propellant or even an actual jet engine). There ''is'' a special ammunition type for bolters that is flux-cored. Basically it acts like Necron Gauss weapons except the power field surrounds the shell. It laughs at terminator armor (in fluff, anyway). This might also explain why it is only on Knights. That ammo is freakishly expensive (obviously) and the Mechanicus would sure as hell not want it to be wasted. That, and they probably can't mass produce it very well.

Two more variants were unveiled by Cawl to be used in Heavy Intercessor squads. As discussed previously in the Bolt Rifle section, one in every five Heavy Intercessors can get a corresponding Heavy Bolter variant. Standard Heavy Bolt Rifle squads can get normal Heavy Bolters, Hellstorm Bolt Rifle squads can get '''Hellstorm Heavy Bolters''' (which fire faster with lesser armor piercing) and Executor Bolt Rifle squads get '''Executor Heavy Bolters''' (which fires slower but has better armor piercing and damage characteristics).
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CadianHeavyBolter.jpg|<center>Cadian</center>
CatachanHeavyBolter.jpg|<center>Catachan</center>
HeavyBolterKrieg.jpg|<center>Krieg</center>
HeavyBolterSergeantHarker.jpg|<center>''[[Gunnery Sergeant "Stonetooth" Harker|Gunnery Sergeant Harker]]''</center>
HeavyBolterServitor.jpg|<center>Servitor</center>
HeavyBolterSisterOfBattle.jpg|<center>Sister of Battle</center>
HeavyBolterScout.jpg|<center>Astartes Scout</center>
DevastatorHeavyBolter.png|<center>Devastator Marine</center>
HeavyBolterSternguard.jpg|<center>Sternguard Variant</center>
MarineHeavyBolter.jpg|<center>Sternguard Variant</center>
HeavyBolterLegion.jpg|<center>Legion Model</center>
HeavyBolterLegion2.jpg|<center>Legion Variant</center>
HeavyBolterMarsPattern.jpg|<center>Mars Pattern</center>
HeavyBolterCenturionDevastator.jpg|<center>Centurion Devastator</center>
HeavyBolterContemptor.jpg|<center>Contemptor Dreadnought</center>
HeavyBolterAttackBike.jpg|<center>Attack Bike</center>
HeavyBolterLandSpeeder.jpg|<center>Land Speeder</center>
HeavyBolterLandSpeederStorm.jpg|<center>Land Speeder Storm</center>
HeavyBolterLandSpeederVengeance.jpg|<center>Land Speeder Vengeance</center>
HeavyBolterDarkshroud.jpg|<center>Darkshroud</center>
HeavyBolterProteusLandRaider.jpg|<center>Proteus Land Speeder</center>
HeavyBolterRapier.jpg|<center>Rapier</center>
HeavyBolterRapierBack.jpg|<center>Rapier (''Back'')</center>
HeavyBolterTarantula.jpg|<center>Tarantula Turret</center>
HeavyBolterGenericFront.jpg|<center>Vehicle Hull</center>
HeavyBolterLemanRussFront.jpg|<center>Leman Russ Hull</center>
HeavyBolterLemanRussSide.jpg|<center>Leman Russ Sponson</center>
HeavyBolterBanebladeFront.jpg|<center>Baneblade Hull</center>
HeavyBolterBanebladeSide.jpg|<center>Baneblade Sponson</center>
HeavyBolterShadowsword.jpg|<center>Shadowsword Hull</center>
HeavyBolterPintleLegion.jpg|<center>Legion Pintle</center>
HeavyBolterRazorback.jpg|<center>Razorback</center>
HeavyBolterPredatorSponson.jpg|<center>Predator Sponson</center>
HeavyBolterSicaran.jpg|<center>Sicaran Sponson</center>
HeavyBolterSicaranVenator.jpg|<center>Sicaran Pintle</center>
HeavyBolterLandRaiderFront.jpg|<center>Land Raider</center>
HeavyBolterLandRaiderMkIIbFront.jpg|<center>Land Raider MKIIB</center>
HeavyBolterLandRaiderPrometheus.jpg|<center>Land Raider Prometheus</center>
KnightHeavyBolter.png|<center>Cerastus Knight-Acheron</center>
HeavyBolterValkyrie.jpg|<center>Valkyrie</center>
HeavyBolterVulture.jpg|<center>Vulture</center>
HeavyBolterMarauderDorsal.jpg|<center>Marauder Dorsal</center>
HeavyBolterMarauderRear.jpg|<center>Marauder Rear</center>
HeavyBolterStormTalonHawk.jpg|<center>Storm Talon/Hawk</center>
HeavyBolterNephilimJetfighter.jpg|<center>Nephilim Jet Fighter</center>
HeavyBolterStormwolfFang.jpg|<center>Stormwolf/fang</center>
HeavyBolterFireRaptor.jpg|<center>Fire Raptor</center>
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====''Redemption of St. Sulech''====
[[image:DeathwatchHeavyBolterEmblem.jpg|250px|thumb|right|''Redemption of St. Sulech'' (''Placeholder'')]]
No, a Space Marine wasn't made into a saint during the making of this Heavy Bolter.

The story goes like this. There was this isolated colony called St. Sulech, and a Deathwatch Kill-team was sent on an errand to probably do some xeno-bloody business on that planet. As they were about to extract and complete their mission, St. Sulech was attacked by an Ork raiding force. Of course, that Kill-team could have carried on with their usual business and gone home, but that wouldn't be heroic and interesting now, would it? For the Kill-team's part, they chose to defend from an Imperial shrine. Brother Frosius, a Devastator Marine from the Imperial Fists Chapter and presumably the squad leader, deployed in the highest tower with his favored Heavy Bolter, while the others of his team remained below, bearing the blunt of the green onslaught when they finally got to CQC range. Thanks to the devastating bursts of accurate fire from the tower, the Orks were defeated, but not without the loss of the rest of the Kill-team. Upon his return to Erioch, Frosius was severely censured for the decision to stay and fight. Four out of five Space Marines died defending a remote, unremarkable colony. On the other hand, like a true son of Dorn, Frosius chose to stand against the enemies of Mankind. To this day, his Heavy Bolter remains a symbol of honor, but also a disregard for orders.

Because of this, the Space Marine who gets to carry ''Redemption of St. Sulech'' shouldn't be the squad leader, unless he wants to put the team's cohesion to the test.
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| Heavy
| 160m
| –/–/12
| 2d10 + 12X
| 6
| 60
| Full
| Tearing
| 68
| 40
| Famed
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