Editing Plasma (section)

===Plasma Rifle===
[[File:PlasmaRifleProfile.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Plasma Rifle]]
Before 9th edition, the Plasma Rifle was essentially a Plasma Gun with its safety engaged. If players wanted their "Plasma" weapon that does blow up like a Plasma should with the reward of extra strength and wounds accompanying the dakka, check out their Ion arsenal below.

Indeed, the Plasma Rifle is the Plasma Gun equivalent for the [[Battlesuit]]s. The only difference it has to our usual Plasma Gun is that this thing is actually safe, relatively speaking, which translates to a smaller volume of shots compared to the Plasma weaponry of their oppositions. In practice, this is the only Plasma proper weapon widely available to the Tau since their Plasma Cannon below were in its field-testing stage by the time of the Taros Campaign. It seems the Earth Caste has been busy lately incorporating the lessons learned from building their own plasma cannons into the humble plasma rifle, updating it into one of the most potent plasma weapons for its size.

For the [[XV-8 Crisis Battlesuit|XV8 Crisis Battlesuit]], the Plasma Rifle is available as a primary weapon option and it packs a wallop! Sure it only kicks out one shot, but that one shot now has a 30" range and when it hits? It's a one-hit TEQ kill: S8 AP-4 D3. A couple of Plasma Rifles may be installed instead of the [[Smart Missile System]] over the shoulder of the [[XV88 Broadside Battlesuit]] – the same can be said for the [[XV104 Riptide Battlesuit]] as well. Commander Longknife also has his own experimental variant to complement the experimental Battlesuit, and his comes with two barrels. Commander Farsight also has a "High-intensity" plasma rifle, differentiating himself from the other Battlesuits.

The High-intensity Plasma Rifle is a much better variant overall, powerful, with the same range as the Plasma Incinerator as well.
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PlasmaRifleCrisis.jpg|<center>XV8 Crisis</center>
PlasmaRifleBroadside.jpg|<center>XV88 Broadside</center>
PlasmaRifleRiptide.jpg|<center>XV104 Riptide</center>
PlasmaRifleFarsightFront.jpg|<center>''[[Farsight]]'s''</center>
PlasmaRifleFarsightBack.jpg|<center>''[[Farsight]]'s''</center>
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DoubleBarreledPlasmaRifleBack.jpg|<center>''Longknife's''</center>
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