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| Melta weapons are a type of anti-armor weapon used widely by the forces of the [[Imperium]] and [[Chaos]], the [[Tau]] and [[Eldar]] also employ their own variants. Melta weapons work by [[rage|super-agitating]] the air around it's barrel at a sub-atomic level that it heats up to the point where it's hot enough to melt anything (From power-armor to super-heavy tank armor) and shot out. Think of microwave oven crossed with flamethrower crossed with a cutting torch.
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| The problem with melta-based weapons is that due to the super-high energy consumption and heat generation, it's only usable at short range. In comparison to the equally useful [[Plasma]]-based guns, Meltas are a lot stronger but have a much shorter range, but then again Meltas don't explode in your face on a bad roll. Though suited towards tank hunting, the Melta-based guns are good weapons for all-around attack, defense and infiltration, though it falls short in terms of range. Infiltration with this can [[Butthurt|take vehicles out of the fight before they even have a chance to fire their weapon]]...[[Vance Motherfucking Stubbs|is that how the baneblades were lost?]]
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| ==Imperial Melta Weapons==
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| ===Inferno Pistol===
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| The '''Inferno Pistol''' is a rare pistol-sized melta weapon. Only the [[Ordo Hereticus]] and [[Sisters of Battle]] get to use them. Their range is so short that you would have more opportunities to perform a [[Adeptus Orthodontus|root canal]] on your enemy in the middle of battle than use them. Still, those [[Hats|big-hatted pastors]] love nothing more than the look on your face when they one-shot your Leman Russ. [[Blood Angels]] and their successors have a variant called the '''Infernus Pistol'''. [[Sanguinius]] used one in combination with his [[Power weapon|Power Sword]] for close combat, and [[Dante]] currently wields an Artificer Infernus Pistol known as the Perdition Pistol.
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| ===Meltagun===
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| [[File:Meltagun.png|200px|thumb|right|The ubiquitous meltagun, <s>one of GW's [[Butthurt|only]] [[Awesome|original ideas]].</s> Read The War of the Worlds, this thing is a heat ray.]]
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| The '''meltagun''' is the standard armor-breaching "special weapon" available to Imperial armies -- Tactical Squads of [[Space Marines]] can take one, and Special Weapon Squads of [[Imperial Guard]]smen can take three.
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| ===Multi-Melta===
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| The '''multi-melta''' is essentially two meltaguns strapped together and supercharged, and in game terms only doubles the (already sucky) range and makes it a heavy weapon. This thing is still beastly and tears apart single targets, vehicles or otherwise, but are so huge that only [[Space Marines]] and the [[Sisters of Battle]] can lift and move them by hand. It should be noted that Sisters of Battle love Melta weapons and, if given the chance, would only ever carry these things and [[Flamer|Flamers]].
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| === Melta Bomb ===
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| For millennia, the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] hypothesized that there was a melta weapon with even less range than the meltagun, and sure enough, one day they found the melta bomb [[STC]] printout. Melta bombs are land-mine-sized fusion charges used to destroy enemy vehicles and fortifications; because they have to be placed next to the target to be effective, they are mostly given to assault units who will get up close and personal with the enemy on a regular basis.
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| ===Melta Cannon===
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| [[File:Melta_Cannon.jpg|200px|thumb|left|You are about to have a very bad day.]]
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| The [[Imperial Guard]] felt left out, and decided to strap two Multi-Meltas together and show up the Sisters by making the '''Melta Cannon''', an EKS BAWKS HUEG Melta weapon strapped to the Devil Dog variant of the [[Hellhound]] tank. This thing dumps small blasts worth of Multi-Melta statline upon anything it deems unlucky today, and is one of the best ways of dealing with [[Terminator|Terminators]]. [[Titans (Warhammer 40,000)|Titans]] get an even bigger Melta Cannon with longer range and a bigger blast.
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| ===Magna-Melta===
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| The '''magna-melta''' is the [[Caestus Assault Ram]]'s main ranged weapon. It is primarily intended for cutting through spaceship hulls to deposit its boarding crew inside, though it turns out to vaporize soldiers just fine on the ground.
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| ===Melta-Cutter===
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| The [[Death Korps of Krieg]]'s [[Hades Breaching Drill]] uses a melta-drill to dig through the ground. This '''melta-cutter''' is also extremely effective at liquifying units above ground.
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| == Eldar Melta Weapons ==
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| [[Eldar]] employ the use of Fusion Guns, Fusion Pistols and Fire Pikes. These things are like more snipery versions of Meltaguns, Inferno Pistols and Multi-Meltas respectively. Unlike the Sisters of Battle, these usually come stardard and in full-squad compliment. These things are also a great way for Fire Dragons to compensate.
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| == Dark Eldar Melta Weapons ==
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| [[Dark Eldar]] have the Heat Lance, a weapon that takes the best of the Lance and Melta weapons to obliterate any vehicle that gets too close.
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| == Ork Melta Weapons ==
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| [[Ork]] [[Psyker|Weirdboyz]] who have cheating dice rolls can throw a melty lightning blast capable of vaporizing Land Raiders.
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| == Tau Melta Weapons ==
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| === Fusion Blaster ===
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| The primary [[Tau]] melta weapon is the '''fusion blaster''', the equivalent of the Imperial meltagun, only with higher range (think middle point in between of regular meltagun adn multimelta). It's always mounted on battlesuits or vehicles.
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| === Fusion Cascade ===
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| The close-quarters-focused XV-9 Hazard [[Battlesuit]] can also take a '''fusion cascade''', which is capable of a higher rate of fire (it's Assault D3 instead of 1), at the cost of reduced strength (S6 instead of 8), though it is still as capable of penetrating armor as a regular Melta.
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| === Fusion Cannon ===
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| [[Forge World]] produces a variant turret for the [[Hammerhead Gunship]] that mounts a twin-linked '''fusion cannon''', which is the equivalent of the [[Devil Dog]]'s Melta Cannon (i.e. a melta pie-plate) but twin-linked.
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