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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]], [[Eldar]] and [[Necrons]] also employ their own variants. Think of infrared ovens IN SPACE, infused with extra [[RAGE]], and shot out: using a tremendous amount of infrared light to [[rage|super-agitate]] the target that it heats up to the point where it's hot enough to melt anything from power-armor to super-heavy tank armor.
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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, but on the gripping hand, Plasma weapons allow your troops some breathing room since they can be used at medium range so your troops aren't always at the risk of being murdered in CQC or a nearby gunline after they fire off their guns in one turn.
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| 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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| Depictions of melta weapons firing have been spotty in the face of publications and vidya gaems. In several publications and [[Dawn of War]]: Soulstorm, melta weapons fire a constant stream, like a laser-flame thrower. But in the [[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine|Space Marine video game]] they're essentially shot-guns, and the [[Dawn of War II]] series have melta weapons firing a single blue/purple beam while Dark Crusade uses discrete blobs of melt.
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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]], [[Blood Angels]] 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 (with even less range than the famous Bruce Lee one-inch punch). 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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| With their latest codex the Inferno Pistol is now at home with the [[Blood Angels]] and available to a variety of their assault specialized units.
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| ===Meltagun===
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| [[File:Meltagun.png|200px|thumb|right|The ubiquitous meltagun, one of GW's [[Butthurt|only]] [[Awesome|original ideas]]. Though forms of suspiciously similar real-life microwave-based weaponry predate WH40K by at least two decades.]]
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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, Special Weapon Squads of [[Imperial Guard]]smen can take three, basic Sisters of Battle can take two and Sororitas Dominions can take up to four.
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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:Meltablast.jpg|350px|thumb|left|There is no better kill lthan overkill]]
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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 absolutely rapetastic statline - it's S10 AP1 10" (yes, TEN inches) blast that always roll extra D6 on partials and 2D6 on direct hits, and due to being primary weapon it also allow you to reroll primary to-pen dice. The only two downsides are its mediocre (for a titan) range and lack of ignores cover, which is silly, because fluff-wise this thing would melt through any wall and bunker like it was made of butter, not to mention some silly ruins and trees.
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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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| {{Template:40k-Imperial-Weapons}}
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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.
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| {{Template:40k-Eldar-Weapons}}
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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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| {{Template:40k-DEldar-Weapons}}
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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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| == Necron Melta Weapons ==
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| Yep that's right, even the Crons have Melta-Weapons in the form of the Heat Ray that can be used either as a focused beam (two shots at STR8 AP1) or as a heavy flamer (AP4 STR5) is used exclusively by the [[Triarch Stalker]], and the short-ranged but very destructive Heat Cannon used by Sentry Pylons
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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 and multimelta). It's always mounted on battlesuits or vehicles.
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| === Fusion Collider ===
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| A nice new toy for the nice new XV-95 Ghostkeel suit, the Fusion Collider is functionally a Fusion Blaster with a Blast template allowing it to destroy tightly packed TEQ's and 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 <s>twin-linked</s> with two shots (though each of them counts as separate weapon, so no move and shoot both).
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| === Fusion Eradicator ===
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| While humans made their titan-sized metla cannons having huge blasts, Tau went the different way and basically created gatling-multimelta, capable of evaporating any single target in a torrent of heat, and mounted it on Ta'unar Supremay Suit. They have yet to figure out how to make it more reliable, as in a current state it wears of so quickly the whole weapon system should be replaced after each battle, and it's not a cheap thing, but as Imperial Knights lead Imperium's counter-attack to retake Damocles Gulf, a weapon, capable of reliably one-shoting them is worth any price.
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| [[Category:Warhammer 40,000]][[Category:Imperial]][[Category:Chaos]][[Category:Eldar]][[Category:Tau]][[Category:Dark Eldar]]
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