Flamer

The Flamer is a short-ranged support weapon employed by nearly all of the races of the WH40K universe.

Overview

The flamer is a weapon that sprays an area with extremely flammable liquid/gas, burning anything in front of it. Now apart from the varying degrees of burns you'll receive when you're in the business end of one, your squad won't really be motivated when they see a giant firewave of painful and slow death and see that the rest of them are experiencing said pain and death so they'll probably run for it.......unless you're fighting with anyone short of adamantium-forged testicles where they'd probably charge the the gunner for vengeance.

Armies field flamers in different sized ranging from pistol-sized flame units, a regular rifle sized unit to a fuckhueg flamer capable of bathing entire platoons in fire with a single burst. Table-top wise, Flamers are special weapons that ignores cover bonuses and extremely effective against infantry.