Multi-melta
The Multi-melta, also known as a vaporiser cannon,[10] is a heavy version of the Meltagun that has multiple melta barrels.[1]
Overview
The multi-melta is a vicious and effective Imperial anti-tank weapon, with longer range than its man-portable counterpart but still shorter than other heavy weapons. In different sources, melta weapons are described as firing with either a blinding flash and emitting a beam of light, or just projecting a nearly invisible beam of intense heat. Targets are just melted away, turning creatures to ash and vehicles into twisted goo.[1] Personal armour offers scant protection from a melta. These weapons turn even the thickest armour into steaming liquid.[11]
Due to their size, multi-meltas are often seen mounted on vehicles. The Leman Russ Demolisher[12] may have sponson mounted multi-meltas and the Land Raider Crusader has a hull mounted multi-melta, the weapon fitting with both vehicles' short-range firepower. The Immolator may have twin-linked multi-meltas. They are also found mounted on Land Speeders and their variants, Attack Bikes, Razorbacks, and Dreadnoughts.[14]
Some power armour-equipped forces are known to operate multi-meltas as man-portable units, notably Space Marines and Sisters of Battle. They must still carry the weapon's fuel and power supplies. A man-portable multi-melta can reduce a Bunker to molten rock in moments, even incinerating personal stationed close to the bunker as collateral damage.[9]
Known Multi-Melta Patterns
- Maxima Pattern: used by the Astartes[2a]
- Firestorm Multi-melta
- Sol Militaris Pattern: Used during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy by the Space Marines. 23-20 Mega-thule, siege assault/Zone Mortalis[4]
- Proteus Pattern: Used during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy[7]
- Thermic Lance Mk.XI Pattern: Used by House Van Saar of Necromunda.[6]
Gallery
Multi-melta[3]
Sister of Battle with multi-melta
A Salamanders Space Marine with multi-melta
Multi-melta
Sol Militaris pattern Multi-Melta
Thermic Lance Mk.XI Pattern Multi-Melta[6]
Proteus Pattern Multi-Melta[7]
Space Marine with Mediant-pattern Multi-melta[8]
See also
Sources
- 1: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, pg. 86
- 2: Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One:
- 3: Specialist Games Catalogue, pg. 107
- 4: The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre, pg. 17
- 5: Forge World Tallax (Accessed 8 March 2015)
- 6: Necromunda: House of Artifice, pgs. 110-111
- 7: Liber Hereticus, pg. 139
- 8: White Dwarf 113 (2016), Forge world - Space Marines Weapon Sets
- 9: Storm of Iron (Novel) — Iron Warriors: The Omnibus (Omnibus), Bridgehead, Chapter Three
- 10: Soul Hunter (Novel), Chapter XX
- 11: Dark Heresy Second Edition: Core Rulebook, pg. 148
- 12: Codex: Imperial Guard (5th Edition), pg. 102
- 13: Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition, pgs. 99-100
- 14: Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 135-139
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| Melta Weapons | |
|---|---|
| Portable | Inferno Pistol • Combi-Melta • Melta Carbine • Meltagun • Melta Rifle • Thermal Lance |
| Heavy | Multi-melta • Melta Cannon • Melta Destroyer • Melta-Lance • Magna-Melta • Titan Melta Cannon • Cyclonic Melta Lance • Thermal Spear |
| Eldar | Fusion Pistol • Fusion Gun • Fire Pike |
| Other | Deffgun • Daemonbreath Weapon • Fusion Blaster • Fusion Cannon • Fusion Cascade • Heat Ray • Heat Cannon • Pyreflux Meltagun • Conflagration Cannon |
