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-[[User:Lucinus|Lucinus]] 09:32, 12 July 2013 (CEST)
== Lascarbine ==The resultant explosion, however, is powerful enough to crack open the frontal armor of a Chaos Dreadnought.[3a] the source is pointed to 3: Imperial Armour Volume Five - The Siege of Vraks - Part One 3a: pg. 16
I feel I'm being a little pedantic here, but how could a las-carbine possibly have a shorter range than a Lasgun? A Las-beam is a beam of light and light is the fastest travelling visible object in the universe. Hence upon pulling the trigger, the Las-beam would reach a Guardsman's target instantly, with fractional or no loss of energy. Hence range would be the same as the sheer range of a laser is monumental and dissipation of the laser would only really happen over a vast distant - not just over the battlefield. I know this is a bit pedantic, but it possibly shouldn't be included as it may be mis-leading to readers. -- user did not sign off While i couldnot find any thing about the range on a beam usage of light may well be vast, energy does tend to "bloom" overcharged powerpack in an atmosphere. For a real-world example of light blooming that you can test easily, take a torch or flashlight and try shining it along the street, towards the end of your garden/driveway, etc; obviously the flashlight's beam is nothing like a lasgun's, but it's still very easy to test. In terms Death Korps of 40K, this means we can sort-of-handwave the range thing by pointing out that the lascarbine's smaller and therefore less able to focus a beam to the same extent as a larger lasgun. - [[User:Lucinus|Lucinus]] 21:08, 16 July 2013 (CEST) :If you don't have an official source saying otherwise, it just is as it is. Period. Or unless somebody put information that isn't properly sourced. "Logic" doesn't come into the argument at any point. --[[User:Inquisitor S.|Inquisitor SKrieg Infantryman page., Großmeister des Ordo Lexicanum]] 10:57, 17 July 2013 (CEST)
