Talk:Hotshot lasgun

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Added a GW stock photo. Those weapons don't look like regular lasguns, nor do they look like hellguns, and since nowadays they count as hotshot lasguns (hellguns no longer exist in the IG armoury) I'm going to assume they're as such. :) --Rye 02:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposal

Merge this page into Hellgun. If only because they're basically the same thing. —Unsigned comment by Luge (talk • contribs).

They aren't the same thing. First of all, they are stated as being different; Second of all, they are different in terms of penetraiting power; third of all, Hot shot lasguns have shorter range; fourth of all, hellguns are supposedly automatic while hot-shot lasguns aren't. Commisar Gegnillum 13:45, 19 April 2011 (CEST)

Actually that's not entirely true. This for example comes from Imperial Armour Vol. 5 page 88:"The standard armament of the grenadier squads is the type XIV lasgun (heavy), referred to by troops as the 'hellgun' or, more rarely 'hotshot' lasgun." And then there is the quote from the 5th edition IG codex page 46 which uses the same word for both weapons: "Hot-shot Lasgun: The hot-shot lasgun uses a more powerful, external energy cell. This allows the hellgun to project a more powerful, and more penetrating, shot." Based on this information the two terms seem to refer to one weapon and the pages ought to be merged. BeeWolf 23:22, 3 January 2013 (CET)

I'm going ahead and merging this article with the Hellgun one. Additional sources which refer to these weapons as one and the same: "However, hellweapons (or 'hot-shot las-weapons' as they are also know)..." Dark Heresy Ascension pg. 138 "Sometimes also known as "hot-shot" weapons, hellguns are..." Rogue Trader pg. 119 "Sometimes known as hellguns and hellpistols, "hot-shot" weapons are..." Only War pg. 176. BeeWolf 21:39, 22 May 2013 (CEST)