The thing shredds a lot of minions before hitting the marine and while it does not seem to penetrate in the first one or two seconds, it forces him into cover as one can see that the powerarmor starts to suffer from all the impacts. Just that even powerarmor has its limits when it has to take on 1000 of simultanous lasbolts.Ī little non-Canon reference: in the Astartes videos on Youtube (part 2 I think) there is one Astartes whose killing spree is checked for a moment by a Twin Multilaser. Note that I'm not saying a CSM could not just walz through a hundred or maybe even a thousand guardsmen. He might survive them thanks to his armor, but the Guardsmen have only to get lucky once, he has to multiple times. If the CSM Closes he risks to eat some of those. After 500 hits, his lenses go blind (because there is only that much punishment armored glass can take), One of his kneejoints isn't working anymore because the constant lasbolts have melted it together, and finally after another 500 hits, a lucky shot hits right through a tiny hole in his rebreather that was drilled by 20 former shots hitting that exact spot.Īlso: remember Guardsmen (not all but some) carry Krak Grenades. Imagine it that way: the CSM shrugs away one bolt after the other, but they just keep on coming. And usually they should outnumber CSMs by more than 1:100. If you have a hundred guns firing on full auto, there are alway some lucky shots. The vulnerable spots are tiny and some of them have to be hit by multiple lasbolts before they yield, but that is guard for you. I don't know how canon this is over the fluff as a whole (I so far only read the Ciaphas Cain novels) but from what I have taken away powerarmor is - while incredibly resistant - not immun to lasgun fire.

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