Warhammer 40K Tabletop Thread XLI: Secondary Opinions

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Surely against 2+W targets (which are apparently the only important ones now), "double shots" and "double damage" are the same thing? They have different distributions but you get the same average damage at the end of it.

Against 2 Wound targets it is still slightly worse due to FNP and just the flat -1 damages.

At half the number of shots and -1 to hit though, its still nothing. A sidegrade at best, unless point cost also goes up.

Yeah, basically my thoughts. If the only change they made to the Splinter Cannon was giving it AP-1 I'd be quite happy. As is I'm mostly just annoyed that it became a heavy weapon.