Which is your favourite iconic weapon and why?

[YorkNecromancer]

Well?

Personally, for me it's always been the bolter; back when I was eleven, the idea that there could be a science fiction future where people didn't use laser weapons was staggering in its originality. That these non-laser weapons would basically look like AK-47s was even more amazing, because it felt so much more real. Then to discover that they shoot rockets?

And I know it's not, and has never, had a great in-game profile. I know that mechanically, it's the yardstick by which every other ranged weapon is measured against, making it the most average gun in the setting.

But for fluff, every other weapon in 40K has basically been playing catch-up as far as I'm concerned.

[Charon]

As the game is all about Space Marines anyways it has to be the bolter. Also the list lacks melee weapons where the Powerfist would come in at a close second.

[Mr Mystery]

Radium Carbine.

Such a ridiculously unhinged weapon. Shoots you in the face, then jobs your mates with lethal radiation. Lovely stuff!

[YorkNecromancer]

Sorry, forgot to add - ranged weapons! Otherwise, yeah, the powerfist is pretty much second.

Yeah, melee weapons need a poll of their own...

[Mr Mystery]

Or.......a polearm of their own.

[Dalleron]

Bolter, so much of the game is predicated on how you stack up compared to the bolter and the marines holding them to a lesser extent.

[Wolfshade]

Bolter has to be the iconic weapon of 40k.

The standard tactical marine is the iconic character of 40k, so much so they built a mahooosive statue to him, and his weapon, the bolter.

[0rph3u5]

Technically a meele weapon but it has a ranged profile: Singing Spear (so Other)

[Pendragon38]

I've got two ranged weapons 1st the hand held conversion beamer and 2nd the mole mortar aka thunder fire cannon

[Psychosplodge]

I was going to say plasma gun, but 40k is about space marines and bolters. Everything always comes back to space marines.
Sure you don't need to play space marines, but every boxset comes with space marines and bolters.