Plasma Vs. Melta

[Magos Bellum]

Plasma doesn't instant-kill T4 and T5 though, where melta weapons do a great job of eliminating things like MEQ characters (without Eternal Warrior) and Tau Battlesuits among other things.

[SandWyrm]

And that's is exactly what I want if a Canifex in about to run down my storm troopers.

Hehe, which is why I give one mounted vet squad Plasma in my Mech IG List. So they can sit on my objective or in my backfield and put the hurt on deep strikers and/or MCs. Every other mounted vet squad will be close enough to the enemy and each other to kill with Meltas alone.

I will agree that plasma is much less important than it used to be. But it does still have it's uses.

[EmperorEternalXIX]

As far as the new SM dex goes, it really doesn't. All in all, the model count is so low that every marine is precious, and doing things with a very slight offensive advantage that endangers the marine (or indeed, a 25 point sternguard, even) is just ill-advised.