Plasma Vs. Melta

[mutantpoo]

But what about the Tau plasma rifle vs melta ?

[John Connah]

If you roll dice like I do it's melta all the way :P

[Arc]

As you can assault after melting an enemy trooper I prefer them to melting my own guys.

[WalkableBuffalo]

Plasma weapons look cooler, sound cooler, it also shoots 24 inches, which is twice as far as a melta gun, and for the loss of 1 attack you gain a 1 AP, it also has rapid fire and the plasma cannon shoots 36 inches instead of a multi melta's 24 inch range.
Not to dis the melta gun of course.

[slopike]

Even though you have to be close to use the melta, I do like the extra armor penetration, not melting my own guy, and assaulting whatever pops out of those juicy transports.

[Johan]

I use combinations in my sm bike army, mm attack bike with plasma on the normal marine. Best of both worlds and relentless.

[mercer]

Melta for me, I always seem to roll 1's for gets hot and fail my armour save .

Plasma is annoying against heavy infantry, though melta is a nasty one shot business and wrecks tanks. With mech armies been to hot at the moment melta is the way forward. Doesn't have the firing range or compacity of plasma weapons, but does the same damage to infantry

[pig of sparta]

From experience, I'd say melta over plasma. Purely because the drawbacks of short range and only one shot are outweighed (in my opinion) by actually being able to (almost) guarantee a kill. Against T4 or higher Armour values, plasma doesn't really make a dent.

[TheKingElessar]

They BOTH wound T4 on 2+.

[mercer]

I was going to say that, and T5 as well.