Gets Hot!

[JMac]

If a plasma gun overheats, does the gun get destroyed (can you use it in subsequent rounds)?

[Brother-Chaplain Gaius]

if it 'gets hot' and you make your armor save then yes. but if you fail your armor save you die and no, sadly you wouldnt be able to use it then.

 

heres a better example. Your marine with plasma gun is rapid firing a chaos terminator.

you roll to hit, and roll a 1 and a 3. So because the weapon 'gets hot' on that roll of a 1, you're forced to make an armor save. You then roll your armor save, rolling a 4 and you're fine. weapon got hot but didnt kill you... BUT that second shot that you fired still goes off because you hit. so now roll to wound as normal.

[Frosty the Pyro]

the gun is not damaged, so long as the marine in question survives there is no further impact.

[Liam101]

So does this mean that if the marine dies, the plasma weapon cannot be used by any other marine? As in allocate the wound to a non-plasma armed marine instead so that the plasma weapon can be used in later turns?

[Hiro_Protagonist]

So does this mean that if the marine dies, the plasma weapon cannot be used by any other marine? As in allocate the wound to a non-plasma armed marine instead so that the plasma weapon can be used in later turns?

That's right. The rules state that "the firing model" suffers the wound and so you can't allocate the wound to someone else. Similarly, in the section on complex units it says that if a trooper carrying a different weapon in killed someone else can't pick it up and use it, the assumption being that they were the only one trained in its use, or the weapon itself has also been damaged.

 

Also, in the event of a rapid firing weapon, if one of the shots "get's hot" but the other is a hit, even if the marine fails his armour save you would still resolve the second shot as it has hit the intended target. Bullets don't stop working just cause the firer is dead.

[Grey Mage]

Yep, if it kills the marine its truely faulty- it exploded, melted through a vambrace, whatever. The model itself must take the wound RAW, and so no more PG, PP, etc.

[Arikel]

Keep in mind a multiwound model would just keep chugging along fine, just with one less wound, and could still use his plasma weapon as needed. (Captain with a plasma pistol, for example)