Plasma Rifle is a Weapon in Halo: Flashpoint and was released with Wave 1
About
The Plasma Rifle, also known as the Plasma Gun, is a fully automatic rifle, formerly serving as a Covenant infantry weapon.
Keywords
Continuous Fire
When a weapon with this keyword is used in a Ranged test, it benefits from Weight of Fire (2. At the end of the current Shoot action, the model that used the weapon must take a 3 dice Survive test (2). If the test failed it must take 1 wound. Armour and Shields do not protect against this damage. If this kills the model, the kill is awarded to the opposing player.
Energy Shield Depleter/ESD (n)
When a model takes hits from a Shoot or Assault attack, caused by a weapon with the ESD keyword, immediately deplete (n) Energy Shields from the target model. Then resolve the Hits caused against the target's remaining Energy Shields and Armour as usual.
If the target model is protected by an Energy Shield Barrier, the Barrier is depleted first, then the target model's own Energy Shield
Long
A normal Shoot action made with a weapon with this keyword is a long action. A Blaze Away Shoot action with a Rapid Fire weapon is still a short action.
Rapid Fire
A model using a weapon with the Rapid Fire keyword may choose to fire it normally, or 'Blaze Away'with a Shoot action in an attempt to pin models, but cause no wounds. Rules that affect Shoot actions still apply unless noted otherwise.
The shooting player must declare they are making a Blaze Away ateempt and then follow the normal rules for a Shoot action (LOS, Range, etc). There are no benefits from Crouching for either the shooter or the target during Blaze Away. The Optics keyword has no effect when making a Blaze Away roll.
The player making the Blaze Away rolls a 4 dice Ranged Test (x)
The player controlling the target model now rolls a 3dice Survive test (x) and compares the number of successes rolled.
If the shooting model has rolled more successes than the target model, the target model has 1 Energy Shield depleted and becomes pinned (see page 26 of the Rulebook). With any other result, nothing happens.
Note: Armour and Armour Piercing are not applicable when making a Survive roll against a Blaze Away because no damage is caused
Gallery
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Sangheili Mercenary (Plasma Rifle)
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