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Thank you for your assistance. What trouble I have seems to be giving the proper notation to my contributions. I prepare maps using power point. The stories are my own but use the 40K source base. Can you forward me a ‘cut & paste’ source and licensing. I don’t mind people using the material, but perhaps the text of the stories.

Well agree to disagree. In function the Helgun and Hotshot act identically but the narrative is different. So for purpose of storytelling they can be regarded as different without being out of canon IMO. There are a LOT of weapons in 40K with narrative descriptions which make them sound unique, but are really pretty mundane in mechanics. Much of Dark Eldar weaponry is like that, terrible in description, merely poisoned in operation.

I liked the idea of troopers modifying weapons dangerously, which knowing solders is exactly what they would do, risking the repercussions of the authorities. Soldiers currently are not allowed to use ‘mag-pul’ magazines for no reason anyone can discover. So it is with the Adeptus Ministorum. The text is that making a lasgun a ‘hotshot’ is a dangerous process, where helguns are specially designed for that purpose.

''“Overpowered laser packs, like the so called ‘hot-shot’, provide weapons with a more potent charge but give fewer shots. They cannot be easily recharged after use and the extra stress on the barrel requires much more maintenance”'' (5th ed BRB?)