What's the point in autoguns

[Gapow]

Quick question why are autoguns the same cost as lasguns but are clearly inferior. The lasgun has a better ammo roll and also has a save modifier.

The auto pistol and laspistol are different in that the autopistol doesn't have a -1 at long range, but the las pistol has the better ammo roll, so there's a trade off between the two.

It's just ended up that all the models we own that have autoguns count as lasguns, as no one wants to own an autogun

[M.T.]

Autogun is 20 creds
Lasgun is 25 creds

[Dimreapa]

What MT said.  Autoguns are cheaper.  I generally don't bother with Autoguns much, unless I'm strapped for cash and desperately need that extra ganger.

[Gapow]

haha that kinda makes my argument null and void, they don't cost the same. I'd still not bother with one though seems to be a bit of a waste of points, shame as there's only 3 other choices.

[Darkson]

We added a house-rule to Autoguns, to make them more attractive, but for the life of me I can't what it was.

I know it involved being able to shoot twice at short range if stationary, but I think we had a -1 modifier on both shots....

Was admittedly years ago though, and under 1st ed rules (which we still play if I'm honest).

[Gapow]

That sounds like a quite a good rule, it never quite made much sense to me that a machine gun only fired once per turn. ( maybe they're meant to be rifles, but my Escher one looks like "Animal Mothers" machine gun from "Full Metal Jacket") I think I'll ask my gaming group what they think about using that one

[Dave]

NCE dropped the short range of the las to 0-8 I believe.