The Meltagun, also called a "Fusion Gun," "Melter," or "Cooker," is a powerful,
short-ranged anti-armour weapon that produces an intense, energetic beam of heat
in the tens of thousands of degrees Centigrade.
Melta Weapons emit devastatingly intense but short-ranged blasts of heat which can
melt through almost any material. Most types of Melta Weapon like the Meltagun function
by inducing highly pressurised gases from an ammunition canister into an unstable sub-molecular
state which produces nuclear fusion and directing the resulting energies down the barrel.
Melta Weapon usage is always accompanied by a distinctive hissing sound as the Melta beam
boils away the water in the air, then a roaring blast as the beam reduces the target to
charred scraps or molten slag.
Melta: When a weapon with this trait is used to make an attack against an inanimate target (i.e. an item that has a Wounds characteristic, such as doors and some scenario objectives), a failed wound roll may be rerolled once.
Additionally, an inanimate target that loses its last Wound to an attack with this trait is utterly destroyed and should be removed from the battlefield (if possible).
Scarce: The Reload (Simple) Action cannot be taken on a weapon profile with the Scarce trait.