Endlessly inventive in their comparative low tech way of developing tech with which to raid imperial settlements, outposts and bases along the Rimward frontier in Pegasus, the most recent wave of Tauroch incursions brought with them an apparent new invention of one of their war smiths[1]
The Taurochian Hello
The Taurochian Gun Bat is,
quite simply, a high end, hand tooled, hand machined steel composite bat (of the
baseball variety) …with a pair of slug throwers embedded along one side with a
pressure trigger and a bumper plate.
So yes, they hit you with
the bat, but that bat then fires twin bullets into you at point blank range.
Gun Bat – melee, 1d6(bashing) +2d4(x2) on a successful hit as
the person who was just smacked with the bat also had two .26 caliber slugs fired
into/at them
Gun bat misfires or jams on a Fumble. Requires two rounds to reload and be ready
again to fire slugs
In fact, many of the more
adventurous Taurochs have gotten into something of a friendly (?) competition
with one another, customizing their Gun-bats to very Over the Top levels. It started when one Tauroch huntress mounted
spikes on the end of her bat for when the gun bat ran out of bullets, or she
did not have time or temperament to reload.
Eventually, a raider
trained for most of a sideral to master fighting two weapons style with these
absurd firearm cum sports gear weapons.
Rumors of a double ended
spiked gun bat AND an equally absurd Gun-bat nunchuku are probably total dregg
but those war bulls do like a lot of Bhlatt so anything is possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zHegXvEwdI
[1] In
fact, there are an emergent caste of Clerics of Mu moving amongst them, who are
being called to “join the Imperium” – though the aspect of Mu speaking to the
Taurochen clans is rather less specific as to what “join” might entail.
Fling yourselves against seems to be the current
general usage.
