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Thursday, August 5, 2021

The Gun Bat of the Taurochs

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 Batmelee,  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

 (Inspired by this video here.  Worth the – quite ludicrous – watch.)



[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.