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[nenjin]

The way it looks in a normal chainsaw, the blade attaches to the body of the motor at its front. The chain goes around the blade and wraps around the drive.

In a 40k chainsword, the way it looks is that the motor sits closer to the join between the blade and hilt, essentially joining the hilt and the backbone of the blade together. This also changes the stresses on the chain because of the relative position of the motor. In a way I'm not technically minded enough to articulate, a 40k chainsword motor appears to pull the chain rather than circulate it, if that makes any sense.

Which I think would be totally doable with a small enough electric motor, to the point a chainsword didn't have to weigh 35 pounds and be awkwardly unbalanced.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Someone DID make that chainsaw bayonet.

EDIT: Upon further research, it looks like people have made many of varying levels of quality--some quite nice, others... literally chainsaws just welded to guns.

[Neonivek]

Funny thing is...

I think a Bayonet is actually more effective then a chainsaw.

[Kot]

Depends what bayonet, tbh. Chainsaw bayonet could proably dig into the wound and make any treatment literally impossible. There's a reason why Soviet Mosin bayonets that were nothing more than sharp spikes were so fucking scary - blade wounds cound be sewn together, when you have a hole in you that's basically punched through it's harder. Now imagine a fucking chainsaw ripping all through your insides. Yeah, not fun.

[Neonivek]

Depends what bayonet, tbh. Chainsaw bayonet could proably dig into the wound and make any treatment literally impossible. There's a reason why Soviet Mosin bayonets that were nothing more than sharp spikes were so fucking scary - blade wounds cound be sewn together, when you have a hole in you that's basically punched through it's harder. Now imagine a fucking chainsaw ripping all through your insides. Yeah, not fun.

You want to go in and out!

It is why most settings that use Chainsaw Bayonets also make the chainsaws super sharp with engines powerful enough to power a jetplane (and sometimes also make enemies stop attacking when they are lightly tapped by it)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

In fairness, if there's any attack that would consistently break a person into full panic mode, it's probably being stabbed with a chainsaw bayonet.

[Neonivek]

In fairness, if there's any attack that would consistently break a person into full panic mode, it's probably being stabbed with a chainsaw bayonet.

Well you can't "Stab" someone with a Chainsaw Bayonet so to speak.

But a fear tactic weapon that works consistently is fire.

[KingofstarrySkies]

...
How does fire intimidate a space marine? Do they really not have any way to just ignore that shit?

[Grim Portent]

...
How does fire intimidate a space marine? Do they really not have any way to just ignore that shit?

They generally rely on power armour being nearly fireproof.

[Tack]

Ask a helldrake that.

[nenjin]

Depends what bayonet, tbh. Chainsaw bayonet could proably dig into the wound and make any treatment literally impossible. There's a reason why Soviet Mosin bayonets that were nothing more than sharp spikes were so fucking scary - blade wounds cound be sewn together, when you have a hole in you that's basically punched through it's harder. Now imagine a fucking chainsaw ripping all through your insides. Yeah, not fun.

I learned this last summer. Fell off a bike and the sprocket gouged me in the ankle, twice. Left a nice half-inch deep hole. Damn thing bled for days and days and it was only the size of a pencil. Puncture wounds are no fucking joke.

[spazyak]

Depends what bayonet, tbh. Chainsaw bayonet could proably dig into the wound and make any treatment literally impossible. There's a reason why Soviet Mosin bayonets that were nothing more than sharp spikes were so fucking scary - blade wounds cound be sewn together, when you have a hole in you that's basically punched through it's harder. Now imagine a fucking chainsaw ripping all through your insides. Yeah, not fun.

I learned this last summer. Fell off a bike and the sprocket gouged me in the ankle, twice. Left a nice half-inch deep hole. Damn thing bled for days and days and it was only the size of a pencil. Puncture wounds are no fucking joke.

I can confirm, got shanked with a pencil once. Things bleed like hell and are hard to fix up.

[Rolan7]

From experience, the grease and, well, grime probably factored in.  It probably didn't get "infected", but some stuff may have got in there which impaired proper scabbing.

[spazyak]

From experience, the grease and, well, grime probably factored in.  It probably didn't get "infected", but some stuff may have got in there which impaired proper scabbing.

Yeah  grease would impaire propper coalgulating due to it being an oil while blood is water based

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I had a pretty small wound, but it was delivered by a shaving razor to the tip of my finger (don't go rooting around in a bag full of stuff by feel alone, kids!). Even though it was small, it took me the better part of an hour to staunch the bleeding. It even overwhelmed my attempts at bandaging.

There's a reason why it's a trained profession. By comparison, my largest wound of all time, the loss of almost all the skin on the front of a leg when a particularly idiotic middle school classmate tackled me into a concrete curb, sealed by itself within minutes.