>>96403980
Hospitallers start with a stub revolver. Which I depicted >>96403739. They also start with a Carapace but gm made me pull a miracle to get one after the first acclimation mission.
>They have access to some of the best weapons and gear.
Not us in this game. Not yet at least, altough she got a bolt pistol.
>Why use AutoGuns
By stats alone, the autoguns she uses, Orthlak MKIV from inquisitor's handbook, is 1 dmg and 1 pen less than a bolt pistol. And it can autofire for 6.
For the price of the bolt pistol and shells, I got 144 manstoppers that I can autofire a heretic for 10 minutes.

And sometimes you can't just walk into a sneaky mission carrying huge expensive weapons. Silenced stubbers carry a lot of work, would have killed an arch heretic with them if they didnt burn a fate point to survive.