If you want to know my biggest beef in the entire game: Power Fist. How a little tiny knife can block my Tank destroying doom hand. I feel this weapon should be mostly unblockable. Why? Very Slow. Sloth-tastically slow. With the exception of the running swing. Extremely Short range Charge attack is laughably slow and easy to counter. These all translate to an easily killed player and a weapon that is often very under-utilized. People can kite you for days, good players will Def-bash or just dodge and charge swing you. (Or Bolter to the face) They will wait for your slow quick attack or wait for your even slower charge attack and punish you. The weapon counters itself almost. I really only think axes should be able to effectively block a fist. In short, you should have to dodge a weapon that can easily destroy a tank.
Absolutely not, a stormshield is designed to stop Lascannons and Demolisher shells, and a powerfist ain't shit compared to either. Agreed on all other points though, powerfists should be harder to combat to make up for how slow they are.
Actually a storm shield wasn't able to be used outside of combat until sometime after 4th edition (not sure how much later due to not having those codexes) but 3rd and 4th edition specifically said it was usable against close combat attacks only, same with the combat shield.
