Sternguard squads

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**Old Man Ultramarine**

I'm reading my new SM codex just staring at all the prettys

and see this......

You can give each Sternguard marine a flamer and upgrade 2 marines to heavy flamers. How much heat is too much?

This could be a Stelek "baptism in fire" must have squad in every army

**GMMStudios**

With the rest having combi meltas, and Vulkan, three units of those in pods would be pretty good.

**Spellbound**

I just wonder why use flamers.... they have a special ammunition type that ignores cover....

Granted the HEAVY flamers are nice, but depending on how much you have to pay for them, I might just call their bolter fire "good enough" and use that to allow me to stay further back.

It's already sick enough with their Hellfire ammunition and a Librarian casting Null Zone, while shooting Nightbringer.....ugggghh.

**pakman**

I used the SGVs to sit back and shoot stuff while they came at me. Then as they got closer, I switched to the AP3 rounds. I have yet to stick them in a pod.

**Regwon**

just to clarify something. sternguard may all be given combi-flamers, only 2 per squad can be given special/heavy weapons. they may still use their special ammunition if they have a combi-flamer so there isnt really any downside to giving them combi-weapons.

**wuestenfux**

I just wonder why use flamers.... they have a special ammunition type that ignores cover....

Flamers are too good to be true since in the 5th ed, multiple flamers are stacked before rolls are being made.

**Flagg07**

Spellbound wrote:I just wonder why use flamers.... they have a special ammunition type that ignores cover

I thought the same thing until I thought about the potential wounds of a bolter vs. potential wounds from a flame template. Flamer wins, especially vs. horde units like orks.