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This might be a stupid question, can a Space Marine fire two pistols in the same turn? Providing he's modelled with two pistols, would this be allowed?

If a Marine had two pistols, a standard and a Plasma pistol for example, would he be able to claim the extra weapon in CC?

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1: Only if he's a monstrous creature. Normally models may only fire one weapon per shooting phase. The only models shooting two pistols right now (as a twinlinked weapon) are SoB Seraphim and theirs is due to a special rule they have.

2: Extra weapon for sure - both count as a one-handed CCW.

But at one time, wasn't there a Chaos hero (like Cypher or something) that fired two pistols? Or did he just have special rules?

Cypher had special rules allowing him to fire two pistols.

Models may fire one weapon in the shooting phase

Having two pistols means you may chose between either I.E

A model has a melta gun and a plasma gun on turn one it choses to fire its melta gun killing an ork
Next turn it chooses to fire it's plasma gun killing itself in the process

1 PISTOL AT A TIME

1+ CC ATTACK