special weapons?

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**DarthSpader**

im working on rebuilding my Imperial Guard, and ive noticed something rather unsettling. every infantry unit, vets unit or even command groups can take multiple plasma guns, pistols, meltas, etc.... but the only items supplied on the frames are flamers or grenade launchers...usually about 4-5 each. when its only possible to take 3 such weapons per squad, why over include these bits? why not put in plastic plasma guns, meltas and so on, so people can actually build a squad as its avalable in the codex? to date, ive only ever seen these weapons in the new command box (they are plastic so they DO exist) but still, only 1 of each. anyway, enough with the rant...

does anyone know a decent way to get multiple amounts of IG sized plasma guns/pistols and melta guns? i REALLy dont want to build flamers and just "these flamers are actually..."

**Brother SRM**

Well, the Cadian infantry box came out a long time before the current command box. Basically your best bet is to go buy the plasma gun bits off Warstore, or get the metal plasma or melta guns from GW:

Plasma http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1080005&prodId=prod1400024

Melta http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1080005&prodId=prod1400031

I was lucky enough to have plenty of both lying around after all my Space Marine armies. If you have Marine friends, trade for some!

**Scott-S6**

The flamer and grenade launcher arms can both be converted easily to use the metal weapons that BrotherSRM linked to.

**JSK-Fox**

Or, if you use a lot of variety, you should have enough from other squads to do the trick.