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past year ive made an killzone, helghast inspired army, and gone through the time of making a codex, but im afraid this puts me in a awkward position when it comes to gaming, so what im thinking is going though my army and writing an 'this represents' page, so that basicly il have an IG. which dosn't even look IG,

some of the things im gonna have to think about are the main troops, all the main 'las guns/ auto rifles' have under-slung shotguns, could you fire both rifle and shotgun at the enemy in the same firing turn?
and could i get the IG shotguns up graded to space marine shotguns?

also the 'laser desginator/markerlight', could i keep it if it acted with tau makerlight rules, but only with missile launchers and artillery?

You probably want this in rules development.

Strictly, by the rules, you cannot fire more than 1 weapon per model per shooting phase, and you use the weapons found in "your" codex.

if your doing a friendly game then make whatever house rules you want.

as far as the rules

you cant fire two weapons unless you have a special rule to do so.
if you have a wysiwyg tournament unless they are converted GW, your not going to be able to field them anyway.

most of it is converted 40k, i do have the IG codex if that helps explain things,

ok so i can't fire both, but can i choose between them during the firing phase?

Yes, as normal you can choose which weapon to fire (although you may be restricted in other ways, such as if you mvoe and try to fire a heavy weapon - you cannot unless you are Relentless) any time you like. If not Obliterators would suck....

If you want to play aganist people in "pick up" games, then stick to rules from one codex, and use "counts as" - so e.g. shotguns are all lasguns - just do it CONSISTENTLY. Dont have shotguns being both lasguns and hellguns, for example. If you wish to develop your own codex (which you will need to to get the designators in, etc) then dont expect to get pick up games as easily, and you will almost certainly have an unbalanced (not necessarily in abeneficial way for you!) codex until you have iterated the rules a few time.

By the rules, no, no, and no. You can play with whatever houserules your opponent will agree to though.

I would just use them as veterans with shotguns or lasguns. Have the underslung launchers count as their grenades.

We all wish our IG shotguns were SM shotguns ;-)

new04db wrote:past year ive made an killzone, helghast inspired army, and gone through the time of making a codex, but im afraid this puts me in a awkward position when it comes to gaming, so what im thinking is going though my army and writing an 'this represents' page, so that basicly il have an IG. which dosn't even look IG,

some of the things im gonna have to think about are the main troops, all the main 'las guns/ auto rifles' have under-slung shotguns, could you fire both rifle and shotgun at the enemy in the same firing turn?
and could i get the IG shotguns up graded to space marine shotguns?

also the 'laser desginator/markerlight', could i keep it if it acted with tau makerlight rules, but only with missile launchers and artillery?

I suggest that you have a look at the IA8 drop guard army list. Veterans can have aux grenade launchers on their lasguns, there's a scanner which can give other units a re-roll, etc.