Ogre tyrant and magic weapon

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**Redhat**

Sorry if this seems like an easy question. I just started piecing together my army list and havent played a game yet.

When I equip my tyrant with a Thundermace for 55 points, counts as a great weapon, do I have to spend the additional 14 points to equip him with a great weapon?

Thanks!

**MechaEmperor7000**

The weapon itself is a Great Weapon, you do not need to equip him with another one.

**Grey Templar**

Yeah, its a Magical Great Weapon. buying any other weapon would be pointless as he has to use a Magic weapon when he chooses a weapon to fight with(you could give him a Brace of Guns to give him a shooting attack)

**HawaiiMatt**

Thunder Mace is a pretty bad choice in 8th. The splash hits are only S3 and don't ignore armor.

-Matt

**Warpsolution**

If you wanted some security measures, you could by him a second mundane great weapon, in case his magical one breaks...

**Grey Templar**

If the Thundermace is broken by something it will turn into a mundane great weapon.

I don'y know of any spell that destroys the item completely.

and the Thundermace isn't Str3. it's Str4(8) as described in the Ogre book(IIRC)

**Warpsolution**

That's how a "destroyed" item works? Huh. Where is that? I've just never seen it before.

When I read about the Brettonain's morning star or the Dwarf's Master Rune saying "the weapon is instantly destroyed", I kinda' figured it would...you know. Break it. Not just scrub the magic off.

**Grey Templar**

I have never heard of items that obliterate the weapon itself. just turn it into a mundane weapon of the same type.

**nosferatu1001**

I've seen a mix of both - some destroy the magical weapon entirely, some revert it to a mundane version. I think Obsidian armour (daemons) does the altter.

**Warpsolution**

But...that's only when you swing at the Khornate daemon, right? Attack, magic suppressed. Run away screaming like a little girl, magic back to normal. Right?

Dwarf's Rune of Breaking "...magic weapon is destroyed immediately"

Brettonain's Morning Star of Fracasse "on a 4+, if the opponent had a magic weapon, it is destroyed"

So, these do in fact mean "destroyed" when they say "destroyed", then. There's not some little tidbit I missed that says a magic weapon becomes a regular weapon of its type. Correct?

**Lordhat**

"If the Thundermace is broken by something it will turn into a mundane great weapon. "

I seem to remember a rule along these lines from a previous edition. I never played much fantasy previous to 8th, so grain of NaCl and all that.