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Blood angel assault squad - 245
Sergeant - Power fist, Thunder hammer
9 marines

is this a legal unit, i wasn't sure about the powerfist and thunder hammer

is 32 attacks on the charge correct or am i missing something

also any advice on the unit itself would be appreciated, its going in a jumpy assault army

EDIT:Just realised this may be against dakka rules...

my post or your original post...im confused

It's legal. But I don't know why you'd pay points for a power fist when the thunder hammer gives exactly the same benefit (x2 S, ignore armour) as well as shaking vehicles and knocking models down to I1, seems like a waste of points to me.

You don't get 32 attacks either. Standard Marines get 27 (1 + 1 + 1 on the charge) and the Sergeant gets 3 (2 normal + 1 for SCCW)

L. Wrex

Fricking ninjas...

i thought the sergeant would get 2 normal 1 for the charge...and i read the rules so both weapons are redundant but if i give him a pistol he gets 1 for having to combat weapons so that's 31 total right

and im still confused purplefood

bctheredninja wrote:i thought the sergeant would get 2 normal 1 for the charge...and i read the rules so both weapons are redundant but if i give him a pistol he gets 1 for having to combat weapons so that's 31 total right

and im still confused purplefood

I had a feeling that this thread may be against the rules of dakka. I was wrong so it doesn't matter.
Yeah that's right.
Only 1 weapon is redundant and IMO better to give him a powerfist and not a thunderhammer.

bctheredninja wrote:i thought the sergeant would get 2 normal 1 for the charge...and i read the rules so both weapons are redundant but if i give him a pistol he gets 1 for having to combat weapons so that's 31 total right

The pistol won't grant an extra attack in this case, as thunder hammers and powerfists only gain the attack bonus for two weapons if the second weapon is the same. So a model with a single thunder hammer will never get the +1 for having two weapons unless his second weapon is another thunder hammer.