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So I was curious...say you have a 5-man unit of Trueborn. You have given 2 SCs and 3 Blasters. Can you then upgrade one to a Dracon without sacrificing one of the special weapons? If no, what about giving the Dracon a Shardcarbine? Either of those legal? Doesn t seem to be anything against it if I am reading the rules right, but I want to see what others have to say.

Yes a dracon may carry a special weapon. As can a Sybarite.

Ok, that is what I thought. Just wanted to make sure I was looking at that correctly.

No, I do not believe that the Dracon can take a special weapon. Once you upgrade him to a Dracon, he stops being a Kabalite Trueborn and lose access to the options available to the Trueborn and can only select from the upgrades available to the Dracon.

You can't give your Dracon a shardcarabine or a special or heavy weapon.

You can't give him a special or heavy weapon because it specifies "trueborn." However, the option for shardcarbine says "any model" and so that allows anyone in the squad, even the veteran upgrade to take it. Note that the Blast Pistol option says he has to give up his splinter pistol to take it, which would require him to use the "any model" rule to trade his splinter rifle for the pistol and ccw.

However, this is potentially fuzzy since in the wyches section it says "one in three models" for the special weapons.

In general you can't upgrade a "veteran" to take a special weapon option, but I'm fairly certain that when the option is open to the entire squad the "veteran" may take the upgrade.

Whych upgrade characters(Bloodbride or regular) can have the Wych weapons(but the Special weapons the individual wych upgrade characters can get are better choices); Warriors cannot(although again as said the Trueborn UC can get a Shard Carbine).

Any model/X in Y models both mean any model within the unit, UCs inclusive; Named Base models(1 "warrior", or 2 "trueborne" etc) means that the UCs cannot have the item in question.

Reavers get goofy as both the unit and the Base models are "reavers" and one of the upgrades is 1 model / 3 "reavers", and another is for every 3 models, 1 reaver, can get the Wargear upgrade, but the unit is both full of "reavers" and can have an "arena champion" yet all of them(including the campion) are Reavers(unit name).