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Actually you don't need to debate about conflict between the codex and the brb at all. The ordnance weapon text states that due to the massive recoil of the weapon, no further weapons can be fired. Using plain logic, this simply means that the recoil of the weapon on non vehicular units is massive enough that they cannot recover in time to charge or shoot again. This simply means that if a unit has a rule, be it from the brb or the codex, that allows multiple shots, as long as the ordnance weapon is the last shot it shouldn't matter. If the brb had not cited recoil as the reason, I would be hard pressed to find any real solution, but the recoil reasoning just makes it so that you cannot ordnance weapon and keep other weapons unfired as a backup in case the ordnance misses. Essentially the rule only prevents leaving second wapon fire as an option to either finish what the ordnance started OR target something else if the ordnance attack destroys its target. That's my two cents.
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