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First, I'm curious as to the decision of GW to change Heavy Weapon Teams from two models to a single, two wound model. It makes Heavy Weapon Teams weirdly vulnerable to being instakilled, and people with old models compelled to re-base their units. I cant think of any other unit in the game to my knowlege that got changed from two separate guys to a single guy with two wounds essentially. Was any serious explanation given?

Second, was there a typo in the listings, where they have Heavy Weapon teams equipped with frag grenades (and the option to take Krak grenades)...
...but the special weapon teams get jack squat

Were these entries just reversed? Since I'm sure everyone agrees it makes more sense to give the SWTs the grenades, and the HWTs dont need any.

Unless GW expects people to be assaulting that unit of Genestealers in cover with a Heavy Weapons team. Bonus points if you outflank using Creed's Tactical Genius!

Jerjare wrote:First, I'm curious as to the decision of GW to change Heavy Weapon Teams from two models to a single, two wound model. It makes Heavy Weapon Teams weirdly vulnerable to being instakilled, and people with old models compelled to re-base their units. I cant think of any other unit in the game to my knowlege that got changed from two separate guys to a single guy with two wounds essentially. Was any serious explanation given?

Primarily? Because they started selling them as two guys on one base instead of two separate models, which technically wasn't even a legally fieldable model, and it was easier to just call it a 2W model, which isn't an issue until ID comes into play which apparently wasn't thought out.

Second, was there a typo in the listings, where they have Heavy Weapon teams equipped with frag grenades (and the option to take Krak grenades)...
...but the special weapon teams get jack squat

Likely oversight, no perceivable reason.

Have the grenades issued been errata'ed?

Another headscratcher is the 20 point heavy flamer upgrade a few units get. A flamer with +1S -1AP costs 4x the points? What?

Why not make it two operators with a heavy weapon, but give them all separate bases?

I do admit i found it very strange when i started playing 40k again in 5th from 3rd and got my Guard army out and was firing all my lasguns and was told i couldnt fire with the loader of my heavy weapon because they were a single model now :S