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Im making a CSM army but i like mutations, and im wondering if i put the crab arm mutation on a berserker will i still be able to use it or would alot of people complain? Or if i put some tentacles coming out their backs and different mutations like that?

Usually the "Rule of Cool" comes into play in these situations, the cooler it looks, the less of a problem people will have with it.

As long as the same weapons are present on the model as were there pre-conversion, there should not be an issue.

Drayzero wrote:... if i put the crab arm mutation on a berserker will i still be able to use it?

As long as you replace the CCW with the crab arm, I don't foresee a problem.

So it would be a problem if i replaced their melee arm with a mutation arm then? One of the buyable bitz on the GW site has a mutated arm with a big mouth for the hand, and another with a tentacle and i think berserkers would look pretty awesome with that.

You can just swap it out and say it's a regular CCW, but it's a boss crab arm.

Oh i see i posted before i saw your edit lol well thats pretty awesome then. Well im off to go deform some berserkers then.

Mutate away! It's not unheard of for some people to use particularly large or nasty looking mutated limbs to count as power fists or whatever. Nobody's gonna complain though, mutated Chaos duders are as old as the game itself.

The marine could have tentacles for arms and a huge eye for a head (...plus maybe a little puppy coming out of his shoulder to even it out) and he would still get away with having a chainaxe and bolt pistol. It really doesn't matter if the miniature isn't modeled exactly to its statline or built direct from the box (in fact I have a habit of spurning those you do so), as long as its characterful and cool. ^^'

...But yeah, the afformentioned fellow with the puppy coming out of his shoulder may serve better in a unit of Posessed rather than Berserkers just for simplicities sake (though the Mark of Khorne is pretty much the same as chaos mutations anyhow, just minus the fearless).

Thanks for all the replies it really helped me out alot, going to have to make up fluff for my really mutated space marine warband.