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Empire Duellist 75 points
WS6•BS5•S4•T3•W3•I4•A3•Ld8

Wargear:
Duellist’s Pistol
Duellist’s Rapier
Light armour

Duellist’s Pistol
A duellist’s pistol is only used in combat, and has no ranged value.
In combat, it counts as an extra hand weapon.

In a challenge, the Duellist may choose to shoot his opponent before the fight begins.

Duellist’s Rapier:
Gives +1 to WS and I during a challenge, and a 5+ ward save



Special Rules:
Dueller
“If our swords do cross this battle…”

Dueller:
An empire duellist must always issue and accept challenges. In addition, he re-rolls all failed rolls to hit and to wound, even with his pistol.

“If our swords do cross this battle…”
If the duellist is carrying the Duellist’s Rapier, he may choose a single lord or hero model in the opponents army. When the dueller issues a challenge to a squad that this lord or hero is in, the Chosen model MUST accept the challenge.

There is no way of avoiding this challenge, and all special rules and equipment to the contrary are ignored.

Options:
The Duellist may:
Take heavy armour – 3 points
Full plate armour – 10 points
Exchange his rapier for…
A shield - 2 points
A second Duellist’s Pistol – 5 points
Exchange his Duellist’s pistol for…
A shield – 2 points.

NB: the model may only have a single shield.

Was someone ever expecting me to chime in?

To be honest, The duellist was simply meant to be a guy who could have an epic fight with a boss, get smushed but still look good doing it [hopefully doing a bit of damage himself.]

The stance I've read [I'm afraid I was skimming, so appologise if I have missed something.] so far is basically that the pistol is a silly idea, because real duelists wouldn't use a pistol in an "in the heat of combat" duel, moreover, it was saved for the gentlemans court.

All well and good, except the gentlemans court is something of the 19th century and earlier. Elves use bows, Lizards walk the earth and huge rats will eat your genitals if they get half the chance.

To that end, I'm assuming 'gentleman's court' doesn't apply here, and this guy is packing to get the job done.

The pistol isn't 'he gets to shoot in combat', it just works like that. Imagine it like a stomp attack that comes first.