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Hello all,

I'm a fairly new player (playing for a month or two now) and entirely new to the boards.

I'm looking to improve my generic AoBR army a bit and one upgrade I've bought and assembled so far is a Landraider Crusader with assault terms and a chaplain and I'm pretty satisfied how that combo is working out. Now I was looking if I could improve my generic Captain and I was thinking about adding a command squad too him - they appear to be cool if I'm able to use them properly. I'm mostly playing against orcs, occasionally Eldar and other SM's (DA, BA, SW)

So my idea was to give them all flamers and to put them in a Razorback with a twin linked assault cannon and get close while shooting the cannon. Then unload, hose the troops with flamers and then assault any remaining troops. Now it gets tricky as I'm not sure how to interpret the rules/writing...

The codex says "Any veteran my replace his chainsword and/or bolt pistol with:" - I was wondering if it would mean that it's possible to give the veterans a flamer AND a lightning claw or a power sword? I'm not sure to interpret this; can I do both? Personally, it seems a bit overpowered and illogical maybe...

Also, do you think the razorback is the better choice or is the bikes upgrade more useful for this squad?

Hi Naj-Treb and welcome to Dakka, the "Any veteran my replace his chainsword and/or bolt pistol with:" just means that you replace 1 or both of the weapons that he comes with for a weapon listed in the upgrades, so if he comes with a Bolt Pistol and Chainsword you can keep the Bolt Pistol and get rid of the Chainsword for a power weapon or LC, or you could get rid of both and take two LCs, the only thing your doing is trading a weapon for an upgrade, as long as when you finish he doesn't have his Bolt Pistol and Chainsword along with 2 LCs then you're fine.

As to bikes over Razorback, as I run mainly Razorback/Rhino and haven't used bikes I can't really comment, but getting +1 toughness and relentless USR is quiet attractive

Aha, thanks for that. It made me wonder as the flamers from my tactical squad holds the weapon with 2 hands - that and the text was somewhat confusing for me regarding how and which replacements I could use.

Naj-Treb wrote:Aha, thanks for that. It made me wonder as the flamers from my tactical squad holds the weapon with 2 hands - that and the text was somewhat confusing for me regarding how and which replacements I could use.

I was considering editing my first post to state that the Tac Marines in the AOBR box come with the upgrade guys, but if you check the wargear in their entries you'd see they come with the Bolter + Bolt Pistol Combo as standard, also the sergeant that comes with them shows you the way it works with your question on the Veterans, but I think you probably get the idea now