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In the guard codex (I'm using IG as an example with no knowledge of the wording in any other codex), it says as follows; A platoon commander/ A company commander/ a Sergeant, I'll use Sergeant for the example.The Sergeant may take take melta bombs. Having bought the upgrade does this give as the codex says, multiple (for the purposes of the game, infinite) melta bombs or does it, as my friend suggests, only give the sergeant one melta bomb? The codex explicitly says bombs (plural) and I haven't found rules specific to melta bomb QUANTITY (though I have found the grenade section of course).

It gives him as many melta bombs as you can use during the game.

If they were limited, there would be something specifically saying so, such as the Demolition Charges 'One Use Only.'

Thanks, I was only asking, because a friend said that you only got one, I think the confusion came, because with Space Marines (the codex he must have been reading) squads, it says the the squad gets melta bombs.

Anyway, I know it's only a guardsman and the likely hood of him needing to use the melta bomb more than once is not necessarily nil, but come on, guardsmen that survive?

Thanks for clearing up the rule I just wanted a second (and indeed third) opinion, thanks.

Which SM codex is he using? The vanilla Space Marines codex has no option to give an entire squad melta bombs; the closest you get is each Vanguard Veteran in a Vanguard Vets squad being able to take melta bombs, but the wording there is roughly 'any Vanguard Veteran may take melta bombs', not 'the squad may take melta bombs'.

Oh well, I don't know, I'm not entirely confident with what the Space marine codex says or anything else like that, I think though that the rule has been sufficiently or at least to my satisfaction, been clarified.

nosferatu1001 wrote:
It gives him as many melta bombs as you can use during the game.

This. Your friend = fail on this ruling.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Which SM codex is he using? The vanilla Space Marines codex has no option to give an entire squad melta bombs; the closest you get is each Vanguard Veteran in a Vanguard Vets squad being able to take melta bombs, but the wording there is roughly 'any Vanguard Veteran may take melta bombs', not 'the squad may take melta bombs'.

Actually it says "Any model may take melta bombs" for the vanguard vet squad, so you can have a full squad with melta bombs.

 DeathReaper wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Which SM codex is he using? The vanilla Space Marines codex has no option to give an entire squad melta bombs; the closest you get is each Vanguard Veteran in a Vanguard Vets squad being able to take melta bombs, but the wording there is roughly 'any Vanguard Veteran may take melta bombs', not 'the squad may take melta bombs'.

Actually it says "Any model may take melta bombs" for the vanguard vet squad, so you can have a full squad with melta bombs.

I never said you couldn't have a full squad with melta bombs, I said that nowhere is there an option that says something along the lines of "the squad may take melta bombs" or an option to give an entire squad melta bombs (which is different from any model in a squad being allowed to take them); the wording for the Vanguard Vets is different enough for it not to easily be replaced with "the entire squad may take melta bombs", and so I was making sure that he wasn't being cheated by facing entire Tactical Squads of melta bombs.

I have been talking to my "friend" and apparently he THOUGHT that it might be the case. HAHA!


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Oh no, it was just the fact that there might have been a confusion with the amount of bombs each guy got when given the upgrade.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Which SM codex is he using? The vanilla Space Marines codex has no option to give an entire squad melta bombs; the closest you get is each Vanguard Veteran in a Vanguard Vets squad being able to take melta bombs, but the wording there is roughly 'any Vanguard Veteran may take melta bombs', not 'the squad may take melta bombs'.

Actually it says "Any model may take melta bombs" for the vanguard vet squad, so you can have a full squad with melta bombs.

I never said you couldn't have a full squad with melta bombs, I said that nowhere is there an option that says something along the lines of "the squad may take melta bombs" or an option to give an entire squad melta bombs (which is different from any model in a squad being allowed to take them); the wording for the Vanguard Vets is different enough for it not to easily be replaced with "the entire squad may take melta bombs", and so I was making sure that he wasn't being cheated by facing entire Tactical Squads of melta bombs.

No, but you said "'any Vanguard Veteran may take melta bombs'" which I was correcting, since it does not say that.

I did say the wording was 'rough' and not exact.

In any case, the OP understood what I said, so I really don't care either way about the wording..

Maybe he was confused by the fact that, when you use a melta bomb, you only get 1 attack.

 Praxiss wrote:
Maybe he was confused by the fact that, when you use a melta bomb, you only get 1 attack.

Probably not. Someone in our playing group thought you only got one, which was further confused by the actual melta bomb bit. We cleared him up.

Probably not. Someone in our playing group thought you only got one, which was further confused by the actual melta bomb bit. We cleared him up.

Oh cool, does that mean a seargent on the charge gets 3 melta bomb attacks?! If so, would that be for MC's or vehicles or both?

No, because MB follow the rules for grenades, meaning you only ever get 1

Ok, thanks.