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With sternguard people usually use droppods and drop them near the nearest threat and then get shot next turn. Or you can move and run or shoot 5 I'm fine with these but do you give them 4 combo plasmas or meltas or nothing at all I mean you can spam plasma or have 4 meltas to and be tank hunter. But are they fine with their special ammo and not worth the points for combis?

I take 6 combi melta and 4 combi flamers in a drop pod.

I normally fill up my Sternguard with Combimeltas with the points left after I made my list but many people consider the Combiweapons to be mandatory for them.

About the one-shot-thing, you have to consider you would only get maximum 6 shots anyway and you don't loose the special ammo so imho the 5 points for the single special shoot is well worth it.

I only run with one c-melta in a full 10 man squad. I take them for the special ammo. While 5 points each is cheap, it does add up. For the price of combi-ing up the whole squad, you could have a dedicated MM attack bike for tank hunting. Which then frees up your sternguard to pump bolter rounds into things that need it.