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I didn't see this in the Uber DA YMDC thread but I could have missed it. It seems like Librarians and Chaplains can replace their force weapons and crozious arcanum with items from the Melee Weapons table. These tables simply say you can replace an existing weapon with a new one. Unless there is some rule in the codex that I've missed like a dummy that forbids it. While I'm not sure it's desirable yet, this enables things like LC/PF HQs of these types.

Thoughts?

sure why not but your new weapon wont be a force weapon of course.

Yea doing this on a librarian may not make sense but the chaplain is more interesting, pretty sure this isn't allowed in other marine codices. That's why I posed the question.

I'd say its legal from the Codex alone. Dunno what the big book says.

 jadedknight wrote:
Yea doing this on a librarian may not make sense but the chaplain is more interesting, pretty sure this isn't allowed in other marine codices. That's why I posed the question.

Templar Chaplains can buy stuff from the armoury, but it doesn't replace the Crozius (or, well, RAW it might, depending on how you read it, but that'd mean that you could never buy a bolt pistol for a Chaplain without losing the Crozius...).

 jadedknight wrote:
Yea doing this on a librarian may not make sense but the chaplain is more interesting, pretty sure this isn't allowed in other marine codices. That's why I posed the question.

Yeah, I think they realized that they had made a mistake in the base Codex: Space Marines, by making it impossible for them to legally field (for example) the Chaplain with Power Fist model which they sell. You'll note that that particular model is shown in the DA codex.

It's do-able, but keep in mind that if you are swapping out force weapons or the Crozius then it is at a much lower efficiency than swapping out the pistol or using a Company Master who comes with no fancy weapons.

I love that the option is open, but if you are looking to squeeze the most out of your points then watch it with too much swapping since the armoury doesn't tailor costs to what you have replaced. That said, I have a few models that are legal again because of the new codex (have a few sword-equipped Chaplains, I do).