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I plan on fielding 3 groups of 5 plague marines in rhinos with havoc launchers in my 1500 list. I'm looking at meltas and flamers for their special weapons and I wanted to get some opinions before i mod my frail resin models. I'm leaning more for doing double meltas and a combimelta for all three squads (im rocking 2 dakka preds for anti infantry) but I'm also considering having one squad use flamers for a little extra anti infantry. Any ideas?

I'd say two meltas is plenty; I find I have trouble getting more, even sometimes just the two units, into range of the armour they want to be melting.
For the third, though, I absolutely recommend plasma. PMs are one of the best plasma platforms in the game, as they are remarkably unlikely to blow themselves up.
Unless you have anything else for popping MCs before they get into "EAT YOU!" range?

Why are the PMs so much more unlikely to blow themselves up btw? the toughness boost is not taken into account and they have same armor as other SM?

Just wondering

Im pretty sure its the feel no pain that makes them less likeley,
so you think 2 meltas 4 plasma? or 4 melta 2 plasma? I know they are less likely to blow themselves up but i dont like the idea of a chance to blow themselves up at all