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I have already placed an order with GW for a bunch if the new SM sets and am planning on starting an Astral Claws army with them, but I have a few modelling questions before I start them. I do plan on getting the Badab War books but just haven't raised the funs yet.

1) I am ordering some sets of the Astral Claws shoulder pads off of FW but I saw that the marines in the pictures have the FW shoulder pads on both shoulders. Is this just a FW thing to get people to buy more? Or does the Astral Claws fluff call for that? I was planning on using shoulder pads with the Tactical/Assault/Devestator arrows but want to be as fluffy as possible.

2) Is there any special way that the Astral Claws designate companies and/or squads? Like numbers/different colors or do they generally follow codex standards.

Thanks

1. If I remember you can put one on each guy and a normal pad on the other.

2. Same as a standard codex marine army. They attempted to hide their numbers so I dont think they numbered their companies past ten, at least I am guessing.