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Dear Dakkanoughts,

I plan on running crusader squads, either 10 man (including SB) in a rhino, or 15 man (including SB and 4-5 neos) in a LRC.

I am mainly asking which melee weapon would suit him best, but I would be open to strong suggestions of giving him a ranged weapon. Considering his emphasis on challenges and rending there seem like quite a few things that would fit the bill, and I have considered keeping him with a chainsword - cheap and still rending.

Thoughts?

I ran one today with a power fist to get some strength and ap in the unit...Never got into combat :( Ill be interested to see where this goes...

Depends on who else is in the squad, if there's another good challenge character (EC or killy captain) I'd give him and another initiate both a fist, otherwise a good old sword is decent to gain the extra attack and retain the initiative.

For the Sword Brother, I'd avoid a weapon that would drop his initiative. Without better defense, he'll be murdered in a challenge. Give him a sword or a maul, give the other power weapon initiate the fist if you're worried about vehicles/monstrous creatures.

Lightning claws, shred interacts to well with rending to consider anything else and an unweildy weapon on a 3+ model is a bad plan.

Why does shred interact well with rending? Neither seem to bear on the other: if you manage to rend you waste shred, if you don't there's no effect on shred, unless I have missed something?

I have that LC sword brethren model. He is lovely. The rest of his brothers will likely be promoted to honour guard (foot command squads and VVets seem like a worse deal in comparison). I would hate to have him just collecting dust.

Shred lets you reroll failed wound rolls, giving them an extra chance to rend.

Of course, sorry, I had the rule confused