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Hiya just wanted to ask am I still able to take sniper rifles with a hand flamer? or is this not possible. I saw in Forgeworld's chapter tactics for Fire Hawks that they can get it as a ranged weapon for +5pts. Is this kinda how the angelus bolters are for sang guard, where you can still use a 2handed weapon and still fire? or is it not possible? I was liking the idea of scouts sitting in the back with snipers and torching anything that gets near them with hand flamers.

Erhm....

Do you think we can read your mind?

Hand flamers are only available to one marine army, blood angels. If they are given the option to take both I guess they can.

By the wording in the PDF i'm looking at i'd say no...
IIRC scouts start with a Bolt Pistol and CC and have the option to swap their BP+CC for a sniper rifle. The wording of the PDF is 'In addition, the following is added to the Ranged Weapons
option list for Space Marines using Chapter Tactics (Fire
Hawks):
Ranged Weapons
- Hand Flamer .........................................................+5 points'
This implies that if you took a hand flamer you wouldn't be able to take a sniper rifle. It's one or the other.
That said, there's an argument to be made the other way as well. Either way you need to ask your opponent so you may as well see if he's willing to let you do both. I'd personally say you couldn't do both though.

Thanks Purplefood, dang, it's a shame but oh well. Thanks for answering! I know either way I'm going to have to ask due to it being forgeworld rules and such.

if the weapons rules don't say it replaces another then it just gets added to the weapons already owned by a model . If the hand flamers are remove bolt pistols/bolter to get them , then you can't get them and sniper rifles . But if the rules say pay 5 pts get a hand flamer then you replace you basic arment with the sniper and then add the hand flamer and you get both. now if that is actualy worth it , is a totaly separate thing.