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What is the best special weapon to give the rangers? I'm keenly aware that the plasma caller though expensive is amazing on the vanguard

I am almost finished building my first ten man and I'm stuck on the final three for what weapon to give them. Any help would be appreciated.


P.s if this is a question that should be in the modelling area instead please move there and I apologize for not putting it there to begin with. Otherwise thanks for the assistance

In my personal experience, having no special weapons at all is the best on Rangers. Aquebus' are just too damn expensive and plasma calivers are never going to get in range.

Arc rifles would be the best choice if I had to make one. It is priced within the range of sanity and doesn't suffer too much from range.

So you'd say keep the rangers super cheap, and make the vanguard the ones that get the goodies cause they can make it work


What about the squad leaders ?

Same thing, the cheaper the better and nothing is cheaper than a vanilla 10-man squad (except a 5-man squad but i digress).

Giving them weapons 1) gives the opponent more incentive to shoot them and 2) actually less good for their points.

Just keep them with the stock rifles

yup rangers are going to be sitting at 30" plinking away. Adding aquebuses is worse than just adding more rangers. Anything else and you start getting too close.

Remember Rangers cost 2 points more than vanguard for some reason, if you are going to give your guys new guns, start with the cheaper version.

IF you are taking the white dwarf special with free upgrades, take arqubueses