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where does it say you can only have 1 demo charge in a special weapon squad?

II was playing around with the idea of putting a special weapon squad with my gun line with 3 demo charges, was told you can only have 1 demo charge per squad, but cant find anything to back up this claim

special weapons squads simply say 3 special weapons chosen from the list

the special weapons list just has a note that demo charges can only be chosen by special weapons teams... neither mentions a restriction of just 1, could somebody point me to the rule please?


my thought was if i'm going against a melee army, line them up with my gun line as a last line of defense, when melee gets close, move them out a full move and chuck the demo charges, hopefully whatevers left will be scrap for the gun line to handle, and either way there's not a disposable squad line disrupting the ability to charge the main gun line

if there's no large melee threat from the enemy throw them in a transport and kamikaze the most clustered target group

There's no 1-per-unit restriction on the special weapon squad RE: demo charges.
It's likely that the person was crossing their wires and mis-remembering veteran squads. Veteran squads can purchase a doctrine (the "Demolitions" upgrade?) that gives the whole squad meltabombs, and one member a demo charge. Veteran squads cannot normally buy demo charges, hence they are limited to one per unit.

Note that the troops in the special weapon squad exchange their lasgun for the demo charge (making them useless at range after throwing their charge), while the soldier in the veteran squad keeps their lasgun/shotgun. Why? No frelling idea.