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Quick questions:
Does an Ardboy model with a drum or banner get any weapons? They can't make attacks?
Does their shields protect against mortal wounds?
Are any kit choices demonstrably worse than others?

Models with banner or musician upgrades are assumed to still be properly equipped to have the same load out as the rest of its unit. It's in the FAQ I think.

The wording of the rules lack the term "mortal wound", but otherwise seems like it should work.

All the kit choices are viable and it really depends on how you want to use them.

it doesnt say mortal wound, so no, i guess it doesnt work.

I play Ironjawz.

Banner/Drum are to be modeled, but they have whatever other weapons you want them to have to match the squad.

Sheilds do NOT stop mortal wounds. It would state it stops mortal wounds if it did.

Big choppa and 2 choppas are both good. Big is better vs armored units, just like 2 choppa good vs not as armored units. I run 20 of each

Also, don't bother with shields: you're giving up 33% damage or -1 rend for MAYBE ignoring a normal wound on a fairly off chance.

Okay, so shields suck. Which does suck in general, because I quite like the shield models, and for me modeling is 3/4ths of the GW hobby.

I'm new to/getting to know the rules in general with AoS (I gave up on the soup sandwich that is 40K a couple of years ago). What confuses me is that the verbage in the battletome doesn't seem to exclusively say wether or not the entire unit must take a weapon selection, or if individual models in a unit can choose their wargear.

Can you link me to the FAQ? I tried googling it and looking in GW errata, and I can't seem to find it.

I appreciate it!

diesel7270 wrote:
Okay, so shields suck. Which does suck in general, because I quite like the shield models, and for me modeling is 3/4ths of the GW hobby.

I'm new to/getting to know the rules in general with AoS (I gave up on the soup sandwich that is 40K a couple of years ago). What confuses me is that the verbage in the battletome doesn't seem to exclusively say wether or not the entire unit must take a weapon selection, or if individual models in a unit can choose their wargear.

Can you link me to the FAQ? I tried googling it and looking in GW errata, and I can't seem to find it.

I appreciate it!

It's because there's no such thing.Also it would be borderline slowed to assume so as you don't have enough choppas for the whole squad, and I know it fully well. What I recommend you is to ALWAYS have the banner+drummer and have 3 big choppas per every 5 dual choppas.

ardboyz are one of the few units tha can have any weapon they like mixed.

diesel7270 wrote:
Okay, so shields suck. Which does suck in general, because I quite like the shield models, and for me modeling is 3/4ths of the GW hobby.

I'm new to/getting to know the rules in general with AoS (I gave up on the soup sandwich that is 40K a couple of years ago). What confuses me is that the verbage in the battletome doesn't seem to exclusively say wether or not the entire unit must take a weapon selection, or if individual models in a unit can choose their wargear.

Can you link me to the FAQ? I tried googling it and looking in GW errata, and I can't seem to find it.

I appreciate it!

Then model them with the shields, and inform your opponent what they are equipped with before the battle.

The FAQs are here:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Rules-Errata#AoS-errata