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What is the minimum number of models allowed in an assault squad? And does the cost of an eviscerator also take into account the marine holding it?

Why I ask? In battlescribe I can pick the option for swapping a marine with CS and P for an eviscerator. There is also the option to give 2 of the marines flamers.

So is it 4 marines + the cost of an eviscerator + 2 flamers + the sergeant? or 3 marines + the cost of an eviscerator(which incorporates the marine holding it) + 2 flamers + the sergeant?


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Last night I played with a player who doesn't really know what he's doing.

He claimed he could take a relic blade, storm shield, and flamer on a chapter master. He said he wouldn't get the bonus for 2 weapon because that wasn't allowed due to the shield and the 2 handed relic blade but that there was nothing forbidding him from taking the 2handed sword and shield.

again - checked battlescribe. i didn't see the flamer aside from a combiflamer, and no error came up when choosing a relic blade and shield. is that due to the shield not replacing an item held in hand?

We're really not supposed to be giving out the point costs from codexes here. You should really use the Codex to get your point cost and not just rely on Battlescribe. Games Workshop has been known to crack down on sites where they think their I.P. is being violated by having people quote too much of things like this.

Removed points. thanks for the reminder.

Also I don't have the army. Just doing fact checking. If codexes were cheaper i'd get them all.

The cost in the codex for the evisorator is just for the warger. Yes it is a lot of points.

It is in addition to the other gear in the squad. So you can have 2 of the 5 guys in the squad take flamers/plasma pistols, the sarge take his choices from the list, and then another guy take the evisorator. It’s worth noting that the giant can opener can be given to anyone is the squad, so the sarge could take it if he wanted. You do need to swap your pistol and sword to get it, so if you want to use it, that’s most of your options.

The squad min is 5 guys total. So 4+ troopers plus the sarge if you want to think if it like that.

Combi-flamer, relic blade, and a storm shield is a legal captain loadout. The SS is taken in addition to other gear, and is not a swapped item. He’d have to swap his stock chainsword for the relic blade, and bolt pistol for the c-flamer.