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http://battlebunnies.blogspot.com/2014/08/pre-heresy-death-guard-legion-traits.html

According to this source, they did not. And like an idiot, I sold off my 10 volkite culverins thinking they were "unfluffy". But what is the current consensus? Would it make sense to have a squad or two with volkite weaponry? Or are they too finicky and high maintenance for the sons of barbarus?

In general, what weapons did the XIVth legion favor or avoid? How accurate is the site listed above?

They typically eschew Volkite. That wording suggests they prefer not to use it, but will if needs must.

I find many people overdoing the 'This Legion does this' thing - Sure the Deathguard used more chemical weapons, the Salamanders used more flame weapons, and the White Scars used way more bikes, but that doesn't mean they used them exclusively - Death Guard would have used Volkite, the Salamanders would have used things that aren't flamers and the White Scars had siege troops. Every legion would have covered every base of combat, just with preferences as said above.

Though there are some extreme things like Vulkan outright banning the Salamanders from using Phosphex for being unethical (But had no qualms with burning people to death for some reason...), they are very few and far between.

They used it, but like Plasma and other 'hard to maintain' weaponry, they preferred other things to it.

every legion basically uses everything (with some exceptions. i.e. Salamander moritats and salamander destroyers are not things), so you can get away with using anything, it's just a matter of what bit of the legion you wanna be representing.

The salamanders were pretty nice guys what with the whole "no phosphex or war-crime squads" thing.

The only thing wrong with them is the fetish for burning people.

They did not use phosphex because it permanently taints the area it's used in, poisoning the earth around it in vast swathes. Far worse than radiation fallout. It is for that reason, effects on civilian population, potential terraforming etc that the Salamanders banned it.

Phosphex is the driving force behind one of the Exterminatus type weapons deployed from warships, the Modalis Worldburner Missile.