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Hi guys,

I just dropped back in in 40k early this year.
Since then I was a silent reader here, but as the following question still bugs me I felt the need to ask.
I searched a lot, not only this board, but still I am not totally clear on this (If my google-fu or dakka-fu just sucked, shame on me ):

How many standard weapons does a Heavy Weapons Team field additionally to the one HW? And are HWTs equippable with grenades?

The rules say 'two guardsmen form...", so they don't give up on their Lasguns or their grenades...you would think. Of course logic dictates it is one rifle and the HW, but well...it is 40k at all.
For example a HWT of AM guardsmen (be it infantry squad or HWS):
Is it one Lasgun and the HW? Or is it 2 Lasguns and the HW?

With the information I found so far I would go with 1 Rifle and 1 HW. Both can be shot.

BUT...

Now I know the Battlescribe data may be (and is) bugged and is surely no good source for the rules, but it is confusing me.

In Battlescribe the AM HWTs get 1 Lasgun and the HW, no grenades. Without any option to add more (Lasguns nor grenades). This confirms my theory of the 1 Lasgun + 1 HW.
Then you have the DKOK Grenadier HWT with a heavy flamer. There is no Hot-Shot Lasgun listed in the profile and no option to add one. Only the HFlamer + grenades. Also the FW model does not show a Lasgun on the second guardsman.
And there is the DKOK Combat Engineer HWT with heavy flamer or mole launcher. You get the option to buy multiple Krieg Combat Shotguns and the Acid Gas Bombs for them.

So maybe you see my problems here.
Is there a different rule for equipping HFlamer Teams compared to other HWTs?
Can I equip a HWT with 2 rifles or with 1? Are the Guardsmen in a HWT equippable with the according grenades?

Thanks for your help heretics

Long story short, we don't know. GW fethed up the rules and there is no way to know how it's "supposed" to work, because the English can be parsed in like 3 different ways.

Thank you Bacon.

Well...I thought so already but I hoped I may have missed something.

I guess I just go with the 1 Rifle + 1 HW for now.

We know how the models in a HWS are equipped.

It seems probable that HWTs in other squads are supposed to be equipped the same way. But the rules don't really tell us.

Thanks for posting that question, btw. I was wondering the same thing but had not gotten around to asking.