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I was going over the Imperial Guard codex with a buddy of mine and while looking at Commander Yarrick I noticed something that seemed off. he has a bolter pistol, storm bolter, and a power claw which begged the question of "how does that work?".

during the shooting phase is he able to fire both the pistol and the storm bolter? I would think one of his arms being a power klaw would make this not work.

if hes not able to fire both ranged weapons then what is the point of having two of them? I cant see you ever choosing the bolter pistol over either other weapon in any situation.

thanks all
-matt

No, you can't use both the storm bolter and the pistol in the same shooting phase.

Pg 180, Big Rule Book

However, you can use the pistol while within 1" of an enemy, which is something you can't do with the storm bolter

Yarrick is not unique in this regard - many models/units have a pistol as well as their main weapon. The Pistol rules explain it:

Warhammer 40,000 Battle Primer wrote:
A model can fire a Pistol even if there are
enemy units within 1" of its own unit, but
it must target the closest enemy unit. In
such circumstances, the model can shoot
its Pistol even if other friendly units are
within 1" of the same enemy unit.

Each time a model equipped with both a
Pistol and another type of ranged weapon
(e.g. a Pistol and a Rapid Fire weapon)
shoots, it can either shoot with its
Pistol(s) or with all of its other weapons.
Choose which it will fire (Pistols or non
Pistols) before making hit rolls.

You can fire:

- All non-Pistol non-Grenade weapons
- All Pistols
- One Grenade

So he can’t fire both in the same phase. The Bale Eye is there for shooting whilst he’s within 1” of an enemy unit.

If Yarrick seems odd look at scout bikers who can shoot twin boltgun, stormbolter and shotgun at the same time

Imperium should just equip all their captains with like 100 boltgun since they can shoot them all.

ah forgot about the special pistol rules, im still very new to this and there is waaaaaay to many rules to try and remember easily.

-matt