Plague marines- meltagun AND plasma gunner in squad?

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**bullisariuscowl**

So I'm putting together some counts as plague marines from the new mk3 box for my iron warriors (lost and damned rule means you can take a squad of 'special' marked marines, so rubrics, berzerkers, plagues, etc.) when I came across this phrase on the datasheet

'for every 5 models in the unit, 1's boltgun can be replaced with 1 of the following:
1 plasma gun
1 meltagun
1 other weapon (I can't remember what it's called)'

does this mean I can take 1 plasma gun AND 1 meltagun in a squad of 10, or 1 plasma OR meltagun and the other torrent special weapon not included here.

Should I just make 2 squads of 5? Am I correct in this assumption or am I just slowed?

**DeathReaper**

"for every 5 models in the unit, 1's boltgun can be replaced with 1 of the following"

Not sure how that is unclear, but if you have 5 models, you can replace 1 boltgun with one of the choices.

This means if you have 10 models, you can replace 1 boltgun with one of the choices. and you can replace another boltgun with one of the choices.

It does not say you can only have one or the other right?

**bullisariuscowl**

DeathReaper wrote:
"for every 5 models in the unit, 1's boltgun can be replaced with 1 of the following"

Not sure how that is unclear, but if you have 5 models, you can replace 1 boltgun with one of the choices.

This means if you have 10 models, you can replace 1 boltgun with one of the choices. and you can replace another boltgun with one of the choices.

It does not say you can only have one or the other right?

yeah, I know. I just get cold feet when putting together special weapon guys as I don't want to mess up and make an illegal model. It is quite clear
but I just like to make sure I am completely certain. Thanks for the help, like I said, I'm just deficient in some mental areas.

**Bilge Rat**

A 10 man squad can have two plasma guns (or whatever). It seems pretty clear to me

**skeleton**

Dont know of Deathgaurd can do it, but Chaos marines cant have duplicates.
Or is this for 30k.

**bullisariuscowl**

skeleton wrote:
Dont know of Deathgaurd can do it, but Chaos marines cant have duplicates.
Or is this for 30k.

40k, I want to give one guy a plasma gun and another a melta gun but i was getting cold feet on whether it was legal or not.

sorry to go off topic, but i read your signature. what's your favourite army you have?

**Sazzlefrats**

The DG champion can take a plasma gun, and 1 model for every 5 can take a special weapon like melta gun. So in a 10 man squad if you really max it out and take a solid read.

You can have 1 plasma gun, 2 melta guns, 1 blight launcher and 2 flamers (sorry the name escapes me... plague belcher?) that's not set in stone either, its possible to interchange the flamers for a 2nd blight launcher, and the melta gun isn't the only special weapon that's in the list either. Read the index for clarity.

BTW you can also swing 5 heavy weapons for mellee at the same time!