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It says when using their own strength, you apply that modifier on top of the weapons.

On top of, means it adds together, and a Space Marine with a chainsword will have -3. That how everyone else is taking it?

It says when a weapon uses the owners strength it adds the users strength on top of the modifier. Chainswords have a listed strength of 4, regardelsss of who wields them, so I believe a sm with Chan sword is minus two, only, as given in the profile.

Oh, good point. Say a power sword then, same point, better example.

At first, I thought the save mods added only if the weapon used the User's strength (or doubled it, added +1, ...). However, I've seen a few people using Scouts with chainswords getting a total -3 save mod, so I'm not sure. I personally agree with nosferatu1001

A Power Sword is, IIRC, User's S +1, -3 save mod. So in the hands of a guardsman, that will be S = 3 + 1 = 4, so s save mod of -1. Add the -3 from the weapon and it's Save - 4. Only terminators will be saving against that.

nosferatu1001 wrote:
It says when a weapon uses the owners strength it adds the users strength on top of the modifier. Chainswords have a listed strength of 4, regardelsss of who wields them, so I believe a sm with Chan sword is minus two, only, as given in the profile.

I agree with this as well. My guess the reason people are saying its -3 is because the Chainsword is S4 which gives a -1 armor mod and add it to the -2 in the profile. I think S4 mod is baked into the weapon stat

Yep, hence why they state you only add the user strength mod when the weapon uses the users strength.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

A Power Sword is, IIRC, User's S +1, -3 save mod. So in the hands of a guardsman, that will be S = 3 + 1 = 4, so s save mod of -1. Add the -3 from the weapon and it's Save - 4.

I don't agree with that. It says use the user's strength. Not the user's strength modified by the weapon.

So guardsman with power sword would be -3, space marine with power sword would be -4.

Look at page 53:

In the case of weapons that act as a bonus to their wielders' Strength, remember to calculate the save modifier using the total Strength after the modifier has been applied to the model itself (see Armour modifiers, pg 43).

I sit corrected.