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Next on my list for my army is a unit of 10 chosen. I'm going to be using 5 normal marines and 5 posessed and mixing all the bitz together. Trying to think of how I wanna equip the 4 special weapons and the champ.

For the champ, I was thinking of 2 lightning claws. I have them left over from the terminator lord. I also have 5 terminators to do but I'm thinking they'll be shooty for sure so I don't think that terminator champ will want the claws. Out of other spare bitz I have 2 meltas, 2 flamers and 3 plasma pistols. I also have more flamers from my imperial guard that I can easily use for conversions. I could also do some power weapons maybe with some of the chosen CCW arms counting as power swords or power fists.

So what sounds better..

champ w/ claws, 2 meltas, 2 flamers or 4 flamers or...
champ w/ ccw/plasma pistol, 2 plasma pistols, 2 meltas or...
champ w/ pw/plasma, 2 plasma pistols, 2 powerfists or...
All 5 with powerfists

So far the only real assault unit I have is 8 khorne berzerkers, so I'm wondering if I want these guys to be more shooty or more assaulty? How would you build em?

Go with four plasma guns and go shooty. If the mission allows infiltrate that's 8 plas shots on either meq or skimmers. Remember thier equiped with bolt pistols and CCW so you can if you choose whip out your pistols instead of Rapid firing and then charge in the assault phase you will have the same number of attacks regardless if you were to equip them with CCW only. If you don't have the plas guns chop of the ends of your pistols/bolters and do a swap and presto you have plas guns.

Don't even need to model plasma guns really, just give them a magic bag.

I have some loyalist marine plasma pistols that I've been using for plasma gun conversions for my guard.. but I was afraid the pistol plasmagun conversions might look a little teeny and dumb on marines. I could bitz order the guns, but they're kinda pricey.. $4 each on the warstore.. or 2.50 from GW. And I don't wanna wait :p

Now another unit I have to do are my 5 terminators... I was going to make them shooty but would assaulty terminators be better, especially with a land raider to run out of? If I'm not using those lightning claws for my chosen, I could use them for the terminators.. plus I think I have a few older metal claws in my bitz box. If I could do a bitz order, would I wanna have a unit of 5 with lightning claws? or just the champ?

OK I've been giving it more thought and looking at the codex and I think I'm gonna go with the meltas. I'm gonna have to order the bitz and I'd rather get 3 meltas for $2.50 than 5 plasmas for $4

But how does the 5 weapon thing work? Army builder will only allow me to add 4. In the codex first it says 1 model may add a melta, then it says up to 4 models can add meltas or whatever else.. so does up to 4 = 4 max no matter what, or 4 plus that 1 it mentions before allowing you 5? Or, do you give the 5th to the champ? I tried doing that, and it also wouldn't let me... Am I missing something? Does a unit of 10 get 4 weapons or 5?

K it's a simple rule.

Sarges don't get squad upgrades.

So if you want 5 guns don't take a sarge....or take a sarge and get a 6th chosen.

Capiche?

yeah I did some more playing.. maybe it just wasn't working because I geared up a champ.. so I'l just gonna take 10 guys, no champ, 5 meltas my army is a little lacking on anti tank, so that should help

If you are gonna take 10 guys, you should take a champ. Else someones gonna drop a counter-charge unit on you and rip you up. Infiltrating units always have to face that problem.

ok so then 4 meltas + champ w/ powerfist?

You can do 5 meltas, champ w/fist, and 0-4 extra bodies to soak up wounds. Or any combination of 1-5 meltas...plus whatever you want.