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I was sifting throught the DH codex, looking at the Inquisitor's retinue options.  The acolyte can take up to 15 pts of wargear.  If that wargear is mastercrafted (say a mastercrafted powerfist) the model could exceed this limit? 

Is this an accurate understanding?

Thanks,

CE

First of all, he can only take 15 points from the entire Armoury, not just wargear. Secondly, you can not exceed this limit. If you decide to take master-crafting you've wasted 15 points since he does not have a weapon to apply it to.

No, he can apply it to his laspistol or CCW (yes I know it's still a waste of points)

i'd say no also.

The reason it seemed that he could take the MC is because under the MC description, it states that only the 15pt master crafted counts against the total wargear limit, or something to that effect.  the cost of the weapon, as I understand, counts against the total point total of the army, but not the characters limit.   Any other model could exceed their 100 pt limit if they had something mastercrafted.

That is, if I understand the MC weapon description correctly.

CE

No, your understanding of how "Mastercrafting" works, is correct.

Your understanding of how the Acolyte works is what's off. It explicitly states he can take 15 points worth of stuff from the Daemonhunter Armory, which includes both weapons and wargear. So a mastercrafted powerfist would be 40 points worth of stuff from the armory. Hence, it's illegal for an acolyte to have.

Personally, I would think giving the guy power armor would be a good usage of points. =][= Lord pawns off a wound to a 3+ save (so he'll likely make the save) and lives to be a sacraficial lamb for another day.

I believe I have just been enlightened.

Let me review to make sure my understanding is correct.  My Inquisitor can take a force weapon and and plasma pistol, costing 55 pts, and then buy an additional 100 pts of stuff from the wargear, for a total of 155 pts of gear from the armory.  Is that how wargear/weapons/armory equipment works?

That seems logical now that I think about it.

CE

Yes. Weapons do not count against your wargear limit and never have.