BGB pg.42 wrote:
A normal and a special weapon
These models gain one additional attack. All of their attacks, including the bonus attacks, benefit from the special weapon's bonuses.
Power fists, thunder hammers and lightning claws are an exception to this. Only a second powerfist, thunder hammer or lightning claw can confer a bonus attack to a model equipped with one of these weapons.

Two different special weapons
When it is their turn to attack these models must choose which weapon to use that turn, but they never get the bonus attack for using two weapons (such is the penalty for weilding too many complex weapons!).

Ronin wrote:Hey Dakkaites, this be my first YMDC post, and as a new player to 40k it certainly wont be the last. Me and my mates played a 500p game last week (CSM + IG vs Orks + SM), and we're all fairly new at the game and we're all still learning some of the finer points of the game (hell, I was the only one with the rulebook that night).

My main question comes with the issue that Chaos Space Marines are armed with a bolter, bolt pistol and a CCW. We understand that with Rapid Fire weapons, if you fired them in the Shooting phase then you are unable to Assault. For this reason my mate shoots with the pistol and closes in with the CCW.

However, my question is, do the Chaos Marines still retain the +1A for being equipped with pistol + CCW if they get assaulted? Does it matter if they had fired their bolters in the previous turn?

This query occurred when my Orks charged his Chaos Marines after they had fired their bolters in his previous turn, and werent sure if the CSM were able to just drop their bolters and fight with their pistols+CCW for that +1A. We argued that the CSM did not receive the +1A because the CSM wouldnt have had time to switch to their CCW after firing with their main bolters, but we still felt a lil iffy about it (particularly my CSM friend )

So, we were just wondering what's Dakka Dakka's take on the matter.

Cheers.