New Codex Pistol and assault bonus clarification

[Brother Ricarius]

In the new codex under many of the unit entries give the unit an extra bolt pistol as a sidearm. Does this allow them the bonus for an extra attack in hand to hand combat?

I breezed over the assault rules section the other night and while thinking about it this morning on the way to work I forgot if it said the +1 bonus is given for "two weapons" or "two hand weapons"?

 

Thanks,

[JamesI]

Having a bolt pistol without another combat weapon does not give the bonus attack.

 

The pistol allows you to shoot and charge, which you can't do with the bolter.

[Brother Ricarius]

That's what I thought, and it really blows chunks. So codex marines are again are going to hide from Chaos tactical squads because Chaos tactical marines get twice as many attacks. This is the item I was hoping they would change the most. So getting the ability to fail moral tests is so after getting assaulted by a standard Chaos Marine squad and getting cut down to maybe 3 marines, I have a chance of successfully running away from them.

[Brother Ricarius]

I guess I shouldn't complain too much as some of the new stuff we codex players get my offset the deficiency as an overall army. I think my friend who plays chaos was more disappointed than I was since he missed the nail biter combats we used to enjoy.

[Vaaish]

Of course this does mean you can now shoot him in the face with the entire tactical squads pistols and assault on the same turn which I think makes up for the extra attack to some degree.

[Iron_Chaos_Brute]

Mathhammerwise, you get 1.66 more hits, .83 more wounds, and kill .27 more CSM than if you didn't shoot and had 3 attacks.

 

Of course, CSM get that and the extra attack :(