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Honour Guard Novitiate


captain sox

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Greeting Everyone!

 

I got my Codex on Wednesday and have been really pleased with it! I'm working on a list right now and I have a question for you experienced BA players. I noticed in the Honour Guard entry that there is a Novitiate. What is he armed with? Does he carry a Nartheciun (like an Apothecary has) and a Blood Chalice or can/does he carry anything esle. The picture in the gallery of the Codex shows him with a Narthecium and Bolt Pistol...

 

I'm building my 1500 point list and it looks like dis:

 

10 Man Scout Sniper Squad with Missile Launcher

10 Man Scout Squad with 8 Bolt Guns, Sergeant with Combi-Plasma and Powerfist

10 Man Scout Assault Squad, Sergeant with Combi-Flamer

10 Man Scout Assault Squad, Sergeant with Combi-Melta, Melta Bombs and Powerfist

10 Man Scout Assault Squat, Sergeant with Combi-Flamer and Powerfist

 

(Scout assault squads are basically Scouts armed with Combat Blade and Bolt Pistol.)

 

Baal Predator with Flamestorm Cannon and Heavy Flamers

Land Speeder with Multi Melta

Land Speeder with Multi Melta

 

Reclusiarch with Jump Pack

Command Squad with Power Weapons and Jump Packs.

 

I just don't know what the Novitiate has....

 

 

Also, feel free to suggest things that may help this list.

 

Thanks!

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A very different list you've got there! The novitiate has Blood Chalice, Narthecium, bolt pistol, close combat weapon, frag & krak and power armor, iirc. He can't take any other wargear as he's not of type Honour Guard in the Codex listing, same goes for the Blood Champion.

Why not a heavy bolter with one of those squads?

 

the Narthecium and the Blood Chalice are basically the same thing. Either your model is an apothecary type, and has the narthecium on one hand and a bolt pistol/bolter or chainsword on the other (the model in the codex has bolt pistol and Narthecium) or he has a blood chalice in one hand and a bolter/bolt pistol/chainsword in the other like the Corbulo model.

 

the codex calls the device a 'narcethium' but I think that is a typo. It used to be called an exsanguinator in the old codex, which I thought was better.

 

I really like this list. I would have been inclined to have a scout bike squad instead of, say, the combi-flamer squad or one of the land speeders just for the flavour. My own scouts have the biggest possible variety of weapons in a squad so they all look quite different in a Sharpe's Rifles/Gaunt's Ghosts sort or way, though this probably isn't the most competitive way to field them.

Why not a heavy bolter with one of those squads?

 

Ah, yes! It's there with the Bolt Gun Squad. (I forgot to include the Heavy Bolter in the list)

 

Maybe I could put the Reclusiarch on a bike with some Scout Bikers instead of the Honour Guard, and then put the 2 Melta Speeders in a Squad...

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