Company Veterans Loadout Question

[t-dog1996]

In the unit entry for Company Veterans in the codex, it states that “The Veteran Sergeant May replace his bolt pistol and chainsword with items from the Sergeant Equipment list”. It then states that “Any Space Marine Veteran May replace their bolt pistol with a storm shield”. ‘Veteran Sergeant’ and ‘Space Marine Veteran’ are two different types of model with separate listings on the datasheet. Storm Shields are not included in the Sergeant Equipment list. Does this mean that the regular veterans can take storm shields but not the sergeant? If so that’s really weird.

[Quixus]

That is indeed what it means and it is weird.

[Arkhanist]

What's more weird is they FAQ'd it for codex:space marines, but not other marine codexes.

 

Page 154 – Company Veterans, Wargear Options. Change the second bullet point to read: ‘Any model may replace their bolt pistol with a storm shield or an item from the Melee Weapons or Pistols lists .’

[t-dog1996]

What's more weird is they FAQ'd it for codex:space marines, but not other marine codexes.

 

Page 154[/size] – Company Veterans, Wargear Options. [/size]Change the second bullet point to read:[/size] ‘Any model may replace their bolt pistol with a storm [/size]shield or an item from the [/size]Melee Weapons[/size] or [/size]Pistols[/size] lists .’[/size]

If it’s been FAQ’d in the Space Marine Codex then surely it’s just an oversight and ours is supposed to read the same?

[dice4thedicegod]

BattleScribe thinks that the faq applies to blood angels

[Neuralshock]

But hey, you can equip two storm bolters to a sarge!

[Delta.Skies]

I would check to see if the faq'd it in the index. That would open it up to BA company veterans. Since index version of BA Company Vets reverts to Company Vets in general.

[Arkhanist]

I would check to see if the faq'd it in the index. That would open it up to BA company veterans. Since index version of BA Company Vets reverts to Company Vets in general.

 

Ahah, they FAQ'd it in Index: Imperium 1 too; as you note, Index Blood Angels use the common Company Veterans datasheet, but with the note that they can also take jump packs. (another wargear option that requires the index)

 

So thus we can have a company veteran sgt's storm shield by using the designers commentary flowchart: index+FAQ wargear option with the Codex: Blood Angels datasheet and chapter approved 2018 point values. So 5 documents to build one unit. 8th gets rid of the bloat of 7th my

 

Seems very likely it's just an oversight on the codex: Blood Angels FAQ, so if we all email them at 40KFAQ@gwplc.com then it'll probably get fixed at some point.