Equip-Legality14

The Apothecary's list is short and defensive. His defining wargear is the narthecium, the medicae tools that keep the line manned; a boltgun and a chainsword serve for his own defence on the wall. He may take no special or heavy weapons — his trade is holding brothers on their feet, not adding another gun to the gunline.

The Captain draws on the widest list in the House: a boltgun or storm-bolter, plasma and melta specials, any close-combat weapon up to the relic Fist of Dorn. He may wear any mark of plate up to the 2+ Terminator armour. He alone may bear the Vigil Banner — both it and the Fist of Dorn are command-gated relics, reserved to the one who leads the line. No heavy weapon comes to his hand. He anchors the wall and ranges it with the bolter, and leaves the heavy rack to the Devastator.

The Centurion's twin heavy weapons — a heavy bolter, lascannon or multi-melta — are fitted to the war-suit itself, not hand-carried from the shared rack. The integral warsuit is its armour, worn rather than bought. It is the siege chapter's own machine, a weapon the Imperial Fists lean into rather than hold at arm's length.

The Chaplain carries the crozius alone in melee, the badge and weapon of his office, with a bolt or plasma pistol for ranged work. He may take the Terminator mark. He bears no basic, special or heavy weapons — his real trade is the resolve of the brothers around him, not the guns on the line.

The Devastator alone bears the heavy rack. The entire heavy pool is his to carry, from the heavy bolter through the missile launcher and lascannon to the multi-melta and the relic Spartean, and the sergeant may add a power fist for the enemy that reaches the line. He wears Power or heavy Gravis plate. He is the one fighter the whole gunline is built to feed and shield.

The Dreadnought's armament is walker-scoped. The twin mount is part of the sarcophagus chassis, chosen at muster rather than drawn from the shared rack. On the Imperial Fists the pattern leans to fire-support — a heavy bolter, multi-melta or lascannon on a walker that takes a lane and holds it against all comers.

The Heavy Intercessor's Gravis plate is never taken off — it is integral to the siege-trooper body. The boltgun is his standard arm. The grav-gun, heavy bolter and multi-melta are his siege options, and the siege shield is his signature wargear. He carries no melee weapons. He is a walking gun, and the wall he makes is one of fire.

The Land Raider's armament is vehicle-scoped. The twin lascannon sponsons and the hull heavy bolter are part of the chassis, not purchased from any rack. No more than one is fielded to a gang — a transport siege engine that fights as a rolling strongpoint. A wall that drives forward, then plants itself.

The Librarian bears the force weapon alone in melee, the psyker's blade, with a bolt or plasma pistol at range. He may take the Terminator mark to translocate into a breach. He carries no basic, special or heavy weapons — his true armament is the psychic power, not the gun in his hand.

The Lieutenant may take any mark up to the Terminator plate and a power weapon for the enemy that closes, but no heavy weapons. Like the Captain, he holds a stretch of the wall and ranges it with the bolter rather than shouldering the heavy rack — his place is at the front of the line, not behind its guns.

The line Marine may take no heavy weapon — that trade belongs to the Devastator. A sergeant may bear a power weapon. The body may be armoured in Power, Gravis or Terminator plate as rank allows. Everything else on his list is the disciplined bolt-and-blade of the standard battle-brother: the fighter the wall is built from.

The Redemptor's armament is walker-scoped — its macro plasma or gatling gun and the Redemptor fist are part of the chassis, not bought from any rack, and its fragstorm launcher is fixed to the hull rather than thrown by hand. On the Imperial Fists it fights as a rear-line strongpoint that ranges the whole board.

The Scout wears only his neophyte carapace and draws from a light list — a boltgun, carbine or shotgun, a pistol, a blade, and a single special: the sniper rifle of the forward marksman. He bears no heavy or power weapons. He is the cheap forward tier, and his list keeps him where he belongs, screening the line rather than anchoring it.

The Techmarine fights with the servo-arm — modelled as a power fist — and carries melta or grav specials for his anti-armour work. His heavy firepower is the emplacement, not the shoulder: he deploys the Tarantula sentry and drives the fire-control skulls rather than hand-carrying a heavy gun. His trade is raising the firebase, then making it shoot straight.