Equip-Legality11

The Apothecary equips to heal, not to dominate. He carries a bolt pistol, basic weapons and grenades, but no special or heavy weapon, and takes a chainsword in close combat. His defining kit is the narthecium — the healer's device that keeps the line standing and recovers the fallen. He is armed enough to hold his own in the advance, but his hands are wanted for mending, not for the heaviest guns.

The Captain has the freest rack in the gang. He may take any pistol, including the inferno pistol, any basic weapon, and the melta and flame special weapons the Chapter loves; heavy weapons are beyond a Leader's role. In close combat he takes power weapons, and the bearer of the Forgefather's office alone may carry the Spear of Vulkan. He may wear any armour mark — Power, Gravis or the Terminator plate of the Firedrakes — and bear the drake-scale mantle, and he carries grenades up to and including melta bombs.

The Centurion's armament is bound to the warsuit. It carries no pistols, basic weapons or grenades — the frame has no hands for them. Its guns are twin heavy weapons scoped to the suit, and its close-combat arms are siege drills. Its armour is the integral warsuit save, not a wearable mark. The Centurion is a walking weapon platform: what it fields is fitted to the suit at muster, and it fights with that alone.

The Chaplain's rack is narrow, fixed to his office. He may carry a bolt or plasma pistol and grenades, but takes no basic, special or heavy weapon. In close combat he bears the crozius arcanum alone, the badge of his rank and his weapon both. Power plate or the Terminator mark for the body, and nothing wider than that. The zealot fights with the crozius and the creed. He needs no larger armoury.

The Dreadnought equips as a walker, not a warrior. It carries no pistols, basic or special weapons and no grenades — a war-engine has no use for a soldier's kit. Its ranged arms are vehicle-scoped weapons, and its melee arm is the Dreadnought close-combat weapon. Its armour is the sarcophagus itself. What it fields is fitted to the frame; the personal armoury is not the interred hero's to draw from.

The Librarian's rack is narrow by discipline. He may carry a bolt or plasma pistol and grenades, but takes no basic, special or heavy weapon — his mind is the armament that matters. In close combat he bears a Force weapon and nothing else. He may wear power plate or the Terminator mark. The psyker fights with witchfire and the force blade; the rest of the armoury is not his to draw from.

The Lieutenant equips much as the Captain but a shade narrower. He may take pistols, basic weapons, and the melta and flame special weapons, but no heavy weapon and no relic spear. In close combat he takes power weapons. He may wear any armour mark — Power, Gravis or the Terminator plate of the Firedrakes — and carries frag and krak grenades. He is armed to lead a flank of the line and hold it, not to anchor it with a heavy.

The Marine has the broadest working rack in the line. He carries bolt and inferno pistols, basic weapons, and the flamer, meltagun and plasma gun among the special weapons — the flame and melta the Salamanders lean into hardest. A sergeant may take a power fist; the chainsword is the standard blade. Heavy weapons — the heavy flamer, multi-melta and heavy bolter — are Devastator-spec and open with Reputation. He may wear Power, Gravis or the Terminator plate of the Firedrakes and bear the drake-scale mantle once he has earned it, and carries grenades up to melta bombs.

The Redemptor Dreadnought equips as the great war-engine it is. It carries no pistols, basic or special weapons and no grenades — nothing a soldier would recognise as kit. Its armament is its own: macro-scaled ranged weapons built into the frame and a Redemptor fist for the close work. Its armour is the towering hull itself. Everything it fields is fixed to the walker at muster; the personal armoury does not reach it.

The Scout equips light for the forward role. He carries a bolt pistol, and among basic weapons the boltgun, bolt carbine or shotgun; his only special weapon is the sniper rifle. In close combat he takes a combat knife or chainsword, and he carries frag grenades. He wears the 4+ carapace alone — no power plate until he earns it. The neophyte is armed to screen, scout and skirmish, not to stand in the heavy line.

The Techmarine equips as the artisan he is. He carries a bolt pistol and basic weapons, and among the special weapons takes melta and grav — the forge-wright's tools. His close-combat arm is the servo-arm. His true rack is his wargear: the servo-arm, the Signum, and the master-crafted upgrade his own craft produces. He takes grenades as any brother does. His purpose is the forge, and his loadout points there before the fight.