New chaos warscrolls mixed weapons

[Iradekhorne]

Hi!

The new warscrolls like Chaos marauders, Chaos warriors, etc. Allow you to mix weapons in all theese units, because his wording. (like the varanguard)

Is that right?

And if is it right, what happens with the shields?

I mean, what happens if i put 19 chaos warriors with great weapons, and one with halberd and shield?

Thank you!

[Asamu]

As written, yes, chaos warriors/marauders/knights/varanguard can all mix weapon options. This has been discussed at length in the S2D thread.

Rune Shields require at least 2 to work, because of the plural, but, as written, as long as the unit has at least 2 shields, the entire unit gets the 5+ mortal wound save. "Roll a dice each time you allocate a mortal wound to a unit[any model can be suffering the wound] that carries Chaos Runeshields[plural, so there must be more than one]. On a 5+, that mortal wound is negated." 

If you had 19 great weapons and 1 halberd+shield, the shield would do nothing, because the wording for the shield rules requires more than one. If you had 18 great weapons and 2 halberd+shield models, the entire unit would get a 5+ mortal wound save until one of the shielded models is removed.

The same applies to chaos marauders getting +1 to save rolls as long as there are multiple shields in the unit.

The shield rules will likely get an errata to work on a per model basis. If they changed the rule to "...mortal wound to a model that carries a chaos runeshield...", a change of 1 word and 2 letters, it would clean up the rule nicely and make it consistent with the rules for shields on other units.

[AverageBoss]

Similar to Tzaangors and Stormcast Liberators and Sequiors, as long as you have a shield in the unit (2 in the Warriors case), the whole unit benefits.