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Khorne bikers should be able to replace the bike mounted weapons with melta/plasma guns. Now before anyone gets all insane about it read on.
Pathwinder got me thinking about this in his World Eaters Tactica in the Tactics forum so I was looking at my codex and my faq while tinkering with the chaos armylist and I think PW may be right. In the codex, pg33, up to two bikers may replace their twinlinked bolters with a melta/plasmagun/flamer for a set amount of points. In the Book of Khorne pg 47, under Weaponry of... it says:
"models in power armour cannot upgrade their ranged weaponry other than to replace a bolt pistol with a plasma pistol at the normal cost"
Note the description 'models in power armour' above. Bikes are not models in power armour. Upgrading the bike weapons IS NOT upgrading the weapons of the model in power armour. Also, the above quote refers to pistols which are not part of the bikes armament but rather, they are the weapons of the marines themselves. Added to that is the fact that they don't actually HAVE any weapons beyond a CCW, so upgrading to more than a pistol on the marine is not the issue here.
So it seems to me that Khorne bikers can take these bike mounted weapons. It may not have been possible at one time but with the current codex/faq, it looks like it is now.
Pathwinder got me thinking about this in his World Eaters Tactica in the Tactics forum so I was looking at my codex and my faq while tinkering with the chaos armylist and I think PW may be right. In the codex, pg33, up to two bikers may replace their twinlinked bolters with a melta/plasmagun/flamer for a set amount of points. In the Book of Khorne pg 47, under Weaponry of... it says:
"models in power armour cannot upgrade their ranged weaponry other than to replace a bolt pistol with a plasma pistol at the normal cost"
Note the description 'models in power armour' above. Bikes are not models in power armour. Upgrading the bike weapons IS NOT upgrading the weapons of the model in power armour. Also, the above quote refers to pistols which are not part of the bikes armament but rather, they are the weapons of the marines themselves. Added to that is the fact that they don't actually HAVE any weapons beyond a CCW, so upgrading to more than a pistol on the marine is not the issue here.
So it seems to me that Khorne bikers can take these bike mounted weapons. It may not have been possible at one time but with the current codex/faq, it looks like it is now.