grey knight number of attacks

[raven84]

I was wandering on the number of attacks that a basic grey knight gets the stat line says 1 but he has a nemisis force sword and a storm bolter does that give him another attack like the pistol does for marines?

[Nachodragon]

Only time you get extra attacks is when you have two close combat weapons or a pistol, which acts as a close combat weapon. Storm bolter is not a pistol or close combat weapon, so they only have one with that load out.

[raven84]

so there really would not be a down side to taking the halberd even though its a two hander

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

Yeah, the halberd is a complete improvement. The Grey Knights used to use their Storm Bolters as pistols (kinda) back in the Daemonhunters 'dex, but that's been left out of the newest one.

[Mr.Pickelz]

Because of the Loss of True Grit, the normal Grey Knight now only has 1 attack. the stormbolter is not a pistol, even though it's wrist-mounted. In DH (the older book) all Grey Knights had a rule called True Grit which allowed the model to use the Storm-Bolter as a pistol in close combat, but could not receive the +1 attack bonus for charging. Without this rule or something similar the normal Grey Knight only has 1 attack base (2 if charging, etc...)

Edit: Which is what Tiberius said above me....

[celestialatc]

That's why you could get Falcions for the extra +1 to attack....but the Halberd and +2 Int is SO much better.