In the process of creating our Regiment we had stumbled onto a bit of cruel irony in the “Equipment Section”, one that kind of drew everything to a halt (My own snaky fault for pointing it out I guess).
The group had determined that the regiment would be a sort of fast, hard-hitting assault squad with lethal but short ranged weapons and decent armor. The Regiment-Type was chosen to be the Hunter-Killer which, equipment-wise, only gives the unit a vehicle (a sentinel walker or hellhound tank) leaving the infantry with a Hand-Held Flashlight and Cardboard-Shirt. Since this obviously doesn’t fit the image of our design we figured we could fix it in the Equipment Kit section and lo-and-behold we found we could do just that…sort of…
Unless there’s some errata somewhere stating that the bottom portion of choices can only be Wargear it seems to allow groups/GM’s to be able to take weapon and armour choices. We decided that the weapon of choice for the Regiment would be the Hot-shot Lasgun (for 15 points) and for armour the Light Carapace (also 15 points) which would allow give us exactly the kind of image we want.
And this is where I opened my fool-mouth and remarked that the rules specified that it only purchased 1 item and that unlike other las weapons the Hellgun required a Power Pack (A Rare, 15 point, investment) which in order to purchase would require points was far beyond the 30 point limit.
And as the title of the thread suggests we ended up with a regiment with a nice gun that didn’t have any ammo, and therefore is simply a fancy-looking stick!
So to cut to the chase my question is multifold:
“When you purchase a weapon to add into your Regiment Standard Kit does it also come with its proper ammo type as well?”
Alternatively
“Do you think that it should be changed so that any weapon added to your Regiment Standard Kit automatically comes with its ammo-type?”
And perhaps is there any Training or Equipment doctrines out yet that increase your points past the 30 point limit?