Penal Legionnaries

Roll a D6 for each Penal Legion squad in your army before deployment, to determine each squad's specialist skill.

1-2  Gunslingers: Lasguns are treated as being Assault 2, not Rapid Fire.

3-4  Psychopaths: The squad have the Counter-Attack, Fleet and Furious Charge special rules.

5-6  Knife Fighters: The squad are counted as having an extra close combat weapon in addition to their normal wargear. In addition, close combat attacks made by the Penal Legionnaires have the Rending special rule.

Weapons like chainswords, rifle butts, combat blades, bayonets, etc., do not confer any particular bonus to the model using them. Remember that, in close combat, pistols count as normal close combat weapons and so the Strength and AP of the pistol are ignored.