Chaos - Chaos Space Marines: Maulerfiend weapon issue

[BSDataAnon]

File: Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition.gstz

BattleScribe version: 2.01.03

Platform: Windows

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Description: Maulerfiends currently written in the Datafile to swap both Magma Cutters for a SINGLE Lasher Tendrils--grammatical issue regarding how GW wrote the Index, and a single "Lasher Tendrils" already being plural causes confusion, explanation below

Index states: "may replace both Magma Cutters with Lasher Tendrils"

As the "Lasher Tendrils" (a single item) entry is already in the plural, this wording is actually 100% ambiguous and could mean a 2-for-1 swap OR a 2-for-2 swap. Note the Forgefiend entry on the same page uses identical wording (may replace both Hades Autocannons with Ectoplasma Cannons) in a 2-for-2 swap, without any of the ambiguity, since "Ectoplasma Cannon" as a single item isn't already in the plural like the Tendrils. So the wording in the Index actually does us no good as it could refer to either situation.

However, everything else points to a 2-for-2 swap (two Magmas for two Lasher Tendrils)

1. Model is armed with two sets of Lasher Tendrils
2. Prior Codex swapped 2 Magmas for 2 Lashers
3. Points costs heavily suggest a 2-for-2 swap (2 Magma Cutters at 16 points each for 1 Lasher Tendrils at 12 points would be an odd swap)

[alphalas]

Counterpoint- Valkyrie. If it doesn't say 2, it's 1.