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Originally Posted by all-lucky7777  I don't take bolt pistols for the same reason you don't take plasma pistols. Its one shot you may never need.
And I don't think that officers should be in the rear, at least not necessarily. A Regimental standard bearer is an extremely underrated model. If you take your command squad with a Priest OR Commissar for added punch and some more wounds, a standard, and 3 CC vets (maybe with stormbolters!), along with kitted out HSO, then you can have it rush to support models in CC. Chimeras help too, but its expensive. I'd just put the squad in the center of my formation. This means that the Guard squads won't be running as often and they might actually win cause of the +1 combat res. This helps a LOT (believe it or not) against choppy armies, but I'm still working out the kinks in tourney play, because its wasted points against necrons or Thousand Sons or something. But this way you can have your officers lead from the front. After all, a master vox is much less useful if you happen to have your officer in range of the Leadership rule. (and Iron Discipline Maybe!)
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I guess when it comes down to it is: How many officers?
I would never run ALL my officers up front, but i can see why you would need to. Also if you are running officers to the front, I dont see a bolt pistol being a wasted shot.
All in all you have to pay for a weapon, be it las pistol or bolt pistol. and since the two are the exact same price then its obvious as to which weapon you should choose.