False advertising or am I missing something?

[Quixus]

According to GW's website, emphasis and annotations mine:

 

The models can be assembled as either a 10-man squad, a squad of 9 Reivers with a Sergeant or 2 separate 5-man squads, each with a Sergeant of their own. Each has an impressive selection of weapon options; 10 heavy bolt pistols, 12 bolt carbines and 14 combat knives are included, with the loadout options being carbine, pistol¹ and carbine or pistol and combat knife².

¹ Loadout 1

¹ Loadout 2 with suboptions.

 

Yet if I read the SM or BA codex correctly, only the Reiver Sergeant is allowed to have a bolt carbine and a combat knife. am I missing something?

[CaptainMarsh]

The oxford comma would have been helpful here. There are three loadouts discussed:
1- Carbine
2- Pistol and Carbine.
3- Pistol and knife. 

[Quixus]

That list is not supported at all by the rules. If it were, why would anyone take loadout 1 when you get loadout 2 for free?

Each model is armed with a bolt carbine, a heavy bolt pistol, frag grenades, krak grenades and shock grenades.

[...]

• All Reivers in the unit may replace their bolt carbine with a combat knife.

• The Reiver Sergeant may replace either his bolt carbine or heavy bolt pistol with a combat knife.

[Mr. Shine]

The description describes the physical contents of what the models can hold when assembled (for example you have 12 different two-handed carbine arm pairs to use) and aren't reflective of the unit's rules. It's not false advertising, and this isn't a rules question.

[shandwen]

I thought the sergeants were allowed to take the carbine and blade?

[Quixus]

The description describes the physical contents of what the models can hold when assembled (for example you have 12 different two-handed carbine arm pairs to use) and aren't reflective of the unit's rules. It's not false advertising, and this isn't a rules question.

Well it at least implies that the carbine and combat blade option was not restricted to the sergeant, as the rules say. I hoped I had missed another erratum saying otherwise.

 

 

I thought the sergeants were allowed to take the carbine and blade?

Yes, but only the sergeants.

[Dam13n]

GWs website lists the modelling options. Implications drawn from them are not rules. Nor is it false advertising, especially as WYSIWYG is no longer a rule (nor has it been for quite some time now).