Space Marine Scout Heavy choice

What do you guys suggest, missile launcher or heavy bolter for a scout?

I’m thinking of having a five-man scout squad with heavy weapons. Four with sniper rifles and one with either a missile launcher or a heavy bolter. The missile launcher has a greater range and the versatility of frag and krak missiles. The heavy bolter would give me 3 shots with normal rounds and one with a hellfire round which would wound on a 2+, if I’m not mistaken.

FYI, I had four metal scouts with sniper rifles before the new plastic set came out.

Personally.. Im a fan of the missile launcher.. gives you tank busting ability... except the land raider and monoliths... and ap on marines..

and with the rending on sniper rifles.. makes it better... Id also suggest get telleion.. he makes a great sgt for them..

The lower BS of the Scouts makes a one-shot weapon such as the missile launcher seem less attractive to me. More importantly, a squad full of snipers will be shooting at a) infantry or b) monstrous creatures., because shooting at a tank would be wasting the snipers' shots. Vs. infantry, the heavy bolter is better hands down. Vs. monstrous creatures, the heavy bolter is about as good as the missile launcher (lower AP, but is almost guaranteed to wound). So my vote is for the heavy bolter.

That said, my suggestion would be not to run scouts at all unless you're fielding a big unit of 10. The lower BS really screws them over.

Heavy Bolter.

If you take the telion then a missile launcher is a good idea in a unit of snipers. Throw BS 6 on the missile launcher and let rip!

Heavy Bolter!!!