My Steel Legion Flamers are not assaulting

[FroBodine]

I am in campaign mission 1, Perimeter Patrol. My flamers attack at point blank range, but I never see the assault slash animation. The Orks execute their assault and I see their slash animation and damage, but my guys don't. What gives? Why aren't they assaulting?

[Bersercker]

That's probably cause their flamer is a melee weapon, so they get flamer animation instead of assault animation. Damage gets dealt normally.

[FroBodine]

Hmm . . . could be. I will check again. Either way, they should be getting two attacks, right? One normal attack, and one assault attack. I could have sworn they were only getting one attack.

[Dayta]

Only one attack. They have one weapon, the flamer, which attacks in melee. They have nothing else. When you have a flamer weapon instead of a power sword or equiv the animation is firing the flamer, not the power sword or equiv one.

[FroBodine]

Then why do they have the assault skill? This skill says they get another attack after exchanging fire. If they are not getting another attack, then why do they have the assault skill? It is not working as described.

[Dayta]

They have the assault skill because they need it to hit. Basically their range is so short they need to close to melee to shoot. They have no regular shooting attack, that is why the orks always get to shoot at them first.

[FroBodine]

Ok. Well then, this is misleading in this case, and goes against what the assault skill says it does. The skill says they get an extra attack, but they don't.

I guess I'm the only one who thinks it's misleading, but it is.