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Is there any prohibition preventing Motdrak from making his own Ghost Knight unit scoring ?

Sadly yes, Mordrak's Ghost Knights cannot be made scoring.

Check out pg.22 under "Grand Strategy" (specifically the parenthesis that starts with "but not models...")

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He can't make his knights scoring.

But I'm pretty sure he can make himself scoring.

Mordrak is not a separate unit, so cannot be made scoring himself.

nosferatu1001 wrote:Mordrak is not a separate unit, so cannot be made scoring himself.

Why does that matter?

Other than the first fluff sentence implying it ("...assign special battlefield roles to units under [the GKGM's] command.") the rule doesn't say anything about needing to target a separate unit. It says to "choose [D3] infantry, jump infantry, monstrous creatures, or walker units in your army." It then lists onces that can not be affected, but since Mordrak is not an IC, Henchmen, or his Ghost Knights it doesn't matter.

EDIT: After typing this up, I realized I misinterpreted you. I thought you meant he is not a separate unit from himself, but you meant from the Ghost Knights. Well, if he was alone he could definitely choose himself. If he and his Ghost Knights were bought, then honestly I would not see any reason that he couldn't give himself scoring, and then we have three possible situations:

1) He is scoring but the unit is not. Measure all distances to capture objectives with him only.
2) He is scoring but the unit is not, so nothing is scoring. When the Ghost Knights die he can score on his own.
3) He is not scoring in any circumstance.

The only way he coud be made scoring is to not buy any Ghost Knights with him, which is fairly pointless

I'd like to revisit this question as we now have Trayzan the Infinite from the Necron Codex. He clearly is an example of a character model with the intention of allowing himself to be scoring while joined to a unit that is not. Therefore Mordrak could also assign himself scoring while his Ghost Knights remain non-scoring.

Then please start a new thread.

Thanks.