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Unlike the language surrounding Primary and Allied Detachments, and Fortifications, I cannot find anything in Escalation that says you may take a second LoW with your second Primary Detachment. Am I missing something or is this the case?

This seems to be the case, BRB says that if you take a second Primary detachment you get an extra Ally and Fortification; there is nothing I can see about the Lord of War detachment that would indicate it also doubles.

page 110 in the brb for bigger games has half the answer for this question. The second half of the answer is page 35 in the escalation book pm what you can take for your primary detachment. LOW where added after the BRB came out but escalation is part of the "core rules" and modifies what you can pick with your primary detachment, a LOW per primary detachment can be picked.

That is how i see it any how.

The Escalation FOC just shows one PD, one Ally, one fort and includes 1 LOW, so that reads to me that double force org means 2 Lords

Oberron wrote:
a LOW per primary detachment can be picked.

The BRB specifies that a second Primary and a second Allied detachment, as well as a second Fortification, may be taken in games over 2000pts. The Escalation rules does not have this statement. Can you point to any specific sentence that backs up what you're saying?

Uptopdownunder wrote:
The Escalation FOC just shows one PD, one Ally, one fort and includes 1 LOW, so that reads to me that double force org means 2 Lords

Any specific rule/statement that supports this claim? Or is it just an assumption/extrapolation?

GW again uses poor wording again on the BRB in this regard. You are allowed to take an additional Primary detachment. Included in that are the fortification and allied detachment. The Escalation chart adds LoW to the Primary detachment, so you are allowed to take a second LoW at 2k+

@elric Greywolf. Both of them are Primary Detachments. What are you allowed to use in a "Primary Detachment"?

also pg34 in escalation "This is an optional detachment just like Fortifications and Allied detachments, as shown in the Force Organisation Chart opposite."

they are just like them showing that they are optional detachments just like Allied and fortifications are with each primary detachment. They act just like other optional detachments.