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An independant character is a unit

All marked units get a free icon

Therefor a marked Independant character gets a free summoning icon.

This makes buying a personal icon for an IC rather useless...Relegating them to only redundancies in a squad.

That is the correct RAW interpretation.

However when reading the Chaos Icon rules and the fact that there exists a "Personal Icon" it becomes clear to many from an intent standpoint that they were likely refering to "units" more in the line of "squads", as the rest of the Chaos Icon rules go on to explain how they are treated in that unit.

So be prepared for a few dirty looks if you try to use that interpretation because some people aren't going to like it.

Hey,

skyth wrote:
"a marked Independant character gets a free summoning icon.This makes buying a personal icon for an IC rather useless"

For a Marked IC, yes. (Master Crafted Spiky Bits!)

However, other Characters have access to the Armoury.

Unmarked Champions, for instance . . .


Playa

unmarked units can't summon daemons. But you could buy a champion a personal icon in a squad, plus have a free icon in the squad if you wanted redundant icons to protect vs sniping/torrent of fire.

that is true personnal icon were made for undivided armies how else are you going too summon deamons, best example is word bearers??

Having the Mark of Undivided is considered being Marked for the purposes of Daemon Summoning. So "Undivided" armies are Marked armies.

 Word Bearers, IIRC, must have the Undivided Mark correct?

Undivided Icons are the best icons to use for summoning as you can summon any of the daemons to them.

 

Having "No mark" is not having any mark at all. Undivided IS a mark.

Kultofthebonedragons: units with any Mark get that Icon for free. So a Word Bearers unit with the Mark of Chaos Undivided will get an Undivided Icon for free anyway. Unmarked units cannot summon Daemons, whether they have an Icon or not (since the Icon has no 'designation' as an Undivided or Marked Icon).

As to the original question, I agree with Yak's interpretation. With RAW, yes your ICs get free Icons. But most people will play it that they don't, and personally it is one of those situations in the Chaos Codex that I would rather avoid because of the potential arguments.

As a quick aside, what do people think about Khorne models with the Berzerker Glaive having a free Icon and counting as a Scoring Unit? The Glaive entry specifically states that they are "in effect treated as a unit in his own right rather than a character", so it should have all the rules of a normal unit and none of a normal character...

Hmm, you'd put the Glaive on an Aspiring Champion as opposed to an Independent Character. Not sure I'd do that, but it seems the Glaive special rules you are mentioning are meant for Independent Characters.

Glaives can only be given to ICs so its a moot point.