Libarian Cmd Squad question

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**Blunt Force Trauma**

I played a guy recently who had four librarians in power armor in drop pods. Is this legal? He had an Epistolary each and then a Codicier each. He cited a rule in the SM Codex stating that you may attach characters to form a unit in a retinue as long as they are different types. He said that the rule was satisfied because the Codicier and Epistolary, both libarians, are of different types. Was I screwed with this? Or is this legit? Didn't seem right but I have to ask. Thanks.

**moosifer**

edit: I read it wrong, yes he can have both

**djones520**

You can have two command squads with a Librarian leading, and a Librarian attached. The key though is that he must have a command squad. It is quite possible to have 4 Librarians in one list, as long as he's willing to dish the points out for it.

**blue loki**

Right-e-o,

Your opponent was correct, but not for the reason that he gave.

Any SM command squad may have an additional ATTACHED Chaplain and/or Librarian, but only one of each type of ATTACHED character.
"Attached" being the key word here as the Character that the squad is chosen for is not chosen under the "attached" rule.

He could have taken 4 Epistolaries had he wanted to.

(Epistolary + Librarian command squad + Attached Epistolary) * 2 = completely legal

**Blunt Force Trauma**

Posted By blue loki on 12/13/2006 10:53 AM
Right-e-o,

Your opponent was correct, but not for the reason that he gave.

Any SM command squad may have an additional ATTACHED Chaplain and/or Librarian, but only one of each type of ATTACHED character.
"Attached" being the key word here as the Character that the squad is chosen for is not chosen under the "attached" rule.

He could have taken 4 Epistolaries had he wanted to.

(Epistolary + Librarian command squad + Attached Epistolary) * 2 = completely legal

Ok that makes sense to me. That is the RAW right?

**blue loki**

Yes, that is the RAW.

Some might argue that they only intended that one total of each character type be allowed in the squad, but that's not what the rule actually says.

Solution? Make it a priority to figure out a way to kill that squad and make him eat the points he dumped into it.

**logan007**

With that many fury of the ancients, who needs heavy bolters?

**lord_sutekh**

People who want to ignore 4+ or worse saves, that's who...