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I think people are getting hung up on the "elite" label.

The number of scouts in a chapter is >= 10% of the total. Most of the chapter is made of bona fide marines. The elite slot is just a tool that keeps the scouts' numbers in proper proportion.

Would the entire 10th company be used as a force on its own? I don't know. My understanding is that the squads of the 10th were doled out as needed.

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malfred wrote:In that case, Guardians should be Elites in the Eldar book, no?

Possibly. Personally, if it forced DAs as the primary troop choice to fit the fluff, I wouldn't be opposed. But then, before the new codex came out, I was working on an Iyanden army.

malfred wrote: Space Marine scouts should remain as troops, except where
they decide to do something different with them. e.g. Space
Wolf scouts.

Well, they could possibly be given a 0-2 cap or something. (An arbritrary number: Don't quibble with me on proper amounts, as it was off the top of my head) BT have their own built in cap, in their own sorta way.

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