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I was reading over my codex and contemplating to myself:
If you combine X amount of Infantry squads into a giant glob...

1. Do you need only a single sergeant to lead them?
2. Do you need only a single vox caster to re-roll orders?
3. Can you have X amount of special weapons for X squads that joined?
4. Do you need only a single commissar to gain the stubborn special rule for the entire glob?

Thank you

1: No, the "blobbing" is done at deployment, you have to buy the squads one by one during army building.
2: Yes, they are one unit.
3: Yes, the squads are bought one by one during army building, blobbed later.
4: Yes, they are one squad.

Hope that helps.

Thank you. That about covers everything.

Not wanting to threadjack but this seems like another good question.

When you issue orders, the codex says the unit being issued the order(s) must pass a Ld check. Whose Ld do they use? I think it's the sergeant's but I keep on hearing about testing on Ld 7.

A Ld check is tested on the squads highest Leadership. Which in the guardsmen's case can be 7 (No sarge), 8 (sarge) 9 (Commissar) or 10 (Creed+Kell)

The 7 you keep hearing about is probably Heavy Weapon squads..............

Not really, I hear that about normal squads a lot which confuse the crap out of me.

xxBlazinGhostxx wrote:Not really, I hear that about normal squads a lot which confuse the crap out of me.

Normal Squads who's Sergeants have died? Normal Squads near a Pariah?

Another interesting question:

Is a blob of 5 squads 5 KP, or 1 KP?

Che-Vito wrote:Another interesting question:

Is a blob of 5 squads 5 KP, or 1 KP?

Hmm, I assume it would be one, but... Gwar! You're needed in the frozen department!

1 KP as it is 1 unit. Very, very easy and the main reason for the blob rule.

"If you decide to form any squads into larger units, then they are of course treated as a single unit from that point."

I'd say: one unit, one kill point.

xxBlazinGhostxx wrote:

Che-Vito wrote:Another interesting question:

Is a blob of 5 squads 5 KP, or 1 KP?

Hmm, I assume it would be one, but... Gwar! You're needed in the frozen department!

How many units is a Blob unit? 1.

I guess that question escaped my mind at the moment... Oh well, now I know

Gwar! wrote:

xxBlazinGhostxx wrote:

Che-Vito wrote:Another interesting question:

Is a blob of 5 squads 5 KP, or 1 KP?

Hmm, I assume it would be one, but... Gwar! You're needed in the frozen department!

How many units is a Blob unit? 1.

Which was my line of thought as well.