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If you fill fill up the troop slots with orks and gretchen, and then buy a warboss and nobs, do the nobs still count as troops or they stay elites?

The warboss allows one nobs to be taken as a troops choice.

it does not say they must be taken as a troops choice, so they stay as elites, since you have no more troops choices available.

carmachu wrote:If you fill fill up the troop slots with orks and gretchen, and then buy a warboss and nobs, do the nobs still count as troops or they stay elites?

Um. You made me look at the book... 4th is the most up to date codex right?

It looks like warboss and mek allows 1 of a certain unit to be optionally taken as w/e choice they say. It is optional because you don't have to take that 1, so all other types of that unit don't change their type. So if you filled up on troops, you can't take a nob unit as troops, only as elites.

A related problem is when do these things count as one unit type or both unit types? In this case that 1 nob unit, if taken, would be considered troops and not elites.

Can I word this better?

It is entirely optional.

When you deploy, make it clear which is the troops nob mob and which is the elite nob mob. This will come into play when claiming OBJ at the end of the game but you must do it at the beginning otherwise you could be accused of playing a shell game.

The mob will only count as 1 unit type. Once you choose for it to be troops, it will be troops for the whole game. No switching back and forth.

-cgmckenzie