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If I take the mad dok as a HQ choice, for either primary army or allied army, he can then give out cybork bodies to the units from the other codex.

pg 96 ork codex "any unit in an army including the doc"

pg 109 BRB "your army can include one allied ..."

see allies are part of your army.

so if you have a really squishy unit, (no not you bugs, go sit down), you can take the dok and give out 5+ invulns to whoever needs a bit more oomph vehicles need not apply.

I would imagine it would only work for non-vehicle ork units, but it would be fun if it were otherwise.

RAW, I think it's permitted. It doesn't even specify friendly units, so non-battlebrothers are eligible. As far as RAI, I doubt this was intended. Firewarriors with 5+ though? Allied Tau just got even better.

Tzeentch units with 4+ Inv?
Lychguard warscythes with 5+?

What other combos are there?

sirlynchmob wrote:If I take the mad dok as a HQ choice, for either primary army or allied army, he can then give out cybork bodies to the units from the other codex.

pg 96 ork codex "any unit in an army including the doc"

pg 109 BRB "your army can include one allied ..."

see allies are part of your army.

so if you have a really squishy unit, (no not you bugs, go sit down), you can take the dok and give out 5+ invulns to whoever needs a bit more oomph vehicles need not apply.

It could work... except Orks are Battlebrothers with no-one. Allies of convenience and desperate allies are treated exactly as if they were enemy units.

FallenAfh wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:If I take the mad dok as a HQ choice, for either primary army or allied army, he can then give out cybork bodies to the units from the other codex.

pg 96 ork codex "any unit in an army including the doc"

pg 109 BRB "your army can include one allied ..."

see allies are part of your army.

so if you have a really squishy unit, (no not you bugs, go sit down), you can take the dok and give out 5+ invulns to whoever needs a bit more oomph vehicles need not apply.

It could work... except Orks are Battlebrothers with no-one. Allies of convenience and desperate allies are treated exactly as if they were enemy units.

Except that, treated as enemy units or not, they're in your army with the good doctor. (The good doctor does not discriminate!)

Unit1126PLL wrote:

FallenAfh wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:If I take the mad dok as a HQ choice, for either primary army or allied army, he can then give out cybork bodies to the units from the other codex.

pg 96 ork codex "any unit in an army including the doc"

pg 109 BRB "your army can include one allied ..."

see allies are part of your army.

so if you have a really squishy unit, (no not you bugs, go sit down), you can take the dok and give out 5+ invulns to whoever needs a bit more oomph vehicles need not apply.

It could work... except Orks are Battlebrothers with no-one. Allies of convenience and desperate allies are treated exactly as if they were enemy units.

Except that, treated as enemy units or not, they're in your army with the good doctor. (The good doctor does not discriminate!)

I wish you good luck arguing that to any opponent with a straight face then. I would support your stance if they worked on battle brothers only (even though that might be offensive to some), but the rules for allies of convenience simply do not support that interpretation.

Unit1126PLL wrote:

FallenAfh wrote:

sirlynchmob wrote:If I take the mad dok as a HQ choice, for either primary army or allied army, he can then give out cybork bodies to the units from the other codex.

pg 96 ork codex "any unit in an army including the doc"

pg 109 BRB "your army can include one allied ..."

see allies are part of your army.

so if you have a really squishy unit, (no not you bugs, go sit down), you can take the dok and give out 5+ invulns to whoever needs a bit more oomph vehicles need not apply.

It could work... except Orks are Battlebrothers with no-one. Allies of convenience and desperate allies are treated exactly as if they were enemy units.

Except that, treated as enemy units or not, they're in your army with the good doctor. (The good doctor does not discriminate!)

he is a doctor, Hippocratic Oath and all


Automatically Appended Next Post:
as the legality of this got called into question, I posted a mirror of it on YMDC:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/463597.page

Blackgaze wrote:Tzeentch units with 4+ Inv?
Lychguard warscythes with 5+?

What other combos are there?

Any relevant Tzeench units already have invul saves.

FallenAfh wrote:I wish you good luck arguing that to any opponent with a straight face then. I would support your stance if they worked on battle brothers only (even though that might be offensive to some), but the rules for allies of convenience simply do not support that interpretation.

Have you read Grotzniks fluff? He will operate enemies, whether they like it or not. That's why he came to the battlefield in the first place.

Okay so according to this, for 5ppm all my gk interceptors with NFw swords can have iron haloes?

so a big mek, a necron lord and mad doc grotsnik walked into a bar.

....


....


well lets just say that with living metal, the big meks InVenShuns, and what the doc did whatever it was that walked out wasn't pretty. (But was Ded Killy)

Sorry to ruin the fun but like as been said orks don't have battle brothers and all the others say your independent characters cannot join your allied squads.

Joining the squad is not needed, as Mad Doc dose not need to be in the squad.

I guess you could possibly push it as RAW, but I would not try it myself (even though the Doc probably would try it on anyone dumb enough to turn there back to him long enough to be "anaesthetised", although I don't think much other than an ork would live to fight)

junk wrote:Okay so according to this, for 5ppm all my gk interceptors with NFw swords can have iron haloes?

Sure. And don't forget that they get "don't press dat!" if the uncontrollable grotznik runs near them.