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In the Blood Angels codex it states about the Company, (You can only include one unit of death company in your army.)(Unit composition: 3 Death Company)(Options: -Add up to 27 Death Company)
Does this mean three squads or models? And I assume the add 27 DC means 27 models.

Just ask for clarification if you can understand what i am asking. And sorry if I posted this in the incorrect spot.

3 models is unit composition. You can only have a swarm of DC unless you take astorath. In that case you get to have up to 6 DC squads each with a minimum of 3 guys.
Yes the 27 extra DC models is what you add to the death company unit.

Thank you, this clears it up a bit. But what do you mean by "You can only have a swarm of DC unless you take astorath." I'm a bit dense when it comes to rules, I am very new at this.

Read astorath's rules in the codex, it's fairly clear.

Thanks again. That cleared it up.

It wasn't clear because you used the word "swarm." He can still have a swarm of Death Company without astorath if he takes 30 Death Company marines in one squad.

Hobo,
You can have 3-30 Death company in a squad. You can only have 1 squad of Death Company unless you take Astorath. If you take Astorath, you can haveany amount of squads of 3-30 Death Company, following the Force Organization chart.

That help too, Many Thanks
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One more thing, if I take astorath, do I have to pay the extra points for the extra squad members?

What? Honestly?

If you take astorath you'll have to pay as normal, so the basic 3 models at the stated cost plus any other models and any upgrades for each unit of DC.

Basic summary:

Death Company can be chosen as a Troops choice. Each unit starts at 3 members and may be given up to 27 more members, at the points costs given in the entry.
By default, you are only allowed one such unit. Astorath removes that restriction, *and that restriction only*.

So yes, you still have to pay full points, and each unit can still only go up to 30. Also bear in mind that as they're Troops, they don't exactly become unlimited - you can take up to 6, and that would mean excluding any other Troops choices.

Super Ready wrote:Basic summary:

Death Company can be chosen as a Troops choice. Each unit starts at 3 members and may be given up to 27 more members, at the points costs given in the entry.
By default, you are only allowed one such unit. Astorath removes that restriction, *and that restriction only*.

So yes, you still have to pay full points, and each unit can still only go up to 30. Also bear in mind that as they're Troops, they don't exactly become unlimited - you can take up to 6, and that would mean excluding any other Troops choices.

Basic summary is spot on.

However you would need to be playing a very large points total to actually fill up 6 slots with 30 DC, because that is over 3600 points.

Weight of numbers on the first turn of a charge though. Don't need power axes, just drag em down with volume. Put a chaplain in there and it would be amazing

DeathReaper wrote:
However you would need to be playing a very large points total to actually fill up 6 slots with 30 DC, because that is over 3600 points.

And you would have a reall hard time winning games. DC are non-scoring units. I have seen some DC lists that have a very rough time wining without tabling. One of the people here (Horst?) has a DC list that the only scoring units in it are his IG allies.

DeathReaper wrote:Basic summary is spot on.
However you would need to be playing a very large points total to actually fill up 6 slots with 30 DC, because that is over 3600 points.

Oh, absolutely, and by that time you're looking at another FOC anyway. But there's also the possibility of doing 5-man units, which would only be 600 points plus upgrades - or even 3-man for less.
...not that I'm suggesting anyone would be so nuts - just allowing my imagination to overtake my keyboard.

But if you took the full 180 death company, and they all charged the same unit, your looking at a nice solid 900 attacks. Totally feasable to move them in a way that they all are engaged... Right?

racta wrote:But if you took the full 180 death company, and they all charged the same unit, your looking at a nice solid 900 attacks. Totally feasable to move them in a way that they all are engaged... Right?

If you set it up on a unit of 30 Orks, yes it probably wound be possible to get them all into combat.