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The new codex lets you use the LotD as a primary detachment. Max squads to field are one mandatory squad and up to 3 extra squads. Each squad is an elite choice.

You can get a second primary detachment of LotD.

What I'm understanding is. I could field a primary detachment of LotD, then get a second primary detachment of reg marines?

This seems to me that there is no restriction to two primary detatchments and be under 2000 points.

A primary detatchment of 4 LotD squad is worth 1000 points. Then you could field 999 points of a second primary of reg marines.

If I'm wrong please correct me.

Also, states you can have a primary detatchment of LotD, primary detatchment of reg marines, and allied detatchment of an army that can be allies to both.

Page 110, last sentence of the second paragraph of "Bigger Games"

"All primary detachments must be taken from the same codex."

Chrysis wrote:
Page 110, last sentence of the second paragraph of "Bigger Games"

"All primary detachments must be taken from the same codex."

Can you explain this? It's from the new codex

“Alternatively, an army may include a Legion of the Damned detachment in addition to any other detachments. Other detachments, such as allied detachments, additional primary detachments and fortifications can be taken normally. So, for example, you could field an army with a Blood Angels primary detachment, an allied detachment of Imperial Guard, and a Legion of the Damned detachment. You can include two Legion of the Damned detachments in your army if you wish, but one of these must be the army’s primary detachment."

You can include a Legion of the Damned detachment as an "Other" detachment. So not Allied or Primary. However, if you want two Legion of the Damned detachments, one of them must be a primary which means the second must be either a Primary (2000+ points) or an "Other" (any game size). Nothing grants permission to mix and match Primary detachments.

The LotD aren't the primary detachment , they army you are taking them with is

Am I understanding it correctly that there are no troops in the LoD codex? If that's true then you would ALWAYS have to ally in something.

clively wrote:
Am I understanding it correctly that there are no troops in the LoD codex? If that's true then you would ALWAYS have to ally in something.

I'm pretty sure it's the same as the Inquisition codex. If you take them as a Primary Detachment, then the Elites become scoring.

You pretty much ALWAYS have to ally something in. LotD start in reserves due to their special rules. So if you only do LotD, you auto-lose at the end of the first turn.

 grendel083 wrote:

clively wrote:
Am I understanding it correctly that there are no troops in the LoD codex? If that's true then you would ALWAYS have to ally in something.

I'm pretty sure it's the same as the Inquisition codex. If you take them as a Primary Detachment, then the Elites become scoring.

yup LotD Detachments are scoring and make any LotD squads in other detachments scoring. There is also a LotD Warlord chart and Relic in the codex.

barnowl wrote:
yup LotD Detachments are scoring and make any LotD squads in other detachments scoring.

None of this is true.

If you take a Legion of the Damned detachment as your primary detachment, then all Legion of the Damned squads in your primary detachment are scoring units

If you have a primary detachment from the Codex: Legion of the Damned and an allied detachment from Codex: Space Marines the LotD units in the primary detachment will be scoring, but the LotD units in the allied detachment will not be scoring.
If you have a primary detachment from the Codex: Legion of the Damned and a 'special' allied detachment from Codex: Legion of the Damned the LotD units in the primary detachment will be scoring, but the LotD units in the allied detachment will not be scoring.
If you have a primary detachment from the Codex: Space Marines and a 'special' allied detachment from Codex: Legion of the Damned none of the LotD units in either detachment will be scoring.

It works differently than Codex: Inquisition.