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Right.

So, reading through these detachments I have but one question. I suspect it's answered itself but would like to poke around.

Now I know that detachments chosen from the Codex Supplements (Black Legion, Crimson Slaughter, Iyanden etc) can only use the relics presented there. Fair enough.

But the detachments and rules (relics, warlord traits etc) in Exterminatus seem odd, stating that they can be added to an existing army and also can use the relics contained within.

So the question is - can Archangels Strike Force detachments and Flesh Tearers detachments choose relics from Codex: Blood Angels in addition to their specific relics within Exterminatus? Or are they consigned to just that particular set of relics?

Because I keep eyeing the Flesh Tearers detachment...and thinking how glorious the Angel's Wing relic would be for that - letting you drop a squad close and then going full ham the following turn....

Shield of Baal isn't a Codex Supplement, so there's no reason to expect it would work like one. If it tells you that you add them to the list, you add them to the list. Take a Relic from Codex: Blood Angels if you want.

from exterminatus:

Units chosen from the Archangels Detachment and Formations can also make use of the Relics and Warlord Traits listed below.

Units chosen from the Flesh Tearers Detachment and Formations can also make use of the Relics and Warlord Traits listed below.

previous supplemental army lists have had a special rule in them telling us that we cannot use the relics in the parent codex, exterminatus does not include any such special rules.

So yes, per the rules as written there is nothing restricting you to just the relics in exterminatus and nothing saying you may not use the relics from the parent codex where the unit entries are contained.

Jolly good. Just spotted this now. That's what I thought, just glad others have read it as such.

Angels Wing on Flesh Tearers go!!!!