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I want to make sure I am understanding the new formations correctly, as I have seen a few lists and army reports where players are using the formations in a way that seems incorrect. The way the book seems to read is that to take the formations, along with their advantages, you have to take one Core Formation, one Auxillary, and may take up to three Command Formations. So essentially you have to take one of the Guardian formations or the Windrider Formation and one of the Auxillary formations or you do not receive the special rules that go along with the formations. It seems like these formations require games larger than 1500. Even 1850 will still require some concessions in order to fit what is needed into the list. Am I correct in my reading of this?

no, you can take any of the core formations at the back of the codex (after lords of War) by themselves and gain their benefits. You do, however, give up the 6" run bonus from taking a warhost formation first.

so you could take a wraith host formation by itself and gain it's special rules.

If you want the bonus for the craftworld warhost (always 6" run) then yes you have to do what you said. However you can also take some of the formations separately, but not get the 6" run. You could use these in addition to your standard CAD, but they wont get ObjSec and the models in the formation don't take up slots in the CAD. These are the formations shown after the Avatar of Khaine entry. (I would give a page reference but I don't have the codex with me so I am working from memory)

As the others have stated, you can take any formations listed after the lords of war as their own detachments in any army, but the other auxiliary formations in the craftworld host (listed on p94/95) that DO NOT appear at the back of the book are only able to be taken as part of a craftworld warhost detachment.

Ok, that makes a lot more sense and makes the formations more viable.

Also, just taking the minimum stuff required for the craftworld warhost, you end up with less than 1k points, which leaves some room for customization even in smaller point games. If you're looking for games under 1k, then yeah, it doesn't work well for that.. But really, the game isn't designed for games that small.

Still learning the rules for 7th edition, how do the formations work with the Force Org Chart? I'm thinking mainly of the Seer Council. Does that take up just one HQ spot? If not it seems that formation would right off the bat not be, I guess the phrase now used is "bound". You are needing to run three HQs to get it. It has been 5th Ed since I really played the game so a lot of these types of rules are completely new to me.

mbutler132000 wrote:
Still learning the rules for 7th edition, how do the formations work with the Force Org Chart? I'm thinking mainly of the Seer Council. Does that take up just one HQ spot? If not it seems that formation would right off the bat not be, I guess the phrase now used is "bound". You are needing to run three HQs to get it. It has been 5th Ed since I really played the game so a lot of these types of rules are completely new to me.

"bound", "formation", and "detachment" do not work in the way you think they do it seems. "Force Org" are also a thing of the past and no longer exists (independently). They have been replaced by "Detachments".
You can take "detachments" OR "Formations" OR both. Here is a diagram and some explanation that might help:

 Jidmah wrote:
There is no limitation of what detachments/formations your army is made up from, unless those are imposed by the detachment itself. For example, you could not have two formations which force you to make on of its members your warlord.

See this picture for an example of a perfectly legal battleforged army: