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Just a few basic questions so I can understand the game and it's changes. I plan to pick up a rule book in a week or so - but have a few games sceduled before then, so could use some help.

From what I gather "bound" requires certain minimum detachments wich are made of basic units. I'm assuming this is the standard hq/2xtroops? And this matters pretty much only for claiming objectives and being abLE to contest fhem?

With allies and lords of war and fortifications in - can I take a fortification for my primary army and my allies? Ie: can my main army of space marines take a fortress / bastion / etc then my allied grey Knights also take a fortification, say a void shield generator? Or am I limited to one in my list?

Thanks a bunch

Bound means your army is formed of detachments.
However it can be any number of detachments, and each detachment can be for a different codex (tournaments usually have further restrictions on how many detachments you may take).

All units are now scoring.

The standard detachment is called Combined Arms, and is the 1HQ/2Troops minimum one you are familiar with.
This detachment also gets a special rule where troop choices in it can't be contested except by other units with that rule.

There is also an allies detachment, which I rarely see used, since combined arms detachments can already be for different armies.

There are plenty of other faction-specific detachments.


Unbound just means your list can contain any quantity of any unit from any codex. But you miss out on the detachment special rules. I haven't seen this played much.


Fortifications and Lords of War are now part of a detachment. The Combined Arms detachment lets you take one of each. The allies detachment contains neither. Other detachments vary.

This helps, thanks