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You will also be unable to use the Khorne allegiance ability as your allegiance will be Khorne Mortal and not Khorne.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:
You will also be unable to use the Khorne allegiance ability as your allegiance will be Khorne Mortal and not Khorne.

AFAIK he would still get Khorne allegiance, an army with Ironjawz allegiance still gets the benefit of Destruction for example.

This is where I always get confused. Looking at page 156 of the GHB:

"When your army qualifies for more than one allegiance - e.g. all of the units are ORDER and STORMCAST ETERNAL - you must choose which allegiance your army will use before each game."


"Khorne" is its own allegiance with special allegiance abilities, artifacts, etc.

"Khorne Mortal" is also its own allegiance, but without special allegiance abilities, etc., but it allows using Skullcrushers as battleline if you also use a Juggerlord as your general.

I did just try to make the list in Azyr. If the "Khorne" allegiance is taken, Skullcrushers can't be taken as battleline. If "Khorne Bloodbound" (I expect this the be the requirement on the Matched Play profile in GHB2 as that is the way it's listed in Blades of Khorne) is the allegiance, they count as battleline, but Khorne allegiance abilities can't be chosen. Not a 100% definitive answer, but if the official GW warscroll builder won't validate it, we may have been playing it wrong.

As an additional note, after further testing, an army with the Khorne Bloodbound allegiance may take the Chaos allegiance abilities or Khorne Bloodbound allegiance abilities (which as far as I know don't exist), and an army with the Ironjaws allegiance may take the Destruction allegiance abilities or Ironjaws allegiance abilities (which, again, I'm not aware of). I'm wondering if Azyr may be operating under some updated rules that we won't see until GHB2 is out. Maybe something along the lines of "An army my use the allegiance abilities of its Grand Alliance regardless of the army's actual allegiance"

Again, open Azyr and try to make that list. It won't validate.

I honestly think it should work that way too, but I would consider Azyr to be a primary rules source. Like I mentioned earlier, the relationship between "Allegiance" and "Allegiance abilities" may be clarified in GHB2. I'm hoping an FAQ for Blades of Khorne is forthcoming. I've already asked a couple questions about it on the AoS FB page and gotten some answers (though even the guys who run the FB page admit they aren't with the rules team, so I consider the answers unofficial).