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I've probably missed a rule somewhere, but what's to stop me getting an Imperial knight and changing the <HOUSEHOLD> keyword to another faction, like Grey Knights. Not "House Grey Knights" but simply "Grey knights" as it doesn't state that I have to add house in front of it. Then wouldn't it count as a Grey Knight unit for any bonuses that effect Grey Knight units?

 The_Grey_Knight wrote:
I've probably missed a rule somewhere, but what's to stop me getting an Imperial knight and changing the <HOUSEHOLD> keyword to another faction, like Grey Knights. Not "House Grey Knights" but simply "Grey knights" as it doesn't state that I have to add house in front of it. Then wouldn't it count as a Grey Knight unit for any bonuses that effect Grey Knight units?

"No.
The intent of naming Regiments, Chapters, etc. of your own
creation is to personalise your collections and not to enable
players to circumvent the restrictions on what abilities affect
what units. It is also not intended to circumvent the restrictions
on which units are able to be included in the same Detachment."

-Warhammer 40k 8th edition Designers Notes

This argument had a long heated thread, and then in the FAQ GW told the people trying to game the system this badly that "no. Of course it doesn't work that way."

 Purifier wrote:
This argument had a long heated thread, and then in the FAQ GW told the people trying to game the system this badly that "no. Of course it doesn't work that way."

you can almost here the "... feth you stop being a deliberatly obtuse dick" in GW's reply