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OK.

So I've recently received the Dark Imperium box set as a gift (yay). I don't own any codex books yet, but plan on at least purchasing the Chaos ones.

I have an existing chaos undivided force, which is mostly from a battleforce box set from 5th edition or so.

I have...
10 Khorne Bezerkers
10 Chaos Space Marines
3 Bikers
1 Rhino
1 Sorcerer
1 Lord
1 Exalted Champion (or looks like an aspiring champion, but he's on his own)
10 Furies ( I have no idea why).

I had been painting these as Blue and Silver (and gave the bezerkers red helmets, axes/swords and icons, but are still blue and silver) to make them all into chaos undivided Adharon's Reaver type. I do plan on buying Kharne the Betrayer and 10 more bezerkers and doing them world eaters colour scheme, but I wanted some in my blue and silver too.

On top of this I have the plague marines, lord of contagion, pox walkers, etc from the Dark Imperium. I know that Plague Marines can be taken as "elite" slots in non Death Guard <Legion> detachments. Can pox walkers and the others? I haven't been able to find anything online about them...

I'm happy creating a Death Guard army too and having them as their own detachment, but I had wanted Nurgle cult troops in my chaos undivided army (for my own completion, mostly).

TLDR: Can all things with the Death Guard faction keyword (like Pox Walkers) be taken in non Death Guard detachments and be given other <LEGION> faction keywords?

Nah, not so. They need to have the <LEGION> keyword, and they are very specifically Death Guard. You'll have to play a Death Guard detachment and stuff them all in there seperately. It won't have very much in terms of synergy, but it'll look damn cool to have all the different varities!

 vaklor4 wrote:
Nah, not so. They need to have the <LEGION> keyword, and they are very specifically Death Guard. You'll have to play a Death Guard detachment and stuff them all in there seperately. It won't have very much in terms of synergy, but it'll look damn cool to have all the different varities!

Cheers. I don't mind having different armies.

I had hoped I could squeeze some of the cult troops into a chaos undivided force with a <LEGION> faction (like you can make plague marines, but they are then elites), but never mind! Separate detachments it is then.

I know I can fluff it by saying that my Chaos undivided lord rallied multiple other small cults underneath. I know some of the chaos gods will only rarely work alongside others.

Abbadon has all the god keywords that means they are all troops, just convert a counts as for your force

 Formosa wrote:
Abbadon has all the god keywords that means they are all troops, just convert a counts as for your force

This is incorrect, abaddon does not affect what is and is not troops.

You can make a Chaos detachment with mixed Legion keywords if you don't mind missing out on Legion specific bonuses in that detachment. Pox walkers will always be Death Guard though.