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Help me out here Dakka, I saw several posts on a particular Hobby site that listed winning armies from various major events. Obviously they had been built with battlescibe. For the Supreme command detachment, I saw chaos players with HQ from CSM, Renegades and another all rolled into one detachment. Battlescribe does not allow for this. Is this a glitch in battlescribe? or were those illegal lists? If all of your HQ have the "Chaos" keyword, can you put them in a single HQSupreme detachment? Thanks for the help....

Battlescribe does allow it, you need to nest selections under a master.
Yes you can build detachments with one common keyword such as chaos. You lose out of faction benefits if you do this, and won't unlock stratagems.

1) It's not a glitch in Battlescribe, it's a limitation of the software. You can add multiple factions to a detachment, it's just a fiddly.

2) Battlescribe is intended as a tool to help list building alongside a codex and the rulebook, not as a means to replace those things. There are LOTS of interactions that are handled in unintuitive ways in battlescribe that make a lot more sense when looking at the actual rules. Always check your list against the published rules.

 quickfuze wrote:
Help me out here Dakka, I saw several posts on a particular Hobby site that listed winning armies from various major events. Obviously they had been built with battlescibe. For the Supreme command detachment, I saw chaos players with HQ from CSM, Renegades and another all rolled into one detachment. Battlescribe does not allow for this. Is this a glitch in battlescribe? or were those illegal lists? If all of your HQ have the "Chaos" keyword, can you put them in a single HQSupreme detachment? Thanks for the help....

You need to add the appropriate force within the existing supreme command detachments roster, rather than creating a new one.
For example, your "Force" tab should look something like this:
-Chaos - Daemons v##
--Chaos - Chaos Space Marines v##
--Chaos - Titanicus Traitoris v##

Here, the CSM and Chaos knights are added onto the existing Daemons force list, not thru 'New roster'