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If my devastator unit takes a mortal wound can I take it on an unspent armorium cherub?

Techpriestsupport wrote:
If my devastator unit takes a mortal wound can I take it on an unspent armorium cherub?

To flip it around, why would you not be able to? The Cherub is a member of the unit, it's not different or special in any way. So yes, you can allocate wounds to it just as you would any other member of the unit. It takes up a transport slot, it has to stay in coherency, and actually stops you combat squading a unit of 10 dudes and the Cherub because it's not a unit with "10 models" anymore, it's got 11.

Yes, you can.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
...and actually stops you combat squading a unit of 10 dudes and the Cherub because it's not a unit with "10 models" anymore, it's got 11.

Depends which colour of Space Marines you're using...

The Armorium Cherub does not count as a model for the purposes of the Combat Squad ability. If a Devastator Squad is split using the Combat Squads ability, the Armorium Cherub must accompany one of the units. Codex Blood Angels pg 114

The Armorium Cherub does not count as a model for the purposes of the Combat Squad ability. If a Devastator Squad is split using the Combat Squads ability, the Armorium Cherub must accompany one of the units. Codex Dark Angels pg 114

Said lines are missing from the Codex Space Marine Devastator dataslate though.

And they didn't include this in the codex spacemarine FAQ Errata.
So change the wording in the new marines +1 codex but vanilla marines get left hanging.

From the designers commentary :

Q: Do models with profiles, such as Armorium Cherubs
and Ammo Runts, count as a model for the purposes of
embarking within transports or when measuring ranges
to and from the unit?

A: Yes – for all rules purposes they are part of the unit.

You can allocate wounds to them.