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In the Daemons Codex. The Nurgle relic Horn of Nurgle's Rot reads: "...Roll a D6 each time the bearer kills an enemy model in the Fight phase whilst within 7" of one or more friendly unit of Plaguebearers. On a 4+ you can add a single Plaguebearer model to one of those units."

Plague drones recently got FAQ'd to include the Plaguebearer keyword. Are they eligible for regeneration under this rule?

I know, for example, that I have seen people play Spoilpox Scrivener's Keep Counting! (ability that adds +1 to hit to Plaguebearer units) as something that impacts plague drones, but not Stern Taskmaster because that ability refers to Plaguebearer Infantry (drones are cavalry).

For me, this is obviously not intended, but I am interested if there is an argument for RAW (here's looking at you BCB). Stratagems often refer to keywords.. and abilities rarely (if ever?) refer to dataslates. I'm unsure exactly how this interaction gets shut down.

No, because the stratagem is not referring to the PLAGUEBEARER keyword, but rather the model name.

Okay, I can follow that line. How do I know it is referring to the dataslate and not the keyword?

Because it's not in KEYWORD case. If a rule is referring to a keyword, it will be in small caps. Otherwise, it's a unit name.

OH I had totally overlooked that. So simple, thanks.

MadSpy wrote:
Because it's not in KEYWORD case. If a rule is referring to a keyword, it will be in small caps. Otherwise, it's a unit name.

A units name is small letters, a KEYWORD is capital letters.

Example : PREDATOR is a keyword, predator is the units name. Thats why, RAW, the killshot stratagem does not work on baal predators. The stratagem says Predators which refers to the units name, but the units name of a baal predator is baal predator. If the stratagem would say PREDATOR it would also work on the baal predator, because it also has the PREDATOR keyword.