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Hail

When you take mallex from the blackstone fortress list you can take a few units (ie beastmen and rouge psychers) without using a detachment slot. My question is if you take him as apart of a black legion detachment can you still take the unit since they don’t use a slot within the detachment?

Thank you

 ulfhednir86 wrote:
Hail

When you take mallex from the blackstone fortress list you can take a few units (ie beastmen and rouge psychers) without using a detachment slot. My question is if you take him as apart of a black legion detachment can you still take the unit since they don’t use a slot within the detachment?

Thank you

Only the Black Legionaries. The others don't have the BLACK LEGION keyword. Not taking up a detachment slot doesn't exempt them from the detachment keyword restrictions.

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 ulfhednir86 wrote:
Hail

When you take mallex from the blackstone fortress list you can take a few units (ie beastmen and rouge psychers) without using a detachment slot. My question is if you take him as apart of a black legion detachment can you still take the unit since they don’t use a slot within the detachment?

Thank you

Only the Black Legionaries. The others don't have the BLACK LEGION keyword.

Thank you for the fast reply
So the fact that beastmen and rogue psychers will not take a slot in the detachment doesnt make a difference?

 ulfhednir86 wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 ulfhednir86 wrote:
Hail

When you take mallex from the blackstone fortress list you can take a few units (ie beastmen and rouge psychers) without using a detachment slot. My question is if you take him as apart of a black legion detachment can you still take the unit since they don’t use a slot within the detachment?

Thank you

Only the Black Legionaries. The others don't have the BLACK LEGION keyword.

Thank you for the fast reply
So the fact that beastmen and rogue psychers will not take a slot in the detachment doesnt make a difference?

It does not. They don't take any slots but are still a part of that detachment. If you want to use them in Matched Play you need to make a SERVANTS OF THE ABYSS detachment.

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 ulfhednir86 wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 ulfhednir86 wrote:
Hail

When you take mallex from the blackstone fortress list you can take a few units (ie beastmen and rouge psychers) without using a detachment slot. My question is if you take him as apart of a black legion detachment can you still take the unit since they don’t use a slot within the detachment?

Thank you

Only the Black Legionaries. The others don't have the BLACK LEGION keyword.

Thank you for the fast reply
So the fact that beastmen and rogue psychers will not take a slot in the detachment doesnt make a difference?

It does not. They don't take any slots but are still a part of that detachment. If you want to use them in Matched Play you need to make a SERVANTS OF THE ABYSS detachment.

Sad gw hates us traitor guard players and make it impossible to play them competitively but thank you again.

 ulfhednir86 wrote:
Sad gw hates us traitor guard players and make it impossible to play them competitively but thank you again.

Or the SERVANTS OF THE ABYSS keyword will be expanded upon in a future codex or campaign book.

 Ghaz wrote:

 ulfhednir86 wrote:
Sad gw hates us traitor guard players and make it impossible to play them competitively but thank you again.

Or the SERVANTS OF THE ABYSS keyword will be expanded upon in a future codex or campaign book.

I hope your right but they still limit the numbers of how many of each unit type you can take which means you can only take them as a patrol and we don’t have any stratagems making them awesome but no where near competitive unless they remove the limitations, give us stratagems and more hqs.

Servants of the Abyss were only ever intended to allow people to use the excellent Black Fortress models in thematic games. It was never intended as a standalone army.

I hope that GW does eventually release proper rules for renegade guard (they keep mentioning them in the fluff!), but SotA were never intended to be that.

 Cheexsta wrote:
Servants of the Abyss were only ever intended to allow people to use the excellent Black Fortress models in thematic games. It was never intended as a standalone army.

I hope that GW does eventually release proper rules for renegade guard (they keep mentioning them in the fluff!), but SotA were never intended to be that.

There are rules, they just completely suck.

Thanks gw and FW for that one.

FW for writing one of the worst indexes ever and gw for further nerfing it.

 ulfhednir86 wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 ulfhednir86 wrote:
Sad gw hates us traitor guard players and make it impossible to play them competitively but thank you again.

Or the SERVANTS OF THE ABYSS keyword will be expanded upon in a future codex or campaign book.

I hope your right but they still limit the numbers of how many of each unit type you can take which means you can only take them as a patrol and we don’t have any stratagems making them awesome but no where near competitive unless they remove the limitations, give us stratagems and more hqs.

And when they release a proper codex with new kits then those datasheets will be replaced to reflect the options available in the new kits.

 Ghaz wrote:

 ulfhednir86 wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 ulfhednir86 wrote:
Sad gw hates us traitor guard players and make it impossible to play them competitively but thank you again.

Or the SERVANTS OF THE ABYSS keyword will be expanded upon in a future codex or campaign book.

I hope your right but they still limit the numbers of how many of each unit type you can take which means you can only take them as a patrol and we don’t have any stratagems making them awesome but no where near competitive unless they remove the limitations, give us stratagems and more hqs.

And when they release a proper codex with new kits then those datasheets will be replaced to reflect the options available in the new kits.

You mean if they release one. We have been waiting and even genestealer cults got a codex before us and gw said they have no plans to give us a codex

Codex: Servants of the Abyss will be released just before Codex: Squats.

 doctortom wrote:
Codex: Servants of the Abyss will be released just before Codex: Squats.

aye.

 doctortom wrote:
Codex: Servants of the Abyss will be released just before Codex: Squats.

In other words never lol