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So I've been reading the 9th edition rulebook, and I found this little tidbit with the rule of 3.

"With the exception of units with the Troops or Dedicated Transport Battlefield Roles, or units that are added to your army during the battle that cost Reinforcement points, each player can only include the same datasheet in their army three times."

With reinforcements being made a specific exception, does this mean you could, for instance, have 3 company commanders on the board at the start, and additional ones in strategic reserves? Or am I missing what "Reinforcement points" are, as I could not locate them in the rulebook either.

 Smitty wrote:
So I've been reading the 9th edition rulebook, and I found this little tidbit with the rule of 3.

"With the exception of units with the Troops or Dedicated Transport Battlefield Roles, or units that are added to your army during the battle that cost Reinforcement points, each player can only include the same datasheet in their army three times."

With reinforcements being made a specific exception, does this mean you could, for instance, have 3 company commanders on the board at the start, and additional ones in strategic reserves? Or am I missing what "Reinforcement points" are, as I could not locate them in the rulebook either.

Strategic Reserves don't use Reinforcement Points. Summoning Daemons or spawning Termagants and the like are what use Reinforcement Points.

Strategic Reserves places a unit you have in your army into said Strategic Reserves to arrive later. You have already paid the points and Detachment Slot for them.

Reinforcement Points work the exact same in 9th as they did in 8th. You set up a separate pool of Reinforcement Points that count towards your armies points limit to spawn units mid game (e.g. You have 1800 points of units in your army and 200 Reinforcement points set aside to summon Daemons).

It should work with Valhallas "send in the next wave" stratagem though, allowing to take more than three command/special weapon/heavy weapon/veteran squads.

 BaconCatBug wrote:

 Smitty wrote:
So I've been reading the 9th edition rulebook, and I found this little tidbit with the rule of 3.

"With the exception of units with the Troops or Dedicated Transport Battlefield Roles, or units that are added to your army during the battle that cost Reinforcement points, each player can only include the same datasheet in their army three times."

With reinforcements being made a specific exception, does this mean you could, for instance, have 3 company commanders on the board at the start, and additional ones in strategic reserves? Or am I missing what "Reinforcement points" are, as I could not locate them in the rulebook either.

Strategic Reserves don't use Reinforcement Points. Summoning Daemons or spawning Termagants and the like are what use Reinforcement Points.

Strategic Reserves places a unit you have in your army into said Strategic Reserves to arrive later. You have already paid the points and Detachment Slot for them.

I must have been missing the reinforcement points in the book then, that's what I was thinking the more I thought about it.


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 Pyroalchi wrote:
It should work with Valhallas "send in the next wave" stratagem though, allowing to take more than three command/special weapon/heavy weapon/veteran squads.

Huh, it would, yeah.

Haha! I completely forgot that the rule of three was even a thing.

Yes, you can add a 4th daemon herald to your army if you want to. this type of reinforcement is summoning, and I can't really think of a situation where you reallyyyy want to summon a 4th copy of something that is restricted.


edit- by my interpretation, 'reinforcement point' are the points you'd keep spare in your list for say an assassin. Or to summon a blob of bloodletters.

 McMagnus Mindbullets wrote:
Haha! I completely forgot that the rule of three was even a thing.

It wasn't, in 8th at least. Now it is.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 McMagnus Mindbullets wrote:
Haha! I completely forgot that the rule of three was even a thing.

It wasn't, in 8th at least. Now it is.

Only in eternal war missions. And GW still hasnt clarified if a DA devastator squad counts as the same datasheet as a BA devastator squad. They are in different books, so they cant be the same datasheet.

 p5freak wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 McMagnus Mindbullets wrote:
Haha! I completely forgot that the rule of three was even a thing.

It wasn't, in 8th at least. Now it is.

Only in eternal war missions. And GW still hasnt clarified if a DA devastator squad counts as the same datasheet as a BA devastator squad. They are in different books, so they cant be the same datasheet.

They don’t need to, because the new book rolls all Chapters into one, plus supplements. So problem solved as those duplicates go away.

 JohnnyHell wrote:

 p5freak wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 McMagnus Mindbullets wrote:
Haha! I completely forgot that the rule of three was even a thing.

It wasn't, in 8th at least. Now it is.

Only in eternal war missions. And GW still hasnt clarified if a DA devastator squad counts as the same datasheet as a BA devastator squad. They are in different books, so they cant be the same datasheet.

They don’t need to, because the new book rolls all Chapters into one, plus supplements. So problem solved as those duplicates go away.

The new codex will be released in october. Until then we still dont know, we also dont know if devastators will all be the same. SW for example dont have devastators, they have long fangs.