Grey knights and space marine codex

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**Seizeman**

The new space marines codex defines an "adeptus astartes detachment" as a detachment that only includes models with the "adeptus astartes" keywords. Since every single GK unit has the adeptus astartes keyword, RAW, a GK detachment would also be an adeptus astartes detachment, so a pure GK army would have access to SM stratagems, relics, warlord traits and secondary objectives (excluding the ones with the keyword "chapter", since GKs don't have those). Is there anything, appart from common sense, preventing this?

**Mr Morden**

I can't see any specific wording in the Codex that prvents this.

**DeathReaper**

Common sense does not even prevent it, as Grey knights are adeptus astartes (In the keywords, and the lore(Not that the lore matters for the rules)).

**Super Ready**

I'd say it's prevented purely by way of being in the same book as these lines. Both on page 124:

All Adeptus Astartes units are drawn from a Chapter.

You cannot select Grey Knights or Legion of the Damned when nominating which Chapter a unit is from.

I suspect Grey Knights may lose the Adeptus Astartes keyword entirely when their Codex comes around.

**DeathReaper**

Super Ready wrote:
I'd say it's prevented purely by way of being in the same book as these lines. Both on page 124:

All Adeptus Astartes units are drawn from a Chapter.

You cannot select Grey Knights or Legion of the Damned when nominating which Chapter a unit is from.

I suspect Grey Knights may lose the Adeptus Astartes keyword entirely when their Codex comes around.

They probably wont lose the Adeptus Astartes keyword. They will still have their own codex though from what it looks like.