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Draigo wrote:No matter how you want the rule to be magpie no to will let you run it that way. The rule is as has been explained numerous times. He is not an IC, never will be an IC and does not have a retinue. The ghosts are an effect of his speacial rule.

I have no desire for the rule to be anything mate, I don't really care one way or the other. 100 times out of 10 I work all this stuff out before a die is rolled.
It is good to bat it about tho'

So did anyone come up with an idea of how a retinue is defined ?

I note in the 4th ed Codexs for Witchhunters and Daemonhunters the word Retinue is used in the preamble in the Inquisitors section but if we go off that being the definition the Command Squads and Honour Guards of SM become retinues as well?

Or is this moving too far off the original thread?

Retinues are mostly gone now; they're in the 5th ed rulebook principally to cover the 4th ed codices which were out at the time and still had Retinues in them.

Yeh that certainly seems to be the way, I could only find references in the BT and Witchhunter codices.

Strange tho' that the 5th Edition rule book still referes to them tho', seemingly changing the criterion to being that is is a unit from which the character cannot leave.