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If I have a primary Daemon army with an allied detachment of Chaos Space Marines, can the entire Chaos Space Marine
detachment be placed in reserve?

Umm. Why would you think that?

You can reserve 50% of your army, not counting things that are required to be put in reserve.

The Daemons(from codex Chaos Daemons) will not count towards your 50% deployment requirement as they must start in reserve, the units from codex: Chaos Space Marines will(unless they must start in reserve like the helldrake).

So you could have all of your Chaos Daemons and things that must start in reserves + 50% of the other stuff reserved (bear in mind that ICs attached to a unit must be counted as well so would be 2 units for this purpose).

As reminder remember you can not mix ICs from the 2 codex's to try and have extra things in reserve (because they would be part of a unit that must be in reserves).

 TheAvengingKnee wrote:
The Daemons(from codex Chaos Daemons) will not count towards your 50% deployment requirement as they must start in reserve, the units from codex: Chaos Space Marines will(unless they must start in reserve like the helldrake).

So you could have all of your Chaos Daemons and things that must start in reserves + 50% of the other stuff reserved (bear in mind that ICs attached to a unit must be counted as well so would be 2 units for this purpose).

As reminder remember you can not mix ICs from the 2 codex's to try and have extra things in reserve (because they would be part of a unit that must be in reserves).

Thank You. Can you site the page where things that must start in reserve (i.e. Helldrake), do not count towards the 50% rule?

Also, if my allied Chaos Space Marine detachment had 3 units, could I round up and reserve 2?

Firstborn wrote:

 TheAvengingKnee wrote:
The Daemons(from codex Chaos Daemons) will not count towards your 50% deployment requirement as they must start in reserve, the units from codex: Chaos Space Marines will(unless they must start in reserve like the helldrake).

So you could have all of your Chaos Daemons and things that must start in reserves + 50% of the other stuff reserved (bear in mind that ICs attached to a unit must be counted as well so would be 2 units for this purpose).

As reminder remember you can not mix ICs from the 2 codex's to try and have extra things in reserve (because they would be part of a unit that must be in reserves).

Thank You. Can you site the page where things that must start in reserve (i.e. Helldrake), do not count towards the 50% rule?

Page 124, first paragraph under Preparing Reserves. Also page 36, under Deep Strike, tells us that ANY models embarked upon a transport which always Deep Strikes (ie: a drop pod) is ALSO ignored. This was later expanded to include ANY transport which always starts in Reserve (ie: Flyer transports), on page 8 of the main rulebook FAQ.
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2940039a_40K_RULEBOOK_v1.2_JANUARY13.pdf

Firstborn wrote:
Also, if my allied Chaos Space Marine detachment had 3 units, could I round up and reserve 2?

Yes.

Ninja'd.

Firstborn wrote:
Thank You. Can you site the page where things that must start in reserve (i.e. Helldrake), do not count towards the 50% rule?

Page 124 of the man rulebook under the preparing reserves heading

Firstborn wrote:
Also, if my allied Chaos Space Marine detachment had 3 units, could I round up and reserve 2?

Also on Page 124 of the man rulebook under the preparing reserves heading.
It is 50% deployed so you would need to deploy 1 and could reserve 2, though if any of the units are a unit and their dedicated transport(and they are deployed inside it) they only count as 1 for reserve purposes.