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Hello again, dakka, another question for the masses.
So if I were to take an hq that lets me take something else as a troops choice (force modifier) does that benefit carry over from the primary detachment to any combined arms detachment? Assuming its all same codex?

Ex- take azrael in my primary, can I now take ravenwing and deathwing as troops in my combined detachments?

Depends if it states army or detachment.

gealgain wrote:
Hello again, dakka, another question for the masses.
So if I were to take an hq that lets me take something else as a troops choice (force modifier) does that benefit carry over from the primary detachment to any combined arms detachment? Assuming its all same codex?

Ex- take azrael in my primary, can I now take ravenwing and deathwing as troops in my combined detachments?

Yes.

He would be the Warlord of the entire army.

Example. You bring Azrael as your Warlord with the 6th company of DA which actually has no DW or RW in them. Azrael allows those as troop choices. You then bring in your CaD 1st Company, DW and 2nd Company, RW

Check the FAQs for each character. Some will have had their rule re-worded to say detachment rather than army. (Baron Sathonyx and Urien Rakarth, for example.)

 Jimsolo wrote:
Check the FAQs for each character. Some will have had their rule re-worded to say detachment rather than army. (Baron Sathonyx and Urien Rakarth, for example.)

Azrael says primary detachment in the codex that I have seen.

 Lobomalo wrote:

gealgain wrote:
Hello again, dakka, another question for the masses.
So if I were to take an hq that lets me take something else as a troops choice (force modifier) does that benefit carry over from the primary detachment to any combined arms detachment? Assuming its all same codex?

Ex- take azrael in my primary, can I now take ravenwing and deathwing as troops in my combined detachments?

Yes.

He would be the Warlord of the entire army.

Example. You bring Azrael as your Warlord with the 6th company of DA which actually has no DW or RW in them. Azrael allows those as troop choices. You then bring in your CaD 1st Company, DW and 2nd Company, RW

In my copy he states detachment. Detachment isn't the same, always, as army.

nosferatu1001 wrote:

 Lobomalo wrote:

gealgain wrote:
Hello again, dakka, another question for the masses.
So if I were to take an hq that lets me take something else as a troops choice (force modifier) does that benefit carry over from the primary detachment to any combined arms detachment? Assuming its all same codex?

Ex- take azrael in my primary, can I now take ravenwing and deathwing as troops in my combined detachments?

Yes.

He would be the Warlord of the entire army.

Example. You bring Azrael as your Warlord with the 6th company of DA which actually has no DW or RW in them. Azrael allows those as troop choices. You then bring in your CaD 1st Company, DW and 2nd Company, RW

In my copy he states detachment. Detachment isn't the same, always, as army.

Yeah noticed that. Needs an FAQ though as the example I provided would technically work as they are all DA. Kind of weird but whatever.

 Lobomalo wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:

 Lobomalo wrote:

gealgain wrote:
Hello again, dakka, another question for the masses.
So if I were to take an hq that lets me take something else as a troops choice (force modifier) does that benefit carry over from the primary detachment to any combined arms detachment? Assuming its all same codex?

Ex- take azrael in my primary, can I now take ravenwing and deathwing as troops in my combined detachments?

Yes.

He would be the Warlord of the entire army.

Example. You bring Azrael as your Warlord with the 6th company of DA which actually has no DW or RW in them. Azrael allows those as troop choices. You then bring in your CaD 1st Company, DW and 2nd Company, RW

In my copy he states detachment. Detachment isn't the same, always, as army.

Yeah noticed that. Needs an FAQ though as the example I provided would technically work as they are all DA. Kind of weird but whatever.

IIRC, only the CAD that the Warlord is in is considered the primary detachment.

the force modifiers are not addressed in the FAQ, so therefore we have the old classic gap between editions. RAW vs RAI
RAW: only the first detachment with the dark angels book can be modified, as all 3 force modifiers (belial, azrael, and sammael) say explicitly "primary detachment"
RAI: in 6th edition "primary detachment" was wording to indicate that you can't use a force modifier if you take it as an ally.

 Lobomalo wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:

 Lobomalo wrote:

gealgain wrote:
Hello again, dakka, another question for the masses.
So if I were to take an hq that lets me take something else as a troops choice (force modifier) does that benefit carry over from the primary detachment to any combined arms detachment? Assuming its all same codex?

Ex- take azrael in my primary, can I now take ravenwing and deathwing as troops in my combined detachments?

Yes.

He would be the Warlord of the entire army.

Example. You bring Azrael as your Warlord with the 6th company of DA which actually has no DW or RW in them. Azrael allows those as troop choices. You then bring in your CaD 1st Company, DW and 2nd Company, RW

In my copy he states detachment. Detachment isn't the same, always, as army.

Yeah noticed that. Needs an FAQ though as the example I provided would technically work as they are all DA. Kind of weird but whatever.

No, it would not technically work. Your primary detachment is not the same as any other detachment. Even if they are the same faction, they are not the same detachment, by definition, and so cannot benefit from rules that specify the primary alone