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Hi again! After recieving so much help (and so fast, it actually was a pleasent surprise) I would like to bother you all with some more newbie questions for matched plays. As allways, thanks in advance for the help and sorry if my english fails in some point!

Basically, my doubt is about the faction abilities or warlord traits in armies that have allies or detachments of other factions.

Does each Faction recieve it's abilities from the cards or only one? If there are different factions can you pick a warlord trait for each faction? Same with relics? In case you can pick only one of each, can you choose the powerup of the faction that does NOT compose the majority of your army?

Example in case I didn't explain myself well: Let's say I have a Raven Guard army with a detachment of Black Templars, do both factions recieve the power of the faction (raven guard when is shooted by enemies more than 12" of distance they get -1 on hit rolls, Black Templars now I am unsure but I believe it had to do something with re-rolling charges)? Can each faction get it's warlord traits and/or relics too?And in case that you only get one of each, let's say the raven guard are 1500 points and the black templars 500, could the templars recieve the benefits instead of the ravens?

CptRichard wrote:
Hi again! After recieving so much help (and so fast, it actually was a pleasent surprise) I would like to bother you all with some more newbie questions for matched plays. As allways, thanks in advance for the help and sorry if my english fails in some point!

Basically, my doubt is about the faction abilities or warlord traits in armies that have allies or detachments of other factions.

Does each Faction recieve it's abilities from the cards or only one? If there are different factions can you pick a warlord trait for each faction? Same with relics? In case you can pick only one of each, can you choose the powerup of the faction that does NOT compose the majority of your army?

Example in case I didn't explain myself well: Let's say I have a Raven Guard army with a detachment of Black Templars, do both factions recieve the power of the faction (raven guard when is shooted by enemies more than 12" of distance they get -1 on hit rolls, Black Templars now I am unsure but I believe it had to do something with re-rolling charges)? Can each faction get it's warlord traits and/or relics too?And in case that you only get one of each, let's say the raven guard are 1500 points and the black templars 500, could the templars recieve the benefits instead of the ravens?

You get only one warlord and one warlord trait (Dark Eldar can have multiple traits via a stratagem). You get one free relic from your warlords faction.

There are no restrictions on the relative sizes. You can make your warlord the smaller faction just fine. The Black Templars will get their own rules, so long as they are in another detachment. That doesn't have anything to do with Warlord choice.

In your example you have to pick one warlord, and whatever faction they are from those are the traits and relics they can use.

Thanks BaconCatBug. You saved me from ignorance again!

With this I'm good to go about this doubt, this are really fast responses.