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I'd like to introduce some Daemonettes to my Iron Warriors army. Daemons are shown as Troops choices in the codex, but Battlescribe won't let me add Daemonettes since the only Troops choices are CSM and Cultists.

Can I have some daemons?

 Jedborg wrote:
I'd like to introduce some Daemonettes to my Iron Warriors army. Daemons are shown as Troops choices in the codex, but Battlescribe won't let me add Daemonettes since the only Troops choices are CSM and Cultists.

Can I have some daemons?

Yes and no.

Yes, you can summon them via the summoning rules, no they aren't part of the force.

Basically you need to leave points free, instead of 2000 pts your list just has 1750, and then summon.
Personally i would keep your summoning charachter unmarked in order to summon all possible daemons.
Also a batch of standard daemons is easily possible with an average throw so nothing to worry about.

Alternativly go and field a daemons detachment.

 Jedborg wrote:
I'd like to introduce some Daemonettes to my Iron Warriors army. Daemons are shown as Troops choices in the codex, but Battlescribe won't let me add Daemonettes since the only Troops choices are CSM and Cultists.

Can I have some daemons?

Units being in the same codex is not what allows you to put them in the same detachment. It's all about Keywords. If you want to make an Iron Warriors detachment, all units must have the Iron Warriors keyword. Daemonettes do not. In fact they also lack Heretic Astartes.

Your options as stated above are to summon them or include a separate daemons Detachment.

They are included in the codex simply for summoning purposes.

Isn't it better to just run a demon detachment instead of summoning, if you don't plan to summon different units each game?

Karol wrote:
Isn't it better to just run a demon detachment instead of summoning, if you don't plan to summon different units each game?

Pretty much. Unless you just want one unit, in which case at least summoning saves you the CP.

Do the daemons and iron warriors not share any key words? Like chaos? Would that allow a detachment including iron warriors and daemonettes?

It used to but the larger soup unifying keywords were removed from detachment unifying purposes in matched play.

 Eldarain wrote:
It used to but the larger soup unifying keywords were removed from detachment unifying purposes in matched play.

I don't understand.

nareik wrote:

 Eldarain wrote:
It used to but the larger soup unifying keywords were removed from detachment unifying purposes in matched play.

I don't understand.

You can't use Chaos or imperium to form a detachment mixed out of many differing codices.

Not Online!!! wrote:

nareik wrote:

 Eldarain wrote:
It used to but the larger soup unifying keywords were removed from detachment unifying purposes in matched play.

I don't understand.

You can't use Chaos or imperium to form a detachment mixed out of many differing codices.

But you can use the Slaanesh keyword. So if you have a HQ with the appropriate mark, you can take a patrol/battalion with Daemonettes.

JakeSiren wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

nareik wrote:

 Eldarain wrote:
It used to but the larger soup unifying keywords were removed from detachment unifying purposes in matched play.

I don't understand.

You can't use Chaos or imperium to form a detachment mixed out of many differing codices.

But you can use the Slaanesh keyword. So if you have a HQ with the appropriate mark, you can take a patrol/battalion with Daemonettes.

But you lose any traits.

Not Online!!! wrote:

nareik wrote:

 Eldarain wrote:
It used to but the larger soup unifying keywords were removed from detachment unifying purposes in matched play.

I don't understand.

You can't use Chaos or imperium to form a detachment mixed out of many differing codices.

oh. Was it a FAQ/errata?

nareik wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

nareik wrote:

 Eldarain wrote:
It used to but the larger soup unifying keywords were removed from detachment unifying purposes in matched play.

I don't understand.

You can't use Chaos or imperium to form a detachment mixed out of many differing codices.

oh. Was it a FAQ/errata?

Battlebrothers i belive explained this.

It was there to stop brimstone Malefic lord shenanigans and other such annoying nonsense.

Where is Battlebrothers found? My rules knowledge is really poor this edition.

If I were you, which I am clearly not, I would take 20-30 Daemonettes with a Herald and use the DotW strategem to DS them.

Take them as a Patrol, take your IW as a Battalion, get traits/loci, profit.

Straight from the Data Authors:

https://github.com/BSData/wh40k/issues/2861 wrote:Please see #2445. We made the decision to remove them to help avoid confusion for users. Having them in the CSM catalogues made it too easy for users to mistakenly make invalid "Chaos Space Marine" detachments by including Daemons.

You can still add Daemons to a CSM army by adding a separate detachment, or a child detachment if you deliberately want to make a non-CSM detachment (or non-Chaos Daemons detachment).

I am sorry that by "helping avoid confusion for users" they have simply caused confusion. Apparently wanting the Battlescribe people to follow the rules is childish. -shrug-

And in any case, you can't include Daemons as a Troops choice without breaking Detachment Trait or Matched Play legality, so you either need their own detachment anyway or summon them in.

The only issue with BattleScribe some users have is being polite to people when asking them to do free work to make their hobby easier. Honestly, that disagreement you mention was a year ago... and the response you got was based on your posting style of calling them e.g. “lazy”.

Tbh their reasoning seems largely sound, as you can manage it if you need to, but avoids people casually making a big error and believing it game legal.