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If you say build a specific allegiance army (like phoenix temple) to get access to count as troops (in this example phoenix guard)

Do you still get access to grand alliance artefacts and traits if that specific allegiance does not have its own set?

You can always choose to use the allegiance abilities of your Grand Alliance, while still retaining another allegiance.

Fix from the 2016 General's Handbook:

You can choose to take either the allegiance abilities for the allegiance your army belongs to, or the allegiance abilities for the Grand Alliance your army belongs to.

https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/AoS_Errata/Warhammer_aos_generals_handbook_en.pdf

ok thx. was looking in the book itself.

But the allegiance you pick for traits must be the same as the artefacts etc. So you have a list building allegiance and a game allegiance. The don't have to match, as long as your army qualifies for the allegiances

terry wrote:
But the allegiance you pick for traits must be the same as the artefacts etc. So you have a list building allegiance and a game allegiance. The don't have to match, as long as your army qualifies for the allegiances

That's not 100% correct.

You're only allowed to pick up the Grand Alliance allegiance abilities.

Armies that would qualify for 3 or more allegiances are not allowed to build toward one and then take the abilities from another, that is not the Grand Alliance abilities.

Example:
Slaves to Darkness all with Mark of Khorne (shared keywords on all units: CHAOS, SLAVES TO DARKNESS, KHORNE)
Army list with Slaves to Darkness allegiance (with Knights as battleline) can only pick up the Slaves to Darkness or Grand Alliance allegiance abilities, but not the Khorne allegiance abilities.

He was referring to how its all or nothing; you can't take the blood tithe from khorne allegiance but use the artifacts from chaos allegiance, for example.