DE codex Faq

Mppqlmd wrote:

At least T. A. has interesting lists, a hilarious SOB/Dark Eldar house-fluff and makes valid points about the game.

So much this.

Only thing that I'm not in favor of is the 3 max use of a data sheet at 2k points. What if I wanted to take an airwing of 4 razorwing jetfighters? Or a Kabal patrol and Cult patrol with 2 RWJF in each? Kind of a bummer. other than that I'm fine with everything.

As far as Battalions and Brigades go, there is nothing stopping you from mixing the entire faction in them. You will just not get the bonus of Obsessions. So basically you're playing Index DE. I may do that from time to time.

Take 3 razors and a bomber for variety?

AzraeI wrote:

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Now I have a thorough list of posters (here and elsewhere) who I know I can ignore entirely.

am i on your list ?

I didn’t notice you arguing for every other model bombers or flayed skull transports giving ignore cover and rerolls to non flayed skull units. Or combat drugs not being able to be rolled or chosen per unit.

Plus you’d normally get at least one pass for the avatar. But the list has no quotas, lots of room for more if you’d like to be added.

withershadow wrote:

Take 3 razors and a bomber for variety?

AzraeI wrote:

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Now I have a thorough list of posters (here and elsewhere) who I know I can ignore entirely.

am i on your list ?

I didn’t notice you arguing for every other model bombers or flayed skull transports giving ignore cover and rerolls to non flayed skull units. Or combat drugs not being able to be rolled or chosen per unit.

Plus you’d normally get at least one pass for the avatar. But the list has no quotas, lots of room for more if you’d like to be added.

please, you can do whatever the hell you want in this beautiful spaceport full of murderers and psychopaths, and isnt that the reason why we are all here?

Post edited. Let's keep religion out of it please - Count Adhemar

I'm mostly just salty that Raiding Party is just worse than a battalion now. I had my army list just right, but now I have to re-jigger it and take a second worthless Archon.

Hey guys, Agents of Vect didn't get faq'd. Guess every drukhari army can use it! Just as Planned by Vect himself

docdoom77 wrote:

I'm mostly just salty that Raiding Party is just worse than a battalion now.  I had my army list just right, but now I have to re-jigger it and take a second worthless Archon.

Is an extra two CP’s “worthless”? Then keep using Raiding Party.

docdoom77 wrote:

I'm mostly just salty that Raiding Party is just worse than a battalion now.  I had my army list just right, but now I have to re-jigger it and take a second worthless Archon.

Literally exactly the same for me. I have never been more content with a list, but now I need to somehow fit in another Archon.

PFI wrote:

Hey guys, Agents of Vect didn't get faq'd. Guess every drukhari army can use it! Just as Planned by Vect himself

You must include a detachment of the Kabal of the Black Heart.

Q: Is it possible to use a Stratagem from one codex to target a
unit from another?
A: Yes, so long as the unit the Stratagem is being used on
has the appropriate keywords (note that the Stratagems
in Codex: Chaos Daemons and Codex: Tyranids are specific
exceptions to this, as discussed in the relevant FAQs
and Errata).
For example, you can use the Tide of Traitors Stratagem
from Codex: Chaos Space Marines on a unit of Cultists
from a Death Guard Detachment (from Codex:
Death Guard) if your army has both an Alpha Legion
Detachment and a Death Guard Detachment in a
single Battle-forged army.
Also note that the only requirement to have access
to Stratagems is that you have a Detachment of the
appropriate Faction.

I'm confused on this Agents of Vect being used by everyone. Doesn't it say "Kabal of the Blackheart Stratagem"? How does this allow any Drukhari army the right to use it?

Sarkesian wrote:

I'm confused on this Agents of Vect being used by everyone. Doesn't it say "Kabal of the Blackheart Stratagem"? How does this allow any Drukhari army the right to use it?

Because the only rule provided in the Codex about how to unlock Stratagems is "Have a Drukhari detachment."

Even with that FAQ example, I'd argue that the appropriate faction remains "Drukhari", not "Kabal of the Black Heart".

Everyone has to pay their dues to the Supreme Overlord and Living Dark Muse, because his spies are everywhere.

That doesn't seem right to me. It says on the stratagem "Kabal of the Black Heart" meaning it can only be used when you have a Kabal of the Black Hearts detachment. Every obsession got their own stratagem, why would their's be universal?

Burnage wrote:

Sarkesian wrote:

I'm confused on this Agents of Vect being used by everyone. Doesn't it say "Kabal of the Blackheart Stratagem"? How does this allow any Drukhari army the right to use it?

Because the only rule provided in the Codex about how to unlock Stratagems is "Have a Drukhari detachment."

Even with that FAQ example, I'd argue that the appropriate faction remains "Drukhari", not "Kabal of the Black Heart".

The appropriate faction is Kabal of the Black Heart because is which is wrote on the stratagem, so you need a kabal of the Black Heart Detachment.

If just were needed Drukhari keyword, the stratagem would be Drukhari Stratagem, like the 23 stratagem of the codex with that keyword

Rodi Sikni wrote:

PFI wrote:

Hey guys, Agents of Vect didn't get faq'd. Guess every drukhari army can use it! Just as Planned by Vect himself

You must include a detachment of the Kabal of the Black Heart.

Q: Is it possible to use a Stratagem from one codex to target a
unit from another?
A: Yes, so long as the unit the Stratagem is being used on
has the appropriate keywords (note that the Stratagems
in Codex: Chaos Daemons and Codex: Tyranids are specific
exceptions to this, as discussed in the relevant FAQs
and Errata).

For example, you can use the Tide of Traitors Stratagem
from Codex: Chaos Space Marines on a unit of Cultists
from a Death Guard Detachment (from Codex:
Death Guard) if your army has both an Alpha Legion
Detachment and a Death Guard Detachment in a
single Battle-forged army.
Also note that the only requirement to have access
to Stratagems is that you have a Detachment of the
appropriate Faction.

Uhh that's wrong. How this works is say you have a model like magnus who was a demon and you also had a demons detachment with models like bloodthirsters. Now you can sue a strat on magnus from the demons codex as long as that strat said a demon or something like that. Now magnus was fixed to have a different keyword to prevent that but that is where this faq applies. You don't need kabal of the black heart to enable agents of vect. There is no appropriate keyword required to use it unlike all the other ones. It doesn't matter if it is a "kabal of the black heart stratagem" It just matters that it doesn't require you to use it based on a kabal of the black heart unit

Is Tide of Traitors an Alpha Legion stratagem? If so, they are at least hinting you need all keywords to unlock a detachment rather than just the overall faction keyword.

I’ll probably still play it as black heart exclusive.

Kantalla wrote:

Is Tide of Traitors an Alpha Legion stratagem? If so, they are at least hinting you need all keywords to unlock a detachment rather than just the overall faction keyword.

Nope, it's a general CSM stratagem.

I will say that I think Agents of Vect should be restricted to getting unlocked by a Black Heart detachment. I just don't think the rules as they currently stand support that, even after this FAQ.

PlayableNPC wrote:

I’ll probably still play it as black heart exclusive.

Because what's the point in playing a game when you try bending the rules so hard you make it look like the american senate. ^^

They said as much in the community article, but Ynnari Singing Spears have been using Biel Tann stratagem this entire tournament season, something GW is very aware of, and they chose to leave it as is. It sounds weird but that’s how it is written.

No-one is being “forced” to use, or not use, any detachment from this FAQ. You can still play Raiding Party, you can still play Battalion, and even multiple Battalions. It’s just that the trade offs have changed slightly.

Want multiple factions? Take a Raiding Party. Get 7 CPs, just like before.

Want more CPs, and fewer factions? Take the battalion, and maybe some other detachment too. Yep, you can still do that.

Want two Kabalite Battalions? Take Drazhar and you’re good... if you don’t think Drazhar is worth 5 CPs, just take a different detachment.

Want three Kabalite detachments? Throw in some Harmonculus or Succubus HQs. Sure, the third detachment won’t benefit from any Obsessions, but you can still do it, and depending on what you put in it it might not even matter too much.

The choices are still there. The calculus of which is “best” has changed, but remember, “best” should be taken as “best for you”. There is no objective best. Don’t get hung up on it.

You are free to choose, now as before.

Question regarding Kabalite Trueborn.

If we take a unit of them with Shredders are we forced to use the Index Shredders or can they take the Codex Shredders.

4 Codex Shredders on a Venom could be vicious even if we are paying double for each Kabalite.


EDIT: SWEEEEEET. I sense some cheese lists being written in my future, now I'm thinking obsidian rose...

Malakree wrote:

Question regarding Kabalite Trueborn.

If we take a unit of them with Shredders are we forced to use the Index Shredders or can they take the Codex Shredders.

4 Codex Shredders on a Venom could be vicious even if we are paying double for each Kabalite.

codex shredders and points. Youalways use and pay for the most recent iterations. So trueborn points use the index but shredders were updated in the codex so you use their points and the shedder profile

Must confess I'm feeling a bit cheated right now. I was okay with splitting our army up into sub-factions but to then impose limits on the number of times a particular unit can be used when we are already so limited in the number of unit options available to us feels very unfair. I suspect we are now the only army in the game that cannot field certain detachments in any meaningful way. For example, if we want to go beyond the minimum Heavy Support requirements for a Kabal Spearhead we are forced to either use FW units or lose our equivalent of Chapter Tactics as we literally only have one option available and cannot use that more than three times! Can you imagine for one moment that being deemed acceptable for Space Marines or CWE?