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Subject: Ravages in Wych cults Tue Apr 06 2021, 23:40
Is there anything to stop me taking a Ravager in a wych cult now? I can’t find any rules to stop me or to remove my obsession. Just that they don’t get any obsession themselves. So I could take 3wych patrols and still have my 3 Ravagers in my heavy slots
Of course this can be extrapolated out to taking wracks as mandatory troops for Kabals, etc.
Count Adhemar Dark Lord of Granbretan
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Ok, that's fair. But what about gaining obsessions? Page 53 says that units in Kabal, Cult or Coven detachments gain access to the Obsessions. And then specifies how this happens. What is for example a Cult Detachment? It is indicated in the Cult of Strife supplement that the CoS Detachment is the one that only includes units with CoS keyword. So if you take a Ravager in the same Detachment as your Wyches, it will be neither Wych cult Detachment nor Kabal Detachment so no one gains the obsession.
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Lol. @SERAFF, you really want to try and break the codex XD
Why not just take it in the usual Black Heart/Obsidian Rose patrol? Those re-rolls more than make up for the "tax" of Drazhar + warriors.
No no at this point I am trying to advocate common sense. Count says that he sees nothing preventing taking ravagers in a Cult detachment. But I see.
Pg49 of the codex should help clear this up.
If your detachment contains only Drukhari units, its a Drukhari Detachment.
Each Drukhari Detachment must be designated as Kabal, Cult, Coven or Realspace Raid.
The Raiding Forces rule says that Kabal units in a Kabal detachment gain a Drukhari obsession, Cult units in Cult detachment etc.
There's nothing preventing you from taking, for example, Ravagers in a Cult detachment. It just means the Ravagers don't get an obsession, because the obsession is granted to Cult units in Cult detachments and the Ravager is not a Cult unit.
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I would even go so far as to say this way it’s nice amd fluffy, your cult can hire a ravager from the black heart Kahala, but they don’t get the black heart bonuses because they aren’t being led by a black heart archon and being directed in the right way.
I haven’t come up with a great use for this yet, but I find it an interesting ability we now have. Talos or chronos in a wych cult anyone?
This is revelatory. Asking for clarification: So, we can now have one big detachment. Say a Battalion. I have to specify what it is: Cult, Kabal, Coven. But what I populate the Battalion with can be any model from the Codex. However, the only models that can gain/use the Obsession are those aligned with the sub-type keyword?
So, for sake of argument, I could say the Battalion is a Coven, Prophets of Flesh, but put only kabal units in it (though they'd get no Obsession benefit)?
Count Adhemar Dark Lord of Granbretan
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Correct. The only restriction that I can see is that you can only have models from one of each sub-faction in a detachment. So you could not, for example, have Poison Tongue Kabalites in Black Heart Raiders if they are from the same detachment.
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The Raiding Forces rule says that Kabal units in a Kabal detachment gain a Drukhari obsession, Cult units in Cult detachment etc.
There's nothing preventing you from taking, for example, Ravagers in a Cult detachment. It just means the Ravagers don't get an obsession, because the obsession is granted to Cult units in Cult detachments and the Ravager is not a Cult unit.
You noted correctly, that units in Kabal detachment gain a Drukhari obsession and so on. But if you add some Wych Cult units into Kabal detachment, this detachment will no longer be a Kabal detachment. So no obsession for anyone. It will be just a Drukhari detachment, neither Kabal nor Cult. If you want your detachment to be for example Kabal, all units must have Kabal keyword. That's the only way to get a Drukhari obsession. That's all is written in our codex, is't not just my point of view.
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Count Adhemar Dark Lord of Granbretan
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You noted correctly, that units in Kabal detachment gain a Drukhari obsession and so on. But if you add some Wych Cult units into Kabal detachment, this detachment will no longer be a Kabal detachment. So no obsession for anyone. It will be just a Drukhari detachment, neither Kabal nor Cult. If you want your detachment to be for example Kabal, all units must have Kabal keyword. That's the only way to get a Drukhari obsession. That's all is written in our codex, is't not just my point of view.
You're going to have to find an actual rule to quote for the bolded sections, otherwise it is just opinion.
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The Raiding Forces rule says that Kabal units in a Kabal detachment gain a Drukhari obsession, Cult units in Cult detachment etc.
There's nothing preventing you from taking, for example, Ravagers in a Cult detachment. It just means the Ravagers don't get an obsession, because the obsession is granted to Cult units in Cult detachments and the Ravager is not a Cult unit.
You noted correctly, that units in Kabal detachment gain a Drukhari obsession and so on. But if you add some Wych Cult units into Kabal detachment, this detachment will no longer be a Kabal detachment. So no obsession for anyone. It will be just a Drukhari detachment, neither Kabal nor Cult. If you want your detachment to be for example Kabal, all units must have Kabal keyword. That's the only way to get a Drukhari obsession. That's all is written in our codex, is't not just my point of view.
The whole 'detachments must be Kabal/Cult/Coven only' rule was 8th edition.
I know it's not the best way to prove it, but since Battlescribe has updated with our new codex, I tried adding a number of non-Cult units to a Cult list. It had no issue with the additions at all, so Count Adhemar's statements are indeed correct - you can take them, but they just don't benefit from Cult obsessions.
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The whole 'detachments must be Kabal/Cult/Coven only' rule was 8th edition.
And only 8th edition. All other versions of our codex have allowed us to mix and match freely. The current codex does have some limitations, but nowhere near the severe restrictions of the 8e codex.
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You noted correctly, that units in Kabal detachment gain a Drukhari obsession and so on. But if you add some Wych Cult units into Kabal detachment, this detachment will no longer be a Kabal detachment. So no obsession for anyone. It will be just a Drukhari detachment, neither Kabal nor Cult. If you want your detachment to be for example Kabal, all units must have Kabal keyword. That's the only way to get a Drukhari obsession. That's all is written in our codex, is't not just my point of view.
You're going to have to find an actual rule to quote for the bolded sections, otherwise it is just opinion.
Cult of Strife supplement 3rd paragraph:
Quote :
Some rules in this section refer to a Cult of Strife Detachment. This is one that only includes units with Cult of Strife keyword.
Perfect example. If you add some Ravagers, it will no longer be a Cult of Strife Detachment and no one gets an obsession. That's what I'm talking about. The same logic applies everywhere. If you add some Drukhari units to a Harlequin detachment, it will no longer be a Harlequin detachment (technically you can do it in the open war or whatnot). This is what the keywords about.
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That applies specifically to Cult of Strife detachments. There is literally nothing in the codex that says or even implies that it applies to any other detachment.
Pg 49 – DETACHMENT ABILITIES A DRUKHARI Detachment is one that only includes models with the DRUKHARI keyword (excluding models with the UNALIGNED keyword)
If your army is Battle-forged, each DRUKHARI Detachment must be designated as a Kabal Detachment, Wych Cult Detachment, Haemonculus Coven Detachment or Realspace Raid Detachment.
Pg 49 – RAIDING FORCES All <KABAL> units in a Kabal Detachment gain a Drukhari Obsession (see page 53)
Pg 53 – DRUKHARI KABALS, CULTS AND COVENS Units in a DRUKHARI Kabal, Wych Cult, Haemonculus Coven or Realspace Raid Detachment gain access to the following rules: KABAL, WYCH CULT AND HAEMONCULUS COVEN OBSESSIONS All <KABAL>, <WYCH CULT> and <HAEMONCULUS COVEN> units…with this ability gain a Drukhari Obsession. The Obsession gained depends upon which Kabal, Wych Cult or Haemonculus Coven they are from…
Pg 88 – THE <KABAL>, <WYCH CULT> AND <HAEMONCULUS COVEN> KEYWORDS When you include a <KABAL>, <WYCH CULT> or <HAEMONCULUS COVEN> unit in your army, you must nominate which Kabal, Wych Cult or Haemonculus Coven it is from… If your army is Battle-forged, you can only include units from one <KABAL>, one <WYCH CULT> and one <HAEMONCULUS COVEN> in the same Detachment.
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Count Adhemar Dark Lord of Granbretan
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There's also the Realspace Raid section on page 49, which notably does not give any explicit permission to include mixed units in a detachment. It simply says that if you do, and if you meet the prereqs of the detachment, they all get the relevant obsession. This would seem to confirm that you can normally mix units just at the cost of obsessions.
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I don't understand how it can be read differently than how Count Adhemar describes and if that is not intended they made an exceptionally poor job (even for GW) in explaining it.
I didn't realize the Cult of Strife detachment didn't allow Blades For Hire, that's mildly annoying.
If your army is Battle-forged, each DRUKHARI Detachment must be designated as a Kabal Detachment, Wych Cult Detachment, Haemonculus Coven Detachment or Realspace Raid Detachment.
Here is the root of all evil. The question is how we designate a detachment to be Kabal, Coven or Cult one. I followed the example given in the supplement – take only units with the same keyword and blades for hire, and this detachment will get the correspondent type.
And Count suggests that you simply call a Detachment for example Kabal and go on. Actually I’m glad to be wrong here as it gives me more possibilities, thanks for the clarification guys.
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Subject: Ravages in Wych cults 
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