Artefacts of cruelty

Hey all

  I'm having a bit of a conundrum making lists with battle scribe.  Battle scribe wont let me equip my archon with the Archangel of Pain and Armour of Misery.  I'm trying to pull off some leadership shenanigans with the new harlies.  Anyways I've been doing a bit of research on this fine site and it seems most people think that the archon can only have one artifact at a time.  

I've looked through the codex and I can't find anything to confirm this.  So far I've found on p70

"May take items from the melee weapons, arcane wargear and/or artifacts of cruelty lists"

This states that he should be able to take more than one artifact

Them on p109 at the top of the page

" Artefacts  of cruelty are items of horrendous power, which the Dark Eldar value for their ability to inflict torments of rare quality on their unfortunate victims. Only one of each of the following relics may be chosen per army."

Other than them misspelling artifact (Dang brits ) I don't see anything here that stops the archon from taking both the armor and archangel as well just one of each in the army.  Is there something I'm missing here If someone could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

You can only have one Artefact of Cruelty equipped to a character at a time. On pg. 69 under the bolded Artefacts of Cruelty it states: "Only one of each Artefact of Cruelty may be taken per army. A model may take one of the following:"

The last part is the key for you. It is a bummer, but that is the way it is.

I suspect the fault here lies with Battlescirbe.


Also, its our language. By all means invent your own if you're unhappy.

To be fair, the Covens artifacts ARE allowed more than one to a character, and Battlescribe won't let you do that either.

Thanks for the replies! Still seems a little lame that this is the only codex as far as I know that is limiting in this fashion. Hopefully its a typo and gets fixed!

Squidmaster wrote:

Also, its our language. By all means invent your own if you're unhappy.

That sounds like to much work I'll stick to butchering everyone elses!

To my knowledge, EVERY other codex is written that way. As far as I know, covens are the only exception.

Jimsolo wrote:

To my knowledge, EVERY other codex is written that way.  As far as I know, covens are the only exception.

They're all over the place on artefacts really. So many different wordings. How hard can it be to just find one simple, unambiguous wording and stick to it? Too hard for GW, that's for sure!

They're kind of all over the place.
Space Marines and Eldar: "A model may replace one weapon with one of the following." Some people think that means you can take more than one, as long as you're swapping one weapon for each, others disagree.
Tyranids: "A model may replace any pair of scything talons with one of the following."
Astra Militarum: no limit stated.
Necrons, Orks and Harlequins: "A model may take one of the following."

Calyptra wrote:

They're kind of all over the place.
Space Marines and Eldar: "A model may replace one weapon with one of the following." Some people think that means you can take more than one, as long as you're swapping one weapon for each, others disagree.

Yeah, next time I see a Chapter Master with more than one relic I'm going to fire on him with my 10 man Scout squad, all armed with Heavy Bolters or Missile Lauchers.