under strength unit

So many people are pointing out that we can't put our HQs into a raider together with a 10 dudes squad. If we use 9 we loose one special and one heavy weapon. Fair criticism buy let's look for a solution and stop bogging other threads down.

If I recall correctly there is the possibility to use under strength units. Pay for 10 but use 9. Couldn't that be a possibility for us?

Yeah, I think this came up on one of the compilation posts. The rules for doing this are in the main rulebook but you can only take one of that unit if you play it under strength.

Sorry for the double post but I've checked the FAQ now and we're allowed to take an under strength unit but only in an auxiliary support detachment, which I believe is minus 1 command point. It's in the last 40k rulebook errata.

So far my personal solution has been to put my HQ in a venom with sslyth. You can control the courts unit size without losing out on wargear (because they don't have any) and they're an extremely versatile (if a little expensive) unit that works well with basically whatever kind of HQ you could want to play (perhaps not a haemonculus but I pretty much never field those).

It might not work quite so well now the new codex is coming and we're apparently being pushed to take 6 HQ but sslyth kick a lot of ass and pretty much always do good work for me.

Just to point out an understrength unit of kabalites would be 4. A unit of 9 is totally legit and you only pay for 9 if your using points. Using points in matched play the unit size is 5-20. It's only power levels which you pay for in 5s.