> > There wasn't even a restriction on mixing chapters together. Examples
> > in the Armies of the Imperium showed an Ultramarine Infantry company
> > taking Blood Claws support cards.
>
> I'm pretty sure you couldn't do that. Sure you
> could have bunches of chapters in the same army, but you
> can't take Space Wolf support cards for a UM company.
Well, here is the quote from _Armies_of_the_Imperium_. It's even more
obscene than I remembered in my quote above:
[AOI, page 7]
Space Marine Chapters often fight together in armies of several
Chapters. In large wars as many as twenty Chapaters might be
banded together into one army. Usually such an army would also
include Imperial Guard and TItans. Imperial Players may field
a mixed force of Sparce Marines too; there is no need for your
army to restrict itself to just one Chapter
[snip how you might paint such a force]
A mixed force might include any of the Chapters discussed in detail
in this volume, those illustrated in the Warhammer 40,000 books,
or Chapters you have invented yourself. So, for example, you might
choose the Dark Angel Deathwing as a company card, and add support
cards to represent two Blood Angel Devastator detatchments, a
Space Wolf Blood Claws Pack, an Ultramarine tactical detatchment,
and a squadron of Crimson Fists land speeders.
In Epic 40,000 terms, this would represent using the WD marine special rules
in the following way: Nine squads of DA Deathwing terminators in the main
force. The support force slots would be three Blood Angel Devastator squads,
three Space Wolf Blood Claws Squads, one Ultramarine tactical squad, and
5 Crimson Fists landspeeders. (Ah, hell with it. Make them Raven Wing
landspeeders. No sense in half-measures.)
As you can see, not only was this crap legal; it was encouraged! After all,
mixing all those different chapter abilities into the same datatchment would,
when painted properly, make your army much more colorful!
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Received on Fri Aug 29 1997 - 06:50:29 UTC