Neil R. Thomason wrote:
>
> >Incidentally, Chaos can make an (in some ways) nastier assault detachment
> >out of Bloodthirsters and Lords of Change...
> >... In the last game I played, the two detachments of Bloodthirsters/LOC,
> each 7 strong...
>
> You what?! Alright, the army list allows it, but it's totally against the
> spirit of the army to have so many Greater Daemons on the table, never mind
> in the same detachments.
How's that? I would generally have 6 or 7 GDs on the
table in my SM/TL games.
> It wouldn't feel right even if refighting the
> final battle for the Emperor's Palace at the height of the Horus Heresy.
> Checking the Army Book, I see one can have up to 25 Greater Daemons PER
> DETACHMENT! That must be a mistake.
I think it is - looking at the detachment it seems like
the author might have meant each GD to be an entire 'pack' (where
the detachment allows up to 5 daemon packs) but worded it badly.
Thus, you could have up to 5 GDs per det., or 25 lessers, or 15
lessers and 2 GDs, etc. IMHO.
> I'd limit it to one Greater Daemon per
> detachment, as commander, with the other Daemons available as Main Force units.
Yeah, because those daemons follow such a strict
organization.
The daemon detachment is just a random hodge-podge of
other-wordly beings that don't hate each other. You could have a
Lord of Change leading a bunch of fleshhounds or daemonettes -
does that make any more sense than having a detachment of 5
Bloodthirsters? Not at all. And it's not like there's any old
fluff or army org stuff that contradicts the possibility of an
all-GD detachment.
Now can we get back to persecuting those who mix Space
Marines and Imperial Guard? =)
Scott Shupe
shupes_at_... shupes@...
http://www.rpi.edu/~shupes
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Received on Fri Oct 24 1997 - 13:41:39 UTC