Summoning question

[awilden]

Hey all, just wanted to check on something, with regards to summoning up a hoard of daemons in the psychic phase, do we get 10x (or whatever the rules say number wise) of X daemon unit with or without extras? like do we get to give them an icon/champion/instrument etc?

 

I just bought a box of Plaguebearers and a box of Nurglings for my Nurgle themed CSM army, wanted to know how to build them up so they aren't illegal (i.e. building an icon carrying plaguebearer and then realising when you summon them they come pure stock no extras), not that it matters so much as long as you tell who your playing that X model isn't really an icon or whatever.

 

Also is it worth getting a Herald of Nurgle for summoning? it says you can summon heralds, and specifies a set number of points you can spend. I had thought as an extra option for lists, the herald + plaguebearers + nurglings could be an allied unit for my CSM, if i didn't want to directly summon them all, but wasn't sure how useful using sacrifice to get a herald would be.

 

 

[bozo69pd]

in the BRB theres another paragraph in the conjuration section specifically for daemon summoning that you get those 3 things for free. Musician, champ, and icon. Also yes you should get a herald at some point because you could summon him, but really you want to ally him in with the nurglings troops (attach him to them) for dirt cheap ML2 and locus of fecundity (then he gives the fnp to nurglings too) hide him in a ruin and summon your brains out. I generally 6 dice summon with him because 5 is kinda risky for a fail. I made it to 24/28 games in the season tournament and only lost 2 using this tactic.

 

However, it is weaker than pink horror summoning because you don't get as many free warp charges the next turn. So instead of summoning 2-3 units per turn (very very time consuming and can make you run out of clock) I would just summon one unit onto a maelstrom objective i needed to get while tarpitting with PB, sending my 5 man BoN at transports and the DP's at what needed to be murderered asap. I did also bring Belakor because I simply needed him in my mono nurgle all comers list to be able to deal with things like Imperial Knights and Grey Knights.

[awilden]

Thanks for the reply+advice, i didn't see that section of the BRB when i checked, ill have a look again now i know its in a different paragraph to the summoning paragraph, that's pretty cool that the unit gets a free champ/instrument/icon, also ordered a herald of nurgle from GW so will hopefully get that along with the plaguebearers/nurglings and can build/paint them up all at once thanks again for the help :-)

[Cap'm Heckus]

I believe it's listed under the individual spell as to what you get. Not under conjuration.