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Question about CSM Daemon Troops


Khalan

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Yeah if you take Daemon units as part of your CSM detachment it will become a mixed Chaos detachment. So you'd need another pure CSM detachment to unlock your CSM stuff.

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Hmm right, because even though they are troops in the CSM book, I can't use the strategems since they don't have <legion> key word right?

Exactly. They are no CSM unit. The only reason why they are in the book is so you don't necessarily have to buy the Daemon Codex if you want to summon some basic daemons.

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Daemon Troop units are in the CSM Codex to be Summoned. Since they are taken as reserve points and not units, they aren't part of any detachment and they do not interfere with CSM units accessing CSM detachment benefits.

To emphasize, they do not interfere with accessing CSM detachment benefits IF they are summoned. They do interfere if you take them regularly in the same detachment.

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Yeah, if you do actually Summon them.

 

If you take them as part of a CSM Detachment your list is bad and you should feel bad.

 

EDIT - OP, if you're already taking a CD Daemon Detachment that could buff your CSM 'Lesser' Daemons, just take them all as one CD Daemon Detachment. You lose nothing and gain a whole lot.

Edited by Res Ipsa Loquitur
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Yeah but trying to fill out troops in a CSM detachment with cheap daemons would be $$

Yeah for competitive or matched play it's usually not the best idea.

This is also why it's so odd that Word Bearers do not have a Legion Trait that circumvents this issue. While most stuff matches narrative approaches the Word Bearers in their current form do not match that at all.

 

In any case though, my rule of tumb is that if you want to thake Daemons without a Legion Keyword you might aswell fill a Detachment with them. But luckily not all Daemons are without Legion Keyword and for CSM Cultists are a cheap option too.

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