Quote: (Cthulhu_gump @ 27 May 2009, 06:26 )
So I start with a standard BL retinue with a that has a champion and an Icon, it will have 4D6 dice for summoning and the Demons will hang around at the end of the turn. Yep?
So heres a few questions that I've come up with that Im just not too sure about:
- Do I need an Icon to bring Demons in or can any chaos unit bring them in?
- Does the Demon pool refresh each turn? If so, can I have more demons on the board than the maximum number in the demon pool if I had an Icon holding demons from leaving?
- A greater demon requires 8 points to summon, so I buy 800 points of greater demon pool? If so is this guy worth around the same as a Warlord (just wondering if he's worth it)?
Thats all I can think of ATM.
Cheers
All the first part is correct, in response to your queries-
- any chaos unit that can add a daemonic pact can summon daemons - the icon bearer is in addition to this. These are - BL retinue, raptors, bikes, chosen and forlorn hope
- No. The daemon pool will be the number of daemons you haven't summoned yet plus the number of daemons returned to it by units without an icon bearer (or with an icon that you have chosen not to keep in play) and then plus/minus any bonuses/debits from the strategy roll (1 - -D3 daemons, 6 - +D3 daemons). Killed daemons do not go back to the daemon pool either.
- No - the GD costs 100, the summoning points do not relate to pts cost. At 100 it is debatable whether it is worth it as even with 4 D3 it is still a gamble rolling 8 summoning pts (it is generally recommended to reduce it to 7). Also the only really useful formation to det the GD is with teleporting chosen
In my experience daemons take a lot of practice to work well but are very much worth the effort when it comes together
) have 3 Greater daemons on the board at once.
... do you round up or down on the summoning roll? Say you roll up a total of 7 on the 2 dice, does it become 3 or 4?
