CONFIRMED: Covens Supplement Details!

Yeah me too. The supplement look very promising

Deep striking talos and cronos was basically top of my wishlist.

@Barking Agatha wrote:

@DingK wrote:

From the book, right at the start of the Haemonculus Covens Special Rules:

"If you use the Formations or the Covenite Coterie Detachment...

Ugh. A coven is already a coterie. Why not 'Covenite Coterie Association Club Gang Small Circle of Friends Detachment'?

Don't forget clique, league, fellowship, union, guild, and "Framily" plan members.

Are supplements really the same price as main codex?!

Are those six Elite slots completely open? Could I field 6 Venomborn or 6 Mandrake squads instead of wracks and grots?

No they are not. You have a specific List of units you may chose.

I have a question about formation #5: it's 1 Talos / 1 Chronos UNIT or MODEL ?
I guess we could buy upgrades for said Talos / Cronos (and Haemy) but one of the thing you could buy is more bodies so ...

I'll answer my own question: it look like its model :\

source : http://crap.blogspot.it/2014/10/i-have-archon-edition-ama-live-at.html?showComment=1412416530962#c1713190373839723469

Correct. It's one Talos, one Chronos and one Haemie.

@DingK thank you!

And one portal, so it seems. A mandatory item for this formation ))

@Evil Space Elves wrote:

More Goodies:

Formations

1 - urien or haemy plus 2 units of grots - d6 roll at start of game for grots - +1S, +1T, fleet, shred, rage, 4+ FNP

2 - 1 haemy, 1 chronos, 2 units of wracks - all wracks gain precision strike, wracks treat turn 1 higher for pfp. if haemy is the warlord he gets trait 4 automatically

3 - 2 units of wracks in 2 venoms - if a unit in this formation scores first blood, gain D3 vp rather than 1. Wracks must start embarked an in reserve. Deployed turn 1 via deep strike

4 - unit of 5 Talos - gain scout. Score an extra vp for any non vehicle unit killed in combat

5 - 1 haemy, 1 Chronos, 1 Talos - form a single unit. Characters may not join it outside of this formation. Talos and chronos gain +1ws and init. If haemy is warlord, gain trait 1 automatically

6 - 1 haemy, 3 units of wracks with raiders. Master of pain from haemy confers to all units in this formation within 12". Warlord trait 5 if haemy is warlord

7 - all 6 formations as above in 1 formation - called the carnival of pain. Urien form formation 1 has his master of pain rule confer to whole formation. All non vehicles reroll 1's to wound in combat

Can I ask the title of 1-6 formation as well as The Carnival of Pain? (for fluff) I cannot wait till the next weekend for my pre-ordered supplement

Grotesquerie
Scarlet Epicureans
Scalpel Squadron
Corpsethief Claw
Dark Artisan
Covenite Fleshcorps
Carnival of Pain

Thank you soooooo much, Massaen!

My pleasure!

Is there any special weapon load out or anything in terms of Wracks? Just would like to know as I begin assembling my plastic ones.

@Ciirian wrote:

Is there any special weapon load out or anything in terms of Wracks? Just would like to know as I begin assembling my plastic ones.

Equipment for Wracks, Grots, Taloi and Chronoi is per the Codex. HQ's can take different Artefacts (in fact, they HAVE to), but that's it as far as equipment goes.

@DingK wrote:

@Ciirian wrote:

Is there any special weapon load out or anything in terms of Wracks? Just would like to know as I begin assembling my plastic ones.

Equipment for Wracks, Grots, Taloi and Chronoi is per the Codex. HQ's can take different Artefacts (in fact, they HAVE to), but that's it as far as equipment goes.

They replace the Artefacts of Cruelty only or also the arcane wargear?

thx

@Garion wrote:

@DingK wrote:

@Ciirian wrote:

Is there any special weapon load out or anything in terms of Wracks? Just would like to know as I begin assembling my plastic ones.

Equipment for Wracks, Grots, Taloi and Chronoi is per the Codex. HQ's can take different Artefacts (in fact, they HAVE to), but that's it as far as equipment goes.

They replace the Artefacts of Cruelty only or also the arcane wargear?

thx

Just the Artefacts of Cruelty.

thank you again!

@Massaen wrote:

My pleasure!

You should join my kabal and work at my side. Together we could rule the Dark City! You plot and I supply!

I really need to read my rule book again because this whole supplements and detachments is a totally new thing for me.

Does this mean I can either make a regular normal list from the stabd alone codex or choose to combine the twi books, making half a list from the codex but then ise the rulea from this suplement for any coven units I might want to include??

Your army can have as many Detachments as you can fit in your points. Each Detachment can use whatever Force Org Chart you'd like, provided it meets the chart's restrictions. Right now, without the Covens book, we have two: the Combined Arms Detachment (which gets Objective Secured) and the Realspace Raiders Detachment (which gets Hunt From the Shadows). So if you wanted, right now, you could bring an Archon and some Kabalites as a Combined Arms Detachment (who would therefor get Objective Secured) as well as a Succubus and some Wyches in the same army as a Realspace Raiders Detachment (and they'd get Hunt From the Shadows).
Formations are Detachments that are very specific about what you can take.
The Covens book will give us a bunch of new Detachments.

do the coven formations also give the -1 LD or just the detachment?

@colinsherlow wrote:

do the coven formations also give the -1 LD or just the detachment?

I also am curious about this...