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[Ziet]

I'm unsure where this post should go. Would anyone know if a Space Marine/Deathwatch army user could field Xenos mercs?

[trophicmocha]

I would say fluff wise no and most likely rules wise no mate, though I would not be to sure for the rules but would still lean more towards no.

[JC 042]

40K Fluff: No

Matt Wards Fluff: Yes

[Ziet]

ok wanted to see. May have to get some IG or SoB to supllement my force for the fun of it

[Morentz01]

You can have Xenos allies with your Space Marines, which is like having mercs.

[Ziet]

ok I'm trying to build my force to be a strong yet small force with mercs/supplementing forces

[Morentz01]

How many points is it that you are trying to build?

[Ziet]

not caring about oints... yet. I'm lookingto build up a rather large force eventually so for now it'll be a small force, once he shipment arrives i'll have a 10 man Deathwatch kill team, 1 deathwatch terminator chaplain, and 1 deathwatch apothecary. that'll be my starting force and i'll build on it in the future.

[Morentz01]

That is a nice start, what sort of mercs were you looking for, like Tau, Eldar, Orks, Dark Eldar.

[Ziet]

I was thinking a few tau, eldar and some IG. get a good mix in there

[Morentz01]

Ok, well for a fun army you can do that, anything else that is not legit.

[Ziet]

yeah my eventual goal is 6 massive forces. 3 Space marine forces and then on of IG/SoB, Eldar and tau

[Morentz01]

That would be nice to see.

[Ziet]

I know, granted i need to get a better grasping of the points so each force is set to x amount of points

[Morentz01]

If you need help just ask me because my family has every codex.

[Doomdrinker1]

Well frankly you can make whatever army you want it just depends on the opponent is willing to face them so as long as you don break and actual rules you should be all good (hell you could ally daemons and grey knights as long as the opponent is willing to face them)

The exception of course is in tourneys you properly wont be able to field a merc army there.

[Ziet]

i doubt i'll play tourneys. I do plan at some point to start building forces and possibly look into legion sized games

[Morentz01]

Ok, mercs are the same as allies.

[Ziet]

ok cool

[trophicmocha]

you cant actually ally deamons and grey knights together in a force, in the rule book there is an ally chart showing which armies can and can not ally together and the level of the alliance whether they are trusted battle brothers and so on and so forth. So just find the armies that you want to ally on the allies matrix and it will tell you the level of the alliance that they have with each other.