Empire detachment rules
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:02 am
Hi there,
I played a bit of a funny game versus Empire this evening (2x1500 armies on one side - my Dark Elves and my friend's Vampire Counts - and a single 3,000 Empire army on the other).
The Empire player had a few detachments linked with some of his units. He claimed to be able to link just about every buff or boost that was applied to the main unit to the detachments that were within 3". Some of these seemed rather fanciful and I think he may have been getting some of them wrong due to over excitement, but without the book I aren't able to verify which links were valid and which were a tad fictional. (I did try to look through the book at the table, but the rules seemed to be splashed across a host of different places, making it hard to get them all easily pinned down)
Could someone with the Empire book let me know which buffs and boosts are shared from the main unit to the detachments and which are not? In particular:
- Leadership
- Frenzy
- Hatred from characters (e.g. warrior priest)
- Hatred from other sources
- Stubborn from special rules
- Steadfast from ranks (i.e. if the parent unit has more ranks than the enemy unit, would it confer steadfast to the detachment even if the parent unit was not in combat and the detachment had less ranks than the enemy unit it was in combat with?)
- Immune to Psychology
- Hexes and augment spells
- Boosts from magical banners
- Other boosts or buffs
Also, do detachments take a separate leadership test from the main unit if both are engaged in the same combat?
Thanks so much
I played a bit of a funny game versus Empire this evening (2x1500 armies on one side - my Dark Elves and my friend's Vampire Counts - and a single 3,000 Empire army on the other).
The Empire player had a few detachments linked with some of his units. He claimed to be able to link just about every buff or boost that was applied to the main unit to the detachments that were within 3". Some of these seemed rather fanciful and I think he may have been getting some of them wrong due to over excitement, but without the book I aren't able to verify which links were valid and which were a tad fictional. (I did try to look through the book at the table, but the rules seemed to be splashed across a host of different places, making it hard to get them all easily pinned down)
Could someone with the Empire book let me know which buffs and boosts are shared from the main unit to the detachments and which are not? In particular:
- Leadership
- Frenzy
- Hatred from characters (e.g. warrior priest)
- Hatred from other sources
- Stubborn from special rules
- Steadfast from ranks (i.e. if the parent unit has more ranks than the enemy unit, would it confer steadfast to the detachment even if the parent unit was not in combat and the detachment had less ranks than the enemy unit it was in combat with?)
- Immune to Psychology
- Hexes and augment spells
- Boosts from magical banners
- Other boosts or buffs
Also, do detachments take a separate leadership test from the main unit if both are engaged in the same combat?
Thanks so much