Topic: Deamons question

[shmee shmee]

 If a deamon icon dies before he summons in the daemons do the daemons die cheer s

[Aronious]

Read the part in the front of the Codex: Chaos Space Marines about Daemon Summoning.

[Kei'Ariq]

If you are referring to the Daemon Icon that is available to units of Chosen that is a good question, that isn't clearly answered by the bit at the front.

I would imagine that because the unit is enslaved within the icon, if the icon is destroyed then the Daemons are lost.

[Newtype]

I would say in the case of the Daemon Icon treat the enslaved Daemon pack as having been killed for all purposes.

If were talking about regular Daemons that simply get stuck in reserves because there is no suitable Icon on the table, then the way we play it is that they are just left off and dont count for anything.

[DenizenOfRlyeh]

Hm.  The Necron Monolith has rules which are similar in a way; units of Warriors are assigned to enter play through a Monolith.  If they don't get deployed by the end of the game, the Warriors count as being destroyed for the purpose of calculating VPs.  Food for thought.

I'd have to say that Daemons assigned to a Demon Icon would thusly count as being destroyed in much the same way if the Icon was lost.  Regular units never showing up from Reserves...  is there a rule to cover that situation?

[Chaplain C Chew]

I would think that the demons would enter the battle field during turn 5 or 6...but then again only certain missions allow for that...and those missions were back in third ed rulz...

[DenizenOfRlyeh]

What!?  I don't remember anything remotely similar to that back in third edition...

[CD]

That's because there was nothing similar in the 3rd ed rules.. the current Codex is the 3rd ed Codex. There is no turn where daemons enter by default.

I'm unsure whether it's been fixed in more recent printings, but the first printing Codex mentions nothing about restricting the Daemon unit to that icon in particular.. It doesn't even mention that you shouldn't make rolls for the unit to show up at other icons, it only really specifies that the unit can come in automatically if you want it to... Very odd.