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Unit Abilities
Epidemius
- Does the Tally of Pestilence ability (“Keep a tally of how many enemy models are destroyed by Nurgle Legiones Daemonica models from your army during the battle. At the start of your Command phase, if this tally is 7 or more, you gain 1CP and the tally is reset to 0.”) prohibit a player from accumulating another CP in the same battle round (e.g. from Skulls for Khorne where a Bloodthirster destroys an enemy Character model and earns 1CP)?
The Verdict: Yes. Although the Tally of Pestilence ability very specifically states that the additional CP is obtained at the start of the Command phase the Rules Commentary (Version 1.2) now countermands the wording of the ability and it does count against the additional CP stipulations. The Core Rules state that “Outside of the CP players gain at the start of the Command phase, each player can only gain a total of 1CP per battle round, regardless of the source” (CR, 10). Although the Tally of Pestilence CP is obtained at the start of the Command phase, the Rules Commentary closed the door to the player obtaining an additional CP in that same battle round.
The World Championships judges (2023) also ignored the specificity of CP gains in the wording of the Core Rules (WC23), and this is now in line with the Rules Commentary. The World Team Championships’ ruling has also been updated to reflect the GW ruling, prohibiting abilities of any kind from accumulating more than one additional CP per battle round (though it is worth noting that the terminology used in the document is bafflingly specific to 9th Edition; the Rules Commentary takes precedence regardless)(WTC 2.2, 9).
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