apocalypse doctrines

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I'm getting ready for a large apoc game of 5000 points per person and the doctines I chose were hardened fighters, die hards, carapace, iron discipline, and close order drill. The problem is I am using storm troopers, special weapon squads, and ratlings. Since the apoc rules give you the option of running just about anything and gets rid of the unit restrictions do I still have to buy back those restricted troops with the doctrine points or can I just use it on the stuff mentioned above.

[Turtleboy(AWOL)]

apocolypse is made to be played with a "friendly game" mentality. just remember that the more of the rules you skate around the grumpier your opponent will be and the less fun he'll have and the less chance there'll be he wants to do it again.

that being said, if you had 2 different IG armies, I could see one army having one doctrine set and the other having another doctrine set.

I know that when I play my apocolypse game tomorrow, I'm going to be fielding my side projects - little things like 1 squad of orange marines who have traits just for them cuz otherwise they'd be illegal what with having an apothecary in the squad and bp/ccw mixed with boltguns.

putting myself in the shoes of your opponent, I'd be fine if you had different rules for each of the armies of IG you had (that had a different paint scheme). it'd give each IG unit (army) a real unique feel which I would find cool

[angelusmortis]

Well, lets look at it like this. Using your reasoning, there is no reason why you cant take every unit in the book as well as every doctrine. Now this raises two questions. Is that fair and is it fun? I'll give you a hint as to what my opinion on that is. It starts with an "H" and ends in a "ell no".

Just pick doctrines and play your regiment the way its intended. Sure, Apoc allows you a lot of flexibility, but its not a total free for all, toss all the rules out the window and drop you Chaos/Daemon Hunter army on the table. Are you there to have fun or are you there to win at the expense of everyones fun?

[Deleted]

Thanks for the help. I wasnt really sure about it.I didnt intend to go around the rules like that it just wanst very clear.

[Turtleboy(AWOL)]

yeah, apocolypse is made to be able to field multiple armies, it just leaves it up to the players to not cheese it to death by saying 'this squad is apart of this army with these doctrines, and this other squad, which is painted exactly the same is apart of a different army so gets these doctrines, etc throughout your whole army.'

I played an apocolypse game a little while back and my friend had no problem whatsoever with my single squad of 'augmentee' guardsmen that were totally different model and paint-wise than the rest of my IG having their own doctrine set as they were obviously for a different army.