No CAD?

[polkadragon]

I may be the last person to realise it, but ... It's legal to make a battle forged list without a Combined Arms Detachment right?

Eg take Deathleapers Assassin Brood as primary, add Living Artillery, Endless Swarm etc.

Besides losing Objective Secured and Warlord reroll, I don't really see much downsides to this.

Am i right or did I overlook something?

[gigasnail]

No, that's correct.

[creatureboi]

Yes it is possible to build a battle forged army without CAD using formations but why would you? The benefit of battle forged is the OS troops. If you're going to play without them then you might just as well go unbound and have some decent stuff in your army.

[coredump]

Because playing Unbound opens up some really stupid possibilities, and so lots of folks don't want to do that.

As for OP: yep that is okay. But OS can be a big deal. Also a CAD has the most versatility in what models you can get. For example, it is really hard to get in a venomthrope using just formations.

[gingerwerewolf]

Every game Ive played in 7th has been decided by Objective Secured. My Tervigons and Termagants are as powerful as ever, and the enemies reliance upon Elites, FA and HS has led to a few victories when my gaunts have snuck to within 3" and nabbed objectives from under the nose of the enemy..

[daboarder]

see I've never found Obj Sec to be good for us, a nid army typically has board control down to a T and doesnt have to worry about the opponent coming to them, we still are dangerous up close, if only due to numbers.

[Jabberwocky]

I think it's more an issue of not having to actually kill those annoying hq/elite deathstars and being able to just have OS troops steal it out from under them. OS doesn't matter so much for us on the defence as, like you say, people often don't push into our backfield and certainly not with troops.