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With the release of the new combined Aeldari codex containing all 3 flavours of Eldar, we have also received a new way for fielding the force without breaking the updated detachment rules in chapter approved. I have seen some arguement as to whether the new rules mean that as long as you have the same overall faction keyword, such as imperial or Adeptus Astartes, you can have different sub factions in different detachments or if you need to have the same subfraction across all the army, such as ultramarine or Cadian. This rule would suggest that the former is true rather than the latter. However, its main purpose is to give you a work around and allow a certain amount of souping. A patrol detachment is not a bad option for a detachment, being able to bring a number of useful units. In terms of Quin's, it would be very easy to bring a 1000 plus points to the table in a patrol detachment. But why am I talking about Eldar? For the same reason I talked about Kroot, the possibilities for the future guard codex. Now I realise that trying to predict the patterns of future codices by looking at past codicies is a fruitless task, however its fun to speculate.

Now, most of this reasoning works only if they split off the Militarum Tempestus in to a separate subfraction again, something they may well do as it has separate subfraction rules, keywords, stratagems, relics and warlord traits these days. If they do split it off, within the same codex as with the Quin's in the Aeldari book, then it makes sense that they might add in a similar rule, meaning that you can take a patrol of scions in a full guard army. Now this works quite well as scions really only have HQ's, Troops and transports, and rely on the guard for everything else. Therefore having a patrol of deep striking scions with a large formation of guard is perfectly sensible. A partial detachment of scions maxes out just over a thousand points unless you want to go full silly sausage and then you could push it up closer to 1500.

So this sort of extra detachment could work quite well for guard and retain the sort of flexibility that we currently have.