Mandatory artifacts

[Griswolf]

If I play "The Flayed" Host of Chaos for Blades of Khorne, use Vorgaroth the Scarred as my general and can only take one artifact - does that mean that I can take only  the mandatory artifact for The Flayed (The first FLAYED HERO to receive an artefact of power must be given the Slaughterhelm.)? Is there any way to bypass this artifact (except not using The Flayed)?

 

 

[Dogmantra]

No, not really. It's the 2nd edition design philosophy where they wanted an upside and a downside to subfactions. You got an extra ability or two but you had more restrictive decisions with artefacts and command traits. When Blades of Khorne get a 3rd edition battletome it's very likely they won't have mandatory artefacts for subfactions, but you'll have to wait til then.

 

(In theory it's possible to bypass it if you gave your artefact to a hero without the Flayed keyword [since only the first flayed hero must receive the slaughterhelm, it doesn't say that the first artefact must go to a flayed hero]. However, the only models in your army that don't gain that keyword are models that already have a different subfaction and as far as I'm aware they're all named characters and therefore can't have an artefact at all.)