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Hello Everyone, Every few years as 40k sweeps back into my life I tend to hop back on the forums and browse around. Currently I ended up with a few questions since it seems like everything has changed so much since I was last involved. As a bit of backstory for me, I started getting into miniatures when my dad pulled out the first edition of Space Hulk. I played a lot of that game and ended up spending a lot of time as a kid homebrewing rules for the game by adding different factions that changed slight things. At the time, 40k 6th edition was popular and so as a gift I got the Dark Vengeance box set and set about the task (which ultimately failed) in starting a Dark Angels army from it. Fast forwarding a fair ways, I end up really wanting to play Khorne Daemonkin in 7th edition and get quite a few boxes of Daemons and Berzerkers. Most of what I have painted is from that period being a lot of cultists and some Khorne hounds. The army at some point goes defunct which left me a bit lost and once again I got given a gift of the starter box. At the time Primaris were super fledgling and I had trouble motivating myself or painting the death guard inside. Now I am looking at getting back into the 40k side of the hobby (I've been mainly playing Blood Bowl with some friends and family) and a lot has changed in what to me feels like a rather short period. I have made what seems to be the mistake of buying the rulebooks early before I was ready to play. For better or for worse it seems like the rulebooks and codices become out of date much faster. Basically I am setting out with a few goals and a mentality change that will hopefully allow me to accomplish more as well as let me take my time with the painting and modeling. With that, I wanted to start an army that was flexible based on what I want to do and hopefully avoid the risk that whatever project I end up working on getting tossed out in the rules. I reread a lot of the legion lore (which seems to be more plentiful now) and came across the Night Lords. I have been enjoying their color scheme, since they are undivided I can play any of the single god factions I would like or ally with them in the future. I do have a few questions, even though I know 10th is rumored to come out soon I would still kind of like to build an army that could play: 1. I understand that the Chaos Lord lost the option to take a jump pack. -I know there is the Black Legion character that has one. Would my army be able to have the Night Lords rules even with him as the HQ choice or would it have to be ran as Black Legion? -What settings are Warhammer Legends not allowed? 2. I have a couple Betrayal at Calth boxes. I know that they just released the Age of Darkness box for Horus Heresy, Are the models inside each the same scale? Or are the new age of darkness models more 'Primaris' scale? 3. How easy is it to ally Daemons, Knights, Deathguard, etc. with normal Chaos Space Marines? 4. Any general suggestions for someone working their way back into everything. Also any reading material.