- Pronouns
- He/Him
Speaking as someone who doesn't consume 40k material, the graphics are not intuitive. They look like warped Order of Battle charts, but are in fact saying completely different things.
The Detachment graphic fails to communicate that it's about what units are allowed in a detachment, not about who reports to who. It's understandable with that context, but without that, the first reading is that everyone reports to their neighbors and only the Troops and Elites report directly to HQ, and it's not clear what the inner ring of six nodes are supposed to be--the text explains that those are additional units taken in 'Column A or Column B' fashion, but without that, who knows.
The Warhost graphic is better, in that we can grasp that command is flowing from the center out, but I know my first reading was that a Warhost is composed of a HQ Detachment and three Heavy Detachments, three Standard Detachments reporting to their neighboring Heavies, each Standard having two lights that also report to light detachments in neighboring Standard detachments, and also there's three Special Detachments 'surrounding' HQ but not being part of it and only talking to eachother. Which is obviously nonsensical, but the correct reading is in no way implied by the graphic and has to be explained separately.
In short, the visual aides as provided are not helpful and serve mostly to confuse the issue.
I'd be interested to know what other properties use this language, because it's about as clear as mud to me.
