thsi may seem dumb but is the number of cards meant to be a limit on how much of one type that you can have? such as i have 3 choas rhino cards does that mean a chaos army can only have 3? i know speical cards are 1 of a kind but are general cards restricted?

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For general cards, there is no restriction. I'm pretty sure it specifically states it in the rules.

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I know that it does state somewhere that the number of cards supplied does not mean that you cannot field more, unless the rules say otherwise. It may have been stipulated in the Space Marine FAQs published in White Dwarf back in the 1990s.

In terms of the restrictions which do apply to choosing your army, see pages 13-14 of the Space Marine main rulebook, as well as any supplementary rules published for your own army. In the case of Chaos, this would involve looking at the Renegades rulebook.

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