Back again to ask for your help. The question I pose here is a clarification needed by my game opponents who don't trust me...
We all know that if your army can field down allies, you can place on the table up to the 33% of your troops with allied units. The question is about how you should apply the sentence: normal rules for purchasing individuals and missile warbands are still applied.
I always thought that this means you can purchase your allied units (up to 33%) assuring that, in the WHOLE army resulting, the missile units are no more than the 40% and there are no more heroes than warbands.
Some of my opponents are saying instead that it should mean you have to reflect that percentages in the 33% of the allied units, which means that you need an allied warband before fielding an individual, and that you can field only the 40% of your 33% of allied units equipped with missile weapons, which, in my opinion, is ridiculous, considering that on a 1000 points army this would mean a maximum of 132 points of allied missile units. No more than four medium shooters...
The question rose up reading the Jade House Elves (page 244) where the sentence about the army composition is written in an ambiguous way, saying you can field up to 1/3 of your army of swamp goblins, and that rules for purchasing individuals and missile units are "as written in the swamp goblins army list". Please clarify once and for all the rule, so to make my opponents comfortable with the fact that I CAN use only individuals of my allies if the whole number of the individuals is not over the number of my warbands.
Thank you so much, and sorry to bother.