Anvil Siege Force
Detachment Rules
Shield of the Imperium
Ranged weapons equipped by ADEPTUS ASTARTES models from your army have the [HEAVY] ability. If such a weapon already has this ability, each time an attack is made with that weapon, if the attacking model’s unit Remained Stationary this turn, add 1 to the Wound roll.
Across blood-drenched battlefields, within towering citadels and isolated orbital stations, the Angels of Death throw back tides of traitors, mutants, xenos and heretics, and purge enemy holdings of foes thanks to their disciplined strategies and fighting skills. All who oppose them are met with volleys of deadly accurate firepower long before they reach the battle-brothers’ razor-sharp blades.
Stratagems
Armour of Contempt
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Rigid Discipline
When: End of the Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Effect: Your unit can immediately make a Fall Back move of up to 6".
Restrictions: When making that move, your unit must end that move either wholly within your deployment zone or within range of an objective marker.
Not One Backwards Step
When: Your Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army within range of an objective marker.
Effect: Until the end of the turn, double the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit, but it must Remain Stationary this turn.
No Threat Too Great
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
Battle Drill Recall
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If your unit Remained Stationary this turn, then until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
Hail of Vengeance
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that had one or more of its models destroyed as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
Enhancements
Indomitable Fury — 20 pts
GRAVIS model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, roll one D6 at the end of the phase. On a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with its full wounds remaining.
Fleet Commander — 15 pts
CAPTAIN model only. Once per battle, at the start of your Shooting phase, you can select one point on the battlefield and place a marker on that point. At the start of your next Shooting phase, place another marker on the battlefield within 12" of the centre of the first marker, then draw a straight line between the centre of each of these markers. Roll one D6 for each unit that line passes over or through: on a 3+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Both markers are then removed.
Stoic Defender — 15 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability while they are within range of an objective marker you control and, while that unit is Battle-shocked, halve the Objective Control characteristic of models in that unit instead of changing it to 0.
Architect of War — 25 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability.
Companions of Vehemence
Detachment Rules
Righteous Fervour
You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army.
With their zealous hatred stoked red-hot by furious sermons and inflammatory prayers, Companions of Vehemence are filled with a wrathful vigour. Only the deaths of the God-Emperor’s enemies can assuage their fury, and they will let nothing delay them from unleashing it.
Stratagems
Devout Push
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".
Restrictions: A unit cannot be targeted with this and the Hearts Hardened to Duty Stratagem in the same phase unless it has the CHAPLAIN or JUDICIAR keywords.
Hearts Hardened to Duty
When: Fight phase, just before an ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army Consolidates.
Target: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Consolidation move, it does not need to end that move closer to the closest enemy model (or the closest enemy unit if the Suffer Not the Unclean to Live Vow is active for it).
For The Emperor’s Honour!
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.
Pious Enmity
When: Fight phase.
Target: One CHAPLAIN or JUDICIAR unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a melee attack that targets an enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that target is a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 as well.
Heresy Begets Retribution
When: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.
Target: One CHAPLAIN or JUDICIAR unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Effect: Your unit can make a Retribution move. To do so, roll one D6: models in your unit move a number of inches up to the result, but your unit must end that move as close as possible to the closest enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT). When doing so, those models can be moved within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.
Dread Crusaders
When: Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit declares a charge.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as one of the targets of that charge.
Effect: That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
Enhancements
Incendiary Animus — 25 pts
CHAPLAIN or JUDICIAR model only. Improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit by 1.
Oathbound Examplar — 15 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY model only. Add 1 to Advance rolls made for the bearer’s unit. If the mission pack you are playing features Actions, the bearer’s unit is eligible to start to perform an Action in a turn in which it Advanced.
Merciless Denunciation — 25 pts
CHAPLAIN or JUDICIAR model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a melee attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
Zealous Vanguard — 20 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 6" ability.
Firestorm Assault Force
Detachment Rules
Close-range Eradication
Ranged weapons equipped by ADEPTUS ASTARTES models from your army have the [ASSAULT] ability, and each time an attack made with such a weapon targets a unit within 12", add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack.
The Space Marines are the Emperor’s finest shock troops, striking at the foe before they can react. In their rapid, mechanised assaults, Space Marines smash aside the enemy, destroying them at close quarters without mercy.
Stratagems
Armour of Contempt
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Crucible of Battle
When: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets the closest eligible target within 6", add 1 to the Wound roll.
Rapid Embarkation
When: End of the Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TRANSPORT unit from your army that has no models embarked within it, and one ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT.
Effect: Your Infantry unit can embark within that TRANSPORT.
Restrictions: You cannot target an INFANTRY unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, that cannot normally embark within that TRANSPORT, or that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn.
Immolation Protocols
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, Torrent weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
Onslaught of Fire
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn and has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets the closest eligible target within 12", add 1 to the Hit roll. If one or more enemy models are destroyed as the result of any of those attacks, select one of those destroyed models; that destroyed model’s unit must take a Battle-shock test.
Burning Vengeance
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TRANSPORT unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: One unit embarked within that TRANSPORT can disembark as if it were your Movement phase, and can then shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
Enhancements
Champion of Humanity — 10 pts
TACTICUS model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit can ignore any or all modifiers to their characteristics and/or to any roll or test made for them (excluding modifiers to saving throws).
War-tempered Artifice — 25 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY model only. Add 3 to the Strength characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons.
Forged in Battle — 15 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, once per turn, after making a Hit roll or a saving throw for a model in that unit, you can change the result of that roll to an unmodified 6.
Adamantine Mantle — 20 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack. If that attack was made with a Melta or Torrent weapon, change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 1 instead.
Gladius Task Force
Detachment Rules
Combat Doctrines
At the start of your Command phase, you can select one of the Combat Doctrines listed below. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Combat Doctrine is active and its effects apply to all ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army. You can only select each Combat Doctrine once per battle.
The Codex Astartes has proven its worth as a treatise on warfare over countless battlefields across ten thousand years. Many Space Marines hold its wisdom in awe, and exemplify its teachings, employing a flexible set of combat doctrines to eliminate their enemy.
DEVASTATOR DOCTRINE
This unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Advanced.
The Codex Astartes details the strategic value of overwhelming firepower applied to key targets while advancing into position to eliminate threats.
TACTICAL DOCTRINE
This unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
As armies close upon one another and vicious firefights erupt, the Codex lays out strategies for seizing the initiative and combining versatility with firepower.
ASSAULT DOCTRINE
This unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
The Codex Astartes leaves no doubt that the killing blow in most engagements must be delivered with a decisive close-quarters strike. It presents plentiful tactical means to achieve this end.
Stratagems
Armour of Contempt
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Only in Death Does Duty End
When: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
Honour the Chapter
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LANCE] ability. If your unit is under the effects of the Assault Doctrine, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of such weapons by 1 as well.
Adaptive Strategy
When: Your Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.
Effect: Select the Devastator Doctrine, Tactical Doctrine or Assault Doctrine. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Combat Doctrine is active for that unit instead of any other Combat Doctrine that is active for your army, even if you have already selected that Combat Doctrine this battle.
Storm of Fire
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability. If your unit is under the effects of the Devastator Doctrine, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of such weapons by 1 as well.
Squad Tactics
When: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that is within 9" of the enemy unit that just ended that move.
Effect: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or a Normal move of up to 6" instead if it is under the effects of the Tactical Doctrine.
Restrictions: You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Enhancements
Artificer Armour — 10 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has a Save characteristic of 2+ and the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.
The Honour Vehement — 15 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons. While the bearer is under the effects of the Assault Doctrine, add 2 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons instead.
Adept of the Codex — 20 pts
CAPTAIN model only. At the start of your Command phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield, instead of selecting a Combat Doctrine to be active for your army, you can select the Tactical Doctrine. If you do, until the start of your next Command phase, that Combat Doctrine is active for the bearer’s unit only, even if you have already selected that Combat Doctrine to be active for your army this battle.
Fire Discipline — 25 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. In addition, while the bearer’s unit is under the effects of the Devastator Doctrine, you can re-roll Advance rolls made for that unit.
Godhammer Assault Force
Detachment Rules
Shock and Awe
- Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army declares a charge, if it disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, after selecting the targets of that charge, select one of those targets; that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
- Each time a model in an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army makes a melee attack, if it disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, add 1 to the Hit roll.
An armoured assault by the crusaders of the Emperor is terrifying to behold. The doomed enemy are pummelled by heavy weapons fire and deafened by the roar of engine spirits in the moments before the strike falls, their comrades crushed by heavy treads. When the assault ramps slam down and the Black Templars storm forth, what little cohesion their foes retain melts away before the crusaders’ holy wrath.
Stratagems
A Ceaseless Cause
When: End of the Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that was eligible to fight this phase.
Effect: If your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 6". It cannot embark within a TRANSPORT at the end of this move if it disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn.
Uncompromising Egress
When: Your Movement phase.
Target: One LAND RAIDER model from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
Effect: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit embarked within your LAND RAIDER can disembark. When doing so, models in that unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield wholly within 6" of your LAND RAIDER and can be set up within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Gauntlet of The God-Emperor
When: Your Movement phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time your model makes a Normal or Advance move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.
Focused Hatred
When: Your Charge phase, just after you make a Charge roll for an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn.
Target: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Charge move, models in your unit can move through models (when doing so, its models can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but they can only end that move within Engagement Range of enemy models if those enemy models belong to a unit that your unit declared a charge against this turn).
Condemnatory Info-Screed
When: Your Fight phase
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if it disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. lf that TRANSPORT has the LAND RAIDER keyword, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.
Blessed Hull
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
Enhancements
Paragon of Fury — 25 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 2 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. Each time a melee attack made by the bearer is allocated to an enemy model, if the bearer disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that attack.
Battle-Psalm Precentor — 10 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time the bearer’s unit declares a charge, if an enemy unit takes a Battle-shock test as a result of the Shock and Awe Detachment rule, subtract 1 from that Battle-shock test.
Augury Servo-Host — 15 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer. Until the end of the phase, models in that unit cannot have the Benefit of Cover.
Herald of Sacred Slaughter — 15 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. In the Declare Battle Formations step, if the bearer starts the battle embarked within a DEDICATED TRANSPORT, that DEDICATED TRANSPORT has the Scouts 9" ability.
Ironstorm Spearhead
Detachment Rules
Armoured Wrath
Once per phase for each ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit in your army, you can re-roll one Hit roll, one Wound roll or one Damage roll made for a model in that unit.
An Ironstorm Spearhead’s commanders guide their assault with pre-cogitated fire solutions, cycling data-gheist inloads and whispered binharic auguries. These ensure their warriors, and the belligerent machine spirits inhabiting their war engines, deliver their fire with inescapable accuracy.
Stratagems
Unbowed Conviction
When: Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is below its Starting Strength.
Effect: Until the end of the turn, your unit can ignore any or all modifiers to its characteristics and/or to any roll or test made for it (excluding modifiers to saving throws).
Armour of Contempt
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Mercy Is Weakness
When: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability, and when making such an attack, if the attacking model is a VEHICLE, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
Vengeful Animus
When: Any phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model from your army with the Deadly Demise ability is destroyed.
Target: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
Effect: Do not roll one D6 to determine whether mortal wounds are inflicted by your model’s Deadly Demise ability. Instead, mortal wounds are automatically inflicted.
Ancient Fury
When: Your Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES WALKER model from your army.
Effect: Until the start of your next Command phase, improve your model’s Move, Toughness, Leadership and Objective Control characteristics by 1 and each time your model makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.
Power of the Machine Spirit
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE unit from your army that was reduced to Below Half-strength as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
Enhancements
Target Augury Web — 30 pts
TECHMARINE model only. In your Command phase, select one ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, weapons equipped by that VEHICLE model have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
The Flesh Is Weak — 10 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability.
Adept of the Omnissiah — 35 pts
TECHMARINE model only. Once per battle round, when a saving throw is failed for a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer, you can change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 0.
Master of Machine War — 20 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. In your Command phase, select one ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, that VEHICLE is eligible to shoot even if it Fell Back or Advanced this turn.
Librarius Conclave
Detachment Rules
Psychic Disciplines
At the start of the battle round, select one of the following Psychic Disciplines. Until the end of the battle round, that Psychic Discipline is active and its effects apply to all ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER units from your army.
Biomancy Discipline
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in this unit.
Divination Discipline
Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, re‑roll a Hit roll of 1 and re‑roll a Wound roll of 1.
Pyromancy Discipline
Each time a ranged attack made by a model in this unit targets an enemy unit within 12", improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Telekinesis Discipline
Each time a ranged attack targets this unit, subtract 1 from the Strength characteristic of that attack.
Telepathy Discipline
Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack’s Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill characteristics and/or any or all modifiers to the Hit roll.
Librarians spend their lives mastering psychic disciplines, learning how to manipulate the energies of the Immaterium to confound their foes and embolden their battle‐brothers.
Stratagems
Sensory Assault
When: Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER unit from your army.
Effect: Select one enemy unit that is within 18" of and visible to one PSYKER model in your unit. Until the start of your next turn, that enemy unit is pinned. While a unit is pinned, subtract 2 from that unit’s Move characteristic and subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for it. In addition, if the Telepathy Discipline is active for your army, that enemy unit must take a Battle‑shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
Armour of Contempt
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Fiery Shield
When: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that is within 18" of one or more friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER models, and that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll, and if the Pyromancy Discipline is active for your army, weapons that target your unit have the [HAZARDOUS] ability.
Iron Arm
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that is within 18" of one or more ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER models from your army and has not been selected to Fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit, or add 2 if the Biomancy Discipline is active for your army.
Assail
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER unit from your army that is eligible to shoot.
Effect: Select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to one or more PSYKER models in your unit (excluding units with the Lone Operative ability), and roll six D6, adding 1 to each result if the Telekinesis Discipline is active for your army: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
Prescient Precision
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, that attack has the [LETHAL HITS] ability, and the [IGNORES COVER] ability as well if the Divination Discipline is active for your army.
Enhancements
Prescience — 25 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER model only (excluding TERMINATOR models). Once per turn, when an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within 9" of the bearer’s unit, the bearer’s unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or up to 6" instead if the Divination Discipline is active for your army.
Celerity — 30 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER model only. The bearer’s unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced, and if the Biomancy Discipline is active for your army, it is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
Obfuscation — 20 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER model only. Enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at the bearer’s unit, and if the Telepathy Discipline is active for your army, the bearer’s unit cannot be targeted by ranged attacks unless the attacking model is within 18".
Fusillade — 35 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES PSYKER model only. Ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit have the [ANTI‑MONSTER 5+] and [ANTI‑VEHICLE 5+] abilities, and:
■ The [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability if the Pyromancy Discipline is active for your army.
■ Add 6" to the Range characteristic of those weapons if the Telekinesis Discipline is active for your army.
Stormlance Task Force
Detachment Rules
Lightning Assault
ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army are eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back.
The warriors of a Stormlance Task Force employ high-speed tactics and hit-and-run warfare. They do battle on the move, wrong-footing their enemies with breakneck manoeuvres and melting away one moment only to crash home like a thunderbolt the next.
Stratagems
Armour of Contempt
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Blitzing Fusillade
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ASSAULT] ability. If such a weapon already has this ability, until the end of the phase, that weapon has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability as well.
Full Throttle
When: Your Movement phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED or ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE unit (excluding WALKERS) from your army.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, if your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit, or 9" instead if your unit is Mounted.
Shock Assault
When: Your Charge phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that has not declared a charge this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the turn, you can re-roll Charge rolls made for your unit and melee weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [LANCE] ability.
Ride Hard, Ride Fast
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED or ADEPTUS ASTARTES FLY VEHICLE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll and subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Wind-swift Evasion
When: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit.
Effect: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
Restrictions: You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Enhancements
Fury of the Storm — 25 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED model only. Improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 1. Each time the bearer ends a Charge move, until the end of the turn, improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 2 instead.
Portents of Wisdom — 15 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, you can re-roll Advance rolls made for that unit.
Feinting Withdrawal — 10 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, that unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.
Hunter’s Instincts — 25 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED model only. If the bearer’s unit is in Strategic Reserves, for the purposes of setting up that unit on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is.
Vanguard Spearhead
Detachment Rules
Shadow Masters
Each time a ranged attack targets an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army, unless the attacking model is within 12", subtract 1 from the Hit roll and the target has the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
The warriors of a Vanguard Spearhead slip through the shadows, half-seen spectres barely visible to the foe. Enemies blaze away into the gloom with increasing panic, their shots flying wide as covert specialists encircle their victims and prepare to level the killing blow.
Stratagems
A Deadly Prize
When: Start of the Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control.
Effect: That objective marker is said to be Sabotaged, and remains under your control even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn. While an objective marker is Sabotaged and under your control, each time an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance, Fall Back or Charge move within range of that objective marker, roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
Armour of Contempt
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Surgical Strikes
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.
Strike From The Shadows
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit that is more than 12" away, improve the Ballistic Skill and Armour Penetration characteristics of that attack by 1. If one or more enemy models are destroyed as a result of those attacks, select one of those destroyed models; that destroyed model’s unit must take a Battle-shock test.
Calculated Feint
When: Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit declares a charge.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as a target of that charge.
Effect: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or up to 6" instead if it is a PHOBOS or SCOUT SQUAD unit.
Restrictions: You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Guerrilla Tactics
When: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
Target: Up to two PHOBOS and/or SCOUT SQUAD units from your army, or one other ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army.
Effect: Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
Restrictions: Each unit selected for this Stratagem must be more than 3" away from all enemy models.
Enhancements
The Blade Driven Deep — 25 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Infiltrators ability.
Ghostweave Cloak — 15 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has the Stealth and Lone Operative abilities.
Execute and Redeploy — 20 pts
PHOBOS model only. In your Shooting phase, after the bearer’s unit has shot, if that unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 6". If it does, until the end of the turn, that unit is not eligible to declare a charge. This cannot allow the bearer’s unit to move more than once in your Shooting phase.
Shadow War Veteran — 30 pts
PHOBOS model only. The bearer has the following ability:
Lord of Deceit (Aura): Each time your opponent targets a unit from their army with a Stratagem, if that unit is within 12" of this model, increase the cost of that use of that Stratagem by 1CP.
Vindication Task Force
Detachment Rules
Purge and Sanctify
- Each time an attack targets an ANCIENT unit from your army, if that unit is within range of one or more objective markers and the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
- Each time a CRUSADER SQUAD unit from your army makes a Righteous Zeal move, that unit can end that move as close as possible to the closest objective marker instead of as close as possible to the closest enemy unit.
As the battle-brothers of a Vindication Task Force purge the Emperor’s domain in fire and blood, they see their holy quest as recovering Humanity’s rightful dominion. They scour the stain of the unclean, topple false idols, breach strongholds of unholy faith and plant the crusade’s standards in their place, branding such sites with the sacred icons of their brotherhood.
Stratagems
Refusal to Yield
When: Any phase, just after an ANCIENT model from your army is destroyed.
Target: That ANCIENT model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
Effect: At the end of the phase, set your model back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, with its full wounds remaining.
Restrictions: You cannot target the same model with this Stratagem more than once per battle.
Litanies of Purgation
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if that model’s unit is within range of one or more objective markers or the target unit is within range of one or more objective markers, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Spoor of the Unholy
When: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability and each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the following: that attack’s Ballistic Skill or Weapon Skill characteristic; the Hit roll.
Reclaim Our Honour!
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit destroys an ANCIENT model from your army that has not been targeted with the Refusal to Yield Stratagem this phase
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army visible to that enemy unit
Effect: Until the end of the battle, each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.
Restrictions: You cannot target that ANCIENT model with the Refusal to Yield Stratagem this phase.
Recitation of the Revered
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ANCIENT unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
Perfervid Intervention
When: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within 6" of one or more enemy units and would be eligible to declare a charge against one or more of those enemy units if it were your Charge phase.
Effect: Your unit now declares a charge that only targets one or more of those enemy units, and you resolve that charge.
Restrictions: Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn
Enhancements
Imperialis of the Eternal Crusade — 15 pts
ANCIENT model only. Each time an enemy unit selects the bearer’s unit as a target of a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (this is not cumulative with any other negative modifiers to that Charge roll).
Consecrating Aura — 25 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.
Orb of the Emperor’s Aegis — 10 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Deep Strike ability.
Warden of Honour — 20 pts
CRUSADE ANCIENT model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, each time you roll one D6 for the bearer’s Vengeful Exhortation ability, add 1 to the result.
Wrathful Procession
Detachment Rules
Zealous Litanies
At the start of the battle round, you can select one of the Litanies listed below. If you do, until the end of the battle round, that Litany is active and its effects apply to all ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY and ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED units from your army.
Chorus of Relentless Hate
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in this unit and add 1 to Advance rolls made for it.
Rite of Perfervid Wrath
Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in this unit.
Chant of Deathless Devotion
Models in this unit have a 5+ invulnerable save against ranged attacks.
Employing prayer as other warriors might use combat stimms, the Black Templars roar ritualised words of devotion that whip their ferocity and battle frenzy to near preternatural heights.
Stratagems
Fuelled by Wrath
When: Any phase, just after a mortal wound is allocated to an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.
Target: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability against mortal wounds.
Armour of Contempt
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Castigate the Demagogues
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.
Brute Fervour
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re‑roll a Hit roll of 1 and you can ignore any or all modifiers to the following: that attack’s Weapon Skill characteristic; the Hit roll; the Wound roll.
Relentless Momentum
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase and is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, when determining which models in your unit are eligible to fight, any models in it that are within 3" of one or more enemy models are eligible to fight. When resolving those attacks, such models can target one of those enemy units that is within 3" of them and within Engagement Range of their unit.
Voice of Devotion
When: Your Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army.
Effect: Select the Chorus of Relentless Hate, Rite of Perfervid Wrath or Chant of Deathless Devotion Litany. Until the end of the battle round, that Litany is active for your unit instead of any other Litany that is active for your army.
Enhancements
Pyrebrand — 25 pts
BLACK TEMPLARS model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Stealth ability.
Sacred Rage — 30 pts
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have the Fights First ability.
Taramond’s Censer — 15 pts
BLACK TEMPLARS model only. At the start of the Fight phase, each enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit must take a Battle‑shock test. When doing so, subtract 1 from the result.
Benediction of Fury — 10 pts
CHAPLAIN model only. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.