Watch Master
Agents of the Imperium
Keywords: Imperium • Infantry • Watch Master • Grenades • Character • Ordo Xenos • Deathwatch
Unit Profiles
| Model | M | T | Sv | W | Ld | OC | Invuln |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watch Master | 6" | 4 | 2+ | 5 | 6+ | 1 | 4+ |
Melee Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vigil spear — Melee | Lance | Melee | 6 | 2+ | — | 6 | -2 | D3 |
Ranged Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vigil spear — Ranged | — | 24" | 2 | — | 2+ | 4 | -1 | 2 |
Unit Composition
■ 1 Watch Master
This model is equipped with: vigil spear.
Unit Abilities
View Army Rule
If your Army Faction is AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM, then in the Select Detachment Rules step, you can select one of the available Detachments from this publication as normal.
If your Army Faction is not AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM, but every model in your army has the IMPERIUM keyword, you can include AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM units in your army even if they do not have the Faction keyword you selected in the Select Army Faction step. In this case, the maximum number of AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM units you can include in your army depends on the battle size, as shown below.
Note that you can include AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM DEDICATED TRANSPORT units in such an army as normal, but each unit must start the battle with one or more units embarked within it, or it cannot be deployed for that battle and will count as having been destroyed during the first battle round.
While this model is leading a unit, that unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.
Once per battle round, one unit from your army with this ability can use it when it is targeted with a Stratagem. If it does, reduce the CP cost of that usage of that Stratagem by 1CP.
Core Abilities
Some CHARACTER units have ‘Leader’ listed on their datasheets. Such CHARACTER units are known as Leaders, and the units they can lead – known as their Bodyguard units – are listed on their datasheet. During the Declare Battle Formations step, for each Leader in your army, if your army also includes one or more of that Leader’s Bodyguard units, you can select one of those Bodyguard units. That Leader will then attach to that Bodyguard unit for the duration of the battle and is said to be leading that unit. Each Bodyguard unit can only have one Leader attached to it. While a Bodyguard unit contains a Leader, it is known as an Attached unit and, with the exception of rules that are triggered when units are destroyed, it is treated as a single unit for all rules purposes. Each time an attack targets an Attached unit, until the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks, you must use the Toughness characteristic of the Bodyguard models in that unit, even if a Leader in that unit has a different Toughness characteristic. Each time an attack sucessfully wounds an Attached unit, that attack cannot be allocated to a CHARACTER model in that unit, even if that CHARACTER model has lost one or more wounds or has already had attacks allocated to it this phase. As soon as the last Bodyguard model in an Attached unit has been destroyed, any attacks made against that unit that have yet to be allocated can then be allocated to CHARACTER models in that unit.
Each time the last model in a Bodyguard unit is destroyed, each CHARACTER unit that is part of that Attached unit is no longer part of an Attached unit. It becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks.
Each time the last model in a CHARACTER unit that is attached to a Bodyguard unit is destroyed and there is not another CHARACTER unit attached, that Attached unit’s Bodyguard unit is no longer part of an Attached unit. It becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks.
Each time a unit that is part of an Attached unit is destroyed, it does not have the keywords of any other units that make up that Attached unit (unless it has those keywords on its own datasheet) for the purposes of any rules that would be triggered when that unit is destroyed.
*Example: If you only destroy the Bodyguard unit that is part of an Attached unit, you have not destroyed a CHARACTER unit. If you only destroy the CHARACTER unit that is part of an Attached unit, or if you destroy the whole Attached unit, you have destroyed one CHARACTER unit.*
Stratagems by Detachment
Imperialis Fleet
Violent Acquisition
When: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM unit from your army.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit within range of an objective marker, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1], [LANCE] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.
Masters of the Void
When: Your Movement phase.
Target: One VOIDFARERS CHARACTER unit from your army.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM unit from your army that is arriving from Strategic Reserves this turn can be set up within your opponent’s deployment zone (all other restrictions still apply).
Emperor’s Will
When: Your Movement phase.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM unit from your army.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.
Displacer Field
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM CHARACTER unit from your army (excluding OFFICIO ASSASSINORUM units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save and, after the attacking unit has resolved its attacks, unless your unit is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 6" (when doing so, models in this unit move as if they have the FLY keyword).
Selfless Bodyguard
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM Attached unit 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 with the [PRECISION] ability is allocated to a CHARACTER model in your unit, if there are one or more Bodyguard models in your unit, roll one D6: on a 2+, that attack is allocated to a Bodyguard model of your choice in your unit instead.
Ordo Hereticus, Purgation Force
Stun Grenades
When: Start of any phase (excluding the Command phase).
Target: One ADEPTUS ARBITES, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO HERETICUS GRENADES unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Effect: Select one enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS or VEHICLES) within 8" of and visible to your unit. That enemy unit must take a Battle‐shock test and, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
Dispense Justice
When: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ARBITES, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO HERETICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
Inviolate Jurisdiction
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ARBITES, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO HERETICUS INFANTRY unit from your army within range of an objective marker and that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.
Execution Order
When: Your Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ARBITES, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO HERETICUS INFANTRY unit from your army.
Effect: Select one enemy CHARACTER unit on the battlefield. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model in your unit targets that CHARACTER unit, its weapons have the [PRECISION] ability.
Line of Fire
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ARBITES, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO HERETICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit can target enemy units that are within Engagement Range of one or more friendly units with ranged weapons (excluding Blast weapons), provided the target is within 12".
Exact Punishment
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM unit from your army is destroyed as the result of an enemy unit’s attacks.
Target: One ADEPTUS ARBITES, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO HERETICUS unit from your army that was within 6" of the destroyed unit (you cannot target the destroyed unit with the Stratagem).
Effect: After the attacking unit has shot, your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but when resolving those attacks it can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
Ordo Malleus, Daemon Hunters
Ritual of Warding
When: Start of any Command phase.
Target: One INQUISITOR, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO MALLEUS unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker you control.
Effect: That objective marker is said to be Warded 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 Warded and under your control, enemy DAEMON units cannot be set up on the battlefield within 6" of it.
Rites of Exorcism
When: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
Target: One INQUISITOR, INQUISITORIAL AGENTS or ORDO MALLEUS unit from your army.
Effect: Select one enemy DAEMON unit within 12" and visible to your unit. That unit must take a Battle‐shock test. If that test is failed, then until the end of the phase, each time a friendly AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM unit makes an attack that targets that DAEMON unit, that attack has the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
Hexagrammic Wards
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ORDO MALLEUS 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, all Psychic weapons equipped by models in the attacking unit have the [HAZARDOUS] ability.
Ordo Xenos, Alien Hunters
Armour of Contempt
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One DEATHWATCH 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.
Adaptive Tactics
When: Your Command phase.
Target: One DEATHWATCH unit from your army.
Effect: Select the Furor Tactics, Malleus Tactics or Purgatus Tactics. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Deathwatch Mission Tactic is active for your unit instead of any other Deathwatch Mission Tactic that is active for your army, even if you have already selected that Deathwatch Mission Tactic this battle.
Hellfire Rounds
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons (excluding Devastating Wounds weapons) equipped by models in your unit have the [ANTI‐INFANTRY 2+] and [ANTI‐MONSTER 5+] abilities.
Restrictions: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Dragonfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.
Dragonfire Rounds
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One DEATHWATCH INFANTRY 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] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.
Restrictions: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.
Kraken Rounds
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 and improve the Range characteristic of those weapons by 6".
Restrictions: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Dragonfire Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.
Rapid Tactical Relocation
When: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
Target: One INQUISTOR or DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army.
Effect: Remove your unit from the battlefield. In the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase, set your unit up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models.
Restrictions: You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Veiled Blade Elimination Force
Prime Target
When: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM 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 CHARACTER unit, re‑roll a Wound roll of 1. If that attack is made by an OFFICIO ASSASSINORUM model and it targets the enemy WARLORD, you can re‑roll the Wound roll instead.
Hyperstimms
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM CHARACTER 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, add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of models in your unit. In addition, if it is an EVERSOR ASSASSIN unit, until the end of the phase, it has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability.
Will-sapping Salvo
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM INFANTRY 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. In addition, if it is a CULEXUS ASSASSIN unit, until the end of the phase, change the Damage characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit to 3.
Orbital Oversight
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM INFANTRY 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, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18", or, if your unit has the Lone Operative ability, if the attacking model is within 6".
Blind Grenades
When: Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit has declared a charge.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM GRENADES or VINDICARE ASSASSIN unit from your army that was selected as one of the targets of that charge and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, subtract 1 from Charge rolls made for that enemy unit, or, if your unit is a VINDICARE ASSASSIN, subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for that enemy unit instead. 
Ensnaring Trap
When: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
Target: One AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM INFANTRY 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.
Effect: Your unit can declare a charge. When doing so, you must select one or more of those enemy units as the targets of that charge, and your unit does not receive a Charge bonus this turn. In addition, if it is a CALLIDUS ASSASSIN unit and it makes a Charge move as a result of this Stratagem, until the end of the turn, each time a model in your unit makes a melee attack, add 1 to the Wound roll