Death Company Captain
Adeptus Astartes • Blood Angels
Keywords: Infantry • Character • Grenades • Imperium • Tacticus • Death Company • Captain
Unit Profiles
| Model | M | T | Sv | W | Ld | OC | Invuln |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death Company Captain | 6" | 4 | 3+ | 5 | 6+ | 1 | 4+ |
Melee Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master‐crafted chainsword | — | Melee | 7 | 2+ | — | 4 | -1 | 2 |
| Power fist | — | Melee | 5 | 2+ | — | 8 | -2 | 2 |
| Relic weapon | — | Melee | 6 | 2+ | — | 5 | -2 | 2 |
Ranged Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy bolt pistol — Heavy Bolt Pistol | Pistol | 18" | 1 | — | 2+ | 4 | -1 | 1 |
| Inferno pistol | Melta 2Pistol | 6" | 1 | — | 2+ | 8 | -4 | D3 |
Unit Composition
■ 1 Death Company Captain
This model is equipped with: heavy bolt pistol; master‐crafted chainsword
Unit Abilities
View Army Rule
If your Army Faction is ADEPTUS ASTARTES, at the start of your Command phase, select one unit from your opponent’s army. Until the start of your next Command phase, that enemy unit is your Oath of Moment target. Each time a model with this ability makes an attack that targets your Oath of Moment target:
■ You can re-roll the Hit roll.
■ If you are using a Codex: Space Marines Detachment and your army does not include one or more units with the BLACK TEMPLARS, BLOOD ANGELS, DARK ANGELS, DEATHWATCH or SPACE WOLVES keywords, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.
While this model is leading a unit, unless that unit starts the battle embarked within a TRANSPORT, models in that unit have the Scouts 6" ability.
Each time this model makes a melee attack, you can re‐roll the Hit roll. While this model’s unit is not within 6" of one or more friendly BLOOD ANGELS CHARACTER models, or 12" of one or more friendly CHAPLAIN models, it cannot be selected to Fall Back and its Objective Control characteristic is 0.
If this model is destroyed by a melee attack, after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, you can roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if the attacking unit contains the enemy WARLORD: on a 2‐3, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 4 5, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds; on a 6+, that enemy unit suffers D3+3 mortal wounds.
Core Abilities
Some models have ‘Feel No Pain x+’ listed in their abilities. Each time a model with this ability suffers damage and so would lose a wound (including wounds lost due to mortal wounds), roll one D6: if the result is greater than or equal to the number denoted by ‘x’, that wound is ignored and is not lost. If a model has more than one Feel No Pain ability, you can only use one of those abilities each time that model suffers damage and so would lose a wound.
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
1st Company Task Force
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.
Heroes of the Chapter
When: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD 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, add 1 to the Hit roll. If your unit is Below Half-strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.
Terrifying Proficiency
When: Your Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army that made a Charge move this turn and destroyed one or more enemy units this phase.
Effect: In your opponent’s next Command phase, each enemy unit within 6" of your unit must take a Battle-shock test. If the unit taking that test is Below Half-strength, subtract 1 from that test. Enemy units affected by this Stratagem do not need to take any other Battle-shock tests in the same phase.
Duty and Honour
When: Your Movement phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control.
Effect: That objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.
Orbital Teleportarium
When: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR unit from your army.
Effect: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. It will arrive back on the battlefield in the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase using the Deep Strike ability.
Restrictions: You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Legendary Fortitude
When: Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Charge move.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.
Effect: Until the end of the turn, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
Angelic Inheritors
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.
Focused Fury
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 [LETHAL HITS] ability. If your unit is a CHARACTER unit, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [LANCE] ability as well.
Instant of Grace
When: Your Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army.
Effect: Select one non‑CHARACTER model in your unit. Until the start of your next Command phase, your model has the CHARACTER keyword.
Designer’s Note: *While in effect, your model’s unit is therefore a* CHARACTER *unit, meaning it can interact with the Legacy of the Angel Detachment rule, in addition to other rules that interact with* CHARACTER *units.*
Strike Now For Glory
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.
In The Shadow Of Great Wings
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES 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, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".
Unto The Burning Skies
When: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit from your army. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, unless it is THE SANGUINOR.
Effect: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. 
Anvil Siege Force
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.
Firestorm Assault Force
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.
Gladius Task Force
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.
Ironstorm Spearhead
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.
Liberator Assault Group
Angelic Grace
When: Any phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army has a mortal wound allocated to it.
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.
Savage Echoes
When: Your opponent’s Charge phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was just charged by an enemy unit.
Effect: Select either the Strength or Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit. Until the end of the turn, add 1 to the selected characteristic. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle‐shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the turn, add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.
Red Rampage
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Select either the [LANCE] or [LETHAL HITS] abilities. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, then it becomes Battle‐shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LANCE] and [LETHAL HITS] abilities.
Aggressive Onslaught
When: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army has Advanced.
Target: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.
Effect: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to either shoot or declare a charge, even though it Advanced. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle‐shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to both shoot and declare a charge, even though it Advanced.
Relentless Assault
When: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army Falls Back.
Target: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.
Effect: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to either shoot or declare a charge even though it Fell Back. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle‐shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to both shoot and declare a charge, even though it Fell Back.
Librarius Conclave
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.
Stormlance Task Force
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.
The Angelic Host
Unbridled Ardour
When: Any phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.
Effect: Until the end of the battle, each time a friendly SANGUINARY GUARD unit makes an attack that targets the enemy unit that just destroyed your unit, you can re‐roll the Hit roll and you can re‐roll the Wound roll.
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.
Angel’s Sacrifice
When: Start of the Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit from your army.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy model within Engagement Range of your unit selects its targets, it must select your unit as the target of all of its attacks.
Martial Examplars
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK 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 [LETHAL HITS] and [PRECISION] abilities.
Descent of Angels
When: Your Movement phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit from your army that is arriving using the Deep Strike ability this phase.
Effect: Your unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models.
Restrictions: A unit targeted by this Stratagem is not eligible to declare a charge in the same turn.
Death From The Skies
When: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit from your army Advances or Falls Back.
Target: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit.
Effect: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.
The Lost Brethren
Glorious Sacrifice
When: Any phase.
Target: One DEATH COMPANY unit from your army that was just destroyed while it was within range of an objective marker you controlled. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.
Effect: That objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.
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.
Final Retribution
When: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One DEATH COMPANY 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, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly CHAPLAIN models; on a 4+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
Furious Onslaught
When: Fight phase.
Target: One DEATH COMPANY unit from your army, just before that unit Piles‐in.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Pile‐in move, it can move up to D3+3" instead of up to 3". If your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly CHAPLAIN models, or if it is below Starting Strength, it can move up to 6" instead. In either case, it can only do so provided your unit ends that Pile‐in move in Unit Coherency and within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Lost to Rage
When: Fight phase.
Target: One DEATH COMPANY unit from your army that is below Starting Strength and has not been selected to fight this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, improve the Attacks, Stength and Armour Penetration characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 and, unless your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly CHAPLAIN models, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [HAZARDOUS] ability.
Wrathful Rampage
When: Your Movement phase, just after a DEATH COMPANY unit from your army Advances.
Target: That DEATH COMPANY unit.
Effect: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. If your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly CHAPLAIN models, or it is below its Starting Strength, until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
Vanguard Spearhead
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.