Castellan
Adeptus Astartes • Black Templars
Keywords: Character • Infantry • Grenades • Tacticus • Imperium • Lieutenant • Castellan
Unit Profiles
| Model | M | T | Sv | W | Ld | OC | Invuln |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castellan | 6" | 4 | 3+ | 4 | 6+ | 1 | — |
Melee Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astartes chainsword | Sustained Hits 1 | Melee | 7 | 2+ | — | 4 | -1 | 1 |
| Master-crafted power weapon | Lethal Hits | Melee | 6 | 2+ | — | 5 | -2 | 2 |
Ranged Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combi-weapon | Anti-infantry 4+Devastating WoundsRapid Fire 1 | 24" | 1 | — | 3+ | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Heavy bolt pistol — Heavy Bolt Pistol | Pistol | 18" | 1 | — | 2+ | 4 | -1 | 1 |
Unit Composition
■ 1 Castellan
This model is equipped with: combi-weapon; master-crafted power weapon.
Unit Abilities
View Army Rule
If your Army Faction is ADEPTUS ASTARTES, at the start of the first battle round, select one of the following Vows to be active for ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army. While a Vow is active for a unit from your army, that unit has the associated ability shown below.
Abhor the Witch, Destroy the Witch
Each time this unit declares a charge, if one or more targets of that charge have the PSYKER keyword, you can re-roll the Charge roll. Melee weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [PRECISION] ability while targeting PSYKER units.
Accept any Challenge, no Matter the Odds
Each time a model in this unit makes a melee attack, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is less than or equal to the Toughness characteristic of the target, add 1 to the Wound roll.
Suffer Not the Unclean to Live
This unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back, and each time a model in this unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it does not need to end that move closer to the closest enemy model, provided it ends that move as close as possible to the closest enemy unit.
Uphold the Honour of the Emperor
If this unit has the INFANTRY keyword:
■ At the end of your Command phase, if this unit is within range of an objective marker you control, 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.
■ If the mission you are playing features Actions, this unit is eligible to start to perform an Action in a turn in which it Advanced.
While this model is leading a unit, each time that unit is selected to fight, take a Leadership test for that unit: if passed, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll; if failed, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.
Each time a model in this model’s unit makes a melee attack that destroys one or more enemy units, roll one D6: on a 4+, you gain 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
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.
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.
Companions of Vehemence
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.
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.
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.
Godhammer Assault Force
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vindication Task Force
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.
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
Wrathful Procession
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.