Venerable Dreadnought
Adeptus Astartes • Space Wolves
Keywords: Vehicle • Walker • Smoke • Imperium • Dreadnought • Venerable Dreadnought
Unit Profiles
| Model | M | T | Sv | W | Ld | OC | Invuln |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venerable Dreadnought | 8" | 9 | 2+ | 8 | 6+ | 3 | — |
Melee Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreadnought combat weapon | — | Melee | 5 | 3+ | — | 12 | -2 | 3 |
| Fenrisian great axe — strike | — | Melee | 6 | 3+ | — | 10 | -2 | D6+1 |
| Fenrisian great axe — sweep | — | Melee | 12 | 3+ | — | 6 | -2 | 1 |
Ranged Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assault cannon — Assault Cannon | Devastating Wounds | 24" | 6 | — | 3+ | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Heavy flamer | Ignores CoverTorrent | 12" | D6 | — | N/A | 5 | -1 | 1 |
| Helfrost cannon — dispersed | Torrent | 12" | D6 | — | N/A | 6 | -1 | 2 |
| Helfrost cannon — focused | — | 36" | 1 | — | 3+ | 10 | -3 | 5 |
| Multi-melta | Melta 2 | 18" | 2 | — | 3+ | 9 | -4 | D6 |
| Storm bolter | Rapid Fire 2 | 24" | 2 | — | 3+ | 4 | 0 | 1 |
Unit Composition
■ 1 Venerable Dreadnought
This model is equipped with: assault cannon; storm bolter; Dreadnought combat weapon.
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 a friendly SPACE WOLVES unit is within 6" of this model, add 1 to Advance and Charge rolls made for that unit.
Core Abilities
Some models have ‘Deadly Demise x’ listed in their abilities. When such a model is destroyed, roll one D6 before removing it from play (if such a model is a TRANSPORT, roll before any embarked models disembark). On a 6, each unit within 6" of that model suffers a number of mortal wounds denoted by ‘x’ (if this is a random number, roll separately for each unit within 6").
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.
Champions of Fenris
Preytaker’s Eye
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: Select either the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] abilities. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have that ability.
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.
Runes of Claiming
When: End of your Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES WALKER unit from your army.
Effect: Select one objective marker you control that your unit is within range of. 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.
Chilling Howl
When: Your opponent’s Command phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR unit from your army.
Effect: Each enemy unit within 6" of your unit must take a Battle‑shock test, subtracting 1 from that test if that unit is Below Half‑strength.
Stalking Wolves
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES 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, models in your unit have the Stealth ability.
Onrushing Storm
When: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Effect: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
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.
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.
Saga of the Beastslayer
Unbridled Ferocity
When: Fight phase.
Target: One SPACE WOLVES 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, add 1 to the Wound roll.
Pinning 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, after your unit has shot, select one enemy CHARACTER, MONSTER, or VEHICLE unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the start of your next Shooting phase, that unit is pinned. While a unit is pinned, subtract 2" from its Move characteristic and subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for it.
Thunderous Pursuit
When: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Effect: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6". If your unit has the SPACE WOLVES INFANTRY or THUNDERWOLF CAVALRY keywords, it can make a Normal move of up to 6" instead.
Coordinated Strike
When: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
Target: One SPACE WOLVES unit from your army that is wholly within 9" of one or more battlefield edges and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Effect: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Saga of the Bold
Inspiring Presence
When: Fight phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER 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.
Champion’s Guidance
When: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
Target: One SPACE WOLVES CHARACTER 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, you can re‑roll the Hit roll.
Birth of a Saga
When: Your Command phase.
Target: One Wolf Guard Headtaker or Wolf Guard Terminator Pack Leader model from your army.
Effect: 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 Heroes All rule (see Detachment Rules section), in addition to other rules that interact with* CHARACTER *units.*
Alpha Strike
When: Your Charge phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit from your army.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
Heroic Resolve
When: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: One SPACE WOLVES 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, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
Countercharge
When: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER 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 targets only one or more of those enemy units, and you resolve that charge as if it were your Charge phase. Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.
Saga of the Hunter
Envelop and Ensnare
When: Fight phase.
Target: One SPACE WOLVES unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) 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". When doing so, 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.
Territorial Advantage
When: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit is destroyed by an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.
Target: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.
Effect: Select one objective marker you control that your unit is within range of. 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.
Overwhelming Onslaught
When: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
Target: Two ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit, or one SPACE WOLVES BEASTS unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
Chosen Prey
When: Your Movement phase, just after a SPACE WOLVES unit from your army Falls Back.
Target: That SPACE WOLVES unit.
Effect: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
Bounding Advance
When: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.
Target: One SPACE WOLVES INFANTRY or SPACE WOLVES BEASTS unit from your army that has not been selected to move or declared a charge this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Normal, Advance, Fall Back or Charge move, it can move through models (excluding TITANIC models). When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but unless it is making a Charge move, it cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them.
Marked for Destruction
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: Two ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army (excluding BEASTS) that have not been selected to shoot this phase.
Effect: Select one enemy unit visible to both of your units. Until the end of the phase, models in your units can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target) and each time a model in one of your units makes an attack, re‑roll a Wound roll of 1.
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.