Adeptus Custodes — army rules

WHEN: Any phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Character unit from your army that just destroyed the unit chosen at the start of your Command phase for your Assemblage of Might ability. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit on the battlefield. Until the start of your next Command phase, whenever an ADEPTUS CUSTODES CHARACTER model from your army attacks that enemy unit, add 1 to the Wound roll. If the destroyed unit was a CHARACTER unit, gain 1CP.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Character unit from your army picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, CHARACTER models in your unit gain Feel No Pain 4+.

WHEN: Any phase, right after an Adeptus Custodes Warlord model from your army has used a 'once per battle' ability from its datasheet or an Enhancement. TARGET: That Adeptus Custodes Warlord model. EFFECT: Your model may use that once-per-battle ability one more time this battle (but not in the same phase). RESTRICTIONS: Usable only once per battle.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, before the Reinforcements step. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Character model from your army not currently leading a unit. EFFECT: Choose one friendly unit (not Battle-shocked or Attached) within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of your model that it is able to lead. Your model attaches to that unit as a Leader; adjust the unit's Starting Strength accordingly.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: Up to two Adeptus Custodes Character units from your army not yet picked to fight this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever a CHARACTER model in either unit attacks a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, you may re-roll both the Hit roll and the Wound roll.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Character model from your army that was just destroyed and has not fought this phase (you may use this even though it was just destroyed). EFFECT: Leave the destroyed model in play; it fights after the attacking unit finishes its attacks and is then removed.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit from your army picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: Until the attacking unit finishes its attacks, whenever an attack targets your unit, worsen that attack's Armour Penetration by 1.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One PROSECUTORS unit from your army not yet picked to shoot this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration of ranged weapons carried by models in your unit by 1. Additionally, whenever a model in your unit makes a ranged attack, on a Critical Wound improve that attack's Armour Penetration by a further 1.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One VIGILATORS, ALEYA, or KNIGHT-CENTURA equipped with an executioner greatblade unit from your army picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, right after an ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit from your army Falls Back. TARGET: That ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit. EFFECT: For the rest of the turn, your unit may shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army not yet picked to fight this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, melee weapons carried by models in your unit gain the [PRECISION] ability.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit has shot. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (not a VEHICLE) picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: Your unit may make a Normal move of up to D6".

WHEN: Your Command phase. TARGET: One Allarus Custodians or Aquilon Custodians unit from your army on the battlefield. EFFECT: Split the unit into separate single-model units, each with a Starting Strength of 1.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever a model in your unit is destroyed and has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 2 if it has the CHARACTER keyword. On a 4+, leave it in play; it fights after the attacking unit finishes its attacks (treated as having 1 wound remaining) and is then removed.

WHEN: Any phase, right after an Adeptus Custodes Character model from your army has used a datasheet ability that can only be used 'once per battle'. TARGET: That ADEPTUS CUSTODES CHARACTER model. EFFECT: Your model may use that once-per-battle ability one more time this battle (but not in the same phase). RESTRICTIONS: Cannot be used on the same model more than once per battle.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, right after an ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army Falls Back. TARGET: That ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit. EFFECT: For the rest of the turn, your unit may shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Witchseekers unit from your army not yet picked to shoot this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks of Torrent weapons carried by models in your unit. If such a weapon targets a PSYKER or Battle-shocked unit this phase, add 2 to its Attacks instead.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Vigilators unit from your army not yet picked to fight this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever a model in your unit makes a melee attack, you may re-roll the Hit roll. If the target is Battle-shocked or a PSYKER, you may also re-roll the Wound roll.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase. TARGET: One Anathema Psykana unit from your army not yet picked to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: Choose either [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. For the rest of the phase, weapons carried by models in your unit gain the chosen ability, but models in your unit may only target PSYKER units.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Prosecutors unit from your army that just shot. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the start of your next turn, while your unit is on the battlefield, that enemy unit is prosecuted. While prosecuted, whenever an Anathema Psykana model attacks that unit, improve that attack's Armour Penetration by 1. While a PSYKER or Battle-shocked unit is prosecuted, each model in it subtracts 1 from its Hit rolls.

WHEN: Any phase, right after an enemy PSYKER unit finishes using a Psychic ability that targets a unit, or finishes making Psychic Attacks. TARGET: One Anathema Psykana unit from your army within 18" of that enemy PSYKER unit. EFFECT: That enemy PSYKER unit must take a Leadership test. If passed, it is Battle-shocked; if failed, it suffers 3 mortal wounds and is Battle-shocked.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One Anathema Psykana Infantry unit from your army picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, your unit gains Stealth, and Battle-shocked and PSYKER models can only choose your unit as a ranged attack target if they are within 12".

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (excluding Anathema Psykana units) not yet picked to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Choose either [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. For the rest of the phase, ranged weapons carried by models in your unit gain the chosen ability.

WHEN: Any phase, right after a mortal wound is allocated to an Adeptus Custodes model from your army (excluding Anathema Psykana models). TARGET: That model's unit. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, models in your unit gain Feel No Pain 4+ against mortal wounds.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Battleline unit from your army (excluding Anathema Psykana units) within range of an objective marker you control. EFFECT: That objective marker stays 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.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes unit from your army that Fell Back this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of your turn, that unit may shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Infantry unit from your army (excluding Anathema Psykana units) within range of an objective marker you control and picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever a melee attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

WHEN: Start of the Fight phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (excluding Anathema Psykana units) below its Starting Strength. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks of melee weapons carried by models in that unit. If the unit is Below Half-strength, add 2 instead.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Vehicle unit from your army picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever an attack targets a model in your unit, if the attack's Strength is greater than your unit's Toughness, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever a model in your unit is destroyed and has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 if your unit has the Walker keyword. On a 4+, leave it in play; it fights after the attacking unit finishes its attacks (treated as having 1 wound remaining) and is then removed.

WHEN: Fight phase, right before an ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army Piles In. TARGET: That ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever a model in your unit makes a Pile-in move, it may move up to D3+3" instead of up to 3".

WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Vehicle or Adeptus Custodes Mounted unit from your army. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever a model in your unit moves, it can move through terrain features.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army not yet picked to shoot this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, ranged weapons carried by models in your unit gain the [IGNORES COVER] ability, and whenever a model in your unit attacks, you may ignore any or all modifiers to that attack's Ballistic Skill and/or to the Hit roll.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, right after an ADEPTUS CUSTODES VEHICLE unit from your army Advances. TARGET: That Adeptus Custodes Vehicle unit. EFFECT: For the rest of the turn, your unit may shoot in a turn in which it Advanced. If the unit has the Walker keyword, it may instead shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: Up to two ADEPTUS CUSTODES INFANTRY units from your army, plus one enemy unit that is an eligible target for all of them. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, your units may only target that enemy unit, but whenever a model in one of your units makes a ranged attack, improve that attack's Strength and Armour Penetration by 1. RESTRICTIONS: You may only choose two units if exactly one is an ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit and both are within 6" of each other.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks, plus one friendly ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit within 6" of that ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, your unit gains Feel No Pain 4+ against Psychic Attacks and mortal wounds.

WHEN: Start of the Fight phase. TARGET: Up to two Adeptus Custodes units from your army. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever a model in one of your units targets an enemy unit below its Starting Strength, add 1 to the Wound roll. RESTRICTIONS: You may only choose two units if exactly one is an Anathema Psykana unit and both are within 6" of each other.

WHEN: Your opponent's Movement phase, right after an enemy unit finishes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move. TARGET: Up to two Adeptus Custodes units from your army within 9" of that enemy unit. EFFECT: Your units may make a Normal move of up to 6". RESTRICTIONS: You cannot pick units within Engagement Range of any enemy units. You may only choose two units if exactly one is an Anathema Psykana unit and both are within 6" of each other.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One Anathema Psykana Infantry unit from your army picked as a target of one or more of that attacking unit's attacks, plus one other friendly Adeptus Custodes Infantry unit (excluding ANATHEMA PSYKANA units) within 6" of that ANATHEMA PSYKANA INFANTRY unit. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, any attack targeting your ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit must instead target your other ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit (unless it is not an eligible target).

WHEN: Start of your Movement phase. TARGET: Up to two ADEPTUS CUSTODES units from your army. EFFECT: For the rest of the turn, your units may shoot and/or declare a charge in a turn in which they Fell Back. RESTRICTIONS: You may only choose two units if exactly one is an ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit and both are within 6" of each other.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army not yet picked to shoot this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, ranged weapons carried by models in your unit (excluding ballistus grenade launchers) gain the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability when targeting units within 6".

WHEN: Your Charge phase, right after an ALLARUS CUSTODIANS unit from your army finishes a Charge move. TARGET: That ALLARUS CUSTODIANS unit. EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test with -1 to the result.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (excluding ANATHEMA PSYKANA units) not yet picked to move this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, its models may move through other models as if they were not there, and any Desperate Escape tests taken for your unit's models are automatically passed.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (excluding ANATHEMA PSYKANA units) not yet picked to move this phase. EFFECT: For the rest of the phase, whenever a model in your unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it may ignore Walls and other models when determining which enemy units are visible to it.