Death Guard — army rules

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit picks its targets. TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army chosen as the target of one or more of the attacker's attacks. EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, subtract 1 from the Hit roll for each attack targeting your unit.

WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase. TARGET: One DEATH GUARD TERMINATOR unit from your army not within Engagement Range of any enemy units. EFFECT: Choose one objective marker within Contagion Range of and visible to your unit. That marker is Secured by your army. RESTRICTIONS: Usable only once, and until the end of the turn your unit cannot shoot or declare a charge.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after an enemy unit picks its targets. TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army chosen as the target of one or more of the attacker's attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit is destroyed and has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 4+ it is not removed; it fights after the attacker finishes its attacks, then is removed.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One DEATH GUARD TERMINATOR unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: If your unit was set up on the battlefield this turn, it may perform a Tactical Manoeuvre this phase as if it had not been set up this turn.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an enemy unit picks its targets. TARGET: One Death Guard Attached unit from your army chosen as the target of one or more of the attacker's attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, add 2 to the Toughness of models in your unit.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Attached unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Attached unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit makes an attack against a unit below its Starting Strength, you may re-roll the Hit roll and the Wound roll.

WHEN: Start of the Fight phase. TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army that includes two Character models. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, the unit has the Fights First ability.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, before the Reinforcements step. TARGET: One Death Guard Character unit from your army that is not leading a unit. EFFECT: Choose one other friendly Death Guard unit (excluding Battle-shocked units and Attached units already led by two Leader units or one of your CHARACTER units) within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically that your unit can lead (per the Leader section of its datasheet). Your unit attaches to it as a Leader. Adjust that unit's Starting Strength accordingly.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Biologus Putrifier unit from your army not within Engagement Range of any enemy units and not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit (excluding VEHICLES) within 8" of and visible to your unit. Until the start of your next turn, that unit has the effect of all Plagues (see Nurgle's Gift).

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Terminator unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit makes an attack against an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES), you may re-roll the Hit roll.

WHEN: Your Command phase. TARGET: One Lord of Virulence model from your army. EFFECT: Choose one objective marker within 30" of and visible to your model. Until the start of your next turn, while an enemy unit is within range of that marker, it is Afflicted.

WHEN: Start of any phase. TARGET: One Terminator unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models in the unit.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after an enemy unit picks its targets. TARGET: One Terminator unit from your army chosen as the target of one or more of the attacker's attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit is destroyed and has not fought this phase, roll one D6. On a 4+ it is not removed; it fights after the attacker finishes its attacks, then is removed.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Terminator unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, ranged weapons carried by models in the unit gain the [ASSAULT] and [HEAVY] abilities.

WHEN: Your Charge phase, right after a Terminator unit from your army finishes a Charge move. TARGET: That TERMINATOR unit. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit, then roll one D6 for each model in your unit within Engagement Range of it: for each 2+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (up to 6 mortal wounds).

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit picks its targets. TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army within 6" of one or more friendly Myphitic Blight-hauler units and chosen as the target of one or more of the attacker's attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time an attack targets your unit, if the attack's Strength exceeds the unit's Toughness, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit makes a ranged attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If the attack targets a unit within half range, you may re-roll the Hit roll instead.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, ranged weapons carried by models in the unit (excluding Blast weapons) gain the [PISTOL] ability.

WHEN: Your Charge phase, right after a DEATH GUARD INFANTRY unit from your army makes a Charge move. TARGET: That Death Guard Infantry unit. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES). Roll one D6 for each model in your unit within Engagement Range of it, adding 1 if that model is not a Cultist or Poxwalker: for each 5+, the chosen enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (up to 6 mortal wounds).

WHEN: Start of the Fight phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. It must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit makes an attack against a visible enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT) within your opponent's deployment zone, you may re-roll the Hit roll.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Vehicle unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, ranged weapons carried by models in the unit gain the [ASSAULT] ability.

WHEN: End of your Movement phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Vehicle unit from your army. EFFECT: Choose one terrain feature within 24" of and visible to your unit. Until the start of your next turn, enemy units are Afflicted while within 3" of that terrain feature.

WHEN: Start of your opponent's Charge phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Vehicle unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time an enemy unit selects your unit as the target of a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (not cumulative with other negative modifiers to that Charge roll).

WHEN: Your opponent's Command phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Vehicle unit from your army. EFFECT: Choose one objective marker visible to one or more models in your unit. Each Afflicted enemy unit within range of it must take a Battle-shock test. Enemy units affected by this Stratagem take no other Battle-shock tests in the same phase.

WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Vehicle unit from your army not yet chosen to move or charge this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.

WHEN: Your Command phase. TARGET: One Poxwalkers unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, add 1 to the Move of models in the unit, and add 1 to the Attacks and Strength of melee weapons carried by them.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after an enemy unit picks its targets. TARGET: One Poxwalkers unit from your army chosen as the target of one or more of the attacker's attacks. EFFECT: After the attacker has fought, roll one D6 for each model from your unit destroyed by those attacks: on a 6, the attacker suffers 1 mortal wound. If your unit is not destroyed after the attacker fights, enemy models destroyed by this Stratagem count as destroyed by an attack from a model in your unit for the Curse of the Walking Pox ability.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit picks its targets. TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army chosen as the target of one or more of the attacker's attacks, and one friendly Poxwalkers unit within 3" of your unit and visible to both your unit and the attacker. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your DEATH GUARD unit, if your POXWALKERS unit is visible to the attacking model and an eligible target, no saving throw is made; instead a number of POXWALKERS from that unit equal to the attack's Damage are destroyed.

WHEN: Your Charge phase, right after a Death Guard unit from your army finishes a Charge move. TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit. EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from it.

WHEN: The Reinforcements step of your Movement phase. TARGET: One Poxwalkers unit from your army in Strategic Reserves that is not an Attached unit. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, models in the unit have the Deep Strike ability.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Poxwalkers unit from your army that was just destroyed (usable even though it was just destroyed). EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit that made one or more attacks targeting your unit this phase. Until the end of the battle, that enemy unit is Afflicted.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit makes an attack against an enemy unit within Engagement Range of one or more Plague Legions units from your army, you may re-roll the Hit roll.

WHEN: Any phase. TARGET: One Nurglings unit from your army that was just destroyed (usable even though it was just destroyed). EFFECT: Add a new unit identical to the destroyed one to your army, in Strategic Reserves, at its Starting Strength with full wounds remaining. RESTRICTIONS: Usable only once per battle.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Plague Legions unit from your army within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, enemy units are not treated as within Engagement Range of your unit when selecting targets for ranged weapons. Until the phase ends, each time an enemy model loses a wound while its unit is within Engagement Range of your unit, roll one D6: on a 5+, your unit suffers 1 mortal wound after the attacker finishes its attacks.

WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase. TARGET: One Plague Legions Monster unit from your army not yet chosen to move or charge this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Plague Legions unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, while an enemy unit is within 6" of your unit, it is Afflicted.

WHEN: Your opponent's Movement phase, when an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) is chosen to Fall Back. TARGET: One Plague Legions unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, while an enemy unit is within Engagement Range of your unit, each time it is chosen to Fall Back it must take a Leadership test. On a failed test, it must Remain Stationary this phase instead.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One POXWALKERS unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, add 1 to the Armour Penetration of melee weapons carried by models in the unit.

WHEN: Your opponent's Movement phase, right after an enemy unit is chosen to Fall Back. TARGET: One POXWALKERS unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit. EFFECT: After that enemy unit ends its Fall Back move, if your unit is not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, your unit may make a Normal move.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One DEATH GUARD CULTISTS unit from your army not yet chosen to move this phase and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units. EFFECT: Choose one closed Hatchway within 1" of your unit. Your unit can attempt to operate it. RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit cannot attempt to operate a Hatchway again.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, at the start of the Reinforcements step. TARGET: One POXWALKERS unit from your army in Reserves. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit has the Deep Strike ability. RESTRICTIONS: Usable only once.

WHEN: Start or end of any turn, when an enemy unit attempts to Seize an objective marker you have Secured. TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) within Contagion Range of that marker. EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 5+, until the end of your next turn that marker stays Secured by your army and you are considered to control it, regardless of how many enemy models are within range. RESTRICTIONS: Usable only once per battle round.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase. TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit makes an attack against a unit within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ instead of only a 6.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after a DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) has shot or fought. TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit that lost one or more models to those attacks. It must take a Battle-shock test.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, when a DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) attempts to open a Hatchway. TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit within 1" of your unit and on the opposite side of that Hatchway, and roll one D6: on a 2-4 it suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+ it suffers 2 mortal wounds. Until the phase ends, if an enemy unit attempts to prevent that Hatchway from opening, you may re-roll your result when rolling off.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an enemy unit picks its targets. TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army chosen as the target of one or more of the attacker's attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from that attack's Damage.

WHEN: Your Command phase. TARGET: Your Death Guard WARLORD on the battlefield. EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models from your army.

WHEN: Your Command phase. TARGET: One Death Guard model from your army that has lost one or more wounds. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit within 3" of your model. Roll a number of D6 equal to the wounds your model has lost: for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers one mortal wound (up to 6 mortal wounds) and your model regains 1 lost wound (up to 6 lost wounds).

WHEN: Any phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Vehicle or Death Guard Monster model from your army with the Deadly Demise ability that was just destroyed (usable even though it was just destroyed). EFFECT: Do not roll the D6 to determine whether your model's Deadly Demise ability inflicts mortal wounds; mortal wounds are inflicted automatically. Additionally, any enemy units that suffer mortal wounds from this Stratagem are Afflicted until the start of your next turn.

WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Character unit from your army. EFFECT: Choose one enemy unit visible to your unit. Until the phase ends, each time a DEATH GUARD unit from your army targets that enemy unit with any ranged attacks, you may re-roll the dice determining how many attacks a weapon carried by a model in that unit makes.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, each time a model in the unit makes a ranged attack against an Afflicted unit, you may re-roll the Hit roll and the Wound roll.