Genestealer Cults — army rules

WHEN: Your Charge phase. TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers unit from your army that has not declared a charge this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, whenever your unit declares a charge, if the closest eligible enemy unit is among the targets, add 1 to the Charge roll for each target of that charge (including that closest unit), up to a maximum of +3.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, add 1 to the Wound roll for your unit's attacks against a MONSTER or VEHICLE.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit's models may make Pile-in and Consolidation moves of up to 6" instead of up to 3". They also do not need to end closer to the closest enemy model, provided they end as near as possible to the closest enemy unit.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after an enemy unit destroys a Genestealer Cults Character model from your army. TARGET: That destroyed CHARACTER model (usable even though it was just destroyed). EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit takes D3 mortal wounds. If the Character was an Abominant or Patriarch, it takes 2D3 mortal wounds instead.

WHEN: Start of your opponent's Shooting phase. TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, whenever an enemy unit within 9" of your unit is chosen to shoot, it must take a Leadership test with -1 to the result. If it fails, then for the rest of the phase, subtract 1 from the Hit roll for that enemy unit's attacks against your unit.

WHEN: Any phase, right after an enemy unit ends a move within 9" of one or more of your Cult Ambush markers, before those markers are removed. TARGET: One of those Cult Ambush markers. EFFECT: Set that marker up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" horizontally from every enemy unit.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Astra Militarum unit and one GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army, neither chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Pick one enemy unit visible to both and within range of at least one ranged weapon from each. Until the phase ends, those units may only attack that enemy unit (and only if eligible), and re-roll a Wound roll of 1 when doing so.

WHEN: Reinforcements step of your opponent's Movement phase, right after an enemy unit is set up from Reserves. TARGET: One Astra Militarum or GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army (excluding Monsters and Vehicles) within 12" of that enemy unit. EFFECT: Your unit may make a Normal move of up to 6".

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Astra Militarum unit from your army. EFFECT: Pick one enemy unit within Engagement Range of one or more GENESTEALER CULTS units from your army. Until the phase ends, your unit may make ranged attacks against that enemy unit. If it does, after resolving them, roll one D6 for each of those GENESTEALER CULTS units: on a 5+, that unit takes D3+1 mortal wounds.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase, right after an Astra Militarum unit from your army has shot. TARGET: That ASTRA MILITARUM unit. EFFECT: Pick one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. For the rest of the turn, that enemy unit cannot be targeted by the Fire Overwatch Stratagem, and whenever a GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army targets it with a charge, you may re-roll the Charge roll.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an Astra Militarum Infantry Regiment unit from your army (excluding Artillery and Character units) is destroyed. TARGET: That INFANTRY unit (usable even though it was just destroyed). EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 3+, place one Cult Ambush marker anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" horizontally from every enemy unit (if impossible, no marker is placed) and add a new unit identical to the destroyed one to your army, in Cult Ambush, at its Starting Strength with all wounds remaining and any [ONE SHOT] weapons treated as not yet fired. RESTRICTIONS: Once per battle only.

WHEN: Any phase, right after an enemy unit ends a move within 9" of one or more of your Cult Ambush markers. TARGET: One Astra Militarum Vehicle unit from your army. EFFECT: Pick one of those Cult Ambush markers. Set it up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" horizontally from every enemy unit and wholly within 6" of your unit.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army chosen as a target of one or more of that unit's attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, for each attack targeting your unit, if the attacking model is not within 3", subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Pick one enemy unit within Engagement Range of one or more friendly GENESTEALER CULTS units. Until the phase ends, your unit may make ranged attacks against that enemy unit. If it does, after it finishes attacking, roll one D6 for each of those friendly units: on 2-4 it takes 1 mortal wound; on 5+ it takes 2 mortal wounds.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, at the start of the Reinforcements step. TARGET: One NEOPHYTE HYBRIDS unit from your army in Reserves. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit's models gain Deep Strike. RESTRICTIONS: Once only.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit may shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.

WHEN: Your Charge phase. TARGET: One Genestealer Cults unit from your army that has not declared a charge this phase. EFFECT: Pick one enemy unit within Engagement Range of one or more Tyranids units from your army. Until the phase ends, whenever your GENESTEALER CULTS unit declares a charge that includes that enemy unit among its targets, add 1 to the Charge roll and you may re-roll it.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Genestealer Cults unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit re-rolls a Wound roll of 1 against an enemy unit. If one or more friendly Tyranids units are within 6" of that enemy unit, you may re-roll the Wound roll instead.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has shot or fought. TARGET: One Tyranids Character unit from your army destroyed by that enemy unit this phase (usable even though it was just destroyed). EFFECT: For the rest of the battle, whenever a Genestealer Cults model from your army attacks that enemy unit, add 1 to the Hit roll and 1 to the Wound roll.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or your Charge phase. TARGET: One Tyranids unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit may shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

WHEN: Start of any phase. TARGET: One Tyranids unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, increase the range of your unit's Catalyst ability by 3". RESTRICTIONS: Each use prevents you from using this Stratagem again until the end of your next Command phase.

WHEN: End of your opponent's Fight phase. TARGET: One Genestealer Cults or Tyranids unit from your army not within Engagement Range of any enemy unit. EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

WHEN: Your Movement or Charge phase. TARGET: One ABOMINANT or ABERRANTS unit from your army not yet chosen to move and that has not declared a charge this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, during a Normal, Advance or Charge move your unit may pass through a single closed Hatchway as if it were open; that Hatchway then opens and stays open for the rest of the battle. This may let the unit charge enemy units it cannot see, but only if those units are within 1" of that Hatchway and wholly on the far side of it from your unit. RESTRICTIONS: Once per turn only.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit is chosen to perform a Tactical Manoeuvre. TARGET: One GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army within 9" of and visible to that enemy unit. EFFECT: That enemy unit must take a Leadership test with -1 to the result; if it fails, it does not perform that Tactical Manoeuvre and cannot perform another one this turn (but otherwise acts normally).

WHEN: Fight phase, right after a GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army destroys an enemy unit. TARGET: That GENESTEALER CULTS unit. EFFECT: If your unit is not within Engagement Range of any enemy unit, then until the phase ends, whenever it Consolidates its models may end as near as possible to the nearest Hatchway instead of the nearest visible enemy unit. Your unit may then try to operate that Hatchway.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase, right after a HYBRID METAMORPHS unit from your army is chosen to perform the Set Overwatch Tactical Manoeuvre. TARGET: That HYBRID METAMORPHS unit. EFFECT: Pick one objective marker you control that your unit is within range of. That marker is Secured by your army.

WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase or start of the Fight phase. TARGET: Two GENESTEALER CULTS units from your army not yet chosen to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: Pick one enemy unit (in the Fight phase it must be within Engagement Range of both your units). Until the phase ends, each model in either of your units may only attack that enemy unit (and only if eligible), and adds 1 to the Wound roll when doing so.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase. TARGET: One GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit scores a Critical Hit on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ rather than only a 6.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army arriving via Deep Strike this phase. EFFECT: Your unit may be set up anywhere on the battlefield more than 6" horizontally from every enemy unit. RESTRICTIONS: That unit cannot declare a charge this turn.

WHEN: End of your opponent's Fight phase. TARGET: One Genestealer Cults Infantry unit from your army not within Engagement Range of any enemy unit. EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

WHEN: Your opponent's Movement phase. TARGET: One Genestealer Cults Battleline unit from your army in Cult Ambush. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, when setting up via a Cult Ambush marker, place your unit anywhere on the battlefield wholly within 6" of that marker and not within Engagement Range of any enemy unit.

WHEN: Your opponent's Charge phase, right after an enemy unit declares a charge. TARGET: One Genestealer Cults Infantry unit from your army chosen as a target of that charge. EFFECT: Roll one D6: on 2-4 that enemy unit takes D3 mortal wounds; on 5+ it takes 3 mortal wounds.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One GREAT DEVOURER 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, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, right after a GREAT DEVOURER unit from your army opens a Hatchway. TARGET: That GREAT DEVOURER unit. EFFECT: Your unit may make a Normal move of up to 3", as long as at least one model ends that move on the opposite side of the Hatchway from where the unit opened it.

WHEN: End of your opponent's Fight phase. TARGET: One GENESTEALERS or PURESTRAIN GENESTEALERS unit from your army wholly within an Entry Zone. EFFECT: Take your unit off the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. It returns in the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase. When it does, if it was within one of your Entry Zones when removed, set it up wholly within another of your Entry Zones; if it was within one of your opponent's Entry Zones, set it up wholly within another of your opponent's Entry Zones. If neither is possible, the unit is destroyed.

WHEN: Fight phase, right after the enemy WARLORD is destroyed by a GREAT DEVOURER unit from your army (and not returned to the battlefield). TARGET: That GREAT DEVOURER unit. EFFECT: In your opponent's next Command phase, each enemy unit on the battlefield must take a Battle-shock test with -1 to the result. This cannot make a unit take two Battle-shock tests in the same phase.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One Goliath Rockgrinder or Goliath Truck unit from your army chosen as a target of one or more of that unit's attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of each attack targeting your unit.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit has chosen its targets. TARGET: One Achilles Ridgerunners or Atalan Jackals unit from your army chosen as a target of one or more of that unit's attacks. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit's models have a 4+ invulnerable save.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Genestealer Cults Mounted or Genestealer Cults Vehicle unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, ranged weapons carried by your unit's models gain [LETHAL HITS] while targeting an enemy unit within 18".

WHEN: Any phase, right after an enemy unit ends a move within 9" of one or more of your Cult Ambush markers. TARGET: One of those Cult Ambush markers. EFFECT: Set it up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" horizontally from every enemy unit.

WHEN: Your opponent's Movement phase, right after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move. TARGET: One Achilles Ridgerunners or Atalan Jackals unit from your army within 9" of that enemy unit. EFFECT: Your unit may make a Normal move of up to 6".

WHEN: End of your opponent's Fight phase. TARGET: One Genestealer Cults Mounted or Genestealer Cults Vehicle unit from your army not within Engagement Range of any enemy unit and wholly within 9" of one or more battlefield edges. EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Acolyte Hybrids, Hybrid Metamorphs or Neophyte Hybrids unit from your army not yet chosen to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, melee weapons carried by models (excluding Characters) in your unit gain +1 Attacks and +1 Weapon Skill, and gain [HAZARDOUS].

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, right after an enemy unit destroys a Genestealer Cults Character model from your army. TARGET: One other GENESTEALER CULTS CHARACTER model from your army. EFFECT: For the rest of the battle, whenever a friendly Acolyte Hybrids, Hybrid Metamorphs or Neophyte Hybrids model attacks that enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If the destroyed model was a Magus, Primus or Acolyte Iconward, you may re-roll the Hit roll instead.

WHEN: End of the Reinforcements step of your opponent's Movement phase. TARGET: One Acolyte Hybrids, Hybrid Metamorphs or Neophyte Hybrids unit from your army in Cult Ambush. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, you may set up your unit on the battlefield without a Cult Ambush marker, placing it anywhere more than 6" horizontally from every enemy unit.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Acolyte Hybrids, Hybrid Metamorphs or Neophyte Hybrids unit from your army not yet chosen to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, ranged weapons carried by your unit's models gain [ASSAULT].

WHEN: Your Charge phase. TARGET: One Acolyte Hybrids, Hybrid Metamorphs or Neophyte Hybrids unit from your army that has not declared a charge this phase. EFFECT: Until the phase ends, your unit may declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back. If it targets an enemy unit within Engagement Range of one or more friendly Character units, you may re-roll the Charge roll.

WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, right after an enemy unit has shot. TARGET: One Acolyte Hybrids or Neophyte Hybrids unit from your army that lost one or more models to that unit's attacks. EFFECT: Your unit may make a move of up to D6", but must end as near as possible to the closest enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT), and may move within Engagement Range of that enemy unit when doing so.