Space Marines — detachments, stratagems & enhancements

1st Company Task Force

Detachment rules

Extremis-level Threat: Once per battle, in your Command phase, you can use this ability. If you do, until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model from your army with the Oath of Moment ability makes an attack that targets your Oath of Moment target, you can re-roll the Wound roll as well.

Enhancements

The Imperium’s Sword (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the bearers melee weapons. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by all other models in the bearer’s unit as well.

Fear Made Manifest (Aura) (30 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) is within 6" of the bearer, each time that unit fails a Battle-shock test, one model in that unit is destroyed (chosen by its controlling player). Once per battle, when such an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test, you can choose for D3 models in that unit to be destroyed in this way instead.

Rites of War (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR model only. Improve the Objective Control characteristic of the bearer by 1. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of all other models in the bearer’s unit as well.

Iron Resolve (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR model only. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 5+ ability. Once per battle, after the bearer’s unit is selected as the target of one or more attacks, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.

Stratagems

HEROES OF THE CHAPTER 1CP · 1st Company Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

LEGENDARY FORTITUDE 1CP · 1st Company Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Charge phase

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.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · 1st Company Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

ORBITAL TELEPORTARIUM 1CP · 1st Company Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

TERRIFYING PROFICIENCY 1CP · 1st Company Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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 1CP · 1st Company Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

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, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn.

Angelic Inheritors

Detachment rules

Legacy of the Angel: At the start of the first battle round, select two of the Angelic Legacy abilities listed below. Until the end of the battle, those Angelic Legacy abilities are active and their effects apply to all Adeptus Astartes Character units from your army.

Sanguinary Grace: This unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

Carmine Wrath: Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

Their Appointed Hour: You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for this unit.

Restrictions
Your army can include Blood Angels units, but it cannot include ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Prescient Flash (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 6" ability.

Troubling Visions (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. When it does, until the start of your next Command phase, all Angelic Legacy abilities are active for the bearer’s unit, instead of only two of them.

Blazing Icon (20 pts): Adeptus Astartes Infantry model only. Enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at the bearer’s unit.

Ordained Sacrifice (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, roll one D6 at the end of the phase: on a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, with 3 wounds remaining.

Stratagems

FOCUSED FURY 1CP · Angelic Inheritors – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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 [LETHAL HITS] ability. If your unit is a Character unit, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [LANCE] ability as well.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Angelic Inheritors – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

IN THE SHADOW OF GREAT WINGS 1CP · Angelic Inheritors – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes 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, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".

INSTANT OF GRACE 1CP · Angelic Inheritors – Epic Deed Stratagem · Command phase

WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Infantry unit from your army.

EFFECT: Select one non-CHARACTER model in your unit. 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 Legacy of the Angel Detachment rule, in addition to other rules that interact with CHARACTER units.

STRIKE NOW FOR GLORY 1CP · Angelic Inheritors – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

UNTO THE BURNING SKIES 1CP · Angelic Inheritors – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack unit from your army. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, unless it is The Sanguinor.

EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Anvil Siege Force

Detachment rules

Shield of the Imperium: Ranged weapons equipped by ADEPTUS ASTARTES models from your army have the [HEAVY] ability. If such a weapon already has this ability, each time an attack is made with that weapon, if the attacking model’s unit Remained Stationary this turn, add 1 to the Wound roll.

Enhancements

Indomitable Fury (20 pts): GRAVIS model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, roll one D6 at the end of the phase. On a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with its full wounds remaining.

Fleet Commander (15 pts): CAPTAIN model only. Once per battle, at the start of your Shooting phase, you can select one point on the battlefield and place a marker on that point. At the start of your next Shooting phase, place another marker on the battlefield within 12" of the centre of the first marker, then draw a straight line between the centre of each of these markers. Roll one D6 for each unit that line passes over or through: on a 3+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Both markers are then removed.

Stoic Defender (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability while they are within range of an objective marker you control and, while that unit is Battle-shocked, halve the Objective Control characteristic of models in that unit instead of changing it to 0.

Architect of War (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability.

Stratagems

NO THREAT TOO GREAT 2CP · Anvil Siege Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Anvil Siege Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

BATTLE DRILL RECALL 1CP · Anvil Siege Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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 2CP · Anvil Siege Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

NOT ONE BACKWARDS STEP 1CP · Anvil Siege Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

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.

RIGID DISCIPLINE 1CP · Anvil Siege Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

Armoured Speartip

Detachment rules

Rapid Deployment: Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army disembarks from a Transport (excluding Fly) that made a Normal or Advance move this phase (excluding those that arrived from Strategic Reserves), that disembarked unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or a Normal move of up to D3+3" instead if that TRANSPORT is a Heavy Transport (see below).

Keywords
Adeptus Astartes Transport units from your army (excluding Fly) that have a Wounds characteristic of 14+ have the HEAVY TRANSPORT keyword.

Enhancements

Liberator (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. If you control an objective marker at the end of your Command phase, and the bearer’s unit (or any Heavy Transport it is embarked within) is within range of that objective marker, 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.

Tip of the Spear (40 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. If the bearer starts the battle embarked within a Transport, that TRANSPORT has the Scouts 6" ability.

Shock Deployment (20 pts): Adeptus Astartes Terminator or Gravis model only. In your Shooting phase, each time the bearer’s unit is selected to shoot, if it disembarked from a Transport this turn, until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.

Armoured Commander (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Once per turn, in your Movement phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one friendly Adeptus Astartes Transport that is in Strategic Reserves. Until the end of the phase, for the purposes of setting up that TRANSPORT on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is.

Stratagems

PURGATION DOCTRINE 1CP · Armoured Speartip – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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 an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll (if your unit disembarked from a Heavy Transport this turn, add 1 to the Wound roll as well).

MACHINE WRATH 1CP · Armoured Speartip – Epic Deed Stratagem · Any phase

WHEN: Any phase, just after a Heavy Transport unit from your army with the Deadly Demise ability is destroyed.

TARGET: That HEAVY TRANSPORT unit, if you rolled a 6 for its Deadly Demise ability. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal or Fall Back move before its Deadly Demise ability is resolved, and before any embarked units perform an Emergency Disembarkation. When making this move, your unit can move through enemy models (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) and can move within Engagement Range of such models, but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Armoured Speartip – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

ADVANCED DEPLOYMENT 1CP · Armoured Speartip – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Transport unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, units can disembark from your TRANSPORT after it has Advanced. Units that do so count as having made a Normal move this phase, and cannot declare a charge in the same turn (unless your TRANSPORT has the Assault Ramp ability), but can otherwise act normally.

CERAMITE SLEDGEHAMMER 1CP · Armoured Speartip – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Transport unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal or Advance move, it can move horizontally through terrain features. In addition, if your unit is a Heavy Transport, when making this move, your unit can move through enemy models (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) and can move within Engagement Range of such models, but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed.

RAPID EMBARKATION 1CP · Armoured Speartip – Wargear Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: End of the Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Infantry unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, and one friendly Heavy Transport it is able to embark within.

EFFECT: If your ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit is wholly within 6" of that HEAVY TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.

Bastion Task Force

Detachment rules

Interlocking Tactics: Adeptus Astartes Battleline units from your army:

Are eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back.
Are eligible to start to perform an Action in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back.

Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit from your army is selected to attack, after resolving those attacks, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the end of the turn, that enemy unit is auspex scanned. Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack that targets an auspex scanned unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.

Enhancements

Eye of the Primarch (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Ranged weapons equipped by the bearer and Battleline models in the bearer’s unit have the [PRECISION] ability.

Hero of the Chapter (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, the bearer has the Battleline keyword.

Blades of Valour (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer and Battleline models in the bearer’s unit by 1.

Bombast Omnivox (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time you select the bearer’s unit as the target of a Stratagem, roll one D6, adding 1 if the bearer’s unit has the Battleline keyword: on a 4+, you gain 1CP.

Stratagems

CODEX DISCIPLINE 1CP · Bastion Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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 an enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that target is auspex scanned, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 as well.

LIGHT OF VENGEANCE 1CP · Bastion Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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: Select the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have that ability while targeting an auspex scanned unit or if the bearer has the Battleline keyword.

GUIDED DISRUPTION 1CP · Bastion Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an Adeptus Astartes Battleline unit from your army has finished making its attacks.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit.

EFFECT: When an enemy unit is auspex scanned as a result of those attacks this turn, if that enemy unit does not have the MONSTER or VEHICLE keywords, until the start of your next turn, it is pinned. While a unit is pinned, subtract 2 from that unit’s Move characteristic and subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for that unit.

SHOCK BOMBARDMENT 1CP · Bastion Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an Adeptus Astartes Battleline unit from your army finished making its attacks.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit.

EFFECT: When an enemy unit is auspex scanned as a result of those attacks this turn, until the start of your next turn, it is suppressed. While a unit is suppressed, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

HERESY UNDONE 1CP · Bastion Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Charge phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or your Charge phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit (excluding Battleline units) from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back. If it does, every target of that charge and every target of those attacks must be an auspex scanned unit.

Black Spear Task Force

Detachment rules

Mission Tactics: At the start of your Command phase, you can select one of the Mission Tactics listed below. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Mission Tactic is active and its effects apply to all units from your army with this ability. Each Mission Tactic can only be selected once per battle.

FUROR TACTICS

When the enemy horde grows close, the Deathwatch will be tasked with the decimation of their core. Aiming not for clinical kills but for maximum destruction over a wide area, they tear the heart from the enemy army.

While this Mission Tactic is active, weapons equipped by ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.

MALLEUS TACTICS

When the giants of war lumber forth, the Deathwatch will adopt Malleus tactics. Even the largest behemoth has a weak point, and the archives of the Deathwatch number them all.

While this Mission Tactic is active, weapons equipped by ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.

PURGATUS TACTICS

By adopting Purgatus tactics, the Deathwatch focus their deadly ire upon the commanders of the enemy host, assassinating them one after another with pitiless head shots and killing thrusts of the blade.

While this Mission Tactic is active, each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army makes an attack, if a Critical Hit is scored, that attack has the [PRECISION] ability.

Enhancements

Thief of Secrets (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Improve the Strength, Damage and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 1. At the end of the Fight phase, if one or more enemy models were destroyed as a result of a melee attack made by the bearer this phase, until the end of the battle, improve the Strength, Damage and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 2 instead.

Osseus Key (15 pts): Watch Master or Techmarine model only. At the start of your opponent’s Shooting phase, select one enemy VEHICLE unit (excluding TITANIC units) within 12" of and visible to the bearer. That unit must take a Leadership test. If that test is passed, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll; if that test is failed, that unit is not eligible to shoot this phase.

Beacon Angelis (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Deep Strike ability. In addition, you can target the bearer’s unit with the Rapid Ingress Stratagem for 0CP.

The Tome of Ectoclades (30 pts): Watch Master or Captain model only. Once per battle, after you have selected your Oath of Moment target, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select a second enemy unit to be an Oath of Moment target.

Designer’s Note: This means that each time a model with the Oath of Moment ability makes an attack that targets either of your Oath of Moment targets, you can re-roll the Hit roll.

Stratagems

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Black Spear Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

ADAPTIVE TACTICS 1CP · Black Spear Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: Up to two Kill Team units from your army, or one other ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

EFFECT: For each unit targeted, select Furor Tactics, Malleus Tactics or Purgatus Tactics. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Mission Tactic is active for that unit instead of any Mission Tactic that is active for your army.

SITE-TO-SITE TELEPORTATION 1CP · Black Spear Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

TARGET: Up to two Kill Team units from your army, or one other Adeptus Astartes Infantry unit from your army, if those units are not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves. Until the end of your next Movement phase, models in those units that do not have the Deep Strike ability have the Deep Strike ability.

HELLFIRE ROUNDS 1CP · Black Spear Task Force – Wargear Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Kill Team unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons (excluding Devastating Wounds weapons) equipped by models in your unit have the [ANTI-INFANTRY 2+] and [ANTI-MONSTER 5+] abilities.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Dragonfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.

KRAKEN ROUNDS 1CP · Black Spear Task Force – Wargear Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Kill Team unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 and improve the Range characteristic of those weapons by 6".

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Dragonfire Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.

DRAGONFIRE ROUNDS 1CP · Black Spear Task Force – Wargear Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Kill Team 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] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.

Blade of Ultramar

Detachment rules

Mastered Doctrines: At the start of up to three of your Command phases, you can select one of the Combat Doctrines listed below. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Combat Doctrine is active and its effects apply to all ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army. You cannot select a Combat Doctrine you have already selected this battle, unless a friendly Marneus Calgar model is on the battlefield.

Devastator Doctrine

The Codex Astartes details the strategic value of overwhelming firepower.

This unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Advanced.

Tactical Doctrine

The Codex lays out strategies for seizing the initiative.

This unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

Assault Doctrine

The Codex Astartes leaves no doubt that the killing blow must be delivered with a decisive close-quarters strike.

This unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Ultramarines units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Armour of Antoninus (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has a Save characteristic of 2+ and the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.

Oath of Macragge (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons. While the bearer is under the effects of the Assault Doctrine, add 2 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons instead.

Student of the Codex (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. At the start of your Command phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the start of your next Command phase, the Tactical Doctrine is active for this unit (instead of any other Combat Doctrine you select to be active for your army, and even if there is no Combat Doctrine active for your army).

Veteran of Behemoth (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. In addition, while the bearer’s unit is under the effects of the Devastator Doctrine, you can re-roll Advance rolls made for that unit.

Stratagems

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Blade of Ultramar – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

COURAGE AND HONOUR! 1CP · Blade of Ultramar – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

EXEMPLARY VIGILANCE 1CP · Blade of Ultramar – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

TACTICAL FORESIGHT 1CP · Blade of Ultramar – Epic Deed Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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 end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than or equal to the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

ULTRAMARIAN ADAPTIVITY 1CP · Blade of Ultramar – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

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 your unit instead of any other Combat Doctrine that is active for your army, even if you have already selected that Combat Doctrine this battle.

PRACTICAL TACTICS 1CP · Blade of Ultramar – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

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 not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and 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.

Boarding Strike

Detachment rules

Drive Home the Blade: Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army is selected to shoot, if one or more models from that unit are within 1" of an open Hatchway and every model in that unit is on the same side of that Hatchway, select one enemy unit on the opposite side of that Hatchway from your unit. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [sustained hits 1] ability while targeting that enemy unit.

Enhancements

Adamantine Mantle (0 pts): Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.

Clavitine Reliquary (0 pts): In your Movement phase, each time the bearer is selected to make a Normal or Advance move, if it is within 1" of a Hatchway, it can attempt to operate that Hatchway. If it does, it cannot attempt to operate a Hatchway again this turn.

Stratagems

IN THE EMPEROR’S NAME 1CP · Boarding Strike – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Battleline unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker and 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 Feel No Pain 5+ ability.

CERAMITE BULWARK 1CP · Boarding Strike – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Battleline unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Select any number of models in your unit. Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of melee weapons equipped by the selected models and each time you select targets for attacks made by those models, they must target an enemy unit that is wholly on the opposite side of a Hatchway from them.

DUTY AND DEFIANCE 1CP · Boarding Strike – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if your unit has the Battleline keyword: on a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

VOX-AMPLIFIED ROAR 1CP · Boarding Strike – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Charge phase

WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army declares a charge.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

EFFECT: Each target of that charge must take a Battle-shock test.

Ceramite Sentinels

Detachment rules

Adaptive Defence: Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack, if that model’s unit is within a terrain feature, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army gain the ENTRENCHED keyword while all of the following are true:

That unit is within a terrain feature.
That unit was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
No model in that unit has moved more than 3" this turn.

Enhancements

Honour Indefatigable (25 pts): Gravis model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, roll one D6 at the end of the phase. On a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with its full wounds remaining.

Castellum Omnivox (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time the bearer’s unit makes a Fall Back move, select one of the following to apply to that unit until the end of the turn:

That unit is eligible to perform an Action in a turn in which it Fell Back.
That unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

Spy-skull Data Link (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability.

Defensive Mastery (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to three ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army and redeploy them. When doing so, you can set those units up in Strategic Reserves, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves.

Stratagems

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Ceramite Sentinels – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

AUGMENTED TARGETING 1CP · Ceramite Sentinels – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Select either the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS] abilities. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability. If your unit is ENTRENCHED, until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] and [LETHAL HITS] abilities instead.

PRIORITY STRIKE 2CP · Ceramite Sentinels – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Infantry or Adeptus Astartes Mounted 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 CHARACTER, MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, you can re-roll the Wound roll.

UNYIELDING MIGHT 1CP · Ceramite Sentinels – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Command phase

WHEN: Command phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristics of models in your unit.

STAND TO THE END 1CP · Ceramite Sentinels – Epic Deed Stratagem · Fight phase

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, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if it is an ENTRENCHED unit: on a 4+, do not remove it from play. That destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

EVASIVE REPOSITIONING 1CP · Ceramite Sentinels – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Infantry or Adeptus Astartes Mounted unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6". If your unit is ENTRENCHED, you can re-roll the D6 to determine how far your unit can move.

Champions of Fenris

Detachment rules

The Great Wolf Watches: At the end of your opponent’s Charge phase, each Adeptus Astartes Infantry and Adeptus Astartes Walker unit from your army that is within 3" of one or more enemy units and would be eligible to declare a charge against one or more of those units can declare a charge against one or more of those units, and you resolve that charge as if it were your Charge phase. If that charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.

While Adeptus Astartes Terminator units from your army are not Battle-shocked, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in those units.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Space Wolves units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Wolves’ Wisdom (30 pts): Adeptus Astartes Infantry model only. The bearer’s unit can declare a charge against one or more units within 6" instead of within 3" when using The Great Wolf Watches Detachment rule.

Foes’ Fate (15 pts): Adeptus Astartes Terminator model only. Each time an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit Falls Back, all models in that enemy unit must take Desperate Escape tests. When doing so, if that enemy unit is Battle-shocked, subtract 1 from each of those tests.

Fangrune Pendant (15 pts): Adeptus Astartes Terminator model only. The bearer’s unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

Longstrider (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. You can re-roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit.

Stratagems

CHILLING HOWL 1CP · Champions of Fenris – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

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 1CP · Champions of Fenris – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

PREYTAKER’S EYE 1CP · Champions of Fenris – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

RUNES OF CLAIMING 1CP · Champions of Fenris – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

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.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Champions of Fenris – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

ONRUSHING STORM 1CP · Champions of Fenris – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

Companions of Vehemence

Detachment rules

Righteous Fervour: You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Black Templars units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Incendiary Animus (25 pts): Chaplain or Judiciar model only. Improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit by 1.

Oathbound Exemplar (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY model only. Add 1 to Advance rolls made for the bearer’s unit. If the mission pack you are playing features Actions, the bearer’s unit is eligible to start to perform an Action in a turn in which it Advanced.

Merciless Denunciation (25 pts): Chaplain or Judiciar model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a melee attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.

Zealous Vanguard (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 6" ability.

Stratagems

DEVOUT PUSH 1CP · Companions of Vehemence – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

FOR THE EMPEROR'S HONOUR! 1CP · Companions of Vehemence – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

PIOUS ENMITY 1CP · Companions of Vehemence – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One Chaplain or Judiciar 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 melee attack that targets an enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that target is a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 as well.

HEARTS HARDENED TO DUTY 1CP · Companions of Vehemence – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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).

HERESY BEGETS RETRIBUTION 1CP · Companions of Vehemence – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

TARGET: One Chaplain or Judiciar unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Your unit can make a Retribution move. To do so, roll one D6: models in your unit move a number of inches up to the result, but your unit must end that move as close as possible to the closest enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT). When doing so, those models can be moved within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

DREAD CRUSADERS 1CP · Companions of Vehemence – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Charge phase

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.

Company of Hunters

Detachment rules

Masters Of Manoeuvre: ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army are eligible to shoot in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back.

Adeptus Astartes Mounted units from your army are eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include DARK ANGELS units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

KEYWORDS
Outrider Squad units from your army gain the Battleline keyword.

Enhancements

Master-crafted Weapon (10 pts): Ravenwing model only. Melee weapons equipped by the bearer have the [PRECISION] ability.

Mounted Strategist (30 pts): Ravenwing model only. You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit.

Master of Manoeuvre (15 pts): Ravenwing model only. If the bearer’s unit starts the battle in Strategic Reserves, its points value does not count towards the combined points limit for units from your army that are in Strategic Reserve, and for the purposes of setting up that unit on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is.

Recon Hunter (20 pts): Ravenwing model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 9" ability.

Stratagems

DEATH ON THE WIND 1CP · Company Of Hunters – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Ravenwing unit from your army that has just shot.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that was hit by one or more of those attacks. That unit must take a Battle-shock test. When doing so, if one or more RAVENWING units from your army are within 6" of that enemy unit, subtract 1 from the test.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Company Of Hunters – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

RAPID REAPPRAISAL 1CP · Company Of Hunters – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

TARGET: One Ravenwing 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.

HIGH-SPEED FOCUS 1CP · Company Of Hunters – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Ravenwing 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.

TALON STRIKE 1CP · Company Of Hunters – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

TARGET: One Ravenwing Mounted 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 an INFANTRY CHARACTER or MOUNTED CHARACTER unit, add 1 to the Wound roll.

HUNTERS’ TRAIL 1CP · Company Of Hunters – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

WHEN: Command phase.

TARGET: One Ravenwing Mounted unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker you control.

EFFECT: That objective marker 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.

Emperor’s Shield

Detachment rules

Wrath of Dorn: Each time a model from your army with the Oath of Moment ability makes an attack that targets your Oath of Moment target, you can re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

Each time a model in a Darnath Lysander unit from your army makes an attack that targets your Oath of Moment target, you can re-roll the Wound roll.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Imperial Fists units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Champion of the Feast (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by other models in the bearer’s unit as well.

Disciple of Rhetoricus (10 pts): Adeptus Astartes Terminator model only. Improve the Objective Control characteristic of the bearer by 1. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of other models in the bearer’s unit as well.

Indomitable Champion (20 pts): Adeptus Astartes Terminator model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, roll one D6 at the end of the phase. On a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with 3 wounds remaining.

Malodraxian Standard (20 pts): Adeptus Astartes Ancient model only. Each time an attack targets the bearer’s unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of the bearer’s unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

Stratagems

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Emperor's Shield – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

DROPSHIP EXTRACTION 1CP · Emperor's Shield – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Terminator unit from your army. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

DISCIPLINED EXTERMINATION 1CP · Emperor's Shield – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting 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 this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability and improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of such weapons by 1.

OBDURATE VENGEANCE 1CP · Emperor's Shield – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Terminator, Bladeguard Veteran Squad, Sternguard Veteran Squad or Vanguard Veteran Squad 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, roll one D6: on a 3+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

FURY OF THE FIRST 1CP · Emperor's Shield – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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 its Starting Strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.

WRATHFUL CONQUERORS 1CP · Emperor's Shield – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

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, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any phase.

Firestorm Assault Force

Detachment rules

Close-range Eradication: Ranged weapons equipped by ADEPTUS ASTARTES models from your army have the [ASSAULT] ability, and each time an attack made with such a weapon targets a unit within 12", add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack.

Enhancements

Champion of Humanity (10 pts): TACTICUS model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit can ignore any or all modifiers to their characteristics and/or to any roll or test made for them (excluding modifiers to saving throws).

War-tempered Artifice (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY model only. Add 3 to the Strength characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons.

Forged in Battle (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, once per turn, after making a Hit roll or a saving throw for a model in that unit, you can change the result of that roll to an unmodified 6.

Adamantine Mantle (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack. If that attack was made with a Melta or Torrent weapon, change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 1 instead.

Stratagems

ONSLAUGHT OF FIRE 1CP · Firestorm Assault Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

CRUCIBLE OF BATTLE 1CP · Firestorm Assault Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

IMMOLATION PROTOCOLS 2CP · Firestorm Assault Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

BURNING VENGEANCE 1CP · Firestorm Assault Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Firestorm Assault Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

RAPID EMBARKATION 1CP · Firestorm Assault Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

Forgefather’s Seekers

Detachment rules

Vulkan’s Quest: Ranged weapons equipped by ADEPTUS ASTARTES models from your army have the [ASSAULT] ability, and each time an attack made with such a weapon targets a unit within 12", add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack.

SEEKER’S COMPANIONS
If your army includes Vulkan He’stan, during your turn, each Infernus Squad unit from your army is eligible to do one of the following:

Start to perform an Action in a turn in which it Advanced.
Shoot in a turn in which it started to perform an Action.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Salamanders units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Immolator (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks characteristics of Torrent weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit.

War-tempered Artifice (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY model only. Add 3 to the Strength characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons.

Forged in Battle (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, once per turn, after making a Hit roll or a saving throw for a model in that unit, you can change the result of that roll to an unmodified 6.

Adamantine Mantle (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack. If that attack was made with a Melta or Torrent weapon, change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 1 instead.

Stratagems

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Forgefather’s Seekers – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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 1CP · Forgefather’s Seekers – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

IMMOLATION PROTOCOLS 2CP · Forgefather’s Seekers – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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 your unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.

BURNING VENGEANCE 1CP · Forgefather’s Seekers – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

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.

WRATHFUL INFERNO 1CP · Forgefather’s Seekers – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an Adeptus Astartes Infantry unit from your army Falls Back.

TARGET: That unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.

BLAZING EARTH 1CP · Forgefather’s Seekers – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Charge phase

WHEN: Start of your opponent’s Charge phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army equipped with one or more Torrent weapons.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES and units with the FLY keyword) within 12" of and visible to your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time that enemy unit declares a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (this is not cumulative with any other negative modifiers to that Charge roll).

Gladius Task Force

Detachment rules

Combat Doctrines: At the start of your Command phase, you can select one of the Combat Doctrines listed below. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Combat Doctrine is active and its effects apply to all ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army. You can only select each Combat Doctrine once per battle.

Devastator Doctrine

The Codex Astartes details the strategic value of overwhelming firepower applied to key targets while advancing into position to eliminate threats.

This unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Advanced.

Tactical Doctrine

As the warring armies close upon one another and vicious fire-fights erupt, the Codex lays out strategies for swiftly seizing the initiative and combining versatility with firepower.

This unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

Assault Doctrine

The Codex Astartes leaves no doubt that the killing blow in most engagements must be delivered with a decisive close-quarters strike. It presents plentiful tactical means to achieve this end.

This unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

Enhancements

Artificer Armour (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has a Save characteristic of 2+ and the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.

The Honour Vehement (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons. While the bearer is under the effects of the Assault Doctrine, add 2 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of the bearers melee weapons instead.

Adept of the Codex (20 pts): CAPTAIN model only. At the start of your Command phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield, instead of selecting a Combat Doctrine to be active for your army, you can select the Tactical Doctrine. If you do, until the start of your next Command phase, that Combat Doctrine is active for the bearer’s unit only, even if you have already selected that Combat Doctrine to be active for your army this battle.

Fire Discipline (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. In addition, while the bearer’s unit is under the effects of the Devastator Doctrine, you can reroll Advance rolls made for that unit.

Stratagems

HONOUR THE CHAPTER 1CP · Gladius Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

STORM OF FIRE 1CP · Gladius Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Gladius Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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 2CP · Gladius Task Force – Epic Deed Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

SQUAD TACTICS 1CP · Gladius Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

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.

ADAPTIVE STRATEGY 1CP · Gladius Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

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 doctrine this battle.

Godhammer Assault Force

Detachment rules

Shock and Awe:

Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army declares a charge, if it disembarked from a Transport this turn, after selecting the targets of that charge, select one of those targets; that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
Each time a model in an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army makes a melee attack, if it disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, add 1 to the Hit roll.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Black Templars units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Paragon of Fury (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 2 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. Each time a melee attack made by the bearer is allocated to an enemy model, if the bearer disembarked from a Transport this turn, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that attack.

Battle-psalm Precentor (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time the bearer’s unit declares a charge, if an enemy unit takes a Battle-shock test as a result of the Shock and Awe Detachment rule, subtract 1 from that Battle-shock test.

Augury Servo-host (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer. Until the end of the phase, models in that unit cannot have the Benefit of Cover.

Herald of Sacred Slaughter (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. In the Declare Battle Formations step, if the bearer starts the battle embarked within a Dedicated Transport, that DEDICATED TRANSPORT has the Scouts 9" ability.

Stratagems

CONDEMNATORY INFO-SCREED 1CP · Godhammer Assault Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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. If that TRANSPORT has the Land Raider keyword, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.

BLESSED HULL 2CP · Godhammer Assault Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

A CEASELESS CAUSE 1CP · Godhammer Assault Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

FOCUSED HATRED 1CP · Godhammer Assault Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Charge phase

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).

UNCOMPROMISING EGRESS 1CP · Godhammer Assault Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One Land Raider model from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

EFFECT: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit embarked within your LAND RAIDER can disembark. When doing so, models in that unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield wholly within 6" of your LAND RAIDER and can be set up within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

GAUNTLET OF THE GOD-EMPEROR 1CP · Godhammer Assault Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

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.

Hammer of Avernii

Detachment rules

Calculated Annihilation: Each time a model from your army with the Oath of Moment ability makes an attack that targets your Oath of Moment target, you can re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

Recalculating: Once per battle round, after your Oath of Moment target is destroyed, if a Caanok Var model from your army is on the battlefield, select one enemy unit visible to that model. That enemy unit becomes your Oath of Moment target until you select a new one.

Restrictions: Your army can include Iron Hands units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Spiritus Ferrum (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by all other models in the bearer’s unit as well.

Medusan Roar (Aura) (30 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) is within 6" of the bearer, each time that unit fails a Battle-shock test, one model in that unit is destroyed (chosen by its controlling player). Once per battle, when such an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test, you can choose for D3 models in that unit to be destroyed in this way instead.

Iron Laurel (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Improve the Objective Control characteristic of the bearer by 1. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of all other models in the bearer’s unit as well.

Steel Font (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, in your Command phase, you can return 1 destroyed Bodyguard model to that unit.

Stratagems

AUGMETIC FORTITUDE 1CP · Hammer of Avernii – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Charge phase

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.

RUTHLESS BUTCHERY 1CP · Hammer of Avernii – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Dreadnought, 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 Starting Strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Hammer of Avernii – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

DROPSHIP EXTRACTION 1CP · Hammer of Avernii – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Terminator unit from your army. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

COGITATED FEROCITY 1CP · Hammer of Avernii – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Your Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Dreadnought, Terminator, Bladeguard Veteran Squad, Sternguard Veteran Squad or Vanguard Veteran Squad unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Select either the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS] abilities. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability.

DOMINATOR BEACON 1CP · Hammer of Avernii – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Dreadnought, 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, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the end of a phase.

Headhunter Task Force

Detachment rules

Target Sighted: Each time a Tank Ace unit from your army (see below) 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 that unit.

Each time a TANK ACE unit from your army shoots in your Shooting phase, if that unit did not Advance this turn, you can re-roll the Damage roll.

KEYWORDS
Adeptus Astartes Vehicle units from your army (excluding Fortifications, Drop Pods, Walkers and units that can Fly) have the TANK ACE keyword.

In the Muster Armies step, you can select up to three TANK ACE units from your army to gain the CHARACTER keyword.

Designer’s Note: This means that the selected units can be given Enhancements, and one of them can be selected as your WARLORD.

Enhancements

Redoubtable Machine Spirit (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model only. The bearer has a 5+ invulnerable save and, at the end of your Command phase, the bearer regains 1 lost wound.

Gunnery Honours (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model only. Once per phase, you can re-roll one Hit roll, one Wound roll and one Damage roll for the bearer.

Firestorm Coordinators (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model only. Ranged weapons equipped by the bearer have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.

Astartes Tank Ace (Aura) (40 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model only. In your Shooting phase, while a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE unit is within 6" of the bearer, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [ASSAULT] ability.

Stratagems

TARGET WEAK POINT 1CP · Headhunter Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Tank Ace 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, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

RESTRICTIONS: A unit cannot be targeted with this and the Kill Shot Stratagem in the same phase.

KILL SHOT 1CP · Headhunter Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Tank Ace 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 targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If the target unit is below its Starting Strength, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.

RESTRICTIONS: A unit cannot be targeted with this and the Target Weak Point Stratagem in the same phase.

MACHINE VENGEANCE 1CP · Headhunter Task Force – Epic Deed Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

TARGET: One Tank Ace unit from your army (excluding units containing one or more models with a Wounds characteristic of 16+) that was selected as the target of one or more 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 visible and an eligible target.

RAPID GUNNERY 1CP · Headhunter Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

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, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Headhunter Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

REACTIVE REPOSITIONING 1CP · Headhunter Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

TARGET: One Tank Ace unit from your army (excluding units containing one or more models with a Wounds characteristic of 16+) that is within 9" of that enemy unit.

EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6".

Inner Circle Task Force

Detachment rules

Vowed Target: At the start of your Movement phase, select one of the following:

Defensive Footing: Select one objective marker you control. Until the start of your next Movement phase, that objective marker is your Vowed objective marker.
Aggressive Push: Select one or more objective markers you do not control. Until the start of your next Movement phase, each of those objective markers is one of your Vowed objective markers. If a rule refers to a unit or model being within range of your Vowed objective marker, that rule takes effect if that unit or model is within range of one or more of your Vowed objective markers.

Each time a Deathwing Infantry unit from your army makes an attack that targets a unit within range of one or more of your Vowed objective markers, add 1 to the Wound roll.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include DARK ANGELS units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Champion of the Deathwing (15 pts): Deathwing model only. Melee weapons equipped by the bearer have the [lethal hits] ability, and each time the bearer makes a melee attack, if it is within range of your Vowed objective marker, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+.

Eye of the Unseen (10 pts): Deathwing model only. Each time you target the bearer’s unit with a Stratagem, roll one D6, adding 1 if the bearer is within range of your Vowed objective marker: on a 5+, you gain 1CP

Singular Will (20 pts): Deathwing model only. Each time the bearer’s unit Piles In or Consolidates, models in that unit can move an additional 3".

Deathwing Assault (30 pts): Deathwing model with the Deep Strike ability only. The bearer’s unit can be set up using the Deep Strike ability in the Reinforcements step of your first, second or third Movement phase, regardless of any mission rules.

Stratagems

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Inner Circle Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

UNMATCHED FORTITUDE 1CP · Inner Circle Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Deathwing 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, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than your unit’s Toughness characteristic, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

WRATH OF THE LION 1CP · Inner Circle Task Force – Epic Deed Stratagem · Charge phase

WHEN: Your Charge phase.

TARGET: One Deathwing INFANTRY unit from your army that just ended a Charge move.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit and roll one D6 for each model in your unit, adding 1 to the result if that enemy unit is within range of your Vowed objective marker: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 3 mortal wounds).

MARTIAL MASTERY 1CP · Inner Circle Task Force – Epic Deed Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One Deathwing 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 an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If your unit is within range of your Vowed objective marker, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.

DUTY UNTO DEATH 1CP · Inner Circle Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Deathwing 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, roll one D6, adding 1 if your unit is within range of your Vowed objective marker. On a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

RELIC TELEPORTARIUM 1CP · Inner Circle Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One Deathwing unit from your army that is arriving using the Deep Strike ability this phase.

EFFECT: Your unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models.

RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.

Ironstorm Spearhead

Detachment rules

Armoured Wrath: Once per phase for each ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit in your army, you can re-roll one Hit roll, one Wound roll or one Damage roll made for a model in that unit.

Enhancements

Target Augury Web (30 pts): Techmarine model only. In your Command phase, select one Adeptus Astartes Vehicle model within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, weapons equipped by that VEHICLE model have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.

The Flesh is Weak (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability.

Adept of the Omnissiah (35 pts): TECHMARINE model only. Once per battle round, when a saving throw is failed for a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer, you can change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 0.

Master of Machine War (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. In your Command phase, select one Adeptus Astartes Vehicle model within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, that VEHICLE is eligible to shoot even if it Fell Back or Advanced this turn.

Stratagems

UNBOWED CONVICTION 1CP · Ironstorm Spearhead – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Command phase

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 1CP · Ironstorm Spearhead – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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 2CP · Ironstorm Spearhead – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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 1CP · Ironstorm Spearhead – Epic Deed Stratagem · Any phase

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 1CP · Ironstorm Spearhead – Epic Deed Stratagem · Command phase

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 1CP · Ironstorm Spearhead – Epic Deed Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

Liberator Assault Group

Detachment rules

Red Thirst: Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army is selected to fight, if that unit made a Charge move this turn, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic and add 2 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in that unit.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include BLOOD ANGELS units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Speed of the Primarch (25 pts): Adeptus Astartes model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have the Fights First ability.

Rage-fuelled Warrior (35 pts): Adeptus Astartes model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, the bearers melee weapons have the [sustained hits 3] ability.

Icon of the Angel (20 pts): Adeptus Astartes model only. Each time an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit is selected to Fall Back, models in that enemy unit must take Desperate Escape tests as if their unit was Battle-shocked. When doing so, if that enemy unit is also Battle-shocked by other means, subtract 1 from each of those Desperate Escape tests.

Gift of Foresight (15 pts): Adeptus Astartes model only. Once per battle round, just after making a Hit roll, a Wound roll or a saving throw for the bearer, you can treat the result as an unmodified roll of 6 instead.

Stratagems

SAVAGE ECHOES 1CP · Liberator Assault Group – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Charge phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Charge phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was just charged by an enemy unit.

EFFECT: Select either the Strength or Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit. Until the end of the turn, add 1 to the selected characteristic. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the turn, add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.

RED RAMPAGE 1CP · Liberator Assault Group – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Select either the [LANCE] or [LETHAL HITS] abilities. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, then it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LANCE] and [LETHAL HITS] abilities.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Liberator Assault Group – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

ANGELIC GRACE 1CP · Liberator Assault Group – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Any phase

WHEN: Any phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army has a mortal wound allocated to it.

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.

RELENTLESS ASSAULT 1CP · Liberator Assault Group – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army Falls Back.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to either shoot or declare a charge even though it Fell Back. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to both shoot and declare a charge, even though it Fell Back.

AGGRESSIVE ONSLAUGHT 1CP · Liberator Assault Group – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an Adeptus Astartes unit from your army has Advanced.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to either shoot or declare a charge, even though it Advanced. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to both shoot and declare a charge, even though it Advanced.

Librarius Conclave

Detachment rules

Psychic Disciplines: At the start of the battle round, select one of the following Psychic Disciplines. Until the end of the battle round, that Psychic Discipline is active and its effects apply to all Adeptus Astartes Psyker units from your army.

Biomancy Discipline
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in this unit.

Divination Discipline
Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

Pyromancy Discipline
Each time a ranged attack made by a model in this unit targets an enemy unit within 12", improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

Telekinesis Discipline
Each time a ranged attack targets this unit, subtract 1 from the Strength characteristic of that attack.

Telepathy Discipline
Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack’s Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill characteristics and/or any or all modifiers to the Hit roll.

Enhancements

Prescience (25 pts): Adeptus Astartes Psyker model only (excluding Terminator models). Once per turn, when an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within 9" of the bearer’s unit, the bearer’s unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or up to 6" instead if the Divination Discipline is active for your army.

Celerity (30 pts): Adeptus Astartes Psyker model only. The bearer’s unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced, and if the Biomancy Discipline is active for your army, it is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

Obfuscation (20 pts): Adeptus Astartes Psyker model only. Enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at the bearer’s unit, and if the Telepathy Discipline is active for your army, the bearer’s unit cannot be targeted by ranged attacks unless the attacking model is within 18".

Fusillade (35 pts): Adeptus Astartes Psyker model only. Ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit have the [ANTI-MONSTER 5+] and [ANTI-VEHICLE 5+] abilities, and:

The [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability if the Pyromancy Discipline is active for your army.
Add 6" to the Range characteristic of those weapons if the Telekinesis Discipline is active for your army.

Stratagems

SENSORY ASSAULT 1CP · Librarius Conclave – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

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 1CP · Librarius Conclave – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

PRESCIENT PRECISION 1CP · Librarius Conclave – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

ASSAIL 1CP · Librarius Conclave – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

IRON ARM 1CP · Librarius Conclave – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

FIERY SHIELD 1CP · Librarius Conclave – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

Lion’s Blade Task Force

Detachment rules

In The Lion’s Claws:

Each time an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within Engagement Range of one or more Ravenwing units from your army Falls Back, all models in that enemy unit must take a Desperate Escape test. When doing so, if that enemy unit is Battle-shocked, subtract 1 from each of those tests.
Each time a Deathwing unit from your army declares a charge, if one or more targets of that charge are within Engagement Range of one or more RAVENWING units from your army, add 2 to the Charge roll.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include DARK ANGELS units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Calibanite Armaments (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Damage characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons.

Lord of the Hunt (15 pts): Ravenwing model only. The bearer’s unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back and you can re-roll Desperate Escape tests taken for models in the bearer’s unit.

Stalwart Champion (25 pts): Captain, Chaplain or Lieutenant model only. While the bearer’s unit is not Battle-shocked, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in the bearer’s unit.

Fulgus Magna (20 pts): Deathwing model only. Once per battle, at the end of your opponent’s turn, if the bearer’s unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, remove the bearer’s unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Stratagems

STRENGTH IN UNITY 1CP · Lion’s Blade Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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: If that enemy unit is within Engagement Range of one or more Ravenwing units from your army, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. If that enemy unit is within Engagement Range of one or more Deathwing units from your army, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of the target, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

RESTRICTIONS: A unit cannot be targeted by this and the Armour of Contempt Stratagem in the same phase.

ILLUMINATING FIRE 1CP · Lion’s Blade Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase, just after a RAVENWING unit from your army has selected its targets.

TARGET: That Ravenwing unit.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 12" of your unit that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks. Until the end of the phase, each time a friendly Deathwing unit makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Wound roll.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Lion’s Blade Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

INESCAPABLE WRATH 2CP · Lion’s Blade Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Charge phase

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.

TARGET: One Deathwing Infantry or Deathwing Walker 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.

KNIGHTS OF IRON 1CP · Lion’s Blade Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement or Charge phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

TARGET: One Ravenwing unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.

OVERPOWERING EXACTION 1CP · Lion’s Blade Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command or Fight phase

WHEN: Command phase or the start of the Fight phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test. When doing so, if your unit has the Deathwing or Ravenwing keyword, subtract 1 from the result.

RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.

Orbital Assault Force

Detachment rules

Rapid-drop Deployment: At the start of the Declare Battle Formations step, select a number of ADEPTUS ASTARTES units (excluding Titanic units) from your army based on the battle size, as shown below. Models in those units have the Deep Strike ability.

BATTLE SIZE	NUMBER OF UNITS
Incursion	2
Strike Force	3
Onslaught	4

Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack, if it was set up on the battlefield this turn, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If it disembarked from a Drop Pod this turn, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 as well.

Enhancements

Laurels of Thunder (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. You can re-roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit in a turn in which it was set up on the battlefield.

Veteran of the Vanguard (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 6" ability.

Orbital Uplink Reliquary (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to three ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army and redeploy them. When doing so, you can set those units up in Strategic Reserves if you wish, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves.

Dedicated Gunship (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR model only. Once per battle, at the end of your opponent’s Fight phase, if the bearer’s unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, remove the bearer’s unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Stratagems

AUTO‑SENSE COORDINATION 1CP · Orbital Assault Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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: Select the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have this ability in a turn in which they disembarked from a Drop Pod or while targeting an enemy unit within 12".

TACTICAL DECAPITATION 1CP · Orbital Assault Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability and each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a CHARACTER unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.

ONWARD FOR THE EMPEROR 1CP · Orbital Assault Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Infantry unit from your army that was not set up on the battlefield this turn and one friendly Transport it is able to embark within.

EFFECT: If your ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.

BLIND SCREEN 1CP · Orbital Assault Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit (excluding Titanic units) from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks and one friendly Adeptus Astartes Smoke Vehicle or Drop Pod unit within 9" of it.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your units have the Stealth ability and each time a ranged attack targets one of your units, models in that unit have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.

SHOCK ONSLAUGHT 1CP · Orbital Assault Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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 a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".

SUPPRESSION STRAFING 1CP · Orbital Assault Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

WHEN: Command phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit visible to and within 18" of your unit. That enemy unit takes a Battle-shock test. When doing so, subtract 1 from that test and, if that test is failed, until the start of your next turn, that enemy unit is suppressed. While a unit is suppressed, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per battle round.

Pilum Strike Team

Detachment rules

Relentless Salvoes: ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army are eligible to shoot in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back.

Enhancements

Omni-Structural Auspex (0 pts): In your Shooting phase, after the bearer has shot, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the end of the phase, each time a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES model (excluding Character models) makes an attack that targets that unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

Void Warrior (0 pts): You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for the bearer. In addition, the bearer is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

Stratagems

KNIFE WORK 1CP · Pilum Strike Team – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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, improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1.

MASTER MARKSMEN 1CP · Pilum Strike Team – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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 [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.

FIGHTING RETREAT 1CP · Pilum Strike Team – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army is selected to Fall Back.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit and roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds.

ENHANCED EFFICIENCY 1CP · Pilum Strike Team – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit is selected to make a Normal or Advance move, it can attempt to operate one Hatchway it is within 1” of either at the start or end of that move. If it does, it cannot attempt to operate a Hatchway again this turn.

Rage-cursed Onslaught

Detachment rules

Maddened Ferocity: Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes a melee attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army is selected to fight, if that unit made a Charge move this turn, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in that unit. If your unit is Battle-shocked, add 2 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in that unit instead.

Restrictions
Your army can include Blood Angels units, but it cannot include ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Carmine Reliquary (30 pts): Chaplain model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 6" ability. Each time you take a Battle-shock test for an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit within 6" of the bearer, you can re-roll the result.

Master of the Red Thirst (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have the Fights First ability.

Sanguinary Tear (Aura) (35 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While a friendly Death Company unit is within 6" of the bearer, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of weapons equipped by models in that unit.

Angel’s Fang (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time the bearer makes a melee attack that targets a CHARACTER, MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability.

Stratagems

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Rage-cursed Onslaught – Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

A GRIM WARNING 1CP · Rage-cursed Onslaught – Stratagem · Any phase

WHEN: Any phase.

TARGET: One Blood Angels unit from your army that was just destroyed while it was within range of one or more objective markers you controlled at the end of the previous phase. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

EFFECT: Select one of those objective markers. 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.

DEATHLESS DUTY 2CP · Rage-cursed Onslaught – Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Death Company 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 unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

LIMB FROM LIMB 1CP · Rage-cursed Onslaught – Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that made a Charge move this turn.

EFFECT: Select either the Strength or Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit. Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the selected characteristic. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it), and until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.

RED WRATH 1CP · Rage-cursed Onslaught – Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army Advances.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to either shoot or declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it), and until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

INSENSATE RAMPAGE 1CP · Rage-cursed Onslaught – Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Death Company 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 Feel No Pain 5+ ability.

Reclamation Force

Detachment rules

Oath of Reclamation:

Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes a melee attack that targets a unit within range of an objective marker, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Each time an attack targets an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army, if your unit is within range of an objective marker that you controlled at the start of the phase and if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of your unit or your unit has the Titus keyword, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Ultramarines units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Seals of Reconquest (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.

Avenging Avatar (Aura) (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. In the Battle-shock step of your opponent’s Command phase, if an enemy unit that is below its Starting Strength is within 9" of the bearer, that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.

Scroll of Proclamation (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time the bearer’s unit declares a charge, if one or more targets of that charge are within range of an objective marker, you can re-roll the Charge roll.

Liberatum (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time the bearer makes an attack that targets an enemy unit, if the target is within range of an objective marker, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.

Stratagems

FURIOUS DEDICATION 1CP · Reclamation Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Charge or Fight phase

WHEN: Your Charge phase or the Fight phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not declared a charge or been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, add 2 to Charge rolls made for your unit and add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per turn.

FIGHT TO THE END 1CP · Reclamation Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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, roll one D6: on a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

CRUSADING CONQUERORS 1CP · Reclamation Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

WHEN: End of the Command phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the start of the next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit.

SCIONS OF GUILLIMAN 1CP · Reclamation Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army ends a Fall Back move.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES 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.

ULTRAMARIAN DESTINY 1CP · Reclamation Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES 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.

MARCHING EVER ON 1CP · Reclamation Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit Falls Back.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was within Engagement Range of that enemy unit at the start of the phase.

EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6"+1.

Saga of the Beastslayer

Detachment rules

Legendary Slayers: Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack, if that attack targets a CHARACTER, MONSTER or VEHICLE unit or if your Saga is completed (see below), that attack has the [lethal hits] ability.

Saga of the Beastslayer
At the start of the first battle round, your Beastslayer tally is 0, and you determine your Beastslayer target by halving the number of units from your opponent’s army (including those embarked within TRANSPORTS) that have one or more of the following keywords (rounding up): CHARACTER, MONSTER, VEHICLE.

Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army shoots or fights, after all of those attacks have been resolved, add 1 to your Beastslayer tally for each enemy unit with one or more of the following keywords destroyed by those attacks: CHARACTER, MONSTER, VEHICLE.

Once your Beastslayer tally is equal to or greater than your Beastslayer target, your Saga is completed.

Enhancements

Wolf-touched (15 pts): Space Wolves model only. Add 2" to the Move characteristic of the bearer. In the Declare Battle Formations step, the bearer can be attached to a Wulfen Infantry unit.

Hunter’s Guile (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to three Thunderwolf Cavalry, Wulfen and/or Blood Claws units from your army and redeploy them. When doing so, you can set those units up in Strategic Reserves if you wish, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves.

Elder’s Guidance (20 pts): Space Wolves model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, if the bearer is leading a Blood Claws unit, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in that unit by 1.

Helm of the Beastslayer (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time an attack made by a CHARACTER, MONSTER or VEHICLE model targets the bearer’s unit, reduce the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

Stratagems

UNBRIDLED FEROCITY 1CP · Saga of the Beastslayer – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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 1CP · Saga of the Beastslayer – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

SHOCK CAVALRY 1CP · Saga of the Beastslayer – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement or Charge phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

TARGET: One Thunderwolf Cavalry 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) and sections of terrain features that are 4" or less in height. 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.

COORDINATED STRIKE 1CP · Saga of the Beastslayer – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

IMPETUOSITY 1CP · Saga of the Beastslayer – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Wulfen Infantry or Blood Claws 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, after that enemy unit has shot, if one or more models in your unit were destroyed as a result of those attacks, your unit can make an Impetuous move. To do so, roll one D6: your unit can be moved a number of inches up to the result, but your unit must end that move as close as possible to the closest enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT). When doing so, those models can be moved within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

THUNDEROUS PURSUIT 1CP · Saga of the Beastslayer – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

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.

Saga of the Bold

Detachment rules

Heroes All: Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army is selected to shoot or fight, apply one of the following when resolving those attacks:

If your Saga is completed (see below), you can re-roll one Hit roll, one Wound roll and one Damage roll.
Otherwise, if that unit is a Space Wolves Character unit, you can re-roll one Hit roll, one Wound roll or one Damage roll.

Saga of the Bold
Each time a SPACE WOLVES CHARACTER unit from your army does one of the following, that unit achieves that Boast. Once three or more different Boasts have been achieved by units from your army, your Saga is completed.

Your Hide as a Trophy: That unit destroys your Oath of Moment target.
Slay Them All: That unit destroys your Oath of Moment target, and that is the second Oath of Moment target destroyed by that unit in this battle.
Overrun Their Position: At the end of either player’s turn, that unit is wholly within your opponent’s deployment zone.
Hold the Line: From the second battle round onwards, at the end of your Command phase, that unit is within range of an objective marker you control that is not within your deployment zone.

Enhancements

Braggart’s Steel (20 pts): Space Wolves model only. Add 2 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. If the bearer’s unit has achieved one or more Boasts, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of those weapons as well.

Skjald (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Each time a Space Wolves Character unit from your army achieves a Boast, if the bearer is on the battlefield, you gain 1CP.

Hordeslayer (15 pts): Space Wolves model only. At the start of the Fight phase, if there are more enemy models than friendly models wholly within 6" of the bearer, until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. If the bearer’s unit has achieved one or more Boasts, add 3 to the Attacks characteristic instead.

Thunderwolf’s Fortitude (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, remove it from play, then, at the end of the phase, roll one D6: on a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, with 3 wounds remaining.

Stratagems

INSPIRING PRESENCE 1CP · Saga of the Bold – Epic Deed Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

HEROIC RESOLVE 2CP · Saga of the Bold – Epic Deed Stratagem · Shooting phase

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 2CP · Saga of the Bold – Epic Deed Stratagem · Charge phase

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.

CHAMPION’S GUIDANCE 1CP · Saga of the Bold – Epic Deed Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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 1CP · Saga of the Bold – Epic Deed Stratagem · Command phase

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, in addition to other rules that interact with CHARACTER units.

ALPHA STRIKE 1CP · Saga of the Bold – Epic Deed Stratagem · Charge phase

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.

Saga of the Great Wolf

Detachment rules

Master of Wolves: At the start of your Command phase, you can select one of the Hunting Packs listed below. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Hunting Pack is active and its effects apply to all ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army. You can only select each Hunting Pack once per battle.

Encircling Jaws: This unit can re-roll Advance rolls and Charge rolls.
Hunter’s Eye: Each time a model in this unit makes a ranged attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.
Ferocious Strike: Each time this unit is selected to fight, select either the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in this unit have the selected ability.

Howling Onslaught: Once per battle, when selecting a Hunting Pack for the Master of Wolves Detachment rule, if a Logan Grimnar model from your army is on the battlefield, you can select a Hunting Pack you have already selected this battle.

Restrictions: Your army can include Space Wolves units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Grimnar’s Mark (20 pts): Adeptus Astartes Terminator Captain model only. Once per battle round, from the second battle round onwards, you can target the bearer’s unit with the Rapid Ingress or Heroic Intervention Stratagem for 0CP, and can do so even if you have already targeted a different unit with that Stratagem this turn.

In the Declare Battle Formations step, the bearer can be attached to a Wolf Guard Terminators unit.

Howlmaw (15 pts): Wolf priest model only. At the start of the Fight phase, you can select one enemy unit within 6" of the bearer. That unit must take a Battle-shock, subtracting 1 from the result.

Chariots of the Storm (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to three ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army and redeploy them. When doing so, you can set those units up in Strategic Reserves, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves.

Skjald’s Foretelling (25 pts): Wolf Guard Battle Leader model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [LANCE] ability.

Stratagems

GRIMNAR’S COMMAND 1CP · Saga of the Great Wolf – Stratagem · Command phase

WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

EFFECT: Select one Hunting Pack from the Master of Wolves Detachment rule. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Hunting Pack is active for your unit instead of any other Hunting Pack that is active, even if you have already selected that Hunting Pack this battle.

EYE OF THE PACK 1CP · Saga of the Great Wolf – Stratagem · Shooting phase

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 an attack, you can add 1 to the Wound roll.

BATTLE INSTINCTS 1CP · Saga of the Great Wolf – Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

TARGET: One Space Wolves unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6".

THE FOE FORESEEN 1CP · Saga of the Great Wolf – Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

FENRISIAN FEROCITY 1CP · Saga of the Great Wolf – Stratagem · Movement or Charge phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Mounted or Adeptus Astartes Walker unit from your army that has not been selected to move or 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 horizontally through models (excluding TITANIC models) and terrain features. When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but cannot end a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within Engagement Range of them.

UNRELENTING HUNTERS 1CP · Saga of the Great Wolf – Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back. If your unit is a Space Wolves unit, until the end of the turn, it is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.

Saga of the Hunter

Detachment rules

Pack’s Quarry: Each time a model in a Space Wolves unit from your army makes a melee attack that targets an enemy unit, if that enemy unit is within Engagement Range of one or more other Adeptus Astartes units from your army, or if the attacking unit contains more models than that enemy unit:

Add 1 to the Hit roll.
If your Saga is completed (see below), add 1 to the Wound roll as well.

Saga of the Hunter
At the start of the first battle round, your Quarry tally is 0. Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army fights, after all of those attacks have been resolved, add 1 to your Quarry tally for each enemy unit destroyed by those attacks.

Once your Quarry tally is equal to or greater than the number shown in the table below (depending on the battle size), your Saga is completed.

BATTLE SIZE	QUARRY TALLY
Incursion	2
Strike Force	3
Onslaught	4

Enhancements

Swift Hunter (20 pts): Space Wolves model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 7" ability.

Fenrisian Grit (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability.

Wolf Master (5 pts): Space Wolves model only. In your Command phase, select one friendly SPACE WOLVES unit within 9" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, teeth and claws and Tyrnak and Fenrir weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.

Feral Rage (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. Each time the bearer ends a Charge move, until the end of the turn, add an additional 1 to the Attacks characteristic of those weapons.

Stratagems

MARKED FOR DESTRUCTION 1CP · Saga of the Hunter – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

OVERWHELMING ONSLAUGHT 1CP · Saga of the Hunter – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

BOUNDING ADVANCE 1CP · Saga of the Hunter – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement or Charge phase

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.

TERRITORIAL ADVANTAGE 1CP · Saga of the Hunter – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

HUNTERS’ TRAIL 1CP · Saga of the Hunter – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

CHOSEN PREY 1CP · Saga of the Hunter – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

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.

Shadowmark Talon

Detachment rules

Masters of Shadow: Each time a ranged attack targets an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army, unless the attacking model is within 12", subtract 1 from the Hit roll and the target has the Benefit of Cover against that attack.

Unparalleled Tactician: Once per battle round, if an Aethon Shaan model from your army is on the battlefield, you can use the Into Darkness Stratagem for 0CP.

Restrictions: Your army can include Raven Guard units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Blackwing Shroud (25 pts): Adeptus Astartes Infantry model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Infiltrators ability.

Coronal Susurrant (30 pts): Phobos model only. The bearer has the following ability:

Lord of Deceit (Aura): Each time your opponent targets a unit from their army with a Stratagem, if that unit is within 12" of this model, increase the cost of that usage of that Stratagem by 1CP.

Umbral Raptor (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has the Stealth and Lone Operative abilities.

Hunter’s Instincts (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. In your Movement phase, if the bearer’s unit is in Strategic Reserves, for the purposes of setting up that unit on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is.

Stratagems

RAPTORIAL VIGILANCE 1CP · Shadowmark Talon – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Movement phase

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. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

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.

LAY LOW THE TYRANTS 1CP · Shadowmark Talon – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

STUNNING FUSILLADE 1CP · Shadowmark Talon – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Shadowmark Talon – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

INTO DARKNESS 1CP · Shadowmark Talon – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.

FEINT AND THRUST 1CP · Shadowmark Talon – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

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. If it is a Phobos or Scout Squad unit, it is also eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

Shield of the Void

Detachment rules

Focused Response:

Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.
Each time an enemy unit makes an attack that targets an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is Set To Defend, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

Enhancements

Speartip of the Chapter (0 pts): At the start of the first battle round, the bearer’s unit and up to one other friendly unit within the same Entry Zone can each make a Normal move of up to 6".

Tolorek Data Djinn (0 pts): In your Command phase, select one objective marker that you control and is within range of the bearer. Roll one D6: on a 2+, that objective marker is Secured by your army.

Stratagems

ADAPTIVE PURGE 1CP · Shield of the Void – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Select one of the following abilities: [LETHAL HITS], [IGNORES COVER] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have that ability.

RAPID TAKEOVER 1CP · Shield of the Void – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit Falls Back.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was within Engagement Range of that enemy unit at the start of the phase.

EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D3+1".

CODEX WARFARE 1CP · Shield of the Void – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.

OVERCHARGED BREACH 1CP · Shield of the Void – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway within 9" of and visible to your unit. Open that Hatchway and, until the end of the battle, that Hatchway cannot be closed.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem more than once.

Spearpoint Task Force

Detachment rules

Storm-swift Onslaught: ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army are eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back.

Wrath of the First Khan: At the end of the Fight phase, if a Suboden Khan unit from your army destroyed one or more enemy units this phase and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, that unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".

Restrictions: Your army can include White Scars units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Spearpoint Paragon (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 1. Each time the bearer ends a Charge move, until the end of the turn, improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 2 instead.

Stormseers’ Wisdom (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, you can re-roll Advance rolls made for that unit.

Hunter’s Eye (20 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.

Chogorian Huntmaster (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED model only. If the bearer’s unit is in Strategic Reserves, for the purposes of setting up that unit on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is.

Stratagems

EVASIVE MANOEUVRES 1CP · Spearpoint Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

MOBILE LETHALITY 1CP · Spearpoint Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.

SPEAR THRUST AND SABRE SWING 1CP · Spearpoint Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Select either the [LANCE] or [LETHAL HITS] ability. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability. If it is a MOUNTED unit, until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LANCE] and [LETHAL HITS] abilities instead.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Spearpoint Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

WITHDRAW AND REGROUP 1CP · Spearpoint Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Mounted or Adeptus Astartes Fly Vehicle 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.

HUNTER’S INSTINCTS 1CP · Spearpoint Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Infantry unit or Adeptus Astartes Mounted unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".

Stormlance Task Force

Detachment rules

Lightning Assault: ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army are eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back.

Enhancements

Fury of the Storm (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED model only. Improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 1. Each time the bearer ends a Charge move, until the end of the turn, improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearers melee weapons by 2 instead.

Portents of Wisdom (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, you can re-roll Advance rolls made for that unit.

Feinting Withdrawal (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, that unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.

Hunter’s Instincts (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED model only. If the bearer’s unit is in Strategic Reserves, for the purposes of setting up that unit on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is.

Stratagems

BLITZING FUSILLADE 1CP · Stormlance Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Stormlance Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

RIDE HARD, RIDE FAST 1CP · Stormlance Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

SHOCK ASSAULT 1CP · Stormlance Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Charge phase

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.

WIND-SWIFT EVASION 1CP · Stormlance Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

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.

FULL THROTTLE 2CP · Stormlance Task Force – Wargear Stratagem · Movement phase

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.

Terminator Assault

Detachment rules

Sacred Oath: Once per battle, at the start of your Command phase, when you select a target for Oath of Moment, you can use this Detachment rule. If you do, until the start of your next Command phase, each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack that targets your Oath of Moment target, you can re-roll the Wound roll.

Enhancements

Seal of Indomitability (0 pts): Once per battle, when the bearer’s unit is selected as the target of one or more attacks, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, the bearer has a 3+ invulnerable save.

Resolute (0 pts): The bearer is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back. In addition, Desperate Escape tests taken for the bearer are automatically passed, and each time the bearer makes a Fall Back move, it can move through enemy models as if they were not there.

Stratagems

CLEANSING SWEEP 1CP · Terminator Assault – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Movement or Charge phase

WHEN: Your opponent's Movement or Charge phase.

TARGET: One Terminator Squad unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.

TOWER OF STRENGTH 1CP · Terminator Assault – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Any phase

WHEN: Start or end of any phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Terminator unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit.

RESTRICTIONS: Each time you use this Stratagem, you cannot use it again until after your next Command phase.

FOCUSING SHRINE 1CP · Terminator Assault – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, at the start of the Reinforcements step.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Terminator unit from your army that is in Reserves.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when setting up your unit on the battlefield using its Deep Strike ability, you can set it up unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models (measure this distance as you would normally for the Deep Strike ability, ignoring Walls and closed Hatchways).

RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.

CARVE A PATH 1CP · Terminator Assault – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement or Charge phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

TARGET: One Terminator Assault Squad unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase and has not declared a charge this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when making a Normal, Advance or Charge move, your unit can move through a single closed Hatchway as if it was open. When doing so, that Hatchway is opened and cannot be closed for the rest of the battle. This can allow that unit to declare a charge against enemy units that are not visible to it, but to do so those enemy units must be within 1" of that Hatchway and wholly on the opposite side of it from your unit.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per turn.

The Angelic Host

Detachment rules

Upon Wings of Fire: At the end of your opponent s turn, you can select a number of Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack units from your army (excluding units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units). The maximum number of units you can select depends on the battle size, as follows:

BATTLE SIZE	UNITS
Incursion	Up to 1 units
Strike Force	Up to 2 units
Onslaught	Up to 3 units

Once you have made your selections, remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves. In the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase, set each of those units up using their Deep Strike ability.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include BLOOD ANGELS units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Artisan of War (20 pts): Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack model only. Improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of the bearers weapons by 1, and the bearer has a Save characteristic of 2+.

Visage of Death (15 pts): Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack model only. In the Battle-shock step of your opponents Command phase, each enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within Engagement Range of the bearer must take a Battle-shock test.

Archangel’s Shard (15 pts): Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack model only. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [Anti-Chaos 5+] and [Lance] abilities.

Gleaming Pinions (25 pts): Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack model only. Once per turn, when an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within 9" of the bearer, if this bearer’s unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 6".

Stratagems

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · The Angelic Host – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

MARTIAL EXEMPLARS 1CP · The Angelic Host – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack 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] and [PRECISION] abilities.

ANGEL’S SACRIFICE 1CP · The Angelic Host – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Start of the Fight phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy model within Engagement Range of your unit selects its targets, it must select your unit as the target of all of its attacks.

DEATH FROM THE SKIES 1CP · The Angelic Host – Epic Deed Stratagem · Charge phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack unit from your army Advances or Falls Back.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.

UNBRIDLED ARDOUR 1CP · The Angelic Host – Epic Deed Stratagem · Any phase

WHEN: Any phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

EFFECT: Until the end of the battle, each time a friendly Sanguinary Guard unit makes an attack that targets the enemy unit that just destroyed your unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.

DESCENT OF ANGELS 1CP · The Angelic Host – Epic Deed Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack unit from your army that is arriving using the Deep Strike ability this phase.

EFFECT: Your unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.

RESTRICTIONS: A unit targeted by this Stratagem is not eligible to declare a charge in the same turn.

The Lost Brethren

Detachment rules

A Noble Death in Combat: Each time a Death Company model from your army makes a melee attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 if that model’s unit is below its Starting Strength; if that model’s unit is Below Half-strength, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.

KEYWORDS
If you select this Detachment, Death Company Marines and Death Company Marines with Bolt Rifles units from your army have the BATTLELINE keyword.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include BLOOD ANGELS units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Sanguinius’ Grace (20 pts): Death Company model only. Once per battle, at the end of the Fight phase, if the bearer is within Engagement Range of three or more enemy models, the bearer can fight one additional time.

Blood Shard (25 pts): Death Company model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, at the end of the phase, roll one D6: on a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with 3 wounds remaining.

To Slay the Warmaster (15 pts): Death Company model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, if the bearer is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy CHARACTER units, you can select one of those CHARACTER units and roll six D6: for each 4+, one CHARACTER model in that unit suffers 1 mortal wound.

Vengeful Onslaught (10 pts): Death Company model only. It the bearer is destroyed, until the end of your next turn, each time a friendly DEATH COMPANY model makes an attack, add 1 to the 1 Hit roll.

Stratagems

FURIOUS ONSLAUGHT 1CP · The Lost Brethren – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One Death Company unit from your army, just before that unit Piles-in.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Pile-in move, it can move up to D3+3" instead of up to 3". If your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly Chaplain models, or if it is below Starting Strength, it can move up to 6" instead. In either case, it can only do so provided your unit ends that Pile-in move in Unit Coherency and within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · The Lost Brethren – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

LOST TO RAGE 1CP · The Lost Brethren – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One Death Company unit from your army that is below Starting Strength and has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Attacks, Stength and Armour Penetration characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 and, unless your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly Chaplain models, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [HAZARDOUS] ability.

GLORIOUS SACRIFICE 1CP · The Lost Brethren – Epic Deed Stratagem · Any phase

WHEN: Any phase.

TARGET: One Death Company unit from your army that was just destroyed while it was within range of an objective marker you controlled. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

EFFECT: That objective marker 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.

FINAL RETRIBUTION 1CP · The Lost Brethren – Epic Deed Stratagem · Fight phase

WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Death Company 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, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly Chaplain models; on a 4+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

WRATHFUL RAMPAGE 1CP · The Lost Brethren – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a Death Company unit from your army Advances.

TARGET: That DEATH COMPANY unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. If your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly Chaplain models, or it is below its Starting Strength, until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

Unforgiven Task Force

Detachment rules

Grim Resolve: While an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army is Battle-shocked, change the Objective Control characteristic of models in that unit to 1, instead of 0. In your Command phase, select one ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army; until the start of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in that unit.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include DARK ANGELS units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Shroud of Heroes (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, roll one D6 at the end of the phase. On a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with 3 wounds remaining (if the bearer was Battle-shocked when it was destroyed, it is instead returned with its full wounds remaining).

Stubborn Tenacity (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll if that unit is below its Starting Strength, and add 1 to the Wound roll as well if that unit is Battle-shocked and below its Starting Strength.

Weapons of the First Legion (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks, Strength and Damage characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons. While the bearer is Battle-shocked, add 2 to the Attacks, Strength and Damage characteristics of the bearer s melee weapons instead.

Pennant of Remembrance (10 pts): Ancient model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability. While that unit is Battle-shocked, models in that unit have the Feel No Pain 4+ ability instead.

Stratagems

UNBREAKABLE LINES 2CP · Unforgiven Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Charge phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Charge move.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

FIRE DISCIPLINE 1CP · Unforgiven Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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 that unit have the [ASSAULT], [HEAVY] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.

UNFORGIVEN FURY 1CP · Unforgiven Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability. In addition, if one or more ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army are currently Battle-shocked, until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Unforgiven Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

GRIM RETRIBUTION 1CP · Unforgiven Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that had one or more models destroyed as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but it must target the enemy unit that just attacked it, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.

INTRACTABLE 1CP · Unforgiven Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army Falls Back.

TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES 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.

Vanguard Spearhead

Detachment rules

Shadow Masters: Each time a ranged attack targets an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army, unless the attacking model is within 12", subtract 1 from the Hit roll and the target has the Benefit of Cover against that attack.

Enhancements

The Blade Driven Deep (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Infiltrators ability.

Ghostweave Cloak (15 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has the Stealth and Lone Operative abilities.

Execute and Redeploy (20 pts): PHOBOS model only. In your Shooting phase, after the bearer’s unit has shot, if that unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 6". If it does, until the end of the turn, that unit is not eligible to declare a charge. This cannot allow the bearer’s unit to move more than once in your Shooting phase.

Shadow War Veteran (30 pts): PHOBOS model only. Gain following ability:
Lord of Deceit (Aura): Each time your opponent targets a unit from their army with a Stratagem, if that unit is within 12" of this model, increase the cost of that use of that Stratagem by 1CP.

Stratagems

STRIKE FROM THE SHADOWS 1CP · Vanguard Spearhead – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting phase

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.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Vanguard Spearhead – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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 2CP · Vanguard Spearhead – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

CALCULATED FEINT 1CP · Vanguard Spearhead – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Charge phase

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 1CP · Vanguard Spearhead – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

A DEADLY PRIZE 1CP · Vanguard Spearhead – Wargear Stratagem · Command phase

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.

Vindication Task Force

Detachment rules

Purge and Sanctify:

Each time an attack targets an Ancient unit from your army, if that unit is within range of one or more objective markers and the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Each time a Crusader Squad unit from your army makes a Righteous Zeal move, that unit can end that move as close as possible to the closest objective marker instead of as close as possible to the closest enemy unit.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Black Templars units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Imperialis of the Eternal Crusade (15 pts): Ancient model only. Each time an enemy unit selects the bearer’s unit as a target of a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (this is not cumulative with any olher negative modifiers to that Charge roll).

Consecrating Aura (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.

Orb of the Emperor’s Aegis (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Deep Strike ability.

Warden of Honour (20 pts): Crusade Ancient model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, each time you roll one D6 for the bearer’s Vengeful Exhortation ability, add 1 to the result.

Stratagems

SPOOR OF THE UNHOLY 1CP · Vindication Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

LITANIES OF PURGATION 1CP · Vindication Task Force – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

REFUSAL TO YIELD 1CP · Vindication Task Force – Epic Deed Stratagem · Any phase

WHEN: Any phase, just after an Ancient model from your army is destroyed.

TARGET: That ANCIENT model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.

EFFECT: At the end of the phase, set your model back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, with its full wounds remaining.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot target the same model with this Stratagem more than once per battle.

PERFERVID INTERVENTION 2CP · Vindication Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Charge phase

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.

RECITATION OF THE REVERED 1CP · Vindication Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Ancient 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.

RECLAIM OUR HONOUR! 1CP · Vindication Task Force – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

Wrath of the Rock

Detachment rules

Dutiful Tenacity: Each time an attack targets an Adeptus Astartes Infantry or Adeptus Astartes Mounted unit from your army, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

Enhancements

Tempered in Battle (Aura) (10 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit is within 6" of this model, you can re-roll Battle-shock and Leadership tests taken for that unit.

Ancient Weapons (25 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Improve the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer by 2, and improve the Armour Penetration and Damage characteristics of those weapons by 1.

Deathwing Assault (15 pts): Deathwing model with the Deep Strike ability only. The bearer’s unit can be set up using the Deep Strike ability in the Reinforcements step of your first, second or third Movement phase, regardless of any mission rules.

Lord of the Ravenwing (10 pts): Ravenwing model only. You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit.

Stratagems

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Wrath of the Rock – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

INESCAPABLE JUSTICE 2CP · Wrath of the Rock – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Any phase

WHEN: Any phase, just after your Oath of Moment target is destroyed.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Character unit that is on the battlefield.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 12" and visible to your unit. That enemy unit becomes your Oath of Moment target until the start of your next Command phase.

TACTICAL MASTERY 1CP · Wrath of the Rock – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Movement phase

WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. If your unit has the Ravenwing keyword, it is also eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

LION’S WILL 1CP · Wrath of the Rock – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

WHEN: Command phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit. In addition, until the end of the turn, if your unit does not have the Deathwing, Ravenwing or Vehicle keyword, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.

RELICS OF THE DARK AGE 1CP · Wrath of the Rock – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Infantry or Adeptus Astartes Mounted unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Strength characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit.

LEONINE AGGRESSION 1CP · Wrath of the Rock – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Charge phase

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.

TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army within 3" of one or more enemy units, or one Deathwing unit from your army within 6" of one or more enemy units.

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

Detachment rules

Zealous Litanies: At the start of the battle round, you can select one of the Litanies listed below. If you do, until the end of the battle round, that Litany is active and its effects apply to all Adeptus Astartes Infantry and Adeptus Astartes Mounted units from your army.

Chorus of Relentless Hate
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in this unit and add 1 to Advance rolls made for it.

Rite of Perfervid Wrath
Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in this unit.

CHANT OF DEATHLESS DEVOTION
Models in this unit have a 5+ invulnerable save against ranged attacks.

RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Black Templars units, but it cannot include ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Enhancements

Pyrebrand (25 pts): Black Templars model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Stealth ability.

Sacred Rage (30 pts): ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have the Fights First ability.

Taramond’s Censer (15 pts): Black Templars model only. At the start of the Fight phase, each enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit must take a Battle-shock test. When doing so, subtract 1 from the result.

Benediction of Fury (10 pts): Chaplain model only. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.

Stratagems

BRUTE FERVOUR 1CP · Wrathful Procession – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

CASTIGATE THE DEMAGOGUES 1CP · Wrathful Procession – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT 1CP · Wrathful Procession – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Shooting or Fight phase

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.

FUELLED BY FAITH 1CP · Wrathful Procession – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Any phase

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.

VOICE OF DEVOTION 1CP · Wrathful Procession – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Command phase

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.

RELENTLESS MOMENTUM 1CP · Wrathful Procession – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Fight phase

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.

Space Marines — army rules

1st Company Task Force

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Angelic Inheritors

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Anvil Siege Force

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Armoured Speartip

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Bastion Task Force

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Black Spear Task Force

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Blade of Ultramar

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Boarding Strike

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Ceramite Sentinels

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Champions of Fenris

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Companions of Vehemence

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Company of Hunters

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Emperor’s Shield

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Firestorm Assault Force

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Forgefather’s Seekers

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Gladius Task Force

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Godhammer Assault Force

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Hammer of Avernii

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Headhunter Task Force

Detachment rules

Enhancements

Stratagems

Inner Circle Task Force

Detachment rules

Enhancements