Drukhari – Reavers
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
| Blaster assault | |||||||
| Blaster assault | 18" | 1 | 3+ | 8 | -4 | D6+1 | |
| Heat lance assault melta 3 | |||||||
| Heat lance assault melta 3 | 18" | 1 | 3+ | 14 | -4 | D6 | |
| Splinter pistol anti-infantry 3+ assault pistol | |||||||
| Splinter pistol anti-infantry 3+ assault pistol | 12" | 1 | 3+ | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Splinter rifle anti-infantry 3+ assault | |||||||
| Splinter rifle anti-infantry 3+ assault | 24" | 2 | 3+ | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Bladevanes lance | |||||||
| Bladevanes lance | Melee | 4 | 3+ | 4 | -1 | 1 | |
WARGEAR OPTIONS
- For every 3 models in this unit, 1 model’s splinter rifle can be replaced with one of the following:
- 1 blaster
- 1 heat lance
- For every 3 models in this unit, 1 model can be equipped with one of the following:
- 1 cluster caltrops
- 1 grav-talon
ABILITIES
FACTION: Power from Pain
WARGEAR ABILITIES
Cluster Caltrops: Each time you roll to inflict wounds using this unit’s Eviscerating Fly-by ability, you can re-roll one D6 for each model in this unit equipped with cluster caltrops.
Grav-talon: The bearer’s melee weapons have an Armour Penetration characteristic of -2 and the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 1 Arena Champion
- 2-5 Reavers
| YOUR 1ST TO 2ND UNITS COST | |
| 3 models | 75 |
| 6 models | 150 |
| YOUR 3RD + UNIT COSTS | |
| 3 models | 85 |
| 6 models | 160 |
KEYWORDS: MOUNTED; WYCH CULT; FLY; AELDARI; REAVERS
FACTION KEYWORDS:
DRUKHARI
DRUKHARI
STRATAGEMS
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Core
C
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Core
C
FIRE OVERWATCH
1CP
Core
C
RAPID INGRESS
1CP
Core
C
HEROIC INTERVENTION
1CP
Core
C
COUNTEROFFENSIVE
2CP
Core
C
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic
BA
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
POSTMORTALITY
1CP
Covenite Coterie – Epic Deed
CONNOISSEURS OF PAIN
1CP
Covenite Coterie – Battle Tactic
SYMPHONY OF SUFFERING
1CP
Covenite Coterie – Epic Deed
SCULPTING THE STAGE
1CP
Exhibition of Slaughter Stratagem
ACROBATIC DISPLAY
1CP
Exhibition of Slaughter Stratagem
PLANNED STRIKES
1CP
Exhibition of Slaughter Stratagem
DOUBLE-CROSS
1CP
Kabalite Cartel – Strategic Ploy
TAKEN ALIVE
1CP
Kabalite Cartel – Battle Tactic
EAGER FOR THE KILL
1CP
Realspace Raiders – Battle Tactic
FIGHTING SHADOWS
1CP
Realspace Raiders – Battle Tactic
INSTINCTIVE SPITE
1CP
Realspace Raiders – Battle Tactic
RAID AND FADE
2CP
Realspace Raiders – Strategic Ploy
DARK HARVEST
1CP
Realspace Raiders – Strategic Ploy
SCINTILLATING TEMPO
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Strategic Ploy
SHORTEN THE ODDS
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Strategic Ploy
MALICIOUS FRENZY
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Battle Tactic
FATEFUL ROLE
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Strategic Ploy
MURDERER’S CIRCUS
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Battle Tactic
FEIGNED WEAKNESS
1CP
Spectacle of Spite – Strategic Ploy
PRETERNATURAL AGILITY
1CP
Spectacle of Spite – Strategic Ploy
A CHALLENGE MET
2CP
Spectacle of Spite – Battle Tactic
ACROBATIC DISPLAY
1CP
Spectacle of Spite – Battle Tactic
BERSERK FUGUE
2CP
Spectacle of Spite – Strategic Ploy
DEADLY DEBUT
1CP
Spectacle of Spite – Battle Tactic
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Callous Competition
Combat Drugs
Exacting Cruelty
The AELDARI keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Beast Character
Infantry
Transport
The AIRCRAFT keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The BLADES FOR HIRE keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
The DRUKHARI keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Beast Character
Infantry
Transport
The FLY keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Beast Character
Transport
The HAEMONCULUS COVENS keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Battleline
Infantry
The HARLEQUINS keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Dedicated Transports
Infantry
Mounted
Vehicle
The KABAL keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Battleline
The MOUNTED keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Beast Character
The SCOURGES keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The WYCH CULT keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Battleline
01.07.01 Battlefield Morale
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.
01.07 Battle-shock Rolls
To make a battle-shock roll for a unit, its controlling player makes a leadership roll for it (see above).- If that roll succeeds, that unit does not become battle-shocked.
- If that roll fails, that unit, and each model in it, is battle-shocked.
While a unit is battle-shocked:
- The Objective Control (OC) characteristic of all of its models is modified to ‘-’ (02.02).
- Its controlling player cannot target that unit with stratagems (15).
- It is not eligible to start an action (16), and any action it has started cannot be completed.
SEE ALSO
- Battlefield Morale 01.07.01
- Battle-shock Test 01.07.02
BATTLEFIELD MORALE
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.Power from Pain
The Drukhari feed on suffering and terror. Every arc of blood that jets from a blade-slit artery, every scream of agonised horror, every vertiginous moment of shock or despair experienced by their prey surges through the Drukhari like an intoxicant. As the battle rages, the denizens of the Dark City drink deep of the floodtide of pain. Sinews singing with stolen strength, motions blurred to preternatural swiftness, they howl in exhilarated bloodlust and fight all the harder to extract yet sweeter agonies from those who dare resist them.
All DRUKHARI units have a Pain ability, tagged with the word ‘Pain’. Pain abilities only apply to a unit while it is Empowered. If your Army Faction is DRUKHARI, you can Empower units from your army with Pain abilities by spending Pain tokens (see below).
Designer’s Note: You can also spend Pain tokens to activate additional effects in certain other rules such as Enhancements and Stratagems.
Gaining Pain Tokens
If your Army Faction is DRUKHARI, you gain Pain tokens as follows:
- 1 Pain token at the start of your Command phase.
- 1 Pain token each time an enemy unit is destroyed.
- 1 Pain token each time an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test.
Empowered Through Pain
Each Pain ability will state when you can spend Pain tokens to Empower that unit. When you do, until the end of the phase, that unit is Empowered and all Pain abilities it has take effect. While an Attached unit is Empowered, the Pain abilities of all Leader and Bodyguard units in that unit take effect - you do not need to spend additional Pain tokens to activate each of those Pain abilities.
Example: At the start of your Charge phase, you spend 1 Pain token to Empower a unit of Wyches. The unit becomes Empowered, and so its Acrobatic Gladiators ability takes effect until the end of the phase. A Succubus is leading the unit, and so its Lithe Agility ability also takes effect until the end of the phase (no additional Pain token is required to activate that ability as well).
The HAEMONCULUS keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
06.02.01 Normal Damage
Normal Damage is damage that was inflicted on a model as a result of a weapon’s D characteristic, rather than by other means such as mortal wounds. Mortal wounds dealt in addition to normal damage from an attack are part of that same attack.
06.02 Mortal Wounds
Some attacks or rules inflict mortal wounds on units. Each time a unit suffers one or more mortal wounds, its controlling player must resolve the following sequence for each of those mortal wounds, until either all of them have been inflicted or that unit is destroyed:- Select Model: Select one model in that unit by following the first instruction below that applies:
If a non-CHARACTER model in that unit has lost one or more wounds, you must select that model. Otherwise, if that unit contains one or more non-CHARACTER models, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, if one or more CHARACTER models in that unit have lost one or more wounds, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, you must select one CHARACTER model in that unit. - Resolve Damage: The selected model loses 1 wound. If this reduces that model’s remaining wounds to 0, it is destroyed.
MORTAL WOUNDS AND NORMAL DAMAGE
When resolving attack dice, if those attacks inflict a mixture of both mortal wounds and normal damage, resolve all of the normal damage first, then resolve all of the mortal wounds.
SEE ALSO
- Normal Damage 06.02.01
[LETHAL HITS]24.23
Many deadly weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.
Each time an attack made with a [LETHAL HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, you can choose for that attack to automatically wound the target.Designer’s Note: Choosing to automatically wound the target means that no wound roll is made for that attack. You may decide against this, as it means that attack cannot result in a critical wound and so cannot trigger other abilities such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].
Hit Roll
Make one hit roll for each attack dice by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a hit by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL HITS
Critical hits are still hits. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical hit, such as [LETHAL HITS] (24).The DRUKHARI and BATTLELINE keywords are used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
01.02.01 Starting Strength and Half-Strength
The number of models a unit contains at the start of the first battle round is its starting strength. The starting strength of an attached unit is the number of models that unit contains at the start of the first battle round.Some rules refer to units being below starting strength, or at – or below – half-strength. The meaning of these terms varies depending on a unit’s starting strength, as shown below.
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Example: A Captain (1 model) is attached to a unit of Intercessors (5 models). This attached unit has a starting strength of 6. If three Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be at half-strength. If four Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be below half-strength. If all of the Intercessors were destroyed, the remaining Captain would be below half-strength, despite having his full wounds remaining.
SOME UNITS CANNOT BE AT HALF-STRENGTH
If a model’s W characteristic or a unit’s starting strength cannot be evenly divided in half, that model or unit cannot be at half-strength (but can be below half-strength as described above).[DEVASTATING WOUNDS]24.10
The most potent weapons strike with such power that they make a mockery of armour and can cleave through several foes.
Each time an attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon results in a critical wound, the attack sequence for that attack ends and the target unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the D characteristic of that weapon. These are inflicted after resolving any normal damage inflicted by those attacks.Mortal wounds inflicted by [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapons can damage a maximum of one model for each critical wound; any remaining mortal wounds inflicted by that attack are lost.
Example: An attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon with a D characteristic of 3 results in a critical wound against an Intercessor Squad, so inflicts 3 mortal wounds. The first 2 mortal wounds are sufficient to destroy 1 Intercessor model, so the remaining mortal wound is lost.
05.02.01 Multiple Toughness Characteristics
When resolving attacks that target a unit in which the models have two or more different T characteristics, follow the first instruction that applies from below:- If the target unit is an attached unit, use the highest T characteristic amongst bodyguard models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
- Use the highest T characteristic amongst models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
Wound Roll
Make one wound roll for each hit by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a wound by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL WOUNDS
Critical wounds are still wounds. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical wound, such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] (24).SEE ALSO
- Multiple Toughness Characteristics 05.02.01
03.04 Engagement
A model’s engagement range is the area of the battlefield within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of it.
- While a friendly model is within engagement range of one or more enemy models, those models – and the units they belong to – are engaged with each other.
- While a unit contains no engaged models, that unit is unengaged.
WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT?
While opposing models are within each other’s engagement range, they are able to fight in vicious melee, so unless they are seeking to make melee attacks, models should keep out of their foes’ reach.
ENGAGEMENT
These two units have at least one model within 2" of the opposing unit, and are therefore engaged with each other.
ADVANCE MOVE09.06
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Advance roll + your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Make an advance roll by rolling one D6.
AFTER MOVING:
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or start an action.
NORMAL MOVE09.05
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
06.03 Hazard Rolls
To make a hazard roll for a unit, roll one D6: on a 1-2, that roll fails and that unit suffers 1 mortal wound, or 3 mortal wounds instead if each model in that unit is a MONSTER/VEHICLE model. If more than one hazard roll is required for a unit, make all of those rolls simultaneously.
FALL-BACK MOVE09.07
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is engaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select fall-back mode:
- Ordered Retreat: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you can select this mode.
- Desperate Escape: Otherwise, you must select this mode. Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
- Desperate Escape: Each model that is moved can be moved through enemy models.
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to shoot, declare a charge or start an action.
- Desperate Escape: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you must make a battle-shock roll for your unit (01.07).
INGRESS MOVE20.04
SET-UP DISTANCE: 6"
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is in strategic reserves (excluding units that are embarked within TRANSPORTS that are themselves in strategic reserves).EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
WHILE MOVING: Set up your unit wholly within the set-up distance of one or more battlefield edges and more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
- Before the Third Battle Round: While doing so, no models can be set up within your opponent’s deployment zone.
05.04.04 Destroyed
Throughout a battle, models will suffer damage, lose wounds and be destroyed. When every model in a unit has been destroyed, that unit is destroyed.When a model is destroyed, first resolve any rules that are triggered when it is destroyed, then it is removed from the battlefield. If any such rules apply, and if the model was destroyed as the result of an attack, unless otherwise stated, those rules are only resolved and that model is only removed after the attacking unit’s attacks have been resolved. Unless otherwise stated, destroyed models and units cannot use abilities or be selected or targeted by rules.
Some rules only trigger if an enemy model or unit was destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army. This means that the enemy model or unit was destroyed by an attack made by a model from your army, or by a player rule you have. Enemy models or units that are destroyed by any other means are not destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army.
01.04.03 As Close As Possible
- If a rule instructs you to move a model as close as possible to a unit or model you must end that model’s move in base contact with that unit or model if its move is sufficient to do so without breaking any other restrictions (such as coherency), or as close as you can achieve if its move is not sufficient.
- If a model is already as close as possible to a unit or model when it is instructed to make a move as close as possible towards a unit or model, that model cannot be moved, but still counts as having made the move in question.
- If a rule instructs you to move a model as close as possible to an objective you must end that model’s move within range of an objective if its move is sufficient to do so without breaking any other restrictions (such as coherency), or as close as you can achieve if its move is not sufficient.
- If that model is already within range of an objective it can move up to the maximum distance of that move but must end its move still within range of that objective.
[LANCE]24.21
With the momentum of a warrior at full-tilt, lance weapons are deadly on the charge.
Each time an attack is made with a [LANCE] weapon, if the attacking model’s unit made a charge move this turn, add 1 to the wound roll.06.01 Visibility
Line of sight is used to determine visibility between models. For an observing model to have line of sight, it must be possible to draw an imaginary straight line, 1 mm wide, from any part of that model to any part of the model being observed. This line is the line of sight. While doing so, other models in the observing model’s unit and in the observed model’s unit are ignored.Other models and units can be either visible or fully visible to the observing model, as shown below. Note that terrain applies additional rules to visibility (13.07).
Model Visible
If any part of another model is visible to the observing model, that model is visible.
Model Fully Visible
If every part of another model that is facing the observing model is visible to the observing model (so the only thing blocking visibility to any part of that other model is that model itself), that model is fully visible.
Unit Visible
If one or more models in a unit are visible to the observing model, that unit is visible.
Unit Fully Visible
If every model in a unit is fully visible to the observing model, that unit is fully visible. When determining this, the observing model can see through other models in that unit.
SNAP SHOOTING15.09
ELIGIBLE IF: As stated in the rule allowing this shooting type.
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
- You can only target one visible enemy unit within 24" of your unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
- Each attack only hits on an unmodified hit roll of 6 (irrespective of the attacking weapon’s BS characteristic or any modifiers).
- You cannot re-roll hit rolls.
FIRE OVERWATCH15.08
1CP
Core Stratagem
A hail of fire can drive back advancing foes.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
[SUSTAINED HITS]24.36
Some weapons possess a punishing rate of fire, or can land devastating flurries of blows, tearing the foe apart with relentless ferocity.
This ability always takes the form [SUSTAINED HITS X]. Each time an attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, that attack results in a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by X.Example: An attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS 2] weapon results in a critical hit. That attack therefore hits the target three times (once from the critical hit, and twice more from the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability).
The DRUKHARI and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Transport
The WYCH CULT tag is used in the following Drukhari detachments:
Combat Drugs
Spectacle of Spite Detachment
Wyches abuse an array of potentially lethal performance-enhancing combat stimms.
At the start of your Command phase, select which Combat Drugs will be active for your army until the start of your next Command phase. To do so, either select one from the list below (you cannot select the same Combat Drug more than once per battle), or randomly select two by rolling two D6. When doing so randomly, Combat Drugs you have previously selected can become active again, but if you randomly select one that is already active for your army, it has no additional effect.1. Adrenalight
Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army.
2. Hypex
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of WYCH CULT models from your army.
3. Serpentin
Improve the Weapon Skill characteristic of melee weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army by 1.
4. Painbringer
Add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of WYCH CULT models from your army.
5. Grave Lotus
Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army.
6. Splintermind
Improve the Leadership characteristic of WYCH CULT models from your army by 1, and improve the Ballistic Skill characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army by 1.
FIGHTS FIRST24.13
Those possessed of lightning-fast reactions may strike before the opponent can react.
While every model in a unit has this ability, that unit is a Fights First unit.See the Resolve Fights First Combats step in the Fight phase (12.04).
[ANTI]24.03
Certain weapons are the bane of particular foes.
This ability always takes the form [ANTI-X Y+]. Each time an attack is made with an [ANTI] weapon, if the target unit has the keyword denoted by X, an unmodified wound roll of Y+ is a critical wound.Example: An attack made with an [ANTI-VEHICLE 4+] weapon against a VEHICLE unit will result in a critical wound on an unmodified wound roll of 4+, while an attack made with an [ANTI-PSYKER 2+] weapon against a PSYKER unit will result in a critical wound on an unmodified wound roll of 2+.
Save Rolls
The opposing player resolves the following sequence:- Create Groups: Divide all models in the target unit into the following groups, as many times as required:
- One group for each CHARACTER model.
- One group for all other models with the same W, Sv and InSv characteristics.
- Allocation Order: Declare the order in which those groups will have attacks allocated to them, applying all of the following:
- If a non-CHARACTER group contains a model that has lost one or more wounds, that group must be first in the allocation order.
- No CHARACTER group can be earlier in the allocation order than a non-CHARACTER group.
- CHARACTER groups containing a model that has lost one or more wounds must be earlier in the allocation order than CHARACTER groups containing no wounded models.
- Make Save Rolls: The opposing player makes one save roll for each attack that wounded the target by rolling one D6.
RAPID INGRESS15.07
1CP
Core Stratagem
Be it cunning strategy, potent technology or supernatural ritual, there are many means by which a commander may hasten their warriors’ onset.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
POSTMORTALITY
1CP
Covenite Coterie – Epic Deed Stratagem
To the greatest Haemonculi, death is but an intriguing and temporary state to be experienced.
WHEN: Any phase.
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS model from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Spend 1-3 Pain tokens. At the end of the phase, set up the destroyed model on the battlefield, unengaged and as close as possible to where it was destroyed. That model is not part of an attached unit and its unit has a starting strength of 1. That model has a number of wounds remaining equal to the number of Pain tokens you just spent.
RESTRICTION: You cannot use this Stratagem if you have 0 Pain tokens, and you cannot target the same HAEMONCULUS model with this Stratagem more than once per battle.
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS model from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Spend 1-3 Pain tokens. At the end of the phase, set up the destroyed model on the battlefield, unengaged and as close as possible to where it was destroyed. That model is not part of an attached unit and its unit has a starting strength of 1. That model has a number of wounds remaining equal to the number of Pain tokens you just spent.
RESTRICTION: You cannot use this Stratagem if you have 0 Pain tokens, and you cannot target the same HAEMONCULUS model with this Stratagem more than once per battle.
[HAZARDOUS]24.15
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder and those that stand beside them.
Each time a unit is selected to shoot or selected to fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, make a number of hazard rolls (06.03) for that unit equal to the number of [HAZARDOUS] weapons you selected in the Select Weapons step.ASSAULT SHOOTING10.05
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply to your unit:
WHILE SHOOTING: You can only select [ASSAULT] weapons to make attacks with.
AFTER SHOOTING: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to start an action.
- Unengaged and made an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [ASSAULT] weapons.
WHILE SHOOTING: You can only select [ASSAULT] weapons to make attacks with.
AFTER SHOOTING: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to start an action.
[ASSAULT]24.04
Folding stocks, shortened barrels or lightweight construction enable some weapons to be easily fired on the move.
Units containing one or more models with an [ASSAULT] weapon can shoot using assault shooting (10.05).[BLAST]24.05
High-explosive rounds can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them too close to comrades is unwise.
Each time you gather attack dice for a [BLAST] weapon, add one additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down).If this ability takes the form [BLAST X], each time you gather attack dice for such a weapon, add X additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down) instead.
Example: If a [BLAST 2] weapon with an A characteristic of 3 targets a unit containing 12 models, you would gather four additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of seven for that weapon).
CLOSE-QUARTERS SHOOTING10.06
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply to your unit:
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- Engaged and did not make an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons or is a MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- MONSTER/VEHICLE Models: Each time a MONSTER/VEHICLE model in your unit makes an attack:
- Unless that attack is made with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon and targets a unit your unit is engaged with, subtract 1 from the hit roll.
- If that attack is made with a [BLAST] weapon, it still cannot target a unit your unit is engaged with.
- Non-MONSTER/Non-VEHICLE Models: You can only select [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons to make attacks with and you can only select enemy units that are engaged with your unit as targets.
[CLOSE-QUARTERS]24.07
Weapons designed for close-quarters fighting can be wielded effectively even in the press of melee combat.
Units containing one or more models with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon can shoot using close-quarters shooting (10.06).When using another shooting type, for each model in that unit (excluding MONSTER/VEHICLE models), you can only select one of the following to make attacks with:
- One or more of its [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons.
- One or more of its other ranged weapons.
[PISTOL]24.27
Pistols can be wielded even at point-blank range.
[PISTOL] and [CLOSE-QUARTERS] are identical for all rules purposes. See [CLOSE-QUARTERS].Designer’s Note: [PISTOL] is a pre-existing ability that will be superseded by [CLOSE-QUARTERS] as this edition of Warhammer 40,000 progresses. Both are functionally the same, but the latter is a more suitable term for weapons that function in this way.
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
COMMAND RE-ROLL15.02
1CP
Core Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you make one of the following rolls for a friendly unit or model:
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
- Advance roll
- Charge roll
- Damage roll
- Hazard roll
- Hit roll
- Save roll
- Wound roll
- A roll to determine the number of attacks generated with a weapon.
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
01.05.01 Automatically Successful/Passes/Hits/Wounds
When a dice roll or test is automatically successful or automatically passes/hits/wounds, do not roll the dice and instead move to the next step of the sequence for that roll as if the required result had been rolled. Any rules that take effect on a particular dice result or roll result do not take effect.Example: If a hit roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Wound Rolls step for that attack. Such a hit roll is not a critical hit.
Example: If a wound roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Save Rolls step for that attack. Such a wound roll is not a critical wound.
INSANE BRAVERY15.04
1CP
Core Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you make a battle-shock roll for a friendly unit.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
HEROIC INTERVENTION15.11
1CP
Core Stratagem
Voices raised in furious war cries, your warriors surge forth to meet the enemy’s onslaught head-on.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
- Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
+1CP
- Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.
COUNTEROFFENSIVE15.12
2CP
Core Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight step of your opponent’s Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you have made a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll, a saving throw, an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test, a Hazardous test, or just after you have rolled the dice to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon, for an attack, model or unit from your army.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just after you have failed a Battle-shock test taken for a unit from your army.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A well-placed explosive munition in confined shipboard spaces can cause bloody carnage.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
CONNOISSEURS OF PAIN
1CP
Covenite Coterie – Battle Tactic Stratagem
These epicureans of extreme sensation revel in their agonies as much as those of the foe.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Spend 1 Pain token. 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. At the end of the phase, if your unit is still on the battlefield and it is a HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit, you gain 1 Pain token.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Spend 1 Pain token. 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. At the end of the phase, if your unit is still on the battlefield and it is a HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit, you gain 1 Pain token.
SYMPHONY OF SUFFERING
1CP
Covenite Coterie – Epic Deed Stratagem
So extreme are the foe's agonies that they spread a shock wave of terror through their comrades.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after a DRUKHARI unit from your army destroys an enemy unit.
TARGET: That DRUKHARI unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within 9" of and visible to your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test if your unit is a HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit.
TARGET: That DRUKHARI unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within 9" of and visible to your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test if your unit is a HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit.
DOUBLE-CROSS
1CP
Kabalite Cartel – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
What better way to eliminate rivals than tricking them into taking the blade meant for your ribs?
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly DRUKHARI unit (excluding VEHICLES).
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE unit, if your DRUKHARI unit is within Engagement Range of the attacking model, no saving throw is made for that attack; instead, your DRUKHARI unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly DRUKHARI unit (excluding VEHICLES).
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE unit, if your DRUKHARI unit is within Engagement Range of the attacking model, no saving throw is made for that attack; instead, your DRUKHARI unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TAKEN ALIVE
1CP
Kabalite Cartel – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Borne away screaming into the shadows, everyone knows these unfortunates face a dreadful fate.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI 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 Hit roll. If your Contract unit is destroyed as a result of those attacks, every unit in your opponent’s army must take a Battle-shock test. You cannot gain more than 3 Pain tokens as a result of failed Battle-shock tests caused by this Stratagem.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI 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 Hit roll. If your Contract unit is destroyed as a result of those attacks, every unit in your opponent’s army must take a Battle-shock test. You cannot gain more than 3 Pain tokens as a result of failed Battle-shock tests caused by this Stratagem.
EAGER FOR THE KILL
1CP
Realspace Raiders – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The exhilarating promise of bloodshed goads these warriors into battle with preternatural haste.
WHEN: Start of your Movement phase.
TARGET: Up to two WYCHES units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army, that have not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time one of those units 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 (this is not cumulative with the REAVERS’ Matchless Swiftness ability).
TARGET: Up to two WYCHES units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army, that have not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time one of those units 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 (this is not cumulative with the REAVERS’ Matchless Swiftness ability).
INSTINCTIVE SPITE
1CP
Realspace Raiders – Battle Tactic Stratagem
It is hardwired into the Drukhari psyche to prey upon weakened and suffering victims.
WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase or the start of the Fight phase.
TARGET: Up to two DRUKHARI BATTLELINE units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army.
EFFECT: You can spend 1 Pain token. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in each of those units makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is Below Half-strength, add 1 to the Hit roll. If you spent 1 Pain token, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.
TARGET: Up to two DRUKHARI BATTLELINE units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army.
EFFECT: You can spend 1 Pain token. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in each of those units makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is Below Half-strength, add 1 to the Hit roll. If you spent 1 Pain token, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.
RAID AND FADE
2CP
Realspace Raiders – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The Drukhari are masters at using hit-and-run tactics, engaging a target with a flurry of shots before quickly manoeuvring into cover or out of sight.
WHEN: End of your Shooting phase.
TARGET: Up to two KABALITE WARRIORS units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army (excluding SCOURGES and AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Each of those units can make a Normal move of up to 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units. Until the end of the turn, those units are not eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: Up to two KABALITE WARRIORS units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army (excluding SCOURGES and AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Each of those units can make a Normal move of up to 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units. Until the end of the turn, those units are not eligible to declare a charge.
DARK HARVEST
1CP
Realspace Raiders – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Wicked sickles and serrated blades hack through writhing flesh as the Drukhari harvest agony and suffering.
WHEN: Start of the Fight phase.
TARGET: Up to two WRACKS units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in each of those units have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
TARGET: Up to two WRACKS units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in each of those units have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
SCINTILLATING TEMPO
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Commorrite or Harlequin, these lithe combatants move with stunning speed, darting in and out of firing lines before their foes can raise their weapons.
WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase, just after a DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS unit from your army is selected to make a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, is set up on the battlefield, or declares a charge.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at your unit.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at your unit.
SHORTEN THE ODDS
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Having selected their victims, these killers strive to complete the kill with speed and brutality whilst moving ever closer to winning their macabre wager.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS unit from your army has Advanced.
TARGET: That 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.
TARGET: That 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.
MALICIOUS FRENZY
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Jealous competition descends into frenzied carnage as the kill count climbs higher and the intoxicating screams of the dying fill the air.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Select [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Select [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability.
FATEFUL ROLE
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
These warriors are so absorbed by their desire to win the wager that they risk death to land their killing blows.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS 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 that unit is losing the wager: on a 4+, do not remove it from play. That destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS 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 that unit is losing the wager: on a 4+, do not remove it from play. That destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
MURDERER’S CIRCUS
1CP
Reaper’s Wager – Battle Tactic Stratagem
In bounding leaps and graceful pirouettes, the cavalcade of capricious killers bounds through hails of fire, cackling gleefully as they come.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS 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.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS 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.
FEIGNED WEAKNESS
1CP
Spectacle of Spite – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Employing a common ruse from the arenas, the Drukhari appear to cower, wounded and exhausted, before surging back at their overconfident opponents with blades and fangs bared.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a DRUKHARI unit from your army Falls Back.
TARGET: That DRUKHARI unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: That DRUKHARI unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in turn in which it Fell Back.
DEADLY DEBUT
1CP
Spectacle of Spite – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Imitating Lelith Hesperax, these warriors begin their gladiatorial bout with an opening so spectacularly violent that none can fail to be impressed.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army that made a Charge move this turn and 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 WYCHES unit, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 as well.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army that made a Charge move this turn and 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 WYCHES unit, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 as well.
Callous Competition
Reaper’s Wager Detachment
In this saedath, the Harlequins embody the Reaper, whilst their Drukhari companions are mortal killers.
At the start of the battle, DRUKHARI units from your army are winning the wager.Each time a DRUKHARI unit from your army destroys an enemy unit, DRUKHARI units from your army are winning the wager.
Each time a HARLEQUINS unit from your army destroys an enemy unit, HARLEQUIN units from your army are winning the wager.
While DRUKHARI units from your army are winning the wager, HARLEQUIN units from your army are losing the wager, and vice versa.
Each time a DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS model from your army makes an attack, if that model’s unit is winning the wager, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that model’s unit is losing the wager, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1 instead.
HARLEQUINS
You can include HARLEQUINS units in your army (see Codex: Aeldari). The combined points cost of such units depends on your battle size:
- Incursion: Up to 500 pts
- Strike Force: Up to 1000 pts
- Onslaught: Up to 1500 pts
No HARLEQUINS models from your army can be your WARLORD. If you select this Detachment, you cannot use the Corsairs and Travelling Players army rule.
FIGHTING SHADOWS
1CP
Realspace Raiders – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Even attempting to strike the Drukhari is like trying to lay a blade to smoke, so sly and swift are they.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army (excluding HAEMONCULUS COVENS units) 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.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army (excluding HAEMONCULUS COVENS units) 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.
[MELTA]24.25
Melta weapons are powerful heat rays whose fury is magnified at close range.
This ability always takes the form [MELTA X]. Each time a model makes an attack with a [MELTA] weapon, if the target unit was within half range of that weapon in the Select Targets step, until the attacking unit’s attacks have been resolved, add X to that weapon’s D characteristic.Example: A model targets a unit that is within half range of a [MELTA 2] weapon with a D characteristic of D6. While resolving those attacks, that weapon has a D characteristic of D6+2.
SCULPTING THE STAGE
1CP
Exhibition of Slaughter Stratagem
Gauche are the gladiators who kill too relentlessly. Preparing the stage with a variety of torments in order to build the tension for a delightful crescendo is the mark of a true artist.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, when a friendly WYCH CULT unit is selected to make an advance/fall-back move.
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: That move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to start an action.
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: That move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to start an action.
ACROBATIC DISPLAY
1CP
Exhibition of Slaughter Stratagem
Moving so quickly they seem to blur, the Wyches evade incoming fire with contemptuous elegance.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly WYCH CULT unit.
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has 5+ InSv.
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has 5+ InSv.
PLANNED STRIKES
1CP
Exhibition of Slaughter Stratagem
Murderous rehearsals ensure that those who survive can bring down the most resilient of prey in puissant displays.
WHEN: Fight phase, when a friendly WYCH CULT unit is selected to fight.
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s melee attacks have [LETHAL HITS].
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s melee attacks have [LETHAL HITS].
PRETERNATURAL AGILITY
1CP
Spectacle of Spite – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Bounding and weaving, the Wyches cross the battlefield with unmatched acrobatic agility.
WHEN: Start of your Movement or Charge phase.
TARGET: One WYCH CULT unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, you can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic and to Advance and Charge rolls made for it and, until the end of the turn, each time a model in your unit makes such a move, it can move horizontally through models (when doing so, such a model can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end a Normal or Advance move within Engagement Range of them).
TARGET: One WYCH CULT unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, you can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic and to Advance and Charge rolls made for it and, until the end of the turn, each time a model in your unit makes such a move, it can move horizontally through models (when doing so, such a model can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end a Normal or Advance move within Engagement Range of them).
A CHALLENGE MET
2CP
Spectacle of Spite – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The foe's advance is not something to be wary of but rather an opportunity to be seized.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, when an enemy unit ends a fall-back move.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged WYCH CULT unit that is within 6" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Declare a charge with your unit. When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a fall-back move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged WYCH CULT unit that is within 6" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Declare a charge with your unit. When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a fall-back move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
ACROBATIC DISPLAY
1CP
Spectacle of Spite – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Moving so quickly they seem to blur, the Wyches evade incoming fire with contemptuous elegance.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One WYCH CULT 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 a 5+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One WYCH CULT 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 a 5+ invulnerable save.
BERSERK FUGUE
2CP
Spectacle of Spite – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The cult's gladiators enter a killing trance when combat is joined, allowing them to fight on through the most grievous hurts with undimmed ferocity.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One WYCH CULT 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.
TARGET: One WYCH CULT 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.
Exacting Cruelty
Exhibition of Slaughter Detachment
With long lives spent honing their murderous skills against the most powerful opponents, the renowned fighters of Commorragh’s arenas have an instinct for just where to strike to bring their prey low in the most painful and elegant manner possible.
Friendly WYCH CULT units’ melee attacks have [LETHAL HITS: non-MONSTER/VEHICLE].This detachment has the WYCH CULT tag and cannot be taken with another WYCH CULT detachment.