Leagues of Votann – Ûthar the Destined
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
| Volkanite disintegrator devastating wounds | |||||||
| Volkanite disintegrator devastating wounds | 24" | 3 | 2+ | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Blade of the Ancestors devastating wounds | |||||||
| Blade of the Ancestors devastating wounds | Melee | 5 | 2+ | 6 | -3 | 2 | |
ABILITIES
CORE: Leader
FACTION: Prioritised Efficiency
Ancestral Fortune: Once per turn, you can spend 1YP to change one Hit roll, one Wound roll or one saving throw made for this model to an unmodified 6.Grim Efficiency: Once per battle round, when a friendly LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit within 12“ of this model is targeted with a Stratagem, this model can use this ability. If it does, reduce the CP cost of that use of that Stratagem by 1CP.
WARGEAR ABILITIES
Rampart Crest: While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 1 Ûthar the Destined – EPIC HERO
| YOUR UNIT COSTS | |
| 1 model | 90 |
LEADER
This model can be attached to the following units:
KEYWORDS: INFANTRY; CHARACTER; EPIC HERO; KÂHL; ÛTHAR THE DESTINED
FACTION KEYWORDS:
LEAGUES OF VOTANN
LEAGUES OF VOTANN
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
EPIC CHALLENGE
1CP
Core
C
COUNTEROFFENSIVE
2CP
Core
C
BATTLEFIELD COMMAND
1CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
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
INEXORABLE EFFICIENCY
1CP
Brandfast Oathband – Strategic Ploy
VENGEANCE FLARE
2CP
Brandfast Oathband – Strategic Ploy
WEAVEWËRKE BUTTRESS
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy
UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy
MATERIALISATION MATRICES
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy
UNYIELDING AGGRESSION
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy
BRËKKEKNOTS
1CP
Hearthband – Battle Tactic
SUPERIOR CRAFTSMANSHIP
2CP
Hearthband – Battle Tactic
SURE OF PURPOSE
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy
GRAND ARTIFICE
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy
AUXILIARY CONTRACT
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy
PRIVATEER ARSENAL
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Wargear
OPTIMAL EXPENDITURE
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Wargear
NEW HORIZONS
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy
ORDERED RETREAT
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Strategic Ploy
VOID HARDENED
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Wargear
ANCESTRAL SENTENCE
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic
HUNTR’S MARK
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic
REACTIVE REPRISAL
2CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Strategic Ploy
HONOUR OF THE HOLD
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic
ADAPTABLE AVARICE
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy
CLAIMSTAKER REFLEX
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy
RANGER TACTICS
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Battle Tactic
DISPERSED FORMATION
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy
RELIC CYPHER
1CP
Void Salvagers – Strategic Ploy
CORRIDOR COVERED
1CP
Void Salvagers – Battle Tactic
JUDGED AND PUNISHED
1CP
Void Salvagers – Battle Tactic
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Methodical Annihilation
Martial Leverage
Assailed From Every Angle
Mobile Sensor Relays
Ruthless Reinvestment
Avatars of the Ancestors
Stalwart Advance
ENHANCEMENTS
Quake Multigenerator
15
High Kâhl
30
Mercenary Prospector
20
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
The EPIC HERO keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
The HERNKYN keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Dedicated Transports
Infantry
Mounted
Vehicle
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Battleline
The KAPRICUS keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Dedicated Transports
Vehicle
The LEAGUES OF VOTANN keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Battleline
Infantry
Mounted
Transport
Vehicle
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Transport
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Transport
Vehicle
[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).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.
[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
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.
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.
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).
Prioritised Efficiency
As the Kin truth describes, Luck has. Need keeps. Toil earns. The kinhost’s ability to efficiently switch its strategic footing embodies this wisdom. It results from swift assessments of a foe’s possessions, how best to seize them for the kindred’s need and then to stubbornly toil to hold them against counterattacks.
If your Army Faction is LEAGUES OF VOTANN, LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army have one of two abilities: Hostile Acquisition or Fortify Takeover (see below). During the battle, which ability those LEAGUES OF VOTANN units have will change depending on how many Yield points (YP) you currently have:
Hostile Acquisition
Fortify Takeover
Yield Points
At the end of each player’s Command phase, you gain 1YP if you control one or more objective markers within your deployment zone, and, from the second battle round onwards, you gain 1 additional YP for each of the following conditions you satisfy:
In your turn, YP gained in this way are always gained before checking which ability LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army have.
Whenever a rule allows you to spend YP, reduce the number of YP you have by that amount (your YP cannot go below 0), otherwise you cannot use that rule.
Designer’s Note: This means you can use rules that let you gain or spend YP to influence which ability your units have - Hostile Acquisition or Fortify Takeover - depending on which will be most beneficial to you. Remember that your army only changes ability at the end of your Command phase, so you will - sometimes need to plan ahead if you want your army to stay in or change ability.
- At the start of the battle, your units have Hostile Acquisition until the start of your next Command phase.
- At the end of your Command phase, if you have fewer than 7YP, your units have Hostile Acquisition until the start of your next Command phase.
- At the end of your Command phase, if you have 7YP or more, your units have Fortify Takeover until the start of your next Command phase.
Hostile Acquisition
- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit within range of one or more objective markers, add 1 to the Hit roll.
- You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for this unit.
Fortify Takeover
- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit, if this unit is within range of one or more objective markers you control, add 1 to the Hit roll.
- Each time an attack targets this unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than this unit’s Toughness characteristic and this unit is not a VEHICLE, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Yield Points
At the end of each player’s Command phase, you gain 1YP if you control one or more objective markers within your deployment zone, and, from the second battle round onwards, you gain 1 additional YP for each of the following conditions you satisfy:
- You control one or more objective markers not within your deployment zone.
- You control two or more objective markers not within your deployment zone.
- You control more objective markers than your opponent.
In your turn, YP gained in this way are always gained before checking which ability LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army have.
Whenever a rule allows you to spend YP, reduce the number of YP you have by that amount (your YP cannot go below 0), otherwise you cannot use that rule.
Designer’s Note: This means you can use rules that let you gain or spend YP to influence which ability your units have - Hostile Acquisition or Fortify Takeover - depending on which will be most beneficial to you. Remember that your army only changes ability at the end of your Command phase, so you will - sometimes need to plan ahead if you want your army to stay in or change ability.
Example: In her third turn, Freida’s units had the Hostile Acquisition ability, as she had 6YP at the end of her Command phase. In her fourth turn, at the end of her Command phase, she controls one objective marker within her deployment zone, and one objective marker not within her deployment zone, and her opponent controls two objective markers. Freida gains 2YP, so she now has 8YP, and her units now have the Fortify Takeover ability instead.
During her turn, Freida uses a Stratagem that allows her to spend YP. She spends 2YP, bringing her total down to 6YP. However, units from her army still have Fortify Takeover - it will only change if, at the end of her next Command phase, she still has fewer than 7YP.
During her turn, Freida uses a Stratagem that allows her to spend YP. She spends 2YP, bringing her total down to 6YP. However, units from her army still have Fortify Takeover - it will only change if, at the end of her next Command phase, she still has fewer than 7YP.
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).
[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 LEAGUES OF VOTANN and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Assailed From Every Angle
Persecution Prospect Detachment
The Kin of persecution prospects are skilled in escalating their attacks with unrelenting volleys of fire. They pressure the kindred’s foes repeatedly from infiltration positions, unleash enfilading fire from the flanks and surge forward to blaze away at point-blank range before manoeuvring swiftly to other attack angles. Besides the death and destruction they cause, the prospect’s forces leave foes disarrayed, with little chance to rally any ravaged survivors before other Kin capitalise on their plight.
LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army have the following ability:Guerrilla Adepts: In your Shooting phase, just after this unit is selected to shoot, this unit can use this ability. If it does, select one enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES). Until the end of the phase, attacks made by models in this unit can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target) and, after resolving those attacks, if one or more of those attacks hit that enemy unit, until the start of your next Shooting phase, that enemy unit is assailed (this simply labels that unit for the purposes of this ability and some Enhancements and Stratagems). If that unit is already assailed, until the start of your next Shooting phase, it is also pinned. While a unit is pinned, subtract 2" from its Move characteristic and subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for it.
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.
01.02.04 Not On The Battlefield
A unit that is embarked within a TRANSPORT or that is in strategic reserves is not on the battlefield. The following applies to such units:- That unit is not visible to any other units (units are visible to themselves).
- Any other unit is not visible to that unit.
- Players cannot measure distances to or from that unit (units are within range of their own abilities).
This means units not on the battlefield cannot be selected or targeted by any attack or rule that requires a unit to be visible or within a certain distance (other than their own abilities).
Such units can still use their other rules, and are still units in the controlling player’s army and so can be affected by rules that require a player to select a unit from an army, as well as rules that affect all units in an army.
The controlling player must make battle-shock rolls for units that are not on the battlefield in their Command phase if they are battle-shocked, or if they are at or below half-strength.
18.02 Embarking
Once the first battle round has started, a friendly unit can embark within a friendly TRANSPORT model after making a normal, advance or fall-back move, if all of the following conditions apply:- Each model in that unit is within 3" of that TRANSPORT.
- That unit was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
- That unit is eligible to embark within that TRANSPORT, as described on that TRANSPORT’s datasheet.
- That TRANSPORT has sufficient remaining transport capacity for each model in that unit.
When a unit embarks, the active player removes that unit from the battlefield and places it to one side – it is now embarked within that TRANSPORT and is not on the battlefield.
SEE ALSO
- Not on the Battlefield 01.02.04
The LEAGUES OF VOTANN and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Battleline
13.08 Benefit of Cover
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit, if every model in that unit meets one or more of the following conditions, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack:- That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area.
- That model is not fully visible to the attacking model due to one or more intervening terrain features and/or one or more intervening obscuring terrain areas (see below).
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit that has the benefit of cover against it, worsen the BS characteristic of that attack by 1.
STEALTH24.33
The stealthiest warriors can evade the attentions, and the bullets, of their foes.
If every model in a unit has this ability, each time a ranged attack targets that unit, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).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.
DEEP STRIKE24.09
There are many ways by which to deploy troops to the field of battle including tunnels, teleportation devices and other esoteric means of transportation.
Each time this unit makes an ingress move (20.04), if every model in this unit has this ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units, even if that is within your opponent’s deployment zone.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.
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.
The LEAGUES OF VOTANN and TRANSPORT keywords are used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Transport
The KÂHL keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
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.
CONSOLIDATION MOVE12.08
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: 3"
ELIGIBLE IF: It is the Fight phase and your unit was eligible to fight this phase.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select consolidation mode:
- Ongoing Consolidation:If your unit is engaged, you must select this mode and select every enemy unit it is engaged with.
- Engaging Consolidation:Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more enemy units, you must select this mode and select one or more of those enemy units.
- Objective Consolidation:Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more objectives, you must select this mode and select one of those objectives.
- Ongoing Consolidation:Models in base-contact with one or more enemy models cannot be moved. Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
- Engaging Consolidation:Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
- Objective Consolidation:Each model that is moved must end its move within range of the selected objective if possible, or closer to it if not.
- Ongoing Consolidation:Each model that started this move engaged with an enemy unit must still be engaged with that enemy unit.
- Engaging Consolidation:Your unit must be engaged with all of the selected enemy units. If one or more enemy units engaged with your unit have not been selected to fight this phase, your opponent must select each of those units, one at a time; when each is selected, it becomes eligible to fight and is selected to fight (12.04).
- Objective Consolidation:Your unit must be within range of the selected objective.
05.04.01 Current Allocation Group
The first group in the allocation order begins as the current group. Once all models in an allocation group are destroyed, the next group in the allocation order becomes the current one.
[PRECISION]24.28
Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd.
While resolving attacks made with one or more [PRECISION] weapons, at the start of the Allocation Order step (05.03), if the target unit contains one or more CHARACTER models visible to one or more of the attacking models, the active player can select one allocation group that contains one of those visible CHARACTER models. If they do, until those attacks are resolved, or until that CHARACTER group is destroyed (whichever happens first), that CHARACTER group is the current allocation group.[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).
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).
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
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.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.
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.
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).
[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.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.
INEXORABLE EFFICIENCY
1CP
Brandfast Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With the wealth of sensor-wrought information they can access, the Kin can efficiently adapt fighting withdrawals into deadly counterattacks.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.
VENGEANCE FLARE
2CP
Brandfast Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With a narrow-band data burst, those of an oathband who have been wronged can call in the devastating vengeance of their armoured support.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit that was hit by one or more of those attacks.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Select one friendly KAPRICUS or SAGITAUR unit within 6" of your INFANTRY unit. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, you can select one friendly HEKATON LAND FORTRESS unit within 6" of your INFANTRY unit instead. The selected unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase. When doing so, models in the selected unit can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit that was hit by one or more of those attacks.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Select one friendly KAPRICUS or SAGITAUR unit within 6" of your INFANTRY unit. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, you can select one friendly HEKATON LAND FORTRESS unit within 6" of your INFANTRY unit instead. The selected unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase. When doing so, models in the selected unit can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
WEAVEWËRKE BUTTRESS
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Every dêlve is threaded with force fields to shield against catastrophe, a protection that can be tapped in battle to support advances into hostile territory.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets, if units from your army have Hostile Acquisition.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With their enemies within reach, the Kin’s fury and momentum become an elemental force that will not be stayed.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Piles In or Consolidates, each model in that unit can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Piles In or Consolidates, each model in that unit can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".
MATERIALISATION MATRICES
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Built to a superior standard using secrets imparted by the Votann, the teleporters employed by this Hearthband can stabilise rematerialisation fields remarkably close to the foe.
WHEN: The Reinforcements step of your Movement phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that is in Reserves and has the Deep Strike ability.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when your unit is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that is in Reserves and has the Deep Strike ability.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when your unit is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
UNYIELDING AGGRESSION
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Even should they be compelled to pull back momentarily, the warriors of the Hearthband maintain a punishing curtain of fire to erode the enemy further or rally swiftly and drive back into the fight.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army Falls Back.
TARGET: That LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY 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.
TARGET: That LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY 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.
SUPERIOR CRAFTSMANSHIP
2CP
Hearthband – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Not only are the finest of the Kindred’s warriors selected for this duty, but they are also equipped with the best weaponry and wargear the Brôkhyr can produce.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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 that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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 that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that attack.
SURE OF PURPOSE
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The single-minded advance of the Kin rolls over collapsing enemy lines and exploits every fault and weakness, driving on towards the objective.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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".
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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".
GRAND ARTIFICE
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Unfazed by deception where it serves a practical use, Kin privateers willingly effect a seemingly ragged retreat only to turn back into the fight from a more advantageous position the moment they are clear of the mire of foes.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army Falls Back.
TARGET: That LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
TARGET: That LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
AUXILIARY CONTRACT
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Mercenary Kin are no strangers to working more than one seam of wealth at once, and extra contracts to slay or capture individuals or to gather specific trophies can be highly profitable.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY or LEAGUES OF VOTANN MOUNTED 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.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY or LEAGUES OF VOTANN MOUNTED 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.
PRIVATEER ARSENAL
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Wargear Stratagem
Confident their use will turn the tide, the Kin draw on personal caches of munitions, power cells bearing the signatures of acclaimed Brôkhyr or heirloom augurs to unleash a potent fusillade into the foe.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this usage of this Stratagem, you can re-roll the Hit roll and re-roll a Wound roll of 1 instead.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this usage of this Stratagem, you can re-roll the Hit roll and re-roll a Wound roll of 1 instead.
OPTIMAL EXPENDITURE
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Wargear Stratagem
By expending energy reserves, the Kin’s close-quarter weapons thrum with forgewrought power. The allotment of such resources sees their wielders determined to make every blow strike true.
WHEN: The Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this usage of this Stratagem, you can re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll the Wound roll instead.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this usage of this Stratagem, you can re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll the Wound roll instead.
NEW HORIZONS
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Efficient and eager to stake their next claim, the Kin are ready to board their transports at a moment’s notice to reach fresh prizes.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that is not within Engagement range of one or more enemy units and one friendly TRANSPORT it is able to embark within.
EFFECT: If your LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that is not within Engagement range of one or more enemy units and one friendly TRANSPORT it is able to embark within.
EFFECT: If your LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.
ORDERED RETREAT
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Not for the Kin the sudden panic of the rout. Instead, they fall back steadily and by squads, laying down suppressing fire while preparing fresh assaults.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army Falls Back.
TARGET: That LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
TARGET: That LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
VOID HARDENED
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Wargear Stratagem
Between their resilient armour and technology and their capacity to stoically endure pain and suffering, the Kin can weather devastating attacks.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets, if units from your army have Fortify Takeover.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
ANCESTRAL SENTENCE
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Some foes are so loathed that their ancestors are told to pass a sentence upon them. Marked for death, these enemies suffer the undiluted wrath of the Kin.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability instead.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability instead.
HUNTR’S MARK
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Sensor-network calibration tied to the HunTR modules on Kin weaponry can portly automate targeting to ensure the uncompromising judgement of the Votann is carried out without fail.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
REACTIVE REPRISAL
2CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Once prizes have been seized, the Kin focus their efforts upon maximising their control and respond with redoubled fury to attempts to loosen their grip.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot, if units from your army have Fortify Takeover.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army 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, can only target that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army 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, can only target that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
HONOUR OF THE HOLD
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A kinhost's warriors take great pride in their combat proficiency as a symbol of their hold’s honour. The drive to cleave their foes apart is given greater impetus in pursuit of their kindred's needs.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a melee attack that targets that enemy unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 2 instead.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a melee attack that targets that enemy unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 2 instead.
CLAIMSTAKER REFLEX
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The instinct to seize the most advantageous and dominating positions is ingrained in the Kin.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army (excluding ARTILLERY and VEHICLE units) that is within 8" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6". If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6" instead.
RESTRICTIONS: A unit cannot embark within a TRANSPORT as part of this move.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army (excluding ARTILLERY and VEHICLE units) that is within 8" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6". If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6" instead.
RESTRICTIONS: A unit cannot embark within a TRANSPORT as part of this move.
RANGER TACTICS
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Foes thrown into disarray by the Hernkyn offer a vulnerability that is swiftly exploited.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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, if that attack targets an assailed unit and/or if your unit has the HERNKYN keyword, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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, if that attack targets an assailed unit and/or if your unit has the HERNKYN keyword, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
DISPERSED FORMATION
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
A prospect's warriors will efficiently scatter to minimise the threat of concerted enemy fire.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY or LEAGUES OF VOTANN MOUNTED 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 has the Stealth ability and each time a ranged attack targets your unit, models in your unit have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY or LEAGUES OF VOTANN MOUNTED 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 has the Stealth ability and each time a ranged attack targets your unit, models in your unit have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
RELIC CYPHER
1CP
Void Salvagers – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The Kin possess the accumulated knowledge of their ancestors, including ancient cyphers that enable them to seize control of cogitational systems.
WHEN: Your Command phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway on the battlefield and open it.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway on the battlefield and open it.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
CORRIDOR COVERED
1CP
Void Salvagers – Battle Tactic Stratagem
As their allies push forwards, Kin squads train their guns down darkened corridors, preparing to repel unexpected ambushes.
WHEN: Your opponent's Movement or Charge phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
JUDGED AND PUNISHED
1CP
Void Salvagers – Battle Tactic Stratagem
To draw the ire of the Kin is to invite a swift and brutal death.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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, if the target has 1 or more Judgement tokens, you can re-roll the Hit roll, and if the target has 2 Judgement tokens, you can re-roll the Wound roll as well.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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, if the target has 1 or more Judgement tokens, you can re-roll the Hit roll, and if the target has 2 Judgement tokens, you can re-roll the Wound roll as well.
Methodical Annihilation
Hearthband Detachment
With their minds entirely focused on the singular mission with which they have been charged, the Kin work to blast a path through the enemy lines with the same tenacity as a Brôkhyr beating metal or a Cthonian miner splitting bedrock.
Each time a LEAGUES OF VOTANN model from your army makes an attack with a weapon that targets the closest eligible target or a target that is within Engagement Range of that model’s unit:- Re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
- If your unit is a KÂHL, EINHYR HEARTHGUARD or ÛTHAR THE DESTINED unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Martial Leverage
Needgaârd Oathband Detachment
The weighing of costs in Kin lives and materiel expended against prospective material benefits is an instinct amongst kinhost commanders. Those who lead needgaârd oathbands leverage the deaths of their foes into these equations at every opportunity. Crushing the enemy’s soldiery and war engines can shift the balance of martial power, enabling a canny commander to spend the advantage it provides elsewhere.
Each time an enemy unit is destroyed, you gain 1YP.Mobile Sensor Relays
Brandfast Oathband Detachment
The massed armoured transports of a brandfast oathband connect to an encrypted data network shared by squads of Kin. Their robust sensor webs broadcast various targeting information and extrapolated judgements on enemy movements. Nearby warriors can tap into this wealth of data, enabling them to unleash salvoes of lethal efficiency.
LEAGUES OF VOTANN TRANSPORT units from your army have the following ability:Firebase Control (Aura): While a friendly LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit is wholly within 6" of this TRANSPORT, ranged weapons equipped by models in that INFANTRY unit have the [sustained hits 1] ability.
Ruthless Reinvestment
Mercenary Oathband Detachment
Kin mercenaries are notoriously frugal and ungenerous in the spending of resources to fulfil their employers’ needs. They are nonetheless acquisitively motivated. Where it benefits them, they will not hesitate to spend ammunition, energy, information or any other resource secured in advance from their paymasters if doing so will reap prizes of greater value.
Your LEAGUES OF VOTANN units do not have the Hostile Acquisition or Fortify Takeover abilities except as described in this rule. At the start of the battle, your LEAGUES OF VOTANN units have the Hostile Acquisition ability. At the end of your Command phase, you can spend 3YP. If you do, LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army lose the Hostile Acquisition ability and gain the Fortify Takeover ability, or vice versa.Stalwart Advance
Void Salvagers Detachment
The Kin proceed with steadfast determination, exterminating all resistance and securing decks one at a time. Aggressively yet methodically, resistance is swept aside.
In your Shooting phase, each time a LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army has shot, if one or more enemy units were destroyed by those attacks and that LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 3" and can then attempt to operate a Hatchway.
BRËKKEKNOTS
1CP
Hearthband – Battle Tactic Stratagem
These micro shield generators, worked into warrior jewellery or armour crests, trigger on command to provide short-lived boosted protection.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One KÂHL, ÛTHAR THE DESTINED or EINHYR HEARTHGUARD 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 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One KÂHL, ÛTHAR THE DESTINED or EINHYR HEARTHGUARD 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 4+ invulnerable save.
Avatars of the Ancestors
Hearthguard Covenant Detachment
Shouldering the greatest responsibility for achieving victory, the elites of the Hearthband fight hardest of all to defeat and destroy their foes.
Friendly KÂHL/EINHYR CHAMPION/EINHYR HEARTHGUARD/ÛTHAR THE DESTINED units’ ranged attacks that target a unit within 9" can re-roll wound rolls of 1.This detachment has the
EPIC CHALLENGE15.03
1CP
Core Stratagem
The legends of the 41st millennium are replete with deadly duels between mighty champions.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after a friendly CHARACTER unit is selected to fight.
TARGET: That CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Select one CHARACTER model in your unit. Until the end of the phase, that model’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] ability.
TARGET: That CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Select one CHARACTER model in your unit. Until the end of the phase, that model’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] ability.
LEADER24.22 / SUPPORT24.23
Mighty heroes fight at the forefront of battle.
Before the battle, in the Muster Armies step, for each leader and support unit in your army, you can select one friendly bodyguard unit that unit can lead. That unit will then lead that bodyguard unit for the battle and form an attached unit with it.Unless otherwise stated, each bodyguard unit can only have one leader unit and one support unit attached to it.
BATTLEFIELD COMMAND
1CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The commander's authoritative tone cuts through the din of battle, guiding the actions of nearby troops.
WHEN: Start or end of any phase.
TARGET: One Leader unit from your army and one friendly Bodyguard unit within 6" of it that it could normally be attached to.
EFFECT: Select one of your Leader unit’s Leader abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Bodyguard unit is treated as being led by that Leader unit for the purposes of that Leader ability.
RESTRICTIONS: Once you target a unit with this Stratagem, that unit cannot be targeted with it again until your next Command phase.
TARGET: One Leader unit from your army and one friendly Bodyguard unit within 6" of it that it could normally be attached to.
EFFECT: Select one of your Leader unit’s Leader abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Bodyguard unit is treated as being led by that Leader unit for the purposes of that Leader ability.
RESTRICTIONS: Once you target a unit with this Stratagem, that unit cannot be targeted with it again until your next Command phase.
ADAPTABLE AVARICE
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
When opportunity catches the eye of a prospect's commander, they will readily resume a rapid and aggressive footing.
WHEN: Start of any phase, if units from your army have Fortify Takeover.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN CHARACTER unit from your army.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend any number of YP. Once you have done so, if you have 6 or fewer YP, until the start of your next turn, units from your army have Hostile Acquisition instead.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN CHARACTER unit from your army.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend any number of YP. Once you have done so, if you have 6 or fewer YP, until the start of your next turn, units from your army have Hostile Acquisition instead.
LEADER24.22
Mighty heroes fight at the forefront of battle.
Before the battle, in the Muster Armies step, for each leader and support unit in your army, you can select one friendly bodyguard unit that unit can lead. That unit will then lead that bodyguard unit for the battle and form an attached unit with it.Unless otherwise stated, each bodyguard unit can only have one leader unit and one support unit attached to it.
The KÂHL keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Hearthband Detachment
Extremely rare and costly to manufacture, this darkstar-powered coil enables a weapon to initiate tremendously powerful reverberations.
KÂHL model only. In your Shooting phase, after the bearer has shot, select one enemy unit (excluding TITANIC units) hit by one or more of those attacks. 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.
Hearthband Detachment
This warrior’s value is only too well known by their comrades. Those Kin sworn to defend them will fight to their last breath rather than fail in this duty.
KÂHL model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit is destroyed by a melee attack, if it has not fought this phase, roll one D6: 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.
Mercenary Oathband Detachment
The most renowned military commanders of mercenary oathbands are swift to capitalise on the death and destruction of their foes. Whether tangible assets or a strategic benefit, to ignore such prizes would be to dishonour the ancestors.
KÂHL model only. Each time an enemy unit is destroyed by the bearer’s unit, gain 2YP.