Maggotkin of Nurgle
Nurgle is the Chaos God of plagues, whose power waxes strong when disease and despair ravage the Mortal Realms. Though he is a source of fear and revulsion to his enemies, Nurgle is a perversely paternal god, generous with his foul gifts and proud of his worshippers’ every disgusting achievement.
This page contains all of the rules you need to field your Maggotkin of Nurgle miniatures on the battlefields of the Mortal Realms, from a host of exciting faction rules to a range of warscrolls. The rules are split into the following sections:Books
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Show History | ||||
| Book | Kind | Edition | Last update | |
 Maggotkin of Nurgle | ||||
| Maggotkin of Nurgle | Battletome | 4 | January 2026 | |
 Legends Warscrolls | ||||
| Legends Warscrolls | Warscroll | 4 | October 2026 | |
 Battle Profiles | ||||
| Battle Profiles | Rulebook | 4 | October 2026 | |
| Rules Updates | ||||
| Rules Updates | Rulebook | 4 | October 2026 | |
| Regiments of Renown | ||||
| Regiments of Renown | Warscroll | 4 | October 2026 | |
| Spearhead: Maggotkin of Nurgle - Bubonic Cell | ||||
| Spearhead: Maggotkin of Nurgle - Bubonic Cell | Expansion | 4 | September 2026 | |
 Sons of Behemat | ||||
| Sons of Behemat | Battletome | 4 | September 2026 | |
 Scourge of Aqshy - Maggotkin of Nurgle | ||||
| Scourge of Aqshy - Maggotkin of Nurgle | Expansion | 4 | July 2026 | |
 Hedonites of Slaanesh | ||||
| Hedonites of Slaanesh | Battletome | 4 | June 2026 | |
| Spearhead: Maggotkin of Nurgle - Bleak Host | ||||
| Spearhead: Maggotkin of Nurgle - Bleak Host | Expansion | 4 | April 2026 | |
 Disciples of Tzeentch | ||||
| Disciples of Tzeentch | Battletome | 4 | February 2026 | |
 Grotmas Advent: Regiments of Renown | ||||
| Grotmas Advent: Regiments of Renown | Warscroll | 4 | September 2025 | |
 Helsmiths of Hashut | ||||
| Helsmiths of Hashut | Battletome | 4 | September 2025 | |
 Blades of Khorne | ||||
| Blades of Khorne | Battletome | 4 | July 2025 | |
 Cities of Sigmar | ||||
| Cities of Sigmar | Battletome | 4 | July 2025 | |
 Scourge of Ghyran - Maggotkin of Nurgle | ||||
| Scourge of Ghyran - Maggotkin of Nurgle | Expansion | 4 | May 2025 | |
 Slaves to Darkness | ||||
| Slaves to Darkness | Battletome | 4 | December 2024 | |
 Skaven | ||||
| Skaven | Battletome | 4 | September 2024 | |
Designers’ Commentary
FAQ
| Q: | If one of the WAR MACHINES in the Curse-Steel Battery has been destroyed, can the ‘Display of Total Power’ ability be used? |
| A: | Yes. |
Battletome: Slaves to Darkness
| Q: | Can a Daemon Prince from the Godmarked Ascendant Regiment of Renown be given enhancements? |
| A: | Yes. In Army Composition 3.5 it states that a unit cannot use faction rules (including enhancements) unless they have a keyword that matches up with the faction’s name. Since the Godmarked Ascendant Regiment of Renown adds such a keyword, that unit is eligible to be given enhancements. |
Battletome: Blades of Khorne
| Q: | Does the ‘Blood-drenched’ ability have any effect on Skarbrand in The Exiled One Regiment of Renown? |
| A: | No. That ability is a Blades of Khorne battle trait and so will have no effect on a unit in a Regiment of Renown. |
Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle
| Q: | When using the ‘Contagious Catarrh’ ability, can you pick 0 Mire Kelpies? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | Does the ‘Desperate Remedies’ ability remove the DISEASED keyword from an undamaged unit? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | If a unit within 3" of a plague progenitor picked as the target of the ‘Spread’ effect of the ‘Blessed by the Plaguefather’ ability has the DISEASE keyword, would D3 mortal damage still be inflicted upon it from that ‘Plague Progenitor’ effect? |
| A: | Yes |
| Q: | If you have picked 1 or more Mire Kelpies when using the ‘Contagious Catarrh’ ability and roll a 1, are those Mire Kelpies removed from the unit. |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | If plague progenitor would heal in the first battle round, can it remove disease instead? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | When resolving the ‘Wracked with Disease’ ability and a diseased enemy unit would be destroyed by the mortal damage inflicted by that ability, triggering the effect of the ‘Burst Pustules’ ability, do I finish resolving the effects of ‘Wracked with Disease’ before resolving the effects of ‘Burst Pustules’? |
| A: | Yes, as model removal occurs after an ability has been resolved. |
| Q: | Can DISEASED units that are in reserve (for example if they have been placed in reserve from the battlefield by the Disciples of Tzeentch ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ ability) be picked as a target of the ‘Wracked with Disease’ ability? |
| A: | No. |
Faction Rules
Battle Traits
Maggotkin of Nurgle armies can use the following abilities:
 Your Hero Phase |
BLIGHTED REGROWTH: Feculent Gnarlmaws burst forth from contaminated lands like pus from a rotting wound.
Declare: You can use this ability if there are no friendly Feculent Gnarlmaws on the battlefield.
Effect: Set up a Feculent Gnarlmaw on the battlefield wholly within 12" of an objective you control and more than 3" from all enemy units, objectives and other terrain features.
Effect: Set up a Feculent Gnarlmaw on the battlefield wholly within 12" of an objective you control and more than 3" from all enemy units, objectives and other terrain features.
| Once Per Turn (Army), End of Any Turn |
BLESSED BY THE PLAGUEFATHER: Each of the Maggotkin is a walking vector of disease, a willing incubator for maladies that ravage the body and spirit with horrific virulence.
Effect: Pick 1 of the following effects:
Infect: Pick an enemy unit within 7" of any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units to be the target. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature.
Spread: Pick a DISEASED enemy unit to be the target. Each other enemy unit within the target’s combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, has the DISEASED keyword.
Mutate: If all enemy units on the battlefield, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, have the DISEASED keyword, inflict 1 mortal damage on each of them.
Infect: Pick an enemy unit within 7" of any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units to be the target. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature.
- If the target is in combat with any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units, it has the DISEASED keyword.
- If the target is not in combat with any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units, roll a dice. On a 4+, the target has the DISEASED keyword.
Spread: Pick a DISEASED enemy unit to be the target. Each other enemy unit within the target’s combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, has the DISEASED keyword.
Mutate: If all enemy units on the battlefield, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, have the DISEASED keyword, inflict 1 mortal damage on each of them.
 Once Per Turn (Army), End of Any Turn |
WRACKED WITH DISEASE: The Maggotkin wage war with weeping wounds and pustulant boils as well as with rusted weapons.
Declare: Pick each DISEASED enemy unit to be the targets.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on each target.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on each target.
| Once Per Turn (Army), End of Any Turn |
CEASELESS INFECTORS: Upon their deaths, Rotbringers’ bodies will purge their ‘gifts’, infecting those nearby and ensuring the continued propagation of Nurgle’s diseases.
Declare: Pick an enemy unit that was in combat with a friendly ROTBRINGERS unit that was destroyed this turn to be the target. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 3+, the target has the DISEASED keyword.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 3+, the target has the DISEASED keyword.
| Passive |
BURST PUSTULES: As blighted flesh is pierced and hewn, quivering boils erupt, showering all with Nurgle’s glistening gifts.
Effect: Each time a DISEASED enemy unit is destroyed, before the last model in the unit is removed from play, roll a dice. On a 3+, pick another enemy unit within 9" of that model to be the target. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature. The target has the DISEASED keyword.
| Passive |
DESPERATE REMEDIES: When fighters are afflicted with the plagues of Nurgle, all efforts must be made to stem the spread of those diseases.
Effect: If an ability would heal or return slain models to a DISEASED enemy unit, that ability does not heal or return any slain models to it. Instead, it no longer has the DISEASED keyword.
FAQ
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| Q: | Does the ‘Desperate Remedies’ ability remove the DISEASED keyword from an undamaged unit? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | When resolving the ‘Wracked with Disease’ ability and a diseased enemy unit would be destroyed by the mortal damage inflicted by that ability, triggering the effect of the ‘Burst Pustules’ ability, do I finish resolving the effects of ‘Wracked with Disease’ before resolving the effects of ‘Burst Pustules’? |
| A: | Yes, as model removal occurs after an ability has been resolved. |
| Q: | Can DISEASED units that are in reserve (for example if they have been placed in reserve from the battlefield by the Disciples of Tzeentch ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ ability) be picked as a target of the ‘Wracked with Disease’ ability? |
| A: | No. |
Battle Formations
You can pick 1 of the following battle formations for a Maggotkin of Nurgle army. Each battle formation grants a different ability you can use in the battle.
Tallyband of Nurgle
| Once Per Battle (Army), Deployment Phase |
PLAGUE PROGENITOR: Simply to be in the presence of this unwitting pathogen incubator is to see one’s body ravaged by disease.
Declare: Pick an enemy unit on the battlefield to be the plague progenitor for the rest of the battle. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature.
Effect: Roll 2D3. On a 6, or if the roll equals or exceeds the plague progenitor’s Health characteristic, it has the DISEASED keyword.
In the first battle round, if an ability would heal or return any slain models to a DISEASED plague progenitor, that ability does not heal any damage points or return any slain models to it.
Each time the plague progenitor is picked to be the target of the ’Spread’ effect of the ‘Blessed by the Plaguefather’ ability, inflict D3 mortal damage on each other enemy unit within its combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, in addition to the effect of that ability.
Effect: Roll 2D3. On a 6, or if the roll equals or exceeds the plague progenitor’s Health characteristic, it has the DISEASED keyword.
In the first battle round, if an ability would heal or return any slain models to a DISEASED plague progenitor, that ability does not heal any damage points or return any slain models to it.
Each time the plague progenitor is picked to be the target of the ’Spread’ effect of the ‘Blessed by the Plaguefather’ ability, inflict D3 mortal damage on each other enemy unit within its combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, in addition to the effect of that ability.
FAQ / Errata
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FAQ
| Q: | If a unit within 3" of a plague progenitor picked as the target of the ‘Spread’ effect of the ‘Blessed by the Plaguefather’ ability has the DISEASE keyword, would D3 mortal damage still be inflicted upon it from that ‘Plague Progenitor’ effect? |
| A: | Yes |
| Q: | If plague progenitor would heal in the first battle round, can it remove disease instead? |
| A: | No. |
Errata
Tallyband of Nurgle, Plague Progenitor
Change the second paragraph of the effect to:
‘In the first battle round, if an ability would heal or return any slain models to a DISEASED plague progenitor, that ability does not heal any damage points or return any slain models to it.'
‘In the first battle round, if an ability would heal or return any slain models to a DISEASED plague progenitor, that ability does not heal any damage points or return any slain models to it.'
Plague Cyst
 Passive |
VECTORS OF CONTAGION: These Nurglites are empowered by the presence of plague daemons.
Effect: Add 5 to the control scores of friendly non-HERO ROTBRINGERS units while they are wholly within 12" of any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE DAEMON units.
Heroic Traits
Avatars of Corruption
HERO only End of Any Turn |
GRANDFATHER’S BLESSING: This mighty Nurglite is so diseased that they are rejuvenated by decay and plague.
Effect: If this unit is in combat with a DISEASED enemy unit, Heal (D3) this unit.
| Any Combat Phase |
GIFT OF FEBRILE FRENZY: This general can invigorate their usually sluggish minions by releasing a fever upon them that drives them into a wild delirium.
Declare: Pick a visible friendly non-HERO MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE unit that is wholly within 12" of this unit to be the target.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 3+, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the target’s melee weapons for the rest of the turn.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 3+, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the target’s melee weapons for the rest of the turn.
| Any Combat Phase |
OVERPOWERING STENCH: This general exudes an odour so wretched that even Nurgle’s daemons cannot adequately describe it. Enemies recoil, choking on their own vomit at the slightest whiff, rendered speechless as their senses are overwhelmed.
Declare: Pick an enemy unit in combat with this unit to be the target.
Effect: You and your opponent must roll off. If your roll is higher, pick 1 of the following effects to apply for the rest of the turn:
Effect: You and your opponent must roll off. If your roll is higher, pick 1 of the following effects to apply for the rest of the turn:
- Ignore positive modifiers to save rolls for the target.
- Subtract 1 from ward rolls for the target.
Grandfather’s Gifts
HERO only| Once Per Battle, Any Combat Phase |
LIVING PLAGUE: As this hero slams into the foe, they spread Nurgle’s potent gifts of contagion.
Declare: If this unit charged this turn, pick an enemy unit in combat with it to be the target.
Effect: The target has the DISEASED keyword.
Effect: The target has the DISEASED keyword.
| Passive |
UNCTUOUS PREACHER: Even this hero’s brethren consider them to be far too enthusiastic in their preachings of Grandfather Nurgle’s blessings.
Effect: If this unit is not a PRIEST, it has PRIEST (1). If this unit is already a PRIEST, add 1 to chanting rolls for this unit.
| Any Charge Phase |
CORPULENT AVALANCHE: As this hulk’s momentum builds, its bulk becomes nothing less than a blubbery, pus-filled battering ram.
Declare: If this unit charged this turn, pick a visible enemy unit within 1" of it to be the target.
Effect: Roll a number of dice equal to this unit’s Move characteristic. For each 3+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target.
If any damage points were allocated to the target by this ability, this unit can move 2D3". It can move through the combat ranges of enemy units but must end that move in combat with the units it was already in combat with at the start of the move.
Effect: Roll a number of dice equal to this unit’s Move characteristic. For each 3+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target.
If any damage points were allocated to the target by this ability, this unit can move 2D3". It can move through the combat ranges of enemy units but must end that move in combat with the units it was already in combat with at the start of the move.
Artefacts of Power
Boons of Nurgle
HERO only| Any Combat Phase |
THE WITHERSTAVE: Carved from the heartwood of a tormented Treelord, the Witherstave thrums with a soured mockery of the Sylvaneth spirit-song. Those that hear it feel a terrible weakness shiver their limbs as a jarring dirge of despair clouds their minds.
Declare: Pick an enemy unit that charged this turn and is in combat with this unit to be the target.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 3+, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of the target’s melee weapons for the rest of the turn.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 3+, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of the target’s melee weapons for the rest of the turn.
| Once Per Battle, Any Hero Phase |
THE CARRION DIRGE: When blown, this filth-encrusted horn shrieks with the tongues of seven hundred and seventy-seven carrion crows. Those outside Nurgle’s favour who hear it are struck with a deep despondency. Why stand defiant? Why seek victory? Why do anything at all?
Declare: Pick up to 3 enemy units within 18" of this unit to be the targets.
Effect: Subtract 5 from each target’s control score for the rest of the turn.
Effect: Subtract 5 from each target’s control score for the rest of the turn.
| Any Combat Phase |
RUSTFANG: Rustfang is a cursed battleaxe whose blade crawls with a thick layer of sentient corrosion. The slightest touch of this blade spreads its blight, chewing away the foe’s defences in moments.
Declare: Pick an enemy HERO or MONSTER in combat with this unit to be the target.
Effect: Subtract 1 from save rolls for the target for the rest of the turn.
Effect: Subtract 1 from save rolls for the target for the rest of the turn.
Spell Lore
Lore of Malignance
| Your Hero Phase | 6 |
FLESHY ABUNDANCE: The sorcerer generously bestows a growth spurt of the most repulsive kind upon their allies, causing their bodies to bloat with great wobbling mounds of grey-green fat.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE WIZARD to cast this spell, pick a visible friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE unit wholly within 12" of them to be the target, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: Pick 1 of the following effects:
Effect: Pick 1 of the following effects:
- Heal (D3) the target.
- Subtract 1 from wound rolls for attacks that target that friendly unit until the start of your next turn.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL, UNLIMITED |
| Your Hero Phase | 6 |
CRIPPLING DESPAIR: With a sweep of their hand, the sorcerer imbues upon their victim with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness that renders them oblivious to their surroundings.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE WIZARD to cast this spell, pick a visible enemy unit within 18" of them to be the target, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: The target cannot use commands for the rest of the turn.
Effect: The target cannot use commands for the rest of the turn.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
 Your Hero Phase | 7 |
CLOYING QUAGMIRE: The sorcerer thrusts their hands into the soil, causing the ground beneath their enemies to putrefy into a sucking, grasping quagmire.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE WIZARD to cast this spell, pick a visible enemy unit within 18" of them to be the target, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn:
Effect: Until the start of your next turn:
- Halve the target’s Move characteristic.
- If the target’s Save characteristic is 3+ or better, subtract 1 from run rolls and charge rolls for the target.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
Plaguefather’s Poxes
Plaguefather’s Poxes are unique enhancements that can be given to non-HERO MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units.
A unit can only have 1 Plaguefather’s Pox.
| Any Hero Phase |
SNUGGLING SICKNESS: Pathologically affectionate, these Nurglites envelop their foes in near-immobilising hugs.
Declare: Pick an enemy unit in combat with this unit to be the target.
Effect: For the rest of the turn:
Effect: For the rest of the turn:
- Each time the target uses a RETREAT ability, if it is in combat with this unit, roll 2D6 as a reaction and add the target’s Control characteristic to the roll. On an 8+, that RETREAT ability has no effect.
- The target cannot be removed from the battlefield by an ability that would allow it to be set up elsewhere on the battlefield or in reserve.
| Passive |
CHUCKLING MURRAIN: These cheerful Nurglites are afflicted with a minor variant of the Chortling Murrain; to be near them is to see one’s anger dissipate into snorting giggles.
Effect: Your opponent must spend 1 additional rage dice for a unit to use the ‘Eruption of Fury’ ability while it is in combat with this unit.
When resolving the damage sequence for enemy units in combat with this unit, each time your opponent would spend rage dice as part of the ‘Fight Through the Pain’ ability, they must spend 1 additional rage dice.
In both cases, that additional dice does not count towards the number of rage dice spent for the purposes of the ability.
When resolving the damage sequence for enemy units in combat with this unit, each time your opponent would spend rage dice as part of the ‘Fight Through the Pain’ ability, they must spend 1 additional rage dice.
In both cases, that additional dice does not count towards the number of rage dice spent for the purposes of the ability.
| Passive |
THE WEEPING FLUX: These Nurglites constantly secrete liberal amounts of noxious ooze from their pores. The ‘splashback’ from landing a telling blow against them is highly injurious to health.
Effect: Each time a model in this unit is slain by a combat attack, roll a number of dice equal to this unit’s Health characteristic. For each 6, inflict 1 mortal damage on the attacking unit.
Prayer Lore
Lore of Virulence
| Your Hero Phase | 3 |
GIFT OF DISEASE: The priest licks an oozing sore, savouring the tangy flavour of a ripe contagion, before coughing a phlegmy litany that wreathes them and their allies in a pain-inuring ague.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIEST to chant this prayer, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, subtract 1 from wound rolls for attacks made by enemy units while they are in combat with the chanter. In addition, if the chanting roll was 10+, each enemy unit in combat with the chanter, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, has the DISEASED keyword.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, subtract 1 from wound rolls for attacks made by enemy units while they are in combat with the chanter. In addition, if the chanting roll was 10+, each enemy unit in combat with the chanter, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, has the DISEASED keyword.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER, UNLIMITED |
| Your Hero Phase | 4 |
FAVOURED POXES: With an overwide grin, the priest generously anoints some unwilling victims with a slew of debilitating contagions.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible enemy unit within 18" of the chanter to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, subtract 2 from charge rolls for the target. If the chanting roll was 10+, until the start of your next turn, subtract 1 from the number of dice rolled when making charge rolls for the target, to a minimum of 1, instead.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, subtract 2 from charge rolls for the target. If the chanting roll was 10+, until the start of your next turn, subtract 1 from the number of dice rolled when making charge rolls for the target, to a minimum of 1, instead.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
| Your Hero Phase | 4 |
BLOATED WITH SICKNESS: The priest hawks a glob of green-black mucus into their palm, leaving fat, writhing parasites in their grasp. With a swift clench of their fist, they grant their followers a putrefying resilience.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible friendly non-MONSTER MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE unit wholly within 12" of the chanter to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, ignore the first damage point that would be allocated to the target in each phase. If the chanting roll was 10+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, ignore the first damage point that would be allocated to the target in each phase. If the chanting roll was 10+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
Bendictions of Sickness
| Your Hero Phase | 3 |
INFECTIOUS SURGE: As the power of Nurgle waxes, his followers gain the momentum of a spreading pandemic.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE unit wholly within 12" of them to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Add 2" to the target’s Move characteristic for the rest of the turn. In addition, if the chanting roll was 6+, for the rest of the turn, the target can use CHARGE abilities even if it used a RETREAT ability in the same turn.
Effect: Add 2" to the target’s Move characteristic for the rest of the turn. In addition, if the chanting roll was 6+, for the rest of the turn, the target can use CHARGE abilities even if it used a RETREAT ability in the same turn.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER, UNLIMITED |
| Your Hero Phase | 3 |
AGONISING VOMITING: Presaged by a deep rumble within their distended guts, the priest belches forth a deluge of thick, corrosive vomit.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible enemy unit within 18" of them to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Roll 7 dice. If the chanting roll was 6+, add 2 to each roll. For each 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target.
Effect: Roll 7 dice. If the chanting roll was 6+, add 2 to each roll. For each 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
| Your Hero Phase | 3 |
FROTHING MUCUS: The priest blesses their kin with a rancid layer of protective slime.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE unit wholly within 12" of them to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, the Charge (+1 Damage) weapon ability has no effect on combat attacks that target the target. If the chanting roll was 6+, weapon abilities other than the Companion weapon ability have no effect instead.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, the Charge (+1 Damage) weapon ability has no effect on combat attacks that target the target. If the chanting roll was 6+, weapon abilities other than the Companion weapon ability have no effect instead.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
Benedictions of Sickness
| Your Hero Phase | 3 |
FEBRILE ADVANCE: Burning up with fever, the priest’s kin dive headlong into the fray in a twitching rush.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE unit wholly within 12" of them to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: If the chanting roll was 6+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target. Until the start of your next turn, add 3" to the distance each target can move when making pile-in moves.
Effect: If the chanting roll was 6+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target. Until the start of your next turn, add 3" to the distance each target can move when making pile-in moves.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER, UNLIMITED |
| Your Hero Phase | 5 |
BLUNTING BLIGHT: The priest ‘improves’ their foe’s weapons, corroding their nasty sharp edges and dulling their horridly glinting points.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible enemy unit within 18" of them to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: If the chanting roll was 10+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target. Until the start of your next turn, the targets’ attacks cannot score critical hits (treat them as regular hits instead).
Effect: If the chanting roll was 10+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target. Until the start of your next turn, the targets’ attacks cannot score critical hits (treat them as regular hits instead).
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
| Your Hero Phase | 4 |
AGONISING VOMITING: Presaged by a deep rumble within their distended guts, the priest belches forth a deluge of thick, corrosive vomit.
Declare: Pick a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible enemy unit within 18" of them to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Roll 7 dice. If the target is DISEASED, add 1 to each roll. If the chanting roll was 7+, add 1 to each roll. For each 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target.
Effect: Roll 7 dice. If the target is DISEASED, add 1 to each roll. If the chanting roll was 7+, add 1 to each roll. For each 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
Army of Renown
Cycle of Corruption
It is through his mortal Rotbringers that the Plague God first expands his influence. Their creed is to poison everything, thereby extending the borders of the Garden of Nurgle, the Grandfather’s domain in the Realm of Chaos. Crops are ruined, livestock sickened and settlements left decaying. From this foulness can new, horrific life grow, the land fertile with burgeoning rot. This is the cycle of corruption, an ever-churning gyre of collapse and grisly rebirth, through which Nurgle’s whispers can take root.
When you pick the Maggotkin of Nurgle faction for your army, you can choose for it to be a Cycle of Corruption Army of Renown. If you do so, use the faction rules on these pages instead of the Maggotkin of Nurgle faction rules. Every unit in your army must be drawn from the units listed in the roster options below. All units in your army gain the CYCLE OF CORRUPTION keywordROSTER OPTIONS
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Battle Traits
| Once Per Battle Round (Army), Start of Battle Round |
REVOLUTION AND REVULSION: Nurgle’s power and blessings follow a never-ending cycle of fecundity and decay.
Declare: You must use this ability at the start of each battle round.
Effect: If it is the first battle round, roll a dice to determine which CYCLE ability is ripe for the rest of the battle round.
1 ‘Unnatural Vitality’
2 ‘Fecund Vigour’
3 ‘Burgeoning Filth’
4 ‘Plague of Misery’
5 ‘Nauseous Revulsion’
6 ‘Rampant Disease’
7 ‘Corrupted Regrowth’
If it is not the first battle round, the next CYCLE ability in the sequence is ripe for the rest of the battle round. If the 'Corrupted Regrowth' ability was ripe last battle round, the 'Unnatural Vitality' ability is ripe this battle round.
You can only use a CYCLE ability if it is ripe. Only 1 CYCLE ability is ripe each battle round.
Effect: If it is the first battle round, roll a dice to determine which CYCLE ability is ripe for the rest of the battle round.
1 ‘Unnatural Vitality’
2 ‘Fecund Vigour’
3 ‘Burgeoning Filth’
4 ‘Plague of Misery’
5 ‘Nauseous Revulsion’
6 ‘Rampant Disease’
7 ‘Corrupted Regrowth’
If it is not the first battle round, the next CYCLE ability in the sequence is ripe for the rest of the battle round. If the 'Corrupted Regrowth' ability was ripe last battle round, the 'Unnatural Vitality' ability is ripe this battle round.
You can only use a CYCLE ability if it is ripe. Only 1 CYCLE ability is ripe each battle round.
| Passive |
UNNATURAL VITALITYEffect: Friendly non-MONSTER CYCLE OF CORRUPTION HEROES have WARD (4+).
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
| Once Per Turn (Army), Your Hero Phase |
FECUND VIGOUREffect: Heal (D3) each friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION unit.
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
| Passive |
BURGEONING FILTHEffect: Subtract 3 from the control scores of enemy units while they are in combat with any friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION units.
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
| Passive |
PLAGUE OF MISERYEffect: While enemy units are within 12" of any friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION units, they cannot use abilities that heal or return slain models to a unit.
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
| Passive |
NAUSEOUS REVULSIONEffect: Subtract 1 from charge rolls for enemy units.
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
| Passive |
RAMPANT DISEASEEffect: Melee weapons used by friendly non-HERO CYCLE OF CORRUPTION units have Crit (2 Hits).
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
| Once Per Turn (Army), Your Hero Phase |
CORRUPTED REGROWTHEffect: Heal (7) each friendly Feculent Gnarlmaw.
If there are no friendly Feculent Gnarlmaws on the battlefield, you can set up a Feculent Gnarlmaw on the battlefield more than 9" from all enemy units and more than 3" from all objectives and other terrain features.
If there are no friendly Feculent Gnarlmaws on the battlefield, you can set up a Feculent Gnarlmaw on the battlefield more than 9" from all enemy units and more than 3" from all objectives and other terrain features.
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
Spell Lore
| Your Hero Phase | 7 |
EPIDERMAL CRUSTITIS: The caster grins widely as their skin hardens into a crusty layer.
Declare: Pick a friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION WIZARD to cast this spell, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of melee weapons used for attacks that target the caster.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of melee weapons used for attacks that target the caster.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL, UNLIMITED |
 Your Hero Phase | 6 |
RANK AND VILE: Slain foes are festooned with disease only to rise again amidst the Nurglite ranks.
Declare: Pick a friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION WIZARD to cast this spell, pick a visible enemy INFANTRY unit within 18" of them to be the target, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, each time a model in the target unit is slain, after removing it from the battlefield, roll a dice. On a 4+, return 1 slain model to a friendly non-HERO CYCLE OF CORRUPTION INFANTRY unit within 6" of the target.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, each time a model in the target unit is slain, after removing it from the battlefield, roll a dice. On a 4+, return 1 slain model to a friendly non-HERO CYCLE OF CORRUPTION INFANTRY unit within 6" of the target.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
| Your Hero Phase | 6 |
SPITTLEDRAIN: The wizard coughs up a expanding wad of corrosive phlegm to spit at the foe.
Declare: Pick a friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION WIZARD to cast this spell, pick a visible enemy unit within 12" of them to be the target, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: Subtract 1 from the target’s Move characteristic until the start of your next turn. Then, roll a number of dice equal to the number of models in the target unit. For each 6, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target, to a maximum of 7.
Effect: Subtract 1 from the target’s Move characteristic until the start of your next turn. Then, roll a number of dice equal to the number of models in the target unit. For each 6, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target, to a maximum of 7.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
Prayer Lore
| Your Hero Phase | 4 |
BACTERIAL BLESSING: The priest blesses their comrades’ weapons with colonies of bacteria.
Declare: Pick a friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION unit wholly within 12" of them to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, add 1 to wound rolls for the target’s combat attacks. If the chanting roll was 7+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, add 1 to wound rolls for the target’s combat attacks. If the chanting roll was 7+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER, UNLIMITED |
| Your Hero Phase | 5 |
EVER TURNING: The priest beseeches Nurgle to bestow his gifts upon his Rotbringer followers.
Declare: Pick a friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION PRIEST to chant this prayer, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: The next CYCLE ability in the sequence is ripe for the rest of the battle round instead of the current CYCLE ability. If the chanting roll was 12+, you can pick which CYCLE ability is ripe.
Effect: The next CYCLE ability in the sequence is ripe for the rest of the battle round instead of the current CYCLE ability. If the chanting roll was 12+, you can pick which CYCLE ability is ripe.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
| Your Hero Phase | 4 |
VIRULENT AGONIES: The priest calls forth a painful, nerve-burning malady to blight their foes.
Declare: Pick a friendly CYCLE OF CORRUPTION PRIEST to chant this prayer, pick a visible enemy unit within 18" of them to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Inflict 1 mortal damage on the target. Then, inflict 1 mortal damage on each other enemy unit within the target’s combat range. If the chanting roll was 7+, inflict D3 mortal damage on the target instead of 1.
Effect: Inflict 1 mortal damage on the target. Then, inflict 1 mortal damage on each other enemy unit within the target’s combat range. If the chanting roll was 7+, inflict D3 mortal damage on the target instead of 1.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
Army of Renown
The Gardeners of Nurgle
Hailed as the Grand Cultivator, Horticulous Slimux is responsible for maintaining the foetid majesty of the Garden of Nurgle and for spreading its fecundity across the Mortal Realms. This is no mean feat, for it is an expansive domain and ever in need of his meticulous attention. Whether tilling fields of withered corpse-flesh or pruning the orchards of rotwood trees to encourage fresh growth, he leaves no patch of the Garden untended.
When you pick the Maggotkin of Nurgle faction for your army, you can choose for it to be the Gardeners of Nurgle Army of Renown. If you do so, use the faction rules on these pages instead of the Maggotkin of Nurgle faction rules. Every unit in your army must be drawn from the units listed in the roster options below. All units in your army gain the GARDENERS OF NURGLE keyword.ROSTER OPTIONS
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Battle Traits
| Once Per Turn (Army), Your Hero Phase |
THE GARDEN GROWS: The tendrils of decay reach ever outwards to find fresh places of purity to contaminate.
Effect: Set up a Feculent Gnarlmaw on the battlefield more than 3" from all enemy units, objectives and other terrain features.
| Once Per Turn (Army), Your Movement Phase |
TRANSPLANTING: The most proficient of Nurgle’s gardeners can coax a Feculent Gnarlmaw to their side.
Declare: Pick a friendly Feculent Gnarlmaw to be the target.
Effect: Remove the target from the battlefield and set it up again within 3" of a friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE HERO and more than 3" from all enemy units, objectives and other terrain features.
Effect: Remove the target from the battlefield and set it up again within 3" of a friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE HERO and more than 3" from all enemy units, objectives and other terrain features.
| Once Per Battle (Army), Your Movement Phase |
HEAD GARDENER: The daemon responsible for tending the Garden has no equal in the propagation of its blighted orchards.
Effect: The friendly Horticulous Slimux can use his ‘Cultivating the Garden of Nurgle’ ability this phase even if there are 1 or more friendly Feculent Gnarlmaws on the battlefield.
| Once Per Turn (Army), Your Combat Phase |
PUTRESCENT SAP: Vile black fluid oozes from bark-sores and withered tree limbs.
Declare: Pick each enemy unit within 3" of any friendly Feculent Gnarlmaws to be the targets.
Effect: Roll a D3 for each target. On a 2+, inflict an amount of mortal damage on the target equal to the roll.
Effect: Roll a D3 for each target. On a 2+, inflict an amount of mortal damage on the target equal to the roll.
| Passive |
FOUL FAUNA: The creatures that inhabit the Garden of Nurgle are ebullient monstrosities…
Effect: Add 2" to the Move characteristic of friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE Beasts of Nurgle and Plague Drones units while they are wholly within 6" of any friendly Feculent Gnarlmaw.
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SICKLY SORES: The blighted seeds released by the Feculent Gnarlmaws invigorate those who tend the Garden.
Effect: While a friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE INFANTRY unit is wholly within 12" of a friendly Feculent Gnarlmaw, ignore the first damage point that would be allocated to it in each phase.
Heroic Traits
(HERO only)| Passive |
FOETID ORCHARDIST: Those who tend the copses of Feculent Gnarlmaws will fight vigorously to protect their arboreal charges.
Effect: Add 1 to hit rolls for this unit’s combat attacks while it is wholly within 7" of any friendly Feculent Gnarlmaws.
Artefacts of Power
(HERO only)| Once Per Battle, Your Movement Phase |
STINKING SPORESEED: Chewed by blackened teeth, this seed is ripe with putrescence. Once planted, it germinates into a pestilential bloom of magnificent proportions.
Effect: Set up a Feculent Gnarlmaw within 3" of this unit and more than 3" from all enemy units, objectives and other terrain features.
Spell Lore
| Your Hero Phase | 7 |
MUNIFICENT BLIGHTS: This pestilential rite makes the Garden even more generous with gifts for its guests.
Declare: Pick a friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE WIZARD to cast this spell, pick a visible enemy unit within 18" of them to be the target, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, add 1 to the amount of mortal damage inflicted on the target by the ‘Putrescent Sap’ ability.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, add 1 to the amount of mortal damage inflicted on the target by the ‘Putrescent Sap’ ability.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL, UNLIMITED |
| Your Hero Phase | 7 |
SCUMFALL: With murmured incantation, the caster coaxes forth a scummy dust from Nurgle’s orchards to blanket his followers in an obfuscating cloud.
Declare: Pick a friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE WIZARD to cast this spell, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE units that are wholly within 12" of a friendly Feculent Gnarlmaw are not visible to units more than 9" away.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE units that are wholly within 12" of a friendly Feculent Gnarlmaw are not visible to units more than 9" away.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
| Your Hero Phase | 7 |
CANOPY OF VIRULENCE: Those who labour in the shadow of Nurgle’s orchards are empowered by this arcane rite.
Declare: Pick a friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE WIZARD to cast this spell, pick a visible friendly GARDENERS OF NURGLE unit wholly within 12" of them to be the target, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, while the target is wholly within 12" of any friendly Feculent Gnarlmaws, ward rolls cannot be made for enemy units in combat with the target.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, while the target is wholly within 12" of any friendly Feculent Gnarlmaws, ward rolls cannot be made for enemy units in combat with the target.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
PATH TO GLORY
Here, you will find additional rules to use with a Maggotkin of Nurgle army while playing through a Path to Glory campaign. The Path to Glory content in this book is divided into two parts: the Anvil of Apotheosis and Paths for Maggotkin of Nurgle units.
The Anvil of Apotheosis
You can have 1 Anvil of Apotheosis hero on your Order of Battle and/ or army roster, unless otherwise specified in the battlepack you are using. They can be your warlord.
There are 7 steps to follow to create your hero:
1.Set a destiny point limit.
2.Fill out the starting warscroll.
3.Choose an Archetype.
4.Pick your hero’s origin and/or flaw.
5.Choose a Battle Mount.
6.Pick any Battle Mount Upgrades.
7.Pick any other upgrades.
There are 7 steps to follow to create your hero:
1.Set a destiny point limit.
2.Fill out the starting warscroll.
3.Choose an Archetype.
4.Pick your hero’s origin and/or flaw.
5.Choose a Battle Mount.
6.Pick any Battle Mount Upgrades.
7.Pick any other upgrades.
Your Hero's WarscrollYou can download a blank warscroll from warhammer-community.com on which to record all of your hero’s details. | ||
| The Anvil of Apotheosis is a hero creator. Using the rules in this section, you can create a custom warscroll for a Hero to use in your Path to Glory campaign. This can represent any miniature of your choosing, including one you have lovingly kitbashed or converted. After the Anvil of Apotheosis, you will find 2 Paths for Maggotkin of Nurgle units. These follow the rules outlined for Paths in the Path to Glory battlepack you are using (e.g. Path to Glory: Ascension in the Core Book). | ||
Step 1 - Set a Destiny Point Limit
The Anvil of Apotheosis uses a currency called destiny points. First, you need to set a destiny point limit. This will determine how many destiny points you have to spend on your hero, what type of hero they will be and what their battle profile points cost will be.Pick 1 of the following:
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Over the next few steps, you will pick options for your hero. Each option has a destiny point cost, abbreviated as DP. Keep a record of the number of destiny points you have spent. You cannot exceed the limit you have set.
Revolting Acolyte -0DP
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Priest of Corruption -4DP
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Infected Warrior -4DP
In addition, change your hero’s Health characteristic to 7, change their Save characteristic to 3+ and replace their melee weapon with the following:
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Plague Daemon -4DP
In addition, replace your hero’s melee weapon with the following:
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Tainted Mage -4DP
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Sorcerer of Sickness -6DP
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Step 4 - Pick Your Hero's Origin And/Or Flaw
You can pick up to 1 origin and up to 1 flaw for your hero. Each adds an ability to your hero’s warscroll. However, instead of costing destiny points, flaws give you extra destiny points to spend elsewhere.Origins
DISTENDED GUT: This bloated warrior is so immense that they almost resemble one of the Grandfather’s favoured greater daemons.
SCABROUS SECOND HIDE: This warrior is covered head to foot in a thick, scaly layer of diseased tissue that acts as a form of natural protection.
PROJECTILE VOMITER: Guts audibly churning, this warrior ejects a revolting spume of half-digested matter onto their enemies.
ROOTED IN BLIGHTED SOIL: This warrior seeds pestilence into the earth itself. When they stand their ground, they are all but inured to harm by their swelling pathogens. | ||||||||||||||||||
Passive Battle Mount -5DP ROT FLY: This insectoid horror is a fitting mount for a champion of decay, striking swiftly on putrid wings before lunging with its venomous mandibles and stinger. In addition, make the following changes to your hero’s warscroll:Add the following weapon to your hero’s warscroll:
Battle Mount -15DP POX MAGGOTH: Only true paragons of contagion ride hulking pox maggoths to war. To be blessed with such a monstrous beast is a potent mark of Nurgle’s favour. In addition, make the following changes to your hero’s warscroll:Add the following weapon and ability to your hero’s warscroll:
BATTLE DAMAGEDEffect: While this unit has 10 or more damage points, the Attacks characteristic of its Pox Maggoth’s Claws is 3.
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Pox Maggoth’s ClawsStep 6 - Pick any Battle Mount Upgrades
If your hero has a Battle Mount, you can pick any number of Battle Mount Upgrades for them. The same upgrade cannot be picked more than once.
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Step 7 - Pick any Other Upgrades
Pick any number of other upgrades for your hero. The same upgrade cannot be picked more than once.
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Path of Rancidity(MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE HERO only)ASPIRING: When a unit on this Path gains this rank, pick 1 of the following abilities for them:
BLOATED AND BRUTAL: This Nurglite is a disease-swollen monstrosity with incredible strength.
FOUL STENCH: A stinking fug envelops this hero.
IRREPRESSIBLE MOMENTUM: This flushed warrior lurches into battle in a feverish frenzy.
OOZY: There is no escaping this hero’s caustic ooze.
AFFLICTED IN ARMS: The diseases spread by this hero maintain a strange link to their originator. Effect: For the rest of the battle, each time the target uses a command, after resolving that command or the ability it was a reaction to, Heal (D3) this unit.
VISCOUS PHLEGM: Spitting forth slimy mucus, this warrior binds their enemies in stringy matter. Effect: Roll a dice. On a 3+, subtract 3 from charge rolls for the target for the rest of the turn.
RISEN FROM DISEASE: Sickness invigorates this hero. Even death has no hold over them. Effect: You and your opponent must roll off. Add the targets Control characteristic to your roll and add the incubator’s Control characteristic to your opponent’s roll. If your roll equals or exceeds your opponent’s, set up a replacement unit for the target with 4 damage points allocated to it within 3" of the incubator. Then, if your roll is at least double your opponent’s, the incubator is automatically destroyed.
THE FOULNESS THAT LURKS WITHIN: This hero harbours an unnameable contagion that slows the body and makes limbs leaden. Effect: The targets have STRIKE-LAST for the rest of the turn. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Path of the Foetid Disciples(non-HERO MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE unit only)ASPIRING: When a unit on this Path gains this rank, pick 1 of the following abilities for them:
REPULSIVE GRINS: It is hard to concentrate on complex tasks when faced with rows of wormy teeth.
MILDEW-ENCRUSTED: Coated in a foul, fungal growth, these warriors are surprisingly resilient.
LOATHSOME FORTITUDE: Virulent and untiring, these warriors are dogged in their pursuit of claiming territory.
HORRIFIC MUTATIONS: Protruding horns and gnashing maws enhance these warriors’ lethality. Effect: Roll a dice. On a 2-5, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target. On a 6, inflict 2 mortal damage on the target.
CONTAGIOUS TO LIVING MAGIC: The taint of these warriors even affects the arcane.
REEK OF MEDIOCRITY: Even legendary weapons are rendered depressingly mundane when they strike the clammy grey hides of these moribund warriors.
GRASPING TENTACLES: These warriors possess multiple writhing, slime-slick tendrils. Effect: Roll 2D6. If the roll equals or exceeds the target’s Move characteristic, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of this unit’s melee weapons for the rest of the turn.
MIMETIC PARASITES: The parasites that infest these warriors writhe into life when nearby foes make a concerted effort, imbuing their hosts with the same determination and vigour. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bleak Host
The Plague God’s Bleak Hosts travel the length and breadth of the realms, ensuring his servants are spreading his virulent blessings. Under the strict command of their daemonic leader, known as a Spoilpox Scrivener, they shamble into battle to overwhelm their foes, couched in clouds of flies and the stench of decay. The tang of despair drives the swing of their weapons and widens their rictus grins ever further.
Though the Spoilpox Scrivener is a harsh taskmaster, the tactics they employ are wickedly effective. Pusgoyle Blightlords are sent ahead to break enemy lines, scything through formations of foot soldiers as their Rot Flies drive diseased stingers and fangs into any that dare approach. By the time these bloated behemoths are forced back, it is too late to stymie the shuffling waves of Plaguebearers. Each daemon is nightmare vision of what awaits the victims of Nurgle’s Rot, surrounded by swarms of insects and brandishing a sword ridden with supernaturally virulent diseases. Alongside them march the Blightkings, mortals swollen with the Grandfather’s blessings. Each can withstand tremendous punishment to their corpulent forms whilst swinging weapons with enough strength to crush their foes utterly. The Spoilpox Scrivener hangs back to direct the heaving masses, but woe betide those who draw near, for they are struck down by the tallymaster’s distended maw.
Though the Spoilpox Scrivener is a harsh taskmaster, the tactics they employ are wickedly effective. Pusgoyle Blightlords are sent ahead to break enemy lines, scything through formations of foot soldiers as their Rot Flies drive diseased stingers and fangs into any that dare approach. By the time these bloated behemoths are forced back, it is too late to stymie the shuffling waves of Plaguebearers. Each daemon is nightmare vision of what awaits the victims of Nurgle’s Rot, surrounded by swarms of insects and brandishing a sword ridden with supernaturally virulent diseases. Alongside them march the Blightkings, mortals swollen with the Grandfather’s blessings. Each can withstand tremendous punishment to their corpulent forms whilst swinging weapons with enough strength to crush their foes utterly. The Spoilpox Scrivener hangs back to direct the heaving masses, but woe betide those who draw near, for they are struck down by the tallymaster’s distended maw.
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Maggotkin of Nurgle, Bleak Host
Change the final sentence of the effect of ‘Nurgle’s Embrace’ to: ‘On a 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on that unit (you can pick the same unit more than once).'
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Battle Traits
THE INFECTIOUS HOSTS
The Maggotkin’s advance across the realms is akin to the creeping spread of a disease across the body of its host.
One of your Pusgoyle Blightlords and one of your Plaguebearers units are not set up during the deployment phase. Instead, from the third battle round onwards, they can use the Daemonic Summoning ability.| Your Movement Phase |
DAEMONIC SUMMONING: The scions of Nurgle enter the battlefield through rifts torn in reality.
Effect: Set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield more than 6" from all enemy units.
| KEYWORDS | CORE |
| Passive |
DISEASED: Each of the Maggotkin is a walking vector of diseases that ravage both body and spirit.
Effect: Each time an attack made by a friendly model scores a critical hit, you receive 1 disease point, to a maximum of 7.
| End of Any Turn |
NURGLE'S EMBRACE: The Grandfather’s generosity proves overwhelming for many…
Effect: Spend any number of your disease points. For each disease point you spend, pick an enemy unit that is in combat with any of your units and roll a dice. On a 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on that unit (you can pick the same unit more than once).
Regiment Abilities
Pick 1 of the following regiment abilities.| Once Per Phase, Your Hero Phase |
LOCUS OF FECUNDITY: Nurgle bestows a blessing of bountiful regrowth upon his children.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit.
Effect: Heal (D3) that unit.
Effect: Heal (D3) that unit.
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INFESTED WITH WONDERS: These foul warriors invite the most horrific and repulsive diseases into their flesh, and they cannot wait to share them.
Effect: Each time a friendly model is slain, before it is removed from play, you can pick an enemy unit within 1" of it and roll a dice. On a 4+, inflict 1 mortal damage on that unit.
Enhancements
Give your general 1 of the following enhancements.| End of Any Turn |
SUMMONER OF PLAGUEBEARERS: Channelling a link to the Realm of Chaos, the Spoilpox Scrivener brings forth more minions.
Declare: Pick a friendly Plaguebearers unit wholly within 14" of your general.
Effect: Return 1 slain model to that unit.
Effect: Return 1 slain model to that unit.
 Your Shooting Phase |
PESTILENT BREATH: This Spoilpox Scrivener has breath so foul that it can stun a full-grown rhinox.
Declare: Pick an enemy unit within 7" of your general and roll a dice for each model in that unit.
Effect: For each 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on that unit.
Effect: For each 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on that unit.
| Your Movement Phase |
GARDENER OF NURGLE: This daemon seeks to expand the borders of Nurgle’s Garden.
Declare: If your general is contesting an objective not contested by any enemy models, roll a dice.
Effect: On a 3+, that objective is considered by you to be desecrated. Friendly units have WARD (4+) while they are contesting a desecrated objective. If your opponent gains control of a desecrated objective, it is no longer desecrated.
Effect: On a 3+, that objective is considered by you to be desecrated. Friendly units have WARD (4+) while they are contesting a desecrated objective. If your opponent gains control of a desecrated objective, it is no longer desecrated.
| Once Per Battle, Any Combat Phase |
GIFT OF FEBRILE FRENZY: A reeking miasma rises around the daemon Herald that drives nearby followers into a wild delirium.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons used by friendly units while they are wholly within 7" of your general.
Warscrolls
4" 5 5+ 2 5+ Spoilpox Scriveners keep a strict watch over the tallying of the Plaguebearers. Under their shrewd tri-eyed gaze, no daemon dares neglect their plague-counting duties. Though the Scriveners prefer to command from a distance, enemies that stray too close will find their heads and limbs bitten off by the Scrivener’s trunklike maw. The Scriveners are woefully allergic to the stuff of reality, which fouls their mood constantly. Fortunately for Nurgle’s followers, however, the daemons’ sneezes can blanket foes in layers of rancid, highly corrosive mucus. | ||
| RANGED WEAPONS | Rng | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Disgusting Sneezes [Shoot in Combat] | ||||||||
| Disgusting Sneezes Shoot in Combat | 7" | D6 | 2+ | 4+ | - | 1 | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | |||
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| Distended Maw | 3 | 4+ | 3+ | 1 | 2 | |||
| Your Hero Phase |
KEEP COUNTING, I'M WATCHING YOU: Spoilpox Scriveners are responsible for making sure that the Plaguebearers of the tallybands do not shirk their duties
Declare: Pick a friendly Plaguebearers unit wholly within 14" of this unit to be the target.
Effect: Pick 1 of the following. The effect lasts until the start of your next turn.
Tally of Blows: Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the target unit’s melee weapons.
Recorded Stamina: Add 1 to save rolls for the target unit.
Effect: Pick 1 of the following. The effect lasts until the start of your next turn.
Tally of Blows: Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the target unit’s melee weapons.
Recorded Stamina: Add 1 to save rolls for the target unit.
KEYWORDS | HERO, INFANTRY, WARD (5+) |
4" 2 6+ 1 5+ Plaguebearers trudge to battle amidst the drone of flies’ wings and endless counting. These daemons tally the diseases unleashed upon the realms, all the while stabbing and hacking at their enemies with filthy plagueswords. Each one is born of the soul of a mortal killed by Nurgle’s Rot, a debilitating disease that decays both the spirit and body until the sufferer dies an agonisingly slow death. After feeding on their despair in life, the Plague God accepts their souls into his Garden in death, remaking them as pus-ridden daemons swathed in clouds of fat-bodied flies. | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Plaguesword [Crit (Mortal)] | |||||||
| Plaguesword Crit (Mortal) | 1 | 4+ | 3+ | - | 1 | ||
| Passive |
CLOUD OF FLIES: Plaguebearer tallybands are surrounded at all times by blinding swarms of daemon-flies.
Effect: Subtract 1 from hit rolls for shooting attacks that target this unit.
KEYWORDS | INFANTRY, WARD (5+) |
4" 3 3+ 1 5+ Putrid Blightkings carve their way forwards with slime-encrusted blades, hammers and axes. Their bloated, rotting bodies can absorb tremendous punishment, allowing them to drive relentlessly through the foe’s battleline as they sow lethal disease and crippling despair alike. They are paragons of despair, having their origins as not only warriors but also apothecaries and philosophers who became obsessed with the futility of existence. Their all-consuming need to spread disease and despondency has earned them Nurgle’s favour, and in return, their swollen, plague-ridden frames have become all but immune to pain. | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Blighted Weapon | |||||||
| Blighted Weapon | 4 | 3+ | 3+ | 1 | 1 | ||
| End of Any Turn |
RELENTLESS ATTACKERS: Blightkings grind through the battlelines of lesser foes, shattering their morale and hacking down the stunned survivors with contemptuous ease.
Declare: Pick an enemy INFANTRY unit in combat with this unit to be the target and roll a dice for each model in this unit that is within the target unit’s combat range.
Effect: For each roll that exceeds the target’s Health characteristic, inflict 1 mortal damage on it.
Effect: For each roll that exceeds the target’s Health characteristic, inflict 1 mortal damage on it.
KEYWORDS | INFANTRY, WARD (5+) |
8" 8 4+ 2 5+ Elite Rotbringers mounted atop horrific daemon-beasts, Pusgoyle Blightlords thrum ahead of their kindred to sow panic and death as the linebreakers of the diseased host. Their crushing tocsins and whistling scythes make short work of any who would slow the spread of decay. Should enemies survive such a diseased onslaught, they will find themselves impaled upon the stingers of horrifying Rot Flies. The pact made between Pusgoyle and Rot Fly strengthens the daemon’s connection to the mortal plane, allowing them to exist indefinitely beyond the boundary of Nurgle’s Garden while the accord stands. | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Blighted Scythe | |||||||
| Blighted Scythe | 3 | 3+ | 3+ | 2 | 1 | ||
| Rot Fly’s Mouthparts and Sting [Companion] | |||||||
| Rot Fly’s Mouthparts and Sting Companion | 6 | 4+ | 2+ | - | 1 | ||
| Any Charge Phase |
WRACK AND RUIN: Mortal Maggotkin who ride Rot Flies act as brutal linebreakers, using their sheer bulk to smash enemy formations asunder.
Declare: If this unit charged this phase, pick an enemy unit within 1" of it to be the target and roll a dice.
Effect: On a 2+, inflict D3 mortal damage on the target.
Effect: On a 2+, inflict D3 mortal damage on the target.
KEYWORDS | CAVALRY, FLY, WARD (5+) |
Bubonic Cell
In exchange for his bountiful gifts, Papa Nurgle asks very little of his followers. He wishes only that they venture out into the realms and propagate his virulent Garden. All Maggotkin readily take up this task, but few do so with as much gusto and abandon as the Bubonic Cells.
Led by a Rotbringer Sorcerer, a Bubonic Cell will travel far and wide to bring contagion and decay to lands untouched by disease. Particularly ebullient and mischievous daemons are included in this foul assemblage, wrenched from the depths of the Grandfather’s domain through defiling rituals. These unnatural creatures are bound to the sorcerer who summons them and will gleefully infest any territory, no matter how remote. Mortal cultists are often drawn to these diseased hordes, warriors of the Rotmire Creed hoping to glean some pestilential knowledge to enhance the potency of their poisons. Inhospitable swamps are especially favoured; the daemons do so relish splashing around and spreading their innate filth, whilst the cultists see these mires as places soon to become their natural habitat.
Led by a Rotbringer Sorcerer, a Bubonic Cell will travel far and wide to bring contagion and decay to lands untouched by disease. Particularly ebullient and mischievous daemons are included in this foul assemblage, wrenched from the depths of the Grandfather’s domain through defiling rituals. These unnatural creatures are bound to the sorcerer who summons them and will gleefully infest any territory, no matter how remote. Mortal cultists are often drawn to these diseased hordes, warriors of the Rotmire Creed hoping to glean some pestilential knowledge to enhance the potency of their poisons. Inhospitable swamps are especially favoured; the daemons do so relish splashing around and spreading their innate filth, whilst the cultists see these mires as places soon to become their natural habitat.
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SPEARHEAD, BUBONIC CELL
Add the REINFORCEMENTS keyword to the Rotmire Creed’s warscroll.
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Battle Traits
CYCLE OF CORRUPTION
If it is the first battle round, roll a dice to determine which CYCLE ability can be used this battle round. If you roll a 5 or 6, roll again.If it is not the first battle round, the next CYCLE ability in the sequence is used this battle round instead of any previous CYCLE abilities.
| Passive |
NUMBERLESS PESTS: The Nurglites are obscured by flies.
Effect: Subtract 1 from hit rolls for attacks that target friendly units.
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
| Passive |
NAUSEOUS REVULSION: These revolting warriors are too hideous to gaze upon for too long.
Effect: Subtract 1 from charge rolls for enemy units.
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
| Passive |
PLAGUE OF MISERY: A pall of despair covers the battlefield.
Effect: While enemy units are within 6" of any friendly units, they cannot use abilities that heal or return slain models to a unit.
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
| Passive |
BURGEONING FILTH: Nurgle’s followers grow bolder as their infestations multiply.
Effect: Subtract 3 from the control scores of enemy units while they are in combat with any friendly units.
| KEYWORDS | CYCLE |
Regiment Abilities
Pick 1 of the following regiment abilities.| Once Per Turn (Army), End of Your Turn |
CORRUPTION OF THE LAND: The mere presence of Nurgle’s followers sees the land defiled.
Declare: Pick a terrain feature, then roll a dice for each enemy unit within 3" of that terrain feature.
Effect: On a 4+, inflict D3 mortal damage on that enemy unit.
Effect: On a 4+, inflict D3 mortal damage on that enemy unit.
| Once Per Battle, Enemy Hero Phase |
PUTREFIED GROUND: The earth bubbles and liquefies beneath the enemy’s feet.
Effect: For the rest of the turn:
- Subtract 1 from the Move characteristic of enemy units.
- Subtract 1 from run rolls for enemy units.
Enhancements
Give your general 1 of the following enhancements.| Passive |
UNNATURAL VITALITY: Disease may have ravaged this mage’s form, but somehow they never seem to succumb to it.
Effect: Your general has WARD (4+).
| Once Per Battle, Any Combat Phase |
GASEOUS EMANATION: The sorcerer releases a vile cloud of gas that chokes their enemies.
Declare: Pick an enemy unit within your general’s combat range to be the target.
Effect: The target has STRIKE-LAST for the rest of the turn.
Effect: The target has STRIKE-LAST for the rest of the turn.
| Passive |
SUBCUTANEOUS SUPPURATION: The sheer abundance of pus beneath the sorcerer’s skin acts as another layer of armour.
Effect: Subtract 1 from wound rolls for attacks that target your general.
| Your Shooting Phase |
OVERRIPE DEATH'S HEADS: After carefully weighing a death’s head in their palm, the bearer hurls it at a nearby foe.
Declare: If your general is not in combat, pick a visible enemy unit within 7" of them to be the target.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 4+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 4+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the target.
Warscrolls
4" 6 5+ 2 6+ Rotbringer Sorcerers are masters of unclean magics, mortal devotees of Grandfather Nurgle and capable of imbuing their allies with pestilential resilience. They revel in acts of corruption and are utterly dedicated to this task. | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Rotwood Staff | |||||||
| Rotwood Staff | 3 | 4+ | 3+ | 1 | D3 | ||
| Your Hero Phase |
FLESHY ABUNDANCE: The sorcerer generously bestows a growth spurt of the most repulsive kind upon their allies, causing their bodies to bloat with great wobbling mounds of grey-green fat.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit wholly within 12" of this unit to be the target, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: On a 6+, subtract 1 from wound rolls for attacks that target that friendly unit until the start of your next turn
Effect: On a 6+, subtract 1 from wound rolls for attacks that target that friendly unit until the start of your next turn
KEYWORDS | HERO, WIZARD (1), INFANTRY, WARD (6+) |
4" 4 6+ 1 5+ Nurglings are daemonic mites that tumble from the innards of larger daemons or spill up from sewers and fissures in reality. They pour across the battlefield in a stinking tide, burying the foe beneath waves of infectious foulness. | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Tiny Razor-sharp Teeth [Crit (Auto-wound)] | |||||||
| Tiny Razor-sharp Teeth Crit (Auto-wound) | 5 | 5+ | 5+ | - | 1 | ||
| End of Any Turn |
ENDLESS SWARM: The presence of Nurglings in the realms continuously draws more of their number from the Grandfather’s Garden, making their swarms extremely hard to eradicate.
Effect: Heal (D3) this unit.
KEYWORDS | BEAST, WARD (5+) |
7" 8 5+ 1 5+ As stupid as they are enthusiastic, Beasts of Nurgle bound forth with burbles of joy. Huge, slug-like abominations, they gleefully assail their luckless playmates until their joy proves lethal and then bounce off after new victims. | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Filthy Claws and Slobbering Maw [Companion] | |||||||
| Filthy Claws and Slobbering Maw Companion | 5 | 4+ | 3+ | 1 | D3 | ||
| Any Charge Phase |
ATTENTION SEEKERS: Beasts of Nurgle seek out playmates with an enthusiasm that is rarely reciprocated by the horrified source of their fascination.
Declare: If this unit charged this phase, pick an enemy unit in combat with it to be the target.
Effect: Roll a D3. On a 2+, inflict an amount of mortal damage on the target equal to the roll.
Effect: Roll a D3. On a 2+, inflict an amount of mortal damage on the target equal to the roll.
KEYWORDS | BEAST, WARD (5+) |
5" 1 6+ 1 6+ The Rotmire Creed are mortal swamp-dwellers who fanatically spread their deity’s vile gifts. Brewers of disease-ridden toxins, they wield blowpipes armed with poisoned darts that can inflict crippling agony on their foes. Lurching into battle on bilewood stilts, they are surprisingly swift, retreating from the melee to find a fresh vantage point from which to launch another volley of tainted missiles. | ||
| RANGED WEAPONS | Rng | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Contagion Blowpipes [Crit (Auto-wound)] | ||||||||
| Contagion Blowpipes Crit (Auto-wound) | 12" | 2 | 4+ | 3+ | - | 1 | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | |||
| Bilewood Weapons | ||||||||
| Bilewood Weapons | 2 | 4+ | 4+ | - | 1 | |||
| Passive |
BILEWOOD STILTS: Rotmire Creed use their stilts to cover ground more quickly.
Effect: No mortal damage is inflicted on this unit when it uses RETREAT abilities.
KEYWORDS | INFANTRY, WARD (6+), REINFORCEMENTS |
4.1 Enhancements
Each set of faction rules include a number of enhancements that can be given to units, e.g. heroic traits and artefacts of power. You can take 1 enhancement from each enhancement table in your faction rules. Each enhancement table lists which units are eligible to be given that enhancement. UNIQUE units cannot be given enhancements.While some abilities allow you to take extra enhancements, the same unit can never have more than 1 enhancement of the same type, and you can never include the same enhancement in your army more than once. Enhancements cannot be given to Regiment of Renown units, unless they have a keyword that matches that faction’s name.
FAQ
| Q: | If an ability allows a unit to gain an enhancement during a battle (for example, the Kharadron Overlords ‘Special Procurement’ ability) and I pick an enhancement that costs points, do I need to have sufficient spare points in my army roster in order to pay for that enhancement? |
| A: | No. Enhancements added to your army during a battle do not cost any points. |
3.5 Regiments of Renown
In addition to creating your own regiments, you can also spend points to include 1 Regiment of Renown. Regiments of Renown are pre-built regiments, each with their own special abilities. The rules for each Regiment of Renown will specify which factions can include it. A unit in a Regiment of Renown cannot be your general even if it is a WARMASTER.- You cannot include more than one Regiment of Renown in your army unless otherwise specified in the notes column of that regiment’s battle profile.
- Units in a Regiment of Renown cannot use (but can be picked as the target of, if otherwise eligible) any faction rules from the faction they are allied into, including enhancements and lores, unless they have a keyword that matches that faction’s name.
- If an ability allows you to set up a replacement unit (Core Rules, 24.2) for a unit in a Regiment of Renown, that unit also counts as being part of that Regiment of Renown.
| Once Per Turn (Army), Start of Any Turn |
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE: ...only that it flows.
Effect: Pick a BLOOD TITHE ability that you have not unlocked and spend the number of blood tithe points required to unlock that ability (shown in the top-right corner of the ability). That BLOOD TITHE ability is now unlocked for the rest of the battle.
| Your Charge Phase |
CHARGE: With a mighty battle cry, the warriors charge into combat with the enemy.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is not in combat and has not used a RUN or RETREAT ability this turn to use this ability. Then, make a charge roll of 2D6.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to the value of the charge roll. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units and must end that move within 1/2" of a visible enemy unit. If it does so, the unit using this ability has charged.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to the value of the charge roll. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units and must end that move within 1/2" of a visible enemy unit. If it does so, the unit using this ability has charged.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE, CHARGE |
Hit Roll
Roll a dice. If the roll equals or exceeds the attacking weapon’s Hit characteristic, the attack scores a successful hit: move on to the next step. If not, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. Unmodified hit rolls of 1 always fail. If an unmodified hit roll for an attack made with a weapon is a 6, that attack is a critical hit.| Critical hits have no effect on their own but often trigger additional effects (see 20.0 Weapon Abilities). | ||
Cover
Subtract 1 from hit rolls for attacks that target a unit that is behind or wholly on this terrain feature, unless that unit charged this turn or has the FLY keyword.17.2 Mortal Damage
Some abilities inflict mortal damage. If an ability inflicts mortal damage on a unit, add that number of damage points to the unit’s damage pool for that ability (see 18.2 Allocating Damage).
| Your Movement Phase |
RETREAT: The fighters disengage from combat, though at the cost of lowering their defences.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is in combat to use this ability.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on that unit. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units but cannot end that move within an enemy unit’s combat range.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on that unit. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units but cannot end that move within an enemy unit’s combat range.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE, RETREAT |
7.0 Combat Range
Each model has a combat range that extends 3" horizontally from its base and any distance vertically from that circle to form a cylinder. The combat range of a unit extends 3" horizontally and any distance vertically from every model in that unit. Units from opposing armies that are within each other’s combat range and that are visible to each other are in combat with each other. When a unit that is not in combat enters the combat range of a visible enemy unit, it moves into combat.
A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it’
A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it’
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FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | If a model in base-to-base contact with an enemy model retreats 3" directly away from the enemy model, is it still in combat with that enemy model? |
| A: | No. |
Errata
Addenda: 7.0 Combat Range
Add the following:
‘A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it.’
‘A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it.’
| Passive |
FLY: Soaring above the battlefield, this unit can reach destinations that are inaccessible to other troops.
Effect: As this unit moves, it ignores other models, terrain features and the combat ranges of enemy units. It cannot end its move in combat unless specified in the ability that allowed it to move. Ignore any vertical distance moved for this unit.
Obscuring
While every model in a non-MONSTER non‐WAR MACHINE unit that does not have the FLY keyword is within 1" of this terrain feature, the following apply:- That unit is only visible to enemy units that are within its combat range.
- The Range characteristic of that unit’s ranged weapons is halved (rounding down to the nearest inch).
Unstable
Models can move across but cannot be set up on or end any type of move on any part of this terrain feature that is more than 1" tall.1.4.2 Obscuring Terrain
Examples: Wyldwood, fortress wallTerrain Abilities: Cover, Obscuring, Unstable
6.0 Visibility
A target model is visible to another model (which we’ll call the ‘observing model’) if you can draw a straight line through the air (whether horizontal, diagonal or vertical) from any point on the observing model to any point on the target model that does not intersect any objects except for other models in the observing model’s unit. A target unit is visible to an observing unit if at least 1 model in the target unit is visible to at least 1 model in the observing unit. A model is always considered to be visible to itself.If a rule or ability requires a target to be both within a given range of and visible to the unit using that ability, or to a model in that unit, both conditions must be met by the same model in the target. You could not, for instance, target a unit where one model is within range but not visible and another model is not in range but is visible.
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| In some cases, it might not be immediately clear whether a model is visible. If so, stoop down to get a look from behind the observing model. If any part of the other model is visible, even if it is just the tip of a spear, then that model is visible for rules purposes. | ||
FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | If a non-FLY INFANTRY HERO (e.g. a Scinari Cathallar) is a Shrine Guardian of a Shrine Luminor, and that Shrine Guardian is within 1" of an obscuring terrain feature, is the Shrine Guardian visible to enemy abilities that target the Shrine Guardian? |
| A: | Yes. |
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6.0 Visibility
Add the following:
‘If a rule or ability requires a target to be both within a given range of and visible to the unit using that ability, or to a model in that unit, both conditions must be met by the same model in the target. You could not, for instance, target a unit where one model is within range but not visible and another model is not in range but is visible.’
‘If a rule or ability requires a target to be both within a given range of and visible to the unit using that ability, or to a model in that unit, both conditions must be met by the same model in the target. You could not, for instance, target a unit where one model is within range but not visible and another model is not in range but is visible.’
Universal Core Abilities - Charge Phase
| Your Charge Phase |
CHARGE: With a mighty battle cry, the warriors charge into combat with the enemy.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is not in combat and has not used a RUN or RETREAT ability this turn to use this ability. Then, make a charge roll of 2D6.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to the value of the charge roll. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units and must end that move within 1/2" of a visible enemy unit. If it does so, the unit using this ability has charged.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to the value of the charge roll. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units and must end that move within 1/2" of a visible enemy unit. If it does so, the unit using this ability has charged.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE, CHARGE |
14.3 Charge Phase
| Your Charge Phase |
CHARGE: With a mighty battle cry, the warriors charge into combat with the enemy.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is not in combat and has not used a RUN or RETREAT ability this turn to use this ability. Then, make a charge roll of 2D6.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to the value of the charge roll. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units and must end that move within 1/2" of a visible enemy unit. If it does so, the unit using this ability has charged.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to the value of the charge roll. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units and must end that move within 1/2" of a visible enemy unit. If it does so, the unit using this ability has charged.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE, CHARGE |
FAQ
| Q: | When using the ‘Charge’ ability, does my unit need to end the charge move within 1⁄2" of an enemy unit that was visible to the charging unit at the start of that charge move? |
| A: | No. It must end the charge move within 1⁄2" of an enemy unit that is visible to the charging unit when it finishes that charge move. |
| Q: | If an ability adds to or subtracts from the number of dice that make up a charge roll, is that a modifier to the charge roll? |
| A: | No. |
18.4 Destroyed Units
When the last model in a unit is slain, the unit is destroyed and all remaining damage points inflicted on that unit have no effect. Similarly, if something causes a unit to be destroyed, all models in the unit are slain and removed from play.
Shooting attacks
Shooting attacks are made with ranged weapons. The target unit(s) must be within a distance equal to the Range characteristic of the weapon being used and visible to the attacking model. Models cannot make shooting attacks if their unit is in combat, unless otherwise specified (see 20.0 Weapon Abilities).16.0 Picking Targets
When declaring an ATTACK ability for a unit, you must pick the target unit(s) for its attacks. The number of attacks each model can make is equal to the Attacks characteristic of the weapons it is using. In most cases, models attack with every weapon on their warscroll (melee weapons for combat attacks, ranged weapons for shooting attacks), though some warscrolls specify that certain models in the unit are armed with special weapons or that the unit must pick between multiple weapons when it attacks.If the unit is in combat, it can only target units that are in combat with it. If a model has more than one attack, you can split the attacks between eligible targets as you wish.
- Combat attacks are made with melee weapons. The target unit(s) must be within the combat range of the attacking model and visible to it. The model must attack with all of the melee weapons it is armed with.
- Shooting attacks are made with ranged weapons. The target unit(s) must be within a distance equal to the Range characteristic of the weapon being used and visible to the attacking model. Models cannot make shooting attacks if their unit is in combat, unless otherwise specified (see 20.0 Weapon Abilities).
FAQ
| Q: | When making shooting attacks, can all models in the attacking unit shoot even if the target unit is not visible to some of those models? |
| A: | No, the only models in the attacking unit that can make shooting attacks are those that the target unit is visible to. |
| Q: | When a unit uses a SHOOT ability, does it have to shoot with all of the ranged weapons that it is armed with? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Your Shooting Phase |
SHOOT: The warriors take aim and unleash a deadly volley.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that has not used a RUN or RETREAT ability this turn to use this ability. Then, pick one or more enemy units as the target(s) of that unit’s attacks (see 16.0).
Effect: Resolve shooting attacks against the target unit(s).
Effect: Resolve shooting attacks against the target unit(s).
| KEYWORDS | CORE, ATTACK, SHOOT |
Combat attacks
Combat attacks are made with melee weapons. The target unit(s) must be within the combat range of the attacking model and visible to it. The model must attack with all of the melee weapons it is armed with.| Any Combat Phase |
FIGHT: Locked in a deadly melee, the fighters strike out at their foes.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is in combat or that charged this turn to use this ability. That unit can make a pile-in move. Then, if that unit is in combat, you must pick one or more enemy units as the target(s) of that unit’s attacks.
Effect: Resolve combat attacks against the target unit(s).
Effect: Resolve combat attacks against the target unit(s).
| KEYWORDS | CORE, ATTACK, FIGHT |
Shoot in Combat
This weapon can be used to make shooting attacks even if the attacking unit is in combat.7.0 Manifestations
There are two types of manifestation: endless spells, which can be summoned by WIZARDS, and invocations, which can be summoned by PRIESTS. Each manifestation has its own warscroll, and the spell or prayer that allows that manifestation to be summoned will be found in the appropriate manifestation lore. No more than 1 friendly WIZARD or PRIEST can attempt to summon the same manifestation per turn, and a friendly WIZARD or PRIEST cannot attempt to summon a friendly manifestation that was removed from play in the same turn. Manifestations are not units but can be interacted with in similar ways, as explained next:
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1.0 Wizards and Priests
WIZARDS are special units that can cast spells, and PRIESTS are special units that can chant prayers. Spells and prayers are powerful abilities that can have a dramatic impact on the battle.
Banish Manifestation
| Your Hero Phase |
BANISH MANIFESTATION: The wizard or priest disrupts the arcane forces sustaining a manifestation, wiping it from existence.
Declare: Pick a friendly WIZARD or PRIEST to use this ability, pick a MANIFESTATION within 30" of them that was not summoned this turn to be the target, then make a banishment roll of 2D6. Add 1 to the banishment roll for each additional enemy MANIFESTATION on the battlefield after the first. You cannot pick the same MANIFESTATION to be the target of this ability more than once per turn.
Effect: If the banishment roll equals or exceeds the banishment value listed on the MANIFESTATION’s warscroll, it is banished and removed from play.
Effect: If the banishment roll equals or exceeds the banishment value listed on the MANIFESTATION’s warscroll, it is banished and removed from play.
| KEYWORDS | BANISH |
| Enemy Hero Phase | 1 |
MAGICAL INTERVENTION: A warrior learned in the mystic arts utters a rapid incantation to disrupt the enemy’s plans.
Declare: Pick a friendly WIZARD or PRIEST to use this ability.
Effect: That friendly unit can use a SPELL, PRAYER or BANISH ability (as appropriate) as if it were your hero phase. If you do so, subtract 1 from casting rolls or chanting rolls made as part of that ability.
Effect: That friendly unit can use a SPELL, PRAYER or BANISH ability (as appropriate) as if it were your hero phase. If you do so, subtract 1 from casting rolls or chanting rolls made as part of that ability.
7.2 Banishing Manifestations
Instead of using a SPELL or PRAYER ability (including when using the ‘Magical Intervention’ ability), each WIZARD and PRIEST can use the ‘Banish Manifestation’ ability:| Your Hero Phase |
BANISH MANIFESTATION: The wizard or priest disrupts the arcane forces sustaining a manifestation, wiping it from existence.
Declare: Pick a friendly WIZARD or PRIEST to use this ability, pick a MANIFESTATION within 30" of them that was not summoned this turn to be the target, then make a banishment roll of 2D6. Add 1 to the banishment roll for each additional enemy MANIFESTATION on the battlefield after the first. You cannot pick the same MANIFESTATION to be the target of this ability more than once per turn.
Effect: If the banishment roll equals or exceeds the banishment value listed on the MANIFESTATION’s warscroll, it is banished and removed from play.
Effect: If the banishment roll equals or exceeds the banishment value listed on the MANIFESTATION’s warscroll, it is banished and removed from play.
| KEYWORDS | BANISH |
Wound Roll
Roll a dice. If the roll equals or exceeds the attacking weapon’s Wound characteristic, the attack successfully wounds: move on to the next step. If not, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. Unmodified wound rolls of 1 always fail.15.3 Pile-in Moves
Some abilities, such as FIGHT abilities, allow a unit to make a short move called a pile-in move to get into a better position for combat. To do so:If your unit is in combat: Pick an enemy unit your unit is in combat with to be the target of the pile-in move. Each model in your unit can move up to 3". That move can pass through the combat ranges of any enemy units, but each model must end that move no further from the target unit. At the end of the move, your unit must still be in combat with all units that it was in combat with at the start of the move.
If your unit is not in combat: Each model in your unit can move 3" in any direction. That move can pass through and end within the combat ranges of any enemy units.
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| Any Combat Phase |
FIGHT: Locked in a deadly melee, the fighters strike out at their foes.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is in combat or that charged this turn to use this ability. That unit can make a pile-in move (see 15.3). Then, if that unit is in combat, you must pick one or more enemy units as the target(s) of that unit’s attacks (see 16.0).
Effect: Resolve combat attacks against the target unit(s).
Effect: Resolve combat attacks against the target unit(s).
| KEYWORDS | CORE, ATTACK, FIGHT |
1.5 Faction Terrain
Some factions have special terrain features called faction terrain features. Faction terrain features have their own warscrolls. They are not considered to be units, with the following exceptions:- In the combat phase, they are treated as if they were units for the purposes of movement, combat range and being in combat.
- They are affected by all enemy abilities as if they were units.
- They can be damaged in the same manner as units. However, when they are removed from play, they count as being demolished instead of slain or destroyed (this means that they do not count as destroyed units for the purposes of abilities, scoring battle tactics, etc.).
- Enemy units can finish a charge move within ½" of a terrain feature that is garrisoned (see 1.5.1). Faction terrain features cannot contest objectives even while they are garrisoned.
- If a terrain feature has any melee or ranged weapons, it can use the 'Fight' and 'Shoot' CORE abilities as if it were a unit.
- Terrain features that have a Move characteristic of 0" ('-') cannot move (note that pile-in moves are a type of move).
- Faction terrain features with a Move characteristic greater than '-' are treated as if they were units in all phases for the purposes of movement, combat range, being in combat and setting up terrain features, other manifestations and other units.
Some faction terrain features allow you to place a unit on them (this will be clearly specified in that terrain feature’s rules). When doing so, instead of measuring range or visibility to and from the unit that is on that terrain feature, measure to and from the terrain feature instead. Unless otherwise specified, units on a faction terrain feature cannot use FIGHT abilities.
If a unit placed on a terrain feature is removed from it (e.g. if an ability removes them from the battlefield), that unit counts as having left that terrain feature and loses any special role or benefits it had as a result of being placed on it.
| The Citadel Terrain List shows the number of scenery pieces each terrain feature can consist of. If you are using terrain features that are not included on that list, agree with your opponent before setting up the battlefield how many scenery pieces make up each terrain feature. | ||
| Enemy Shooting Phase | 1 |
COVERING FIRE: The warriors unleash a quick volley at a nearby enemy unit before it charges into combat.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that did not use a RUN ability this turn and that is not in combat to use this ability, then pick the closest enemy unit (to that unit) that can be picked as the target of shooting attacks to be the target. You cannot pick MANIFESTATIONS or faction terrain features as the target of this ability.
Effect: Resolve shooting attacks for the unit using this ability against the target. You must subtract 1 from the hit rolls for those attacks.
Effect: Resolve shooting attacks for the unit using this ability against the target. You must subtract 1 from the hit rolls for those attacks.
| KEYWORDS | SHOOT, ATTACK |
Companion
Unless otherwise specified, attacks made by this weapon are not affected by friendly abilities that modify hit rolls, wound rolls or weapon characteristics, except for those that apply negative modifiers (e.g. ‘Covering Fire’).Blood Tithe Abilities
| Once Per Turn (Army), Reaction: You declared a CHARGE ability | 0 |
MURDERLUST: When worthy opponents are near, the impulse to kill becomes all-consuming.
You do not need to unlock this ability to use it. It is already unlocked.
Effect: Roll a dice. You can replace one of the dice in the charge roll with that value. If you do so, inflict D3 mortal damage on the unit using that CHARGE ability after that ability is resolved.
Effect: Roll a dice. You can replace one of the dice in the charge roll with that value. If you do so, inflict D3 mortal damage on the unit using that CHARGE ability after that ability is resolved.
| KEYWORDS | BLOOD TITHE |
| Once per Turn, Start of Any Turn | 1 |
DIVINE SCORN: The battlefield is Khorne's temple, and Khorne's alone.
Declare: Pick up to 3 enemy WIZARDS or PRIESTS within 6" of any friendly BLADES OF KHORNE units to be the target(s).
Effect: Roll a dice for each target. On a 3+, subtract 1 from the target’s power level, to a minimum of 0, until the start of the next turn.
Effect: Roll a dice for each target. On a 3+, subtract 1 from the target’s power level, to a minimum of 0, until the start of the next turn.
| KEYWORDS | BLOOD TITHE |
| Once Per Turn (Army), Your Combat Phase | 1 |
PUNISH THE PACIFIST: To shirk from combat is to sin against the War God.
Declare: Each unit (friendly and enemy) and enemy MANIFESTATION that is not in combat is a target.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 1-2, inflict 1 mortal damage on each target. On a 3+, inflict 1 mortal damage on each enemy target.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 1-2, inflict 1 mortal damage on each target. On a 3+, inflict 1 mortal damage on each enemy target.
| KEYWORDS | BLOOD TITHE |
| Once Per Turn (Army), Your Hero Phase | 2 |
MURDER THE MYSTIC: Those who cower behind conjured spellcraft will be punished severely.
You can only unlock this ability if you have unlocked ‘Divine Scorn’.
Declare: Pick up to 4 enemy MANIFESTATIONS to be the target(s).
Effect: Make a banishment roll of 2D6 for each target. If the banishment roll equals or exceeds the banishment value listed on that MANIFESTATION’s warscroll, inflict D3 mortal damage on each enemy unit within 3" of it and then it is banished and removed from play.
Declare: Pick up to 4 enemy MANIFESTATIONS to be the target(s).
Effect: Make a banishment roll of 2D6 for each target. If the banishment roll equals or exceeds the banishment value listed on that MANIFESTATION’s warscroll, inflict D3 mortal damage on each enemy unit within 3" of it and then it is banished and removed from play.
| KEYWORDS | BLOOD TITHE |
| Passive | 2 |
GLORIOUS COMBAT OR NAUGHT: The air boils, charring arrows and melting musket shot.
You can only unlock this ability if you have unlocked ‘Divine Scorn’ or ‘Punish the Pacifist’.
Effect: Subtract 1 from hit rolls for shooting attacks that target friendly BLADES OF KHORNE units.
Effect: Subtract 1 from hit rolls for shooting attacks that target friendly BLADES OF KHORNE units.
| KEYWORDS | BLOOD TITHE |
| Passive | 3 |
REVEL IN BATTLE: No tricks - no deceptions.
You can only unlock this ability if you have unlocked ‘Punish the Pacifist’.
Effect: Other than the Companion weapon ability, weapon abilities for combat attacks made by enemy units that charged this turn and that target a friendly BLADES OF KHORNE unit have no effect.
Effect: Other than the Companion weapon ability, weapon abilities for combat attacks made by enemy units that charged this turn and that target a friendly BLADES OF KHORNE unit have no effect.
| KEYWORDS | BLOOD TITHE |
| Passive | 4 |
SLAUGHTER TRIUMPHANT: Khorne's fury floods the field, burning out all thought but to slay.
You can only unlock this ability if you have unlocked ‘Murder the Mystic’ or ‘Glorious Combat or Naught’.
Effect: Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of weapons used by friendly BLADES OF KHORNE units that charged in the same turn.
Effect: Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of weapons used by friendly BLADES OF KHORNE units that charged in the same turn.
| KEYWORDS | BLOOD TITHE |
| Passive | 4 |
CLEAVE WIDE THE GRIN OF KHORNE: Gore begets gore, and death begets death.
You can only unlock this ability if you have already unlocked ‘Revel in Battle’ or ‘Glorious Combat or Naught’.
Effect: Add 1 to hit rolls for combat attacks made by friendly BLADES OF KHORNE units.
Effect: Add 1 to hit rolls for combat attacks made by friendly BLADES OF KHORNE units.
| KEYWORDS | BLOOD TITHE |
Save Roll
The commander of the target unit rolls a dice, subtracting the attacking weapon’s Rend characteristic from the roll. Unmodified save rolls of 1 always fail. If the roll equals or exceeds the Save characteristic of the target unit, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. If not, it is a successful attack: move on to the next step.The BLOODBOUND keyword is used in the following Blades of Khorne warscrolls:
Beast Hero
Cavalry Hero
Infantry Hero
Cavalry
Infantry
Monster
Crit (Mortal)
If an attack made with this weapon scores a critical hit, that attack inflicts mortal damage on the target unit equal to the Damage characteristic of that weapon and the attack sequence ends.The non-MONSTER DAEMON keyword is used in the following Blades of Khorne warscrolls:
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Blades of Khorne warscrolls:
Monster Hero
Monster
Battle Traits
| Once Per Turn, Reaction: You declared the ‘Skulls for the Skull Throne’ ability |
BLOOD-DRENCHED: As blood gushes down blades, armour and teeth, the fervent warriors of the Blood God are driven into a divine frenzy.
Effect: After that ability has been resolved, if you unlocked a BLOOD TITHE ability this turn, pick a friendly BLADES OF KHORNE unit to be the target. The following effects apply to the target for the rest of the battle:
Wild-eyed Brutality: Ignore positive modifiers to save rolls for the target.
Blood Haze: If the target is BLOODBOUND, its Blood-hungry weapons have Crit (Mortal).
Weapons of Murder: If the target is a non-MONSTER DAEMON unit, add 1 to the Rend characteristic of its Blood-hungry weapons, including Blood-hungry Companion weapons.
Bloodlords Supreme: If the target is a MONSTER, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of its Blood-hungry weapons.
Wild-eyed Brutality: Ignore positive modifiers to save rolls for the target.
Blood Haze: If the target is BLOODBOUND, its Blood-hungry weapons have Crit (Mortal).
Weapons of Murder: If the target is a non-MONSTER DAEMON unit, add 1 to the Rend characteristic of its Blood-hungry weapons, including Blood-hungry Companion weapons.
Bloodlords Supreme: If the target is a MONSTER, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of its Blood-hungry weapons.
Errata
Battle Traits
Change the timing of the ‘Blood-drenched’ ability to:
| Passive |
SEED OF REBIRTH: Should the bearer of this seed ever fall, its rejuvenating energies will grant them new life.
Effect: The first time this unit would be destroyed, before removing it from play, roll a dice. On a 3+, this unit is not destroyed and any remaining damage points inflicted on it have no effect. Then, Heal (D3) this unit.
21.0 Healing
Some abilities allow you to heal a unit. To heal a unit, remove a number of damage points from the unit equal to the number in brackets after ‘Heal’, e.g. Heal (2).FAQ
| Q: | If an ability (e.g. ‘Seed of Rebirth’) would allow a unit that would be destroyed to negate all remaining damage points then heal to prevent that unit from being destroyed, and another ability (e.g. ‘Quenching the Flames’) prevents that unit from healing, would that unit still be destroyed? |
| A: | Yes. |
15.1 Coherency
Any time a unit is set up or ends a move, it must be in a single group. A unit is considered to be in a coherent group if each model in that unit is within coherency range, measured horizontally, of at least 1 other model in that unit (ignore differences in height between the two models).For the majority of units, coherency range is 1/2", though some units (particularly those with large models with overhanging parts) have a longer coherency range noted on their warscroll for ease of play. While there are 7 or more models in a unit, that unit is considered to be in a coherent group if each model in that unit is within coherency range of at least 2 other models in that unit.
If it is not possible for a unit to end a move in a single coherent group, that move cannot be made.
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18.3 Slain Models
The commander of a unit must pick which model(s) in the unit are slain. However, after each slain model is removed, the unit must be in a single coherent group (see 15.1). If this is not possible, continue to remove models, one at a time, until the unit is in a single coherent group. You must remove the fewest models possible to make the unit a single coherent group.FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | Do models removed as a result of a unit being out of coherency count as having been slain? |
| A: | Yes. |
Errata
Addenda: 18.3 Slain models
Add the following:
‘You must remove the fewest models possible to make the unit a single coherent group.’
‘You must remove the fewest models possible to make the unit a single coherent group.’
Addenda: removed from play/removed from the battlefield
Add the following definition:
‘removed from play/removed from the battlefield: When a model or unit is removed from the battlefield, it no longer has any effect on the battle, though it can still be relevant for abilities that allow you to return models or replace units.’
‘removed from play/removed from the battlefield: When a model or unit is removed from the battlefield, it no longer has any effect on the battle, though it can still be relevant for abilities that allow you to return models or replace units.’
| Passive |
DESPERATE REMEDIES: When fighters are afflicted with the plagues of Nurgle, all efforts must be made to stem the spread of those diseases.
Effect: If an ability would heal or return slain models to a DISEASED enemy unit, that ability does not heal or return any slain models to it. Instead, it no longer has the DISEASED keyword.
| Once Per Turn (Army), End of Any Turn |
BLESSED BY THE PLAGUEFATHER: Each of the Maggotkin is a walking vector of disease, a willing incubator for maladies that ravage the body and spirit with horrific virulence.
Effect: Pick 1 of the following effects:
Infect: Pick an enemy unit within 7" of any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units to be the target. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature.
Spread: Pick a DISEASED enemy unit to be the target. Each other enemy unit within the target’s combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, has the DISEASED keyword.
Mutate: If all enemy units on the battlefield, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, have the DISEASED keyword, inflict 1 mortal damage on each of them.
Infect: Pick an enemy unit within 7" of any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units to be the target. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature.
- If the target is in combat with any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units, it has the DISEASED keyword.
- If the target is not in combat with any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units, roll a dice. On a 4+, the target has the DISEASED keyword.
Spread: Pick a DISEASED enemy unit to be the target. Each other enemy unit within the target’s combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, has the DISEASED keyword.
Mutate: If all enemy units on the battlefield, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, have the DISEASED keyword, inflict 1 mortal damage on each of them.
| Once Per Battle (Army), Deployment Phase |
PLAGUE PROGENITOR: Simply to be in the presence of this unwitting pathogen incubator is to see one’s body ravaged by disease.
Declare: Pick an enemy unit on the battlefield to be the plague progenitor for the rest of the battle. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature.
Effect: Roll 2D3. On a 6, or if the roll equals or exceeds the plague progenitor’s Health characteristic, it has the DISEASED keyword.
In the first battle round, if an ability would heal or return any slain models to a DISEASED plague progenitor, that ability does not heal any damage points or return any slain models to it.
Each time the plague progenitor is picked to be the target of the ’Spread’ effect of the ‘Blessed by the Plaguefather’ ability, inflict D3 mortal damage on each other enemy unit within its combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, in addition to the effect of that ability.
Effect: Roll 2D3. On a 6, or if the roll equals or exceeds the plague progenitor’s Health characteristic, it has the DISEASED keyword.
In the first battle round, if an ability would heal or return any slain models to a DISEASED plague progenitor, that ability does not heal any damage points or return any slain models to it.
Each time the plague progenitor is picked to be the target of the ’Spread’ effect of the ‘Blessed by the Plaguefather’ ability, inflict D3 mortal damage on each other enemy unit within its combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, in addition to the effect of that ability.
| Once Per Turn (Army), End of Any Turn |
WRACKED WITH DISEASE: The Maggotkin wage war with weeping wounds and pustulant boils as well as with rusted weapons.
Declare: Pick each DISEASED enemy unit to be the targets.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on each target.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on each target.
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BURST PUSTULES: As blighted flesh is pierced and hewn, quivering boils erupt, showering all with Nurgle’s glistening gifts.
Effect: Each time a DISEASED enemy unit is destroyed, before the last model in the unit is removed from play, roll a dice. On a 3+, pick another enemy unit within 9" of that model to be the target. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature. The target has the DISEASED keyword.
24.1 Reserve Units
Some abilities allow you to set up units in reserve. These units are placed to one side instead of being set up on the battlefield. At the start of the fourth battle round, units that were set up in reserve using a DEPLOY ability and that are still in reserve are destroyed.
The non-MONSTER DISCIPLES OF TZEENTCH keyword is used in the following Disciples of Tzeentch warscrolls:
| Once Per Turn (Army), Any Hero Phase |
SMOKE AND MIRRORS: With sudden and terrible clarity, Tzeentch’s foes realise they have been fighting the wrong enemy all along.
Declare: Pick a friendly non-MONSTER DISCIPLES OF TZEENTCH unit that was not set up on the battlefield this turn and was not set up on the battlefield using this ability in the previous turn to be the target, then pick a friendly unit that is masked by illusion to be the substitute.
Effect: Set up the substitute wholly within 6" of the target and not in combat. Then, remove the target from the battlefield and set it up in reserve masked by illusion.
Effect: Set up the substitute wholly within 6" of the target and not in combat. Then, remove the target from the battlefield and set it up in reserve masked by illusion.
32.0 Objectives
Many battleplans award victory points for controlling objectives, which are represented by objective markers. Unless otherwise specified, objective markers are round and 40mm wide. Models can move over and end their moves on objective markers. If an objective marker is on the border between territories, it is within all those territories but wholly within none of them. Objective markers don’t block visibility.
Shoot in Combat
This weapon can be used to make shooting attacks even if the attacking unit is in combat.7.0 Manifestations
There are two types of manifestation: endless spells, which can be summoned by WIZARDS, and invocations, which can be summoned by PRIESTS. Each manifestation has its own warscroll, and the spell or prayer that allows that manifestation to be summoned will be found in the appropriate manifestation lore. No more than 1 friendly WIZARD or PRIEST can attempt to summon the same manifestation per turn, and a friendly WIZARD or PRIEST cannot attempt to summon a friendly manifestation that was removed from play in the same turn. Manifestations are not units but can be interacted with in similar ways, as explained next:
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The ROTBRINGERS keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Cavalry
| Once Per Turn (Army), End of Any Turn |
BLESSED BY THE PLAGUEFATHER: Each of the Maggotkin is a walking vector of disease, a willing incubator for maladies that ravage the body and spirit with horrific virulence.
Effect: Pick 1 of the following effects:
Infect: Pick an enemy unit within 7" of any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units to be the target. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature.
Spread: Pick a DISEASED enemy unit to be the target. Each other enemy unit within the target’s combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, has the DISEASED keyword.
Mutate: If all enemy units on the battlefield, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, have the DISEASED keyword, inflict 1 mortal damage on each of them.
Infect: Pick an enemy unit within 7" of any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units to be the target. You cannot pick a MANIFESTATION or terrain feature.
- If the target is in combat with any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units, it has the DISEASED keyword.
- If the target is not in combat with any friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE units, roll a dice. On a 4+, the target has the DISEASED keyword.
Spread: Pick a DISEASED enemy unit to be the target. Each other enemy unit within the target’s combat range, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, has the DISEASED keyword.
Mutate: If all enemy units on the battlefield, excluding MANIFESTATIONS and terrain features, have the DISEASED keyword, inflict 1 mortal damage on each of them.
32.2 Objective Control
In the deployment phase after all Deployment Phase abilities have been used and at the end of each turn, follow this sequence for each objective in an order chosen by the active player:- Starting with the active player, each player determines the control score of each of their units that is contesting that objective. A unit’s control score is the combined Control characteristics of all the models in that unit that are contesting the objective. Some abilities modify a unit’s control score, but it cannot be reduced to less than 1.
- Each player adds up the control scores of all of their units contesting that objective. This is their army control score for that objective.
- The players compare their army control scores for that objective. If one player’s score is higher, that player gains control of that objective. Once a player gains control of an objective, it remains under their control until their opponent gains control of it.
| Sometimes objective markers get accidentally nudged while you are moving models around. This is perfectly fine - just remember to put them back in their proper positions when determining objective control. | ||
Errata
32.2 Objective Control
Change the first sentence to:
‘In the deployment phase after all Deployment Phase abilities have been used and at the end of each turn, follow this sequence for each objective in an order chosen by the active player:’
‘In the deployment phase after all Deployment Phase abilities have been used and at the end of each turn, follow this sequence for each objective in an order chosen by the active player:’
The non-HERO ROTBRINGERS keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Cavalry
The MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE and DAEMON keywords are used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Cavalry Hero
Infantry Hero
Cavalry
Companion
Unless otherwise specified, attacks made by this weapon are not affected by friendly abilities that modify hit rolls, wound rolls or weapon characteristics, except for those that apply negative modifiers (e.g. ‘Covering Fire’).Crit (2 Hits)
If an attack made with this weapon scores a critical hit, that attack scores 2 hits on the target unit instead of 1. Make a wound roll for each hit.7.0 Combat Range
Each model has a combat range that extends 3" horizontally from its base and any distance vertically from that circle to form a cylinder. The combat range of a unit extends 3" horizontally and any distance vertically from every model in that unit. Units from opposing armies that are within each other’s combat range and that are visible to each other are in combat with each other. When a unit that is not in combat enters the combat range of a visible enemy unit, it moves into combat.
A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it’
A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it’
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FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | If a model in base-to-base contact with an enemy model retreats 3" directly away from the enemy model, is it still in combat with that enemy model? |
| A: | No. |
Errata
Addenda: 7.0 Combat Range
Add the following:
‘A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it.’
‘A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it.’
Universal Core Abilities - Movement Phase
| Your Movement Phase |
NORMAL MOVE: The warriors advance across the battlefield.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is not in combat to use this ability.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit cannot move into combat during any part of that move.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit cannot move into combat during any part of that move.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE |
| Your Movement Phase |
RUN: The unit rushes into position.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is not in combat to use this ability.
Effect: Make a run roll of D6. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic added to the run roll. That unit cannot move into combat during any part of that move.
Effect: Make a run roll of D6. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic added to the run roll. That unit cannot move into combat during any part of that move.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE, RUN |
| Your Movement Phase |
RETREAT: The fighters disengage from combat, though at the cost of lowering their defences.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is in combat to use this ability.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on that unit. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units but cannot end that move within an enemy unit’s combat range.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on that unit. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units but cannot end that move within an enemy unit’s combat range.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE, RETREAT |
The non-MONSTER MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE and DAEMON keywords are used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Cavalry Hero
Infantry Hero
Cavalry
The non-UNIQUE HERO keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Monster Hero
The non-HERO MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Cavalry
Infantry
Faction Terrain
Roll-off
If you are instructed to roll off, each player should roll a dice. Whichever player has a higher roll wins the roll-off. If the result is a tie, each player should roll off again until there is a clear winner, unless otherwise specified.18.1 Ward Saves
Units with the WARD keyword have the ‘Ward Save’ passive ability. The number after the WARD keyword indicates the ward value for the ward save. If a unit had WARD (5+), for example, its ward value would be 5. If a unit has more than one ward save, only the ward save with the lowest value applies to it; the other has no effect.| Passive |
WARD SAVE: Whether through their uncanny reflexes, unnatural toughness or a source of mystical protection, these warriors can avoid otherwise lethal attacks.
Effect: In step 1 of the damage sequence (see 18.0), make a ward roll of D6 for each damage point in this unit’s damage pool. If the roll equals or exceeds this unit’s ward value, remove that damage point from the damage pool.
The PRIEST keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Cavalry Hero
Infantry Hero
3.0 Prayers
The declare step of each prayer will tell you to make a chanting roll of D6. On an unmodified chanting roll of 1, the prayer fails, its effect is not resolved and you must remove D3 ritual points from the PRIEST using the prayer.Otherwise, pick one of the following:
- Give a number of ritual points to the PRIEST equal to the chanting roll (ritual points can be accumulated over multiple turns).
- You can add the PRIEST’s ritual points to the chanting roll. If the chanting roll equals or exceeds the prayer’s chanting value (at the top-right corner of the prayer), it is answered: resolve the effect of the prayer, then reset the PRIEST’s ritual points total to 0.
All PRIESTS know the following prayer:
| Your Hero Phase |
SACRED RITES: The priest focuses on safely setting their ritual into motion.
Declare: Pick a friendly PRIEST to use this ability, then make a chanting roll of D6. On an unmodified chanting roll of 1, remove 1 ritual point from that PRIEST instead of D3.
Effect: Give a number to ritual points to the PRIEST equal to the unmodified chanting roll and do not reset the PRIEST’s ritual points to 0.
Effect: Give a number to ritual points to the PRIEST equal to the unmodified chanting roll and do not reset the PRIEST’s ritual points to 0.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER, UNLIMITED |
EXAMPLE PRAYER
| Once Per Battle, Your Hero Phase | 7 |
RESURRECTION: A fallen hero is brought back from death, their vitality fully restored.
Declare: Make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Pick a friendly INFANTRY HERO that has been slain and return them to the battlefield. Set up that HERO wholly within 3" of this PRIEST.
Effect: Pick a friendly INFANTRY HERO that has been slain and return them to the battlefield. Set up that HERO wholly within 3" of this PRIEST.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
The MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE and WIZARD keywords are used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
2.0 Spells
The declare step of each spell will tell you to make a casting roll of 2D6. If the roll does not equal or exceed the spell’s casting value (at the top-right corner of the spell), the spell fails and its effect is not resolved.If the unmodified casting roll includes 2 or more rolls of 1, the spell is miscast: the spell fails, its effect is not resolved, D3 mortal damage is inflicted on the WIZARD that used it, and that WIZARD cannot use any more spells in that phase.
Enemy reactions can only be used if the casting roll equals or exceeds the spell’s casting value. So long as the spell is not unbound (see 4.0), then it is successfully cast: resolve its effect.
EXAMPLE SPELL
| Your Hero Phase | 6 |
MYSTIC SHIELD: The caster's allies are bathed in an unearthly glow that protects them from harm.
Declare: Pick a visible friendly unit wholly within 12" of this WIZARD to be the target. Then, make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: The target has WARD (6+) this turn.
Effect: The target has WARD (6+) this turn.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
FAQ
| Q: | Is mortal damage inflicted by a miscast considered to be ‘mortal damage inflicted by a SPELL ability’ for the purposes of abilities like a Morghast Archai unit’s ‘Ebon-wrought Armour’ ability? |
| A: | No. |
ERUPTION OF FURY
| Once Per Turn (Army), End of Any Turn |
ERUPTION OF FURY: Stoked by the ongoing battle, this warrior’s wrath erupts in a display of bone-splintering violence.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit to use this ability, then pick an enemy unit in combat with that friendly unit to be the target.
Effect: Pick 1 of the melee weapons that the unit using this ability is armed with. Then, spend up to 3 rage dice.
Resolve a number of combat attacks against the target using the melee weapon you picked equal to the number of rage dice you spent.
Those attacks cannot score critical hits. Instead, for each unmodified hit roll of 6 for those attacks:
For each unmodified hit roll of 1 for those attacks, allocate D3 mortal damage to this unit after the damage sequence has been resolved (ward rolls cannot be made for those damage points).
Designer’s Note: Rage dice do not add to the Attacks characteristic of the weapon you pick; if you spend 3 rage dice to use this ability, you only make 3 combat attacks.
Effect: Pick 1 of the melee weapons that the unit using this ability is armed with. Then, spend up to 3 rage dice.
Resolve a number of combat attacks against the target using the melee weapon you picked equal to the number of rage dice you spent.
Those attacks cannot score critical hits. Instead, for each unmodified hit roll of 6 for those attacks:
- Inflict an additional D3 mortal damage on each enemy unit in combat with the unit using this ability.
- Your opponent must increase their fury level by 1, to a maximum of 7.
For each unmodified hit roll of 1 for those attacks, allocate D3 mortal damage to this unit after the damage sequence has been resolved (ward rolls cannot be made for those damage points).
Designer’s Note: Rage dice do not add to the Attacks characteristic of the weapon you pick; if you spend 3 rage dice to use this ability, you only make 3 combat attacks.
| KEYWORDS | ATTACK, FIGHT |
FAQ
| Q: | When using ‘Eruption of Fury’, can I use a reaction to pick another unit to use a FIGHT ability immediately after? |
| A: | No – while you can use reactions to ‘Eruption of Fury’, abilities that let you pick a unit to immediately use a FIGHT ability do not override the restrictions of the FIGHT ability. As a result, you cannot use them to have a unit fight outside the combat phase. |
| Q: | Do STRIKE-FIRST or STRIKE-LAST have any effect when using ‘Eruption of Fury’? |
| A: | No. |
18.2 Allocating Damage
After resolving the effect of any ability that inflicts damage points (whether via attacks, mortal damage or both), you must allocate the damage points.When allocating damage points to a unit, the damage points in its damage pool are allocated to it one at a time. Each time the number of damage points allocated to the unit equals the Health characteristic of that unit, 1 model in that unit is slain (and removed from play) and the number of damage points allocated to that unit is reset to 0. Keep allocating damage points until there are none left in the damage pool.
If the number of damage points allocated to a unit is not enough to slay a model, keep track of the number of damage points currently allocated to the unit (most players place a dice or markers next to the unit). While a unit has any damage points allocated to it, it is damaged.
FIGHT THROUGH THE PAIN
| Passive |
FIGHT THROUGH THE PAIN: Anger can grant one the resilience to shrug off grievous wounds – if the promise of vengeance is close at hand.
Effect: Before allocating damage to a friendly unit, you can spend any number of rage dice. For each rage dice spent, reduce your fury level by 1, to a minimum of 0, then roll a dice. On a 3+, remove 1 damage point from that unit’s damage pool.
FAQ
| Q: | When applying the effect of ‘Fight Through the Pain’, are rage dice spent one at a time or all at once? |
| A: | All at once. |
The non-MONSTER MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Cavalry
Infantry
Faction Terrain
Charge (+1 Damage)
Add 1 to this weapon’s Damage characteristic if the attacking unit charged this turn.The CYCLE OF CORRUPTION keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Cavalry
Infantry
The non-MONSTER CYCLE OF CORRUPTION HEROES keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
The non-HERO CYCLE OF CORRUPTION keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Cavalry
The non-UNIQUE CYCLE OF CORRUPTION HERO keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
The CYCLE OF CORRUPTION WIZARD keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
The non-HERO CYCLE OF CORRUPTION INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
The CYCLE OF CORRUPTION PRIEST keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Cavalry Hero
The GARDENERS OF NURGLE keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Cavalry
Cavalry Hero
The GARDENERS OF NURGLE HERO keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Cavalry Hero
The GARDENERS OF NURGLE INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
The non-UNIQUE THE GARDENERS OF NURGLE HERO keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Monster Hero
The GARDENERS OF NURGLE WIZARD keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
| Once Per Turn (Army), Your Combat Phase |
PUTRESCENT SAP: Vile black fluid oozes from bark-sores and withered tree limbs.
Declare: Pick each enemy unit within 3" of any friendly Feculent Gnarlmaws to be the targets.
Effect: Roll a D3 for each target. On a 2+, inflict an amount of mortal damage on the target equal to the roll.
Effect: Roll a D3 for each target. On a 2+, inflict an amount of mortal damage on the target equal to the roll.
The HERO keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
The WARD keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
The MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE keyword is used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Crit (Mortal)
If an attack made with this weapon scores a critical hit, that attack inflicts mortal damage on the target unit equal to the Damage characteristic of that weapon and the attack sequence ends.1.1 Power Level
Each WIZARD and PRIEST has a power level shown after the keyword, e.g. WIZARD (2). A WIZARD’s casting power level determines how many Spell abilities they can use per phase. A PRIEST’s chanting power level determines how many PRAYER abilities they can use per phase.
3.1 Regiments
Armies are made up of one or more regiments, each of which is led by a Hero. You must have at least 1 regiment in your army, and you can include a maximum of 5 regiments. To add a regiment, pick 1 HERO from your faction, then pick up to 3 non‑HERO units to accompany them.Each HERO’s battle profile lists which units can be added to their regiment, and each non-HERO unit’s battle profile lists any relevant keywords it has. The battle profiles of some HEROES may say that they can be added to the regiment of another HERO in place of a non-HERO unit in that regiment.
FAQ
| Q: | If a HERO is able to join another HERO's regiment (e.g. The Shadow Queen joining Morathi-Khaine, do they take the place of a non-HERO unit in that regiment? |
| A: | Yes. |
32.1 Contesting Objectives
Unless otherwise specified, if an objective is within a model’s combat range, that model is contesting that objective. If any models in a unit are contesting an objective, that unit is contesting that objective.Each unit can only count as contesting a single objective for the purposes of determining objective control (see 32.2). Before determining objective control, for each of their units contesting two or more objectives, the active player must pick one of those objectives for it to contest. Then, their opponent does the same.
Designer’s Note: For purposes other than determining objective control, a unit can contest more than one objective.
Errata
32.1 Contesting Objectives
Change the second paragraph to:
‘Each unit can only count as contesting a single objective for the purposes of determining objective control (see 32.2). Before determining objective control, for each of their units contesting two or more objectives, the active player must pick one of those objectives for it to contest. Then, their opponent does the same.
Designer’s Note: For purposes other than determining objective control, a unit can contest more than one objective.’
‘Each unit can only count as contesting a single objective for the purposes of determining objective control (see 32.2). Before determining objective control, for each of their units contesting two or more objectives, the active player must pick one of those objectives for it to contest. Then, their opponent does the same.
Designer’s Note: For purposes other than determining objective control, a unit can contest more than one objective.’
Contesting
Change the definition of contesting to:
‘contesting: Models contest objectives within their combat range (3"). When determining objective control, the same unit cannot contest more than 1 objective at the same time; the player must pick 1 if more than 1 is within range. (Core Rules, 32.1)’
‘contesting: Models contest objectives within their combat range (3"). When determining objective control, the same unit cannot contest more than 1 objective at the same time; the player must pick 1 if more than 1 is within range. (Core Rules, 32.1)’
13.1 Fight Abilities
Abilities with the FIGHT keyword follow a different sequence to other abilities. When the players are using Combat Phase
abilities as described in 13.0, they cannot use FIGHT abilities.After the players have finished using
Combat Phase
abilities that are not FIGHT abilities, they must alternate picking 1 eligible unit to use a FIGHT ability, starting with the active player. Each unit in combat must use a FIGHT ability if it is able to.Once a player has no more units that are eligible to use a FIGHT ability, the other player continues to pick units that are eligible to use a FIGHT ability, one after another, until there are no more units that are eligible to use a FIGHT ability.
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Errata
Addenda: fought
Add the following definition:
‘fought: A unit has fought if it used any FIGHT abilities in the same turn.’
‘fought: A unit has fought if it used any FIGHT abilities in the same turn.’
19.0 Strike-first and Strike-last
If there are any STRIKE-FIRST units in combat after any non-FIGHT combat phase abilities have been used, other units cannot be picked to use a FIGHT ability until those units have been picked to use a FIGHT ability. After all those STRIKE-FIRST units have fought, the active player picks the next unit to fight.If there are any STRIKE-LAST units in combat, they cannot be picked to use a FIGHT ability if there are any units in combat that do not have STRIKE-LAST and have not yet used a FIGHT ability.
If a unit has STRIKE-FIRST and STRIKE-LAST, treat it as if it had neither.
| There may be situations when a unit that has STRIKE-FIRST is not in combat at the start of the phase, but because of moves such as pile-in moves, it is ‘pulled into combat’ later in the phase. In such cases, STRIKE-FIRST has no effect on that unit because it was not in combat at the start of the phase. Abilities that allow a unit to use a FIGHT ability immediately after another unit do not override the STRIKE-FIRST or STRIKE-LAST constraints, so you could not pick a unit with STRIKE-LAST to fight immediately after a unit with STRIKE-FIRST. | ||
FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | Can I use an ability that allows a friendly unit that does not have STRIKE-FIRST to fight immediately after a friendly unit that has STRIKE-FIRST if there are one or more enemy units with STRIKE-FIRST that have not yet been picked to fight? |
| A: | No. As mentioned in the sidebar next to 19.0, abilities that allow a unit to use a FIGHT ability immediately after another unit do not override the STRIKE-FIRST constraints, so you cannot pick a unit that does not have STRIKE-FIRST to fight until all other units that have STRIKE-FIRST have fought. |
| Q: | If a friendly unit is the only unit that has STRIKE-FIRST on the battlefield and it has an ability that allows a friendly unit to fight immediately after it, in what order would units be picked to fight? |
| A: | If you are the active player, the unit that has STRIKE-FIRST would fight first, then you could use the ability to allow another friendly unit to fight immediately after it, and then you would pick the next unit to fight (i.e. three friendly units would fight back to back). If your opponent is the active player, the unit that has STRIKE-FIRST would fight first, you could still use the ability to allow another friendly unit to fight, and then your opponent would pick the next unit to fight. |
| Q: | In the combat phase, if all eligible non-STRIKE‑LAST units have used a FIGHT ability, which player gets to pick the first STRIKE-LAST unit to fight? |
| A: | The alternating sequence of picking units to use a FIGHT ability would continue and so the player who did not pick the last non-STRIKE-LAST unit would get to pick the first eligible STRIKE-LAST unit in their army to use a FIGHT ability. |
Errata
19.0 STRIKE-FIRST and STRIKE-LAST
In the first sentence, replace ‘at the start of the phase’ with ‘after any non-FIGHT Combat Phase abilities have been used’.
STRIKE-LAST
Remove the following text from STRIKE-LAST:
‘If both players have units with STRIKE-LAST, they alternate fighting with those units after all other eligible units have fought, starting with the active player.’
‘If both players have units with STRIKE-LAST, they alternate fighting with those units after all other eligible units have fought, starting with the active player.’
STRIKE-LAST
In the glossary entry for STRIKE-LAST, remove ‘, starting with the active player’.
| Passive |
FLY: Soaring above the battlefield, this unit can reach destinations that are inaccessible to other troops.
Effect: As this unit moves, it ignores other models, terrain features and the combat ranges of enemy units. It cannot end its move in combat unless specified in the ability that allowed it to move. Ignore any vertical distance moved for this unit.
Anti-X (+1 Rend)
Add 1 to this weapon’s Rend characteristic if the target has the keyword after ‘Anti-’ or fulfils the condition after ‘Anti-’. Multiples of this ability are cumulative. For example, if a weapon has both Anti-charge (+1 Rend) and Anti-HERO (+1 Rend), then add 2 to the Rend characteristic of the weapon for attacks that target a HERO that charged in the same turn.The MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE and HERO keywords are used in the following Maggotkin of Nurgle warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
| Any Hero Phase | 1 |
RALLY: With an inspiring call to action, wounded soldiers get a second wind and fresh troops take the field to replace their fallen comrades.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is not in combat to use this ability.
Effect: Make 6 rally rolls of D6. For each 4+, you receive 1 rally point. Rally points can be spent in the following ways:
Effect: Make 6 rally rolls of D6. For each 4+, you receive 1 rally point. Rally points can be spent in the following ways:
- For each rally point spent, Heal (1) that unit.
- You can spend a number of rally points equal to the Health characteristic of that unit to return a slain model to that unit.
24.2 Replacement Units
Some abilities allow you to set up a replacement unit. When setting up that unit, it should have the same warscroll type, weapon options and number of models as the original unit, unless otherwise specified in the ability. Many of these abilities specify the proportion of models in the replacement unit (e.g. half the number of models from the original unit). In these cases, you can pick which models from the original unit are set up.The replacement unit is otherwise treated as a new unit; any keywords or abilities the original unit gained during the battle, and any persisting effects that applied to it, do not apply to the replacement unit. Each unit can only be replaced once, and you cannot replace replacement units.
If the original unit was reinforced and the replacement unit has more than half the number of models from the original unit, the replacement unit is considered to be reinforced.
| Because a replacement unit is treated as a completely new unit, it could, for instance, use a Once Per Battle ability on its warscroll even if the unit it replaced used that ability earlier in the battle. | ||
FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | If a destroyed unit had an enhancement, and an ability allows me to set up a replacement of that unit, would the replacement unit also have that enhancement? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | If an ability allows a replacement unit to be set up with half the models from the original unit, and the original unit has to have a certain proportion of models equipped with specific weapons, does the new unit also need to adhere to the same restrictions? |
| A: | No. As stated in 24.2, you can pick any models from the original unit to be set up in the replacement unit. |
| Q: | If an ability allows a replacement unit to be set up with half the models from the original unit, could I then use an ability such as ‘Rally’ to return models to that unit until it reached the unit size of the original unit? |
| A: | No. A replacement unit is treated as a new unit with a new unit size. |
Errata
Addenda: 24.2 Replacement Units
Add the following:
‘If the original unit was reinforced and the replacement unit has more than half the number of models from the original unit, the replacement unit is considered to be reinforced.'
‘If the original unit was reinforced and the replacement unit has more than half the number of models from the original unit, the replacement unit is considered to be reinforced.'
| Reaction: Opponent declared an ATTACK ability | 1 |
ALL-OUT DEFENCE: The soldiers close ranks to hold off an incoming attack.
Used By: A unit targeted by that ATTACK ability.
Effect: Add 1 to save rolls for that unit until that ATTACK ability has been resolved.
Effect: Add 1 to save rolls for that unit until that ATTACK ability has been resolved.
| Reaction: You declared an ATTACK ability | 1 |
ALL-OUT ATTACK: The warriors fight with frenzied vigour.
Used By: The unit using that ATTACK ability.
Effect: Add 1 to hit rolls for attacks made as part of that ATTACK ability. This also affects weapons that have the Companion weapon ability. For the rest of the turn, subtract 1 from save rolls for the unit using this ability.
Effect: Add 1 to hit rolls for attacks made as part of that ATTACK ability. This also affects weapons that have the Companion weapon ability. For the rest of the turn, subtract 1 from save rolls for the unit using this ability.
Crit (Auto-wound)
If an attack made with this weapon scores a critical hit, that attack automatically wounds the target. Make a save roll as normal.