Battlefield Fortifications – Skyshield Landing Pad
These structures are designed to allow for combat aircraft to easily deposit or collect warriors from the battlefield. Offering a stable platform for disembarkation under fire, it means that insertion into enemy territory can be accomplished more efficiently and with less risk of injury to the warriors entering battle. While they do not mount heavy cannon or boast thick defensive walls, these humble platforms can prove decisive in a fast moving conflict.
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| Skyshield Landing Pad (⌀Use model) | 11 | 6 |
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- Platform
- Landing Pad
- Forward Deployment
- Fortification (Structure)
Platform
This fortification is constructed to allow infantry to use it as a fighting platform or mustering ground.
Models can be placed on top of this Model as if it were an Area of Terrain.Models can move over and end a move on top of this Model, treating it as if it were an area of Light Area Terrain. However, unlike other Areas of Terrain, protrusions and other parts of the Model do block Line of Sight.
Landing Pad
The Skyshield is designed to allow for an easy embarkation and disembarkation point for warriors and supplies carried by aerial transports.
If a Model with the Flyer Sub-Type that is assigned a Drop Mission ends a Move made as part of that Mission within 3" of a Model with this Special Rule, the Controlling Player may choose to deploy any disembarking Models onto any point on the Model with this Special Rule instead of in Base Contact with the Flyer Model they were Embarked upon.Likewise, if a Model with the Flyer Sub-Type that has been assigned an Extraction Mission ends a Move made as part of that Mission within 3" of a Model with this Special Rule, then any friendly Unit that has all of its Models in base contact with the Model with this Special Rule may immediately be Embarked on the Model with the Flyer Sub-Type.
Forward Deployment
These fortifications are often deployed ahead of the main advance to provide cover for an assault or to close a gap in the lines of an advance. Airdropped from another craft or even a spaceship in low orbit, special single use thrusters ensure the bunker survives its fall and can start defensive operations almost immediately
A Model with this Special Rule can be deployed anywhere on the Battlefield that is at least 12" from any point within the opposing Player’s Deployment Zone.This datasheet has Fortification Battlefield Role. Full list of Battlefield Fortifications units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:
The Cybertheurgist Trait is used in the following Forces of the Taghmata datasheets:
The most basic of the Cybertheurgist’s arts allowed them to boost the output of the reactors that powered the various machines in their charge. While such manipulation ran the risk of burning out actuators, voiding cortex chips or crippling electrical relays, it also proved a significant boost to combat prowess.
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Restrictions: The Target Unit for this Cybertheurgic Rite must be a friendly Unit that is not Locked in Combat and includes only Models with the Automata, Walker or Vehicle Types or the Cybertheurgist Trait. This Cybertheurgic Rite may not target a Unit that includes any Models with the Super-heavy or Knight Sub-Types.
Effect: When Invoked, this Cybertheurgic Rite grants all Models in the Target Unit one of the following Cybertheurgic Statuses, chosen by the Controlling Player (all Models must be granted the same Status): Quicken, Fortify or Guide.
Duration: The Cybertheurgic Status granted by this Cybertheurgic Rite is automatically removed in the Controlling Player’s next Start Phase and after the Cybertheurgic Status is removed the Target Unit suffers Cybertheurgic Feedback.
In the terrible darkness of the Horus Heresy many among the ranks of the Mechancum swiftly found ways to use their arcane knowledge to undo the works of those of their kin they now called enemy. The subtle data-djinn used to empower a machine could also be turned against it, forcing servos past their tolerance, burning out circuitry and overcharging weapons systems.
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Restrictions: The Target Unit for this Cybertheurgic Rite must be an enemy Unit that is not Locked in Combat and includes only Models with the Automata, Walker or Vehicle Types or the Cybertheurgist Trait.
Effect: When this Cybertheurgic Rite is Invoked, all Models in the Target Unit immediately lose all Cybertheurgic Statuses they have. If any Cybertheurgic Statuses are removed due to the use of this Cybertheurgic Rite, then the Target Unit suffers Cybertheurgic Feedback and if more than one Cybertheurgic Status is removed then the number of wounds inflicted on the Unit by Cybertheurgic Feedback is increased to 2 Wounds for each Model in that Unit.
Duration: This Cybertheurgic Rite is resolved immediately.
Some tech-priests focussed their skills not on the manipulation of technology on a grand scale, but on the subtle control of hand cogitator and optic relay. In war, such adepts could confound the enemy by debilitating key wargear mid-battle, leaving the foe shorn of the technology they relied on.
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Restrictions: The Target Unit for this Cybertheurgic Rite must be an enemy Unit that is not Locked in Combat. This Cybertheurgic Rite may not target a Unit that includes any Models with the Paragon Type or Super-heavy Sub-Type.
Effect: When this Cybertheurgic Rite is Invoked, all Models in the Target Unit gain one of the following Tactical Statuses: Stunned or Suppressed (All Models in the Unit must gain the same Tactical Status, chosen by the Player that Invoked this Cybertheurgic Rite). If this Cybertheurgic Rite is unsuccessfully Invoked then the Unit that includes the Focus suffers Cybertheurgic Feedback.
Duration: This Cybertheurgic Rite is resolved immediately.
The most powerful cybertheurgists were capable not only of boosting the prowess of their charges, but also of implanting temporary programming shunts. These were intended to allow even simple automata to react with more haste to the changing nature of the battlefield, though at the risk of damage to their internal systems.
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Restrictions: The Target Unit for this Cybertheurgic Rite must be a friendly Unit that is not Locked in Combat and includes only Models with the Automata or Vehicle Types or the Cybertheurgist Trait. This Cybertheurgic Rite may not target a Unit that includes any Models with the Super-heavy or Knight Sub-Types.
Effect: When Invoked, this Cybertheurgic Rite grants all Models in the Target Unit one of the following Cybertheurgic Statuses, chosen by the Controlling Player (all Models must be granted the same Status): Quicken, Fortify or Guide. If the Target Unit makes a Reaction in the Controlling Player’s next Turn as the Reactive Player following a successful Invocation of this Cybertheurgic Rite it does not cost a point of that Player’s Reaction Allotment, but instead the Cybertheurgic Status granted by this Cybertheurgic Rite is removed.
Duration: If the Cybertheurgic Status granted by this Cybertheurgic Rite is not removed in order to make a Reaction, then it is automatically removed in the Controlling Player’s next Start Phase. Immediately after the Cybertheurgic Status granted by this Cybertheurgic Rite is removed the Target Unit suffers Cybertheurgic Feedback.
The Lacrymaerta Trait is used in the following Forces of the Taghmata datasheets:
While the vast majority of the servants of the Lacrymaerta are flesh rather than steel, the complex web of implants and augmetics that enslaves them allows their masters to employ Cybertheurgy on them. Though it is more difficult to coax the same performance from sinew and bone, the effect in battle can be worth the difficulty. Sadly, the flesh of servitors and thralls rarely survives the ministrations of their masters, fortunately it is considered easily replaceable.
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Restrictions: The Target Unit for this Cybertheurgic Rite must be a Friendly Unit that is not Locked in Combat and includes only Models with the Lacrymaerta Trait.
Effect: When Invoked, this Cybertheurgic Rite grants all Models in the Target Unit one of the following Cybertheurgic Statuses, chosen by the Controlling Player (all Models must be granted the same Status): Quicken or Fortify.
Duration: The Cybertheurgic Status granted by this Cybertheurgic Rite is automatically removed in the Controlling Player’s next Start Phase and after the Cybertheurgic Status is removed the Target Unit suffers Cybertheurgic Feedback.
With calculated disregard for terror and pain inflicted on their own charges, the priests of the Lacrymaerta have been known to intentionally push their servants past tolerance when battle threatens to overwhelm them. The explosive demise of units whose end was inevitable may yet take some few of the enemy with them - a worthy trade in the eyes of the flesh-smiths of the Lacrymaerta.
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Restrictions: The Target Unit for this Cybertheurgic Rite must be a friendly Unit that includes only Models with the Lacrymaerta Trait, is affected by at least one Cybertheurgic Status and that is Locked in Combat with one or more enemy Units.
Effect: When this Cybertheurgic Rite is Invoked, all Models in the Target Unit immediately lose all Cybertheurgic Statuses they have. If any Cybertheurgic Statuses are removed then the Target Unit suffers Cybertheurgic Feedback - if any Models in the Target Unit are Removed as Casualties then all other Units in the same Combat (friendly and enemy) suffer two Hits at Strength 6, with an AP of 5 and a Damage of 1 for each Model Removed as a Casualty in the Target Unit. Models Removed as Casualties due to this Rite are not counted for the purpose of Combat Resolution.
Duration: This Cybertheurgic Rite is resolved immediately.
The Reductor Trait is used in the following Forces of the Taghmata datasheets:
The cybernetic creations of the Ordo Reductor had always been more complex engines than simple automata, blending the nervous system of a living being with a cold skeleton of metal. When the priests of the Ordo Reductor let slip the limiters of the Thallax’s reactors it boosted the output of their metal frames, but tormented the living nerves with searing pain, often seeing them loose terrible screams as they were driven into a frenzy.
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Restrictions: The Target Unit for this Cybertheurgic Rite must be a friendly Unit that is not Locked in Combat and includes only Models with the Reductor Trait.
Effect: When this Cybertheurgic Rite Invoked it grants all Models in the Target Unit one of the following Cybertheurgic Statuses, chosen by the Controlling Player (all Models must be granted the same Status): Quicken, Fortify or Guide.
Duration: The Cybertheurgic Status granted by this Cybertheurgic Rite is automatically removed in the Controlling Player’s next Start Phase and after the Cybertheurgic Status is removed the Target Unit suffers Cybertheurgic Feedback.
The priests of the Ordo Reductor know well the arts of lock and bolt, there are few doors or portals whose mechanisms they cannot subvert. If they can force a passage to any fortress’ gate then they have no need of cannon or drill to pierce its protections, and those that cower inside must face their wrath without the protection of the tall walls or tank’s gullet.
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Restrictions: The Target Unit for this Cybertheurgic Rite must be a Building, Fortification or a Unit that is not Locked in Combat and is composed of a single Model with the Vehicle Type.
Effect: When Invoked, all Models Embarked on the Target Unit must immediately make an Emergency Disembarkation and the Target Unit suffers Cybertheurgic Feedback.
Duration: This Cybertheurgic Rite is resolved immediately.
The Myrmidax Trait is used in the following Forces of the Taghmata datasheets:
The adepts of the Myrmidax have always been some of the most ancient of the creeds of Mars, and within the data-engrams of their remote storage was kept the centuries of accumulated wisdom, the bitterness of defeat and the glory of victory. The tech-priests of that order could loose that ancient data to boost the prowess of their warriors and suffuse their augmetics with the fury of warriors long dead.
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Restrictions: The Target Unit for this Cybertheurgic Rite must be a Friendly Unit that includes only Models with the Myrmidax Trait. This Cybertheurgic Rite may target Units that are Locked in Combat.
Effect: When this Cybertheurgic Rite is Invoked, it grants all Models in the Target Unit one of the following Cybertheurgic Statuses, chosen by the Controlling Player (all Models must be granted the same Status): Fortify or Guide.
Duration: The Cybertheurgic Status granted by this Cybertheurgic Rite is automatically removed in the Controlling Player’s next Start Phase and after the Cybertheurgic Status is removed the Target Unit suffers Cybertheurgic Feedback.
- Overcharged Reactors+5 Points
- Cogitator Purge+10 Points
- Chastise the Machine Spirit+25 Points
The following Cybertheurgic Rite may only be selected for an Archmagos or Archmagos on Abeyant:
- Programming Interrupt+20 Points
The following Cybertheurgic Rites may only be selected for a Model with both the Cybertheurgist and
- Flesh-knit Protocols+5 Points
- Omega Protocols+15 Points
The following Cybertheurgic Rites may only be selected for a Model with both the Cybertheurgist and Reductor Traits:
- Deactivate Limiters+5 Points
- Unseal the Portal+20 Points
The following Cybertheurgic Rite may only be selected for a Model with both the Cybertheurgist and Myrmidax Traits:
- Fury of Ages+5 Points
Military buildings are often vital to defensive operations, serving to shelter vulnerable troops, mount heavy guns or deploy other technological defences. During the Horus Heresy almost every force made use of such defences, though they were rarely considered a decisive element in any order of battle.
The following Rules apply to all Models with the Fortification Type:- A Model with the Fortification Type can never be moved by any Rule or effect after it has been Deployed.
- A Model with the Fortification Type can never be placed into Reserves and must always be deployed at the start of a Battle (see the Rules for deploying Fortifications).
- A Model with the Fortification Type may never Hold, Control or Contest an Objective Marker of any kind.
- A Model with the Fortification Type can never be affected by any kind of Status, including both Tactical Statuses and Cybertheurgic Statuses. However, such a Model can be affected by Cybertheurgic Rites that do not apply a Cybertheurgic Status.
- A Unit that includes a Model with the Fortification Type may never be joined by any other Models of any Type.
- A Model with the Fortification Type cannot make Reactions of any kind, unless a specific Sub-Type states otherwise.
These fortifications are often deployed ahead of the main advance to provide cover for an assault or to close a gap in the lines of an advance. Airdropped from another craft or even a spaceship in low orbit, special single use thrusters ensure the bunker survives its fall and can start defensive operations almost immediately
A Model with this Special Rule can be deployed anywhere on the Battlefield that is at least 12" from any point within the opposing Player’s Deployment Zone.Structures are specialised fortifications that carry no weapons, nor allow troops to shelter within, but instead allow the deployment of rare technological devices. From communications platforms to void shield generators, these platforms may seem irrelevant in the face of armoured gun turrets, but when wisely used can be equally as powerful.
The following Rules apply to all Models with the Structure Sub-Type:- A Model with the Structure Sub-Type can be Captured (see the Rules for Capturing Fortifications).
This fortification is constructed to allow infantry to use it as a fighting platform or mustering ground.
Models can be placed on top of this Model as if it were an Area of Terrain.Models can move over and end a move on top of this Model, treating it as if it were an area of Light Area Terrain. However, unlike other Areas of Terrain, protrusions and other parts of the Model do block Line of Sight.
The Skyshield is designed to allow for an easy embarkation and disembarkation point for warriors and supplies carried by aerial transports.
If a Model with the Flyer Sub-Type that is assigned a Drop Mission ends a Move made as part of that Mission within 3" of a Model with this Special Rule, the Controlling Player may choose to deploy any disembarking Models onto any point on the Model with this Special Rule instead of in Base Contact with the Flyer Model they were Embarked upon.Likewise, if a Model with the Flyer Sub-Type that has been assigned an Extraction Mission ends a Move made as part of that Mission within 3" of a Model with this Special Rule, then any friendly Unit that has all of its Models in base contact with the Model with this Special Rule may immediately be Embarked on the Model with the Flyer Sub-Type.
A zone of closely packed Terrain is considered Area Terrain. Any Area Terrain on the Battlefield must have a clearly delineated zone which it covers, as agreed by all Players. As with Terrain Pieces, some Area Terrain may have a Base, but these are ignored for the purposes of measuring distances or adjudicating the placement of Models - other Models may be placed on top of an Area Terrain Base, and never count as being in Base Contact with Area Terrain. When placing a zone of Area Terrain, the Players must define a boundary for that zone of Area Terrain. This can be the Base, if the zone has one, or any other clear boundary point that shows where the Area Terrain begins and ends.
Any Model that is within the boundary of a zone of Area Terrain is eligible for a Cover Save and all zones of Area Terrain are also considered Difficult Terrain. The Cover Save provided by a given zone of Area Terrain is determined by its class, either Light Area Terrain, Medium Area Terrain or Heavy Area Terrain, as noted below:
- Light Area Terrain provides a 6+ Cover Saves to all Models within its boundaries.
- Medium Area Terrain provides a 5+ Cover Save to all Models within its boundaries.
- Heavy Area Terrain provides a 4+ Cover Save to all Models within its boundaries.
Medium Area Terrain blocks Line of Sight if that Line of Sight passes through more than 3" of an Area of Terrain. Heavy Area Terrain always blocks Line of Sight, Models within Heavy Area Terrain cannot ever draw Line of Sight to any other Models and Models outside of Heavy Area Terrain cannot draw Line of Sight to Models within Heavy Area Terrain. Line of Sight can never be drawn through Heavy Area Terrain, regardless of the distance covered by the Terrain. Light Area Terrain does not block Line of Sight.
Some Areas of Terrain may include multiple levels, such as ruins with more than one floor upon which Models can be placed. These follow all of the usual Rules for Terrain levels, and the floors are all considered as being within the same Area of Terrain - with the exception that Weapons with the Blast (X) and Barrage Special Rules are only required to attack the uppermost floor if the Target Model or point on the Battlefield is on one of the numbered floors or on the Battlefield surface directly under the first Terrain level. This is intended to stop attacks targeting Models distant from any levels within an Area of Terrain being unfairly protected from attack by Weapons with the Barrage Special Rule.
To determine Line of Sight, use a tape measure or other device to determine if an unbroken straight line can be drawn between the first Model and its target. If a piece of Terrain, Model with the Vehicle Type or other obstruction breaks the line between those two Models then there is no Line of Sight, if the line is unobstructed then both Models have Line of Sight to each other.
When determining if a Model has Line of Sight to a Unit, it only needs to have Line of Sight to one Model that is part of that Unit. This does not grant that Model Line of Sight to any other Models in the Unit that are otherwise hidden and does not affect how or to which Models wounds or Hits can be assigned.
- Whilst on the Battlefield, a Model with the Flyer Sub-Type does not block Line of Sight or the Movement of any Model.
- When moving a Model with the Flyer Sub-Type, ignore all Terrain effects and Rules. However, a Model with the Flyer Sub-Type may still not end a move in or on Impassable Terrain, a Terrain Feature or a Building.
- Models with the Flyer Sub-Type may move through Models with the Vehicle Type, but never inflict Hits on enemy Units they move through and are never eligible to be the Target of the Death or Glory Advanced Reaction.
- No Model of any kind may join a Unit that includes a Model with the Flyer Sub-Type.
- A Model with the Flyer Sub-Type can never gain any Tactical Statuses and ignores any Rules that would force it to do so.
- A Model with the Flyer Sub-Type may never be Locked in Combat or attacked in any way during the Assault Phase and may not be targeted by attacks made using a Melee Weapon.
- A Model with the Flyer Sub-Type may never make a Reaction of any kind, unless that Reaction specifically states it may be made by Models with the Flyer Sub-Type - but can be targeted by Reactions.
- When a Player is instructed to roll on the Vehicle Damage Table for a Model with this Sub-Type, no roll is made. Instead, the Model loses a single Hull Point.
During the Move Sub-Phase of the Movement Phase, when a Player selects a Model with the Transport Sub-Type that they control, the Player may choose to Disembark a Unit Embarked upon that Model (as long as that Unit did not Embark in the same Movement Phase). A Unit may only Disembark before the Model it is Embarked upon has moved or after it has finished moving, not part way through a Unit’s move. Once a Unit has Disembarked from a Model that has moved in that Move Sub-Phase, the Model it was Embarked upon may not move any further that same Phase. Conversely, a Model that has not yet moved, but from which a Unit has Disembarked, may still move as normal.
In the Movement Phase, a Model with an Extraction Mission can be selected and must then move up to a number of inches equal to its Movement Characteristic straight forwards without turning. At this point a Combat Air Patrol can be declared by the Reactive Player. Once any Combat Air Patrol Reactions have been resolved, an eligible Unit that has all of its Models within 2" may Embark upon the Model performing the Extraction Mission, even if that Unit has a Tactical Status that would prevent it from being able to Embark. Note that the Model assigned the Extraction Mission uses the edge of its flying base as an Access Point.
In the Shooting Phase, a Model that has been assigned an Extraction Mission may make Shooting Attacks, but may only attack with Defensive Weapons. At the end of the Controlling Player’s Shooting Phase, the Model assigned an Extraction Mission is removed from play and returned to Aerial Reserves. Any Units Embarked upon the Model assigned an Extraction Mission remain Embarked while this Model is in Aerial Reserves, but any Tactical Statuses the Models in the Embarked Unit have are removed.