Adeptus Mechanicus
Welcome to the rules section of Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus. Whether forging your own tales of glory and infamy with narrative play or pitting yourself against your opponents in nail-biting matched play contests, the following pages present all the rules you will need to bring your Adeptus Mechanicus collection to life on the tabletop.
These include Detachment rules that Adeptus Mechanicus armies can use, along with the Adeptus Mechanicus army rule - Doctrina Imperatives - which is common to many of your units. This section also includes datasheets for Adeptus Mechanicus units; you can find out more about how to use datasheets in Core Rules.Books
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Adeptus Mechanicus | ||||
| Adeptus Mechanicus | Codex | 10 | 1.1 | October 2024 |
 Munitorum Field Manual | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual | Expansion | 10 | 2.3 | March 2025 |
 Legends Field Manual | ||||
| Legends Field Manual | Expansion | 10 | 2.1 | March 2025 |
 Balance Dataslate | ||||
| Balance Dataslate | Rulebook | 10 | March 2025 | March 2025 |
 Grotmas Calendar: Adeptus Mechanicus - Haloscreed Battle Clade | ||||
| Grotmas Calendar: Adeptus Mechanicus - Haloscreed Battle Clade | Expansion | 10 | January 2025 | |
 Boarding Actions | ||||
| Boarding Actions | Expansion | 10 | 1.0 | October 2024 |
| Legends: Adeptus Mechanicus | ||||
| Legends: Adeptus Mechanicus | Datasheet | 10 | September 2024 | |
 Horus Heresy Legends: Adeptus Mechanicum | ||||
| Horus Heresy Legends: Adeptus Mechanicum | Datasheet | 10 | September 2024 | |
FAQ
Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus
| Q: | If I target a unit with the Auto-divinatory Targeting Stratagem while the Protector Imperative is active for my army, in what order are the Ballistic Skill modifiers applied? |
| A: | The Ballistic Skill characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit is first changed to 3+ by the Stratagem, then improved by 1 by the Protector Imperative, for a final result of 2+ (assuming no other modifiers apply). |
Introduction
The Detachment rule listed here will apply to either your whole army or to particular units within it.
When mustering your army, your chosen Detachment enables you to upgrade CHARACTERS using the Enhancements listed here, as described in the Core Rules (see the Select Units step). If you are playing a Crusade battle, you can instead use the Renowned Heroes Requisition to give your CHARACTERS Enhancements, as described in the main Crusade rules.
Your chosen Detachment gives you access to the Stratagems listed here in addition to the Core Stratagems listed in the Core Rules. During the battle, you can spend Command points (CP) to use these Stratagems.
Army Rules
Doctrina Imperatives
An Adeptus Mechanicus army marching to war is a sight both terrifying and glorious, each holy warrior a disturbing fusion of Human and machine. While the ruling Tech-Priests and their fanatical followers raise modified voices in praise of the Machine God, their Skitarii soldiery and Servitor creations are controlled by doctrina imperatives loaded by their masters to augment and adapt the warriors’ abilities.
At the start of the battle round, you can select one of the Doctrina Imperatives below. Until the end of the battle round, that Doctrina Imperative is active for your army, and all units from your army that have the Doctrina Imperatives ability gain the relevant abilities shown below.Protector Imperative
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Conqueror Imperative
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Rad-Zone Corps
Rad-bombardment
Whether as a result of natural phenomena, apocalyptic internecine strife or calamitous accidents, many forge worlds are heavily irradiated. When holy wars of requisition are unleashed, the Tech-Priests think nothing of turning this invisible curse upon their foes, bombarding the battlefield with deadly radiation prior to an assault.
At the start of the first battle round, for each enemy unit within your opponents deployment zone, your opponent must decide whether that unit will take cover or stand firm. You then roll one D6 for each of those enemy units and apply the relevant result below:
- Unit Standing Firm: On a 3+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
- Unit Taking Cover: Until the end of the battle round, that unit is Battle-shocked and, on a 5+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
At the start of your Command phase during the second, third, fourth and fifth battle rounds, roll one D6 for each enemy unit within your opponent’s deployment zone. On a 3+, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound and must take a Battle-shock test.
Enhancements
By transmitting their precision battlefield observations, this servant of the Omnissiah ensures the saturation of the enemy position is a creeping curse, spreading a hazardous suffusion towards those foes seeking to outrun the vengeance of the Machine God. ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model only. From the second battle round onwards, when resolving the Fallout effect of the Rad-bombardment Detachment rule, if the bearer is on the battlefield, roll one D6 for each enemy unit within 6" of your opponent’s deployment zone, in addition to those that are within your opponent’s deployment zone. |
This master of splintered choruses leads their followers in a projection of clashing frequencies. Scanners and sensoriums trained in their direction are befouled by the disruptive input. ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Stealth ability. |
This perfectionist zealot directs their minions in the rapid and single-minded termination of all enemies of the Omnissiah. ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. |
This devotee harbours a fanatical hatred of the biological. They have learned the secret weaknesses inherent in all flesh and do not hesitate to exploit them. ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model only. Ranged weapons equipped by the bearer have the [ANTI-INFANTRY 2+] and [ANTI-MONSTER 4+] abilities. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army (excluding VEHICLE units) that was selected as the target of one or more of that enemy unit’s attacks. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time an attack is made that targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One TECH-PRIEST model from your army and one objective marker within 24" of that model.
EFFECT: Roll one D6 for each enemy unit within range of that objective marker. On a 4+, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound and it must take a Battle-shock test.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time one of those units Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in one of those units makes a ranged attack, if the target of that attack is within your opponent’s deployment zone, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in those units from your army have a 4+ invulnerable save.
Skitarii Hunter Cohort
Stealth Optimisation
Hunter Cohorts combine a mastery of stealth warfare and cogitational analysis with stealth screen projectors and target-fouling apparatuses. They are elusive foes to face, and especially sinister to those they have designated as prey.
SKITARII INFANTRY, SKITARII MOUNTED and IRONSTRIDER BALLISTARII units from your army have the Stealth ability, and each time a ranged attack targets a SICARIAN unit from your army, unless the attacking model is within 12", the target has the Benefit of Cover against that attack.Enhancements
Proclaimed to be a direct data-link to the will of the Omnissiah himself, this neuro-entanglement matrix allows for hyper-optimised combat cogitation. SKITARII MARSHAL model only. At the start of the battle round, you can select one friendly SKITARII unit within 12" of the bearer. Until the start of the next battle round, the Protector Imperative and the Conqueror Imperative are both active for that unit. |
Under cover of auspex scramblers, this holy soldier leads their fellows in a stealthy advance. SKITARII model only. The bearer, and models in any unit they are leading, have the Infiltrators and Scouts 6" abilities. |
In silent supplication, a concentrated burst of noospheric negation manifests as a heavy band of shadow. Under this shroud, this commanders warriors obfuscate the foe’s sensors and confuse their strategy. SKITARII MARSHAL model only. After both players have deployed their armies, you can select up to three SKITARII INFANTRY units from your army and redeploy all of those units. When doing so, any of those units can be placed into Strategic Reserves, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves. |
Tapping into infostacks of data emanating from across the wider battle-sphere, this experienced Skitarius synchronises with the flow of wisdom, drawing upon data that enables near-prophetic reactions. SKITARII model only. In your Shooting phase, after the bearer’s unit has shot, if it is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, that unit can make a Normal move of up to 6". If it does, until the end of the turn, that unit is not eligible to declare a charge. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One SICARIAN, PTERAXII or SYDONIAN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.
TARGET: Two SKITARII units from your army that have not been selected to shoot or fight this phase, and one enemy unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of weapons equipped by models in both of your units by 1.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in either of your units makes an attack, it can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target].
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
TARGET: One SICARIAN, PTERAXII, SYDONIAN,
IRONSTRIDER BALLISTARII or SKITARII MOUNTED unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if there are no other enemy units within 6" of the unit targeted by that attack, add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One SKITARII INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".
TARGET: Up to two SICARIAN units from your army, or one SKITARII INFANTRY or SKITARII MOUNTED unit from your army.
EFFECT: Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
RESTRICTIONS: Each unit targeted with this Stratagem must be more than 3" away from all enemy units.
Data-Psalm Conclave
Benedictions Of The Omnissiah
The Tech-Priests of the Omnissiah lead their disciples in a cortege of war. The buzz of static psalms chanted in synchronicity unites all in the stately eradication of the heretic and blasphemer.
At the start of the first battle round, select one of the following Benedictions of the Omnissiah to be active for CULT MECHANICUS units from your army until the end of the battle:Panegyric Procession
Each time a CULT MECHANICUS model from your army makes a ranged attack that targets a unit within half range, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Citation in Savagery
Each time a CULT MECHANICUS unit from your army is selected to fight, if that unit made a Charge move this turn, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in that unit.
Enhancements
Amongst every congregation of Tech-Priests are masters of arcane knowledge - inspirational leaders of the cybernetic and the mechanical. TECH-PRIEST model only. The bearer has a Leadership characteristic of 6+ and, once per battle, at the start of any phase, you can select one friendly CULT MECHANICUS unit that is Battle-shocked and within 12" of the bearer. That unit is no longer Battle-shocked. |
The toughened weave of this hooded robe includes hypo-ceramic threads, thermoplastics and terranic polymers that create a holy shroud capable of resisting the infernos of plasma reactors. TECH-PRIEST model only. Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 1. |
Struck with an infoload of revelation, truly blessed Tech-Priests will override the sacred canticles to deliver the Machine God’s adaptive wisdom. TECH-PRIEST model only. Once per battle, at the start of your Command phase, you can select the Benediction of the Omnissiah you did not select at the start of the first battle round. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Benediction of the Omnissiah is active for the bearer’s unit in addition to the one that is currently active for your army. |
The Temporcopia is a relic from the Dark Age of Technology that releases a swarm of nano-engineered machines. These invisible devices seek out nearby prey, briefly draining electro-chemical potential before their power expires. Enemy warriors slow and stumble, at the mercy of the Tech-Priest’s bodyguard. TECH-PRIEST model only. The bearer’s unit has the Fights First ability. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That CULT MECHANICUS model’s unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, CULT MECHANICUS models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 4+ ability against mortal wounds.
TARGET: One CULT MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a CULT MECHANICUS model in your unit makes a melee attack, add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One CULT MECHANICUS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a CULT MECHANICUS model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 4+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One CULT MECHANICUS unit from your army and one enemy unit within 18" of it.
EFFECT: That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test. If that test is failed, until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One CULT MECHANICUS unit from your army.
EFFECT: Roll one D6 for each enemy unit within 6" of one or more CULT MECHANICUS models in your unit, adding 1 to the result if that model is an ELECTRO-PRIEST. On a 5+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
TARGET: One CULT MECHANICUS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, CULT MECHANICUS models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
Explorator Maniple
Acquisition At Any Cost
In their eternal quest for the acquisition of knowledge and technology, Tech-Priests require superhuman efforts from the troops under their command.
At the start of your Command phase, select one objective marker. Until the start of your next Command phase, that objective marker is your Acquisition objective marker. Each time an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model from your army makes an attack, if that model’s unit is within range of your Acquisition objective marker, or if the target of that attack is within range of your Acquisition objective marker, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.Enhancements
Magi are masters of fiercely guarded knowledge, pursuing esoteric agendas at all costs. No risk is too great and no gambit too unwise in their ceaseless and predatory acquisition of ancient lore. TECH-PRIEST model only. At the end of your Command phase, if the bearer is within range of your Acquisition objective marker, roll one D6: on a 4+, you gain 1CP. |
Cyborg interfaces, genetic manipulation and alchemical behavioural modification are all avenues of interest to Genetors, and their enhanced creations are formidable in protecting their master’s divine work. TECH-PRIEST model only. While the bearer is leading a unit that is within range of your Acquisition objective marker, models in that unit have a 4+ invulnerable save. |
Data-vores and biocogitators, logi amass huge stores of information. They analyse data from thousands of sources, rationalising every weak point the foe has. It is a fool indeed that stands before a logi and their prize. TECH-PRIEST model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, each time a model in that unit makes an attack that targets a unit within range of your Acquisition objective marker, add 1 to the Hit roll. |
Artisans create wondrous artefacts of war. They install circuits of such beauty, and capacitor-nodes of such fine calibration, that their machine spirits respond with divine gratitude. TECH-PRIEST model only. While the bearer is leading a unit that is within range of your Acquisition objective marker, once per phase, you can change the result of one Hit roll, one Wound roll or one saving throw made for that unit to an unmodified 6. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that was just destroyed while it was within range of an objective marker you controlled. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3", provided your unit ends that Consolidation move within range of your Acquisition objective marker.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot target a unit with this Stratagem if it is within 3" of one or more enemy units.
TARGET: One TECH-PRIEST model from your army and one objective marker within 24" of that model (excluding your Acquisition objective marker].
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, that objective marker is also considered to be one of your Acquisition objective markers for all rules purposes.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit within range of your Acquisition objective marker, add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS INFANTRY unit
from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS SMOKE unit within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, both of those units have the Stealth ability and the Benefit of Cover.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS INFANTRY
unit from your army within range of your Acquisition objective marker that was selected as a target of that charge, and one friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS TRANSPORT.
EFFECT: Your unit can embark within that TRANSPORT.
RESTRICTIONS: Every model in your unit must be within 3" of that TRANSPORT and there must be sufficient transport capacity to embark the entire unit.
Cohort Cybernetica
Cyber-Psalm Programming
In advance of a Cohort Cyberneticas battles, the Legios most talented Datasmiths will feed dogmatic auto-scripture into the programming cores of their robotic charges, as well as oracular schematics and tactical hymnals that delineate the strategy to come. So blessed, the Cohorts robots add their own grinding chants of static to a systematic chorus of praise in the Omnissiah’s name.
LEGIO CYBERNETICA units from your army gain the Doctrina Imperatives army ruleEnhancements
The blessed healing of machinery is the sign of a true shepherd of the Omnissiah’s flock. TECH-PRIEST model only. Once per battle round, when a saving throw made for a friendly LEGIO CYBERNETICA or ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLE model within 12" of the bearer is failed, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If they do, change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 0. |
An intense burst of viral static can overload those machine spirits yoked to the service of the enemy. TECH-PRIEST model only. Once per turn, at the start of your opponent’s Shooting phase, select one enemy VEHICLE unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer. That unit must take a Leadership test: if that test is passed, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll; if that test is failed, that unit is not eligible to shoot this phase. |
With a mind unsullied by the passions common to the flesh, a Tech-Priest can entreat the machine spirit of a dying war engine to enact one final triumph. TECH-PRIEST model only. Once per turn, when a friendly LEGIO CYBERNETICA or ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLE model with the Deadly Demise ability that is within 12" of the bearer is destroyed, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, do not roll to determine whether any mortal wounds are inflicted as a result of that model’s Deadly Demise ability. Instead, mortal wounds are automatically inflicted. |
Feeding magneto-voltaic arcs and deadly frequencies into their weapons, the Tech-Priest is death incarnate to blasphemies against the Machine God. TECH-PRIEST model only. Ranged weapons equipped by the bearer have the [ANTI-VEHICLE 4+] ability. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLE unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 3" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit and add 1 to Advance and Charge rolls made for it.
TARGET: One LEGIO CYBERNETICA or ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLE unit from your army, and one objective marker.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have a Ballistic Skill characteristic of 3+ and the [IGNORES COVER] ability, but they can only target units within range of the selected objective marker.
TARGET: One LEGIO CYBERNETICA or ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLE unit from your army that is below its Starting Strength.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll. If your unit is Below Half-strength, you can re-roll the Wound roll as well.
TARGET: One LEGIO CYBERNETICA or ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLE unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back and you can ignore any or all modifiers to its characteristics and/or to any roll or test made for it (excluding modifiers to saving throws).
TARGET: One LEGIO CYBERNETICA or ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLE unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, the Conqueror Imperative and Protector Imperative are both active for your unit.
TARGET: One LEGIO CYBERNETICA or ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLE unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability, which is improved to Feel No Pain 5+ against mortal wounds.
Haloscreed Battle Clade
Tech-Priests often monitor their forces remotely, but those who lead battle clades take this intervention to an extreme, exerting even finer control over their thralls. Projecting fragments of their consciousness through the noospheric battle-sphere, they override the autonomy of their soldiery and inload tactical information, target coordinates and vector directives into cybernetic minds. Such assistance is gratefully received by the Machine God’s faithful, who feel blessed by the rush of divine wisdom and implanted knowledge.
Noospheric Transference
Tech-Priests can override the will of their thralls and project martial data inloads into the minds of their warriors, blessing the soldiery with endless streams of precisely tailored binharic code.
In your Command phase, select one or more ADEPTUS MECHANICUS units from your army (including units that are embarked within TRANSPORTS). The maximum number of units you can select depends on the battle size, as follows:
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Until the start of your next Command phase, those units gain the HALO OVERRIDE keyword. Then, select one of the Override abilities below. Until the start of your next Command phase, units from your army with the HALO OVERRIDE keyword have the selected Override ability:
Electromotive Energisation
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in this unit.
Microactuator Bracing
Add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of models in this unit.
Predation Protocols
This unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
Muted Servomotors
Models in this unit have the Stealth ability.
Enhancements
Inloaded with advanced combat protocols, tactical hymnals and holy autoscripture, these doctrina wafers grant greater autonomy and destructive might to the constructs of the Legio Cybernetica. CYBERNETICA DATASMITH model only. When the bearer is attached to a KASTELAN ROBOTS unit, until the end of the battle, models in that unit have the Doctrina Imperatives ability and gain the HALO OVERRIDE keyword. This unit cannot be selected when selecting units as part of the Noospheric Transference Detachment rule. |
From afar, the guiding hand of the Omnissian priesthood allows this warrior to process streams of sensory input and encoded imperatives simultaneously. ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model only (excluding CYBERNETICA DATASMITH models). The Conqueror Imperative and Protector Imperative are both active for the bearer’s unit. |
The ammunition borne to battle by this disciple of the Machine God and those at their command has been subjected to ritual anointings and autosermonic blessings, lending it far greater stability. ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model only. Add 6" to the range characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit and, each time a Hazardous test is taken for that unit, you can re-roll the result. |
The ancient noospheric receptors implanted into this field commander enable them to receive constant streams of binharic kill code and static prayer chants, lending them greater strength and martial prowess. TECH-PRIEST DOMINUS or TECH-PRIEST MANIPULUS model only. Add 3 to the Attacks characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons and add 1 to the Damage characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1, and, if it is a HALO OVERRIDE unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army.
EFFECT: If your unit is a HALO OVERRIDE unit, it suffers D3 mortal wounds. Select one Override ability. Until the start of your next Command phase, that ability is active for your unit.
Designer’s Note: This means that if the targeted unit already has the HALO OVERRIDE keyword, it can be affected by multiple Override abilities at the same time, but suffers mortal wounds to do so. Alternatively, if your unit does not have the HALO OVERRIDE keyword, it instead has the chosen Override ability until the start of your next Command phase, but does not benefit from any other Override abilities that are active.
TARGET: One SKORPIUS DUNERIDER model from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit disembarks from that model after it has made a Normal move, that unit is still eligible to declare a charge this turn.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back, and, if it is a Halo Override unit, you can re-roll Desperate Escape tests taken for it.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS INFANTRY unit (excluding KATAPHRON units) from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or up to 6" instead if it is a HALO OVERRIDE unit.
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles that are bespoke to ADEPTUS MECHANICUS units. You can find out more about Crusade armies in the main Crusade rules.
Your ADEPTUS MECHANICUS Crusade force will be seeking out rare pieces of archeotech for your TECH-PRIESTS to use in battle, as well as Power Sources to give them life. Additionally, they can take on the task, if you choose, of hunting legendary Archeotech Treasures.
AGENDAS
ADEPTUS MECHANICUS units can attempt to achieve unique Agendas in addition to those found in other publications. These represent the faction’s goals and their particular methods of waging war.
REQUISITIONS
ADEPTUS MECHANICUS armies have access to a number of bespoke Requisitions in addition to those found in other publications.
As they gain experience and prowess, ADEPTUS MECHANICUS units in your Crusade force can be given one of the Battle Traits in this section instead of one presented elsewhere.
CRUSADE RELICS
In addition to the Crusade Relics presented in other publications, ADEPTUS MECHANICUS CHARACTER models can claim one of the Adeptus Mechanicus Crusade Relics.
CRUSADE BADGES
Here you will find three Crusade Badges representing goals you can set yourself when campaigning with your Crusade force. Once you have achieved one, you could set yourself a new goal, or take the opportunity to start a new Crusade force.
The Search For Archeotech
If your Crusade force includes any ADEPTUS MECHANICUS units, it can embark upon the search for rare technological fragments, then assemble these into artefacts of formidable power.
Archeotech Parts
Each time you win a battle, roll one D6: on a 5+, your Crusade force acquires one Archeotech Part. You can either choose for that part to be a Power Source or determine its type by rolling one D6 and consulting the table below.Power Source
Archeotech PartD6
Assembling Archeotech Treasures
Once you have acquired an Archeotech Part and a Power Source, you can assemble them into an Archeotech Treasure using the Assemble Archeotech Requisition. To do so, you will need one Power Source and one of the following:
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Each time you assemble an Archeotech Treasure, remove the parts you used to assemble it from your Order of Battle, then select one TECH-PRIEST unit (excluding EPIC HEROES) from your Crusade force. That unit adds that Archeotech Treasure to its collection, and its Crusade points are increased by 1; make a note of this on its Crusade card.
When mustering your Crusade army, each TECH-PRIEST unit (excluding EPIC HEROES) from your Crusade army can be equipped with up to one of each of the following Archeotech Treasures from its collection:
- 1 archeotech weapon
- 1 archeotech force field
- 1 archeotech techno-arcana
Archeotech Weapon
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RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D |
| Electro-Fire Implants [ASSAULT, ANTI-INFANTRY 4+, TORRENT] | ||||||
| Electro-Fire Implants [ASSAULT, ANTI-INFANTRY 4+, TORRENT] | 12" | D6+3 | 3+ | 4 | 0 | 1 |
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D |
| Neural Jammer [DEVASTATING WOUNDS, PISTOL, PRECISION] | ||||||
| Neural Jammer [DEVASTATING WOUNDS, PISTOL, PRECISION] | 18" | 4 | 3+ | 4 | -2 | 1 |
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D |
| Nanoshard Projector [LETHAL HITS, PISTOL] | ||||||
| Nanoshard Projector [LETHAL HITS, PISTOL] | 12" | 3 | 3+ | 5 | -1 | 2 |
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D |
| Arc Annulus [ANTI-VEHICLE 3+, PISTOL] | ||||||
| Arc Annulus [ANTI-VEHICLE 3+, PISTOL] | 12" | 2 | 3+ | 7 | -1 | 2 |
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D |
| Electro-Fused Vambraces [PISTOL, SUSTAINED HITS 2] | ||||||
| Electro-Fused Vambraces [PISTOL, SUSTAINED HITS 2] | 12" | 6 | 3+ | 3 | -1 | 1 |
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D |
| Digital Cannon | ||||||
| Digital Cannon | 24" | 2 | 3+ | 6 | -1 | 3 |
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Legendary Archeotech
In addition to the Archeotech Treasures your TECH-PRIESTS can be equipped with, your Crusade force can also seek out pieces of Legendary Archeotech - unique artefacts that can turn the tide in particularly critical battles.COLLECT LOCATION DATA
Before a battle, just before you select Agendas, you can choose to search for Legendary Archeotech. If you do, at the end of the battle, instead of acquiring any Archeotech Parts, your Crusade force collects 1 piece of Location Data. Record your Location Data total on your Order of Battle.
SCAN FOR LEGENDARY ARCHEOTECH
Before a battle, just before you select Agendas, you can attempt to scan the battlefield for Legendary Archeotech using the Location Data you have collected. To do so, roll one D6 and add the result to your Location Data total. On a 10+, the scan succeeds - you have discovered a piece of Legendary Archeotech on the battlefield and can attempt to claim it.
Otherwise, the scan fails and you lose 1 piece of Location Data.
If the scan succeeds, you can select the Claim Legendary Archeotech Agenda (see below).
Legends of technological artefacts have been passed from one forge world to another. These devices must be found; sacrifices to acquire such knowledge are a small price to pay.
If you complete this Agenda, you can immediately add one piece of Legendary Archeotech to your Crusade force using the Legendary Archeotech table (see opposite), re-rolling any results that duplicate a piece your Crusade force already has. Whether you complete this Agenda or not, reduce your Location Data total by 10, to a minimum of 0.
At the end of the battle, if an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS CHARACTER unit from your Crusade army controls this marker, you have claimed the Legendary Archeotech and this Agenda is completed. If a CHARACTER unit from your opponent’s army controls it at the end of the battle, that CHARACTER unit gains 3XP.
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This device is an incorporeal vortex of encoded data that has haunted many repositories. The swirl of ancient logic is said to be a manifestation of the Machine God's spite, for myths portray its attendant machine spirits as viciously cursing the rival spirits of enemy engines.
According to the ravings of Magos Revka this terrifying weapon from the Dark Age of Technology unleashes nothing less than an echo of the Machine God’s own voice in an utterance not meant for the ears of mortals.
The bearer gains the following weapon for the battle:One Shot: The bearer can only shoot with this weapon once per battle.
Sonic Devastation: In your Shooting phase, after this model has shot, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks made with this weapon. Until the start of your next turn, worsen the Weapon Skill characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in that unit by 1.
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D |
| Syntaxik Charger [ANTI-INFANTRY 2+, DEVASTATING WOUNDS, ONE SHOT, SONIC DEVASTATION] | ||||||
| Syntaxik Charger [ANTI-INFANTRY 2+, DEVASTATING WOUNDS, ONE SHOT, SONIC DEVASTATION] | 24" | 8 | 3+ | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Little is known of this masterpiece of divinatory metrology, depicted carried by hieromartyrs of dozens of forge worlds throughout the millennia. This holy scanner is believed to be able to resonate when the bearer's most desired acquisition is nearby.
USING LEGENDARY ARCHEOTECH
If your Crusade force has claimed one or more pieces of Legendary Archeotech, you can choose to bring one of them into battle to help achieve your goals. To do so, before the battle, during the Purchase Requisitions step, you can purchase the Auto-Sermon of Deployment Requisition.
Agendas
If your Crusade army includes any ADEPTUS MECHANICUS units, you can select Agendas from those presented here.Efficiency and the rigid application of cause and effect are valued highly by the Tech-Priests - few other metrics of success are relevant.
- The Protector Imperative is active for your army and that SKITARII unit is wholly within your deployment zone.
- The Conqueror Imperative is active for your army and that enemy unit was wholly within your opponents deployment zone.
The greater the enemy’s mechanical giants, the greater their misuse of the Omnissiah’s gifts. The monstrosity must be purged in order to discover its secrets. Where there was once purity, the spark of life can yet be returned. Where there was only corruption, no part can be allowed to survive.
When that enemy unit is destroyed, place a marker on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed. At the end of the battle, if an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your Crusade army is within 3" of that marker, your Crusade force acquires one Archeotech Part.
The Omnissiah is all-seeing and all-knowing. Even in this forsaken place, those who vow to slay the unbelievers to the sonorous static-psalms demanded by doctrine may be granted divine inspiration.
Rumour and binharic whispers have led to this place, with the promise of an unplundered archeocrypt or the buried remnants of an ancient war. For those with the fortitude to break the seals on such an ancient repository, the rewards could be great indeed.
At the end of the turn, if that unit is within range of that objective marker, roll one D6: on a 3+, that unit gains 1XP; on a 6, your Crusade force gains 1 Archeotech Part as well.
Requisitions
If your Crusade army includes any ADEPTUS MECHANICUS units, you can spend Requisition points (RP) on any of the following Requisitions.After isolated periods of prayer to the Machine God, some Tech-Priests have declared themselves struck by new knowledge, reverently dismantling and then recombining ancient technology into new forms.
The process of mechanical creation is a holy act undertaken with choirs of droning servitors, scores of chanting priests, sacred oils poured from bronze ewers, candles made from the bilge grime of revered ships and finally the Canticle of Humble Obeisance broadcast in Novabyte before a cell of the Motive Force is presented. Such, at least, is the process in one forge temple among thousands.
Tech-Priests are loath to risk the most precious and storied artefacts of Humanity's past in the fires of war without intensive and ostentatious rituals of preservation. The benediction of the Omnissiah is invoked in incense-fogged rites that ring to choruses of binharic praise, as his guardianship is sought.
Tech-Priests have no hesitation in ruthlessly altering the neural cogitation of their cybernetic soldiers and thrall constructs to better serve their whims. The most aggressive disciples will alter their own synapses to suit the needs of the Omnissiah or their own ambitions.
Battle Traits
When an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit gains a Battle Trait, you can use one of the tables presented here to determine which Battle Trait that unit has gained.TECH-PRIEST UnitsD6
This lord of mechanisms is able to heal catastrophic damage done to servile war engines, even to entreat fading machine spirits back from the brink of extinction.
By hypercharging the very air around threatening foes, the Tech-Priest can scorch flesh and fry nerve ganglia.
The most talented Tech-Priests have honed their acquisitive skills through extreme self-augmentation.
This Tech-Priest maintains a sub-cranial node via which they suppress self-determinative instincts in their servants.
With a mechanical voice raised in exaltation, this zealot rouses loyal machine spirits to unleash a multi-spectral fanfare o f sensor-clouding static.
With an empyrically shielded device, this Tech-Priest can whisk their servants away in a teleportation flare.
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Cyborgised soldiery that repeatedly prove their great worth to their masters may be gifted with an embedded suite of refractor field nodes to prolong their service.
The most experienced Skitarii Marshals can perform incredible feats of tactical and strategic excellence, a trait reinforced by their masters with further augmetics.
Implanted with a variety of hidden combat augmetics and force-loaded with the skills to employ them, this Skitarius righteously executes the Omnissiah's foes.
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Excluding CHARACTER unitsThese Skitarii are veteran soldiers of the Machine God, and granted a number of enhanced augmentations.
With a single broadcast signal, the masters of these Skitarii activate reinforced servos, additional fibre bundles and flood their altered brains with stimulants.
With turbopiston enhancement and a zealous devotion to the Machine God, these warriors tirelessly close the distance to their masters' priority acquisitions.
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Reverently cleansed before every activation by a cabal of Enginseers dedicated solely to its well-being, this machine's engine thrums with sacred efficiency.
The machine spirits of this war engine's many systems are hailed as a focused cohort in their own right.
The indomitable animus at the heart of this vehicle is praised for its refusal to yield.
Crusade Relics
When an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS CHARACTER model gains a Crusade Relic, you can select one of the Crusade Relics presented here.Artificer Relics
Plugged into the devotee’s brain matter, additional cogitation engines allow for a measure of mental control over nearby servants.
Once per battle round, while the bearer is leading a unit, you can target that unit with the Fire Overwatch Stratagem for 0CP and can do so even if you have already targeted a different unit with that Stratagem this phase.Embedded in the zealot’s chest cavity, this fist-sized galvanic cell pulses with rhythmic power, radiating its pounding vitality.
While the bearer is leading a unit, add 1 to Advance and Charge rolls made for that unit.Antiquity Relics
Among the verbose tracts on martial dogma penned by the Secutors of Mars, the name Trantium-01 is appended in micro-scriptum to treatise after treatise. Before expiration, the venerable Marshal was hailed by Mars as a Skitarius Exemplar and - in death - was refashioned into a servo-skull; a singular honour for the usually disposable Skitarii.
SKITARII model only. At the start of the battle, select one enemy unit. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.Legendary Relics
This rod’s runic tip can impart blessed energy to anything metallic that the wielder strikes. Cyborgs and engines so struck will stitch themselves back together, as if repaired by the Technoarcheologist.
Once per battle, when a different friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model within 6" of the bearer is destroyed, you can roll one D6 at the end of the phase instead of triggering any rules that are triggered when a model is destroyed (e.g. Deadly Demise). On a 3+, set that model back up on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models, with up to 6 wounds remaining (this cannot allow a model to return with more wounds than its Wounds characteristic).Crusade Badges
When your Crusade force accomplishes specific long-term goals, you can earn the Crusade badges shown below, representing your warriors’ successes over many battles.Archeotech Questors
Your devoted maniples of augmented soldiery and sacred war machines have proven worthy crusaders in the Quest for Knowledge. With each victory in the name of the Machine God, stratum of time and mystery have been peeled back, laid bare beneath the glare of the Omnissiah's gaze. Your force's ruling Tech-Priests have unearthed incredible artefacts from Humanity1 past, ensuring they take their rightful place in their possession. But with every discovery are tantalising clues to greater prizes. Knowledge knows no limits.
- You have assembled at least 1 Archeotech Treasure.
- You have won at least 1 battle.
Archeotech Disciples
In your holy quest, you have expanded the influence of your forge world in an exponential cascade of fervour. You have wrested lost technologies from selfish armies of heretics, sundered enemy bastions occupying sites of ancient lore and purged xenos forces from glittering seams of resources destined to fuel your crusade. Every achievement won through cold logic and fanatical faith, and every treasured mechanism salvaged from the dead hands of ignorant foes, exposes new veins of opportunity to exploit.
- You have assembled at least 5 Archeotech Treasures.
- You have claimed at least 1 piece of Legendary Archeotech.
- You have won at least 6 battles.
Archeotech Masters
The weak flesh of the enemy greases the cogs of war that grind inexorably onwards. Your cohorts and macroclades of cyborg warriors, augmented assassins and hulking war engines are an industrial war machine, capable of pulverising all opposition at your binharic directive. You are a savant of the Machine God’s mysteries, a vessel for the Omnissiah’s benevolence and a living lightning rod of the Motive Force’s animus!
- You have assembled at least 8 Archeotech Treasures.
- You have claimed all 3 pieces of Legendary Archeotech.
- You have won at least 10 battles.
Boarding Actions
Introduction
Within the following pages you will find numerous Boarding Actions Detachments that can be used in your Boarding Actions games. Each lists which units you can include in your army, any modifications to those units’ army rule as presented in their Codex or Index, a Detachment rule unique to that Detachment, and a number of Enhancements and Stratagems that you can use.A keyword that will be shared by all units in your army.
MUSTERING RULES
Which units you are allowed to include in your army.
FORMING BOARDING SQUADS
Any additional rules that will apply in the missions Form Boarding Squads step. Note that not all Detachments will have these.
RULES ADAPTATIONS
Some units will be unable to use certain abilities in Boarding Actions battles. Where this is the case, these units and their relevant abilities will be listed here.
Due to the distinct nature of close-quarters battle in Boarding Actions, most army rules require some modifications to their effects. Where this is the case, these will be described here.
DETACHMENT RULE
Each faction will have a number of different Detachments to choose from, each with its own Detachment rule to reflect the unique fighting methods of such forces.
ENHANCEMENTS
Further Enhancements that you can give to CHARACTER models from your army, beyond those(Boarding Actions Enhancments), will be found here.
STRATAGEMS
Additional Stratagems that you can use, in addition to those (Boarding Actions Stratagems), will be found here.
Electromartyrs
When precious technoreliquaries must be protected or rare archeotech seized in shipboard battles, Tech-Priests quickly cast aside whatever restraint they may have had. Lesser underlings are expended without a care and perilous technologies unleashed in the quest for higher knowledge.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to one of the following units:You can include up to one of the following unit:
You can include up to three of each of the following units:
- SKITARII RANGERS (5 or 10 models)
- SKITARII VANGUARD (5 or 10 models)
- CORPUSCARII ELECTRO-PRIESTS (5 or 10 models)
- FULGURITE ELECTRO-PRIESTS (5 or 10 models)
- KATAPHRON BREACHERS (3 models)
- KATAPHRON DESTROYERS (3 models)
- SICARIAN INFILTRATORS (5 or 10 models)
- SICARIAN RUSTSTALKERS (5 or 10 models)
Rules Adaptations
- The SKITARII RANGERS unit loses the Objective Scouted ability.
- The TECH-PRIEST DOMINUS model loses the Dataspike ability.
Close-quarters Doctrinas
These specialised datapsalmic subroutines draw upon combat data harvested from countless battles amidst the close confines of voidships and bunker complexes.
Units from your army with the Doctrina Imperatives ability replace that ability with this one.At the start of the battle round, select one of the following weapon abilities: [ASSAULT]; [IGNORES COVER]; [PISTOL]. Until the end of the battle round, ranged weapons equipped by models from your army with this ability have that weapon ability.
Detachment Rule
Overload Machine Spirits
In extremis, Tech-Magi will commit the lesser sin of goading lower-order machine spirits to devastating madness in order to protect greater prizes.
Each time an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army is selected to shoot, it can use this ability. If it does, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit by 1 and those weapons have the [HAzARDOUS] ability.Enhancements
Remote Lockdown The Tech-Priest noospherically harmonises with the machine spirit of a nearby hatchway and seeks to render it stubbornly uncompliant to the foe. Once per battle round, when an enemy unit attempts to operate a Hatchway, if that Hatchway is within 9" of and visible to the bearer, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, it can attempt to prevent that unit from operating that Hatchway as if the bearer was within 1" of that Hatchway. |
Multi-dimensional Auspex No physical barrier can deny the omniscient datasight of the Omnissiah and its blessed servants. Once per battle, in your Shooting phase, when the bearer is selected to shoot, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, it can ignore Walls and closed Hatchways for the purposes of determining visibility, and the Range characteristic of ranged weapons it is equipped with is changed to 6". |
Stratagems
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 3+, do not remove it from play. That destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PISTOL] ability. If one or more of those weapons already have this ability, then until the end of the phase, each time an attack is made with such a weapon that targets a unit within 6", add 1 to the Hit roll.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army (excluding KATAPHRON units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Response Clade
Just as white blood cells will defend a Human body, so the clades of Skitarii embedded on Adeptus Mechanicus vessels respond with systematic aggression to enemy intrusions. Once their own ship is secure, they are capable of counterboarding operations to destroy the threat at its source.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up lo two of the following unit:You can include up to three of each of the following units:
- SKITARII RANGERS (5 or 10 models)
- SKITARII VANGUARD (5 or 10 models)
- SICARIAN INFILTRATORS (5 or 10 models)
- SICARIAN RUSTSTALKERS (5 or 10 models)
Close-quarters Doctrinas
These specialised datapsalmic subroutines draw upon combat data harvested from countless battles amidst the close confines of voidships and bunker complexes.
Units from your army with the Doctrina Imperatives ability replace that ability with this one.At the start of the battle round, select one of the following weapon abilities: [ASSAULT]; [IGNORES COVER]; [PISTOL]. Until the end of the battle round, ranged weapons equipped by models from your army with this ability have that weapon ability.
Detachment Rule
Procedural Elimination
Triangulating via their fellow squads and any compliant shipboard augurs, the Skitarii hone their targeting data and overlap fields of fire.
At the start of the battle round, select either melee attacks or ranged attacks. Until the end of the battle round, each time a SKITARII model from your army makes an attack of the selected type, re-roll a Hit roll of l.Enhancements
Admonissor Shunt Senior Skitarii officers can be augmented with cybernetic override emitters that release protocol blurts to force compliance from their footsoldiers. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield, you can select one friendly SKITARII unit that is Battle-shocked. That unit is no longer Battle-shocked. |
Optimised Cogitators Skitarii Marshals of shipboard clades often share partial data-symbiosis with the master cogitators of the ship they serve on. This allows them to defend their vessel with nigh-instinctive strategic insight. Once per battle round, when you target the bearer with a Stratagem, that use of that Stratagem costs 1 less CP than normal. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker and was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway within 1" of your unit. Your unit can attempt to operate that Hatchway.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit cannot attempt to operate a Hatchway again.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If your unit has the BATTLELINE keyword, those weapons have the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability instead.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back. In addition, after your unit has shot this phase, if it is within 1" of an open Hatchway and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, you can close that Hatchway.
Machine Cult
The voidships of the Adeptus Mechanicus are as much spacegoing temples to the Omnissiah as they are floating forges or esoteric warships. The teeming tech-clergy aboard such ships form zealous armies in their own right, responding with fanatical aggression to any foe.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):You can include up to one of each of the following units:
- CORPUSCARII ELECTRO-PRIESTS (5 or 10 models)
- FULGURITE ELECTRO-PRIESTS (5 or 10 models)
- KATAPHRON BREACHERS (3 models)
- KATAPHRON DESTROYERS (3 models)
Rules Adaptations
- ELECTRO-PRIESTS units can perform the Secure Site Tactical Manoeuvre as if they had the BATTLELINE keyword.
- The TECH-PRIEST DOMINUS model loses the Dataspike ability.
Close-quarters Doctrinas
These specialised datapsalmic subroutines draw upon combat data harvested from countless battles amidst the close confines of voidships and bunker complexes.
Units from your army with the Doctrina Imperatives ability replace that ability with this one.At the start of the battle round, select one of the following weapon abilities: [ASSAULT]; [IGNORES COVER]; [PISTOL]. Until the end of the battle round, ranged weapons equipped by models from your army with this ability have that weapon ability.
Detachment Rule
Canticles of the Omnissiah
Chanting avidly in blaring binharic, the servants of the Omnissiah surge into battle as though possessed by wrathful datagheists.
Add 1 to Advance rolls, Charge rolls and Battle-shock tests taken for TECH-PRIEST and ELECTRO-PRIESTS units from your army.Enhancements
Beseech the Machine Spirits With acts of electroflagellation, the faithful seek the aid of the vessels systems. At the end of the Move Units step of your Movement phase, the bearer can attempt to operate a Hatchway that is visible to and within 9" of it, instead of one within 1". When doing so, if your opponent attempts to prevent it, add the bearers Toughness characteristic to your result of the roll-off, instead of that of a friendly model within 1" of that Hatchway. |
Harmonic Discordator Voices cyber-modulated to hideously unsettling pitches, the faithful of the Omnissiah weaponise their hymnals. In the Battle-shock step of your opponents Command phase, if an enemy unit that is below its Starting Strength is within 3" of the bearer, that unit must take a Battle-shock test. If that enemy unit is also Below Half-strength, subtract 1 from that test. This Enhancement cannot cause a unit to take two Battle-shock tests in the same phase. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One ELECTRO-PRIESTS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the attacking model is within 6” of your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit can ignore other models in their unit for the purposes of determining visibility.
TARGET: One ELECTRO-PRIESTS unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
TARGET: One TECH-PRIEST or ELECTRO-PRIESTS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when that enemy unit Falls Back, models in it must take Desperate Escape tests as if their unit was Battle-shocked. When doing so, if that enemy unit is also Battle-shocked by other means, subtract 1 from each of those Desperate Escape tests.
The LEGIO CYBERNETICA keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
When setting objective markers up on the battlefield, place them so they are centred on the point specified by the mission. When measuring distances to and from objective markers, measure to and from the closest part of them. Models can move over objective markers as if they were not there, but they cannot end a move on top of an objective marker.
At the start of the battle, each objective marker on the battlefield is said to be contested, and so is not controlled by either player. To control an objective marker, a player will first need to move models within range of it. A model is within range of an objective marker if it is within 3" horizontally and 5" vertically of that objective marker.
Every model has an Objective Control (OC) characteristic listed on its datasheet. To determine a player’s Level of Control over an objective marker, add together the OC characteristics of all the models from that player’s army that are within range of that objective marker. A player will control an objective marker at the end of any phase or turn if their Level of Control over it is greater than their opponent’s. If both players have the same Level of Control over an objective marker, that objective marker is contested.
- A model is within range of an objective marker if within 3" horizontally and 5" vertically.
- Level of Control: Add together the OC characteristics of all of a player’s models within range of the objective marker.
- An objective marker is controlled by the player with the highest Level of Control over it (in a tie, it is contested).
- Models cannot end a move on top of an objective marker.
Some weapons are designed to root enemy formations out of entrenched positions.
Weapons with [IGNORES COVER] in their profile are known as Ignores Cover weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, the target cannot have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.TARGET: One LEGIO CYBERNETICA or VEHICLE unit from your army, and one objective marker.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have a Ballistic Skill characteristic of 3+ and the [IGNORES COVER] ability, but they can only target units within range of the selected objective marker.
Heavy weapons are amongst the biggest guns on the battlefield, but require bracing to fire at full effect and are unwieldy to bring to bear at close quarters.
Weapons with [HEAVY] in their profile are known as Heavy weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, if the attacking model’s unit Remained Stationary this turn, add 1 to that attack’s Hit roll.- Add 1 to Hit rolls if the bearer’s unit Remained Stationary this turn.
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
An unmodified Hit roll of 6 is called a Critical Hit and is always successful. An unmodified Hit roll of 1 always fails. A Hit roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1.
- Hit Roll (Ranged Attack): A hit is scored if the D6 result equals or exceeds that attack’s BS.
- Hit Roll (Melee Attack): A hit is scored if the D6 result equals or exceeds that attack’s WS.
- Critical Hit: Unmodified Hit roll of 6. Always successful.
- An unmodified Hit roll of 1 always fails.
- A Hit roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1.
Protector Imperative
- Ranged weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [HEAVY] ability.
- Improve the Ballistic Skill characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in this unit by 1.
- Each time a melee attack targets this unit, if this unit has the BATTLELINE keyword and/or it is within 6" of one or more friendly BATTLELINE units, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
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The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Assault weapons fire so indiscriminately that they can be shot from the hip as warriors dash forward.
Weapons with [ASSAULT] in their profile are known as Assault weapons. If a unit that Advanced this turn contains any models equipped with Assault weapons, it is still eligible to shoot in this turn’s Shooting phase. When such a unit is selected to shoot, you can only resolve attacks using Assault weapons its models are equipped with.- Can be shot even if the bearer’s unit Advanced.
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder every time they are used.
Weapons with [HAZARDOUS] in their profile are known as Hazardous weapons. Each time a unit is selected to shoot or fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, for each Hazardous weapon that targets were selected for when resolving those attacks, that unit must take one Hazardous test. To do so, roll one D6: on a 1, that test is failed. For each failed test you must resolve the following sequence (resolve each failed test one at a time):- If possible, select one model in that unit that has lost one or more wounds and is equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
- Otherwise, if possible, select one model in that unit (excluding CHARACTER models) equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
- Otherwise, select one CHARACTER model in that unit equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
If a unit from a player’s army is selected as the target of the Fire Overwatch Stratagem in their opponent’s Charge phase, any mortal wounds inflicted by Hazardous tests are allocated after the charging unit has ended its Charge move.
- After a unit shoots or fights, roll one Hazardous test (one D6) for each Hazardous weapon used. For each 1, a model equipped with a hazardous weapon suffers 3 mortal wounds, that must be allocated to the selected model.
- A Critical Wound inflicts mortal wounds equal to the weapon’s Damage characteristic, instead of any normal damage.
Some attacks are so powerful that no armour or force field can withstand their fury.
Some rules inflict mortal wounds on units. Each time mortal wounds are inflicted on a unit, each of those mortal wounds inflicts one point of damage to that unit, and they are always applied one at a time. Each mortal wound is allocated to a model in the same manner as allocating an attack. Excess damage from mortal wounds is not lost if the damage can be allocated to another model. Instead, keep allocating damage to another model in the target unit until either all the damage has been allocated or the target unit is destroyed.If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to any normal damage, do not make a Wound roll or saving throw (including invulnerable saving throws) against those mortal wounds. If those mortal wounds are inflicted by an attack that has the [PRECISION] ability, the attacking model’s controlling player can allocate those mortal wounds to a CHARACTER model in that unit.
If mortal wounds are being inflicted as a result of the [HAZARDOUS] ability or by an attack with the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability that scored a Critical Wound, each time those mortal wounds are allocated to a model, if that model is destroyed as a result of those mortal wounds, the remaining mortal wounds from that attack are lost, just as with a normal attack.
If, when a unit is selected to shoot or fight, one or more of its attacks can inflict mortal wounds on the target, resolve any normal damage inflicted by the attacking unit’s attacks on that target before inflicting any mortal wounds on that target. If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to any normal damage, but the normal damage is subsequently saved, the target unit still suffers those mortal wounds, as described above.
- Each mortal wound inflicted on a unit causes one model in that unit to lose one wound.
- Unless the source of the mortal wounds is the [HAZARDOUS] ability or an attack with the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability, damage from mortal wounds is not lost if it can be allocated to another model.
- No saving throws can be made against mortal wounds.
- Mortal wounds inflicted by attacks always apply after any normal damage, even if that damage was saved.
While a unit is Battle-shocked:
- The Objective Control characteristic of all of its models is 0.
- If it Falls Back, you must take a Desperate Escape test for every model in that unit.
- Its controlling player cannot use Stratagems to affect that unit.
Once you have taken Battle-shock tests for all of your units that require them, your Command phase ends and you progress to your Movement phase.
In this step, if for any reason a unit is forced to take a Battle-shock test for being below its Starting Strength, unless otherwise stated, that unit does not also have to take a Battle-shock test for being Below Half-strength. While a unit is Battle-shocked, all models in that unit are also Battle-shocked.
- Take a Battle-shock test for each unit from your army on the battlefield that is Below Half-strength.
- Roll 2D6: if the result is greater than or equal to the unit’s Leadership, the test is passed. Otherwise, the unit is Battle-shocked until the start of your next Command phase.
- Battle-shocked units have an OC of 0 and their controlling player cannot use Stratagems to affect them.
- Battle-shocked units must take Desperate Escape tests if they Fall Back.
Whether as a result of natural phenomena, apocalyptic internecine strife or calamitous accidents, many forge worlds are heavily irradiated. When holy wars of requisition are unleashed, the Tech-Priests think nothing of turning this invisible curse upon their foes, bombarding the battlefield with deadly radiation prior to an assault.
At the start of the first battle round, for each enemy unit within your opponents deployment zone, your opponent must decide whether that unit will take cover or stand firm. You then roll one D6 for each of those enemy units and apply the relevant result below:
- Unit Standing Firm: On a 3+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
- Unit Taking Cover: Until the end of the battle round, that unit is Battle-shocked and, on a 5+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
At the start of your Command phase during the second, third, fourth and fifth battle rounds, roll one D6 for each enemy unit within your opponent’s deployment zone. On a 3+, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound and must take a Battle-shock test.
Some warriors are masters of disguise and concealment.
If every model in a unit has this ability, then each time a ranged attack is made against it, subtract 1 from that attack’s Hit roll.Some weapons strike in a flurry of blows, tearing the foe apart with relentless ferocity.
Weapons with [SUSTAINED HITS X] in their profile are known as Sustained Hits weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, if a Critical Hit is rolled, that attack scores a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by ‘x’.- [SUSTAINED HITS X]: Each Critical Hit scores ‘x’ additional hits on the target.
Certain weapons are the bane of a particular foe.
Weapons with [ANTI-KEYWORD X+] in their profile are known as Anti weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon against a target with the keyword after the word ‘Anti-’, an unmodified Wound roll of ‘x+’ scores a Critical Wound.- [ANTI-KEYWORD X+]: An unmodified Wound roll of ‘x+’ against a target with the matching keyword scores a Critical Wound.
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The SKITARII keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
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If the result of the Wound roll is greater than or equal to the required number shown in the table above, then that Wound roll is successful and scores one wound against the target unit. Otherwise, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends.
An unmodified Wound roll of 6 is called a Critical Wound and is always successful. An unmodified Wound roll of 1 always fails. A Wound roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1.
- Critical Wound: Unmodified Wound roll of 6. Always successful.
- An unmodified Wound roll of 1 always fails.
- A Wound roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1.
The TECH-PRIEST keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
- Advance Move: Models move up to M+D6".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
- Units that Advance cannot shoot or charge this turn.
Some weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.
Weapons with [LETHAL HITS] in their profile are known as Lethal Hits weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, a Critical Hit automatically wounds the target.Whether shielded by force fields, enveloped in mystical energies or simply possessed of preternatural senses and lightning-fast reflexes, some warriors are protected by more than mere physical armour.
Some models have an invulnerable save listed on their datasheet. Each time an attack is allocated to a model with an invulnerable save, the controlling player must choose to use either that model’s Save characteristic or its invulnerable save, but not both. If a model has more than one invulnerable save, it can only use one of them – choose which it will use.Unlike armour saving throws (which use a model’s Save characteristic), invulnerable saving throws are never modified by an attack’s Armour Penetration characteristic, but otherwise follow the normal rules for saving throws.
- Invulnerable Save: Never modified by an attack’s AP.
- The controlling player can choose to use either a model’s invulnerable save or its Save characteristic.
The SKITARII and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The SKITARII and MOUNTED keywords are used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The SICARIAN keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Shattered ruins and twisted wreckage afford much-needed shelter from enemy salvoes. Even heavily armoured warriors unfazed by small arms fire are thankful for such cover when foes bring their biggest guns to bear.
Models can sometimes gain a measure of protection from terrain features. The rules below detail the conditions under which a terrain feature confers the Benefit of Cover on a model.Each time a ranged attack is allocated to a model that has the Benefit of Cover, add 1 to the saving throw made for that attack (excluding invulnerable saving throws). Models with a Save characteristic of 3+ or better cannot have the Benefit of Cover against attacks with an Armour Penetration characteristic of 0. Multiple instances of the Benefit of Cover are not cumulative – a model cannot benefit from this rule more than once at any one time.
- Benefit of Cover: Add 1 to armour saving throws against ranged attacks.
- Does not apply to models with a Save of 3+ or better against attacks with an AP of 0.
- Multiple instances are not cumulative.
Conqueror Imperative
- Ranged weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [ASSAULT] ability.
- Improve the Weapon Skill characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in this unit by 1.
- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, if this unit has the BATTLELINE keyword and/or it is within 6" of one or more friendly BATTLELINE units, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Many armies employ reconnaissance units who can sit concealed, waiting for the right moment to strike.
During deployment, if every model in a unit has this ability, then when you set it up, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from the enemy deployment zone and all enemy models.The Starting Strength of an Attached unit is equal to the combined Starting Strengths of all of its units (i.e. the number of models in the Leader unit added to the number of models in the Bodyguard unit). If either the Leader unit or the Bodyguard unit in an Attached unit is destroyed, the Starting Strength of the remaining unit is changed to be equal to its original Starting Strength.
For the purposes of rules that are triggered when a unit is destroyed, such rules are still triggered when one of the individual units that made up an Attached unit is destroyed (the Leader or the Bodyguard unit).
Scouts form the vanguard of many armies. Unnoticed by the enemy, they range ahead of the main force.
Some units have ‘Scouts x"’ listed in their abilities. If every model in a unit has this ability, then at the start of the first battle round, before the first turn begins, it can make a Normal move of up to x", with the exception that, while making that move, the distance moved by each model in that unit can be greater than that model's Move characteristic, as long as it is not greater than x".DEDICATED TRANSPORT models can make use of any Scouts x" ability listed in their abilities, or a Scouts x" ability that a unit that starts the battle embarked within that DEDICATED TRANSPORT model has (provided only models with this ability are embarked within that DEDICATED TRANSPORT model), regardless of how that embarked unit gained this ability (e.g. listed in their abilities, conferred by an Enhancement or by an attached CHARACTER, etc.).
A unit that moves using this ability must end that move more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models. If both players have units that can do this, the player who is taking the first turn moves their units first.
- Scouts x": Unit can make a Normal move of up to x" before the first turn begins.
- If embarked in a DEDICATED TRANSPORT, that DEDICATED TRANSPORT can make this move instead.
- Must end this move more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models.
Models cannot be set up or end a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within Engagement Range of any enemy models. If for any reason a model cannot meet this condition, that model is destroyed.
- Engagement Range: Within 1" horizontally and 5" vertically.
- Models cannot be set up or end a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
- Normal Move: Models move up to M".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
The PTERAXII keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The SYDONIAN keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Some warriors refuse to be laid low, even by what should be fatal wounds.
Some models have ‘Feel No Pain x+’ listed in their abilities. Each time a model with this ability suffers damage and so would lose a wound (including wounds lost due to mortal wounds), roll one D6: if the result is greater than or equal to the number denoted by ‘x’, that wound is ignored and is not lost. If a model has more than one Feel No Pain ability, you can only use one of those abilities each time that model suffers damage and so would lose a wound.- Feel No Pain x+: Each time this model would lose a wound, roll one D6: if the result equals or exceeds ‘x’, that wound is not lost.
The CULT MECHANICUS keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
You then make a Charge roll for the charging unit by rolling 2D6. The result is the maximum number of inches each model in that unit can be moved if a Charge move is possible. For a Charge move to be possible, the Charge roll must be sufficient to enable the charging unit to end that move:
- Within Engagement Range of every unit that you selected as a target of the charge.
- Without moving within Engagement Range of any enemy units that were not a target of the charge.
- In Unit Coherency.
- Charge Roll: 2D6".
- Targets of a charge must be within 12" but do not need to be visible.
- If the distance rolled is insufficient to move within Engagement Range of all targets while maintaining Unit Coherency, the charge fails.
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any unit that was not a target of the charge.
- If the charge is successful, each model makes a Charge move less than or equal to the Charge roll, and must move into base-to-base contact with an enemy model if possible.
The datasheets using TECH-PRIEST keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Imperium: Adeptus Mechanicus, Imperial Knights.The TECH-PRIEST keyword is used in the following datasheets:
Some warriors attack with blinding speed, landing their blows before their foes can react.
Units with this ability that are eligible to fight do so in the Fights First step, provided every model in the unit has this ability.The ELECTRO-PRIESTS keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
If the result is greater than or equal to the Save characteristic of the model the attack was allocated to, then that saving throw is successful and the attack sequence ends. Otherwise, that saving throw fails and that model suffers damage.
An unmodified saving throw of 1 always fails. A saving throw can never be improved by more than +1.
- Saving Throw: Roll one D6 and modify by the attack’s AP. If the result is less than the Save of the model being rolled for, the saving throw is failed and that model suffers damage. Otherwise, that attack is saved.
- An unmodified saving throw of 1 always fails.
- A saving throw can never be improved by more than +1.
If a unit can end its Consolidation within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, then each time one of its models makes a Consolidation move, it must end that move closer to the closest enemy model. If it can also end that move in base-to-base contact with one or more enemy models while still satisfying all of the conditions above, it must do so. The controlling player chooses the order in which to move their models.
- Consolidation Move: Up to 3".
- Every model that moves must end closer to the closest enemy model, and in base-to-base contact with an enemy model if possible. The unit must end in Unit Coherency and within Engagement Range of at least one enemy unit if possible.
- If the above is not possible, each model can move towards the closest objective marker, but this must result in the unit being within range of it and in Unit Coherency.
- If the above is also not possible, no models can Consolidate.
When a unit disembarks from a TRANSPORT model, set it up on the battlefield so that it is wholly within 3" of that TRANSPORT model and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models. If, for any reason, a disembarking model cannot be set up, that model’s unit cannot disembark.
Units that disembark from a TRANSPORT model that either Remained Stationary this phase or has not yet made a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move this phase can then act normally (make a Normal move, Advance, shoot, declare a charge, fight, etc.) in the remainder of the turn. Such a disembarking unit cannot choose to Remain Stationary.
Units that disembark from a TRANSPORT model that made a Normal move this phase count as having made a Normal move themselves; they cannot move further during this phase. Such a unit also cannot declare a charge in the same turn, but can otherwise act normally in the remainder of the turn.
Units cannot disembark from a TRANSPORT model that either Advanced or Fell Back this turn.
- Units that start your Movement phase embarked within a TRANSPORT can disembark this phase, provided their TRANSPORT has not Advanced or Fallen Back.
- If a unit disembarks before its TRANSPORT moves, it can act normally.
- If a unit disembarks after its TRANSPORT moves, it cannot move or charge this turn, but can otherwise act normally.
- Disembarking units must be set up wholly within 3" of their TRANSPORT and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models (or the unit cannot disembark).
- Units that disembark this turn cannot Remain Stationary.
The SMOKE keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
- A unit can embark within a friendly TRANSPORT if all of its models end a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within 3" of that TRANSPORT.
- A unit cannot embark and disembark in the same phase.
Units can start the battle embarked within a TRANSPORT model instead of being set up separately – declare which units are embarked within a TRANSPORT model before you set it up.
Some transports have firing hatches, ports or platforms from which embarked passengers can shoot.
Some TRANSPORT models have ‘Firing Deck x’ listed in their abilities. Each time such a model is selected to shoot in the Shooting phase, you can select up to ‘x’ models embarked within it whose units have not already shot this phase. Then, for each of those embarked models, you can select one ranged weapon that embarked model is equipped with (excluding weapons with the [ONE SHOT] ability). Until that TRANSPORT model has resolved all of its attacks, it counts as being equipped with all of the weapons you selected in this way, in addition to its other weapons. Until the end of the phase, those selected models’ units are not eligible to shoot.- Firing Deck ‘x’: Each time this TRANSPORT shoots, select one weapon (excluding weapons with the [ONE SHOT] ability) from up to ‘x’ models embarked within it whose units have not shot this phase; this TRANSPORT counts as being equipped with those weapons as well. Until the end of the phase, those selected models’ units are not eligible to shoot.
An Adeptus Mechanicus army marching to war is a sight both terrifying and glorious, each holy warrior a disturbing fusion of Human and machine. While the ruling Tech-Priests and their fanatical followers raise modified voices in praise of the Machine God, their Skitarii soldiery and Servitor creations are controlled by doctrina imperatives loaded by their masters to augment and adapt the warriors’ abilities.
At the start of the battle round, you can select one of the Doctrina Imperatives below. Until the end of the battle round, that Doctrina Imperative is active for your army, and all units from your army that have the Doctrina Imperatives ability gain the relevant abilities shown below.Protector Imperative
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Conqueror Imperative
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From detonating ammo stores to corrosive innards or frenzied death throes, some targets are deadly even in defeat.
Some models have ‘Deadly Demise x’ listed in their abilities. When such a model is destroyed, roll one D6 before removing it from play (if such a model is a TRANSPORT, roll before any embarked models disembark). On a 6, each unit within 6" of that model suffers a number of mortal wounds denoted by ‘x’ (if this is a random number, roll separately for each unit within 6").- Deadly Demise x: When this model is destroyed, roll one D6. On a 6, each unit within 6" suffers ‘x’ mortal wounds.
- If a unit has a Starting Strength of 1, then it is said to be Below Half-strength while its remaining number of wounds is less than half of its Wounds characteristic.
- For any other unit, while the number of models in that unit is less than half of its Starting Strength, that unit is said to be Below Half-strength.
A unit cannot shoot or declare a charge in the same turn that it Fell Back.
Desperate Escape Tests
Unlike when making other types of move, models can move over enemy models when making a Fall Back move as if those enemy models were not there, but you must take a Desperate Escape test for each model that will do so (excluding models that are TITANIC or can FLY) before any models in that unit are moved. In addition, if a unit is Battle-shocked when it is selected to Fall Back, you must take a Desperate Escape test for every model in that unit before any are moved.
- Fall Back Move: Models move up to M".
- Units that Fall Back cannot shoot or declare a charge in the same turn.
- Models can move over enemy models when Falling Back, but you must take Desperate Escape tests for them before they do so (excluding models that are TITANIC or can FLY).
- If a Battle-shocked unit is selected to Fall Back, take a Desperate Escape test for every model in that unit.
- Desperate Escape Test: Roll one D6. On a 1-2, one model from that unit is destroyed.
Tech-Priests can override the will of their thralls and project martial data inloads into the minds of their warriors, blessing the soldiery with endless streams of precisely tailored binharic code.
In your Command phase, select one or more units from your army (including units that are embarked within TRANSPORTS). The maximum number of units you can select depends on the battle size, as follows:
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Until the start of your next Command phase, those units gain the HALO OVERRIDE keyword. Then, select one of the Override abilities below. Until the start of your next Command phase, units from your army with the HALO OVERRIDE keyword have the selected Override ability:
Electromotive Energisation
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in this unit.
Microactuator Bracing
Add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of models in this unit.
Predation Protocols
This unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
Muted Servomotors
Models in this unit have the Stealth ability.
The KATAPHRON keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The EPIC HERO keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Torrent weapons shoot clouds of fire, gas or other lethal substances that few foes can hope to evade.
Weapons with [TORRENT] in their profile are known as Torrent weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, that attack automatically hits the target.Pistols can be wielded even at point-blank range.
Weapons with [PISTOL] in their profile are known as Pistols. If a unit contains any models equipped with Pistols, that unit is eligible to shoot in its controlling player’s Shooting phase even while it is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units. When such a unit is selected to shoot, it can only resolve attacks using its Pistols and can only target one of the enemy units it is within Engagement Range of. In such circumstances, a Pistol can target an enemy unit even if other friendly units are within Engagement Range of the same enemy unit.If a model is equipped with one or more Pistols, unless it is a MONSTER or VEHICLE model, it can either shoot with its Pistols or with all of its other ranged weapons. Declare whether such a model will shoot with its Pistols or its other ranged weapons before selecting targets.
- Can be shot even if the bearer’s unit is within Engagement Range of enemy units, but must target one of those enemy units.
- Cannot be shot alongside any other non-Pistol weapon (except by a MONSTER or VEHICLE).
Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd, whether through the unerring aim of a sniper or the pinpoint accuracy of a blade-master’s strike.
Weapons with [PRECISION] in their profile are known as Precision weapons. Each time an attack made with such a weapon successfully wounds an Attached unit (see Leader ability), if a CHARACTER model in that unit is visible to the attacking model, the attacking model’s player can choose to have that attack allocated to that CHARACTER model instead of following the normal attack sequence.- When targeting an Attached unit, the attacking model’s player can have the attack allocated to a CHARACTER model in that unit visible to the bearer.
Many warriors thunder headlong into combat, using the impetus of their charge to bring swift death to their foes.
Each time a unit makes a Charge move, until the end of the turn, that unit has the Fights First ability.TARGET: One unit from your army that is within 6" of that enemy unit and would be eligible to declare a charge against that enemy unit if it were your Charge phase.
EFFECT: Your unit now declares a charge that targets only that enemy unit, and you resolve that charge as if it were your Charge phase.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only select a VEHICLE unit from your army if it is a WALKER. Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.
Tech-Priests are loath to risk the most precious and storied artefacts of Humanity's past in the fires of war without intensive and ostentatious rituals of preservation. The benediction of the Omnissiah is invoked in incense-fogged rites that ring to choruses of binharic praise, as his guardianship is sought.
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
There are several categories of Battle Honours that can be bestowed upon a unit, such as Battle Traits, Weapon Modifications and Crusade Relics. Other categories of Battle Honour may be found in other publications. Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, you can select from any category.
- Once a unit gains enough XP it will gain a rank.
- Only CHARACTER units can gain the Heroic or Legendary ranks.
- Each time a unit gains a rank, it can gain a Battle Honour.
- There are several categories of Battle Honours, which include:
- Battle Traits: New skills and abilities.
- Weapon Modifications: Upgrade an item of wargear.
- Crusade Relic: Gain a rare and powerful artefact.
- Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, increase its Crusade points total by 1 (or by 2 if TITANIC).
TARGET: One SMOKE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, all models in your unit have the Benefit of Cover and the Stealth ability.
Some units make their way to battle via tunnelling, teleportation, high-altitude descent or other extraordinary means that allow them to appear suddenly in the thick of the fighting.
During the Declare Battle Formations step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can set it up in Reserves instead of setting it up on the battlefield. If you do, in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models. If a unit with the Deep Strike ability arrives from Strategic Reserves, the controlling player can choose for that unit to be set up either using the rules for Strategic Reserves or using the Deep Strike ability.- Unit can be set up in Reserves instead of on the battlefield.
- Unit can be set up in your Reinforcements step, more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models.
The SKITARII and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The MOUNTED keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within 24" of that enemy unit and that would be eligible to shoot if it were your Shooting phase.
EFFECT: If that enemy unit is visible to your unit, your unit can shoot that enemy unit as if it were your Shooting phase.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot target a TITANIC unit with this Stratagem. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 6 is required to score a hit, irrespective of the attacking weapon’s Ballistic Skill or any modifiers. You can only use this Stratagem once per turn.