Death Guard – Lord of Virulence
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
| Twin plague spewer [anti-infantry 2+, ignores cover, torrent, twin-linked] | |||||||
| Twin plague spewer [anti-infantry 2+, ignores cover, torrent, twin-linked] | 12" | D6 | N/A | 5 | -1 | 1 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Power fist [lethal hits] | |||||||
| Power fist [lethal hits] | Melee | 5 | 2+ | 8 | -2 | 2 | |
ABILITIES
CORE: Deep Strike, Leader
FACTION: Nurgle’s Gift (Aura)
Virulent Aura: While this model is leading a unit, each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.Blight Bombardment: At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 30" of and visible to this model. Until the end of the phase, each time a friendly DEATH GUARD model makes a ranged attack that targets that unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 (if that attack is made with a Blast weapon, you can re-roll the Hit roll instead).
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 1 Lord of Virulence
| 1 model | 90 |
LEADER
This model can be attached to the following units:
KEYWORDS: INFANTRY, CHARACTER, CHAOS, NURGLE, TERMINATOR, LORD OF VIRULENCE
FACTION KEYWORDS:
DEATH GUARD
DEATH GUARD
STRATAGEMS
ALLIES OF ENTROPY
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Strategic Ploy
CORROSIVE CURSE
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Strategic Ploy
SEED OF CORRUPTION
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Strategic Ploy
CLOUD OF FLIES
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Battle Tactic
BATTLEFIELD COMMAND
1CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic
BA
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
MOBILE VECTOR
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Strategic Ploy
BLESSINGS OF FILTH
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic
GROTESQUE FORTITUDE
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic
MALIGNANCE MAGNIFIED
2CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic
RABID INFUSION
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Strategic Ploy
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Core – Battle Tactic
C
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Core – Epic Deed
C
FIRE OVERWATCH
1CP
Core – Strategic Ploy
C
RAPID INGRESS
1CP
Core – Strategic Ploy
C
GO TO GROUND
1CP
Core – Battle Tactic
C
HEROIC INTERVENTION
1CP
Core – Strategic Ploy
C
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Core – Strategic Ploy
C
EPIC CHALLENGE
1CP
Core – Epic Deed
C
BLOOMING PESTILENCE
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Epic Deed
SIGNAL POX
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Epic Deed
MORTARION'S TEACHINGS
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Strategic Ploy
SICKENING IMPACT
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Strategic Ploy
GRIM REAPERS
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Battle Tactic
UNDYING SPITE
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Strategic Ploy
INFESTATION
1CP
Embarked Regiment – Strategic Ploy
DRONING HORROR
1CP
Flyblown Host – Battle Tactic
EYE OF THE SWARM
1CP
Flyblown Host – Strategic Ploy
MYPHITIC INVIGORATION
1CP
Flyblown Host – Battle Tactic
ENERVATING ONSLAUGHT
1CP
Flyblown Host – Strategic Ploy
NAUSEATING PAROXYSMS
1CP
Flyblown Host – Strategic Ploy
VERMIN CLOUD
1CP
Flyblown Host – Battle Tactic
DRAWN TO DESPAIR
1CP
Mortarion’s Hammer – Battle Tactic
SHAMBLING WALL
1CP
Shamblerot Vectorium – Strategic Ploy
SHOCK AND HORROR
1CP
Shamblerot Vectorium – Strategic Ploy
CLUTCHING CORRUPTION
1CP
Tallyband Summoners – Battle Tactic
SEEPING CORROSION
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy
CHINKS IN THE ARMOUR
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Battle Tactic
GROTESQUE DEMISE
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy
LEECHSPORE ERUPTION
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Epic Deed
PLAGUESURGE
2CP
Virulent Vectorium – Epic Deed
DISGUSTINGLY RESILIENT
2CP
Virulent Vectorium – Battle Tactic
CREEPING BLIGHT
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Wargear
OVERWHELMING GENEROSITY
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Wargear
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Verminous Haze
Worldblight
Miasmic Bombardment
Manifold Maladies
Reverberant Rancidity
Numberless Horde
Deadly Vectors
Sevenfold Offerings
Relentless Spread
Inescapable Corruption
ENHANCEMENTS
Rejuvenating Swarm
10
Droning Chorus
15
Insectile Murmuration
20
Plagueveil
25
Daemon Weapon of Nurgle
10
Revolting Regeneration
20
Arch Contaminator
25
Furnace of Plagues
25
Shriekworm Familiar
15
Eye of Affliction
20
Tendrilous Emissions
20
Fell Harvester
10
Beckoning Blight
20
Lord of the Walking Pox
15
Talisman of Burgeoning
25
Face of Death
10
Vile Vigour
15
Helm of the Fly King
20
Warprot Talisman
30
Foul Constitution
Fountaining Filth
Hand of Nurgle
Pox-Bearer
Disgusting Reinvigoration
Miasmic Odour
Destroyed
Throughout a battle, models will suffer damage and be destroyed. When a model is destroyed, it is removed from the battlefield. When every model in a unit has been destroyed, that unit is destroyed.
LEADER
Mighty heroes fight at the forefront of battle.
Some CHARACTER units have ‘Leader’ listed on their datasheets. Such CHARACTER units are known as Leaders, and the units they can lead – known as their Bodyguard units – are listed on their datasheet.During the Declare Battle Formations step, for each Leader in your army, if your army also includes one or more of that Leader’s Bodyguard units, you can select one of those Bodyguard units. That Leader will then attach to that Bodyguard unit for the duration of the battle and is said to be leading that unit. Each Bodyguard unit can only have one Leader attached to it.
While a Bodyguard unit contains a Leader, it is known as an Attached unit and, with the exception of rules that are triggered when units are destroyed, it is treated as a single unit for all rules purposes. Each time an attack targets an Attached unit, until the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks, you must use the Toughness characteristic of the Bodyguard models in that unit, even if a Leader in that unit has a different Toughness characteristic. Each time an attack sucessfully wounds an Attached unit, that attack cannot be allocated to a CHARACTER model in that unit, even if that CHARACTER model has lost one or more wounds or has already had attacks allocated to it this phase. As soon as the last Bodyguard model in an Attached unit has been destroyed, any attacks made against that unit that have yet to be allocated can then be allocated to CHARACTER models in that unit.
Each time the last model in a Bodyguard unit is destroyed, each CHARACTER unit that is part of that Attached unit is no longer part of an Attached unit. It becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks.
Each time the last model in a CHARACTER unit that is attached to a Bodyguard unit is destroyed and there is not another CHARACTER unit attached, that Attached unit’s Bodyguard unit is no longer part of an Attached unit. It becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks.
Each time a unit that is part of an Attached unit is destroyed, it does not have the keywords of any other units that make up that Attached unit (unless it has those keywords on its own datasheet) for the purposes of any rules that would be triggered when that unit is destroyed.
Example: If you only destroy the Bodyguard unit that is part of an Attached unit, you have not destroyed a CHARACTER unit. If you only destroy the CHARACTER unit that is part of an Attached unit, or if you destroy the whole Attached unit, you have destroyed one CHARACTER unit.
- Before the battle, CHARACTER units with the Leader ability can be attached to one of their Bodyguard units to form an Attached unit.
- Attached units can only contain one Leader.
- Attacks cannot be allocated to CHARACTER models in Attached units.
Hit Roll
When a model makes an attack, make one Hit roll for that attack by rolling one D6. If the result of the Hit roll is greater than or equal to the attack’s Ballistic Skill (BS) characteristic (if the attack is being made with a ranged weapon) or its Weapon Skill (WS) characteristic (if the attack is being made with a melee weapon), then that Hit roll is successful and scores one hit against the target unit. Otherwise, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends.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.
Nurgle’s Gift (Aura)
The Death Guard are warriors of the Plague God Nurgle. Their bloated bodies are riddled with corruption, and their mere presence causes the foe to sicken and wither in the grip of supernatural diseases while the battlefield falls to rot and ruin around them.
If your Army Faction is , while an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of one or more models from your army, it is Afflicted (see below).
CONTAGION RANGE
Contagion Range changes over the course of the battle:
AFFLICTEDCONTAGION RANGE
Contagion Range changes over the course of the battle:
During the Declare Battle Formations step, select one of the Plagues below. Until the end of the battle, while an enemy unit is Afflicted, subtract 1 from the Toughness characteristic of models in that unit, and that unit has the effect of your chosen Plague.
Skullsquirm Blight This horrifying affliction sees the minds and senses of the victim gnawed gradually away from within. Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. |
Rattlejoint Ague Limbs shuddering with fever palsy, bones turned brittle as glass, these warriors can barely act to defend themselves. Worsen the Save characteristic of models in this unit by 1. |
Scabrous Soulrot Victims of this insidious ailment become glassy eyed and morose as their very animus and essence decay. Worsen the Move, Leadership, and Objective Control characteristics of models in this unit by 1 (this rule can only worsen a model’s Objective Control characteristic to a minimum of 1). |
Attached Units
Some CHARACTER units have the Leader ability, which lets them merge with other units (known as Bodyguard units) to form an Attached unit.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.
Example: A Primaris Captain (Starting Strength 1) is attached to a unit of Intercessors (Starting Strength 5). This Attached unit has a Starting Strength of 6. If all the Intercessors are destroyed, the remaining Primaris Captain would revert to having a Starting Strength of 1.
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).
Example: If a rule awards you with 1VP each time an enemy unit is destroyed, and you target an Attached unit, you would gain 1VP if the Bodyguard unit is destroyed and 1VP if the Leader unit is destroyed (for a total of 2VP).
Starting Strength
The number of models a unit contains when it is added to your army is known as its Starting Strength.
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
Pistol
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).
Hazardous
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.
Example: A unit of five models make five attacks with ranged weapons with the [HAZARDOUS] ability. After the unit has finished shooting, its controlling player rolls five D6. One of the results is a 1, and so one of those models suffers 3 mortal wounds.
- 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.
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Characters
Characters
Some models have the CHARACTER keyword. These models can make Heroic Interventions in Charge Phase and are not easy targets in the Shooting Phase (see Look out, Sir, rule). If your Warlord has the CHARACTER keyword he may be able to have a Warlord Trait (see Warlord Trait section on model’s faction page).Note that CHARACTERS cannot use their Aura Abilities while %000015069performing actions%.
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Characters
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Characters
Fortifications
Other
and others...
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Characters
Fortifications
Other
BATTLEFIELD COMMAND
1CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The commander's authoritative tone cuts through the din of battle, guiding the actions of nearby troops.
WHEN: Start or end of any phase.
TARGET: One Leader unit from your army and one friendly Bodyguard unit within 6" of it that it could normally be attached to.
EFFECT: Select one of your Leader unit’s Leader abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Bodyguard unit is treated as being led by that Leader unit for the purposes of that Leader ability.
RESTRICTIONS: Once you target a unit with this Stratagem, that unit cannot be targeted with it again until your next Command phase.
TARGET: One Leader unit from your army and one friendly Bodyguard unit within 6" of it that it could normally be attached to.
EFFECT: Select one of your Leader unit’s Leader abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Bodyguard unit is treated as being led by that Leader unit for the purposes of that Leader ability.
RESTRICTIONS: Once you target a unit with this Stratagem, that unit cannot be targeted with it again until your next Command phase.
Wound Roll
Each time an attack scores a hit against a target unit, make a Wound roll for that attack by rolling one D6 to see if that attack successfully wounds the target unit. The result required is determined by comparing the attack’s Strength (S) characteristic with the target’s Toughness (T) characteristic, as shown below.
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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.
Saving Throw
The player controlling the target unit then makes one saving throw. By default, this will be an armour saving throw using their model’s Save (Sv) characteristic, but some models have invulnerable saves that can be used instead (see below). To make an armour saving throw, roll one D6, then modify the result by the Armour Penetration (AP) characteristic of the attack. For example, if the attack has an AP of -1, then 1 is subtracted from the saving throw.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.
Advance Moves
When a unit Advances, make an Advance roll for that unit by rolling one D6. Add the result in inches to the Move characteristic of each model in that unit until the end of the phase. Each model in that unit can then make an Advance move by moving a distance in inches less than or equal to this total, but no model can be moved within Engagement Range of enemy models. A unit cannot shoot or declare a charge in the same turn that it Advanced.- 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.
Charging with a Unit
Once you have selected an eligible unit to declare a charge, you must select one or more enemy units within 12" of it as the targets of that charge. The targets of a charge do not need to be visible to the charging unit.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.
Fall Back Moves
When a unit Falls Back, each model in that unit can make a Fall Back move by moving a distance in inches less than or equal to its Move characteristic, and when doing so you can move it within Engagement Range of enemy models, provided it does not end that move within Engagement Range of any enemy models – if this is not possible, that unit cannot Fall Back.
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.
Each time you take a Desperate Escape test for a model, roll one D6. For each roll of 1-2, one model from the unit that is Falling Back is destroyed (selected by you). The same model can only ever trigger one Desperate Escape test per phase.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.
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you have made a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll, a saving throw, an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test, a Hazardous test, or just after you have rolled the dice to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon, for an attack, model or unit from your army.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
2. Battle-shock
In this step, you must take a Battle-shock test for each of your units on the battlefield that is Below Half-strength. To do so, roll 2D6: if the result is greater than or equal to the best Leadership characteristic in that unit, the test is passed; otherwise, the test is failed and, until the start of your next Command phase, that unit is Battle-shocked.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.
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just after you have failed a Battle-shock test taken for a unit from your army.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
Blast
High-explosives can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them where your comrades will get caught in the ensuing detonation is simply unwise.
Weapons with [BLAST] in their profile are known as Blast weapons, and they make a random number of attacks. Each time you determine how many attacks are made with a Blast weapon, add 1 to the result for every five models that were in the target unit when you selected it as the target (rounding down). Blast weapons can never be used to make attacks against a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more units from the attacking model’s army (including its own unit).Example: If a weapon with the [BLAST] ability and an Attacks characteristic of 2D6 targets a unit that contains 11 models, and the roll to determine how many attacks are made is a 9, a total of 11 attacks would be made against that unit.
- Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic for every five models in the target unit (rounding down).
- Can never be used against a target that is within Engagement Range of any units from the attacking model’s army (including its own).
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A well-placed explosive munition in confined shipboard spaces can cause bloody carnage.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
Engagement Range
Engagement Range represents the zone of threat that models present to their enemies. While a model is within 1" horizontally and 5" vertically of an enemy model, those models – and their units – are within Engagement Range of each other.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.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
MOBILE VECTOR
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Nurgle's champions move through the Death Guard ranks like squirming parasites.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, before the Reinforcements step.
TARGET: One CHARACTER unit from your army that is not leading a unit.
EFFECT: Select one other friendly unit (excluding Battle-shocked units and Attached units that already have two Leader units or one of your CHARACTER units leading it] within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of your unit that your unit can lead (as described in the Leader section of its datasheet]. Your unit attaches to that unit as a Leader. Change that unit’s Starting Strength accordingly.
TARGET: One CHARACTER unit from your army that is not leading a unit.
EFFECT: Select one other friendly unit (excluding Battle-shocked units and Attached units that already have two Leader units or one of your CHARACTER units leading it] within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of your unit that your unit can lead (as described in the Leader section of its datasheet]. Your unit attaches to that unit as a Leader. Change that unit’s Starting Strength accordingly.
BLESSINGS OF FILTH
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Employing their unique gifts, this champion enhances the weapons of their comrades with even greater levels of infectious malevolence.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One Attached 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 Attached 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.
GROTESQUE FORTITUDE
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
After their champion calls down the blessings of Nurgle, these warriors can fight on no matter the catastrophic, often gruesome, damage done to them by the foe.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One Attached 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, add 2 to the Toughness characteristic of models in your unit.
TARGET: One Attached 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, add 2 to the Toughness characteristic of models in your unit.
MALIGNANCE MAGNIFIED
2CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The vile talents of such plague specialists act like a filth-smeared lens, focusing and intensifying the infectious gifts of Nurgle.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One Attached 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 that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One Attached 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 that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
FIGHTS FIRST
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.RABID INFUSION
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The combined talents of these Death Guard champions drive their followers into a foam-jawed fury, be it through injection with a curdled cocktail of stimms or immersion in a fug of infectious agents.
WHEN: Start of the Fight phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that includes two CHARACTER models.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability.
TARGET: One unit from your army that includes two CHARACTER models.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability.
Re-rolls
Some rules allow you to re-roll a dice roll, which means you get to roll some or all of the dice again. If a rule allows you to re-roll a dice roll that was made by adding several dice together (e.g. 2D6, 3D6, etc.) then, unless otherwise stated, you must re-roll all of those dice again.You can never re-roll a dice more than once, and re-rolls happen before modifiers (if any) are applied. Rules that refer to the value of an ‘unmodified’ dice roll are referring to the dice result after any re-rolls, but before any modifiers are applied.
- Unmodified Dice: the result after re-rolls, but before any modifiers.
- A dice can never be re-rolled more than once.
- You must re-roll all dice if several need adding together (e.g. 2D6).
- Re-rolls are applied before any modifiers.
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Core – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you make an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test or a Hazardous test for a unit from your army, or a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll or a saving throw for a model in that unit, or a roll to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon equipped by a model in that unit. If you are using fast dice rolling, this Stratagem can still be used after rolling multiple rolls or saving throws at once.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw. If you are using fast dice rolling, select one of those rolls or saving throws to re-roll.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw. If you are using fast dice rolling, select one of those rolls or saving throws to re-roll.
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Core – Epic Deed Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you take a Battle-shock test for a unit from your army.
TARGET: That unit from your army.
EFFECT: Your unit automatically passes that Battle-shock test.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per battle.
TARGET: That unit from your army.
EFFECT: Your unit automatically passes that Battle-shock test.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per battle.
Normal Moves
When a unit makes a Normal move, each model in that unit can move a distance in inches less than or equal to its Move (M) characteristic, but no model can be moved within Engagement Range of any enemy models.- Normal Move: Models move up to M".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
Unit Visible
If one or more models in a unit is visible to the observing model, then that model’s unit is visible to the observing model.
FIRE OVERWATCH
1CP
Core – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
A hail of wildfire can drive back advancing foes.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement or Charge phase, just after an enemy unit is set up or when an enemy unit starts or ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, or declares a charge.
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.
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.
DEEP STRIKE
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.
RAPID INGRESS
1CP
Core – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Be it cunning strategy, potent technology or supernatural ritual, there are many means by which a commander may hasten their warriors’ onset.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is in Reserves.
EFFECT: Your unit can arrive on the battlefield as if it were the Reinforcements step of your Movement phase, and if every model in that unit has the Deep Strike ability, you can set that unit up as described in the Deep Strike ability (even though it is not your Movement phase).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem to enable a unit to arrive on the battlefield during a battle round it would not normally be able to do so in.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is in Reserves.
EFFECT: Your unit can arrive on the battlefield as if it were the Reinforcements step of your Movement phase, and if every model in that unit has the Deep Strike ability, you can set that unit up as described in the Deep Strike ability (even though it is not your Movement phase).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem to enable a unit to arrive on the battlefield during a battle round it would not normally be able to do so in.
Invulnerable Saves
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.
Benefit of Cover
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.
GO TO GROUND
1CP
Core – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Seeking salvation from incoming fire, warriors hurl themselves into whatever cover they can find.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One 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, all models in your unit have a 6+ invulnerable save and have the Benefit of Cover.
TARGET: One 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, all models in your unit have a 6+ invulnerable save and have the Benefit of Cover.
Charge Bonus
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.HEROIC INTERVENTION
1CP
Core – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Voices raised in furious war cries, your warriors surge forth to meet the enemy’s onslaught head-on.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Charge move.
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.
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.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Core – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
Precision
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.
EPIC CHALLENGE
1CP
Core – Epic Deed Stratagem
The legends of the 41st Millennium are replete with deadly duels between mighty champions.
WHEN: Fight phase, when a CHARACTER unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more Attached units is selected to fight.
TARGET: One CHARACTER model in your unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, all melee attacks made by that model have the [PRECISION] ability.
TARGET: One CHARACTER model in your unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, all melee attacks made by that model have the [PRECISION] ability.
INFESTATION
1CP
Embarked Regiment – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The taint left by the servants of Nurgle is not easily scoured from the stuff of realspace.
WHEN: Start or end of any turn, when an enemy unit attempts to Seize an objective marker you have Secured.
TARGET: One unit from your army (excludingCULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) within Contagion Range of that objective marker.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 5+, until the end of your next turn, that objective marker remains Secured by your army and you are considered to control it, regardless of how many enemy models are within range of it.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: One unit from your army (excluding
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 5+, until the end of your next turn, that objective marker remains Secured by your army and you are considered to control it, regardless of how many enemy models are within range of it.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
DRONING HORROR
1CP
Flyblown Host – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Clouds of droning daemon flies sweep across the battlefield to envelop the enemies of the Death Guard. As their victims claw and scratch at the seething swarms, Mortarion’s sons pick off their targets at leisure.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One INFANTRY 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 a ranged attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that attack targets a unit within half range, you can re-roll the Hit roll instead.
TARGET: One INFANTRY 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 a ranged attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that attack targets a unit within half range, you can re-roll the Hit roll instead.
EYE OF THE SWARM
1CP
Flyblown Host – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The vermin swarms intensify as the Death Guard close in upon the enemy. As their foes clutch and tear their crawling skin, pitiless Plague Marines unleash volleys of point‑blank fire into their tormented foes.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One INFANTRY 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 (excluding Blast weapons) have the [PISTOL] ability.
TARGET: One INFANTRY 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 (excluding Blast weapons) have the [PISTOL] ability.
MYPHITIC INVIGORATION
1CP
Flyblown Host – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Daemon flies are drawn to and invigorated by the foul miasmas surrounding Myphitic Blight‑haulers. In the vicinity of these malodorous constructs, the swarms gather in densities great enough to form a living barrier to the foe’s attacks.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One INFANTRY unit from your army that is within 6" of one or more friendlyMYPHITIC BLIGHT-HAULER units and 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 Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of this unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One INFANTRY unit from your army that is within 6" of one or more friendly
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of this unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Devastating Wounds
Weapons with [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] in their profile are known as Devastating Wounds weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, if that attack scores a Critical Wound, no saving throw of any kind can be made against that attack (including invulnerable saving throws). Such attacks are only allocated to models after all other attacks made by the attacking unit have been allocated and resolved. After that attack is allocated and after any modifiers are applied, it inflicts a number of mortal wounds on the target equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack, instead of inflicting damage normally.Example: An attack made with a Devastating Wounds weapon with a Damage characteristic of 2 scores a Critical Wound. Instead of allocating the attack and making saving throws normally, the target suffers 2 mortal wounds.
- A Critical Wound inflicts mortal wounds equal to the weapon’s Damage characteristic, instead of any normal damage.
Mortal Wounds
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.
ENERVATING ONSLAUGHT
1CP
Flyblown Host – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Swathed in a buzzing cloak of pathogenic decay, Nurgle’s chosen crash into the foe, disease dealing death as surely as fist, maul and blade.
WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after a INFANTRY unit from your army makes a Charge move.
TARGET: That INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES). Roll one D6 for each model in your unit that is within Engagement Range of that unit, adding 1 to the result if that model is not aCULTIST or POXWALKER model: for each 5+, the selected enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).
TARGET: That INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES). Roll one D6 for each model in your unit that is within Engagement Range of that unit, adding 1 to the result if that model is not a
NAUSEATING PAROXYSMS
1CP
Flyblown Host – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The contagion borne by the Death Guard and their attendant swarms of winged vermin triggers bouts of sickness and convulsion in those they encounter.
WHEN: Start of the Fight phase.
TARGET: One INFANTRY unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. That unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
TARGET: One INFANTRY unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. That unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
Pile In
When a unit Piles In, you can move each model in that unit that is not already in base-to-base contact with an enemy model up to 3" – this is a Pile-in move. For a Pile In to be possible, a unit must be able to end these moves within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and in Unit Coherency. If these conditions cannot be met, no models in the unit can make Pile-in moves this phase and you progress to making melee attacks with that unit. Otherwise, the unit can make Pile-in moves.Each time a model makes a Pile-in 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.
- Pile-in 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 (or no models can Pile In).
Consolidate
After a unit has finished making all of its melee attacks, it Consolidates. Each time a unit Consolidates, you can move each model in that unit that is not already in base-to-base contact with an enemy model up to 3" – this is a Consolidation move. For a Consolidation to be possible, a unit must be able to end these moves within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and in Unit Coherency. If these conditions cannot be met, then each model in that unit can instead make a Consolidation move towards the closest objective marker, but only if, after doing so, that unit is within range of that objective marker and in Unit Coherency. If these conditions also cannot be met, no models in the unit can make Consolidation moves this phase and that unit’s fight ends.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.
VERMIN CLOUD
1CP
Flyblown Host – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The storm of insectile contagion sweeps forward, dragging the Death Guard in its wake. None will escape the Plague God’s embrace.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in this unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".
TARGET: One INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in this unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".
DRAWN TO DESPAIR
1CP
Mortarion’s Hammer – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Those who languish in misery or cower in terror make themselves easy targets for the Death Guard.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One 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 that targets a visible enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT) within your opponent’s deployment zone, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One 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 that targets a visible enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT) within your opponent’s deployment zone, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
SHAMBLING WALL
1CP
Shamblerot Vectorium – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Lacking even basic self-preservation instincts, Poxwalkers make excellent walking shields.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly POXWALKERS unit within 3" of your unit and visible to both your unit and the attacking unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your unit, if your POXWALKERS unit is visible to the attacking model and is an eligible target for that attack, no saving throw is made for that attack; instead a number of POXWALKERS from your POXWALKERS unit equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack are destroyed.
TARGET: One unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly POXWALKERS unit within 3" of your unit and visible to both your unit and the attacking unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your unit, if your POXWALKERS unit is visible to the attacking model and is an eligible target for that attack, no saving throw is made for that attack; instead a number of POXWALKERS from your POXWALKERS unit equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack are destroyed.
SHOCK AND HORROR
1CP
Shamblerot Vectorium – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Already dismayed by this living nightmare, the enemy falters before another sudden onslaught.
WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after a unit from your army ends a Charge move.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.
The PLAGUE LEGIONS keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Battleline
CLUTCHING CORRUPTION
1CP
Tallyband Summoners – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The daemons of Nurgle grasp their victims tightly with rotting talons and coiling tentacles, their clutch as inescapable as entropy itself.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more PLAGUE LEGIONS units from your army, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more PLAGUE LEGIONS units from your army, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
Roll-offs
Some rules instruct players to roll off. To do so, both players roll one D6, and whoever scores highest wins the roll-off. If there is a tie for the highest roll, roll off again. Neither player is allowed to re-roll or modify any of the D6 when making a roll-off.
SEEPING CORROSION
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Crawling tendrils of foulness spread through the voidship at the touch of the Death Guard, poisoning and rotting luckless foes.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, when a unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) attempts to open a Hatchway.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 1" of your unit and on the opposite side of that Hatchway from your unit, and roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. Until the end of the phase, if an enemy unit attempts to prevent that Hatchway from being opened, when rolling off, you can re-roll your result.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 1" of your unit and on the opposite side of that Hatchway from your unit, and roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. Until the end of the phase, if an enemy unit attempts to prevent that Hatchway from being opened, when rolling off, you can re-roll your result.
CHINKS IN THE ARMOUR
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Even the slightest weakness is enough for the foulness of the Death Guard to find a way in.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One 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 that targets a unit within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
TARGET: One 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 that targets a unit within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
GROTESQUE DEMISE
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Many of the plague weapons and revolting diseases unleashed by the Death Guard inflict endings so hideous that the mere sight of them is enough to send unharmed enemies fleeing in horror.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after a unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) has shot or fought.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that had one or more models destroyed as a result of those attacks. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that had one or more models destroyed as a result of those attacks. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
LEECHSPORE ERUPTION
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Epic Deed Stratagem
Billowing from this warrior's wounds come clouds of parasitic spores that settle on the foe and drain their vitality, stealing it for the one who spawned them.
WHEN: Your Command phase.
TARGET: One model your army that has lost one or more wounds.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 3" of your model. Roll a number of D6 equal to the number of wounds your model has lost: for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers one mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds) and your model regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 6 lost wounds).
TARGET: One model your army that has lost one or more wounds.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 3" of your model. Roll a number of D6 equal to the number of wounds your model has lost: for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers one mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds) and your model regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 6 lost wounds).
PLAGUESURGE
2CP
Virulent Vectorium – Epic Deed Stratagem
The foul miasma around the Death Guard swells and thickens, boiling outward like putrid smog.
WHEN: Your Command phase.
TARGET: Your WARLORD that is on the battlefield.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models from your army.
TARGET: Your WARLORD that is on the battlefield.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models from your army.
DISGUSTINGLY RESILIENT
2CP
Virulent Vectorium – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Those favoured by Nurgle are inured to pain, their rotting bodies shrugging off all but the most traumatic damage with ease.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One 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 is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One 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 is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
CREEPING BLIGHT
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Wargear Stratagem
Those in the grip of Nurgle's unholy plagues become weaker by the moment, barely able to lift their weapons, let alone defend themselves from the attacking Death Guard.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One INFANTRY 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 a ranged attack that targets an Afflicted unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One INFANTRY 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 a ranged attack that targets an Afflicted unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
OVERWHELMING GENEROSITY
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Wargear Stratagem
Unholy filth gushes from Nurgle's faithful into their guns until the armaments threaten to burst like bloated corpses.
WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One CHARACTER unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit visible to your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a unit from your army selects that enemy unit as the target of any ranged attacks, you can re-roll the dice to determine how many attacks a weapon equipped by a model in that unit makes.
TARGET: One CHARACTER unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit visible to your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a unit from your army selects that enemy unit as the target of any ranged attacks, you can re-roll the dice to determine how many attacks a weapon equipped by a model in that unit makes.
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Verminous Haze
Flyblown Host Detachment
A cloud of winged insects descends over Mortarion’s pathogenic sons, obscuring their malodorous ranks and shielding them from the eyes and augurs of the enemy. Beneath thrumming storms of fat-bodied flies, Plague Marines stride towards their wavering foes until they are close enough to unleash punishing volleys of killing fire.
INFANTRY units (excluding POXWALKERS units) from your army that are not embarked within a TRANSPORT have the Scouts 5" and Stealth abilities.Worldblight
Virulent Vectorium Detachment
As the foul tendrils of the Death Guard quest further across the battlefield, they infest even the most secure, holy and heavily warded sites with supernatural disease. To fight amidst such foulness is a virtual death sentence to the foe, win or lose.
If you control an objective marker at the end of your Command phase and a unit from your army (excluding Battle-shocked units) is within range of that objective marker, that objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase. In addition, until you lose control of that objective marker, it has the Nurgle’s Gift ability as if it were a model from your army.Miasmic Bombardment
Mortarion’s Hammer Detachment
In the wake of preparatory bombardment by artillery weapons both forbidden and foul, the surviving foe are left reeling amidst clouds of plague smog. With their flesh running like tallow and their weapons rusting in their hands, they will be hard-pressed to fight back.
At the start of the battle round, select a number of enemy units more than 12" away from every model from your army that is on the battlefield. Until the end of the battle round, those enemy units are Afflicted. The maximum number of units you can select in this way depends on the battle size, as shown below.
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Manifold Maladies
Champions of Contagion Detachment
A spirit of competition infects Nurgle’s champions when they fight alongside one another. With each vying to outdo the others in virulence, the foes are subjected to a riotous string of nightmarish outbreaks amongst their ranks.
At the start of the battle round, you can select one of the Plagues listed in Nurgle’s Gift. Until the end of the battle, that is your chosen Plague instead of any previously chosen Plague.Reverberant Rancidity
Tallyband Summoners Detachment
Reality rings like a struck bell as it rebels against the sheer wrongness of Nurgle’s daemons. Borne upon these jarring waves of metaphysical disease, magnified and redoubled with every dolorous peal, the Plague God’s myriad infections spread and multiply all the faster.
While a PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army is within 7" of one or more units from your army, that PLAGUE LEGIONS unit has the Nurgle’s Gift ability.While a unit from your army is within 7" of one or more PLAGUE LEGIONS units from your army, add 3" to that units Contagion Range.
PLAGUE LEGIONS
You can include PLAGUE LEGIONS units in your army, even though they do not have the Faction keyword. The combined points cost of such units you can include in your army is:
- Incursion: Up to 500 pts
- Strike Force: Up to 1000 pts
- Onslaught: Up to 1500 pts
No PLAGUE LEGIONS models from your army can be your WARLORD.
Numberless Horde
Shamblerot Vectorium Detachment
No matter how many Poxwalkers the enemy gun down or tear limb-from-limb at close quarters, more groaning mutants keep coming from every side.
In your Command phase in each of the following battle rounds, depending on your chosen battle size, add a new POXWALKERS unit with a Starting Strength of 10 to your army, in Strategic Reserves.
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KEYWORDS
POXWALKERS units from your army gain the BATTLELINE keyword.
Deadly Vectors
Death Lord’s Chosen Detachment
The plagues and parasites to which these elite warriors play host are amongst the most lethal in the galaxy. Moment by moment, even the most resilient foes sicken and wither in their presence until all that remains is rotted matter deliquescing sloppily from mouldering bones.
In your opponent’s Command phase, roll 2D6 for each Afflicted enemy unit, subtracting 1 from the result if that unit is Below Half-strength. If the result is 6 or less, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.Sevenfold Offerings
Vectors of Decay Detachment
Seven by seven the enemy fall, reaped like blighted crops or rotted from within. Seven by seven their souls are offered up to the Lord of Pestilence.
For every seven enemy models that have been destroyed, add 2" to the Contagion Range of units from your army. Note that any increase to the Contagion Range of units from your army as a result of this rule does not take place while a unit from your army is attacking. In such an event, the increase will take effect after such a unit has finished making its attacks.Relentless Spread
Unclean Uprising Detachment
Like a virus seeking fresh hosts, the unclean worshippers of the Plague God spill through the ship’s corridors on the hunt for untainted souls.
Each time a unit from your army makes a Consolidation move:- It can move up to D3+3" instead of up to 3".
- If it cannot end that move within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units that are visible to it (and in Unit Coherency), it can still make that Consolidation move, and when doing so can move in any direction.
Flyblown Host Detachment
With a hacking prayer to Nurgle, this warrior calls upon the swarm. Buzzing clumps of plague‑bearing flies settle upon his bloated form and vomit streams of rejuvenating contagion into festering wounds.
INFANTRY model only. At the end of each phase, the bearer regains all of its lost wounds.
Assault
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.
Flyblown Host Detachment
The buzzing swarms respond to this champion’s will, sweeping down upon his chosen target, their crawling, biting and droning enfeebling the horrified foe.
INFANTRY model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
Objective Markers
Objective markers represent objects of tactical or strategic import that both sides are attempting to secure, such as valuable artefacts, vital supplies or communications nodes. If a mission uses objective markers, it will state where they are located on the battlefield. These can be represented using any suitable marker, but we recommend using round markers that are 40mm in diameter.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.
Flyblown Host Detachment
When this diseased pilgrim marches to sites of festering putrescence, Nurgle’s blessings manifest in a buzzing clot of darkness that falls like an enshrouding fog over them and their disciples.
INFANTRY model only. While the bearer’s unit is within range of one or more objective markers that you control, that unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".
Virulent Vectorium Detachment
Be it the Seeping Blade, the Talon of Befoulment or even the dreaded Axe of Putrescence, this weapon contains a malevolent daemonic entity whose mere touch rots and sickens the foe.
model only. Each time the bearer makes a melee attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
Feel No Pain
FEEL NO PAIN
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.
Virulent Vectorium Detachment
The unfettered energies of Nurgle’s realm gush from the Warp like foulness from a punctured boil, earthing themselves in the fabric of realspace through this champions repulsive body.
model only. While the bearer’s unit is within range of an objective marker you control, each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
Virulent Vectorium Detachment
This champion’s body blazes with fever as a cornucopia of supernatural diseases churn and roil within. Mere proximity to them is enough to trigger an infectious outbreak of daemonic viruses.
model only. Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of the bearers melee weapons, and the bearer’s melee weapons have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
Mortarion’s Hammer Detachment
This daemonic familiar lives in the champion’s flesh and watches with bitter paranoia for enemy threats. Should it spot a counterattack from the foe, it bursts forth to scream its shrill warning.
model only. Once per battle round, you can target the bearer’s unit with the Fire Overwatch Stratagem for 0CP.
Ignores Cover
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.Mortarion’s Hammer Detachment
Peering at the world through this bloated yellow orb, the bearer of this vile gift sees the souls of the sickened burning bright as targeting flares no matter how their victims try to hide.
model only. Ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit have the [ignores cover] ability while targeting an Afflicted enemy unit.
Tallyband Summoners Detachment
This unclean gift infects its host with animaluminescent fungus. Once their spirit is riddled with incorporeal mycelia, it begins to glow. This sickly radiance acts like a guiding lantern to the daemons of Nurgle, who follow its glare into realspace.
model only. Each time a PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, if it is set up wholly within 12" of the bearer, it can be set up anywhere that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models, instead of more than 9".
Shamblerot Vectorium Detachment
Gifted by Nurgle to be forever surrounded by shambling packs of Poxwalkers, this champion has become adept at leading their festering hordes into battle.
model only. If the bearer is leading a POXWALKER unit, and is in Strategic Reserves, for the purposes of setting up that unit on the battlefield, treat the current battle round as the third battle round.
Shamblerot Vectorium Detachment
This mould-furred talisman is studded with teeth torn from Poxwalkers’ jaws. It bolsters the creatures’ putrid vitality, forcing them to stagger and fight even through grotesque wounds.
model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of POXWALKERS models in that unit.
Vectors of Decay Detachment
Bloated fit to burst with noxious corruption, this champion’s straining body is like an overfilled pressure vessel ready to explode like a diseased warhead.
When the bearer is destroyed, before removing it from the battlefield, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer and roll one D6: on a 2-3, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 4-5, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds.
Unclean Uprising Detachment
Foul and foetid is the touch of this blessed being, seeping filth and rust-blooming fungi spilling from everything they lay their hands upon.
In your Command phase, select one objective marker that you control and is within range of the bearer. Roll one D6: on a 2+, that objective marker is Secured by your army
Unclean Uprising Detachment
This foul champion is a living vector for the spread of the walking plague, a suppurating nexus of filthy unlife that cannot be cleansed.
Once per battle, at the end of your Movement phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one friendly POXWALKERS unit within 9" of and visible to the bearer; return up to D3+2 destroyed models to that unit.
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Anti
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.Example: An attack made with an [ANTI-VEHICLE 4+] weapon will score a Critical Wound against – and so successfully wound – a VEHICLE unit on an unmodified Wound roll of 4+, while an attack made with an [ANTI-PSYKER 2+] weapon will score a Critical Wound against – and so successfully wound – a PSYKER unit on an unmodified Wound roll of 2+.
- [ANTI-KEYWORD X+]: An unmodified Wound roll of ‘x+’ against a target with the matching keyword scores a Critical Wound.
Torrent
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.Lethal Hits
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.The TERMINATOR keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
ALLIES OF ENTROPY
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The foul vitality that flows through these warriors is slow to depart, even in extremis.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One 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 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One 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 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
CORROSIVE CURSE
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Mere proximity to these repulsive plague champions is enough to see vital systems rust and crumble as the taint of Chaos consumes them.
WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker within Contagion Range of and visible to your unit. That objective marker is Secured by your army.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once and, until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to shoot or declare a charge.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker within Contagion Range of and visible to your unit. That objective marker is Secured by your army.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once and, until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to shoot or declare a charge.
SEED OF CORRUPTION
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Like infectious spores contaminating their victim, the warriors of the Death Guard teleport into battle then dig in as their foulness slowly spreads around them.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: If your unit was set up on the battlefield this turn, it can perform a Tactical Manoeuvre this phase as if it was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: If your unit was set up on the battlefield this turn, it can perform a Tactical Manoeuvre this phase as if it was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
CLOUD OF FLIES
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Plague flies engulf these warriors in a storm of buzzing wings and pustulent bodies, soaking up incoming enemy fire and obscuring the Death Guard elite from the foe.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One 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 turn, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One 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 turn, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
BLOOMING PESTILENCE
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Epic Deed Stratagem
Death Guard warriors know to chant the sevenfold prayers to unleash Nurgle's bounty on the foe.
WHEN: Start of any phase.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models in your unit.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models in your unit.
SIGNAL POX
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Epic Deed Stratagem
Guided in by rasping jets of fumes sent up by this Lord of Virulence, plague-ridden artillery fire and airbursting spore-shells saturate the target zone.
WHEN: Your Command phase.
TARGET: One LORD OF VIRULENCE model from your army.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker within 30" of and visible to your model. Until the start of your next turn, while an enemy unit is within range of that objective marker, that unit is Afflicted.
TARGET: One LORD OF VIRULENCE model from your army.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker within 30" of and visible to your model. Until the start of your next turn, while an enemy unit is within range of that objective marker, that unit is Afflicted.
Heavy
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.
MORTARION'S TEACHINGS
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Exemplifying the Daemon Primarch's doctrines on versatile heavy infantry tactics, these warriors position themselves and let fly.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR 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 [ASSAULT] and [HEAVY] abilities.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR 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 [ASSAULT] and [HEAVY] abilities.
SICKENING IMPACT
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Employing their crushing bulk and contagious gifts, these Terminators slam into their victims and grind them into putrefying mulch.
WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after a TERMINATOR unit from your army ends a Charge move.
TARGET: That TERMINATOR unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit, then roll one D6 for each model in your unit that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit: for each 2+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).
TARGET: That TERMINATOR unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit, then roll one D6 for each model in your unit that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit: for each 2+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).
GRIM REAPERS
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Swollen with bitter arrogance, these warriors carve a path through their perceived lessers and leave them as worm food.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) you can re-roll the Hit roll.
UNDYING SPITE
1CP
Death Lord’s Chosen – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Driven by bitterness and the putrid vitality of Nurgle's gifts, these warriors fight on for several moments, even after death.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR 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 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One TERMINATOR 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 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
Inescapable Corruption
Arch-Contaminators Detachment
The combined plague blessings of so many champions of the Plague God is universally contagious, a dreadful omnirot that infests flesh, metal and even the minds and souls of its victims.
Each time an enemy unit is selected to perform a Tactical Manoeuvre, if that unit is within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, that enemy unit must take a Leadership test. If that test is failed, that Tactical Manoeuvre has no effect (that enemy unit is still eligible to shoot and declare a charge this turn as normal).In addition, in your Command phase, roll one D6 for each objective marker that is within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army and is Secured by your opponent’s army: on a 5+, that objective marker is no longer Secured by your opponent’s army.
Twin-linked
Dual weapons are often grafted to the same targeting system for greater lethality.
Weapons with [TWIN-LINKED] in their profile are known as Twin-linked weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, you can re-roll that attack’s Wound roll.LONE OPERATIVE
Assassins and other covert agents are difficult to track and pinpoint in the swirling maelstrom of battle.
Unless part of an Attached unit (see Leader), this unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 12".Death Lord’s Chosen Detachment
So grotesque and monstrous is this champion’s aspect that it fills the enemy with unreasoning dread simply to look upon him.
TERMINATOR model only. At the start of the Fight phase, each enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit must take a Battle-shock test.
Death Lord’s Chosen Detachment
A fanatical worshipper of Nurgle and a talented orator, this champion can infect their followers with the urgent need to forge into battle and spread the Plague God’s blessings to all.
TERMINATOR model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, add 1" to the Movement characteristic of models in that unit and you can re-roll Advance rolls made for that unit.
Death Lord’s Chosen Detachment
This armoured helm was crafted by the Daemon Prince Vermifulgus the Pestilent and carries his squirming enchantments. It manifests its wearer's will as roaring swarms of plump flies that whirl about their creator like an occluding shroud or descend on the foe to blind eyes, clog sensors and spread revolted panic.
TERMINATOR model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit cannot be targeted by ranged attacks unless the attacking model is within 18".
Death Lord’s Chosen Detachment
By invoking the power of this ancient talisman, the bearer can rot a sagging rent in reality and step through the Warp to burst forth elsewhere amidst a gushing sluice of foul fluids.
TERMINATOR model only. Once per battle, at the end of your opponent’s turn, if the bearer’s unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, you can remove it from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Arch-Contaminators Detachment
Grotesque maws and stabbing probosces burst from this champion’s bloated form to consume and corrupt the very life essence of their victims.
Each time the bearer destroys an enemy model with a melee attack, roll one D6: on a 5+, the bearer regains one lost wound (to a maximum of two lost wounds per phase).
Mortarion’s Hammer Detachment
This warrior has gained greater control of the vile fumes that billow from their armour, willing them forward like coiling tentacles to wreathe targets and guide in the fire of allied war engines.
LORD OF VIRULENCE only. While the bearer is within 3" of one or more friendly VEHICLE units, the bearer has the Lone Operative ability, and each time one of those VEHICLE units makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit visible to the bearer, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.