Emperor’s Children
Few beings in the galaxy are as twisted and deranged as the Emperor’s Children. Their sanity blasted by the sick worship of Slaanesh, the Lord of Pleasure, the Emperor’s Children embrace terror and agony as delightful bliss, and wreak the most horrific degradations upon their foes in the name of indulgence and pleasure.
Books
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Emperor’s Children | ||||
| Emperor’s Children | Codex | 10 | March 2025 | |
 Munitorum Field Manual | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual | Expansion | 10 | 2.3 | March 2025 |
 Balance Dataslate | ||||
| Balance Dataslate | Rulebook | 10 | March 2025 | March 2025 |
Introduction
The Detachment rule listed here will apply to either your whole army or to particular units within it. If any additional restrictions or benefits apply to a Detachment, they will be listed here. This can include units your army either must include or cannot include, as well as additional keywords some of your units may gain.
When mustering your army, your chosen Detachment enables you to upgrade CHARACTERS using the Enhancements listed here, as described in the Core Rules (see the Select Units step). If you are playing a Crusade battle, you can instead use the Renowned Heroes Requisition to give your CHARACTERS Enhancements, as described in the main Crusade rules.
Your chosen Detachment gives you access to the Stratagems listed here in addition to the Core Stratagems listed in the Core Rules. During the battle, you can spend Command points (CP) to use these Stratagems. You can find out more about how to use Stratagems here.
Army Rules
Thrill Seekers
The Emperor’s Children are skilled warriors all, their transhuman might enhanced by a lifetime of ceaseless conflict. Their ingrained desire for sensation in all its forms sees them move rapidly across the battlefield, flitting between targets as they attempt to satiate their never-ending hunger for fresh experience.
If your Army Faction is EMPEROR’S CHILDREN, this unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back, but when doing so:- It cannot target a unit it was within Engagement Range of at the start of the turn.
- It cannot target a unit that was the target of another units charge or attack this phase.
Mercurial Host
The Emperor’s Children are a myriad of warbands driven by an obsessive desire to experience the thrill of battle in all its many forms. These warbands strike with a speed and excessive violence that is majestic in its ever-escalating cruelty. Tormentors and Infractors, their pupils dilated by exotic stimm cocktails, flesh scarred and sculpted by self-inflicted tortures, traverse the battlefield. Their murderous intentions flit from target to target, driven by their obsessive need for fresh experience and sensation. Each bloody kill they make is more excruciating and visually gratifying than the last. Noise Marines unleash wave after wave of discordant sonic destruction. The varied pitch and tone of blastmaster, sonic blaster and screamer pistol combine with the screams of the dying and the exultant battle cries of the Emperor’s Children to form a symphony of majestic horror.
Quicksilver Grace
The Emperor’s Children are consummate raiders, eager to satiate their lust for sensation amid battle and falling upon their foes with impossible swiftness and inhuman grace.
You can re-roll Advance rolls made for EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army.Enhancements
The warlords of the Emperor’s Children thrive on the pain they cause. The more grievous the injuries they cause, the deadlier they become. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit below its Starting Strength, add 1 to the Hit roll. If that target is also Below Half-strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well. |
A sickly-sweet aroma emanates from this warrior, at once delightful and abhorrent. A perfumed assault on the senses intoxicates those in its vicinity. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Each time a melee attack targets the bearer’s unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll. |
Since their foundation, the Emperor's Children have sought to master every art of warfare, be it in personal acts of martial prowess or superior tactical displays. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to two EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army and redeploy them. When doing so, you can set those units up in Strategic Reserves if you wish, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves. |
Blessed by Slaanesh to further accentuate their perverse elegance, this leader possesses feline finesse. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, it can move through enemy models. When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, if your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army (excluding BEASTS and VEHICLES) that is within 9" of the enemy unit that just ended that move.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that is wholly within 9" of one or more battlefield edges and not within 3" horizontally of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Peerless Bladesmen
The Emperor’s Children are consumed by their own pride and driven by insatiable obsession. They seek to prove their prowess in myriad forms of combat. Tall and powerful Flawless Blades stride proudly into battle, seeking out enemy champions to gruesomely humble in single combat. They parry the blows of their foes with sneering arrogance and spill their blood with glee. In their blood-slick wake come squads of Infractors, empowered by rare and esoteric combat drugs. Other sons of Fulgrim unleash death in shredding salvoes from boltguns and sonic weapons. Those who exult in their swordfighting prowess find gaps in armour plate with their curved blades and sinuous whips, rending flesh and spilling viscera with each strike. The slaughter increases in pace and intensity as it rushes towards a gore-slick crescendo, ending only when the last wretched victim has been eviscerated, and the twisted souls of the Emperor’s Children are briefly glutted on the riotous carnage they have inflicted.
Exquisite Swordsmanship
These warriors are peerless swordsmen, each demonstrating exquisite fighting form. Those who lock swords with these obsessive warriors do so at their peril.
Each time an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army is selected to fight, if it made a Charge move this turn, select one of the abilities below. While resolving those attacks, melee weapons equipped by models in that unit have that ability:- [LETHAL HITS]
- [SUSTAINED HITS 1]
Enhancements
This swordsman forever seeks opportunities to flaunt their dazzling and deadly bladework. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. You can target the bearer’s unit with the Heroic Intervention Stratagem for 0CP, and can do so even if you have already targeted a different unit with that Stratagem this phase. |
By injecting powerful combat stimms distilled from the perfumed ichor of Daemonettes, these warriors slash out with diabolically enhanced speed. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have the Fights First ability. |
The sheen of this blade reflects to the bearer their own alluring countenance. In their image, they see an example of perfection. In reality, the bearer has become a hideous wretch, every ounce of elegance leached away to increase the daemon blade’s killing power. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Add 1 to the Attacks and Damage characteristics of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. |
This warriors arrogance is matched by a listless ennui at the galaxy's everyday stimuli. Should a worthy opponent challenge them in combat, they transform into a faultless duellist with skill beyond compare. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per battle, at the end of the Fight phase, if the bearer is within Engagement Range of three or more enemy models, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, the bearer can fight one additional time. When doing so, you can select one ability using the Exquisite Swordsmanship Detachment rule to apply to those attacks. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3", provided your unit ends that Consolidation move within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that made a Charge move this turn and has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that made a Charge move in the previous turn and destroyed one or more enemy units in the previous Fight phase.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within 6" of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test if they are Below Half-strength. Enemy units affected by this Stratagem do not need to take any other Battle-shock tests in the same phase.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army (you can only select a VEHICLE if it is a WALKER) 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 can declare a charge. When doing so, you must select that enemy unit as a target of that charge, and your unit does not receive a Charge bonus this turn.
Rapid Evisceration
The armoured transports of the Emperor’s Children are a testament to the debased nature of those who ride within them. Daubed in vibrant colours and covered in symbols of dedication to both Legion and Dark Prince, the war engines’ twisted machine spirits snarl, whine and growl like beasts straining at the leash. Warp amps emit streams of daemonic screeches, spreading fear in the ranks of the enemy and heralding the slaughter to come. Laying down destructive choruses of firepower from turrets, hatches and sponsons, armoured transports grind over the foe’s defences, smash into enemy infantry and disgorge their fell cargo to battle. From the armoured behemoths emerge the Emperor’s Children, weapons drawn in anticipation of the glorious violence to come.
Mechanised Murder
The Emperor’s Children are masters of the mechanised assault, leaping from their growling, daemonically tainted vehicles to fall upon the foe with blade and bolter.
Each time an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model from your army makes an attack, if it disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.Enhancements
This leader’s tactical prowess ensures that their reinforcements arrive when required. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per turn, in your Movement phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT that is in Strategic Reserves. Until the end of the phase, for the purposes of setting up that TRANSPORT on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is. |
This leader and their bodyguard pride themselves being first into the fray. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Each time the bearer disembarks from a TRANSPORT, until the end of the turn, you can re-roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit and enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at the bearer’s unit. |
Possessed of uncanny situational awareness, this leader directs hit-and-fade attacks with great precision. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per turn, in your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot, you can select one friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit within 9" of the bearer that was hit by one or more of those attacks, then select one friendly TRANSPORT that unit is wholly within 6" of and is able to embark within. That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit can embark within that Transport. |
This warrior is well-versed in the fell rituals of the Dark Mechanicum. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per battle round, when a saving throw is failed for a friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer, you can change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 0. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT from your army that has one or more TORMENTORS units embarked within it (excluding Battle-shocked units).
EFFECT: Select one objective marker you control that your TRANSPORT is within range of. 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.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN VEHICLE unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through enemy models (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES). When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that disembarked from a TRANSPORT that made a Normal move this turn.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit is eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit embarked within your TRANSPORT can disembark. When doing so, models in that unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT from your army, or up to two EMPEROR’S CHILDREN DEDICATED TRANSPORTS from your army.
EFFECT: For each of those TRANSPORTS wholly within 9" of one or more battlefield edges, remove it from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Carnival of Excess
Wherever the Emperor’s Children tread, wherever they indulge their every obsessive desire, wherever they gut, flay and slaughter, reality is torn asunder and through the veil pour the daemons of Slaanesh. Daemonettes leap forward, their lithe forms at once repulsive and alluring. Clouds of sickly soul-musk drift through the ranks of the foe dulling their senses whilst the susurrations of the advancing daemons lull the weak-willed into trances. Seekers of Slaanesh crash into their helpless victims, talon, claw and poisoned tongue ripping flesh asunder. Alongside their daemonic allies, the Emperor’s Children keep pace, letting out ecstatic laughter and booming battle cries as they unleash malefic sorceries and slaughter at will. Return fire finds only corrupted air as daemon and tainted warriors alike advance like a murderous pageant through the enemy fire with contemptuous ease.
Daemonic Empowerment
Where the Emperor’s Children indulge their obsession, the power ofSlaanesh empowers those in his thrall.
- While an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army is within 6" of one or more friendly LEGIONS OF EXCESS units, it is Empowered.
- While a LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit from your army is within 6" of one or more friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units, it is Empowered.
While a unit from your army is Empowered, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [sustained hits 1] ability. If such a weapon already has that ability, each time an attack is made with that weapon, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
LEGIONS OF EXCESS
You can include LEGIONS OF EXCESS units in your army, even though they do not have the EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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
Enhancements
Swirling clouds of perfumed empyric energy suffuse this leader s followers, granting them daemonic vigour. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Once per battle round, you can target one friendly SLAANESH unit within 6" of the bearer with the Heroic Intervention Stratagem for 0CP. |
This warrior has earned the favour of the Dark Prince. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per battle, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, the bearer has a 3+ invulnerable save. |
The martial grace that this daemon weapon bestows upon its bearer comes at a price. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. At the start of the battle, select one melee weapon equipped by the bearer; add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of that weapon. In addition, each time the bearer is selected to fight, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, while resolving those attacks, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that weapon and that weapon has the [devastating wounds] and [hazardous] abilities. |
This champion of Slaanesh is so steeped in the warp as to be able to traverse its maddening depths at will. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN or KEEPER OF SECRETS model only. Each time the bearer’s unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, it can move through enemy models. When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Select one friendly LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit within 6" of your unit. One model in that LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit recovers up to 3 lost wounds or, if it is a DAEMONETTES unit, return upto D3+3 destroyed models to it instead.
TARGET: That LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit and one friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit within 6" of it that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit can declare a charge. If it does so and it has already been selected to fight this phase, it cannot fight again this phase.
TARGET: One SLAANESH BEASTS, SLAANESH INFANTRY or SLAANESH MOUNTED unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3". When doing so, it does not need to end that move closer to the closest enemy model, provided it ends that move as close as possible to the closest enemy unit.
TARGET: One LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back, provided at least one of the targets of that charge is within Engagement Range of one or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army.
TARGET: One SLAANESH unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One DAEMONETTES unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. If it arrives back on the battlefield in the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase using the Deep Strike ability, it can be set up anywhere that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units (instead of more than 9"), provided it is also set up wholly within 9" of one or more friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units.
Coterie of the Conceited
The Emperor’s Children possess a desire for perfection and superiority that drives them to inflict ever greater and more impressive death upon their foes. To satisfy their urges, some Emperor’s Children warlords strike desperate pacts with daemonic powers. By doing so they wager their souls and those of their warriors and in turn promise to outdo their rivals in the volume and luridity of carnage they inflict. In return, they may be granted power beyond measure, and the ability to experience limitless sensation. Those who have sworn such pacts urge their warriors forward and hurl themselves into battle with desperation and exhilaration. Each torture inflicted and each gory kill brings them one step closer to fulfilling their part of the bargain. Failure, however, can lead only to a violent death or, far worse, the ire of their patron and the torturous obliteration of their very soul.
Pledges to the Dark Prince
Few appear as favoured by the Dark Prince as these warriors, their boons of power a reward for committing ever viler deeds in honour of their patron.
At the start of the battle round, if your WARLORD is on the battlefield, you must pledge a number to Slaanesh representing how many enemy units will be destroyed this battle round. At the end of the battle round, if the number of enemy units destroyed this battle round is greater than or equal to your pledge, you gain a number of Pact points equal to your pledge. Otherwise, you do not gain any Pact points this battle round and your WARLORD model suffers D3 mortal wounds.EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army gain a bonus depending on how many Pact points you have gained during the battle, as shown below (these are all cumulative).
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Enhancements
Through Slaanesh’s favour, this warrior has defied death more than once and each time has been agonisingly resurrected to offer more souls to their patron. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, take a Leadership test for the bearer at the end of the phase. If that test is passed, set the bearer back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, with D6 wounds remaining (up to its Wounds characteristic). |
This leader is surrounded by an aura of dark majesty, radiating the glorious and infectious arrogance displayed by the greatest of Slaanesh’s chosen sons. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, improve the Leadership and Objective Control characteristics of models in that unit by 1. |
This warrior gifts their foes with Slaanesh’s own exquisite caress, offering up their agonies to please the Dark Prince. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer. That unit must take a Leadership test, subtracting 2 from the result if it is Battle-shocked: if failed, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds. |
A daemonic patron steers this warrior’s fate. Every movement is a killing stroke or exquisitely timed parry. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Once per turn, just after making a Hit roll, a Wound roll or a saving throw for a model in the bearer’s unit, if the bearer is not Battle-shocked, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, treat the result as an unmodified roll of 6 instead. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability, and the Feel No Pain 4+ ability against mortal wounds.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the following: that attack’s Ballistic Skill or Weapon Skill characteristic; the Hit roll; the Wound roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy model within Engagement Range of your unit selects targets, it must select your unit as the target of its attacks.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Increase your pledge to Slaanesh by 1.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Slaanesh’s Chosen
Amongst the Emperor’s Children are those who see themselves as particularly favoured by Slaanesh. These puissant champions of excess have inflicted deaths beyond count, suffered agonies beyond measure and won glorious victories in honour of the Dark Prince. When such champions of ruin gather together, they are driven to outdo one another. Whether engaging enemy commanders in brutal duels, inflicting exquisite agonies upon mewling mortals or offering sacrifices to their unholy deity, the chosen of Slaanesh are unceasing in their murderous advance. To these paragons of arrogance and superiority, no foe is worthy of respect, and few are capable of providing the challenge they desire. Thus, their rivalries are with their own, each vying for Slaanesh’s attention. Only those who prove themselves the deadliest will gain the approval they seek.
Internal Rivalries
The boldest and most debased champions of Slaanesh may gain the benefit of the Dark Princes boons. Yet none hold Slaanesh’s favour for long, for always another seeks to wrest his favour from their rivals.
EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER units from your army can ignore any or all modifiers to their Move characteristic and any or all modifiers to Advance and Charge rolls made for them.At the start of the battle, your WARLORD’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions. The first time in each player’s turn that an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER unit from your army destroys an enemy unit, after resolving all of its attacks, that CHARACTER unit becomes your army’s new Favoured Champions, replacing the old one.
Each time a model in your army’s Favoured Champions unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
Enhancements
This puissant champion of Slaanesh is ever eager to join the battle and prove their peerless skill to the Dark Prince. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. You can re-roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit. While the bearer’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions, add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit. |
Those chosen by Slaanesh seek only worthy foes. The weak and craven are slaughtered with sneering contempt. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Each time an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit Falls Back, models in that enemy unit must take Desperate Escape tests. When doing so, if the bearer’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions, subtract 1 from each of those Desperate Escape tests. |
Even amongst the prideful warriors of the Emperor’s Children, this warrior is a towering pillar of arrogance. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. You can re-roll Battle-shock and Leadership tests taken for the bearer’s unit. While the bearer’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in that unit. |
This warrior has obsessively perfected the arts of war for centuries if not millennia. Few champions, regardless of origin, are beyond their ability to kill. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] ability, and each time the bearer makes a melee attack that targets a CHARACTER unit, improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of that attack by 1. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER units from your army that have not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in those CHARACTER units have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability while targeting that enemy unit.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER 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, adding 1 to the result if your unit is your army’s Favoured Champions. 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: Your army’s Favoured Champions unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER unit from your army that is not your army’s Favoured Champions makes an attack, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within 6" of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of one or more units from your army. Until the end of the phase, each time your unit declares a charge, if that enemy unit is one of the targets of that charge, add 2 to the Charge roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: After the attacking unit has shot, your unit can make a Surge move. To do so, roll one D6: each model in your unit can move a distance in inches up to the result, but your unit must end that move as close as possible to the closest enemy unit. When doing so, those models can be moved within Engagement Range of that enemy unit. If your unit is not your army’s Favoured Champions, you can re-roll the dice to determine the distance of its Surge move.
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles that are bespoke to the Emperor’s Children. If your Crusade army includes any EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units, you can use any of the following Crusade rules.
Below you will find rules to craft, equip and utilise a wide variety of Combat Elixirs in battle, both to improve your warriors’ martial performance and to enhance the sensations they feel in the midst of combat. Throughout this section you will also find rules to gather rare and exotic ingredients with which to create even more potent elixirs - fine vintages enjoyed by only the most powerful lords of the Emperor’s Children.
AGENDAS
Emperor’s Children armies can attempt to achieve unique Agendas in addition to those found in other publications. These represent the faction’s unique goals and their particular methods of waging war.
REQUISITIONS
Emperor’s Children armies have access to a number of bespoke Requisitions in addition to those found in other publications.
BOONS OF SLAANESH
Unique Battle Honours for EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTERS that run the risk of turning your powerful warriors into Chaos Spawn.
BATTLE TRAITS
As they gain experience and prowess, EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units in your Crusade force can be given one of the Battle Traits in this section instead of one presented elsewhere.
CRUSADE RELICS
In addition to the Crusade Relics presented in other publications, EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER models can claim one of the Crusade Relics found here.
CRUSADE BADGES
Here you will find three Crusade Badges representing goals you can set yourself when campaigning with your Crusade force. Once one is achieved, you could set yourself a new goal, or take the opportunity to start a new Crusade force.
When mustering your Crusade army, you may be able to include Legions of Excess units from your Order of Battle in your Crusade army (e.g. if you are using the Carnival of Excess Detachment). Such units can never gain Experience points or Battle Honours. However, they automatically pass any Out of Action tests they are required to take, so never gain Battle Scars. You can mark the Experience points section of such units’ Crusade cards with ‘N/A’ to remind you.
Combat Elixirs
Crafting Combat Elixirs
The first time you add an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit to your Order of Battle, you must also add one dose of Anfrak Silk (an Army Elixir) to your Combat Elixirs Stash. You can craft additional Combat Elixirs at any time before or after a battle, provided you have the requisite ingredients to do so. The Army and Personal Elixirs tables below show which ingredients are required to craft one dose of each Combat Elixir. To craft a dose, simply remove the required ingredients from your Combat Elixirs Stash and add one dose of the crafted Combat Elixir to your stash.There are three categories of ingredients, each with their own unique symbol, as shown below.
COMMON INGREDIENTS 
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RARE INGREDIENTS 
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EXOTIC INGREDIENTS  Concentrate of Tormented Souls Sickly-sour ectoplasmic soup syphoned from those who bear corruption in their hearts. Dilution of False Hope A clear liquid adulterated with the sickly essence of those sworn to a false god. Distillate of Hatred Purest fury sieved from the ground and pulped corpses of the righteous. Essence of Fear Stolen and refined from the last breath of a craven victim. Extract of Xeno-matter Ichor, viscera or psychic spore extracted from an alien foe. Infusion of Traitor’s Blood Crimson fluid extracted from the veins of those who have broken an oath of loyalty. |
Equipping Combat Elixirs
In the first battle round of each battle, if you did not equip your Crusade army or any CHARACTERS from it with any Combat Elixirs during the Muster Crusade Armies step, every EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your Crusade army is Battle-shocked until the end of that battle round.
Army Elixirs
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Extract of Xeno-matter OR Extract of Xeno-matter OR Extract of Fear OR Extract of Xeno-matterUsing Combat Elixirs
Personal Elixirs
OR Extract of Xeno-matter Concentrate of Tormented Souls OR Distillate of Hatred OR Dilution of False Hope OR Essence of Fear OR Concentrate of Tormented Souls Infusion of Traitor’s Blood OR Dilution of False HopeAgendas
If your Crusade army includes any EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units, you can select Agendas from those presented here.The essence of pure, unadulterated terror can only be drawn from the bodies of those who die in the grip of paralysing fear.
- If one or more enemy units failed a Battle-shock test during the battle, you gain 1 Common ingredient.
- If three or more enemy units failed a Battle-shock test during the battle, you gain 1 Rare ingredient.
- If six or more enemy units failed a Battle-shock test during the battle, or if any of those enemy units that were destroyed while Battle-shocked were AELDARI units, you gain 1 Essence of Fear.
To the Emperor’s Children, warfare is a blood-drenched art. Each battle is a fresh canvas upon which the superiority of Fulgrim’s scions is depicted in gore, viscera and the agonised death screams of the enemy.
- If you control more objective markers than your opponent controls, select one EMPEROR'S CHILDREN unit from your Crusade army that is within range of an objective marker you control; that unit gains 1XP.
- If more enemy units were destroyed this battle round than friendly units, select one EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your Crusade army that destroyed one or more enemy units this battle round; that unit gains 1XP.
Hate is amongst the most powerful of emotions. The Emperors Children take perverse glee in slaughtering foes consumed by fury. There are few experiences more exhilarating than transforming pitiless, triumphant rage to bitter and agonising defeat with the spiteful flick of a blade.
At the end of the battle, if one or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your Crusade army destroyed three or more such enemy units during the battle, you gain 1 Rare ingredient. In addition, if one or more such destroyed enemy units were ADEPTUS ASTARTES, DEATHWATCH or GREY KNIGHTS units, you gain 1 Distillate of Hatred.
The Emperor’s Children seek esoteric ingredients with which to fuel their addictions. Unfortunately for their victims, the ingredients they require reside within mind, body and soul, and their extraction is never less than agonising.
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Requisitions
If your Crusade army includes any EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units, you can spend Requisition points (RP) on any of the following Requisitions.Freshly seized captives are currency amongst the Emperor’s Children. In return for fresh subjects with souls intact, all manner of macabre unguents, reagents and ingredients may be bartered.
- Add D3 Common ingredients to your Combat Elixirs Stash.
- Remove three Common ingredients from your Combat Elixirs Stash and add one Rare ingredient.
- Remove any two Exotic ingredients (of any type or combination) from your Combat Elixirs Stash and replace them with one Exotic ingredient of your choice.
The ultimate prize for mortal warriors is to attain the immortality of daemonhood. Yet for all this power, such beings are more a pawn of their god than ever, irrevocably enslaved to the will of their master.
In either case, the new unit has the same number of Battle Honours and XP as the unit it replaced. The new unit can keep any Boons of Slaanesh the unit it replaced had, even though Daemon models cannot normally have Boons of Slaanesh. Any Battle Scars the replaced unit had are not retained. You cannot purchase this Requisition if doing so would cause you to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit.
Even amongst the foot soldiers of the Emperor’s Children exist many aspiring champions whose obsessions revolve around bladework and butchery. The greatest of their number may draw an audience of daemonic patrons, earning favour in return for displays of artistic violence.
The Emperor’s Children revel in excess of every kind but revel most in the visceral thrill and mortal danger of combat, honing their martial skills until they are commensurate with their inflated egos.
The Path to Glory promises immortality yet, for most, ends in death or, for the least fortunate, a hideous transformation into a gibbering Chaos Spawn.
Boons of Slaanesh
Boons of Slaanesh are a type of Battle Honour that can be given to EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER models. Each time an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER model from your army would gain a Battle Honour, you can choose for it to gain a Boon of Slaanesh. DAEMON models cannot gain Boons of Slaanesh, and no model from your Crusade force can have more than three Boons of Slaanesh.A model can have more than one Boon of Slaanesh, but if you roll a result that duplicates a Boon of Slaanesh a model already has, that model’s unit suffers Spawndom (see below). As with any Battle Honour, make a note on a model’s Crusade card when it gains a Boon of Slaanesh, and increase its Crusade points by 1.
Spawndom
To court the favour of the Dark Prince is to risk Slaanesh’s capricious whims. Many powerful champions have disappeared beneath an overabundance of gifts, ending their Path to Glory as mindless aberrations of insane mutation. Some cleave into multiple monstrosities; some are herded with others of their kind; all are goaded forwards to bless the foe with untold new experiences in Slaanesh’s name.
If an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your Order of Battle suffers Spawndom, remove that unit from your Order of Battle, then add a new EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHAOS SPAWN unit to your Order of Battle. The new unit has the same number of Battle Honours, Battle Scars and XP as the unit it replaced. If adding this new unit would cause your Crusade points total to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit, you must first increase your Supply Limit (e.g. by using the Increase Supply Limit Requisition) or your unit is removed from your Order of Battle and no new unit is added in its place.
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Crusade Relics
When an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER model gains a Crusade Relic, you can select one of the Relics presented here.Artificer Relics
This rune renders those who gaze upon it rapt with indescribable pleasure. Though their lives are cruelly torn away, for a few short moments, they truly know ecstasy and agony entwined.
Each time the bearer fights, after they have finished making their attacks, for each enemy model destroyed by those attacks, the bearer regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 3 lost wounds per phase). If this is not possible because the bearer is already at their starting number of Wounds, until the start of the next Fight phase, the bearer has the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.This fleshy mask is the still-living, flayed face of a man who begged Slaanesh to fulfil his wish to live forever. The Dark Prince was only too pleased to oblige, gifting the unfortunate soul immortality but also forcing him to present his face to the Chaos Lord Shixe. After murdering the supplicant, Shixe wore that face as a prized reminder of the occasion for several centuries. The Endless Grin has since exchanged hands many times, but the fear it inspires has never diminished.
At the start of the Fight phase, each enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.At the end of the battle, if one or more enemy units failed a Battle-shock test while within Engagement Range of the bearer, you gain 1 Essence of Fear.
The bearers of this mark seek only to torment their victims, inflicting creative and excessively gruesome agonies upon their mortal forms. This compulsion drives them to focus their ire upon a single foe and to revel in the escalating agonies they inflict upon their chosen target.
The bearer’s unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back, and when doing so, even though that unit has the Thrill Seekers ability, it can target a unit if it was within Engagement Range of that unit at the start of the turn and it can target a unit that was the target of another unit’s charge or attack this phase.Antiquity Relics
This ornate object emits a thunderous bass boom and a hypermodulated scream powerful enough to shatter diamonds. The sheer deafening power hits with a devastating physical impact, blasting away all cohesive thought in an instant. Flesh, bone and gristle are reduced to shuddering pulp by myriad resonant frequencies.
At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer. That unit must take a Battle-shock test; if that test is failed, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds.Legendary Relics
This long-tongued daemon weapon can render those who feel its sting insensible with indescribable pleasure. Even those who put aside gratification for a greater duty find their oaths and promises forgotten, washed away in a tide of sensation that drowns the mind completely. So it is to feel the fatal kiss of Slaanesh.
Melee weapons equipped by the bearer have the [precision] and [devastating wounds] abilities, and improve the Attacks, Armour Penetration and Damage characteristics of those weapons by 1.At the end of the Fight phase, each enemy CHARACTER model that had one or more attacks made by the bearer allocated to it this phase but is not destroyed must take a Leadership test; if that test is failed, that CHARACTER model’s unit suffers 3 mortal wounds, and when allocating those mortal wounds, they must be allocated to that CHARACTER model.
At the end of the battle, if during the battle the bearer’s unit destroyed one or more IMPERIUM Leader units or IMPERIUM CHARACTER units without the Leader ability with a melee attack or with mortal wounds inflicted by this Crusade Relic (see above), you gain 1 Dilution of False Hope.
Battle Traits
When an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit gains a Battle Trait, you can use one of the tables presented here to determine which Battle Trait that unit has gained.INFANTRY AND MONSTER UNITSD6
These warriors are peerless swordsmen, each an exquisite example of fighting form.
Inured to ordinary sensations by several lifetimes of indulgence, the Emperor's Children find stimulation only in excess.
Combat Elixirs, each time a model in this unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
This unit has laced its grenades with potent toxins. Upon detonation, these devices emit hallucinogenic clouds that induce all manner of mind-altering effects.
The delight of pain and the sense of superiority as allies are cut down makes these warriors loath to embrace oblivion.
These warriors have been implanted with subdermal auto-dispensers that pump a constant flow of enhancing concoctions into their bloodstreams.
Few appear as favoured by the Dark Prince as these warriors.
VEHICLE MODELSD6
This vehicle is adorned with the gilt finery of the Emperor’s Children and their Dark Prince, serving as a nexus for the enervating power of the empyrean.
Hull-mounted vox-casters scream unholy invocations across the battlefield. Such cursed syllables are capable of inflicting harm on those who hear them.
The blessed caress of SIaanesh has bestowed upon this vehicle an unholy resilience.
NOISE MARINES AND LORD KAKOPHONIST UNITSD6
These warriors calibrate and aim their weapons to inflict the most violent and vibrantly gory kills.
Reacting to the flow of battle as a chorus to a conductor, these warriors begin anew their sonic symphony with a screaming encore of annihilation.
These warriors unleash a cacophonous wall of sonic force that reverberates through the body of the target long after the final sound wave has torn through flesh and bone.
CHARACTER MODELSD6
Hubris is both this warrior's greatest strength and biggest weakness.
At the end of the battle, if one or more models from your Crusade army with this Battle Trait destroyed one or more ADEPTUS ASTARTES, DEATHWATCH or GREY KNIGHTS units with a melee attack during the battle, you gain 1 Distillate of Hatred.
This warrior has experienced the limits of mortal sensation yet craves more.
An alchemist of incomparable ingenuity and depravity, this warrior harvests exquisite agonies from the fallen with the care and precision of a surgeon.
Crusade Badges
When your Crusade force accomplishes specific long-term goals, you can earn the Crusade badges shown below, representing your warriors’ successes over many battles.Seeker of Sensation
You have experienced the thrill of battle, supped deeply of your victims’ fear and awe. Leaving behind a trail of tortured souls and flayed bodies, you have inflicted and felt sensations and emotions of heart-stopping intensity. By indulging your senses thus, you have earned the envious ire of your rivals and surely elevated your status in the eyes of the Dark Prince.
- You have won three or more battles.
- You have crafted three different Combat Elixirs (at least one of which must have been a Personal Elixir).
- One or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER models from your Crusade force have one or more Boons of Slaanesh.
Arch-hedonist
You have plumbed the depths of mortal sensation, and enjoyed tangible rewards from the flayed and eviscerated corpses of your victims: a terrible bounty of agony with which to perform horrific alchemies.
- You have won six or more battles.
- You have crafted six different Combat Elixirs (at least three of which must have been Personal Elixirs).
- You have either used the Dark Patronage Requisition to add one or more new units to your Order of Battle, or an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER model from your Order of Battle has suffered Spawndom.
- One or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER models from your Crusade force have two or more Boons of Slaanesh.
Favoured of the Dark Prince
Your veins run thick with piquant elixirs, opening your mortal form to sensations beyond the reach of all but the most depraved minds. And so the Dark Prince has marked you as his own, bestowing upon you the ability to perceive and experience thrills beyond the understanding of mere mortals.
- You have won ten or more battles.
- You have crafted all twelve Combat Elixirs.
- You have used the Perfect Ascension Requisition to add one new unit to your Order of Battle.
There are several categories of Battle Honours that can be bestowed upon a unit, such as Battle Traits, Weapon Modifications and Crusade Relics. Other categories of Battle Honour may be found in other publications. Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, you can select from any category.
- Once a unit gains enough XP it will gain a rank.
- Only CHARACTER units can gain the Heroic or Legendary ranks.
- Each time a unit gains a rank, it can gain a Battle Honour.
- There are several categories of Battle Honours, which include:
- Battle Traits: New skills and abilities.
- Weapon Modifications: Upgrade an item of wargear.
- Crusade Relic: Gain a rare and powerful artefact.
- Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, increase its Crusade points total by 1 (or by 2 if TITANIC).
The greatest warriors, most cunning tacticians and seers lead their armies to war possessed of hard-won skills and powerful artefacts that mark them out as legendary commanders.
You can select one Enhancement that unit has access to (if using this Requisition when that unit gains a rank, this is instead of it gaining a Battle Honour). When doing so, that unit has access to any Enhancements described within any Detachment rules that it could use, even though you have not yet started to muster your army and so have not selected any Detachment rules yet.
If the selected Enhancement replaces a weapon that is a Crusade Relic or a weapon upgraded by Weapon Modifications, that Crusade Relic or Weapon Modifications are lost. Recalculate the unit’s points value as a result of gaining this Enhancement and update its Crusade card. You cannot make any changes that would cause you to exceed your Supply Limit.
This Requisition costs 1RP plus 1 additional RP for each other Enhancement that your Order of Battle contains (to a maximum of 3RP).
The keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
- Advance Move: Models move up to M+D6".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
- Units that Advance cannot shoot or charge this turn.
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.
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.
The LEGIONS OF EXCESS keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
An unmodified Hit roll of 6 is called a Critical Hit and is always successful. An unmodified Hit roll of 1 always fails. A Hit roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1.
- Hit Roll (Ranged Attack): A hit is scored if the D6 result equals or exceeds that attack’s BS.
- Hit Roll (Melee Attack): A hit is scored if the D6 result equals or exceeds that attack’s WS.
- Critical Hit: Unmodified Hit roll of 6. Always successful.
- An unmodified Hit roll of 1 always fails.
- A Hit roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1.
- If a unit has a Starting Strength of 1, then it is said to be Below Half-strength while its remaining number of wounds is less than half of its Wounds characteristic.
- For any other unit, while the number of models in that unit is less than half of its Starting Strength, that unit is said to be Below Half-strength.
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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.
- Normal Move: Models move up to M".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
Some weapons strike in a flurry of blows, tearing the foe apart with relentless ferocity.
Weapons with [SUSTAINED HITS X] in their profile are known as Sustained Hits weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, if a Critical Hit is rolled, that attack scores a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by ‘x’.- [SUSTAINED HITS X]: Each Critical Hit scores ‘x’ additional hits on the target.
The and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The BEAST keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
You then make a Charge roll for the charging unit by rolling 2D6. The result is the maximum number of inches each model in that unit can be moved if a Charge move is possible. For a Charge move to be possible, the Charge roll must be sufficient to enable the charging unit to end that move:
- Within Engagement Range of every unit that you selected as a target of the charge.
- Without moving within Engagement Range of any enemy units that were not a target of the charge.
- In Unit Coherency.
- Charge Roll: 2D6".
- Targets of a charge must be within 12" but do not need to be visible.
- If the distance rolled is insufficient to move within Engagement Range of all targets while maintaining Unit Coherency, the charge fails.
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any unit that was not a target of the charge.
- If the charge is successful, each model makes a Charge move less than or equal to the Charge roll, and must move into base-to-base contact with an enemy model if possible.
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.Many warriors thunder headlong into combat, using the impetus of their charge to bring swift death to their foes.
Each time a unit makes a Charge move, until the end of the turn, that unit has the Fights First ability.TARGET: One unit from your army that is within 6" of that enemy unit and would be eligible to declare a charge against that enemy unit if it were your Charge phase.
EFFECT: Your unit now declares a charge that targets only that enemy unit, and you resolve that charge as if it were your Charge phase.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only select a VEHICLE unit from your army if it is a WALKER. Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.
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.These warriors are peerless swordsmen, each demonstrating exquisite fighting form. Those who lock swords with these obsessive warriors do so at their peril.
Each time an unit from your army is selected to fight, if it made a Charge move this turn, select one of the abilities below. While resolving those attacks, melee weapons equipped by models in that unit have that ability: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.
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.
The and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
When a unit disembarks from a TRANSPORT model, set it up on the battlefield so that it is wholly within 3" of that TRANSPORT model and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models. If, for any reason, a disembarking model cannot be set up, that model’s unit cannot disembark.
Units that disembark from a TRANSPORT model that either Remained Stationary this phase or has not yet made a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move this phase can then act normally (make a Normal move, Advance, shoot, declare a charge, fight, etc.) in the remainder of the turn. Such a disembarking unit cannot choose to Remain Stationary.
Units that disembark from a TRANSPORT model that made a Normal move this phase count as having made a Normal move themselves; they cannot move further during this phase. Such a unit also cannot declare a charge in the same turn, but can otherwise act normally in the remainder of the turn.
Units cannot disembark from a TRANSPORT model that either Advanced or Fell Back this turn.
- Units that start your Movement phase embarked within a TRANSPORT can disembark this phase, provided their TRANSPORT has not Advanced or Fallen Back.
- If a unit disembarks before its TRANSPORT moves, it can act normally.
- If a unit disembarks after its TRANSPORT moves, it cannot move or charge this turn, but can otherwise act normally.
- Disembarking units must be set up wholly within 3" of their TRANSPORT and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models (or the unit cannot disembark).
- Units that disembark this turn cannot Remain Stationary.
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The and TRANSPORT keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within 24" of that enemy unit and that would be eligible to shoot if it were your Shooting phase.
EFFECT: If that enemy unit is visible to your unit, your unit can shoot that enemy unit as if it were your Shooting phase.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot target a TITANIC unit with this Stratagem. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 6 is required to score a hit, irrespective of the attacking weapon’s Ballistic Skill or any modifiers. You can only use this Stratagem once per turn.
- A unit can embark within a friendly TRANSPORT if all of its models end a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within 3" of that TRANSPORT.
- A unit cannot embark and disembark in the same phase.
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.
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.
The SLAANESH keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
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.
- A Critical Wound inflicts mortal wounds equal to the weapon’s Damage characteristic, instead of any normal damage.
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder every time they are used.
Weapons with [HAZARDOUS] in their profile are known as Hazardous weapons. Each time a unit is selected to shoot or fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, for each Hazardous weapon that targets were selected for when resolving those attacks, that unit must take one Hazardous test. To do so, roll one D6: on a 1, that test is failed. For each failed test you must resolve the following sequence (resolve each failed test one at a time):- If possible, select one model in that unit that has lost one or more wounds and is equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
- Otherwise, if possible, select one model in that unit (excluding CHARACTER models) equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
- Otherwise, select one CHARACTER model in that unit equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
If a unit from a player’s army is selected as the target of the Fire Overwatch Stratagem in their opponent’s Charge phase, any mortal wounds inflicted by Hazardous tests are allocated after the charging unit has ended its Charge move.
- After a unit shoots or fights, roll one Hazardous test (one D6) for each Hazardous weapon used. For each 1, a model equipped with a hazardous weapon suffers 3 mortal wounds, that must be allocated to the selected model.
The SLAANESH and BEAST keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The SLAANESH and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
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).
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.
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.
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.
Few appear as favoured by the Dark Prince as these warriors, their boons of power a reward for committing ever viler deeds in honour of their patron.
At the start of the battle round, if your WARLORD is on the battlefield, you must pledge a number to Slaanesh representing how many enemy units will be destroyed this battle round. At the end of the battle round, if the number of enemy units destroyed this battle round is greater than or equal to your pledge, you gain a number of Pact points equal to your pledge. Otherwise, you do not gain any Pact points this battle round and your WARLORD model suffers D3 mortal wounds.units from your army gain a bonus depending on how many Pact points you have gained during the battle, as shown below (these are all cumulative).
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The and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The boldest and most debased champions of Slaanesh may gain the benefit of the Dark Princes boons. Yet none hold Slaanesh’s favour for long, for always another seeks to wrest his favour from their rivals.
CHARACTER units from your army can ignore any or all modifiers to their Move characteristic and any or all modifiers to Advance and Charge rolls made for them.At the start of the battle, your WARLORD’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions. The first time in each player’s turn that an CHARACTER unit from your army destroys an enemy unit, after resolving all of its attacks, that CHARACTER unit becomes your army’s new Favoured Champions, replacing the old one.
Each time a model in your army’s Favoured Champions unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
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.
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The datasheets using AELDARI keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Xenos: Aeldari, Drukhari.The AELDARI keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The ADEPTUS ASTARTES keyword is used in the following Space Marines datasheets:
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The datasheets using DEATHWATCH keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Imperium: Imperial Agents, Space Marines.The DEATHWATCH keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The GREY KNIGHTS keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
COMMON INGREDIENTS
- At the end of every battle, roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if you won that battle: on a 4+, add 1 Common ingredient to your Combat Elixirs Stash; on a 6+, add D3 Common ingredients to your Combat Elixirs Stash.
RARE INGREDIENTS
- At the end of every battle, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if you won that battle: on a 6+, add 1 Rare ingredient to your Combat Elixirs Stash.
EXOTIC INGREDIENTS
Concentrate of Tormented Souls
Sickly-sour ectoplasmic soup syphoned from those who bear corruption in their hearts.
Dilution of False Hope
A clear liquid adulterated with the sickly essence of those sworn to a false god.
Distillate of Hatred
Purest fury sieved from the ground and pulped corpses of the righteous.
Essence of Fear
Stolen and refined from the last breath of a craven victim.
Extract of Xeno-matter
Ichor, viscera or psychic spore extracted from an alien foe.
Infusion of Traitor’s Blood
Crimson fluid extracted from the veins of those who have broken an oath of loyalty.
The DAEMON keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
Occasionally, a group of warriors will climb the ranks across a score of battles, forging a legendary reputation that is known by friend and foe. Such veterans possess skills and honours to rival those of the most glorified heroes.
Information uncovered by your forces has revealed the growing importance of this war zone and the increasing threat posed by enemies. In response, high command has acceded to your urgent request for reinforcements.
The Emperor’s Children are skilled warriors all, their transhuman might enhanced by a lifetime of ceaseless conflict. Their ingrained desire for sensation in all its forms sees them move rapidly across the battlefield, flitting between targets as they attempt to satiate their never-ending hunger for fresh experience.
If your Army Faction is , this unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back, but when doing so:- It cannot target a unit it was within Engagement Range of at the start of the turn.
- It cannot target a unit that was the target of another units charge or attack this phase.
The datasheets using IMPERIUM and CHARACTER keywords can be found in the following Factions:
Imperium: Adepta Sororitas, Adeptus Custodes, Adeptus Mechanicus, Astra Militarum, Grey Knights, Imperial Agents, Imperial Knights, Space Marines.Xenos: Genestealer Cults.
The IMPERIUM and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following datasheets:
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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.
- 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.
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The GRENADES keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
Shattered ruins and twisted wreckage afford much-needed shelter from enemy salvoes. Even heavily armoured warriors unfazed by small arms fire are thankful for such cover when foes bring their biggest guns to bear.
Models can sometimes gain a measure of protection from terrain features. The rules below detail the conditions under which a terrain feature confers the Benefit of Cover on a model.Each time a ranged attack is allocated to a model that has the Benefit of Cover, add 1 to the saving throw made for that attack (excluding invulnerable saving throws). Models with a Save characteristic of 3+ or better cannot have the Benefit of Cover against attacks with an Armour Penetration characteristic of 0. Multiple instances of the Benefit of Cover are not cumulative – a model cannot benefit from this rule more than once at any one time.
- Benefit of Cover: Add 1 to armour saving throws against ranged attacks.
- Does not apply to models with a Save of 3+ or better against attacks with an AP of 0.
- Multiple instances are not cumulative.
Some warriors are masters of disguise and concealment.
If every model in a unit has this ability, then each time a ranged attack is made against it, subtract 1 from that attack’s Hit roll.TARGET: One SMOKE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, all models in your unit have the Benefit of Cover and the Stealth ability.
The datasheets using DAEMON keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Chaos: Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines, Death Guard, Emperor’s Children, Thousand Sons, World Eaters.Imperium: Imperial Agents.
Xenos: Aeldari.
The DAEMON keyword is used in the following datasheets:
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Even amongst the foot soldiers of the Emperor’s Children exist many aspiring champions whose obsessions revolve around bladework and butchery. The greatest of their number may draw an audience of daemonic patrons, earning favour in return for displays of artistic violence.
To court the favour of the Dark Prince is to risk Slaanesh’s capricious whims. Many powerful champions have disappeared beneath an overabundance of gifts, ending their Path to Glory as mindless aberrations of insane mutation. Some cleave into multiple monstrosities; some are herded with others of their kind; all are goaded forwards to bless the foe with untold new experiences in Slaanesh’s name.
If an unit from your Order of Battle suffers Spawndom, remove that unit from your Order of Battle, then add a new EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHAOS SPAWN unit to your Order of Battle. The new unit has the same number of Battle Honours, Battle Scars and XP as the unit it replaced. If adding this new unit would cause your Crusade points total to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit, you must first increase your Supply Limit (e.g. by using the Increase Supply Limit Requisition) or your unit is removed from your Order of Battle and no new unit is added in its place.The ultimate prize for mortal warriors is to attain the immortality of daemonhood. Yet for all this power, such beings are more a pawn of their god than ever, irrevocably enslaved to the will of their master.
In either case, the new unit has the same number of Battle Honours and XP as the unit it replaced. The new unit can keep any Boons of Slaanesh the unit it replaced had, even though Daemon models cannot normally have Boons of Slaanesh. Any Battle Scars the replaced unit had are not retained. You cannot purchase this Requisition if doing so would cause you to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit.