Orks
The Orks are the most belligerent and resourceful race in the galaxy. Rampaging across the void in their billions, the greenskins devastate everything in their path with their ramshackle weapons and war machines, taking brutish glee in wanton destruction and revelling in warfare for its own sake.
Books
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Orks | ||||
| Orks | Codex | 10 | 1.2 | October 2024 |
 Grotmas Calendar: Orks - Taktikal Brigade | ||||
| Grotmas Calendar: Orks - Taktikal Brigade | Expansion | 10 | December 2024 | |
 Kill Team: Tankbustas | ||||
| Kill Team: Tankbustas | Datasheet | 10 | December 2024 | |
| Kill Team: Breaka Boyz | ||||
| Kill Team: Breaka Boyz | Datasheet | 10 | December 2024 | |
 Munitorum Field Manual | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual | Expansion | 10 | 1.14 | December 2024 |
 Legends: Orks | ||||
| Legends: Orks | Datasheet | 10 | October 2024 | |
 Boarding Actions | ||||
| Boarding Actions | Expansion | 10 | 1.0 | October 2024 |
| Legends Field Manual | ||||
| Legends Field Manual | Expansion | 10 | 1.9 | October 2024 |
 Imperial Armour: Orks | ||||
| Imperial Armour: Orks | Datasheet | 10 | September 2024 | |
 Black Library: Ufthak Blackhawk | ||||
| Black Library: Ufthak Blackhawk | Datasheet | 10 | September 2024 | |
| Games Workshop: Grotmas Gitz | ||||
| Games Workshop: Grotmas Gitz | Datasheet | 10 | November 2023 | |
| Games Workshop: Da Red Gobbo | ||||
| Games Workshop: Da Red Gobbo | Datasheet | 10 | November 2023 | |
FAQ
Codex: Orks
| Q: | If a CHARACTER is attached to a unit of Meganobz at the start of a battle round in which I called a Waaagh!, but the Bodgguard unit is destroyed before the end of that battle round, does the surviving CHARACTER keep the Feel No Pain 5+ ability conferred by the Meganobz’ Krumpin’ Time ability until that Waaagh! ends, or does it lose that Feel No Pain 5+ ability once it is no longer an Attached unit? |
| A: | It loses the Feel No Pain 5+ ability once it is no longer an Attached unit. |
| Q: | Can my opponent use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem when I remove Boss Snikrot’s unit from the battlefield using his Kunnin’ Infiltrator ability? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | Can my opponent use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem when I set Boss Snikrot’s unit back up the battlefield using his Kunnin’ Infiltrator ability? |
| A: | Yes, unless he is leading a unit of Kommandos when he is set back up (due to their Sneaky Gitz ability). |
| Q: | When using the Bully Boyz Detachment, do the WARBOSS, NOBZ and MEGANOBZ abilities that check if the Waaagh! is active for your army work during the second Waaagh!? |
| A: | Yes. For the purposes of those abilities, the Waaagh! is treated as being active for your army. |
| Q: | If a model has an ability that triggers when you call a Waaagh! and that model is embarked within a TRANSPORT when this happens (e.g. a WARBOSS’ Da Biggest and da Best ability), does that ability take effect? |
| A: | No. Abilities do not take effect while units are embarked within TRANSPORTS unless they explicitly state otherwise. |
| Q: | When using the Conniving Runts Stratagem, to be able to make the Normal move as part of the Stratagem, do I need to roll a 4+ and have inflicted any mortal wounds? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | In the Effect section of the Go Get ’Em! Stratagem there is an additional effect if my unit contains 10 or more models. When do I check if my unit has 10 or more models? |
| A: | This is checked after the attacking unit has shot. |
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.
Army Rules
Waaagh!
The infamous war cry of the Orks is known and feared throughout the galaxy. When it echoes across the battlefield, bellowed from hundreds or even thousands of greenskin mouths, even the most stalwart warriors fear the onslaught to come.
If your Army Faction is ORKS, once per battle, at the start of your Command phase, you can call a Waaagh!. If you do, until the start of your next Command phase, the Waaagh! is active for your army and:- Units from your army with this ability are eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which they Advanced.
- Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models from your army with this ability.
- Models from your army with this ability have a 5+ invulnerable save.
War Horde
Get Stuck In
Once an Ork gets stuck into hand-to-hand combat, they quickly overwhelm their enemies through sheer ferocity and an eagerness to give the gitz a good kicking.
Melee weapons equipped by ORKS models from your army have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.Enhancements
Always found at the forefront of an assault, this Ork likes to be the first into the fray. ORKS model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit. |
Grand Warboss Headwoppa and his tribe were last seen charging headlong into a horde of Khornate daemons, but legend speaks of a blood-slick choppa that still turns up occasionally. Though this weapon looks normal, a dark voice is said to growl in the mind of its wielder, driving them on to ever greater excesses of violence. ORKS model only. Melee weapons equipped by the bearer (excluding Extra Attacks weapons) have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability. |
Feigning weakness, this greenskin allows his foes to close in before delivering a brutal flurry of attacks. ORKS model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, that unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back. |
The original owner of this one-of-a-kind endoskeleton became the envy of every Warboss around, and was soon gutted and stripped for parts by a stronger rival. The Supa-Cybork Body has been retransplanted several times since then, filling its new owner with confidence, resilience and a belated hope that the Painboyz gave it a quick clean before shoving it back in place… ORKS model only. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That destroyed ORKS VEHICLE unit, if you roll a 6 for its Deadly Demise ability. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal or Fall Back move before its Deadly Demise ability is resolved, and before any embarked units perform an Emergency Disembarkation. When making this move, your unit can move over enemy units (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) as if they were not there.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 model’s unit has finished making attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 melee attack, an unmodified hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army (excluding GROTS, MONSTER and VEHICLE units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One MOB unit from your army that contains 10 or more models and is not Below Half-strength.
EFFECT: Select one friendly Battle-shocked ORKS INFANTRY unit within 6" of that MOB unit. That ORKS INFANTRY unit is no longer Battle-shocked.
TARGET: One ORKS INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, add 2 to Advance and Charge rolls made for your unit.
Da Big Hunt
Da Hunt Is On
Spying the largest or most dangerous threats on the battlefield - besides the Orks themselves - Beast Snaggas chase them down with gleeful enthusiasm, mobs racing each other to claim the kill and to snag a worthy trophy with which to proclaim their status as the warband’s greatest hunters. Until, that is, the easily distracted ladz notice their next quarry.
At the start of your Command phase, select one MONSTER, VEHICLE or CHARACTER unit from your opponent’s army. Until the start of your next Command phase, that enemy unit is your Prey:- Each time a BEAST SNAGGA unit from your army declares a charge that includes your Prey as one of the targets, you can re-roll the Charge roll.
- Each time a BEAST SNAGGA model from your army makes an attack that targets your Prey, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Enhancements
Obsessed with being the first to make a kill, this hunter spurs his unruly mount ahead of the warband, coaxing his mob to follow him with the explicit threat of feeding them to his squigosaur if they don’t keep up. BEASTBOSS ON SQUIGOSAUR model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 9" ability. |
This Beast Snagga is an unstoppable engine of destructive butchery who has left the brutalised corpses of his huge prey piled in his wake on world after world. BEAST SNAGGA model only. Add 1 to the Damage characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. |
Successful hunt leaders are never short of a kunnin' plan to flush out the prey. This sneaky git has mastered the art of ransacking whatever the prey values, luring the quarry in to retaliate or else ensuring they’re cornered, with no bolthole or gear to fall back on. BEAST SNAGGA model only. At the end of your Command phase, if the bearer is within range of an objective marker you control, that objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn. |
With a lifetime of leading notoriously deadly Beast Snagga hunts behind them, and gnarled hides thicker than Battlewagon armour, this Ork and his favoured Boyz have survived blows that would fell a Gargant. BEASTBOSS ON SQUIGOSAUR model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, each time an attack targets that unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One BEAST SNAGGA 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. In addition, each time a model in your unit makes a melee attack that targets your Prey, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
TARGET: That BEAST SNAGGA unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit and roll one D6 for each model in your unit: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds). If that enemy unit is your Prey, roll three additional D6.
TARGET: One BEAST SNAGGA unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back. In addition, you can re-roll Charge rolls made for your unit, provided one of the targets of that charge is your Prey.
TARGET: One BEAST SNAGGA INFANTRY or BEAST SNAGGA MOUNTED unit from your army that was within Engagement Range of that enemy unit at the start of the phase.
EFFECT: If your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 6".
TARGET: One BEAST SNAGGA INFANTRY or BEAST SNAGGA MOUNTED 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 ranged attack targets your unit, models in your unit have the Benefit of Cover against that attack. In addition, if your unit has the INFANTRY keyword, until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Stealth ability.
TARGET: One BEAST SNAGGA unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy unit.
EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Kult of Speed
Adrenaline Junkies
If there is one thing Speed Freeks love more than racing full tilt towards the enemy, smashing into them and pulling hair pin turns to do it all again, it is loosing incredible amounts of noisy, chugging dakka as they do so.
SPEED FREEKS units from your army are eligible to shoot in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back.Enhancements
The thrill-seeking Orks at the head of Speed Freeks warbands lead their Kult of Speed brethren right into enemy lines, leaping from speeding Trukks and Battlewagons if need be to plunge into the fight. ORKS INFANTRY model only. Each time the bearer’s unit disembarks from a TRANSPORT after that TRANSPORT has made a Normal move, the bearer’s unit is still eligible to declare a charge this turn. |
This Orks adrenaline-addled mind lurches from one insight to the next, a bone-shaker whose engine only fires on all cylinders when he is in the thick of the fighting. Once there, however, it revs into overdrive. ORKS model only. In your Command phase, if the bearer (or a TRANSPORT the bearer is embarked within is within 9" of one or more enemy units, roll one D6: on a 3+, you gain 1CP. |
Scaly squig-hide is the perfect material for fast and grippy tyres, able to provide traction even in the mire of blood, guts and oil left over from most Speed Freekfights. DEFFKILLA WARTRIKE model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3". |
This warlord’s fanatical devotion to speed is such that he cannot stand being anywhere other than in the hear, of the action and he pushes the ladz around him to crank their throttles in order to close the distance with the enemy as soon as possible. DEFFKILLA WARTRIKE model only. In your Shooting phase, after the bearer’s unit has shot, if it is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 6". If it does, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One SPEED FREEKS or TRUKK unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 5+ invulnerable save. If your unit is a VEHICLE unit with an unmodified Toughness characteristic of 8 or less, until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save instead.
TARGET: That SPEED FREEKS or TRUKK unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 9" of your unit. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test and, when doing so, subtract 1 from the result.
TARGET: One SPEED FREEKS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. While targeting a unit within 9", they have the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability instead.
RESTRICTIONS: A unit cannot be targeted by this and the Blitza Fire Stratagem in the same phase.
TARGET: One SPEED FREEKS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability and, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit within 9", a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
RESTRICTIONS: A unit cannot be targeted by this and the Dakkastorm Stratagem in the same phase.
TARGET: That SPEED FREEKS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time a model in your unit makes a melee attack, add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One SPEED FREEKS unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
Dread Mob
Try Dat Button!
Inventive Meks wire all manner of kustomised gubbinz, suspicious extras and inviting big red buttons to weapons or into the cockpits of their clanking kan creations. Eager Orks are always enthusiastic to try out such random innovations to see what sort of destruction they can cause. Sometimes this can be risky, but that’s half the fun!
Each time a MEK, ORKS WALKER or GROTS VEHICLE unit from your army is selected to shoot or fight, roll one D6. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the corresponding ability shown in the table below.
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Alternatively, when such a unit is selected to shoot or fight, you can select one of the abilities above instead of rolling the D6. If you do, until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [HAZARDOUS] ability as well.
If a weapon equipped by a model from you army has the [HAZARDOUS] ability from multiple sources, each time you take a Hazardous test for that weapon, it is failed on a roll of a 1 or a 2.
Enhancements
By squinting hard through the mismatched lenses of these goggles, even the sneakiest git can be pinpointed. MEK model only. Ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit have the [ignores cover] ability. |
Impatient for better results, this Mek is an avid advocate of the theory that smashing buttons and cranking dials faster makes kustom guns more shooty. MEK model only. Each time the bearer’s unit is selected to shoot, when rolling to determine which ability that unit’s weapons gain from the Try Dat Button! Detachment rule, roll one additional D6: until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit gain both Button Effects generated by those rolls. If a duplicate Button Effect is rolled, it has no additional effect. |
This loud, fume-belching device wreathes the bearer and his mates in a thick bank of smoke. This is hard for the enemy to see through, but has little detriment on the Orks’ own accuracy. MEK model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Stealth ability. |
The Mek cobbled together this strange device in a flash of feverish inventin’. He isn’t sure what it does - and it glows weirdly - but he proudly carries it to battle, eager to know what its big switch will do this time. MEK model only. In your Command phase, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to the bearer, then roll one D6: on a 1-2, that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test; on a 3-4, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 5-6, until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One ORKS WALKER unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can choose to push it. Until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit and, if you chose to push it, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of those weapons and they have the [HAZARDOUS] ability as well.
TARGET: That ORKS WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, you can re-roll Advance rolls made for your unit and ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ASSAULT] ability.
TARGET: One MEK, ORKS WALKER or GROTS VEHICLE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can choose to push it. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE, add 1 to the Wound roll. If you chose to push it, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that attack and, until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [HAZARDOUS] ability as well.
TARGET: One ORKS WALKER or GROTS VEHICLE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can choose to push it. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If you chose to push it, you can re-roll the Hit roll instead and, until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [HAZARDOUS] ability as well.
TARGET: One GRETCHIN unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 4+, that enemy unit suffers D3+1 mortal wounds. Your unit can then make a Normal move.
TARGET: One ORKS WALKER or GROTS VEHICLE unit from your army (excluding TITANIC units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
Green Tide
Mob Mentality
Caught up in the infectious and nigh supernatural belligerence that suffuses such large hordes of Orks on the warpath, the Boyz tend to push through lethal wounds, being too immersed in the energetic riot to worry about such things as long as they have a load of mates to enjoy the fight with.
Each time an attack targets a BOYZ unit from your army, models in that unit have a 6+ invulnerable save against that attack. Each time an attack targets a BOYZ unit from your army that contains 10 or more models, models in that unit have a 5+ invulnerable save against that attack.’Enhancements
Buoyed on by his chanting ladz and eager to smash into his enemies first, this boss leads the way, racing towards one fight after the next. ORKS INFANTRY model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, you can re-roll Advance rolls made for that unit. While that unit contains 10 or more models, you can re-roll Charge rolls made for that unit as well. |
What tactics occasionally pop into this Orks head revolve purely around throwing as many Boyz into the enemy’s face as possible. ORKS INFANTRY model only. In your Command phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield (or is embarked within a TRANSPORT that is on the battlefield), roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if the bearer’s unit contains 10 or more models: on a 5+, you gain 1CP. |
This brutal fighter is even more dangerous with a raucous audience of chanting Orks as he displays his violent abilities as a warning to all. ORKS INFANTRY model only. Each time the bearer fights, while resolving those attacks, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of the bearers melee weapons. If the bearer’s unit contains 10 or more models, while resolving those attacks, add 3 to the Strength characteristic instead. |
This hulking boss is a focal point of violent enthusiasm. Orks flocking to his bosspole feel emboldened, the boss exuding an energetic dynamism that keeps his ladz at the height of rampaging excitement. ORKS INFANTRY model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, that unit always counts as containing 10 or more models for the purposes of your Detachment rule and any Stratagems you use. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One BOYZ 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, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If your unit contains 10 or more models, re-roll the Wound roll instead.
TARGET: One BOYZ unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase and is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit is selected to fight, when determining which models in your unit are eligible to fight, any models in your unit that are within 3" of one or more enemy models are eligible to fight. When resolving those attacks, such models can target one of those enemy units that is within 3" of them and within Engagement Range of their unit.
TARGET: Two BOYZ units from your army that are within 6" of each other.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, while those two units are within 6" of each other, they both count as containing 10 or more models for the purposes of your Detachment rule, any Enhancements models from your army have and any Stratagems you use.
TARGET: One BOYZ unit from your army.
EFFECT: Return up to D3+2 destroyed models to your unit (excluding CHARACTER models).
TARGET: One BOYZ unit from your army that has not declared a charge this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit declares a charge, add 1 to the Charge roll and, if your unit contains 10 or more models, you can re-roll the Charge roll.’
TARGET: One BOYZ 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 Go Get ’Em! 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 contains 10 or more models, you can re-roll the D6 to determine how far your unit can move.
Bully Boyz
Da Boss Is Watchin’
Gathered together into an all-conquering mass of hulking brutes, the biggest Nobz and their even larger bosses are - or so they claim - more Orky than anyone else. Their bellowed war cries are louder, their self-belief, impetus and sheer presence an affront to the senses. Theirs is a violent momentum that can roll through entire enemy armies in an unrelenting wave of aggression.
At the start of your Command phase, in a turn in which you have not called a Waaagh!, if you have one or more WARBOSS models on the battlefield (or embarked within a TRANSPORT that is on the battlefield), you can call a Waaagh! for a second time this battle. When doing so, that second Waaagh! only counts as having been called for WARBOSS, NOBZ and MEGANOBZ units from your army.Enhancements
This warlords bellowing war cry is so loud that it can be heard over the thickest of fighting, rolling outwards in a terrifying bestial roar. INFANTRY WARBOSS model only. At the start of the Fight phase, select one enemy unit within Engagement range of the bearer. That unit must take a Battle-shock test, and when doing so, subtract 1 from the result. |
The bigger the Waaagh!, the bigger the boss must be to exert control. This Ork has countless huge battles under his belt and has grown in stature and aggression to match. INFANTRY WARBOSS model only. Add 2 to the bearer’s Wounds characteristic. |
A solid slab of muscle and aggression, this Ork is living embodiment of the undeniable truth of his enemies’ inferiority. INFANTRY WARBOSS model only. Each time the bearer makes an attack that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If that unit is Below Half-strength, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead. |
Nothing shocks the enemy like an angry mob of the biggest and surliest Orks imaginable suddenly appearing in a blast of green lightning! WARBOSS IN MEGA ARMOUR model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Deep Strike ability. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One NOBZ or MEGANOBZ unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If a Waaagh! is active for your unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll instead.
TARGET: One NOBZ or MEGANOBZ 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 shot or fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if a Waaagh! is active for your unit. On a 5+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can shoot or fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One NOBZ or MEGANOBZ unit from your army that destroyed that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Consolidation move, it can move up to D3+3" instead of up to 3". If a Waaagh! is active for your unit, it can move up to 6" instead.
TARGET: That NOBZ or MEGANOBZ 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 5+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds). If a Waaagh! is active for your unit, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound for each 4+ instead.
TARGET: One NOBZ or MEGANOBZ unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: When that enemy unit Falls Back, all models in that enemy unit must take a Desperate Escape test. When doing so, if a Waaagh! is active for your unit, subtract 1 from each of those tests.
TARGET: One NOBZ or MEGANOBZ unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Taktikal Brigade
The Orks who belong to the Blood Axe clan seek to apply their own brand of taktiks to their endless wars. The most cunning of Blood Axe leaders have adapted the strategies of other species into a unique brand of clandestine warfare that, whilst simplistic, is brutally effective.
Lissen ’Ere
Blood Axe leaders bellow actual orders to the ladz under their command.
Once per battle round, in your Command phase or after being set up on the battlefield in your Movement phase, each BOSS SNIKROT, MEK and WARBOSS model in your army can issue Taktiks abilities.To do so, select one or two of the Taktiks abilities below and select one friendly ORKS unit within 6" of that model to issue them to. If you selected two Taktiks, that model must take a Leadership test: if failed, the selected unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Until the start of your next Command phase, the selected unit is affected by the selected Taktiks. A unit cannot have Taktiks issued to it in this way more than once per battle round.
Taktiks abilities cannot be issued to Battle-shocked units, and if a unit affected by Taktiks becomes Battle-shocked, all Taktiks cease to affect that unit while it is Battle-shocked.
Get Stuck In: You can re-roll Charge rolls made for this unit.
Get On Wiv It: Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in this unit.
Sneaky Stalkin’: INFANTRY and MOUNTED models (excluding MEGANOBZ) in this unit have the Stealth ability and each time a ranged attack targets this unit, those models have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
Shoota Drills: Each time an INFANTRY or MOUNTED model in this unit makes a ranged attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.
KEYWORDS
STORMBOYZ units from your army gain the BATTLELINE keyword.
Enhancements
An exemplar of the Blood Axes’ devious arts, this Warboss leads mobs of cunning Kommandos to battle. WARBOSS model only. During the Declare Battle Formations step, the bearer can be attached to a KOMMANDOS unit. While leading a Kommandos unit, it has the Infiltrators and Stealth abilities. |
Whilst Flash Gitz hate discipline of any sort, particularly militant Meks can keep them in line with a combination of brutal discipline and the promise of shiny gubbinz. BIG MEK, BIG MEK IN MEGA ARMOUR or BIG MEK WITH SHOKK ATTACK GUN model only. During the Declare Battle Formations step, the bearer can be attached to a FLASH GITZ unit. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a ranged attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll. |
Possessed of an exceptionally keen mind – for an Ork at least – this boss matches wits with his opponents, holding his ladz back until an opportune moment arrives. ORKS model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to three ORKS units from your army and redeploy them. When doing so, you can set those units up in Strategic Reserves, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves. |
Cobbled together from the remains of a humie vox-caster, this device amplifies this Ork’s already booming voice, carrying their bellowed orders further WARBOSS or MEK model only. Each time the bearer issues Taktiks, it can do so to a friendly ORKS INFANTRY or ORKS MOUNTED unit within 18", instead of 6". |
Stratagems
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Until the start of the next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit.
TARGET: One ORKS INFANTRY or ORKS MOUNTED unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Select the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS] ability. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability.
TARGET: That ORKS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: That STORMBOYZ 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 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that was within Engagement Range of that enemy unit at the start of the phase.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
TARGET: One KOMMANDOS or STORMBOYZ 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.
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles that are bespoke to ORKS units.
Your ORKS Crusade force will grow larger and more dangerous as your campaign goes on - but with that, it will also get out of hand! Orky Ructions await you, but so too does the magnificent power of an Ork Waaagh! tearing across the galaxy.
AGENDAS
Orks units can attempt to achieve unique Agendas in addition to those found in other publications. These represent the factions goals and their particular methods of waging war.
REQUISITIONS
ORKS armies have access to a number of bespoke Requisitions in addition to those found in other publications.
BATTLE TRAITS
As they gain experience, Orks units in your Crusade force can be given one of the Battle Traits in this section instead of one presented elsewhere.
As your Waaagh! grows, you gain access to kustom Battle Traits to enhance ORKS VEHICLES.
CRUSADE RELICS
In addition to the Crusade Relics presented in other Crusade publications, ORKS CHARACTER models can claim one of the Crusade Relics.
BESTEST BOSSLOOT
As well as their Crusade Relics, your Waaagh!boss can gain unique Crusade Relics as your Waaagh! grows, unavailable to other CHARACTERS.
CRUSADE BADGES
Here you will find three Crusade Badges representing goals you can set yourself when campaigning with your Crusade force. Once you have achieved one, you could set yourself a new goal, or take the opportunity to start a new Crusade force.
Launching The WAAAGH!
Waaagh!Boss
When you create your Order of Battle, select one WARBOSS unit from your Crusade force to be your WAAAGH!BOSS. That unit gains the WAAAGH!BOSS keyword, which allows it to take unique upgrades and interact with various other Ork Crusade rules. If your WaaaghIboss is removed from your Order of Battle (e.g. due to receiving too many Battle Scars), your Crusade force loses 20 Stompin’ points, and you must select another WARBOSS unit from your Crusade force to be your WAAAGH!BOSS (adding one to your Order of Battle if it does not already include one).Tracking Stompin’ Points
Stompin’ points are an indicator of the size of your Waaagh!, and the more your Crusade force has, the more unique features you can access. They can be gained through specific events and actions you take, as well as through rules such as Crusade Relics and Requisitions. Keep a tally of your Stompin’ points as you participate in battles and grow your Order of Battle. The standard methods of increasing your Crusade force’s Stompin’ points, and by how much, are listed below.
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Stage Of The WAAAGH!
As you gain Stompin’ points, you move through Waaagh! stages that are approximate measurements of the size of your roving warband. Progressing through these stages allows for access to various new bonuses and other rules, including the possibility of suffering Orky Ructions as your Crusade force gets out of hand. The effects of each stage are listed below, as well as how many Stompin’ points are required to enter that stage.Stage 1: Gathering WAAAGH!
The ambitions of one visionary or especially bloodthirsty individual draw Orcs together into a growing amalgamation of gleeful violence.
- Stompin’ Points: After each battle, gain 1 Stompin’ point.
- Orky Ruction: You cannot suffer Orky Ructions.
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Stage 2: Escalating WAAAGH!
The Waaagh! begins to span entire worlds, as rivalries between mobs, clans and entire tribes drive competition to unleash ever greater destruction.
- Stompin’ Points: After each battle, gain l Stompin’ point.
- Orky Ruction: After each battle, take a Ruction test, subtracting 1 from the result if you lost that battle.
- Kustom Jobs: You can apply one Kustom Job to an ORKS VEHICLE units from your Order of Battle using the Kustom Job Requisition.
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Stage 3: Thunderous WAAAGH!
The Orks mass in numbers that swell with a roar like a savage ocean.
- Stompin’ Points: After each battle, gain 2 Stompin’ points.
- Orky Ruction: After each battle, take a Ruction test, subtracting 1 from the result if you lost that battle.
- Kustom Jobs: You can apply one Kustom Job to an ORKS VEHICLE units from your Order of Battle using the Kustom Job Requisition.
- Bestest Bossloot: Your WAAAGH!Boss can be given one Bestest Bossloot Crusade Relic.
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Stage 4: All-Conquering WAAAGH!
Only an Ork of supreme strength can keep the largest Waaagh! on course.
- Stompin’ Points: You no longer gain Stompin’ Points. The Waaagh! is as big as it gets; try to hold on!
- Orky Ruction: After each battle, take a Ruction test, subtracting 2 from the result if you lost that battle.
- Kustom Jobs: You can apply one Kustom Job to an ORKS VEHICLE units from your Order of Battle using the Kustom Job Requisition.
- Bestest Bossloot: Your WAAAGH!Boss can be given one Bestest Bossloot Crusade Relic.
- Massive Waaagh!: After each battle, your Crusade force gains 2 Requisition points instead of 1. Additionally, you can select one additional unit to be Marked for Greatness after each battle.
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Orky Ructions
When a Waaagh! forms, two things are certain: it will cause immense destruction, and it will be fraught with infighting, risk-taking and unpredictable calamities. After a battle, if your Waaagh! is at Stage 2 or higher, you must take a Ruction test. To do so, take a Leadership test using your WAAAGH!Boss’ Leadership characteristic, applying any modifier that may apply based on your current Waaagh! stage. If that test is passed, nothing happens. Otherwise:- If that test is failed but no double was rolled: You must choose either for your Crusade force to suffer a Minor Ruction (see Minor Ructions table below), or reduce your Stompin’ points by 10.
- If that test is failed on a double (e.g. double 1, double 2): You must choose either for your Crusade force to suffer a Major Ruction (see Major Ructions table below), or reduce your Stompin’ points by 15.
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Minor RuctionsIf your Crusade force suffers a Minor Ruction, roll one D6 and apply the relevant Minor Ruction below. If it is not possible to apply that Minor Ruction, re-roll the result.
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Major RuctionsIf your Crusade force suffers a Major Ruction, roll one D6 and apply the relevant Major Ruction below. If it is not possible to apply that Major Ruction, re-roll the result. Each Major Ruction can only occur once per Waaagh! stage, but if you regress to an earlier stage in which that Major Ruction previously occurred, it can occur again.
- Reduce your Stompin’ points by 10.
- Select one WEIRDBOY or WURRBOY model from your Order of Battle; that model gains one Battle Scar.
Agendas
If your Crusade army includes any ORKS units, you can select Agendas from those presented here.Many Meks see enemy heavy-armour formations not as a formidable foe, but as a treasure trove, waiting to be plundered.
Its important for even the most cerebral of Warbosses to get stuck in and show the ladz how tough he is, just to make sure none of them get any ideas about replacing him. Enemy commanders and war machines are valuable targets in demonstrating that he is just as ‘killy’ as ever.
Keen to show off, Orks often make a beeline for the flashiest and most dangerous enemies around.
Each time Da Killiest Gitz unit is reduced to Below Half-strength as a result of an attack made by an ORKS unit from your army, that ORKS unit gains 3XP. If an ORKS unit from your Crusade army destroys Da Killiest Gitz, that unit gains 3XP. At the end of the battle, if Da Killiest Gitz unit is destroyed, your Crusade force gains 3 Stompin’ points.
Orks are known to swarm the battlefield in great waves. To their foes, it can seem as though their hordes stretch over the horizon.
Requisitions
If your Crusade army includes any ORKS units, you can spend Requisition points (RPs) on any of the following Requisitions.Ork physiology is incredibly resilient and even possessed of some regenerative properties. Often, though, the only thing that will make an Ork feel better is to embark on an unremitting rampage.
- Remove the Battle Scar your WAAAGH!BOSS gained just before you purchased this Requisition.
- Your WAAAGH!BOSS gains an additional 5XP.
Whether obsessed with new and more impressive wargear or needing to replace weapons and armour that have failed to stand up to the Ork’s more aggressive tendencies, the biggest bosses make sure they have the best gear for the fights to come.
Much of the scrap taken from enemy vehicles brings with it exciting new technology, ready to be adapted into original forms by the Mek. Many of these forms would undoubtedly give the original crafter nightmares, but their effectiveness cannot be denied.
With the right threats or bribes - or a bit of both - Mekaniaks can be motivated to invent or improve some tasty bit of kit to make their boss even more dangerous.
Battle Traits
When a ORKS unit gains a Battle Trait, you can use one of the tables presented here to determine which Battle Trait that unit has gained.MOUNTED UNITSD6
These lunatics have forked out handfuls of hard-earned teefto have their roaring mounts' speed boosted so as to ensure no cowardly enemies can get away.
Nothing fills these Orks with more of a thrill than unloading storms of shots into the enemy at full pelt.
Plumes of exhaust and sprays of dust and chewed up dirt fill the air around these stampeding Orks, obscuring them - and their obscene gestures -from the enemy.
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These Orks show a great enthusiasm for battle, even above that of their warlike peers.
These ladz have scrounged enough teef together for all manner of rangefinders, optiks, skopes and targetin’squigs that have been stitched, bolted or stapled into place to improve their aim.
These Orks have learned that if you pour enough firepower into the enemy, it makes the gitz less inclined to start any sneaky nonsense.
These ladz can’t wait to get stuck into the enemy, leaping on any that come near in a surge of green muscle.
These ladz have an instinct for spotting valuable bits of loot. They swarm over likely sites, knowing which bits to bash and which bits to leave in one piece.
The ladz in this mob wear with pride their impressive array of horrific scars.
MEK AND BIG MEK MODELSD6
This Mek always makes sure his customers' vehicles are in full working order, at least when he hands them back.
This Mek has conducted many experiments on his own body.
PAINBOY AND PAINBOSS MODELSD6
This Dok stalks the battlefield for 'spare parts' after the battle, ensuring transplants are conducted in a timely manner.
This Dok has conducted plenty of surgery on himself. augmenting his body to fend off customers unhappy with the experimental cybork limbs they don't remember asking for.
Kustom Jobs
Kustom Jobs count as Battle Traits and follow the same rules as Battle Traits.This vehicle is replete with so much additional armour and non-essential extras that landing a telling blow is almost impossible.
Flared ammo feeds, squig-oiled rounds and increased rotary speeds ensure this vehicles guns are even shootier than its rivals'.
Rewired batteries ensure that careless enemies get a nasty surprise if they come too close.
Employing everything from steam-feeds to really big iron springs, these leg upgrades allow walkerz to put on a real burst of speed.
- Add 2" to this model’s Move characteristic.
- Add 1 to Advance and Charge rolls made for this model.
Fermented through entirely unstable processes by specialist brewboyz, potent fungal additives are kept in this thickly shielded injecta system. Just a drop can supercharge any Mek-built engine.
- Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in this unit.
- Once per battle, you can target this unit with the Smokescreen Stratagem for 0CP.
Crusade Relics
Artificer Relics
Space Marine helmets are the favoured trophy of many an Ork. They proclaim that the bearer has bested one of the finest warriors the Imperium has to offer, and also come in a variety of snazzy colours to collect.
Improve the Leadership characteristic of the bearer by 1. Once the bearer has participated in at least three battles during which its unit destroyed one or more ADEPTUS ASTARTES units, the bearer gains the following ability:’Elmet Rack: Each time this model’s unit takes a Battle-shock or Leadership test, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that test.
These chest plates are crafted from bulkheads salvaged from rugged dropships, and are robust enough to resist orbital descents through the planets atmosphere.
INFANTRY or MOUNTED model only,- Add 1 to the bearer’s Wounds characteristic.
- Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, worsen the Armour Penetration of that attack by 1.
Antiquity Relics
This chunk of mechanisms, wires, switches, buttons and strange pulsing glyphs has found its way onto a variety of guns. It never fails to impart all manner of weird lethality to its host weapon. Almost never.
MEK model only.- Add 1 to the Ballistic Skill and Strength characteristics of the bearer’s ranged weapons.
- Add 6" to the Range characteristic of the bearer’s ranged weapons.
- On a 1, the bearer’s unit cannot make ranged attacks this phase.
- On a 2-3, until the end of the phase, the bearer’s ranged weapons have the [Hazardous] ability.
- On a 4+, until the end of the phase, the bearers ranged weapons have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability, and ranged attacks made by the bearer score a Critical Hit on a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+.
Mad Wazgit was an especially unstable Warphead in the employ of Blood Axes Warboss Razdakka da Finka. Razdakka eventually got fed up with Wazgit’s presence giving him headaches when he was trying to come up with da grand plan, and had this dented bowllike artefact nailed to Wazgit’s head to try to contain some of his rampant power. Sadly it had the opposite effect, and the skullkap was the only thing found in the crater after a mighty green explosion consumed Razdakka’s planning hut. This unfortunate event hasn’t stopped countless subsequent Weirdboyz from nailing this device to their head in an attempt try and stop da voices.
WEIRDBOY or WURRBOY model only. Each time the bearer makes a Psychic Attack, add 1 to the Hit roll and if that attack destroys one or more enemy models, the bearer regains up to 2 lost wounds.Legendary Relics
Orkish legend tells of a great choppa - or possibly a massive klaw, Orkish legends aren’t bothered about such details - powerful enough to split mountains with a single blow. In truth, to many this blade wouldn’t appear different to any of the other crude weapons wielded by their species. Many Orks have claimed to possess this fabled weapon over the millennia, and though different bits of it have been repaired, replaced and reworked hundreds of times, this weapon retains its grand destiny. Once it is in the hands of its intended bearer - as decided by Gork and Mork - a direct link to those brutish deities will be established, and the choppa’s true power will be unlocked.
INFANTRY WAAAGH!BOSS or MOUNTED WAAAGH!BOSS model only. Select one melee weapon equipped by the bearer (excluding Extra Attacks weapons). Add 1 to the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of that weapon. In addition, each time you call a Waaagh!, if the bearer is on the battlefield, melee weapons equipped by friendly ORKS models have the [Lethal Hits] ability.Bestest Bossloot Relics
Each Bestest Bossloot counts as a Crusade Relic, and follows the rules for such Battle Honours. Your Waaagh!Boss can only have a single Bestest Bossloot Crusade Relic at once, and you must use the Bestest Bossloot Requisition each time you wish to replace one for another.Badmek Rezmekka formulated a type of paint so red that staring directly at it for too long caused actual retinal damage. So red was Rezmekka’s new colour - artfully named Redder - that he immediately daubed it over his best suit of ’eavy armour. A few pots of this paint have made it onto the open market, so any boss who can afford it can dazzle his underlings and his enemies with eye-bleeding redness.
MOUNTED WAAAGH!BOSS model only. Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in the bearer’s unit, and models in the bearer’s unit have the Fights First ability.This brutal iron-plated jaw tells all that see it that the wearer is a mighty warlord indeed. If they don’t listen, a single devastating headbutt from the wearer will certainly reinforce the point.
At the start of the Fight phase, you can select one enemy INFANTRY unit within Engagement Range of the bearer and roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds and must take a Battle-shock test.When wired into the boss’favourite choppa, this happy accident of force field technology wreathes his weapon in a crackling cloud of green lightning. On a good day, the energy can rip open armour plating and burn flesh black. The frazzle field has the habit of emitting sparking backdrafts that cause any hair squigs the user wears to go rigid and stand on end. This is viewed as a fashionable extra and serves to make him look even more imposing.
Select one melee weapon equipped by the bearer. That weapon gains the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.Crafted from the heaviest Space Marine vehicles and finished with brutal spikes, this huge suit of armour propels its wearer into (and often straight through) the enemy like a living battering ram. The racks of rokkits fitted to the back of this suit certainly help too.
- The bearer has a 4+ invulnerable save.
- Add 1 to the bearer’s Wounds characteristic.
- Each time the bearer’s unit ends a Charge move, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer and roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
A mountain of teef is alleged to have gone into procuring all the components that supplement this impressive looking gun. So has said every Mek to have passed this on to his Warboss. Gyrostabilisers and weird iridescent stones scavenged from war zones, plasma cores and molecular realignment fields looted from watch fortresses, additional ammo-racks and supa-charged boosta barrels have all been tinkered with through millennia of inventive Orky know-wotz. With a good enough aim, it can obliterate the toughest of enemies.
Select one ranged weapon equipped by the bearer. That weapon gains the [MELTA 3] ability.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.Ambitious Boss
Your infamy as a ferocious fighter brings mobs flooding to your garish banner as your growing Waaagh! stampedes from one thrilling fight to the next. Cities and voidcraft have fallen to your expanding horde, but this is only the beginning. Your eyes now stray to the stars. Your strength and victories have drawn other Orks in your wake, keen to share in the violence. Coteries of Oddboyz in thrall to your ambitions - and scared of your temper - have given you access to the know-wotz needed to realise your visions of bloodshed. Seize your chance, don’t slow down, just get out there and get stompin’!
- Your Waaagh! has reached Stage 2.
- You have won two or more battles.
Rampaging Bigboss
There seems no stopping the avalanche of slaughter and riotous destruction your Waaagh! visits upon every world your armies reach. What losses and disruptive calamities have occurred among your teeming warbands have been steamrollered into insignificance - where you bother to acknowledge them at all - by your fearsome charisma and timely doses of no-nonsense violence. Roaring tides of Orks, whole blitz brigades of ramshackle war engines, herds of unruly beasts and towering war effigies follow your lead onto new battlefields aplenty, taking up your war cry with each new promise of the best punch-up in the galaxy.
- Your Waaagh! has reached Stage 3
- You have won six or more battles.
Grand Warlord
Your Waaagh! is known and feared amongst the greatest of Ork conquests and your name is chanted on more battlefields than even the brainiest Oddboyz can count. You have forged a trail of truly epic destruction, a warpath so grand it has surely distracted Gork and Mork from their eternal brawling. Warbands flock to your bosspole, eager for the privilege of fighting in the best Waaagh!, bulking your huge horde further, with you as the biggest, meanest and greenest Ork of them all, a hulking idol of brutality!
- Your Waaagh! has reached Stage 4.
- You have won 10 or more battles.
- You have given five or more VEHICLE units Kustom Jobs
- Your Waaagh!Boss has reached Legendary rank
Boarding Actions
Introduction
Within the following pages you will find numerous Boarding Actions Detachments that can be used in your Boarding Actions games. Each lists which units you can include in your army, any modifications to those units’ army rule as presented in their Codex or Index, a Detachment rule unique to that Detachment, and a number of Enhancements and Stratagems that you can use.A keyword that will be shared by all units in your army.
MUSTERING RULES
Which units you are allowed to include in your army.
FORMING BOARDING SQUADS
Any additional rules that will apply in the missions Form Boarding Squads step. Note that not all Detachments will have these.
RULES ADAPTATIONS
Some units will be unable to use certain abilities in Boarding Actions battles. Where this is the case, these units and their relevant abilities will be listed here.
Due to the distinct nature of close-quarters battle in Boarding Actions, most army rules require some modifications to their effects. Where this is the case, these will be described here.
DETACHMENT RULE
Each faction will have a number of different Detachments to choose from, each with its own Detachment rule to reflect the unique fighting methods of such forces.
ENHANCEMENTS
Further Enhancements that you can give to CHARACTER models from your army, beyond those(Boarding Actions Enhancments), will be found here.
STRATAGEMS
Additional Stratagems that you can use, in addition to those (Boarding Actions Stratagems), will be found here.
Ramship Raiders
When Ork void fleets attack enemy shipping, they often lead the assault with ramships. These pugnacious craft slam headlong into the foes’ vessels, burying themselves in the superstructure of larger enemy ships before filling them with rampaging Ork boarders.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):- BEASTBOSS
- BIG MEK
- BIG MEK WITH SHOKK ATTACK GUN
- BOSS SNIKROT
- INFANTRY WARBOSS
- MEK
- PAINBOSS
- PAINBOY
- WEIRDBOY
- WURRBOY
- ZODGROD WORTSNAGGA
- BEAST SNAGGA BOYZ( 10 models)
- BOYZ (10 models)
- BURNA BOYZ (5 or 10 models)
- FLASH GITZ (5 or 10 models)
- GRETCHIN (11 models)
- KOMMANDOS (10 models)
- NOBZ (5 models)
- STORMBOYZ (5 or 10 models)
Forming Boarding Squads
- Do not split GRETCHIN units into separate units in the Form Boarding Squads step.
- When splitting a KOMMANDOS unit, select one of the resulting Boarding Squads to gain the Distraction Grot token (if equipped with one). The Boarding Squad without the Distraction Grot token loses the Distraction Grot ability.
Rules Adaptations
- The BIG MEK model loses the Shokk-boosta ability.
- The BOSS SNIKROT model loses the Kunnin’ Infiltrator ability.
- The BOYZ unit loses the Get Da Good Bitz ability.
- The KOMMANDOS unit loses the Sneaky Gitz and Bomb
SQUIGabilities. - The STORMBOYZ unit loses the Deep Strike and Full Throttle abilities.
- The WEIRDBOY model loses the Waaagh! Energy’ and Da Jump abilities.
- The WURRBOY model loses the Unstable Oracle ability.
- The ZODGROD WORTSNAGGA model loses the Special Dose ability.
Void WAAAGH!
For all the noise and mayhem of a boarding action, it can be harder to build up a full head of steam when trying to navigate sealed bulkheads and winding corridors.
Units from your army with the Waaagh! ability retain that ability and gain this one.Once per battle, at the start of the battle round, you can call a Void Waaagh!. If you do, until the start of the next battle round, the Void Waaagh! is active for your army and:
- Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models from your army with this ability.
- Models from your army with this ability have a 5+ invulnerable save. A Void Waaagh! counts as a Waaagh! for any datasheet abilities.
Detachment Rule
Belligerent Boarders
Between the excitement of smashing their way through the all-too-lootable interior of an enemy warship and their natural tendency to overlook their own mortal hurts - sometimes for hours at a time - Ork boarding parties can prove nightmarishly tough.
Each time an attack targets an ORKS unit from your army (excluding GROTS units), if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that ORKS unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.Enhancements
Living Battering Ram There is something uniquely terrifying to the foe about a nine-foot-tall, four-hundred-pound Ork who prefers to open hatchways with their head while running full tilt and bellowing like a battle tank. Each time the bearer attempts to operate a closed Hatchway, your opponent cannot try to prevent it. In addition, each time the bearer opens a Hatchway, each enemy unit within 6" of that Hatchway and wholly on the opposite side of it from the bearer must take a Battle-shock test. |
Scarred Brute A veteran of many boarding actions, this monstrous Ork has been shot, stabbed and ejected into hard vacuum many times, and has all the toughened scarring and bionik wotnots to show for it. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 5+ ability. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That ORKS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit has the Fights First ability.
TARGET: One BOYZ unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced and each time 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: That ORKS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make an Advance move.
TARGET: One BOYZ unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can make an Enraged Rush move. To do so, roll one D6: your unit can be moved a distance in inches up to the result, but must end that move as close as possible to the attacking unit. When doing so, those models can be moved within Engagement Range of that enemy unit, but only that enemy unit.
Kaptin Killers
Regardless of the wider objectives of a void war, once a Warboss and his best Boyz get aboard an enemy ship their top priority is nearly always finding the enemy shipmaster and beating them to a pulp. If that leads to capturing the vessel in the process, so much the better!
Void WAAAGH!
For all the noise and mayhem of a boarding action, it can be harder to build up a full head of steam when trying to navigate sealed bulkheads and winding corridors.
Units from your army with the Waaagh! ability retain that ability and gain this one.Once per battle, at the start of the battle round, you can call a Void Waaagh!. If you do, until the start of the next battle round, the Void Waaagh! is active for your army and:
- Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models from your army with this ability.
- Models from your army with this ability have a 5+ invulnerable save. A Void Waaagh! counts as a Waaagh! for any datasheet abilities.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):- BIG MEK IN MEGA ARMOUR
- INFANTRY WARBOSS (excluding WARBOSS IN MEGA ARMOUR)
- WARBOSS IN MEGA ARMOUR
Rules Adaptations
- The BIG MEK IN MEGA ARMOUR model loses the Fix Dat Armour Up ability.
- The MEGANOBZ unit loses the Krumpin’ Time ability.
Detachment Rule
Comin’ Through
Very little can prevent a hulking Ork from smashing a path through a voidship’s decks to wherever he is trying to go. It is generally considered deeply unwise bordering on suicidal to try...
In your Movement phase, Desperate Escape tests taken for ORKS models from your army are automatically passed and each time an ORKS unit from your army makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, it can move through other models as if they were not there, provided those other models have a lower Toughness characteristic than it.Enhancements
Tellyporta Employing madcap tellyporta arrays, Ork Meks can beam massively armoured Nobz through the warp and onto an enemy vessel, much to the horror of the defenders. In the Deploy Armies step, select one MEGANOBZ unit from your army. Until the end of the battle, models in that unit have the Deep Strike ability. |
Gnasher Squig Crates This Warboss has ordered his ladz to bring armoured crates of vicious gnasher squigs aboard. Upended into strategically vital areas, they create a dangerous infestation that enemies will struggle to remove. WARBOSS model only. In your Command phase, you can select one NOBZ or MEGANOBZ unit from your army (excluding Battle-shocked units) that is within 6" of the bearer and is within range of an objective marker. If there are no enemy models within range of that objective marker, it is Secured by your army. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That ORKS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the battle, that Hatchway cannot be closed. Until the end of the turn, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
TARGET: That ORKS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit has the Fights First ability.
TARGET: One WARBOSS model from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your model is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can fight as if it were the Fight phase, but when doing so, models in your unit can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target) and each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 6 is required to score a hit.
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The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The Starting Strength of an Attached unit is equal to the combined Starting Strengths of all of its units (i.e. the number of models in the Leader unit added to the number of models in the Bodyguard unit). If either the Leader unit or the Bodyguard unit in an Attached unit is destroyed, the Starting Strength of the remaining unit is changed to be equal to its original Starting Strength.
For the purposes of rules that are triggered when a unit is destroyed, such rules are still triggered when one of the individual units that made up an Attached unit is destroyed (the Leader or the Bodyguard unit).
The infamous war cry of the Orks is known and feared throughout the galaxy. When it echoes across the battlefield, bellowed from hundreds or even thousands of greenskin mouths, even the most stalwart warriors fear the onslaught to come.
If your Army Faction is , once per battle, at the start of your Command phase, you can call a Waaagh!. If you do, until the start of your next Command phase, the Waaagh! is active for your army and:- Units from your army with this ability are eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which they Advanced.
- Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models from your army with this ability.
- Models from your army with this ability have a 5+ invulnerable save.
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder every time they are used.
Weapons with [HAZARDOUS] in their profile are known as Hazardous weapons. Each time a unit is selected to shoot or fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, for each Hazardous weapon that targets were selected for when resolving those attacks, that unit must take one Hazardous test. To do so, roll one D6: on a 1, that test is failed. For each failed test you must resolve the following sequence (resolve each failed test one at a time):- If possible, select one model in that unit that has lost one or more wounds and is equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
- Otherwise, if possible, select one model in that unit (excluding CHARACTER models) equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
- Otherwise, select one CHARACTER model in that unit equipped with one or more Hazardous weapons.
If a unit from a player’s army is selected as the target of the Fire Overwatch Stratagem in their opponent’s Charge phase, any mortal wounds inflicted by Hazardous tests are allocated after the charging unit has ended its Charge move.
- After a unit shoots or fights, roll one Hazardous test (one D6) for each Hazardous weapon used. For each 1, a model equipped with a hazardous weapon suffers 3 mortal wounds, that must be allocated to the selected model.
- A Critical Wound inflicts mortal wounds equal to the weapon’s Damage characteristic, instead of any normal damage.
Some attacks are so powerful that no armour or force field can withstand their fury.
Some rules inflict mortal wounds on units. Each time mortal wounds are inflicted on a unit, each of those mortal wounds inflicts one point of damage to that unit, and they are always applied one at a time. Each mortal wound is allocated to a model in the same manner as allocating an attack. Excess damage from mortal wounds is not lost if the damage can be allocated to another model. Instead, keep allocating damage to another model in the target unit until either all the damage has been allocated or the target unit is destroyed.If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to any normal damage, do not make a Wound roll or saving throw (including invulnerable saving throws) against those mortal wounds. If those mortal wounds are inflicted by an attack that has the [PRECISION] ability, the attacking model’s controlling player can allocate those mortal wounds to a CHARACTER model in that unit.
If mortal wounds are being inflicted as a result of the [HAZARDOUS] ability or by an attack with the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability that scored a Critical Wound, each time those mortal wounds are allocated to a model, if that model is destroyed as a result of those mortal wounds, the remaining mortal wounds from that attack are lost, just as with a normal attack.
If, when a unit is selected to shoot or fight, one or more of its attacks can inflict mortal wounds on the target, resolve any normal damage inflicted by the attacking unit’s attacks on that target before inflicting any mortal wounds on that target. If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to any normal damage, but the normal damage is subsequently saved, the target unit still suffers those mortal wounds, as described above.
- Each mortal wound inflicted on a unit causes one model in that unit to lose one wound.
- Unless the source of the mortal wounds is the [HAZARDOUS] ability or an attack with the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability, damage from mortal wounds is not lost if it can be allocated to another model.
- No saving throws can be made against mortal wounds.
- Mortal wounds inflicted by attacks always apply after any normal damage, even if that damage was saved.
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.
- Normal Move: Models move up to M".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
The WARBOSS keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
- A unit can embark within a friendly TRANSPORT if all of its models end a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within 3" of that TRANSPORT.
- A unit cannot embark and disembark in the same phase.
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The GRETCHIN keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
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.
TARGET: One GRETCHIN unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 4+, that enemy unit suffers D3+1 mortal wounds. Your unit can then make a Normal move.
TARGET: One BOYZ 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 Go Get ’Em! 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 contains 10 or more models, you can re-roll the D6 to determine how far your unit can move.
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).
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.
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.
Some warriors ride to battle atop trusty mounts that gore and trample nearby foes. Others wield combat weapons that deliver a frenzy of additional blows.
Weapons with [EXTRA ATTACKS] in their profile are known as Extra Attacks weapons. Each time the bearer of one or more Extra Attacks weapons fights, it makes attacks with each of the Extra Attacks melee weapons it is equipped with and it makes attacks with one of the melee weapons it is equipped with that does not have the [EXTRA ATTACKS] ability (if any). The number of attacks made with an Extra Attacks weapon cannot be modified by other rules, unless that weapon’s name is explicitly specified in that rule.- The bearer can attack with this weapon in addition to any other weapons it can make attacks with.
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.
From detonating ammo stores to corrosive innards or frenzied death throes, some targets are deadly even in defeat.
Some models have ‘Deadly Demise x’ listed in their abilities. When such a model is destroyed, roll one D6 before removing it from play (if such a model is a TRANSPORT, roll before any embarked models disembark). On a 6, each unit within 6" of that model suffers a number of mortal wounds denoted by ‘x’ (if this is a random number, roll separately for each unit within 6").- Deadly Demise x: When this model is destroyed, roll one D6. On a 6, each unit within 6" suffers ‘x’ mortal wounds.
The GROTS keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
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If the result of the Wound roll is greater than or equal to the required number shown in the table above, then that Wound roll is successful and scores one wound against the target unit. Otherwise, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends.
An unmodified Wound roll of 6 is called a Critical Wound and is always successful. An unmodified Wound roll of 1 always fails. A Wound roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1.
- Critical Wound: Unmodified Wound roll of 6. Always successful.
- An unmodified Wound roll of 1 always fails.
- A Wound roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1.
The MOB keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
- 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.
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 BEAST SNAGGA keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Scouts form the vanguard of many armies. Unnoticed by the enemy, they range ahead of the main force.
Some units have ‘Scouts x"’ listed in their abilities. If every model in a unit has this ability, then at the start of the first battle round, before the first turn begins, it can make a Normal move of up to x", with the exception that, while making that move, the distance moved by each model in that unit can be greater than that model's Move characteristic, as long as it is not greater than x".DEDICATED TRANSPORT models can make use of any Scouts x" ability listed in their abilities, or a Scouts x" ability that a unit that starts the battle embarked within that DEDICATED TRANSPORT model has (provided only models with this ability are embarked within that DEDICATED TRANSPORT model), regardless of how that embarked unit gained this ability (e.g. listed in their abilities, conferred by an Enhancement or by an attached CHARACTER, etc.).
A unit that moves using this ability must end that move more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models. If both players have units that can do this, the player who is taking the first turn moves their units first.
- Scouts x": Unit can make a Normal move of up to x" before the first turn begins.
- If embarked in a DEDICATED TRANSPORT, that DEDICATED TRANSPORT can make this move instead.
- Must end this move more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models.
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 BEAST SNAGGA and MOUNTED keywords are used in the following Orks datasheets:
The BEAST SNAGGA and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Orks 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.The SPEED FREEKS keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The INFANTRY and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Orks datasheets:
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.
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 MEK keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The WALKER keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The GROTS and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Orks datasheets:
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.Inventive Meks wire all manner of kustomised gubbinz, suspicious extras and inviting big red buttons to weapons or into the cockpits of their clanking kan creations. Eager Orks are always enthusiastic to try out such random innovations to see what sort of destruction they can cause. Sometimes this can be risky, but that’s half the fun!
Each time a MEK, WALKER or GROTS VEHICLE unit from your army is selected to shoot or fight, roll one D6. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the corresponding ability shown in the table below.
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Alternatively, when such a unit is selected to shoot or fight, you can select one of the abilities above instead of rolling the D6. If you do, until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [HAZARDOUS] ability as well.
If a weapon equipped by a model from you army has the [HAZARDOUS] ability from multiple sources, each time you take a Hazardous test for that weapon, it is failed on a roll of a 1 or a 2.
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.
The WARBOSS and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Orks datasheets:
Some units make their way to battle via tunnelling, teleportation, high-altitude descent or other extraordinary means that allow them to appear suddenly in the thick of the fighting.
During the Declare Battle Formations step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can set it up in Reserves instead of setting it up on the battlefield. If you do, in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models. If a unit with the Deep Strike ability arrives from Strategic Reserves, the controlling player can choose for that unit to be set up either using the rules for Strategic Reserves or using the Deep Strike ability.- Unit can be set up in Reserves instead of on the battlefield.
- Unit can be set up in your Reinforcements step, more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models.
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The MOUNTED keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Many armies employ reconnaissance units who can sit concealed, waiting for the right moment to strike.
During deployment, if every model in a unit has this ability, then when you set it up, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from the enemy deployment zone and all enemy models.The BIG MEK keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Blood Axe leaders bellow actual orders to the ladz under their command.
Once per battle round, in your Command phase or after being set up on the battlefield in your Movement phase, each BOSS SNIKROT, MEK and WARBOSS model in your army can issue Taktiks abilities.To do so, select one or two of the Taktiks abilities below and select one friendly unit within 6" of that model to issue them to. If you selected two Taktiks, that model must take a Leadership test: if failed, the selected unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Until the start of your next Command phase, the selected unit is affected by the selected Taktiks. A unit cannot have Taktiks issued to it in this way more than once per battle round.
Taktiks abilities cannot be issued to Battle-shocked units, and if a unit affected by Taktiks becomes Battle-shocked, all Taktiks cease to affect that unit while it is Battle-shocked.
Get Stuck In: You can re-roll Charge rolls made for this unit.
Get On Wiv It: Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in this unit.
Sneaky Stalkin’: INFANTRY and MOUNTED models (excluding MEGANOBZ) in this unit have the Stealth ability and each time a ranged attack targets this unit, those models have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
Shoota Drills: Each time an INFANTRY or MOUNTED model in this unit makes a ranged attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.
KEYWORDS
STORMBOYZ units from your army gain the BATTLELINE keyword.
Much of the scrap taken from enemy vehicles brings with it exciting new technology, ready to be adapted into original forms by the Mek. Many of these forms would undoubtedly give the original crafter nightmares, but their effectiveness cannot be denied.
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.
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.
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.
The PAINBOY keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The MOUNTED and WARBOSS keywords are used in the following Orks datasheets:
With the right threats or bribes - or a bit of both - Mekaniaks can be motivated to invent or improve some tasty bit of kit to make their boss even more dangerous.
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.Melta weapons are powerful heat rays whose fury is magnified at close range.
Weapons with [MELTA X] in their profile are known as Melta weapons. Each time an attack made with such a weapon targets a unit within half that weapon’s range, that attack’s Damage characteristic is increased by the amount denoted by ‘x’.- [MELTA X]: Increase the Damage by ‘x’ when targeting units within half range.