Adeptus Mechanicus – Skitarii Rangers
M
6"
T
3
SV
4+
W
1
LD
7+
OC
2
INSV
5+
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
| Mechanicus pistol devastating wounds pistol | |||||||
| Mechanicus pistol devastating wounds pistol | 12" | 1 | 4+ | 6 | -1 | 1 | |
| Arc rifle anti-vehicle 4+ devastating wounds rapid fire 1 | |||||||
| Arc rifle anti-vehicle 4+ devastating wounds rapid fire 1 | 30" | 1 | 4+ | 8 | -1 | D3 | |
| Galvanic rifle | |||||||
| Galvanic rifle | 30" | 2 | 4+ | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Plasma caliver – standard | |||||||
| Plasma caliver – standard | 30" | 2 | 4+ | 7 | -2 | 1 | |
| Plasma caliver – supercharge hazardous | |||||||
| Plasma caliver – supercharge hazardous | 30" | 2 | 4+ | 8 | -3 | 2 | |
| Transuranic arquebus heavy precision | |||||||
| Transuranic arquebus heavy precision | 36" | 1 | 4+ | 7 | -2 | D3 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Alpha combat weapon | |||||||
| Alpha combat weapon | Melee | 2 | 4+ | 5 | -1 | 1 | |
| Close combat weapon | |||||||
| Close combat weapon | Melee | 1 | 4+ | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
WARGEAR OPTIONS
- The Skitarii Ranger Alpha can be equipped with 1 Alpha combat weapon.
- The Skitarii Ranger Alpha’s galvanic rifle can be replaced with 1 Mechanicus pistol.
- 1 Skitarii Ranger’s galvanic rifle can be replaced with 1 arc rifle.
- 1 Skitarii Ranger’s galvanic rifle can be replaced with 1 plasma caliver.
- 1 Skitarii Ranger’s galvanic rifle can be replaced with 1 transuranic arquebus.
- 1 Skitarii Ranger equipped with a galvanic rifle can be equipped with one of the following:
- 1 enhanced data-tether*
- 1 omnispex*
* That model’s galvanic rifle cannot be replaced.
ABILITIES
CORE: Scouts 6"
FACTION: Doctrina Imperatives
Objective Scouted: At the end of your Command phase, if this unit 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.
WARGEAR ABILITIES
Enhanced data-tether: Each time you select the bearer’s unit as the target of a Stratagem, roll one D6: on a 5+, you gain 1CP.
Omnispex: Ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability.
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 1 Skitarii Ranger Alpha
- 9 Skitarii Rangers
| YOUR UNIT COSTS | |
| 10 models | 85 |
KEYWORDS: INFANTRY; BATTLELINE; IMPERIUM; SKITARII; RANGERS
FACTION KEYWORDS:
ADEPTUS MECHANICUS
ADEPTUS MECHANICUS
STRATAGEMS
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Core
C
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Core
C
FIRE OVERWATCH
1CP
Core
C
RAPID INGRESS
1CP
Core
C
HEROIC INTERVENTION
1CP
Core
C
COUNTEROFFENSIVE
2CP
Core
C
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic
BA
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
REPOLARISED AUGURS
1CP
Cohort Acquisitus Stratagem
DEFECT SCRUTINY
1CP
Cohort Acquisitus Stratagem
BALLISTIC SYNCHRONY
1CP
Electromartyrs – Battle Tactic
OMNI-TARGETERS
1CP
Electromartyrs – Battle Tactic
SAVIOUR SYSTEMS
1CP
Electromartyrs – Battle Tactic
AUTO-VENGEANCE
1CP
Electromartyrs – Strategic Ploy
UNRELENTING AGGRESSION
1CP
Eradication Cohort – Strategic Ploy
UNSHACKLED WRATH
1CP
Eradication Cohort – Wargear
ANALYTIC REPRISALS
1CP
Eradication Cohort – Strategic Ploy
SERVO‑DRIVEN CHARGE
1CP
Eradication Cohort – Wargear
CACHED ACQUISITION
1CP
Explorator Maniple – Epic Deed
INCENSE EXHAUSTS
1CP
Explorator Maniple – Wargear
REACTIVE SAFEGUARD
1CP
Explorator Maniple – Strategic Ploy
PRIORITY RECLAMATION
1CP
Explorator Maniple – Battle Tactic
GUIDED RETREAT
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Strategic Ploy
NEURAL OVERLOAD
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Strategic Ploy
ANALYTICAL DIVINATION
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Strategic Ploy
ERADICATION PROTOCOLS
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Battle Tactic
TARGETING OVERRIDE
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Battle Tactic
AGGRESSOR IMPERATIVE
1CP
Rad-Zone Corps – Battle Tactic
LETHAL DOSAGE
1CP
Rad-Zone Corps – Wargear
BULWARK IMPERATIVE
2CP
Rad-Zone Corps – Battle Tactic
BALEFUL HALO
2CP
Rad-Zone Corps – Battle Tactic
ACCESS OVERRIDES
1CP
Response Clade – Strategic Ploy
RESPONSIVE SHIELDING
1CP
Response Clade – Wargear
INTEGRATIVE WITHDRAWAL
1CP
Response Clade – Strategic Ploy
PRECOGNITATED FIREFIELDS
1CP
Response Clade – Battle Tactic
BINHARIC OFFENCE
2CP
Skitarii Hunter Cohort – Strategic Ploy
SHROUD PROTOCOLS
1CP
Skitarii Hunter Cohort – Strategic Ploy
EXPEDITED PURGE PROTOCOL
1CP
Skitarii Hunter Cohort – Strategic Ploy
PROGRAMMED WITHDRAWAL
1CP
Skitarii Hunter Cohort – Strategic Ploy
LED BY
This unit can be led by the following units:
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Rad-bombardment
Noospheric Transference
Stealth Optimisation
Acquisition At Any Cost
Overload Machine Spirits
Procedural Elimination
Murderous Imperative
Noospheric Recon
13.08 Benefit of Cover
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit, if every model in that unit meets one or more of the following conditions, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack:- That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area.
- That model is not fully visible to the attacking model due to one or more intervening terrain features and/or one or more intervening obscuring terrain areas (see below).
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit that has the benefit of cover against it, worsen the BS characteristic of that attack by 1.
STEALTH24.33
The stealthiest warriors can evade the attentions, and the bullets, of their foes.
If every model in a unit has this ability, each time a ranged attack targets that unit, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).[IGNORES COVER]24.18
Some weapons are designed to root enemy formations out of entrenched positions.
Each time an attack is made with an [IGNORES COVER] weapon, the target cannot have the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08), including from rules that give a model or unit the benefit of cover (e.g. Stealth).[LETHAL HITS]24.23
Many deadly weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.
Each time an attack made with a [LETHAL HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, you can choose for that attack to automatically wound the target.Designer’s Note: Choosing to automatically wound the target means that no wound roll is made for that attack. You may decide against this, as it means that attack cannot result in a critical wound and so cannot trigger other abilities such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].
Hit Roll
Make one hit roll for each attack dice by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a hit by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL HITS
Critical hits are still hits. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical hit, such as [LETHAL HITS] (24).03.04 Engagement
A model’s engagement range is the area of the battlefield within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of it.
- While a friendly model is within engagement range of one or more enemy models, those models – and the units they belong to – are engaged with each other.
- While a unit contains no engaged models, that unit is unengaged.
WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT?
While opposing models are within each other’s engagement range, they are able to fight in vicious melee, so unless they are seeking to make melee attacks, models should keep out of their foes’ reach.
ENGAGEMENT
These two units have at least one model within 2" of the opposing unit, and are therefore engaged with each other.
[HEAVY]24.16
Heavy weapons are amongst the biggest guns on the battlefield, but require bracing to fire at full effect.
In your Shooting phase, each time an attack is made with a [HEAVY] weapon, add 1 to the hit roll if all of the following apply to the attacking unit:- That unit is unengaged.
- That unit was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
- No model in that unit has moved more than 3" this turn.
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The ADEPTUS MECHANICUS keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Infantry
Transport
Vehicle
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The IMPERIUM keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Infantry
Transport
Vehicle
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
The KATAPHRON keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The PTERAXII keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The SICARIAN keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The SKITARII keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Dedicated Transports
Infantry
Transport
Vehicle
The SMOKE keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Dedicated Transports
Vehicle
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Transport
ADVANCE MOVE09.06
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Advance roll + your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Make an advance roll by rolling one D6.
AFTER MOVING:
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or start an action.
ASSAULT SHOOTING10.05
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply to your unit:
WHILE SHOOTING: You can only select [ASSAULT] weapons to make attacks with.
AFTER SHOOTING: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to start an action.
- Unengaged and made an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [ASSAULT] weapons.
WHILE SHOOTING: You can only select [ASSAULT] weapons to make attacks with.
AFTER SHOOTING: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to start an action.
[ASSAULT]24.04
Folding stocks, shortened barrels or lightweight construction enable some weapons to be easily fired on the move.
Units containing one or more models with an [ASSAULT] weapon can shoot using assault shooting (10.05).06.02.01 Normal Damage
Normal Damage is damage that was inflicted on a model as a result of a weapon’s D characteristic, rather than by other means such as mortal wounds. Mortal wounds dealt in addition to normal damage from an attack are part of that same attack.
06.02 Mortal Wounds
Some attacks or rules inflict mortal wounds on units. Each time a unit suffers one or more mortal wounds, its controlling player must resolve the following sequence for each of those mortal wounds, until either all of them have been inflicted or that unit is destroyed:- Select Model: Select one model in that unit by following the first instruction below that applies:
If a non-CHARACTER model in that unit has lost one or more wounds, you must select that model. Otherwise, if that unit contains one or more non-CHARACTER models, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, if one or more CHARACTER models in that unit have lost one or more wounds, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, you must select one CHARACTER model in that unit. - Resolve Damage: The selected model loses 1 wound. If this reduces that model’s remaining wounds to 0, it is destroyed.
MORTAL WOUNDS AND NORMAL DAMAGE
When resolving attack dice, if those attacks inflict a mixture of both mortal wounds and normal damage, resolve all of the normal damage first, then resolve all of the mortal wounds.
SEE ALSO
- Normal Damage 06.02.01
Rad-bombardment
Rad-Zone Corps Detachment
Whether as a result of natural phenomena, apocalyptic internecine strife or calamitous accidents, many forge worlds are heavily irradiated. When holy wars of requisition are unleashed, the Tech-Priests think nothing of turning this invisible curse upon their foes, bombarding the battlefield with deadly radiation prior to an assault.
BATTLE ROUND
BOMBARDMENT1
At the start of the first battle round, for each enemy unit within your opponent’s deployment zone, your opponent must decide whether that unit will take cover or stand firm. You then roll one D6 for each of those enemy units and apply the relevant result below:
- Unit Standing Firm: On a 3+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
- Unit Taking Cover: That unit is battle-shocked. On a 5+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds
BATTLE ROUND ONWARDS
FALLOUT2
At the start of your Command phase during the second, third, fourth and fifth battle rounds, roll one D6 for each enemy unit within your opponent’s deployment zone. On a 3+, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound and must take a Battle-shock test.
[SUSTAINED HITS]24.36
Some weapons possess a punishing rate of fire, or can land devastating flurries of blows, tearing the foe apart with relentless ferocity.
This ability always takes the form [SUSTAINED HITS X]. Each time an attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, that attack results in a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by X.Example: An attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS 2] weapon results in a critical hit. That attack therefore hits the target three times (once from the critical hit, and twice more from the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability).
[DEVASTATING WOUNDS]24.10
The most potent weapons strike with such power that they make a mockery of armour and can cleave through several foes.
Each time an attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon results in a critical wound, the attack sequence for that attack ends and the target unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the D characteristic of that weapon. These are inflicted after resolving any normal damage inflicted by those attacks.Mortal wounds inflicted by [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapons can damage a maximum of one model for each critical wound; any remaining mortal wounds inflicted by that attack are lost.
Example: An attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon with a D characteristic of 3 results in a critical wound against an Intercessor Squad, so inflicts 3 mortal wounds. The first 2 mortal wounds are sufficient to destroy 1 Intercessor model, so the remaining mortal wound is lost.
05.02.01 Multiple Toughness Characteristics
When resolving attacks that target a unit in which the models have two or more different T characteristics, follow the first instruction that applies from below:- If the target unit is an attached unit, use the highest T characteristic amongst bodyguard models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
- Use the highest T characteristic amongst models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
Wound Roll
Make one wound roll for each hit by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a wound by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL WOUNDS
Critical wounds are still wounds. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical wound, such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] (24).SEE ALSO
- Multiple Toughness Characteristics 05.02.01
[ANTI]24.03
Certain weapons are the bane of particular foes.
This ability always takes the form [ANTI-X Y+]. Each time an attack is made with an [ANTI] weapon, if the target unit has the keyword denoted by X, an unmodified wound roll of Y+ is a critical wound.Example: An attack made with an [ANTI-VEHICLE 4+] weapon against a VEHICLE unit will result in a critical wound on an unmodified wound roll of 4+, while an attack made with an [ANTI-PSYKER 2+] weapon against a PSYKER unit will result in a critical wound on an unmodified wound roll of 2+.
01.07.01 Battlefield Morale
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.
01.07 Battle-shock Rolls
To make a battle-shock roll for a unit, its controlling player makes a leadership roll for it (see above).- If that roll succeeds, that unit does not become battle-shocked.
- If that roll fails, that unit, and each model in it, is battle-shocked.
While a unit is battle-shocked:
- The Objective Control (OC) characteristic of all of its models is modified to ‘-’ (02.02).
- Its controlling player cannot target that unit with stratagems (15).
- It is not eligible to start an action (16), and any action it has started cannot be completed.
SEE ALSO
- Battlefield Morale 01.07.01
- Battle-shock Test 01.07.02
BATTLEFIELD MORALE
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.The SKITARII and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
The SKITARII and MOUNTED keywords are used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
SCOUTS24.31
Scouts form the vanguard of many armies. Unnoticed by the enemy, they range ahead of the main force.
This ability always takes the form Scouts X". In the Resolve Pre-battle Abilities step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can do one of the following:- If that unit is in strategic reserves, you can set up that unit anywhere that is wholly within your deployment zone.
- If that unit is wholly within your deployment zone, it can make a scout move (see below).
- If that unit is embarked within a DEDICATED TRANSPORT that is wholly within your deployment zone, and if every model embarked within that DEDICATED TRANSPORT has the Scouts ability, that DEDICATED TRANSPORT can make a scout move.
SCOUT MOVE24.32
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: The X" in Scouts X".
ELIGIBLE IF: It is the Resolve Pre-battle Abilities step, and your unit is wholly within your deployment zone.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
NORMAL MOVE09.05
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
FIGHTS FIRST24.13
Those possessed of lightning-fast reactions may strike before the opponent can react.
While every model in a unit has this ability, that unit is a Fights First unit.See the Resolve Fights First Combats step in the Fight phase (12.04).
05.04.04 Destroyed
Throughout a battle, models will suffer damage, lose wounds and be destroyed. When every model in a unit has been destroyed, that unit is destroyed.When a model is destroyed, first resolve any rules that are triggered when it is destroyed, then it is removed from the battlefield. If any such rules apply, and if the model was destroyed as the result of an attack, unless otherwise stated, those rules are only resolved and that model is only removed after the attacking unit’s attacks have been resolved. Unless otherwise stated, destroyed models and units cannot use abilities or be selected or targeted by rules.
Some rules only trigger if an enemy model or unit was destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army. This means that the enemy model or unit was destroyed by an attack made by a model from your army, or by a player rule you have. Enemy models or units that are destroyed by any other means are not destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army.
Save Rolls
The opposing player resolves the following sequence:- Create Groups: Divide all models in the target unit into the following groups, as many times as required:
- One group for each CHARACTER model.
- One group for all other models with the same W, Sv and InSv characteristics.
- Allocation Order: Declare the order in which those groups will have attacks allocated to them, applying all of the following:
- If a non-CHARACTER group contains a model that has lost one or more wounds, that group must be first in the allocation order.
- No CHARACTER group can be earlier in the allocation order than a non-CHARACTER group.
- CHARACTER groups containing a model that has lost one or more wounds must be earlier in the allocation order than CHARACTER groups containing no wounded models.
- Make Save Rolls: The opposing player makes one save roll for each attack that wounded the target by rolling one D6.
06.03 Hazard Rolls
To make a hazard roll for a unit, roll one D6: on a 1-2, that roll fails and that unit suffers 1 mortal wound, or 3 mortal wounds instead if each model in that unit is a MONSTER/VEHICLE model. If more than one hazard roll is required for a unit, make all of those rolls simultaneously.
FALL-BACK MOVE09.07
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is engaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select fall-back mode:
- Ordered Retreat: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you can select this mode.
- Desperate Escape: Otherwise, you must select this mode. Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
- Desperate Escape: Each model that is moved can be moved through enemy models.
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to shoot, declare a charge or start an action.
- Desperate Escape: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you must make a battle-shock roll for your unit (01.07).
INGRESS MOVE20.04
SET-UP DISTANCE: 6"
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is in strategic reserves (excluding units that are embarked within TRANSPORTS that are themselves in strategic reserves).EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
WHILE MOVING: Set up your unit wholly within the set-up distance of one or more battlefield edges and more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
- Before the Third Battle Round: While doing so, no models can be set up within your opponent’s deployment zone.
The ADEPTUS MECHANICUS and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
01.02.04 Not On The Battlefield
A unit that is embarked within a TRANSPORT or that is in strategic reserves is not on the battlefield. The following applies to such units:- That unit is not visible to any other units (units are visible to themselves).
- Any other unit is not visible to that unit.
- Players cannot measure distances to or from that unit (units are within range of their own abilities).
This means units not on the battlefield cannot be selected or targeted by any attack or rule that requires a unit to be visible or within a certain distance (other than their own abilities).
Such units can still use their other rules, and are still units in the controlling player’s army and so can be affected by rules that require a player to select a unit from an army, as well as rules that affect all units in an army.
The controlling player must make battle-shock rolls for units that are not on the battlefield in their Command phase if they are battle-shocked, or if they are at or below half-strength.
18.02 Embarking
Once the first battle round has started, a friendly unit can embark within a friendly TRANSPORT model after making a normal, advance or fall-back move, if all of the following conditions apply:- Each model in that unit is within 3" of that TRANSPORT.
- That unit was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
- That unit is eligible to embark within that TRANSPORT, as described on that TRANSPORT’s datasheet.
- That TRANSPORT has sufficient remaining transport capacity for each model in that unit.
When a unit embarks, the active player removes that unit from the battlefield and places it to one side – it is now embarked within that TRANSPORT and is not on the battlefield.
SEE ALSO
- Not on the Battlefield 01.02.04
18.01 Transport Capacity
TRANSPORT models have a transport capacity listed on their datasheet. This determines the type and maximum number of friendly models that are eligible to embark within them. More than one unit can be embarked within the same TRANSPORT model at the same time, provided it has sufficient transport capacity.Before the battle, in the Declare Battle Formations step, your units can start embarked within any friendly TRANSPORT model that has sufficient transport capacity remaining for the whole unit.
A friendly unit must be embarked within each friendly DEDICATED TRANSPORT model. At the end of this step, each friendly DEDICATED TRANSPORT model without an embarked unit is destroyed, but they do not trigger rules that are triggered when a model is destroyed.
[LANCE]24.21
With the momentum of a warrior at full-tilt, lance weapons are deadly on the charge.
Each time an attack is made with a [LANCE] weapon, if the attacking model’s unit made a charge move this turn, add 1 to the wound roll.[HAZARDOUS]24.15
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder and those that stand beside them.
Each time a unit is selected to shoot or selected to fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, make a number of hazard rolls (06.03) for that unit equal to the number of [HAZARDOUS] weapons you selected in the Select Weapons step.Noospheric Transference
Haloscreed Battle Clade Detachment
Tech-Priests can override the will of their thralls and project martial data inloads into the minds of their warriors, blessing the soldiery with endless streams of precisely tailored binharic code.
In your Command phase, select one or more ADEPTUS MECHANICUS units from your army (including units that are embarked within TRANSPORTS). The maximum number of units you can select depends on the battle size, as follows:
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Until the start of your next Command phase, those units gain the HALO OVERRIDE keyword. Then, select one of the Override abilities below. Until the start of your next Command phase, units from your army with the HALO OVERRIDE keyword have the selected Override ability:
Electromotive Energisation
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in this unit.
Microactuator Bracing
Add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of models in this unit.
Predation Protocols
This unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
Muted Servomotors
Models in this unit have the Stealth ability.
The RECON AUGURY keyword is used in the following Adeptus Mechanicus datasheets:
Battleline
06.01 Visibility
Line of sight is used to determine visibility between models. For an observing model to have line of sight, it must be possible to draw an imaginary straight line, 1 mm wide, from any part of that model to any part of the model being observed. This line is the line of sight. While doing so, other models in the observing model’s unit and in the observed model’s unit are ignored.Other models and units can be either visible or fully visible to the observing model, as shown below. Note that terrain applies additional rules to visibility (13.07).
Model Visible
If any part of another model is visible to the observing model, that model is visible.
Model Fully Visible
If every part of another model that is facing the observing model is visible to the observing model (so the only thing blocking visibility to any part of that other model is that model itself), that model is fully visible.
Unit Visible
If one or more models in a unit are visible to the observing model, that unit is visible.
Unit Fully Visible
If every model in a unit is fully visible to the observing model, that unit is fully visible. When determining this, the observing model can see through other models in that unit.
13.09 Hidden
A model is hidden while all of the following apply to it:- That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area that contains one or more dense terrain features.
- That model’s unit did not make one or more ranged attacks during this turn or during the previous turn.
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
SNAP SHOOTING15.09
ELIGIBLE IF: As stated in the rule allowing this shooting type.
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
- You can only target one visible enemy unit within 24" of your unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
- Each attack only hits on an unmodified hit roll of 6 (irrespective of the attacking weapon’s BS characteristic or any modifiers).
- You cannot re-roll hit rolls.
[BLAST]24.05
High-explosive rounds can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them too close to comrades is unwise.
Each time you gather attack dice for a [BLAST] weapon, add one additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down).If this ability takes the form [BLAST X], each time you gather attack dice for such a weapon, add X additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down) instead.
Example: If a [BLAST 2] weapon with an A characteristic of 3 targets a unit containing 12 models, you would gather four additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of seven for that weapon).
CLOSE-QUARTERS SHOOTING10.06
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply to your unit:
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- Engaged and did not make an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons or is a MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- MONSTER/VEHICLE Models: Each time a MONSTER/VEHICLE model in your unit makes an attack:
- Unless that attack is made with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon and targets a unit your unit is engaged with, subtract 1 from the hit roll.
- If that attack is made with a [BLAST] weapon, it still cannot target a unit your unit is engaged with.
- Non-MONSTER/Non-VEHICLE Models: You can only select [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons to make attacks with and you can only select enemy units that are engaged with your unit as targets.
[CLOSE-QUARTERS]24.07
Weapons designed for close-quarters fighting can be wielded effectively even in the press of melee combat.
Units containing one or more models with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon can shoot using close-quarters shooting (10.06).When using another shooting type, for each model in that unit (excluding MONSTER/VEHICLE models), you can only select one of the following to make attacks with:
- One or more of its [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons.
- One or more of its other ranged weapons.
[PISTOL]24.27
Pistols can be wielded even at point-blank range.
[PISTOL] and [CLOSE-QUARTERS] are identical for all rules purposes. See [CLOSE-QUARTERS].Designer’s Note: [PISTOL] is a pre-existing ability that will be superseded by [CLOSE-QUARTERS] as this edition of Warhammer 40,000 progresses. Both are functionally the same, but the latter is a more suitable term for weapons that function in this way.
05.04.01 Current Allocation Group
The first group in the allocation order begins as the current group. Once all models in an allocation group are destroyed, the next group in the allocation order becomes the current one.
[PRECISION]24.28
Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd.
While resolving attacks made with one or more [PRECISION] weapons, at the start of the Allocation Order step (05.03), if the target unit contains one or more CHARACTER models visible to one or more of the attacking models, the active player can select one allocation group that contains one of those visible CHARACTER models. If they do, until those attacks are resolved, or until that CHARACTER group is destroyed (whichever happens first), that CHARACTER group is the current allocation group.HEROIC INTERVENTION15.11
1CP
Core Stratagem
Voices raised in furious war cries, your warriors surge forth to meet the enemy’s onslaught head-on.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
- Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
+1CP
- Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.
FIRE OVERWATCH15.08
1CP
Core Stratagem
A hail of fire can drive back advancing foes.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
Doctrina Imperatives
An Adeptus Mechanicus army marching to war is a sight both terrifying and glorious, each holy warrior a disturbing fusion of Human and machine. While the ruling Tech-Priests and their fanatical followers raise modified voices in praise of the Machine God, their Skitarii soldiery and Servitor creations are controlled by doctrina imperatives loaded by their masters to augment and adapt the warriors’ abilities.
At the start of the battle round, you can select one of the Doctrina Imperatives below. Until the end of the battle round, that Doctrina Imperative is active for your army, and all units from your army that have the Doctrina Imperatives ability gain the relevant abilities shown below.Protector Imperative
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Conqueror Imperative
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Army List
Datasheets collatedInfantry Epic Hero
Monster Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Battleline
Dedicated Transports
Infantry
Transport
Vehicle
COMMAND RE-ROLL15.02
1CP
Core Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you make one of the following rolls for a friendly unit or model:
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
- Advance roll
- Charge roll
- Damage roll
- Hazard roll
- Hit roll
- Save roll
- Wound roll
- A roll to determine the number of attacks generated with a weapon.
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
01.05.01 Automatically Successful/Passes/Hits/Wounds
When a dice roll or test is automatically successful or automatically passes/hits/wounds, do not roll the dice and instead move to the next step of the sequence for that roll as if the required result had been rolled. Any rules that take effect on a particular dice result or roll result do not take effect.Example: If a hit roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Wound Rolls step for that attack. Such a hit roll is not a critical hit.
Example: If a wound roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Save Rolls step for that attack. Such a wound roll is not a critical wound.
INSANE BRAVERY15.04
1CP
Core Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you make a battle-shock roll for a friendly unit.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
RAPID INGRESS15.07
1CP
Core Stratagem
Be it cunning strategy, potent technology or supernatural ritual, there are many means by which a commander may hasten their warriors’ onset.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
COUNTEROFFENSIVE15.12
2CP
Core Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight step of your opponent’s Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you have made a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll, a saving throw, an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test, a Hazardous test, or just after you have rolled the dice to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon, for an attack, model or unit from your army.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just after you have failed a Battle-shock test taken for a unit from your army.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A well-placed explosive munition in confined shipboard spaces can cause bloody carnage.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
DEFECT SCRUTINY
1CP
Cohort Acquisitus Stratagem
By focusing implanted augurs with split‑second analysis, the foe’s flaws can be exposed and broadcast in a clarion call to the rest of the Omnissiah’s faithful.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit is selected to shoot.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of a friendly RECON AUGURY unit. Your unit’s ranged attacks that target that enemy unit have [IGNORES COVER].
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of a friendly RECON AUGURY unit. Your unit’s ranged attacks that target that enemy unit have [IGNORES COVER].
BALLISTIC SYNCHRONY
1CP
Electromartyrs – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Unified datachoristry sees the servants of the Omnissiah meld their firepower to perfection.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
OMNI-TARGETERS
1CP
Electromartyrs – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Predictive gunnery subroutines take over, allowing greater reactions and accuracy at close range than any flesh-and-blood soldier could manage.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PISTOL] ability. If one or more of those weapons already have this ability, then until the end of the phase, each time an attack is made with such a weapon that targets a unit within 6", add 1 to the Hit roll.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PISTOL] ability. If one or more of those weapons already have this ability, then until the end of the phase, each time an attack is made with such a weapon that targets a unit within 6", add 1 to the Hit roll.
SAVIOUR SYSTEMS
1CP
Electromartyrs – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Many warriors of the Adeptus Mechanicus have defensive measures suited to close-quarters battle built into their flesh-and-metal frames.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army (excluding KATAPHRON units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army (excluding KATAPHRON units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
AUTO-VENGEANCE
1CP
Electromartyrs – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Inbuilt subroutines fire synapses and muscular fibre bundles, allowing dying warriors to strike out and take their killers with them.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 3+, do not remove it from play. That destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 3+, do not remove it from play. That destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
UNRELENTING AGGRESSION
1CP
Eradication Cohort – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Even when retreating temporarily in the face of staunch resistance, the warriors of the Omnissiah keep up their storm of fire and violent blows.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army Falls Back.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back. If your unit has the SKITARII keyword, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back instead.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back. If your unit has the SKITARII keyword, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back instead.
SERVO‑DRIVEN CHARGE
1CP
Eradication Cohort – Wargear Stratagem
Sending reckless surges of motive force through their units, these warriors charge headlong into combat with punishing impact.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS 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 [LANCE] ability.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS 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 [LANCE] ability.
CACHED ACQUISITION
1CP
Explorator Maniple – Epic Deed Stratagem
Death is irrelevant compared to the hallowed duty of securing the Omnissiah's knowledge for future retrieval.
WHEN: Any phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that was just destroyed while it was within range of an objective marker you controlled. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that was just destroyed while it was within range of an objective marker you controlled. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn.
INCENSE EXHAUSTS
1CP
Explorator Maniple – Wargear Stratagem
The machine spirits of sanctified war engines can be entreated to release clouds of incense laced with radioactive particles, veiling the faithful from the foe.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS INFANTRY unit
from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS SMOKE unit within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, both of those units have the Stealth ability and the Benefit of Cover.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS INFANTRY unit
from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS SMOKE unit within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, both of those units have the Stealth ability and the Benefit of Cover.
REACTIVE SAFEGUARD
1CP
Explorator Maniple – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Holy data must be hoarded at all costs, and thickly armoured war engines offer swift and secure vaults.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit has declared a charge.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS INFANTRY
unit from your army within range of your Acquisition objective marker that was selected as a target of that charge, and one friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS TRANSPORT.
EFFECT: Your unit can embark within that TRANSPORT.
RESTRICTIONS: Every model in your unit must be within 3" of that TRANSPORT and there must be sufficient transport capacity to embark the entire unit.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS INFANTRY
unit from your army within range of your Acquisition objective marker that was selected as a target of that charge, and one friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS TRANSPORT.
EFFECT: Your unit can embark within that TRANSPORT.
RESTRICTIONS: Every model in your unit must be within 3" of that TRANSPORT and there must be sufficient transport capacity to embark the entire unit.
PRIORITY RECLAMATION
1CP
Explorator Maniple – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Retrieval of the most sacred and ancient fragments of technology is embedded in loops of alpha-logic.
WHEN: Fight phase, just before an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army Consolidates.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3", provided your unit ends that Consolidation move within range of your Acquisition objective marker.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot target a unit with this Stratagem if it is within 3" of one or more enemy units.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3", provided your unit ends that Consolidation move within range of your Acquisition objective marker.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot target a unit with this Stratagem if it is within 3" of one or more enemy units.
GUIDED RETREAT
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
From their distant strategium pulpit, the Tech-Priest commander’s guiding hand descends, seizing control of allied minds, steering their troops carefully away from harm whilst maintaining a hail of killing fire.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army makes a Fall Back move.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back, and, if it is a HALO OVERRIDE unit, you can re-roll Desperate Escape tests taken for it.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back, and, if it is a HALO OVERRIDE unit, you can re-roll Desperate Escape tests taken for it.
NEURAL OVERLOAD
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
By projecting their consciousness into the minds of tech thralls, a Tech-Priest may significantly enhance their warriors’ lethality. However, doing so risks overloading their combat units’ more limited neural networks. Such hazards are seen as an opportunity to give one’s life in the name of the Omnissiah.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army.
EFFECT: If your unit is a HALO OVERRIDE unit, it suffers D3 mortal wounds. Select one Override ability. Until the start of your next Command phase, that ability is active for your unit.
Designer’s Note: This means that if the targeted unit already has the HALO OVERRIDE keyword, it can be affected by multiple Override abilities at the same time, but suffers mortal wounds to do so. Alternatively, if your unit does not have the HALO OVERRIDE keyword, it instead has the chosen Override ability until the start of your next Command phase, but does not benefit from any other Override abilities that are active.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army.
EFFECT: If your unit is a HALO OVERRIDE unit, it suffers D3 mortal wounds. Select one Override ability. Until the start of your next Command phase, that ability is active for your unit.
Designer’s Note: This means that if the targeted unit already has the HALO OVERRIDE keyword, it can be affected by multiple Override abilities at the same time, but suffers mortal wounds to do so. Alternatively, if your unit does not have the HALO OVERRIDE keyword, it instead has the chosen Override ability until the start of your next Command phase, but does not benefit from any other Override abilities that are active.
ANALYTICAL DIVINATION
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Tech-Priest commanders process an overwhelming influx of data screeds, analysing this information to read the flow of battle and coordinate the movements of their thralls.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS INFANTRY unit (excluding KATAPHRON units) from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or up to 6" instead if it is a HALO OVERRIDE unit.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS INFANTRY unit (excluding KATAPHRON units) from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or up to 6" instead if it is a HALO OVERRIDE unit.
ERADICATION PROTOCOLS
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Fresh imperatives flow down from on high. The orders are simple: eliminate the foe.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1, and, if it is a HALO OVERRIDE unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1, and, if it is a HALO OVERRIDE unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.
TARGETING OVERRIDE
1CP
Haloscreed Battle Clade – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Experienced Tech-Priests rapidly analyse the foe’s weaknesses and feed the resultant data to their soldiers, who exploit these flaws to destroy their targets.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
LETHAL DOSAGE
1CP
Rad-Zone Corps – Wargear Stratagem
Tri-fold sanctified power cells, fuel canisters and solid slugs have spent a decade in the most irradiated forge temple to certify their lethality.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
BALEFUL HALO
2CP
Rad-Zone Corps – Battle Tactic Stratagem
By briefly unshielding the most corrosive or irradiated components of their being, the warriors of a Rad-Zone Corps can exhale on isotopic fog, sapping the strength of those not inured to its effects.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army (excluding Vehicle units) that was selected as the target of one or more of that enemy unit’s attacks. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time an attack is made that targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army (excluding Vehicle units) that was selected as the target of one or more of that enemy unit’s attacks. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time an attack is made that targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Acquisition At Any Cost
Explorator Maniple Detachment
In their eternal quest for the acquisition of knowledge and technology, Tech-Priests require superhuman efforts from the troops under their command.
At the start of your Command phase, select one objective marker. Until the start of your next Command phase, that objective marker is your Acquisition objective marker. Each time an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model from your army makes an attack, if that model’s unit is within range of your Acquisition objective marker, or if the target of that attack is within range of your Acquisition objective marker, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.Overload Machine Spirits
Electromartyrs Detachment
In extremis, Tech-Magi will commit the lesser sin of goading lower-order machine spirits to devastating madness in order to protect greater prizes.
Each time an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army is selected to shoot, it can use this ability. If it does, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit by 1 and those weapons have the [HAzARDOUS] ability.
REPOLARISED AUGURS
1CP
Cohort Acquisitus Stratagem
With a recalibration of divinatory implants, their information absorption can be redirected as a scrambled emission which the enemy’s senses cannot easily penetrate.
WHEN: Start of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged RECON AUGURY unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has -3" detection range until the end of the turn.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged RECON AUGURY unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has -3" detection range until the end of the turn.
UNSHACKLED WRATH
1CP
Eradication Cohort – Wargear Stratagem
With Binharic prayers of disengagement, these warriors release the saviour protocols of their weapon spirits to release the guns’ full wrath.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS] ability. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability. You can instead select the [SUSTAINED HITS 1], [LETHAL HITS] and [HAZARDOUS] abilities to apply to those weapons until the end of the phase.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS] ability. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability. You can instead select the [SUSTAINED HITS 1], [LETHAL HITS] and [HAZARDOUS] abilities to apply to those weapons until the end of the phase.
AGGRESSOR IMPERATIVE
1CP
Rad-Zone Corps – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The Skitarii feel the press of an invisible hand upon their minds as the Machine God drives them forward. Servos are pushed to their structural limits as fibre bundles fill with the boundless energy of the Motive Force and propel the faithful on an unstoppable crusade.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time one of those units Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time one of those units Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit.
BULWARK IMPERATIVE
2CP
Rad-Zone Corps – Battle Tactic Stratagem
With a pulse of force-loaded wisdom, microactuators lock into bracing positions, reserve power cells are brought online and the Omnissiah's holy crusaders are bestowed with a sensation of sacred invulnerability.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in those units from your army have a 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks. If that unit is BATTLELINE, you can also target one friendly SKITARII unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) within 6" of it.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in those units from your army have a 4+ invulnerable save.
BINHARIC OFFENCE
2CP
Skitarii Hunter Cohort – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Employing directed binharic entanglement to coordinate their motions, paired squads of Skitarii attack with eerie and lethal synchronicity.
WHEN: The start of your Shooting phase or the start of the Fight phase.
TARGET: Two SKITARII units from your army that have not been selected to shoot or fight this phase, and one enemy unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of weapons equipped by models in both of your units by 1.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in either of your units makes an attack, it can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target].
TARGET: Two SKITARII units from your army that have not been selected to shoot or fight this phase, and one enemy unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of weapons equipped by models in both of your units by 1.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in either of your units makes an attack, it can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target].
EXPEDITED PURGE PROTOCOL
1CP
Skitarii Hunter Cohort – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Binharic imperatives flash through neural architecture, driving augmetic muscle-bundles and auto-actuators into overdrive to propel the Skitarii more swiftly into the fray.
WHEN: Your Charge phase.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
PROGRAMMED WITHDRAWAL
1CP
Skitarii Hunter Cohort – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Taking direct control of their cybernetic soldiers’ manoeuvres, the cohort’s commander sees their withdrawal carried out with such precision that they can be pressed back into service from the most efficacious of attack vectors.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
TARGET: Up to two SICARIAN units from your army, or one SKITARII INFANTRY or SKITARII MOUNTED unit from your army.
EFFECT: Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
RESTRICTIONS: Each unit targeted with this Stratagem must be more than 3" away from all enemy units.
TARGET: Up to two SICARIAN units from your army, or one SKITARII INFANTRY or SKITARII MOUNTED unit from your army.
EFFECT: Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
RESTRICTIONS: Each unit targeted with this Stratagem must be more than 3" away from all enemy units.
Stealth Optimisation
Skitarii Hunter Cohort Detachment
Hunter Cohorts combine a mastery of stealth warfare and cogitational analysis with stealth screen projectors and target-fouling apparatuses. They are elusive foes to face, and especially sinister to those they have designated as prey.
Friendly SKITARII INFANTRY, SKITARII MOUNTED and IRONSTRIDER BALLISTARII units have Stealth.Murderous Imperative
Eradication Cohort Detachment
The Skitarii fighting in a focused clade all but vibrate with the inloaded need to kill. This manifests not as wild rage, however, but rather as a coldly efficient drive to acquire the next target, bring it down with pinpoint fire or neatly placed thrusts, then find a new victim and repeat in an infinite loop.
Each time a model in a SKITARII unit from your army makes an attack:- If the Protector Imperative is active for that unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.
- If the Conqueror Imperative is active for that unit, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
Noospheric Recon
Cohort Acquisitus Detachment
Force-loaded with enhanced divinatory augurs, far-ranging Skitarii are the unblinking eyes of their masters and cast their sensors in overlapping noospheric nets to root out the enemies of the Machine God.
- Friendly PTERAXII/INFILTRATORS/RANGERS/SERBERYS RAIDERS/ SERBERYS SULPHURHOUNDS units have RECON AUGURY.
- Friendly RECON AUGURY units have the following ability:
Enhanced Augurs: In your Shooting phase, this unit can select one visible enemy unit within 12". That enemy unit is analysed:
- While a unit is analysed, that unit has +3" detection range.
ANALYTIC REPRISALS
1CP
Eradication Cohort – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Rapid threat analysis triggers the Skitarii to return fire against foes deemed immediate threats, surprising the enemy and thinning their lines
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.
TARGET: One SKITARII INFANTRY unit from your army that lost one or more models as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
TARGET: One SKITARII INFANTRY unit from your army that lost one or more models as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
SHROUD PROTOCOLS
1CP
Skitarii Hunter Cohort – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
When Skitarii Hunter Cohorts march to war, they do so beneath a shrouding squall of cyber-static and filament-heavy banks of sacred incense.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One SKITARII INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".
TARGET: One SKITARII INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".
[RAPID FIRE]24.30
Rapid fire weapons are capable of long-ranged precision shots or controlled bursts at nearby targets.
This ability always takes the form [RAPID FIRE X]. Each time you gather attack dice for a [RAPID FIRE] weapon, add X additional attack dice if the target unit was within half range of that weapon in the Select Targets step.Example: If a [RAPID FIRE 1] weapon with an A characteristic of 1 targets a unit that is within half range, you would gather one additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of two for that weapon).
ACCESS OVERRIDES
1CP
Response Clade – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The machine spirits of the vessel’s hatchways open willingly to permit these defenders to pass.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway within 1" of your unit. Your unit can attempt to operate that Hatchway.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit cannot attempt to operate a Hatchway again.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway within 1" of your unit. Your unit can attempt to operate that Hatchway.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit cannot attempt to operate a Hatchway again.
RESPONSIVE SHIELDING
1CP
Response Clade – Wargear Stratagem
Key shipboard power nodes detect the proximity of Skitarii defenders and activate temporary energy shields to protect them.
WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker and was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker and was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
INTEGRATIVE WITHDRAWAL
1CP
Response Clade – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Employing their servo-symbiotic link to the machine spirits of their vessel, the Skitarii perform a fighting retreat aided by the systems of the ship itself.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back. In addition, after your unit has shot this phase, if it is within 1" of an open Hatchway and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, you can close that Hatchway.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back. In addition, after your unit has shot this phase, if it is within 1" of an open Hatchway and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, you can close that Hatchway.
PRECOGNITATED FIREFIELDS
1CP
Response Clade – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The Skitarii have datamapped every distance, angle and optimised fire field of their ship in advance, and can access this targeting intelligence at will.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If your unit has the BATTLELINE keyword, those weapons have the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability instead.
TARGET: One SKITARII unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If your unit has the BATTLELINE keyword, those weapons have the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability instead.
Procedural Elimination
Response Clade Detachment
Triangulating via their fellow squads and any compliant shipboard augurs, the Skitarii hone their targeting data and overlap fields of fire.
At the start of the battle round, select either melee attacks or ranged attacks. Until the end of the battle round, each time a SKITARII model from your army makes an attack of the selected type, re-roll a Hit roll of l.