Aeldari
The Aeldari once ruled the galaxy, before their civilisation collapsed under the weight of their hedonism. Now they are a dying and fractured race, their differing factions all finding ways to survive in a galaxy where their extinction seems inevitable. All members of Aeldari society depend on the power of their seers, the skills of their warriors, and the technological superiority of their sleek weapons and engines of war.
Books
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Show History | ||||
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Aeldari | ||||
| Aeldari | Faction Pack | 11 | 1.1 | July 2026 |
 Boarding Actions | ||||
| Boarding Actions | Expansion | 10 | 1.1 | July 2025 |
 Munitorum Field Manual | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual | Expansion | 11 | 1.1 | |
FAQ
Faction Pack: Aeldari
| Q: | After using the Torc of Morai-Heg Enhancement, must my opponent continue to use the selected Stratagem at the increased cost if they have necessary CP available? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | After using the Torc of Morai-Heg Enhancement, if my opponent does not have the necessary CP available for the selected Stratagem, what happens? |
| A: | No CP are spent and that Stratagem’s effects are not resolved (but that Stratagem still counts as having been used this phase). |
| Q: | When using the Yncarne’s Ethereal Form ability, can I choose for it to regain fewer lost wounds than the D3 roll generated? |
| A: | No. |
Keywords
The keywords presented in this section have a number of special features:
- CLICK on the link to open the tooltip.
- The number in parentheses indicates the number of datasheets containing this keyword. This number represents the total number of datasheets in the faction, regardless of the filter.
- The list does not include named keywords that match the datasheet’s name (unless there are other datasheets with such a keyword).
Introduction
The Detachment rule listed here will apply to either your whole army or to particular units within it. If any additional restrictions or benefits apply to a Detachment, they will be listed here. This can include units your army either must include or cannot include, as well as additional keywords some of your units may gain.
When mustering your army, your chosen Detachment enables you to upgrade CHARACTERS using the Enhancements listed here, as described in the Core Rules (see the Select Units step). If you are playing a Crusade battle, you can instead use the Renowned Heroes Requisition to give your CHARACTERS Enhancements, as described in the main Crusade rules.
Your chosen Detachment gives you access to the Stratagems listed here in addition to the Core Stratagems listed in the Core Rules. During the battle, you can spend Command points (CP) to use these Stratagems. You can find out more about how to use Stratagems here.
Army Rules
Battle Focus
In war, as in all things, the Aeldari bring the full might of their intellect, skill and agility to bear upon the task. Coupled with their exceptional technology, this ensures they move with swiftness and grace that is impossible for the foe to match.
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SWIFT AS THE WIND EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit. |
FLITTING SHADOWS EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at that unit. |
STAR ENGINES EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, Ranged weapons equipped by this unit have the [ASSAULT] ability. |
SUDDEN STRIKE EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3". |
OPPORTUNITY SEIZED EFFECT: One eligible unit from your army (excluding |
FADE BACK EFFECT: One eligible unit from your army (excluding |
Strands of Fate
The Aeldari live on the brink of extinction. As such, their Farseers have become adept at reading future events, seeing the many strands of fate ahead of their people and the consequences of following each one. Taken at the right time, a simple action can avoid calamitous outcomes, aiding the Aeldari in their continued struggle for survival.
If your Army Faction is AELDARI, at the start of the battle, make a Strands of Fate roll by rolling six D6.If you wish, you can then re-roll all of these dice, but if you do, roll one less D6. You can continue re-rolling all of the dice in this manner, rolling one less D6 each time you do, until you are satisfied with the results rolled (or until you only have a single D6 remaining).
When you are satisfied with the results rolled, those remaining dice become your Fate dice for the battle. These results cannot be changed or re-rolled further, unless a rule specifically states otherwise. Keep your Fate dice to one side – this is your Fate dice pool.
Once per phase, before making a dice roll for a model or unit from your army with the Strands of Fate ability, if you have one or more dice in your Fate dice pool, you can use one of those Fate dice. To do so, select one of those Fate dice to substitute that dice roll. The dice that is being substituted is not rolled; instead, the value of the selected Fate dice is used as if it had been rolled (this counts as an unmodified dice roll of that value for all rules purposes). Each Fate dice can only be used in this way once. After using a Fate dice, remove it from your Fate dice pool and roll all remaining dice that are part of that dice roll (if any). You can use Fate dice for any of the following types of dice roll:
- Advance roll
- Battle-shock test
- Charge roll
- Damage roll
- Hit roll
- Saving throw
- Wound roll
Warhost
3DP
When all the varied warriors and war machines of a craftworld gather to fight in its defence, they form a Warhost. Exemplified by the dreaded Swordwind of Biel-Tan, these armies alloy many specialised units into a greater whole that combines precisely applied martial might with blistering speed. The result is a force that - often outnumbered - possesses every weapon it requires to achieve victory, guided by the skilled hands and gifted minds of those who can seize it. Cold-eyed Guardians secure vital strategic sites and defend them with salvoes of firepower. Streaking assault craft fill the skies, jetbike-mounted warriors slashing through the enemy ranks. At the same time, grav-tanks wheel gracefully to pick off enemy war engines or debark squads of elite Aspect Warriors precisely where and when they are needed. Supported by eldritch artillery and psychic might, the Warhost strikes the foe a series of crippling blows while evading their clumsy attacks in return, until soon enough, the battle’s outcome is beyond any doubt.
Martial Grace
Every element of a Warhost operates with speed and efficiency, units swirling around one another in an agile storm of blades and tightly controlled ferocity. The Aeldari know precisely where they must be at any given stage of the battle plan and move with inhuman elegance that leaves their enemies reeling in their wake.
- At the start of the battle round, you receive 1 additional Battle Focus token.
- Each time a unit from your army performs the Swift as the Wind Agile Manoeuvre, until the end of the phase, add an additional 1" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit.
- Each time a unit from your army performs an Agile Manoeuvre that involves rolling a D6, add 1 to the result.
Enhancements
Aeldari myth tells how Isha once drew down the heat of a hundred stars into a glittering gem to save Asuryan. The Phoenix Gem is the only surviving fragment of this ancient stone and retains the power to return life to the fallen.
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This ancient Aeldari war leader has commanded armies for the entire lifetimes of the younger mortal species. Their mastery of the swift, decisive and reactive strategy is second to none.
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It is far easier to avoid fatal battlefield errors if one has already foreseen when they will occur and how to prevent them.
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This psyker has refined the destructive potential of their mental abilities, honing them to a fine and frighteningly lethal point.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One unengaged
EFFECT: If your ASURYANI unit is wholly within 6” of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.
TARGET: That ASURYANI 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: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability while targeting an enemy unit within 12". If such a weapon already has that ability, until the end of the phase, each time an attack is made with that weapon, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: That ASURYANI unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6+1".
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or embark within a TRANSPORT.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: If your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, remove it from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Windrider Host
2DP
Squadrons of jetbikes slice the air like hurled daggers as the Windrider Host sweeps down upon its prey. Prioritising breathtaking speed over almost all other concerns, these formations of high-tech airborne cavalry strike at will along the enemy battle line. Their onset is shockingly sudden, a storm that rises with the scream of anti-grav engines and the whine of rapid-firing shuriken and laser weapons, then sweeps over the foe in eruptions of blood and terror. Faster than thought, the Windrider Host has overshot the foe and arced away to leave any threat of retribution foundering in its wake. Often, the Aeldari hit their enemies so hard and fast that jets of gore are still pattering to the ground, corpses still tumbling, and war engines only just starting to shake with detonations as the jetbikes dwindle into the distance. Yet this is not the end of the foe’s suffering, but rather its beginning. The Windrider Host will return, arrowing in for another attack run again and again until all that remains of the enemy is bodies, wreckage, and fleeing remnants.
Ride the Wind
These hosts strike from many quarters, employing their incredible speed and agility to evade and ambush the foe at every turn.
In the Declare Battle Formations step you can set upIn addition, at the end of your opponent’s turn, you can select a number of ASURYANI MOUNTED or VYPER units from your army (excluding units within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units), then remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves. The maximum number of units you can select depends on the battle size, as shown below.
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KEYWORDS
Enhancements
Those who lead the Windrider Hosts do so from the front, embodying the first of the Swords of Vaul drawn in wrath.
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This field generator surrounds its bearer with contradictory sensor ghosts and split-second illusions that make them incredibly challenging to target, particularly when moving at speed.
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This warrior has mastered the art of augmenting their mounted attack runs with lashing blades of focused psychic power that punch through the heaviest armour and monstrous hide to vital targets deep within.
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Riding out to battle upon their skimming steed, this charismatic commander is reminiscent of the great Aeldari hero come again. The mere sight of them swooping down upon their foes inspires their warriors to remarkable feats of heroism in their turn.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 7".
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when setting up your unit on the battlefield from Reserves, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units. When doing so, if your unit is set up within 8" horizontally of one or more enemy units, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
Spirit Conclave
2DP
Only in the most desperate circumstances will a craftworld’s seers authorise the mass awakening of their dead. At such times, Spiritseers, Warlocks and Farseers come together as one, forming a psychic choir to bind the spirits of the fallen into wraithbone form. While living Aeldari often fight alongside these revenants, the greater strength of such forces is graven in wraithbone, driven by the implacable wills of warrior ghosts and armed with nightmarish tools of destruction. Striding into battle with stately grace, Wraithguard and Wraithlords lay down ferocious firepower. Where enemy resistance is strongest, Wraithblades stalk and strike while the long shadows of Wraithknights fall across the foe like a promise of doom soon to be fulfilled. Together, the psychically linked seers guide the slaughter with eerie calm, issuing command after command to their undying allies. In the face of such implacable destruction, and with their own mightiest weapons seemingly ineffective, even the boldest enemies soon crumble.
Shepherds of the Dead
When guided by a Spirit Conclave, the ghost warriors gain a clarity and prowess they would otherwise lack. Moreover, should the foe slay any of their precious spirit guides, the dead will surely have their vengeance.
Each time anASURYANI PSYKER models from your army have the following ability:
Spirit Guides (Aura): While a
KEYWORDS
WRAITHBLADES and WRAITHGUARD units from your army gain the BATTLELINE keyword.
Enhancements
The mind of this Spiritseer shines with psychic illumination, burning away the veils that cloud the senses of the dead.
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Wound about with finely inscribed myths of Kurnous, the Hunter, this wraithbone staff imbues ghost warriors with an echo of the slain god’s keen-eyed skill.
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This rare psychic rune binds occluding psychic energies about nearby wraith constructs to baffle the foe’s senses.
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Knowing their crucial role in guiding the ghost warriors, this seer chooses duty over personal glory.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One AELDARI PSYKER model from your army and one friendly
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit visible to your PSYKER model. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your WRAITH CONSTRUCT unit makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the Armour Penetration and/or Damage characteristics of that attack.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, your WRAITHBLADES, WRAITHGUARD or WRAITHLORD unit is considered to be within 12" of your PSYKER model for the purposes of the Psychic Guidance and Spirit Guides abilities.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Select one objective marker you control that your unit is within range of. That objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.
TARGET: That WRAITHBLADES, WRAITHLORD or WRAITHKNIGHT unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit and roll one D6 for each WRAITHBLADES model in your unit, or roll four D6 if your unit has the WRAITHLORD keyword, or roll six D6 if your unit has the WRAITHKNIGHT keyword: for each 3+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
Guardian Battlehost2DP
So few are the Aeldari in number and so desperate in their plight that all must be capable warriors when needed. Sometimes a foe may jeopardise a craftworld so severely that every martial asset must be deployed to drive them back. At others, threats or opportunities may arise in so short a space of time that Aspect Warriors, Outcasts and Commorrite allies alone are not enough. Whatever the case, when the massed Guardians of a craftworld answer the call to war, they can prove a versatile, durable and utterly determined force. Hails of shuriken fire and scatter laser salvoes rake the enemy lines. War Walkers and grav-tanks pick off heavier enemy assets with inescapable precision and fury. Aspect Warriors drawn from the shrines of the home craftworld fight in support of their more numerous kin, bands of Dire Avengers leading them on the fleet-footed attack or implacable defence. Faced with the might of the Guardian Battlehost, foes are made to rue their foolishness in rousing a craftworld’s wrath.
Defend at All Costs
Battlehosts often deploy to protect arterial Webway gates, the world shrines of vulnerable Exodite worlds or the domes and galleries of their home craft world; this lends their warriors an especially keen determination to protect their holdings from foes.
Each time aEnhancements
Appointed as the mastermind behind the defence of an entire craftworld, this warrior will hold vital ground at all costs.
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Knowing secret paths through the Webway, the bearer can direct warriors to outmanoeuvre the foe.
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This warrior’s knowledge of the home ground on which they fight allows them to expertly position their forces to bracket the routes of the enemy’s approach with fire.
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An ancient relic of Aeldari technology, this device enhances the lethality of those weapons said to channel the killing heal ofVaul’s blazing forges.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit within range of one or more objective markers, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: If your unit is within range of one or more objective markers, until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: After that enemy unit has finished making its attacks, your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but when resolving those attacks, it can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, 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. Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PISTOL] ability.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: If your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, remove it from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. When doing so, return every destroyed GUARDIANS model to your unit.
Ghosts of the Webway2DP
Even a single troupe of Harlequins can spread bloodshed and unreasoning terror amongst the enemy lines. When entire masques of these sinister and acrobatic killers gather to make war, they strike with such speed, skill and violence that they can eviscerate the mightiest enemy armies. Their saedath battle plans are as dynamic and intricate as they are spectacularly lethal. Some see spearheads of hurtling jetbikes shatter the enemy lines before grav-transports disgorge Harlequin troupes to assassinate their reeling foes’ leaders. Others lure enemy hordes into bloody massacres laced with dramatic irony and bleak mirth or play out murderous recountings of Aeldari morality tales that cast the enemy as unwilling participants in the story of their bloody punishment. Whether fighting alone or alongside hosts from the craftworlds, Commorragh or Corsair fleets, the Harlequins strike without warning - or often, to the foe, apparent cause - and inflict such horrors that even their allies may be left shocked at the carnage.
Acrobatic Onslaught
Trying to fight the Harlequins of the Laughing God is like battling bladed smoke. They flip and bound through the enemy ranks with contemptuous ease, springing across the heads and shoulders of dumbfounded combatants, sprinting across the hulls of war engines, all the while bearing down with murderous intent upon their true intended victims.
Each time a HARLEQUINS model from your army makes a Charge move, it can move through enemy models.TRAVELLING PLAYERS
- TROUPE units from your army gain the BATTLELINE keyword and TROUPE models in those units have an Objective Control characteristic of 2.
- You can include up to three of each of the following models in your army: DEATH JESTER, SHADOWSEER, TROUPE MASTER.
Enhancements
This vicious monofilament lariat unspools from its wielder’s gauntlet in a heartbeat, lashing through the foe before retracting as they tumble into bloody chunks. TROUPE MASTER model only. Each time the bearer’s unit ends a Charge move, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit, then roll one D6 for each model in the bearer’s 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). |
So terrifying and yet so captivating are the shifting aspects of this Harlequin’s psychoreactive mask that they can hypnotise foes or stop their hearts with fear. HARLEQUINS model only. Each time an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit Falls Back, all models in that enemy unit must take a Desperate Escape test. When doing so, if that enemy unit is Battle-shocked, subtract 1 from each of those tests. |
This malevolent shrieker cannon catalyses its victims’ fear impulses into exaggerated bioelectric shocks, forcing them to scare themselves to death. DEATH JESTER model only. Each time the bearer makes an attack that targets a unit that is Below Half-strength, each successful Hit roll scores a Critical Hit. |
Employing their psychic powers of illusion and obfuscation, this Shadowseer can cause their comrades to vanish from the foe’s perceptions. SHADOWSEER model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Infiltrators ability. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One HARLEQUINS CHARACTER model from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: At the end of the phase, set your model back up on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with half of its starting number of wounds remaining.
RESTRICTIONS: Each model can only be targeted with this Stratagem once per battle.
TARGET: One HARLEQUINS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6. On a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: That HARLEQUINS 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: One TROUPE unit from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
TARGET: One HARLEQUINS INFANTRY or HARLEQUINS MOUNTED unit from your army that is within 6" of one or more enemy units and would be eligible to declare a charge against one or more of those enemy units if it were your Charge phase.
EFFECT: Your unit now declares a charge that only targets one or more of those enemy units, and you resolve that charge.
RESTRICTIONS: Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.
TARGET: One HARLEQUINS 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.
Devoted of Ynnead
2DP
Those Aeldari who follow the extremist teachings of the priestess Yvraine seek to empower Ynnead, the Aeldari god of death. In the name of their morbid creed, they hurl themselves into battle, sure that not only is every enemy slain one less to menace the Aeldari but also that their own deaths will bring their god closer to waking. Perhaps the strength of fanatical conviction magnified by the Aeldari psyche allows Ynnead’s devotees to channel some fragment of his supernatural powers. Maybe it is the latent psychic potential of the Aeldari finding macabre expression or something more sinister at work. Whatever the case, while their numbers may be few and their death cult marginalised, the Ynnari demonstrate strange and deadly abilities in battle. Coupled with their people’s natural and technological puissance, this renders the Ynnari a terrible foe indeed. Moreover, they will know ultimate victory, whether they live to fight again or die for Ynnead’s cause.
Strength from Death
Surrounded by the slaughter on the battlefield, the Ynnari channel the sinister supernatural gifts of Ynnead to great effect.
You can use the following rules:Lethal Intent At the end of your opponent’s Shooting phase, if one or more |
Lethal Surge Once per turn, when a |
Lethal Reprisal At the start of the Fight phase, select one |
SERVANTS OF THE WHISPERING GOD
- You can include
YNNARIunits in your army, even though they do not have the ASURYANI Faction keyword. ASURYANIunits (excluding EPIC HEROES) from your army gain the YNNARI keyword.- You must include
YVRAINEand/orTHE YNCARNEin your army, and one of those models must be your WARLORD.
Enhancements
This psychic executioner projects the extinguishing will of the Aeldari death god into the minds of the fc reducing them to ashen grey husks in moments.
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As though this Warlock were a conduit to the realm of the unquiet dead, they are surrounded by an endless susurrus that chills the foe with terror.
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This cruel warrior steals a portion of animus from each vanquished foe, keeping a little of Ynnead’s due to empower themselves and slay more foes in his name.
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Driven to new heights of cold fury and icy strength by the death energies flowing through their sinews, this arena champion fights with supernatural vigour.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Select one of those objective markers. That objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: That YNNARI INFANTRY unit.
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 your unit is below its Starting Strength, you can re-roll the Hit roll instead.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase.
Seer Council2DP
Eldritch psychic storms tear at the enemy as the Seer Council leads their warriors into battle. Farseers deliver prophetic orders in voices of steely calm, guiding Aspect Warriors and Guardian squads to strike at crucial fate and causality junctures. Their every pronouncement seals the doom of fresh foes. Psychic executioners project their spirits through the Empyrean to destroy enemy champions’ souls or predict warring combatants’ battle fates. Warlocks lead their squads through the tightly focused maelstrom, singing spears lashing out and psychic fury crackling forth to deliver elegant and total destruction. Led by such a conclave of their most potent psykers, the Aeldari are unstoppable. They fight clad in the faded raiment of their once-mighty empire. The devastation they bring to bear echoes that their fallen ancestors once unleashed to put the galaxy on its knees; this is the Aeldari at their most potent, a terrifying psychic blade driven into the heart of the luckless foe.
Strands of Fate
Though future sight is not a precise art, the Aeldari seers excel in its craft. Having read the strands of fate that twine and branch through the upcoming battle, they direct events down their favoured paths at the most opportune moments.
At the start of the first battle round, you generate Fate dice by rolling a number of D6 based on the battle size, as shown below. Keep your Fate dice to one side - this is your Fate dice pool.
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Each time you use one of the Stratagems below, if your Fate dice pool contains one or more Fate dice showing the corresponding value in the table below, you can discard one of those corresponding Fate dice. If you do, reduce the CP cost of that usage of that Stratagem by 1CP.
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Enhancements
This helm houses a psychocrystalline weave that aids the wearer in sifting clarity and truth from the myriad ghosts of unrealised futures.
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These precisely crafted runic wards hold harmful empyric energies and predatory entities at hay, protecting the bearer’s mind and soul.
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This ancient gem was recovered from the crone world of Lleghaine and is said to resonate with the rage of that dead world’s ghosts. It acts as a magnifying lens for destructive psychic powers.
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Waves of malevolent energies roll from this article of warrior jewellery. Though they leave Aeldari systems and minds untouched, they cloud the enemy’s thoughts with doubt, lace their communications with mournful wails and scatter confusing sensor ghosts across their instruments.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to your model. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll and subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One
EFFECT:
- Place your unit in strategic reserves.
- Your unit has Deep Strike.
- Your unit must make an ingress move this phase.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to be selected to move.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability and each time a model in your unit makes an attack, on a Critical Wound, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Roll six D6: for each 3+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
TARGET: One
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".
Aspect Host3DP
When the Avatar of Khaine strides out to war, the Aspect Warriors of many shrines fight in its cinder-swirled shadow. Squads of Dire Avengers rake their targets with storms of shuriken discs. Shrieking bands of Howling Banshees tear into the enemy’s front lines even as Striking Scorpions flit from ambush to rip bloody rents in their flanks. Fire Dragons unleash point-blank fury to reduce enemy war engines to blazing wrecks, while the long-ranged salvoes of Dark Reapers streak overhead to detonate amongst the foe. Swooping Hawks circle on the winds of war and launch opportunist strikes, Shining Spears and Crimson Hunters drive home hurtling attack runs, and Warp Spiders burst in and out of reality amidst monofilament clouds of death. Guided by the martial expertise of Autarchs and Exarchs, and supported by Guardian-crewed war engines and artillery, the devotees of Khaine’s many aspects pick their enemies apart with surgical precision. Coupled with the blazing devastation wrought by the Avatar itself, their onslaught is irresistible.
Path of the Warrior
The teachings of Khaine’s martial aspects are diverse and highly specialised, each completely lethal in its own nuanced fashion.
Each time an- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.
- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
Enhancements
Khaine is a murderous deity, and many of his aspects channel this element of his nature to some degree. Combining these teachings renders this warrior a truly fearsome assassin.
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This ritual relic marks the bearer out as one who has walked the Path of Command for ages untold and whose understanding of all things martial borders on the preternatural.
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This simple and elegant gem conceals complex technology based on Dire Avenger shimmershields, its protective aegis extending across the bearer and those who fight at their side.
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A commander who knows with absolute certainty which strategic goals must be achieved, this warrior can appraise the battlefield at a glance.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack’s Ballistic Skill, Weapon skill, Strength, Armour Penetration and Damage characteristics and/or any or all modifiers to the Hit roll.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can remove one Aspect Shrine token your unit has (see datasheets). Then, until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if you removed an Aspect Shrine token during this usage of this Stratagem. On a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One unengaged
EFFECT: If your ASURYANI unit is wholly within 6” of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your model’s Wailing Doom ranged weapon has a Range characteristic of 18" and a Damage characteristic of 8.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can remove one Aspect Shrine token your unit has (see datasheets). Then, select one of the following abilities, or select two of the following abilities if you removed an Aspect Shrine token during this usage of this Stratagem: [IGNORES COVER], [LETHAL HITS], [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected abilities.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: All models in that enemy unit must take a Desperate Escape test. When doing so, if that enemy unit is Battle-shocked, subtract 1 from each of those tests.
Armoured Warhost1DP
GRACEFUL WAR MACHINES BRING A TERRIFY FIREPOWER TO BEAR AT EXCEPTIONAL SPEED
Skilled Crews
Asuryani vehicle crews are amongst the galaxy’s most naturally gifted pilots and gunners. They can coax every last iota of performance from the formidable machines and weapon systems under their control.
Friendly AELDARI VEHICLE units’ ranged attacks have [ASSAULT].Enhancements
This spirit stone contains the essence of Bonesinger Raelyth. Those Asuryani psykers who bear this item to battle can draw upon the fallen artisan’s talents. AELDARI PSYKER model only.
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This seer is closely attuned to their craftworld’s vehicles. Communicating with the souls inhabiting hull‑mounted spirit stones can sharpen the tactical awareness of spirits and crew. AELDARI PSYKER model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, select one visible friendly AELDARI VEHICLE unit within 6" of this model. That VEHICLE unit’s ranged attacks have +1 to hit rolls. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That AELDARI VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has Feel No Pain 5+ against mortal wounds.
TARGET: That AELDARI VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s attacks can re-roll:
- One hit roll.
- One wound roll.
- One damage roll.
TARGET: That AELDARI VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: That move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to shoot.
Fateful Performance1DP
ACROBATIC KILLERS OF THE HARLEQUINS MASQUES STRIKE WITH SPEED, SKILL AND MURDEROUS GRACE
Acrobatic Onslaught
Trying to fight the Harlequins of the Laughing God is like battling bladed smoke. They flip and bound through the enemy ranks with contemptuous ease, springing across the heads and shoulders of dumbfounded combatants, sprinting across the hulls of war engines, all the while bearing down with murderous intent upon their true intended victims.
While a friendly HARLEQUINS unit is making a charge move, that unit can move through enemy models.This detachment has the ACROBATIC tag and cannot be taken with another ACROBATIC detachment.
Enhancements
Flowing like starlight across the field of battle, this warrior‑artiste leads their chorus in a dance whose speed peaks as they surge into the foe. TROUPE MASTER model only. This unit can re-roll charge rolls |
Employing their psychic powers of illusion and obfuscation, this Shadowseer can cause their comrades to vanish from the foe’s perceptions. SHADOWSEER model only. This unit has Infiltrators. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That HARLEQUINS unit.
EFFECT: When a model in your unit is destroyed, if your unit has not been selected to fight this phase, roll one D6:
- On a 4+, do not remove that model from the battlefield. When your unit has fought, or at the end of the phase (whichever comes first), that model is removed from the battlefield.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged HARLEQUINS unit.
EFFECT: Place your unit in strategic reserves
TARGET: That HARLEQUINS INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3".
Path of the Outcast1DP
STALKING SNIPERS AND RAPTORIAL HUNTERS UNLEASH DEATH AND FEAR FROM AFAR
Far-Reaching Doom
With snipers’ instincts and psychoresponsive gunsights, the Asuryani frontier scouts can pierce almost any barrier to find the hearts of their targets.
When a friendlyEnhancements
Aeldari Rangers rely upon fieldcraft and marksmanship to defeat their foes. They conceal themselves so expertly that even the act of firing upon the enemy does not reveal their precise location.
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Having trodden the Path of the Outcast for so long that they risk becoming trapped upon it, these snipers have honed their talents until they can pinpoint eye lenses, armour seals and other weaknesses to fell the toughest foes.
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Stratagems
TARGET: That RANGERS/SHROUD RUNNERS unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit hit by those ranged attacks. That enemy unit makes a battle-shock roll, with -1 to that battle-shock roll if a model in that enemy unit was destroyed by those attacks.
TARGET: That RANGERS/SHROUD RUNNERS unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit hit by those ranged attacks. That enemy unit has +6" detection range.
TARGET: That RANGERS/SHROUD RUNNERS unit.
EFFECT:
- Your unit can make a normal move of up to D6".
- Your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or embark within a TRANSPORT until the end of the turn.
Twilight Flickers1DP
SHADE‑WREATHED HARLEQUINS SURGE FORWARD, AS SWIFT AND UNSTOPPABLE AS PHANTASMS
Dance of Distortion
With their holofields attuned to a mist-wreathed shadow performance, the Harlequins are insubstantial blurs as they dash through cover to reach their chosen stage.
Friendly HARLEQUINS units have Stealth.This detachment has the ACROBATIC tag and cannot be taken with another ACROBATIC detachment.
Enhancements
These nightmarish masks torment the enemy with a psychoresponsive bombardment laced through the murk generated by the wearers’ holofields. The confusing distortion leaves enemies vulnerable to the blades that suddenly spear from the terrifying gloom. TROUPE unit only. This unit has Fights First. |
With breathtakingly subtle yet rapid movements, this master of the opening act leads the Harlequins in a deadly dance that can catch their foes off guard. HARLEQUINS model only. This unit has Scouts 6" |
Stratagems
TARGET: That TROUPE unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s melee attacks have [LANCE].
TARGET: One friendly TROUPE unit.
EFFECT: Select one objective your unit is controlling. That objective is secured.
TARGET: That HARLEQUINS VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT:
- Your unit can make a normal move of up to D6".
- Your unit is not eligible to declare a charge until the end of the turn.
Serpent’s Brood
2DP
The saedath of the Harlequins are both scripted performances and battle plans, interwoven on a level requiring the depthless Aeldari psyche to truly comprehend. Some saedath are extremely specialised: the Serpent’s Brood is one such. Drawn from tales of the Cosmic Serpent of Aeldari myth, it focuses on troupes of Harlequins mounted aboard Starweaver transports, supported by squadrons of Skyweaver Jetbikes and more heavily armed Voidweavers. As each of these units is named for one of the Cosmic Serpent’s children, so they play their roles on the battlefield: the Starweavers loyal and dutiful as they ferry their passengers into the fight, the Skyweavers hurtling back and forth spreading carnage, and the Voidweavers imperious and murderous in equal measure.
Boons of the Brood
Playing their roles to perfection, the Harlequins embody the swift-striking fangs and deadly venoms of the Cosmic Serpent’s brood, dominating the stage of the battlefield with their swift and vicious performances.
Weapons equipped by HARLEQUINS MOUNTED and HARLEQUINS VEHICLE models from your army have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.Each time a HARLEQUINS unit from your army disembarks from a TRANSPORT, until the end of the turn, that unit’s weapons have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.
TRAVELLING PLAYERS
- TROUPE units from your army gain the BATTLELINE keyword, and TROUPE models in those units have an Objective Control characteristic of 2.
- You can include up to three of each of the following models in your army: DEATH JESTER, SHADOWSEER, TROUPE MASTER.
Enhancements
This mystic wraithbone implement allows the bearer to slip onto the stage from the Webway even before the curtain’s rise, beginning their performance in full and furious flow. HARLEQUINS model only (excluding SOLITAIRE models). Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 6" ability. |
A cruel weapon more often kept locked away, this ill-omened implement is said to resonate with the Cosmic Serpent’s own dismay at the suffering of its brood during the Fall. TROUPE MASTER model only. Add 3 to the Strength and add 1 to the Attacks characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons. |
This cruel mask is worn when performing the Serpent’s Brood, and lends its wearer a supernatural degree of venom and spite. DEATH JESTER model only. When using the bearer’s Cruel Amusement ability, you can select two of the abilities for its shrieker cannon to gain, instead of one. |
This glittering cloak projects a grand illusion that falls away as its wearer sheds it like a discarded serpent’s hide, revealing a still-more dismaying reality beneath. SHADOWSEER model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to three HARLEQUINS 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. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One TROUPE unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when using your unit’s Dance of Death ability, you can select three of the abilities for your unit to gain, instead of one.
TARGET: One HARLEQUINS VEHICLE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: After your 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". Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: One HARLEQUINS 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 HARLEQUINS MOUNTED unit from your army that was eligible to fight this phase.
EFFECT: If your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move. Otherwise, your unit can make a Fall Back move of up to 6".
TARGET: One HARLEQUINS INFANTRY unit from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
TARGET: One HARLEQUINS VEHICLE or HARLEQUINS MOUNTED unit from your army.
EFFECT: If your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, you can remove it from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Eldritch Raiders2DP
Few of the deep void’s piratical denizens are as feared as the Eldritch Raiders. Led by Prince Yriel of Iyanden, the infamous pirate lord, these thrill-seeking raiders sail the stars in search of prey, striking their targets hard, fast and without mercy. Speed and cunning are the hallmarks of the Anhrathe, and the Eldritch Raiders possess these attributes in volume. When the time comes for battle, veteran Voidscarred and bands of Voidreavers rush into the fray, unleashing blizzards of shuriken fire to pin their enemies down and rushing forward to scythe through opposing infantry before they can raise a blade in defence. Above, leaping bands of Skyreavers soar over the enemy line to strike vulnerable flanks, whilst Vypers and Starfangs soar overhead, raking heavy infantry and enemy vehicles with punishing volleys of fire. Always in the thick of the fighting is Prince Yriel himself, parrying, thrusting and killing with his Spear of Twilight, leading by inspirational example and with the strategic nous of one who has walked the Path of Command.
Yriel’s Own
These are Yriel’s most elite raiders, skilled in fast-paced raids and used to fighting superior forces using a combination of guile, superior technology, and physical prowess.
AELDARI units in your army are eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which they Advanced. In addition, each time anVeterans of the Void
No two bands of Anhrathe warriors are identical. Each possesses a wealth of hard-earned experience that a cunning commander can to bear upon their victims to devastating effect.
Each time you add anCorsair Enhancements
Yriel’s speed, both of thought and action, ensures that he remains one step ahead of his opponents at all times.
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The key to any raid is the shock of the opening strike. Anhrathe warriors strike at breakneck speed, power swords and boarding hooks finding gaps in enemy armour and inflicting devastating wounds.
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In their travels through the void, these Anhrathe warriors have collected a bounty of esoteric ammunition. The most lethal of these munitions are toxic or acidic enough to fell monstrous foes or to burn through armour and servo-motors with frightening rapidity.
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Amongst the hauls taken by Aeldari Corsairs are many stimulants and elixirs, the most powerful of which enhance the already impressive grace and agility of the Aeldari physiology.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the start of the next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One AELDARI INFANTRY unit from your army (excluding
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is less than the highest Toughness characteristic of models in the target unit, add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit (excluding TITANIC units) visible to and within 36" of your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time that enemy unit declares a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (this is not cumulative with any other negative modifiers to that Charge roll).
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. If that unit is below Starting Strength, return all destroyed models (excluding CHARACTER models) to that unit.
Corsair Coterie2DP
Ever opportunistic, Aeldari Corsairs ply the void in search of worthwhile targets, often operating in small raiding forces known as coteries. Though lightly armed and armoured, such forces are cunning and motivated, possessing a wealth of skills, knowledge and experience. These attributes enable them to overcome greater and more numerous foes and ensure that, by the time the final blow is struck, they have the riches they sought. Deploying by sleek and swift skimmers or leaping from the open hatches of voidships, winged Skyreavers lead the assault, striking at stunned opponents before they can mount an adequate defence. Into the breach surge the remainder of the Corsair force, making the most of the assault’s initial momentum to push the enemy back, seize loot and plunder from under their noses and fade away into the void, leaving victims reeling in the aftermath of a dazzling and destructive onslaught.
Relentless Raiders
Should the Anhrathe detect valuable plunder, they will go to great lengths to seize it, and fight with shocking ferocity to protect their prize.
While an objective marker is under your control, each time an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance, Fall Back or Charge move within range of that objective marker, roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.Void Thieves: At the end of a phase, if this unit is within range of an objective marker you control, that objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.
Veterans of the Void
No two bands of Anhrathe warriors are identical. Each possesses a wealth of experience that a cunning commander can bring to bear upon the foe.
Each time you add anCorsair Enhancements
These infamous raiders are rightly feared, and use their reputation to their advantage with easily identifiable armour and insignia.
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This smooth token contains esoteric knowledge of local Webway spurs. When activated by psychic impulse, it projects a mental map of these routes into the minds of the bearer, enabling them to locate hidden gates, bypass their foes, and seize the treasures they seek.
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A master of the lightning assault, this commander appears prescient in their ability to confound the foe.
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Seized from an alien tomb, this obsidian artefact seems to absorb light itself. It offers the bearer and their unit some measure of protection against even the strongest attacks.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One AELDARI 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 has the
TARGET: That AELDARI unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back. If it is an
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] and [RAPID FIRE 1] abilities, and until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of those weapons by 1.
TARGET: That ANHRATHE unit.
EFFECT: After your unit has resolved all of its shooting attacks, it can make a Normal move of up to D6+1".
TARGET: One AELDARI INFANTRY unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker that you control and that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Stealth ability and your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".
TARGET: One AELDARI INFANTRY unit from your army, if one or more models in that unit were destroyed as a result of those attacks, and if that AELDARI unit is neither Battle-shocked nor within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a surge move of up to D6+1".
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles that are bespoke to ASURYANI or HARLEQUINS units. You can find out more about Crusade armies in the main Crusade rules.
The rules presented in this section represent the efforts of a Crusade force to avoid the future threats that are facing the Aeldari species as predicted by their seers’ visions of the future.
AGENDAS
REQUISITIONS
ASURYANI armies have access to a number of bespoke Requisitions in addition to those found in other publications.
As they gain experience and prowess,
CRUSADE RELICS
In addition to the Crusade Relics presented in other publications,
CRUSADE BADGES
Here you will find three Crusade Badges representing goals you can set yourself when campaigning with your Crusade force. Once one is achieved, you could set yourself a new goal, or take the opportunity to start a new Crusade force.
Guiding Fate
The branching paths of fate present both peril and opportunity to the Aeldari. They must foresee the greatest dangers before they develop, then intervene at the opportune moment to redirect fate.
Dire Premonitions
If your Crusade force includes anyTo Guide Fate, you must prevent the Threat from reaching 13. To do so, you will need to attempt to end the Threads of Fate leading to that disaster. When your Crusade force begins Guiding Fate, first set your Threat to 1, then generate the three Threads of Fate you will need to end by rolling three D6 (keep rolling any duplicates until each result is unique) and consulting the table below.
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Each Thread of Fate is made up of three stages, which occur in the following order: Dawning, Waning, Frayed. The earlier you end a Thread of Fate, the greater the chance you have prevented a critical turning point that may ultimately threaten the Aeldari.
Growing Threats
At the end of each battle, add D3 to your Crusade force’s Threat. If you lost that battle, add 3 to your Crusade force’s Threat instead. Your Crusade force’s Threat can be reduced (to a minimum of 0) by ending Threads of Fate successfully.If your Crusade forces Threat ever reaches 13 or more, you have failed to avert disaster - all of your Crusade forces Threads of Fate end in failure, and you move to the results stage.
Changing the Future
In the Select Agendas step, if you select the Fulcrum of Fate Agenda, you can attempt to end one of your Threads of Fate that has not already ended.Each stage of a Thread of Fate will have a specific goal you must attempt to complete in the battle. If this goal is completed, that Thread of Fate ends successfully, and your Crusade force’s Threat is reduced by the amount shown in the table below (to a minimum of 0) based on the current stage of that Thread of Fate.
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Weave of Consequence
Once all of your Threads of Fate have ended - whether in success or failure - you move to the results stage. If all three of your Threads of Fate end in failure, your Threat is automatically increased to a minimum of 13 before moving to the results stage.Additional Objective Markers
Some Threads of Fate require you to select one or more objective markers that are on the battlefield, sometimes in specific locations, e.g. a player’s deployment zone or No Man’s Land. At the end of the Select Agendas step, if the mission you are playing does not have enough objective markers in that location, you can set up a number of additional objective markers to be able to satisfy that Threads of Fate’s requirements.When doing so, each objective marker must be set up anywhere on the battlefield wholly within the specified area, not within 12" of one another and not within 6" of any battlefield edges. Such objective markers are not considered to be objective markers for any mission rules, mission objectives or Agendas.
Destined Device
Be it a powerful and ancient relic or the most inconsequential component of a larger machine, a nexus offate whirls about this object. If it remains at large, it will one day become part of a terrible threat.
If the device is never discovered, its perilous potential will never be realised.
At the start of the Deploy Crusade Armies step, select one objective marker on the battlefield. In your opponent’s Command phase, if they control that objective marker, they can select one unit within range of it. That unit gains 3XP and that objective marker is removed from the battlefield.
At the end of the battle, if that objective marker is on the battlefield and you control it, your Crusade army finds the device and this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
The one who carries the device must be slain, and that which they carry must be destroyed.
At the start of the first battle round, your opponent must select three units from their army that are on the battlefield or embarked within a TRANSPORT that is on the battlefield. Randomly determine one of those units to be carrying the device.
At the end of the battle, if the unit that was carrying the device is destroyed, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
Having tricked the bearer of the device, the Aeldari have a last chance to snatch it away.
At the start of the Deploy Crusade Armies step, randomly select one objective marker on the battlefield. If the mission does not have any objective markers, set one up in the centre of the battlefield.
In your Command phase, if you control that objective marker, roll one D6: on a 5+, you have found the device and this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
Rising Nemesis
A hidden foe has been revealed. Though they do not yet realise the peril they will present if left unmolested, will one day endanger the craftworld itself; this must be prevented by any means.
A divided enemy looks only inwards to their own faults and preys upon themselves.
At the end of the battle, if your opponent’s army’s Dissension tally is at least twice the number of CHARACTER models on your opponent’s Army Roster, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
The foe are unifying, so we must slay their leaders and create a power vacuum.
At the end of the battle, if all three of the selected models are destroyed, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
Now they have risen, all that remains is to bar the enemy’s path and deny their hope.
Humble Beginnings
Am Aeldari of small renown and little standing is destined to strike a vital blow to aid their craftworld. Their identity remains unclear, so the potential candidates must be safeguarded until the chosen one steps forth.
The saviour could be one of many. They all must be protected.
If a unit from your opponent’s army destroys that unit, that enemy unit gains 3XP.
At the end of the battle, if that unit is not destroyed, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
The window of hope is closing; we must act fast.
The hero has been slain, yet they may rise as a renowned ghost warrior if their spirit stone can be found.
In your Command phase, if that PSYKER model is within 6" of the centre of the battlefield, roll one D6: on a 4+, that PSYKER model is able to find the spirit stone and this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
Enemy of My Enemy
A threat has been foreseen, one that draws nearer by the day. The weapon of the Aeldari against this dawning darkness is the army of a foe, shielded and shepherded to fight unwittingly on their behalf.
The strands of fate weave most densely around these foes who will become allies. Their lives must be preserved.
At the end of the battle, if that unit has not been destroyed, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
Time is running short. Ideas and decisions must be implanted in the minds of the unwitting protectors to set them on the one true path.
The thread is fraying, and the unwitting benefactor lies wounded. Direct intervention is required if there is hope.
At the end of the battle, if that objective marker is on the battlefield, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
Cleanse the Corruption
An alien cult, a ravenous swarm, a supernatural plague, a fanatical faith; whatever its nature, some insidious influence is spreading and will render swathes of space dangerous to the Aeldari if it is not halted and destroyed.
Those who bear warning of the spreading threat must be brought back to safety to report in full.
At the end of the battle, if that unit is wholly within your deployment zone, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
The warning may have been lost, but it can still be traced back to its source.
At the end of the battle, if both selected objective markers had the signs read at them, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
A host must be sent to excise this threat and stop the taint from spreading to the craftworld.
Isha’s Bounty
Few things are as precious to the Aeldari as their pristine maiden worlds. When one is endangered, there is no action they will not take nor manipulation they will not countenance to ensure survival.
The strands of threat all radiate from this one foe. Eliminate it now, and the true peril will never come to pass.
At the end of the third battle round, if that enemy unit is destroyed, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
With the planet’s precious world spirit now directly threatened, its nodes must be secured to prevent an irreplaceable loss.
At the end of the battle, if you control at least half of the world spirit nodes objective markers, this Thread of Fate ends successfully.
What can be saved from ruin must be secured, and the entire region must be scoured for relics and spirit stones.
Results Stage
When you reach this stage, your Crusade force will gain rewards based on how successful it was in avoiding impending disaster. First, consult the table below, using your Crusade forces final Threat to determine the reward you gain. Your Crusade force is then no longer Guiding Fate, until you choose to do so again.Immediate threats to the craftworld’s future have been averted for a short but precious time. It is a chance to rebuild, rearm and even create new and beautiful things worth protecting in the coming days.
- Your Crusade force gains D3+2RP.
- You can select one
ASURYANI PSYKERunit from your Crusade force to gain the PATH OF THE SEER keyword if it does not have it already. - You can select one
AUTARCHorAUTARCH WAYLEAPERunit from your Crusade force to gain the PATH OF COMMAND keyword if it does not have it already. - You can select up to three
ASURYANI INFANTRYunits from your Crusade force to gain the PATH OF THE WARRIOR keyword if they do not have it already. - You can select up to six
ASURYANIunits from your Crusade force to each gain one of the Aeldari Paths Battle Traits.
Danger constantly circles, but the most immediate threats have been diverted for now. A war footing must be maintained, and the horizons of fate watched carefully, for this lull will not last.
- Your Crusade force gains D3RP.
- You can select one
ASURYANI PSYKERunit from your Crusade force to gain the PATH OF THE SEER keyword if it does not have it already, or you can select oneAUTARCHorAUTARCH WAYLEAPERunit from your Crusade force to gain the PATH OF COMMAND keyword if it does not have it already. - You can select up to two
ASURYANI INFANTRYunits from your Crusade force to gain the PATH OF THE WARRIOR keyword if they do not have it already. - You can select up to four
ASURYANIunits from your Crusade force to each gain one of the Aeldari Paths Battle Traits.
Threading the needle between many dangers, the Aeldari fight a constant war for survival. Not all foes can be avoided, not all perils evaded. The cost of tomorrow must be paid in blood today.
- Your Crusade force gains 1RP.
- You can select one
AUTARCHorAUTARCH WAYLEAPERunit from your Crusade force to gain the PATH OF COMMAND keyword if it does not have it already. - You can select one
ASURYANI INFANTRYunit from your Crusade force to gain the PATH OF THE WARRIOR keyword if it does not have it already. - You can select up to two
ASURYANIunits from your Crusade force to each gain one of the Aeldari Paths Battle Traits.
No matter the efforts of the seers and the craftworld’s warhosts, some fates prove inescapable. Dark days have come, and they will live in infamy, always in the memories of the Infinity Circuit. If, that is, the craftworld manages to survive at all.
The Aeldari Paths
The Aeldari Paths Battle Traits presented here can be earned by units from your Crusade force while it is Guiding Fate.Path of the Seer
Units with the Path of the Seer keyword can be given one of the following Path of the Seer Battle Traits. You can either roll one D6 to randomly determine one, or select the one most appropriate for your narrative.This seer has gained knowledge of secret minor spars of the Webway that can prove strategically useful if very dangerous to travel.
Meditations upon the ancient Aeldari hero have helped this seer to focus their psychic might into a more warlike form.
Sharp psychic senses and potent foresight allow this seer to tread cunning paths through the foe’s midst, always where the enemy's blades are not.
Path of Command
Units with the PATH OF COMMAND keyword can be given one of the following Path of Command Battle Traits. You can either roll one D6 to randomly determine one, or select the one most appropriate for your narrative.Simply by placing themselves at the heart of the developing strategic situation, this war leader sees possibilities radiate out from them and knows which to select.
This commander has perfected the art of tricking the foe into believing that the threat will come from one side when, in fact, the actual danger sweeps in from elsewhere.
Whether they have spent time themselves as an outcast or instead maintained strong ties with those who are, this commander makes use of their cunning on the battlefield.
Path of the Warrior
Units with the PATH OF THE WARRIOR keyword can be given one of the following Path of the Warrior Battle Traits. There is one table for melee Battle Traits and one for shooting Battle Traits; you should pick the one most suitable to the unit in question. You can then either roll one D6 to randomly determine one, or select the one most appropriate for your narrative.So possessed of the wrath of Khaine have these warriors become that they punish most severely those who try to flee from them.
These warriors have learned well the wisdom of the warrior’s path and how best to secure and hold onto vital battlefield locations.
Natural agility and long combat experience aid these warriors in weaving around their enemies' blows and making them appear clumsy.
Masterful snipers, these warriors snap off shots while constantly relocating their positions to avoid return fire.
This ritualised method of suppressive fire patterns is employed by Aeldari warriors to keep their enemies pinned and reduce risk to their advancing comrades.
The precise accuracy practised by these warriors appears almost preternatural, as does the cold malice that guides their aim.
Agendas
If your Crusade army includes anyHaving identified a fulcrum point around which destinies may turn, your forces must now leverage the events you desire to turn fate your way.
If that Thread of Fate did not end successfully, it moves to its next stage. If it was already at the Frayed stage when this happens, it ends in failure.
None can match the Aeldari mastery of psychic might. Demonstrate that superiority to the foe, and set them in their place.
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The Aeldari are a dying species. Every one of their lives is precious, and there is a victory in preserving them.
To the Aeldari, brutal stand-up fights are almost always a last resort. Better to outmanoeuvre and outflank the foe, leaving them encircled and picked apart in disarray.
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Requisitions
If your Crusade army includes anyRarely is any future truly set. By delving ever further into the strands of fate and reading their scrying runes, the seers can divine new possibilities to be exploited.
It is a rare seer who does not perceive contingencies, keeping their grip upon diverging threads of possibility and expending the hopes and dreams they lead to buy time for the realisation of the one fate they truly desire.
These fallen warriors will know little enough rest, for war still calls. Tragically, they must rise from the Infinity Circuit to inhabit wraith constructs and fight for their craftworld again.
Even as some warriors step off the Path of the Warrior, so others set their feet upon it for the first time.
Through loss and sacrifice is the Avatar awoken.
Drawn by death and desperation, the foremost servant of the Whispering God comes to offer its aid.
Battle Traits
When anThe telltale wisps of foes' souls betray their positions to this seer.
Like a prism neatly refracting light over a wide area, this seer's tightly controlled mental powers do the same with empyric energy.
This seer's forewarning words help their comrades earn a more meaningful end.
This remarkable system allows for lightning-fast targeting while moving at speed.
These devices launch salvoes of psychoactive smoke charges that blind and bewilder foes.
Rapid bursts of powerful vectored thrust allow this agile vehicle to evade closing foes.
When their craftworld is threatened, these Aeldari rise to its defence, and when the situation is dire, they fight all the harder to protect their people and their home.
These warriors know how crucial every battle they fight is and will give everything for victory.
Repeated experience in battle has taught these warriors how best to site and employ their heaviest weapons.
These players’ role requires them to lay low the largest foes as part of the saedath.
Swift and sinister, these Harlequins are upon the foe with the speed of a sudden nightmare.
The incredible swiftness and agility of these warriors’ onset sees them hurtle into combat at an almost unnatural speed.
These warriors have mastered the art of extreme-range combat.
Shrine-taught techniques allow these warriors to withstand their foes' attacks.
These warriors see their foes' weakness and, at close range, punish them.
Making an impenetrable forest of their blades, these warriors blunt the force of their foes’ attacks.
This band of warriors moves with such fast, evasive grace they become mere blurs to more distant foes.
When these warriors sweep down upon their prey, they do so with the speed and fury of Khaine’s own sword.
Crusade Relics
When anArtificer Relics
Sure as the mythic bird bore the blade to the hand of Eldanesh, the energies of this focusing rune guide Aeldari firepower unerringly into the foe.
AELDARI model only. At the end of your Movement phase, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to the bearer. Until the end of your next Movement phase, each time a friendly Aeldari model makes an attack that targets that unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.The most accomplished Autarchs bear this ancient banner. The mere sight of it fills Aeldari hearts with a determination to fight harder and strike more swiftly.
The monofilament wire encased within this masterfully crafted Harlequins kiss is tightly wound. When the weapon pierces the target’s body, it tears the victim to bloody pieces and lacerates their fellows. The shock and horror inflicted by this grotesque demise brings great amusement to the bearer, their mocking laughter echoing across the battlefield.
HARLEQUINS model only. Each time the bearer is selected to fight, after resolving those attacks, each enemy unit within 6" of the bearer’s unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.Antiquity Relics
Achillrial was a fearless champion of great renown and one of the first Autarchs. Upon his appointment to the Path of Command, he was gifted a helm that could capture light, its resplendent plume reflecting colours like a sun-splashed prism. Blinded by his glory, none could best Achillrial in close combat, and although his radiance drew an excessive amount of the enemy’s fire, no shot could fell him.
Many believe the Mask of Secrets to be no more than a dark fable, yet it is real, kept within a shadowed vault deep within the Black Library. All who look upon this mask see distorted reflections of their faults and failings, twisted into a horrific swarm of phantasms that scream and wail as they claw at the psyche of the victim. Those who wear the Mask of Secrets fear nothing while it remains upon their face, yet it is said that they must pay a terrible price for this temporary boon in the long run.
HARLEQUINS model only. The bearer has the following ability:Twisted Phantasms (Aura): While an enemy unit is within 6" of this model, each time your opponent targets that unit with a Stratagem, increase the cost of that usage of that Stratagem by 1CP.
Legendary Relics
This legendary blade is said to have been forged from the severed hand of one of Khaine’s Avatars by the inhabitants of a craftworld lost shortly after the Fall. The weapon’s glowing red spirit stone contains the amalgamated spirits of every Young King sent into that Avatar’s chamber. When grasped, blood drips from the bearer’s gauntlets, and a fell light glows from their eyes. Enemies struck by the blade feel their life force absorbed; even the tiniest nick caused by its edge refuses to heal.
This motley costume, held in the Black Library itself, is brought forth when a Harlequin of great power is deemed worthy of taking on the role of Cegorach at the Rhana Dandra. While this honourable raiment grants the wearer a portion of the Laughing God’s power, the role has no script and must be entirely improvised.
HARLEQUINS model only. The bearer’s unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back. In addition, add 2 to Advance and Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit.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.Seer of the Fates
You have perceived that which threatens your craftworld in the days to come. Through bloodshed and cunning you have turned aside that peril and - though no war comes without cost - you have done much to defend your people and their home.
- You have won at least two battles.
- Your Crusade force has completed at least one Guiding Fate with a final Threat of 12 or lower.
Seeker of the Ways
Further out your psychic senses have stretched, recognising manifold threats to your craftworld and locating the narrow ways that wind between them. Forewarned by your scrying and lent strength by your skilled generalship, your hosts have struck and struck again to avert disaster and seize opportunity. With every such victory, your legend grows.
- Your Crusade force has completed at least two Guiding Fates.
- You have won at least six battles.
- Your Crusade force has completed at least one Guiding Fate with a final Threat of 8 or lower.
Saviour of the Future
Your tireless efforts, gifted farseeing and inspired command have combined to bring temporary safety to your people. Secure from threats for a time, your craftworld plies the deep void far from the eyes of any who would bring it harm. Your name will be sung down the ages as a protector and champion in a time of infinite peril, yet you know your work is far from done.
- Your Crusade force has completed at least three Guiding Fates.
- You have won at least ten battles.
- Your Crusade force has completed at least one Guiding Fate with a final Threat of 4 or lower.
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 Enhancements), will be found here.
STRATAGEMS
Additional Stratagems that you can use, in addition to those (Boarding Actions Stratagems), will be found here.
Khaine’s Arrow
Honed to a single, perfect point, the Aeldari Aspect Warriors streak across the void of space aboard Vampire Raiders before plunging deep into the heart of the enemy ship. Perhaps they strike the bridge. Maybe they pierce the defences of the enginarium. Wherever they hit home, they bring doom to the foe.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to one of the following units:ASURMEN*AUTARCHAUTARCH WAYLEAPERBAHARROTH*ELDRAD ULTHRANFARSEERFUEGAN*JAIN ZAR*KARANDRAS*MAUGAN RA*
You can include up to one of the following units:
WARLOCKWARLOCK CONCLAVE(2 or 4 models)
DIRE AVENGERS(5 or 10 models)FIRE DRAGONS(5 or 10 models)HOWLING BANSHEES(5 or 10 models)STRIKING SCORPIONS(5 or 10 models)
SWOOPING HAWKS(5 or 10 models)WARP SPIDERS(5 models)
DARK REAPERS(5 or 10 models)
Rules Adaptations
- The
ASURMENmodel loses the Tactical Acumen ability. - The
AUTARCH WAYLEAPERmodel loses the Deep Strike ability. - The
BAHARROTHmodel loses the Cloudstrider and Deep Strike abilities. - The
ELDRAD ULTHRANmodel loses the Diviner of Futures ability. - The
FARSEERmodel loses the Branching Fates ability. - The
JAIN ZARmodel loses the Whirling Death ability. - The
SWOOPING HAWKSunit loses the Skyleap and Deep Strike abilities. - The
WARP SPIDERSunit loses the Flickerjump ability. - The
WARLOCK CONCLAVEunit loses the Protect ability.
Seers’ Guidance
The rune-sighted wisdom of the Farseers helps to guide the killing strikes of the Aeldari warhosts.
Units from your army with the Strands of Fate ability replace that ability with this one.Once per battle round, you can target one unit from your army with this ability with the Command Re-roll Stratagem for 0CP.
Detachment Rule
Unerring Strike
Once loosed at their target, the warriors who make up the Arrow of Khaine focus all of their attentions upon their singular target, ’[hey move with all the balletic speed of their people, and let nothing slow their attack.
In your Movement phase, each time an AELDARI unit from your army makes a Normal move, while making that move it can attempt to operate a closed Hatchway that is within 1" of it at any point during that move, provided there are no enemy units within 1" of that Hatchway. If that AELDARI unit does attempt to operate that Hatchway, reduce the distance each model in that unit can move this phase by 2" (if this makes it impossible for that unit to gel within 1" of that Hatchway it wishes to operate, then it cannot attempt to do so), and it cannot operate a Hatchway again this turn.Enhancements
Runes of Sanctuary (Psychic) Before battle was even joined the runes were cast, and this forces safest and truest passage through their foes predicted then committed to heart. PSYKER model only. Once per turn, in your opponents Shooting phase, when a friendly AELDARI unit within 9" of and visible to the bearer is selected as the target of a ranged attack, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets that friendly AELDARI unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. |
Shieldmaster This warrior exploits every detail of their environment to stave off pursuing or encircling foes. Once per turn, in your Movement phase, after the bearer has moved, you can close one open Hatchway it moved through this phase (this can be done in addition to operating a Hatchway using the Unerring Strike Detachment rule). |
Stratagems
TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if it made a Charge move this turn, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army (excluding CHARACTER units).
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit. In addition, at the end of your turn, select one objective marker you control that your unit is within range of. That objective marker is Secured by your army.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Wound roll.
Protector Host
The Aeldari fight furiously to defend their irreplaceable voidships - doubly so if the conflict threatens one of their spacefaring craftworlds. In such a battle they deploy their full might without a second thought, citizen soldiery and Aspect Warriors alike rallying to defend that which is precious to them.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to one of the following units:AUTARCHELDRAD ULTHRANFARSEER
WARLOCKWARLOCK CONCLAVE(2 or 4 models)
GUARDIAN DEFENDERS(11 models)STORM GUARDIANS(11 models)
DIRE AVENGERS(5 or 10 models)
Forming Boarding Squads
- In the Form Boarding Squads step,
GUARDIAN DEFENDERSandSTORM GUARDIANSunits are each split into two Boarding Squads, one containing 6 models (including the Heavy Weapon Platform or Serpent’s Scale Platform) and the other containing the remaining 5 models.
Rules Adaptations
- The
ELDRAD ULTHRANmodel loses the Diviner of Futures ability. - The
FARSEERmodel loses the Branching Fates ability. - The
GUARDIAN DEFENDERSunit loses the Defenders of Fate ability. - The
STORM GUARDIANSunit loses the Stormblades ability. - The
WARLOCK CONCLAVEunit loses the Protect ability.
Seers’ Guidance
The rune-sighted wisdom of the Farseers helps to guide the killing strikes of the Aeldari warhosts.
Units from your army with the Strands of Fate ability replace that ability with this one.Once per battle round, you can target one unit from your army with this ability with the Command Re-roll Stratagem for 0CP.
Detachment Rule
Determined Defence
All too aware of the value of that which they defend, these warriors fight harder than ever, weaving around incoming enemy fire and shrugging off wounds that might otherwise see them laid low.
Each time an attack targets aEnhancements
Grace of Khaine Fighting with lethal agility and perfect balance, this warrior places their every blow to inflict the maximum damage and scythe their enemies' every defence. Each time the bearer makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 and re-roll a Damage roll of 1. |
Rallying Cry With well-chosen inspirational words, this war leader swiftly mobilises the Aeldari defence forces to protect their vessel. In the Deploy Armies step, when the bearer is set up in an Entry Zone, you can set up two friendly |
Stratagems
TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of Avenger shuriken catapults, shuriken catapults, shuriken pistols and shuriken cannons equipped by models in your unit.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: If that enemy unit is within 9" of and visible to your unit, roll one D6: on a 2-5, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. If that enemy unit suffers one or more mortal wounds in this way, your unit can then make a Normal move of up to D6”.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit cannot fire Overwatch.
Wraiths of the Void
When a void battle is sufficiently vital or desperate, the Aeldari awaken their wraith constructs. Resilient, powerful and utterly focused upon their duty, such ghost warriors are a force of unimaginable devastation amidst the close confines of a boarding battle.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following unit:You can include up to two of each of the following units:
Rules Adaptations
- The
SPIRITSEERmodel loses the Tears of Isha ability. - The
WRAITHGUARDunit loses the War Construct ability.
Seers’ Guidance
The rune-sighted wisdom of the Farseers helps to guide the killing strikes of the Aeldari warhosts.
Units from your army with the Strands of Fate ability replace that ability with this one.Once per battle round, you can target one unit from your army with this ability with the Command Re-roll Stratagem for 0CP.
Detachment Rule
Wraith-Marked
By harnessing and binding ethereal energies to strategically significant sites, this force is able to create spiritual waypoints that shine like beacons to the ghost warriors’ perceptions.
In your Command phase, you can select one AELDARI unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control. That unit must take a Leadership test, subtracting 2 from the result if it has theEnhancements
Direct Guidance Practised in the arts of warfare amidst tangled corridors and chambers, this seer knows how best to guide their spirit warriors to victory. At the end of your Movement phase, select one friendly |
Song of Renewal Employing their potent arts, this seer is able to guide ghost warriors back from the very brink of oblivion. In your Command phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one friendly |
Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the attacking model is wholly on the opposite side of a Hatchway from your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One AELDARI 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 [IGNORES COVER] ability. In addition, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack's Ballistic Skill characteristic and/or to the Hit roll.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway that is visible to and within range of one or more of the ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit. Open that Hatchway and, until the end of the battle, that Hatchway cannot be closed. For each enemy unit within 3" of that Hatchway and wholly on the opposite side of it from your unit, until the start of your next Shooting phase, that enemy unit is stunned. While a unit is stunned, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to shoot.
TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.
Star-dancer Masque
When Harlequins board an enemy ship they follow Saedath that cast them in the roles of void-soaring mythic hawks and serpents, or else the heroes Ulthanash and Eldanesh raiding the stronghold of some monstrous foe. They flow through the steps with blistering speed, laying low all who oppose them.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):If you do not include any other CHARACTER models, you can include one of the following unit:
You can include up to three of the following unit:
- TROUPE (5, 6 or 11 models)
Forming Boarding Squads
In the Form Boarding Squads step, TROUPE units containing 11 models are each split into two Boarding Squads, one containing 6 models and the other containing the remaining 5 models.Rules Adaptations
- The SOLITAIRE model loses the Blitz and Blur of Movement abilities.
- The TROUPE MASTER model loses the Cegorach’s Favour ability.
Seers’ Guidance
The rune-sighted wisdom of the Farseers helps to guide the killing strikes of the Aeldari warhosts.
Units from your army with the Strands of Fate ability replace that ability with this one.Once per battle round, you can target one unit from your army with this ability with the Command Re-roll Stratagem for 0CP.
Detachment Rule
Faolchú’s Last Flight
Even should they be struck down by the foe, the players remain in character, embodying in their final steps the doomed but deadly fall of winged Faolchii.
Each time an AELDARI model from your army is destroyed by a melee attack, if it has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 3+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.Enhancements
Prismatic Garb In the close confines of shipboard war, the bewildering effect of this Harlequin’s domino field is redoubled. Enemy units cannot fire Overwatch at the bearer. |
Path of Eldanesh Following the steps of the Path of Eldanesh, this player moves through their foes like a bladed wind, swift and unstoppable as that hero of myth. The bearer has the Fights First ability and, each time the bearer opens a Hatchway, until the end of the turn, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer by 1. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: That AELDARI 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" and, if it cannot end that move within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units that are visible to it (and in Unit Coherency), it can still make that Consolidation move, and when doing so can move in any direction.
TARGET: One AELDARI unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, Desperate Escape tests taken for models in your unit are automatically passed, and each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, models in your unit can move through other models as if they were not there.
Waves of malevolent energies roll from this article of warrior jewellery. Though they leave Aeldari systems and minds untouched, they cloud the enemy’s thoughts with doubt, lace their communications with mournful wails and scatter confusing sensor ghosts across their instruments.
ASURYANI PSYKER model only. Once per turn, when your opponent targets a unit from their army within 12" of the bearer with a Stratagem, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, increase the CP cost of that usage of that Stratagem by 1CP.
The AELDARI keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The DEDICATED TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The EPIC HERO keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The FLY keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
When rotating a FRAME model as part of a move, if that model does not have a base, turn it any amount around its central axis, while keeping it upright.
The FRAME keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The GRENADES keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The HARLEQUINS keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The MOUNTED keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The PSYKER keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The SMOKE keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
- The attacking model is on a section of a terrain feature that is 3" or more in height.
- The attacking model has the TOWERING keyword and the target unit is within 12".
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
There are several categories of Battle Honours that can be bestowed upon a unit, such as Battle Traits, Weapon Modifications and Crusade Relics. Other categories of Battle Honour may be found in other publications. Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, you can select from any category.
- Once a unit gains enough XP it will gain a rank.
- Only CHARACTER units can gain the Heroic or Legendary ranks.
- Each time a unit gains a rank, it can gain a Battle Honour.
- There are several categories of Battle Honours, which include:
- Battle Traits: New skills and abilities.
- Weapon Modifications: Upgrade an item of wargear.
- Crusade Relic: Gain a rare and powerful artefact.
- Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, increase its Crusade points total by 1 (or by 2 if TITANIC).
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).
- 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.
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be 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.
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).
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).
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.
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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.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
- 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.
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).EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select consolidation mode:
- Ongoing Consolidation:If your unit is engaged, you must select this mode and select every enemy unit it is engaged with.
- Engaging Consolidation:Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more enemy units, you must select this mode and select one or more of those enemy units.
- Objective Consolidation:Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more objectives, you must select this mode and select one of those objectives.
- Ongoing Consolidation:Models in base-contact with one or more enemy models cannot be moved. Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
- Engaging Consolidation:Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
- Objective Consolidation:Each model that is moved must end its move within range of the selected objective if possible, or closer to it if not.
- Ongoing Consolidation:Each model that started this move engaged with an enemy unit must still be engaged with that enemy unit.
- Engaging Consolidation:Your unit must be engaged with all of the selected enemy units. If one or more enemy units engaged with your unit have not been selected to fight this phase, your opponent must select each of those units, one at a time; when each is selected, it becomes eligible to fight and is selected to fight (12.04).
- Objective Consolidation:Your unit must be within range of the selected objective.
- A unit has all the keywords of all models in that unit. A model only has its own keywords.
- If a rule specifies that it applies to a unit with a keyword, it applies to a unit which includes one or more models with that keyword.
- If a rule specifies that it applies to a model with a keyword, it only applies to a model with that keyword.
- If a rule specifies that it applies to ‘non-KEYWORD’ models/units, it only applies to models/units that do not have that keyword. For example, if a rule applies to non-VEHICLE units, it only applies to units that do not have the VEHICLE keyword.
- Some units can contain models that have different keywords. While this is the case, such a unit is considered to have all of the keywords of all of its models, and so is affected by any rule that applies to units with any of those keywords. Remember that attacks are made against units, not models.
- If a rule only applies to models with a specific keyword, then it instead only applies to models in such a unit that have the correct keyword.
- A rule with a comma-separated list of keywords, or a series of keywords separated by slashes (‘/’), or two keywords separated by the word ‘or’ (e.g. ‘an IMMORTALS, DEATHMARKS or LYCHGUARD unit’) refers to a model/unit that has any one of those keywords.
- A rule with multiple adjacent keywords (e.g. ‘an AELDARI GUARDIANS unit’) only refers to a model/unit that has all of those keywords.
- Some older rules use keywords without specifying model or unit: for example, MONSTER/VEHICLE or TRANSPORT. These rules refer to units with those keywords.
- Singular and plural instances of the same keyword function in the same way.
Some rules are linked to one or more keywords. For example, a rule might say that it applies to INFANTRY units. This means it only applies to units that have the INFANTRY keyword. Singular and plural instances of the same keyword function in the same way.
- Using Keywords & Mixed Keywords in Units 02.05.01
- If a rule allows you to re-roll a dice roll that was made by adding several dice together (e.g. 2D6, 3D6, etc.) then you must re-roll all of those dice again.
- You can never re-roll a dice more than once, and re-rolls happen before modifiers (if any) are applied.
- A re-rolled dice is still considered to be a dice roll and, as such, any rules that can be triggered by a dice roll can also be triggered by a re-rolled dice.
- 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.
- Battlefield Morale 01.07.01
- Battle-shock Test 01.07.02
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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- Multiple Toughness Characteristics 05.02.01
In war, as in all things, the Aeldari bring the full might of their intellect, skill and agility to bear upon the task. Coupled with their exceptional technology, this ensures they move with swiftness and grace that is impossible for the foe to match.
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SWIFT AS THE WIND EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit. |
FLITTING SHADOWS EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at that unit. |
STAR ENGINES EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, Ranged weapons equipped by this unit have the [ASSAULT] ability. |
SUDDEN STRIKE EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3". |
OPPORTUNITY SEIZED EFFECT: One eligible unit from your army (excluding |
FADE BACK EFFECT: One eligible unit from your army (excluding |
SWIFT AS THE WIND
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit.
- 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.
- 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.
- Not on the Battlefield 01.02.04
- 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).
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.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.
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
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.- 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.
- 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.
- Normal Damage 06.02.01
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, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally from your opponent’s deployment zone and all enemy units.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.
- 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.
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.
Pistols can be wielded even at point-blank range.
[PISTOL] and [CLOSE-QUARTERS] are identical for all rules purposes. See [CLOSE-QUARTERS].The ACROBATIC tag is used in the following Aeldari detachments:
Some rules refer to units being below starting strength, or at – or below – half-strength. The meaning of these terms varies depending on a unit’s starting strength, as shown below.
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The HARLEQUINS and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
The HARLEQUINS and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
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.
FADE BACK
EFFECT: One eligible unit from your army (excluding
- If a rule instructs you to move a model as close as possible to a unit or model you must end that model’s move in base contact with that unit or model if its move is sufficient to do so without breaking any other restrictions (such as coherency), or as close as you can achieve if its move is not sufficient.
- If a model is already as close as possible to a unit or model when it is instructed to make a move as close as possible towards a unit or model, that model cannot be moved, but still counts as having made the move in question.
- If a rule instructs you to move a model as close as possible to an objective you must end that model’s move within range of an objective if its move is sufficient to do so without breaking any other restrictions (such as coherency), or as close as you can achieve if its move is not sufficient.
- If that model is already within range of an objective it can move up to the maximum distance of that move but must end its move still within range of that objective.
- The rule allowing this move type has been triggered.
- Your unit is not battle-shocked.
- Your unit is unengaged.
- Your unit has not moved this phase.
BEFORE MOVING: Select the closest enemy unit to be the surge target.
WHILE MOVING:
- Each model must end its move engaged with the surge target if possible.
- Each model that cannot end its move engaged with the surge target must end its move as close as possible to the surge target.
- Your unit cannot be engaged with one or more enemy units that were not the surge target.
- Your unit cannot move again this phase.
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).
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).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).TARGET: One
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to your model. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll and subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
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.
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.
TARGET: One
EFFECT:
- Place your unit in strategic reserves.
- Your unit has Deep Strike.
- Your unit must make an ingress move this phase.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to be selected to move.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability and each time a model in your unit makes an attack, on a Critical Wound, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Roll six D6: for each 3+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
TARGET: One
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".
Though future sight is not a precise art, the Aeldari seers excel in its craft. Having read the strands of fate that twine and branch through the upcoming battle, they direct events down their favoured paths at the most opportune moments.
At the start of the first battle round, you generate Fate dice by rolling a number of D6 based on the battle size, as shown below. Keep your Fate dice to one side - this is your Fate dice pool.
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Each time you use one of the Stratagems below, if your Fate dice pool contains one or more Fate dice showing the corresponding value in the table below, you can discard one of those corresponding Fate dice. If you do, reduce the CP cost of that usage of that Stratagem by 1CP.
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The hardiest warriors refuse to be laid low, even by wounds that should by all rights prove lethal.
This ability always takes the form Feel No Pain X+. Each time a model with this ability would lose a wound, roll one D6: on an X+, that wound is not lost.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.The teachings of Khaine’s martial aspects are diverse and highly specialised, each completely lethal in its own nuanced fashion.
Each time an- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1.
- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
Assassins and other covert agents are difficult to pinpoint in the storm of battle.
Unless part of an attached unit, this unit is not visible to enemy models unless they are within 12" of this unit, and it cannot be targeted by [INDIRECT FIRE] weapons unless the attacking model is within 12" of this unit.If this ability takes the form Lone Operative X", unless part of an attached unit, this unit is not visible to enemy models unless they are within X" of this unit, and it cannot be targeted by [INDIRECT FIRE] weapons unless the attacking model is within X" of this unit.
- If that unit has one or more models that does not have its full wounds remaining, select one of those models; that model regains one lost wound.
- If all models in that unit have their starting number of wounds, but one or more models from that unit are currently destroyed, revive one of those destroyed models (excluding CHARACTER models), with one wound remaining.
If a rule states that a model heals or regains a number of wounds, only that model can regain wounds up to its starting number of wounds. Any excess regained wounds are lost and do not cause a destroyed model from that unit to revive.
Random Attacks: If a weapon has a random A characteristic, that characteristic is determined when generating attacks for that weapon at the Resolve Attacks step (04.03). If several weapons with random A characteristics are making identical attacks, generate the attacks for each of those weapons individually, and group them all together.
Random Damage: If a weapon has a random D characteristic, then each time an attack made with it inflicts damage, the controlling player determines that weapon’s characteristic when the opposing player has selected a model in the target unit to allocate that attack to.
When determining a random D characteristic, the dice roll made is called a damage roll.
Where a D characteristic includes an operator (e.g. a ‘+’, as in D6+1), the value after the operator is part of that D characteristic – it is not a modifier.
Other Random Characteristics: For all other characteristics, roll to determine the value on an individual, per-model or per-weapon basis each time that characteristic is required.
When all of a model’s selected melee weapons have fought, that model has fought.
When all models in a unit that are making melee attacks have resolved all of those attacks, that unit has fought.
If a unit was selected to fight and none of the models in it make any attacks, it has not fought.
- 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.
When all of a model’s ranged weapons have shot, that model has shot.
When all models in a unit that are making ranged attacks have resolved all of those attacks, that unit has shot.
If a unit was selected to shoot and none of the models in it make any attacks, it has not shot.
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.The HARLEQUINS and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
EFFECT: No models are moved (either in straight lines or rotated). Units that remain stationary do not trigger any rules that are triggered when a unit starts or ends a move.
If a persisting effect applies to a unit when you place it in strategic reserves or when it embarks within a TRANSPORT, make a note of that effect and its duration; if that unit is set up on the battlefield again, any persisting effects continue to apply to that unit for their full duration.
If you have a rule that specifies when it is triggered (e.g. ‘In the Shooting phase’) and it does not specify how long it is active for, it is only active for the duration of that specified period (e.g. until the end of that Shooting phase). After that period, that effect is no longer applicable/active.
If a rule or effect is given to a unit and it does not specify how long it is active for, it is only active for the phase in which it was given.
If a TRANSPORT model is destroyed, before removing it from the battlefield, the active player must make an emergency disembark move (see below) with each unit embarked within it.
- Persisting Rules Effects 01.02.02
- Hazard Rolls 06.03
- Rapid/Tactical Disembark: 3"
- Combat Disembark: 6"
- Embarked within a TRANSPORT model that is on the battlefield.
- Did not embark within that TRANSPORT this phase.
- That TRANSPORT has not made an advance or fall-back move this phase.
BEFORE MOVING: Select disembark mode:
- Rapid Disembark:If that TRANSPORT made a normal or ingress move this phase, you must select this mode.
- Tactical Disembark:Otherwise, If that TRANSPORT remained stationary or has not yet been selected to move this phase, and if you can set up your unit as described below, you must select this mode.
- Combat Disembark:Otherwise, you must select this mode. Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit.
- Rapid Disembark:If that TRANSPORT made an ingress move this turn, each model must follow the same rules that TRANSPORT had to follow while resolving that move.
- Combat Disembark:Each model can be set up engaged with one or more enemy units that TRANSPORT is engaged with.
- Rapid Disembark:Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
- Tactical Disembark:Select your unit to make a normal or advance move.
- Combat Disembark:Your unit is battle-shocked and, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge.
EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
WHILE MOVING: Set up each model in your unit wholly within the set-up distance of that TRANSPORT, and as close as possible to that TRANSPORT. Each model that cannot be set up in this way is destroyed.
AFTER MOVING: Your unit is battle-shocked and, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge.
The AELDARI and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
- Detection range and Lone Operative cannot be better than 9" or worse than 30".
A stratagem cannot have its CP increased by more than 1 or reduced to below 0 after all modifiers have been applied.
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).
Having identified a fulcrum point around which destinies may turn, your forces must now leverage the events you desire to turn fate your way.
If that Thread of Fate did not end successfully, it moves to its next stage. If it was already at the Frayed stage when this happens, it ends in failure.
The AELDARI and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Aeldari datasheets:
TARGET: One friendly SMOKE unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets either your SMOKE unit, or a unit that is not fully visible to the attacking model because of one or more models in your SMOKE unit, the target has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).
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.
Torrent weapons project clouds of fire, gas or other lethal substances that few foes can hope to evade.
Each time an attack is made with a [TORRENT] weapon, that attack automatically hits the target.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.TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
Once loosed at their target, the warriors who make up the Arrow of Khaine focus all of their attentions upon their singular target, ’[hey move with all the balletic speed of their people, and let nothing slow their attack.
In your Movement phase, each time an AELDARI unit from your army makes a Normal move, while making that move it can attempt to operate a closed Hatchway that is within 1" of it at any point during that move, provided there are no enemy units within 1" of that Hatchway. If that AELDARI unit does attempt to operate that Hatchway, reduce the distance each model in that unit can move this phase by 2" (if this makes it impossible for that unit to gel within 1" of that Hatchway it wishes to operate, then it cannot attempt to do so), and it cannot operate a Hatchway again this turn.- Within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of at least one other model in that unit.
- Within 9" horizontally and 5" vertically of every other model in that unit.
REGAINING COHERENCY
In the End of Turn step of each player’s turn, if one or more units on the battlefield are not in coherency, those units’ controlling players must remove models from them, one at a time, until they are in coherency again. Models removed in this way are destroyed, but they do not trigger rules that apply when a model is destroyed.
