Chaos Daemons
Creatures of primal malevolence, Daemons are birthed from the accumulated sins and passions of the mortal races, and given form and will by the Dark Gods of Chaos. Invested with the cruel malice of their creators, they will not rest until reality itself is torn asunder and every soul in the galaxy devoured.
Books
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Show History | ||||
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Chaos Daemons | ||||
| Chaos Daemons | Faction Pack | 11 | 1.1 | July 2026 |
 Chaos Space Marines | ||||
| Chaos Space Marines | 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: Chaos Daemons
| Q: | When using the Daemonic Pact rule to add LEGIONES DAEMONICA units to my army, are any of the Shadow of Chaos army rules in effect (including Daemonic Manifestation and Daemonic Terror)? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | If a Pink Horror or a Blue Horror is destroyed as a result of its own weapon’s [HAZARDOUS] ability, can that model’s unit use its Split ability? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | When I return models to a unit of Blue Horrors that began the battle as a unit of Pink Horrors, can I return Pink Horrors to that unit? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | When I return models to a unit of Blue Horrors that began the battle as a unit of Pink Horrors, can I return models to that unit to bring it above the starting strength of that unit of Pink Horrors? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | Do |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | Does BE’LAKOR’s The Dark Master ability allow it to be set up closer than 9" to enemy models, in a location that is not otherwise within my army’s Shadow of Chaos, using the Warp Rifts Detachment rule? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | Do the Greater Daemon of Slaanesh, Greater Daemon of Nurgle, Greater Daemon of Khorne or Greater Daemon of Tzeentch abilities allow a unit that has one of those abilities to be set up closer than 9" to enemy models, in a location that is not otherwise within my army’s Shadow of Chaos, using the Warp Rifts Detachment rule? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | If there are no objective markers within No Man’s Land or within my opponent’s deployment zone, does The Shadow of Chaos affect those areas of the battlefield? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | If a unit of Pink Horrors suffers casualties such that there are no Pink Horror models left, and it then uses the Blue Horrors datasheet, what is the starting strength of that Blue Horrors unit? |
| A: | The starting strength of that Blue Horrors unit is the same as the starting strength of the original Pink Horrors unit when it was added to your army list. |
| Q: | Does using the Insane Bravery Stratagem on a LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit mean that unit is considered to have made a battle-shock roll? |
| A: | Yes, it is considered to have made a successful battle-shock roll. |
| Q: | When using the Pink Horrors Split ability, when adding Blue Horror models to this unit, can this ability take the unit above it’s starting strength? |
| A: | Yes. |
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).
Army Rules
The Shadow of Chaos
When daemons pour into realspace, maelstroms of warp energy spill through in their wake. Manifest emotion and unbridled, nightmarish forces twist all that they touch, reshaping the landscape into bizarre forms while tormenting mortal beings to madness. To be embroiled in such tempests is to endure conditions utterly anathema to the fundamental laws of reality, provoking primal terror in even the most emotionless warriors.
If your Army Faction is LEGIONES DAEMONICA, certain areas of the battlefield are considered to be within your army’s Shadow of Chaos, as follows:- Your deployment zone is always within your army’s Shadow of Chaos.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within No Man’s Land, until the end of that phase, No Man’s Land is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within your opponent’s deployment zone, until the end of that phase, your opponent’s deployment zone is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos.
DAEMONIC MANIFESTATION While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos, each time that unit makes a battle-shock roll, that unit has +1 to that battle-shock roll and, if that roll is successful, one model in that unit heals D3 wounds (if that unit is a BATTLELINE unit and that roll is successful, up to D3 destroyed models (excluding CHARACTER models) can be returned to that unit instead). |
DAEMONIC TERROR While an enemy unit is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos and/or it is within 6" of one or more |
Daemonic Pact
When the mortal servants of the Dark Gods march to war, the most favoured may find daemonic entities accompanying them.
If every model from your army has the CHAOS KNIGHTS or HERETIC ASTARTES keyword, you can include LEGIONES DAEMONICA units in your army, even if they do not have the Faction keyword you selected in the Select Army Faction step. The combined points cost of such units you can include depends on your battle size, as shown below.
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None of these models can be your WARLORD, and they cannot be given Enhancements.
In addition, for each of the following keywords, the number of non-BATTLELINE units with that keyword you include in this way cannot be greater than the number of BATTLELINE units with that keyword you include in this way:
KHORNETZEENTCH- NURGLE
SLAANESH
Daemonic Incursion
3DP
Detachment Rule
If your Army Faction is LEGIONES DAEMONICA, you can use this Daemonic Incursion Detachment rule.Warp Rifts
Daemonic legions tear through the fabric of realspace, malevolent entities flickering into being like phantasms from a nightmare. Worse still, as terror and panic take hold of their victims, so their mortal souls become ever easier prey for the entities pouring through from the warp.
Each time a LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, if it is set up wholly within your army’s Shadow of Chaos, and/or if it is set up wholly within 6" of one or more friendlyStratagems
If you are using the Daemonic Incursion Detachment rule, you can use these Daemonic Incursion Stratagems.TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker you control.
EFFECT: That objective marker is said to be Corrupted and remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn. In addition, while an objective marker is Corrupted and under your control, the area of the battlefield within 6" of that objective marker is considered to be within your army’s Shadow of Chaos.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army that is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of weapons equipped by models in that unit by 1. In addition, until the end of the phase, each time such a weapon targets a unit that is Battle-shocked, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army that is arriving using the Deep Strike ability this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models.
TARGET: Up to two LEGIONES DAEMONICA units from your army that are within your army’s Shadow of Chaos, or one other LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army.
EFFECT:
- Place your unit in strategic reserves.
- Your unit must make an ingress move in your next Movement phase (including in your first turn).
RESTRICTION: You cannot target units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units with this Stratagem.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of that enemy unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an invulnerable saving throw is made for a model in your unit, re-roll a saving throw of 1.
Enhancements
If you are using the Daemonic Incursion Detachment rule, you can use these Daemonic Incursion Enhancements.
Only the most accomplished plague daemons are granted the Endless Gift. A disease of unutterable malignancy and repulsive beneficence, it changes form constantly from plague to infestation to malaise. The one constant is its ability to reknit its sufferer’s corporeal form from even the most catastrophic of wounds. One moment, infernal bacteria may multiply like wildfire until their gelid mass fills a fleshy rent with fresh daemon-flesh. The next, pestilential vapours may billow from the daemon’s yawning maw, veiling its ravaged bulk before tattering away to reveal a form healed of its recent hurts. NURGLE LEGIONES DAEMONICA model only. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 5+ ability. |
Shadow Legion
2DP
Thralls of the First Prince
- CHAOS LORD
- CHAOS LORD IN TERMINATOR ARMOUR
- CHAOS LORD WITH JUMP PACK
- CHAOS TERMINATOR SQUAD
- CHOSEN
- DAMNED units
- Dark Apostle
- HAVOCS
- LEGIONARIES
- Master of Possession
- Possessed
- RAPTORS
- SORCERER
- SORCERER IN TERMINATOR ARMOUR
- WARP TALONS
The combined points value of such units depends on your battle size, as shown below.
- Incursion: Up to 500 pts
- Strike Force: Up to 1000 pts
- Onslaught: Up to 1500 pts
BE’LAKOR and HERETIC ASTARTES units from your army gain the SHADOW LEGION and UNDIVIDED keywords.
LEGIONES DAEMONICA units from your army gain the SHADOW LEGION keyword.
First Prince of Chaos
Elevated to the status of Daemon Prince by the combined might of the four Dark Gods of Chaos, Be’lakor exudes unimaginable power.
Units from your army have the relevant abilities presented below.GLOAM ROT Borne upon the gloaming wisp of Be’lakor’s shadow, this debilitating curse atrophies muscle and withers flesh, greatly weakening its victims. SHADOW LEGION NURGLE units only. Each time an attack targets this unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than this unit’s Toughness characteristic, subtract 1 from the Wound roll. |
DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR Be’lakor’s immortal ego draws into his orbit those as yet unclaimed by any one Chaos God. Their hate-filled pacts are made to the entire fell pantheon, and the dangerous boons they receive see them plunged along paths of perpetual night straight into the enemy’s midst. SHADOW LEGION UNDIVIDED units only.
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Stratagems
If you are using the Shadow Legion Detachment rule, you can use these Shadow Legion Stratagems.TARGET: That SHADOW LEGION unit. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Roll one D6 for each enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of the last model in your unit, adding 2 to the result if your unit has the
TARGET: One SHADOW LEGION unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LANCE] ability. If your unit has the
TARGET: One SHADOW LEGION unit from your army.
EFFECT: One model in your unit regains up to 3 lost wounds. In addition, If your unit has the
TARGET: Up to one SHADOW LEGION HERETIC ASTARTES unit from your army and up to one SHADOW LEGION LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army. You can only select units that arrived from Reserves this turn.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your selected units have the [IGNORES COVER] ability.
TARGET: One friendly SHADOW LEGION unit.
EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of your unit. When that enemy unit declares a charge, that enemy unit has -1 to charge rolls. If your unit has NURGLE, that enemy unit must make a battle-shock roll.
TARGET: Up to one SHADOW LEGION HERETIC ASTARTES unit from your army and up to one SHADOW LEGION LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army. You can only select units that are not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Remove those selected units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
Enhancements
If you are using the Shadow Legion Detachment rule, you can use these Shadow Legion Enhancements.
Seen only in flashes, this warrior traverses the darkness with supernatural speed and stealth, emerging where least expected. SHADOW LEGION model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 9" ability. |
This warrior is mantled in the dread energies of the immaterium. With but a thought, they can extrude from their gloaming mantle coils of grasping darkness, the chill touch of which is enough to erode the confidence of even the mightiest champion. SHADOW LEGION model only. While an enemy unit is within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit, subtract 1 from the Objective Control characteristic of models in that enemy unit. |
Having slaughtered their prey, this thrall of the Dark Master opens a twilit gate, returning to the gloom and preparing for their next assault. SHADOW LEGION model only. At the end of the Fight phase, if the bearer’s unit destroyed one or more enemy units this phase and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, you can remove the bearer’s unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. |
This champion of Chaos weaponises their own twisted and blackened spirit, projecting talons wrought of concentrated madness and fury that rake through mind, body and soul. SHADOW LEGION model only. At the start of the Fight phase, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit and roll one D6: on a 2-5, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds. |
Blood Legion2DP
The daemon legions of Khorne burst into realspace like blood from an artery. Bloodcrushers pound the ground as they lead the charge, slamming into the enemy lines with avalanche force. Behind them come snarling Flesh Hounds and gore-slick Bloodletters, the bellow of brazen war horns sounding their massed charge. Through the clangour of blades and screams, a new sound cuts the air as flaming skulls whistle down to explode amongst the enemy, spat from the maws of Skull Cannons to inflict maximum slaughter. Then, the dark shadow of outstretched wings spreads over the foe. Roaring bloody murder, the Bloodthirsters of Khorne slam down from on high to unleash carnage beyond the imaginings of mortal warriors. As severed heads tumble and blood falls like monsoon rain, crimson doom engulfs the enemy altogether.
Murdercall
The daemons of Khorne are physical manifestations of rage, hate and the desperate need to shed blood. For as long as their physical forms remain in realspace, they will never cease their murderous rampage.
In your opponent's movement phase, each time an enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT) ends a move within 8" of one or moreBlood Tainted
Lifeblood spilt by the daemons of Khorne is tainted by their infernal touch, staining the ground dark with murder.
At the end of a phase in which aEnhancements
This servant of Khorne is a walking nexus of bloodthirst, its mere presence whetting the keen edges of daemonic blades and appetites alike for slaughter.
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The Bloodthirster bound within this weapon offers the wielder immense power but seeks every way to turn its towering wrath upon its jailer.
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This daemon’s maw and throat are forged from burning brass, transforming its war cries into a deafening clarion that calls the Blood Legion to war.
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Concealed within this daemon’s form is a portal into the depths of Khorne’s realm. Anointed with gore and thrown wide by the daemon’s corporeal demise, it expands like a bloody singularity to drag everything in reach into the screaming maelstrom of the Warp.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed by a melee attack, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through terrain features.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that is not within Engagement Range of one or more units from your army and is within 8" of and visible to your unit. Roll six D6: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged
EFFECT: Declare a charge with your unit. When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a fall-back move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a Save characteristic of 3+.
Legion of Excess
2DP
The legions of Slaanesh surge into battle like a blood-spattered carnival run mad. It is a revel where every swathe of diaphanous silk is braided with screaming souls, and every beautiful smile stretches into a needle-fanged leer of cruellest hunger. The presence of these entities is enough to drive mortals mad as the horrific evidence of their eyes wars with forbidden desire welling inside them like bile. Engulfed in intoxicating mists, they struggle to raise weapons against Daemonettes and Fiends whose every caress bears a razor’s edge. Wailing in blissful torment, they drop to their knees before towering Keepers of Secrets, pleading for gifts of agony the daemons gladly dole out. Willingly, they hurl themselves beneath the hooves of Seekers and the threshing blades of Hellflayers. Against such insidious foes, what hope of victory can there be?
Beguiling Aura
The daemons of the Dark Prince can bewitch the minds of their foes, appearing in one moment as their true and nightmarish selves and in the next as the object of their foes’ most forbidden desires or devoted affections. Enemies are left foundering and bewildered as the daemons weave their sinuous dances around them and trill their nerve-shredding siren songs.
Seductive Gambit
Temptation is a deadly weapon in the arsenal of the daemons of Slaanesh. To tease warriors’ pride with visions of martial glory or to lure the deluded and desperate into a bladed embrace, they delight in dangling themselves like bait or feigning helpless weakness, then striking with savage release at their overextended foes.
Seductive Gambit: Each time this unit ends a Charge move, you can declare it will perform a Seductive Gambit. If you do, until the end of the turn, this unit does not have the Fights First ability, but instead, each time a model in this unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
Enhancements
Dripping poisonous finery and stalking across the battlefield with regal arrogance, this daemon evokes in its fellows the jealous need to outshine its magnificence.
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This gilded circlet fills mortal minds with waking dreams potent enough to intoxicate and distract even the most disciplined or alien combatants, leaving them easy prey for the daemons of Slaanesh.
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This entity is the corporeal embodiment of selfish arrogance, fighting best when it fights alone.
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This daemon lord guzzles souls, its bloated corporeality reknitting with each fresh morsel.
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Stratagems
TARGET: That LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH unit.
EFFECT: Select one other friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH unit that is within 9" of and visible to your unit. Until the end of the phase, while the selected unit is on the battlefield, each time a model in your unit would lose a wound, inflict 1 mortal wound on the selected unit instead.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in one of those units makes an attack, add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Each unit on the battlefield that is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test if they are Below Half-strength.
Designer’s Note: This Stratagem forces all friendly and enemy units alike within your army’s Shadow of Chaos to take a Battle-shock test. This can allow a Chaos Daemons player to heal units from their army through the Daemonic Terror army rule, at the risk of causing some of their own units to become Battle-shocked.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through terrain features.
TARGET: That LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit, then roll one D6 for each model in your unit that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit, or roll six D6 instead if your unit is a MONSTER unit: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
Plague Legion
2DP
One moment, reality is a place of rationality. The next, the veil separating realspace from the Warp strains, then bursts like a fatted boil and from the suppurating rent spill the daemon legions of Nurgle. Despair spreads before them like vomit soaking into pristine silk. Miasmal clouds engulf the foe, causing flesh to blister and slough, metal to fur with rust, and hope itself to rot away into dread misery. Already disoriented and gripped by gloom, the enemy now faces rank upon rank of rotted horrors as Plaguebearers slouch toward them, shepherded by the mountainous bulks of Great Unclean Ones. With tittering tides of Nurglings flowing like sharp-fanged effluent about their legs, Beasts of Nurgle bounding through their lines like living boulders, and malevolent Plague Drones thrumming down from above, the enemy’s nightmare is just beginning.
Melancholic Miasma
To fight the daemons of Nurgle is to endure their entropic assaults upon both the physical and spiritual battlefields. The horror of inevitable decay claws at the souls of their victims even as the daemons’ splintered talons rake their flesh, heralding nightmarish putrefaction and impending doom.
While an enemy unit is within 9" of one or more LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE units from your army, that enemy unit is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos. In each player’s Command phase, select one enemy unit within your army’s Shadow of Chaos. That unit must take a Battle-shock test.Enhancements
The mere presence of this corrosive monstrosity is enough to rot the very stuff of reality and all who inhabit it. LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE model only. Each time an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) that is within 6" of the bearer fails a Battle-shock test, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, one model in that unit is destroyed (chosen by its controlling player). Each time the bearer uses this Enhancement, no mortal wounds are inflicted by your army’s Daemonic Terror rule. |
This daemon’s flesh is pocked with foul mouths that mumble curses to rot the minds of all who hear them. LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE model only. In your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 6" of the bearer; that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test. Then roll one D6: on a 3+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Each time the bearer uses this Enhancement, no mortal wounds are inflicted by your army’s Daemonic Terror rule. |
This sentient cowl of daemonic plague flies roars and whirls with cyclonic force, obscuring even the most hulking and bloated daemonic bearer. LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE MONSTER model only. While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit is within 6" of the bearer, that unit can only be targeted by a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18". |
This entity’s foul breath expels clouds of rust pox spores, which gnaw into all they settle upon. LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE MONSTER model only. While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit is within 6" of the bearer, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of weapons equipped by models in that unit by 1. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE 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 that unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. After your unit has finished making its attacks, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks; that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army that is on the battlefield.
EFFECT: Return up to 1 destroyed model to your unit (excluding CHARACTER models) or up to D3 destroyed models instead (excluding CHARACTER models) if your unit is a BATTLELINE unit, with their full wounds remaining. If your unit is a MONSTER unit, one model in your unit regains up to D3+1 lost wounds instead.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through terrain features.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal move, add 5" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, after an enemy unit takes a Battle-shock test as a result of the Melancholic Miasma Detachment rule, select one other enemy unit within 9" of your unit; that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
Scintillating Legion2DP
Capering and cackling in an endless flux of transmogrifying change, the daemonic legions of Tzeentch unleash kaleidoscopic madness upon their enemies. Malevolent Lords of Change robed in sanity-blasting unhues wield raw magic with the ease of breathing. They marshal their bedlam hordes even as they transform screaming mortals into mounds of mutant flesh or set light to reality itself. Pink, Blue and Brimstone Horrors dance amidst the leaping flames, their sorceries unleashed in scintillating bombardments alongside the mutagenic blasts of bounding Flamers. Blade-finned Screamers flit through the skies in spiteful shoals, wheeling around the Burning Chariots that streak into the enemy lines like multicoloured comets, while all around them, reality itself distorts into screaming insanity.
Fates in Flux
With every chance for change seized, every new fraying of fate’s weave, the daemons and their foes alike fuel the power of Tzeentch, however inadvertently.
You start the battle with three Flux tokens (we recommend using a dice to track how many Flux tokens you have). You can spend one Flux token just after an Advance roll, Hit roll, Wound roll, Damage roll, saving throw or Hazardous test is made for aWhenever your opponent has one or more Flux tokens, they can spend one Flux token after an Advance roll, Hit roll, Wound roll or saving throw is made for a model or unit from their army, to re-roll the result of that roll or throw. If they do, they reduce the number of Flux tokens they have by one and you gain one Flux token. This is ignored if your opponent has the Fates in Flux Detachment rule.
In your Command phase, if your opponent has one or more Flux tokens, you gain one Flux token.
Designer’s Note: When using fast dice rolling, this rule can be used to spend any number of Flux tokens (up to the amount you have), to re-roll a number of dice up to the amount spent, after rolling multiple rolls or saving throws at once.
Enhancements
This gem reveals the myriad paths of the future.
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To this mighty entity, lesser daemons are but prisms through which its power shines.
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This bizarre daemon weapon makes a mockery of even the most determined defence.
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Complex convolutions of fate wind about this entity.
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Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Select No Man’s Land or your opponent’s deployment zone, or spend one Flux token and select both. Until the end of the phase, the selected areas of the battlefield are within your army’s Shadow of Chaos.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Strength characteristic of weapons equipped by models in your unit, or spend one Flux token and add 3 to the Strength characteristic of those weapons and improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of those weapons by 1 instead.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Roll one D6, then you can spend one Flux token to re-roll the result: until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, on an unmodified Hit roll (after any re-roll) of that result, the attack sequence ends, even if the original Hit roll would have been a Critical Hit.
Example: If you roll a 2 and choose to spend one Flux token to re-roll the result, and the re-roll is a 6, then until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, on an unmodified Hit roll of 6 the attack sequence ends, that attack fails to hit and no Critical Hit effects (e.g. Lethal Hits) are resolved.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through terrain features.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, enemy units are not considered to be within Engagement Range of your unit for the purposes of selecting targets for, and resolving attacks with, ranged weapons. Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy model is destroyed while its unit is within Engagement Range of your unit, roll one D6: on a 5+, your unit suffers 1 mortal wound after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Remove your units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
Cavalcade of Chaos1DP
FELL DAEMONIC CAVALRY HOSTS SWEEP DOWN UPON THE FOE AND SHATTER THEIR LINES
Unholy Avalanche
Infused with the Warp’s unholy power, temporary ebbs of slaughter can be twisted into thundering advances of daemonic power in a heartbeat.
If a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA MOUNTED unit made a fall-back move this turn, that move does not prevent that unit from being eligible to shoot/eligible to declare a charge.Enhancements
The daemonic abominations ridden by these warriors thunder into battle like the manifestation of every culture’s apocalyptic prophecies since time began. LEGIONES DAEMONICA MOUNTED unit only. This unit has +1" M. |
The impact of these terrifying riders is enough to blast the very soulstuff from the bodies of their victims, leaving even those foes that resist as hollow shells of their former might. LEGIONES DAEMONICA MOUNTED unit only. When this unit is selected to fight, if this unit made a charge move this turn, you can use this ability. If you do, when determining which models in this unit can fight, friendly models that are within 3" of enemy units engaged with this unit can target those enemy units. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA MOUNTED unit in strategic reserves.
EFFECT: Your unit can make an ingress move.
TARGET: That LEGIONES DAEMONICA MOUNTED unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has <KY>MOBILE</KY>.
TARGET: That LEGIONES DAEMONICA MOUNTED unit.
EFFECT: When an enemy unit engaged with your unit is selected to make a fall-back move, that enemy unit must use the desperate escape mode. If that enemy unit is battle-shocked, -1 from those hazard rolls.
Lords of the Warp1DP
CHAMPIONS OF THE RUINOUS POWERS ERUPT FROM THE WARP WITH THEIR CURSED RETINUES IN TOW
Loci of Power
Seething with the baleful energies of the Immaterium, the dark nobility of the daemon legions manifest as living icons of their gods’ powers burned into the very flesh of realspace.
Friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER models (excluding MONSTER models) have +1 Ld and OC.Enhancements
Unholy energies roll in waves through this captain of the daemonic legions, straining its corporeal shell with infernal might LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER model only (excluding MONSTER units). This model has +2 W. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER SLAANESH unit (excluding MONSTER units) that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit has Fights First and must be the next unit you select to fight.
TARGET: That LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER KHORNE unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s melee attacks have +1 A.
TARGET: One friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER NURGLE unit (excluding MONSTER units).
EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 8" of your unit and roll seven D6:
- For each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound
TARGET: That LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER TZEENTCH unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks have [LETHAL HITS].
Warptide
1DP
POURING THROUGH A RIFT IN REALITY, A TIDE OF DAEMONIC WARRIORS FLOODS THE BATTLEFIELD
Shudderblink
These daemons’ physical manifestations flicker in and out of being like a pict-reel skipping and projecting too quickly. One moment, they are a distant threat; the next, they are upon their horrified victims.
When a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA BATTLELINE unit is selected to make an advance move:- That unit’s ranged attacks have [ASSAULT] until the end of the turn.
- That move does not prevent that unit from being eligible to declare a charge.
Enhancements
The manifest armaments of these daemonic warriors drip with curses and moan with baleful energies that are the anathema of all life. LEGIONES DAEMONICA BATTLELINE unit only. This unit’s attacks have +1 S. |
Driven by the all‑consuming need to claim mortal souls and sustain their own corporeal manifestations, these daemons surge toward the enemy at every opportunity. LEGIONES DAEMONICA BATTLELINE unit only. When you target this unit with the Heroic Intervention/Fire Overwatch stratagem, that use is -1 CP. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA BATTLELINE unit (excluding
EFFECT: Your unit heals 3 wounds.
TARGET: One friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA BATTLELINE unit.
EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of your unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range.
TARGET: That LEGIONES DAEMONICA BATTLELINE unit.
EFFECT: Ranged attacks that target your unit with a S greater than your unit’s T have -1 to wound rolls.
Boarding Actions
Introduction
Within the following pages you will find numerous Boarding Actions Detachments that can be used in your Boarding Actions games. Each lists which units you can include in your army, any modifications to those units’ army rule as presented in their Codex or Index, a Detachment rule unique to that Detachment, and a number of Enhancements and Stratagems that you can use.A keyword that will be shared by all units in your army.
MUSTERING RULES
Which units you are allowed to include in your army.
FORMING BOARDING SQUADS
Any additional rules that will apply in the missions Form Boarding Squads step. Note that not all Detachments will have these.
RULES ADAPTATIONS
Some units will be unable to use certain abilities in Boarding Actions battles. Where this is the case, these units and their relevant abilities will be listed here.
Due to the distinct nature of close-quarters battle in Boarding Actions, most army rules require some modifications to their effects. Where this is the case, these will be described here.
DETACHMENT RULE
Each faction will have a number of different Detachments to choose from, each with its own Detachment rule to reflect the unique fighting methods of such forces.
ENHANCEMENTS
Further Enhancements that you can give to CHARACTER models from your army, beyond those(Boarding Actions Enhancments), will be found here.
STRATAGEMS
Additional Stratagems that you can use, in addition to those (Boarding Actions Stratagems), will be found here.
Daemonic Incursion
Warp travel is fraught with perils, the greatest of which is a breach of the voidship’s Geller fields. In but the beat of a mortal heart, scores of infernal entities manifest aboard the doomed ship, shrieking with predatory glee as they fall upon their victims.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
When mustering your force, the following limitations apply:- If you include one or more
KHORNEunits, you cannot include anySLAANESHunits. - If you include one or more NURGLE units, you cannot include any
TZEENTCHunits.
BLOODMASTERKARANAKSKULLTAKERCHANGECASTEREXALTED FLAMERTHE CHANGELING- EPIDEMIUS
- POXBRINGER
- SLOPPITY BILEPIPER
- SPOILPOX SCRIVENER
CONTORTED EPITOMEINFERNAL ENRAPTURESSTHE MASQUE OF SLAANESHTRANCEWEAVER
BLOODLETTERS(10 models)BLUE HORRORS(10 models)PINK HORRORS(10 models)- PLAGUEBEARERS (10 models)
- NURGLINGS (3 models)
DAEMONETTES(10 models)
FLESH HOUNDS(5 models)FLAMERS(3 models)SCREAMERS(3 models)- BEASTS OF NURGLE (l or 2 models)
FIENDS(3 models)
Forming Boarding Squads
In the Form Boarding Squads step, a BEASTS OF NURGLE unit containing 2 models is split into two Boarding Squads, each containing 1 model.Rules Adaptations
- The BEASTS OF NURGLE unit loses the Grotesque Regeneration ability.
- The EPIDEMIUS model loses the Tally of Pestilence ability.
- The
FIENDSunit loses the Soporific Musk ability. - The
FLESH HOUNDSunit loses the Pouncing Hunters ability. - The
INFERNAL ENRAPTURESSmodel loses the Harmonic Alignment ability. - The NURGLINGS unit loses the Mischief Makers ability.
- The PLAGUEBEARERS unit loses the Infected Outbreak ability.
- The
SCREAMERSunit loses the Slashing Dive ability. - The
THE CHANGELINGmodel loses the Formless Horror ability.
Soul Hunters
There can be no hiding from entities that can scent the telltale stuff of souls, that can taste fear and follow trails of desperation, lies and futile hope.
Units from your army with the Shadow of Chaos ability replace that ability with this one.Enemy units within 7" of this unit are Hunted by it. While an enemy unit is Hunted by this unit:
- Ranged weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [iGNORES COvER] ability while targeting that enemy unit.
- Each time this unit declares a charge, it can include that enemy unit as a target of that charge, even if it is not visible to it.
Detachment Rule
Unnatural Energies
Infernal power pours into the breached voidship like a floodtide, allowing the warp entities to reshape the rapidly denaturing stuff of reality itself to their whims.
LEGIONES DAEMONICA units from your army can perform one of the following Tactical Manoeuvres in a turn in which they Advanced or Fell Back: Secure Site; Set To Defend; Set Overwatch.Enhancements
Spite Made Manifest Simply striking back at the invading daemons under such conditions is an invitation for their spite and hate to manifest in vicious arcs of lethal retributive power. Each time an enemy unit is selected to fight, melee weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [HAZARDOUS] ability while targeting the bearer’s unit. |
Geller Breach Daemonic entities burst from rippling warp rents and directly into the heart of battle. Al the start of the first battle round, the bearer’s unit can make a Normal move of up to 6". |
Stratagems
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA 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 it from play. That destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One INFANTRY LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: The next time your unit is selected to move this phase, models in that unit can move through Walls and closed Hatchways as if they were not there, but when doing so, no model can move more than 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
TARGET: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA 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.
Infernal Onslaught
Whether it be aboard the echoing corridors of a space hulk, storming through the gothic confines of a loyalist warship, or spilling from the warp into a xenos vessel, such close-quarters violence draws the daemons of Khorne in great number.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):BLOODMASTERKARANAKSKULLTAKER
BLOODLETTERS(10 models)
FLESH HOUNDS(5 or 10 models)
Soul Hunters
There can be no hiding from entities that can scent the telltale stuff of souls, that can taste fear and follow trails of desperation, lies and futile hope.
Units from your army with the Shadow of Chaos ability replace that ability with this one.Enemy units within 7" of this unit are Hunted by it. While an enemy unit is Hunted by this unit:
- Ranged weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [iGNORES COvER] ability while targeting that enemy unit.
- Each time this unit declares a charge, it can include that enemy unit as a target of that charge, even if it is not visible to it.
Detachment Rule
Brutal Entrance
Obstructing hatches are smashed open by the rampaging daemons, some simply dissolving into molten metal or bursting apart in blood-wet showers.
Each time aEnhancements
Worthier Skulls The skulls of cowards who flee from battle have only so much value, and this entity will let them run in favour of hunting for more courageous prey. Each time an enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer Falls Back, after that unit has moved, if the bearer is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 6". |
Unholy Fury So infused with hatred and warlike wrath is this daemon that it can sustain its corporeal shell through fury alone, even should it be terribly damaged. If the bearer is destroyed by a melee attack and it has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 2+, do not remove it from play. Ure destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway within 1" of your unit. Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to be selected to fight as if that Hatchway was open. When doing so, that unit can select targets as if that Hatchway was open (that Hatchway is only considered to be open for your unit, not for any other units).
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: The next time your unit is selected to move this phase, models in that unit can move through Walls and closed Hatchways as if they were not there, but when doing so, no model can move more than 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.
Rotten and Rusted
The daemons of the Plague God Nurgle slither through enemy voidships like seeping corruption given malevolent form. Their very touch breeds foulness, tendrils of rust spreading across bulkheads as the bodies of their slain foes squirm with pestilential vermin.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):You can include up to three of each of the following units:
- PLAGUEBEARERS (10 models)
- NURGLINGS (3 models)
- BEASTS OF NURGLE (1 or 2 models)
Forming Boarding Squads
- In the Form Boarding Squads step, a BEASTS OF NURGLE unit containing 2 models is split into two Boarding Squads, each containing 1 model.
Rules Adaptations
- The BEASTS OF NURGLE unit loses the Grotesque Regeneration ability.
- The EPIDEMIUS model loses the Tally of Pestilence ability.
- The NURGLINGS unit loses the Mischief Makers ability.
- The PLAGUEBEARERS unit loses the Infected Outbreak ability.
Soul Hunters
There can be no hiding from entities that can scent the telltale stuff of souls, that can taste fear and follow trails of desperation, lies and futile hope.
Units from your army with the Shadow of Chaos ability replace that ability with this one.Enemy units within 7" of this unit are Hunted by it. While an enemy unit is Hunted by this unit:
- Ranged weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [iGNORES COvER] ability while targeting that enemy unit.
- Each time this unit declares a charge, it can include that enemy unit as a target of that charge, even if it is not visible to it.
Detachment Rule
Toxic Miasma
Between the corrosive filth that seeps from these daemons and the clouds of blinding flies that boil around them, foes find themselves crippled by disgust and disorientation.
While an enemy unit is within 3" of one or more NURGLE LEGIONES DAEMONICA units from your army, halve the Move characteristic of models in that unit and subtract 1 from Advance and Charge rolls made for it. When measuring this distance, Walls and closed Hatchways are ignored.Enhancements
Virulent Corruption To flee from this daemon is to invite an outbreak of spiritual corruption that rots its screaming victims from their souls outward. Each time an enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer is selected to Fall Back, models in that enemy unit must take Desperate Escape tests as if their unit was Battle-shocked. When doing so, if that enemy unit is also Battle-shocked by other means, subtract 1 from each of those Desperate Escape tests. |
Endless Gift Bounteous and repulsive layers of rancid flab boil from within this entity’s grotesque form, bolstering it against even the most dolorous blows. Add 2 to the bearers Wounds characteristic. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One NURGLE LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army (excluding NURGLINGS units) 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 Feel No Pain 5+ ability.
TARGET: One NURGLE LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army. If this Stratagem is used in your opponent’s Shooting phase, it must target a unit that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker your unit is within range of. Your unit suffers D3 mortal wounds and that objective marker is Secured by your army. If your unit is a PLAGUEBEARERS unit, it only suffers 1 mortal wound, instead of D3.
TARGET: One NURGLINGS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one of more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal or Fall Back move of up to D6".
TARGET: One NURGLE LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: The next time your unit is selected to move this phase, models in that unit can move through Walls and closed Hatchways as if they were not there, but when doing so, no model can move more than 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
Dread Carnival
Lithe and graceful, the daemons of Slaanesh cavort across the decks of enemy voidships, bombarding their victims’ senses with hypnotic dances and soporific aromas before butchering them in the most outlandishly gory fashion imaginable.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):CONTORTED EPITOMEINFERNAL ENRAPTURESSTHE MASQUE OF SLAANESHTRANCEWEAVER
DAEMONETTES(10 models)
FIENDS(3 models)
Rules adaptations
- The
FIENDSunit loses the Soporific Musk, ability. - The
INFERNAL ENRAPTURESSmodel loses the Harmonic Alignment ability.
Soul Hunters
There can be no hiding from entities that can scent the telltale stuff of souls, that can taste fear and follow trails of desperation, lies and futile hope.
Units from your army with the Shadow of Chaos ability replace that ability with this one.Enemy units within 7" of this unit are Hunted by it. While an enemy unit is Hunted by this unit:
- Ranged weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [iGNORES COvER] ability while targeting that enemy unit.
- Each time this unit declares a charge, it can include that enemy unit as a target of that charge, even if it is not visible to it.
Detachment Rule
Lithe Killers
The daemons of Slaanesh move with an unsettling grace, dancing through the blades and guns of their foes with a supernatural agility.
Each time aEnhancements
Fatal Caress To this daemon, the act of murder is an art form. With a precision born of obsession it slaughters its foes in the most gory fashion possible. Each time the bearer makes a melee attack, a Critical Wound is scored on an unmodified Wound roll of 5+. |
Horrifying Visage This daemons alters its visage from alluring to repulsive at a whim, terrifying those who gaze upon it. Once per battle round, when an enemy unit within 9" of the bearer attempts to perform a Tactical Manoeuvre or attempts to operate a Hatchway within 9" of the bearer, the bearer can use this ability. If it does, that enemy unit must take a Leadership test, subtracting I from the result: if failed, that unit fails to perform that Tactical Manoeuvre or to operate that Hatchway and, until the start of your opponent’s next turn, that unit cannot perform Tactical Manoeuvres or operate Hatchways. |
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
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, Desperate Escape tests taken for models in your unit are automatically passed and your unit does not suffer mortal wounds from the Lithe Killers Detachment rule.
Falls Back.
TARGET: That SLAANESH 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: The next time your unit is selected to move this phase, models in that unit can move through Walls and closed Hatchways as if they were not there, but when doing so, no model can move more than 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
Pandaemoniac Inferno
Once the daemons of Tzeentch are loose aboard a ship they spread like a kaleidoscopic firestorm. Their mad cackles meld with the screams of their victims as the daemons’ mutative touch twists both the infested voidship and the unfortunates who defend it, blending them amidst gruesome conflagrations of change.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):CHANGECASTEREXALTED FLAMERTHE CHANGELING
BLUE HORRORS(10 models)PINK HORRORS(10 models)
FLAMERS(3 models)SCREAMERS(3 models)
Rules Adaptations
- The
SCREAMERSunit loses the Slashing Dive ability. - The
THE CHANGELINGmodel loses the Formless Horror ability.
Soul Hunters
There can be no hiding from entities that can scent the telltale stuff of souls, that can taste fear and follow trails of desperation, lies and futile hope.
Units from your army with the Shadow of Chaos ability replace that ability with this one.Enemy units within 7" of this unit are Hunted by it. While an enemy unit is Hunted by this unit:
- Ranged weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [iGNORES COvER] ability while targeting that enemy unit.
- Each time this unit declares a charge, it can include that enemy unit as a target of that charge, even if it is not visible to it.
Detachment Rule
Living Flame
The daemons cavort and gibber amidst an inferno whose unholy flames are formed of their madness and cruelty made manifest. Such a blaze of contradictions cannot harm the daemons, for it is of them as they are of it, yet it burns all the hotter in their presence.
Each lime aEnhancements
Fulgurating Presence Warplight dances and glares around this entity, flares of blinding brightness thrown off its warped form as though from the facets of a crooked crystal. Each time an attack targets the bearer, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. |
Mutagenic Flames The warpflame of Tzeentch is fuelled by sanity and soulstuff, and cannot be easily extinguished. Worse, it does not merely burn its victims, but instead distorts and mutates them in ever more hideous ways. In your Shooting phase, after the bearer has shot, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the start of your next Shooting phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, you can re-roll saving throws of 1 made for models in your unit.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PISTOL] and [HAZARDOUS] abilities.
TARGET: That TZEENTCH unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6".
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: One
EFFECT: The next time your unit is selected to move this phase, models in that unit can move through Walls and closed Hatchways as if they were not there, but when doing so, no model can move more than 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
The CHAOS KNIGHTS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The datasheets using HERETIC ASTARTES keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Chaos: Chaos Daemons, Chaos Knights, Chaos Space Marines.The HERETIC ASTARTES keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
When the mortal servants of the Dark Gods march to war, the most favoured may find daemonic entities accompanying them.
If every model from your army has the CHAOS KNIGHTS or HERETIC ASTARTES keyword, you can include LEGIONES DAEMONICA units in your army, even if they do not have the Faction keyword you selected in the Select Army Faction step. The combined points cost of such units you can include depends on your battle size, as shown below.
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None of these models can be your WARLORD, and they cannot be given Enhancements.
In addition, for each of the following keywords, the number of non-BATTLELINE units with that keyword you include in this way cannot be greater than the number of BATTLELINE units with that keyword you include in this way:
KHORNETZEENTCH- NURGLE
SLAANESH
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- 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
- 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.
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons 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.
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- 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
When daemons pour into realspace, maelstroms of warp energy spill through in their wake. Manifest emotion and unbridled, nightmarish forces twist all that they touch, reshaping the landscape into bizarre forms while tormenting mortal beings to madness. To be embroiled in such tempests is to endure conditions utterly anathema to the fundamental laws of reality, provoking primal terror in even the most emotionless warriors.
If your Army Faction is LEGIONES DAEMONICA, certain areas of the battlefield are considered to be within your army’s Shadow of Chaos, as follows:- Your deployment zone is always within your army’s Shadow of Chaos.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within No Man’s Land, until the end of that phase, No Man’s Land is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within your opponent’s deployment zone, until the end of that phase, your opponent’s deployment zone is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos.
DAEMONIC MANIFESTATION While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos, each time that unit makes a battle-shock roll, that unit has +1 to that battle-shock roll and, if that roll is successful, one model in that unit heals D3 wounds (if that unit is a BATTLELINE unit and that roll is successful, up to D3 destroyed models (excluding CHARACTER models) can be returned to that unit instead). |
DAEMONIC TERROR While an enemy unit is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos and/or it is within 6" of one or more |
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.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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Daemonic legions tear through the fabric of realspace, malevolent entities flickering into being like phantasms from a nightmare. Worse still, as terror and panic take hold of their victims, so their mortal souls become ever easier prey for the entities pouring through from the warp.
Each time a LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, if it is set up wholly within your army’s Shadow of Chaos, and/or if it is set up wholly within 6" of one or more friendlyTARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The BEAST keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The BEASTS keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The CHAOS LORD keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The CULT DEMAGOGUE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The DAEMON keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The DAMNED keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The EPIC HERO keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The FLY keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The FORTIFICATION keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons 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 Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The GRENADES keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The HERETIC ASTARTES keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The JUMP PACK keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The JUMP PACKS keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The MOUNTED keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The PALANQUIN OF NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The PSYKER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The SHADOW LEGION keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The SORCERER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The SWARM keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The TERMINATOR keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons 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 UNDIVIDED keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The WALKER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Select one CHARACTER unit to be your Warlord’s unit. This must be a unit that has the faction keyword you chose as your army faction. Then select one CHARACTER model in that unit to be your Warlord the supreme leader of your army and make a note of this on your army roster. That model gains the WARLORD keyword. Some units have a rule on their datasheet stating that they must be your WARLORD. If you want to include one or more of these units in your army, you must select one of them to be your WARLORD. Rules that state that a model cannot be your WARLORD take precedence over ones that require it to be your WARLORD.
Some units make their way to battle via tunnelling, teleportation, high-altitude descent or other extraordinary means that allow them to appear suddenly in the thick of the fighting.
During the Declare Battle Formations step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can set it up in Reserves instead of setting it up on the battlefield. If you do, in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models. If a unit with the Deep Strike ability arrives from Strategic Reserves, the controlling player can choose for that unit to be set up either using the rules for Strategic Reserves or using the Deep Strike ability.- Unit can be set up in Reserves instead of on the battlefield.
- Unit can be set up in your Reinforcements step, more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models.
The 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
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.
- 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.
The NURGLE and LEGIONES DAEMONICA keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
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.The CHAOS LORD keyword is used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
The DAMNED keyword is used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
The SORCERER keyword is used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
- 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.
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).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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The SHADOW LEGION and NURGLE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
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).
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.
The SHADOW LEGION and UNDIVIDED keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Beseeching the Chaos Gods with fanatical fervour, the profane champions of the Heretic Astartes pray for diabolic boons, promising the vilest of offerings in return for their power.
If your Army Faction is HERETIC ASTARTES, each time a unit with this ability is selected to shoot or fight, it can make a Dark Pact. If it does, it must first take a Leadership test before any effects of that Dark Pact are resolved; if that test is failed, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Then, select one of the following abilities for that unit’s weapons to gain until the end of the phase:The SHADOW LEGION and HERETIC ASTARTES keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- 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.
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.
From detonating ammo stores to corrosive innards or frenzied death throes, some targets are deadly even in defeat.
This ability always takes the form Deadly Demise X. Each time a model in this unit is destroyed, after the units embarked within it (if any) have made their emergency disembark moves, roll one D6. On a 6, that model suffers a deadly demise; each unit within 6" of that model suffers a number of mortal wounds denoted by X (if this is a random number, roll separately for each unit within 6").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 SHADOW LEGION and LEGIONES DAEMONICA keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
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).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.
- 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.
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).
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).
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.
DAEMONIC TERROR
While an enemy unit is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos and/or it is within 6" of one or more BLOODTHIRSTER, GREAT UNCLEAN ONE, KAIROS FATEWEAVER, KEEPER OF SECRETS, LORD OF CHANGE, ROTIGUS, SHALAXI HELBANE or SKARBRAND units from your army, each time that unit takes a Battle-shock test, subtract 1 from that test and, if that test is failed, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and NURGLE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, NURGLE and MONSTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, NURGLE and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
To fight the daemons of Nurgle is to endure their entropic assaults upon both the physical and spiritual battlefields. The horror of inevitable decay claws at the souls of their victims even as the daemons’ splintered talons rake their flesh, heralding nightmarish putrefaction and impending doom.
While an enemy unit is within 9" of one or more LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE units from your army, that enemy unit is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos. In each player’s Command phase, select one enemy unit within your army’s Shadow of Chaos. That unit must take a Battle-shock test.- 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.
With every chance for change seized, every new fraying of fate’s weave, the daemons and their foes alike fuel the power of Tzeentch, however inadvertently.
You start the battle with three Flux tokens (we recommend using a dice to track how many Flux tokens you have). You can spend one Flux token just after an Advance roll, Hit roll, Wound roll, Damage roll, saving throw or Hazardous test is made for aWhenever your opponent has one or more Flux tokens, they can spend one Flux token after an Advance roll, Hit roll, Wound roll or saving throw is made for a model or unit from their army, to re-roll the result of that roll or throw. If they do, they reduce the number of Flux tokens they have by one and you gain one Flux token. This is ignored if your opponent has the Fates in Flux Detachment rule.
In your Command phase, if your opponent has one or more Flux tokens, you gain one Flux token.
Designer’s Note: When using fast dice rolling, this rule can be used to spend any number of Flux tokens (up to the amount you have), to re-roll a number of dice up to the amount spent, after rolling multiple rolls or saving throws at once.
- 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.
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and MOUNTED keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- Exposed/Light: All models can move horizontally and vertically through exposed and light terrain features.
- Dense:
- INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM/MOBILE models can move horizontally through dense terrain features.
- INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM models can move vertically through dense terrain features.
- Other models can move horizontally through dense terrain features provided that all sections of that terrain feature that the moving model’s base would move through are 2" or less in height. Otherwise, the moving model must move vertically to ascend or descend such sections. They cannot move through ceilings and floors while doing so, and they cannot end that move on any surface of that terrain feature that is not on ground level (see below).
- Solid Terrain and Movement 13.06.01
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.
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and BATTLELINE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- 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).TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
- Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
- Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
The INFANTRY and LEGIONES DAEMONICA keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The daemons of Slaanesh move with an unsettling grace, dancing through the blades and guns of their foes with a supernatural agility.
Each time aSome 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.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].