Chaos Knights
Chaos Knights tower over the battlefield, each a god of war wrought in iron. Piloted by Nobles who have forsworn their allegiance to the Imperium, these bipedal engines of destruction are amongst the most fearsome creations in the galaxy.
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| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Chaos Knights | ||||
| Chaos Knights | Faction Pack | 11 | 1.1 | July 2026 |
 Chaos Space Marines | ||||
| Chaos Space Marines | Faction Pack | 11 | 1.1 | July 2026 |
 Munitorum Field Manual | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual | Expansion | 11 | 1.1 | |
Keywords
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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.
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
Harbingers of Dread
Where Chaos Knights tread, the skies grow unnaturally dark and the power of the warp permeates the battlefield.
If your Army Faction is CHAOS KNIGHTS, each unit from your army with this ability gains Dread abilities, depending which are active for your army (see below). The Deathly Terror ability is active for your army from the start of the battle. In addition, at the start of the first, third and fifth battle rounds, you can either select one of the other Dread abilities or randomly select two Dread abilities to apply by rolling two D6 and applying the results rolled, from those numbered 1-6.Any Dread abilities that have been selected are active until the end of the battle. You cannot select the same Dread ability more than once, and any duplicated Dread abilities (as a result of randomly selecting them) have no additional effect.
Dreadblades
Dreadblades stalk the galaxy, carving a path of destruction alongside other forces of Chaos.
If every model in your army has the CHAOS keyword, you can include either 1 Titanic Chaos Knights model or up to 3 WAR DOG models in your army, even if they do not have the Faction keyword you selected in the Select Army Faction step. None of these models can be your WARLORD, and they cannot be given Enhancements.Super-heavy Walker
Each time a model with this ability makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, it can move through models (excluding TITANIC models) and sections of terrain features that are 4" or less in height. When doing so:- It can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them.
- It can also move through sections of terrain features that are more than 4" in height, but if it does, after it has moved, roll one D6: on a 1, that model is Battle-shocked.
Traitoris Lance
2DP
To fight amidst a Traitoris Lance is to epitomise what it means to be a Chaos Knight. Here is the dark mirror of nobility wrought in adamantine and steel, an army of sinister war giants driven ever onward by hate, cruelty and the tyrannical need to crush all beneath their mighty tread. Nightmarish storm clouds spread above these Chaos Knights as they stride into battle, drowning their quailing foes in creeping shadow and filling their hearts with dread. Empyric lightning leaps through the heavens, while the grotesque avian entities known as Pterrorshades swoop above the advancing Knights like tattered rags or roost malevolently upon their baroque hulls. As the Traitoris Lance bears down upon its victims, the Fallen Nobles lengthen their steeds’ strides and let fly with massive cannons, laser blasters and racks of shrieking missiles. By the time their charge thunders home, the crumbling enemy lines can do naught but shatter before the unstoppable onslaught of these diabolical engines of war.
Paragons of Terror
Steeped in the dark powers of the warp, bred into bloodlines who make a tradition of cruelty and a virtue of malice, these merciless warriors delight in spreading fear and dismay.
At the start of the first battle round, after selecting one or more Dread abilities to be active for your army, you can select one additional Dread ability to be active for your army (this additional Dread ability cannot be randomly selected).Enhancements
The mere sight of this warrior and their steed upon the battlefield, even the rumour of their coming, is enough to put the foe to flight. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. At the start of the Fight phase, each enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer must take a Battle-shock test. |
Once this despotic warlord lays claim to territory, their warp-infused will taints the very land itself and resists those who seek to defy them. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. At the end of your Command phase, select one objective marker the bearer is within range of and that 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. In addition, until you lose control of that objective marker, it has the Deathly Terror ability as if it were a CHAOS KNIGHTS model from your army. |
Inscribed by Idolators schooled in dark arts, these unholy blazons burn themselves into the gaze of the foe and trigger nausea, disorientation and stark, unreasoning terror. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. Each time you roll dice to randomly select which Dread abilities are active for your army, if the bearer is on the battlefield, you can re-roll one or both results rolled. |
Said to have been fashioned upon Perturabo’s own daemon world, this baroque device projects an energy barrier of greater power than a standard ion shield. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. The bearer has a 4+ invulnerable save against ranged attacks, and a 5+ invulnerable save against melee attacks. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One Chaos Knights unit from your army that is within 12" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Roll six D6: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound and one model in your unit regains up to 1 lost wound.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: One Chaos Knights model from your army that made a Charge move this turn and has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by your model by 1. After your model has finished making its attacks this phase, if it destroyed one or more enemy units this phase, each enemy unit within 6" of your model must take a Battle-shock test.
TARGET: One Chaos Knights unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability, and the Feel No Pain 5+ ability against attacks made by Battle-shocked models.
TARGET: One ABHORRENT unit from your army and up to two friendly WAR DOG units.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, those WAR DOG units are treated as being within range of any Aura abilities your ABHORRENT unit has.
TARGET: Up to two WAR DOG units from your army or one Titanic Chaos Knights unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in one of your units makes a Normal, Advance, Fall Back or Charge move, it can move through models and terrain features. When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of such models but, unless it made a Charge move, cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed (the Super-heavy Walker ability does not apply while using this Stratagem).
TARGET: One Chaos Knights unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT:
- Your unit has Stealth.
- Melee attacks that target your unit have -1 to hit rolls.
Infernal Lance
3DP
Whether sworn to a Traitor Titan Legion, in thrall to the cyborg priests of the Dark Mechanicum, pledged to the Ruinous Powers or corrupted over millennia, the Knights of Infernal Lances are twisted by the warp and swollen with unholy technologies. Each Knight suit is a hideous blend of the mechanical and the supernatural. Some bear the blessings of a Dark God of Chaos, which renders them freakish with mutation yet enhances their might or resilience in battle. Others mount weapon systems of ancient or diabolical provenance, serve as the possessed metal body of a malevolent daemon or exhibit strange abilities conferred by the experimentations of dark magi. When such monstrous war engines stalk into battle behind the banner of one strong-willed enough to master them, the Infernal Lances they form sweep aside any foe. Those not obliterated or reduced to gruesome spawn by the Knights’ warp-tainted weapons are driven mad and sent fleeing in mindless terror by the horrors they witness.
Malefic Surge
Calling upon heretical - often supernatural - powers, these Knights are infused with strange and terrible might.
In your Command phase, one or more Chaos Knights units from your army can make a Malefic Surge. Each one that does must first take a Leadership test; if that test is failed, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Then, until the start of your next Command phase, that unit is Empowered. While a unit is Empowered it can use one of the Malefic Surge abilities below. Once that unit has used a Malefic Surge ability, it is no longer Empowered.- Unholy Hunger: When a model in this unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, until the end of the phase, add 3" to its Move characteristic.
- Diabolic Power: When this unit is selected to shoot or fight, select either the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in this unit have the selected ability.
- Unnatural Fortitude: When this unit is selected as the target of an attack, select one of the following to apply until the end of the phase:
- Models in this unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.
- Models in this unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability.
Designer’s Note: We recommend placing a token next to Chaos Knights models that are Empowered, removing it once they have used a Malefic Surge ability, and removing all unused tokens at the start of your Command phase.
Enhancements
Whether through duelling monstrous foes or thanks to unnatural enhancements and boons, this Fallen Noble and their steed have become powerful indeed. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. Improve the Weapon Skill characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons by 1. While the bearer is using the Diabolic Power ability, its melee weapons have the [LANCE] ability. |
In rituals that took centuries to conduct, Idolators and dark priests have bound a greater daemon within the reactor of this Chaos Knight, allowing the war machine to syphon the roiling power of the caged entity. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. Add 2 to the bearer’s Wounds characteristic. Each time the bearer’s unit makes a Malefic Surge, you can re-roll the Leadership test taken to see if it suffers any mortal wounds. |
This Knight is a terrifying blend of daemonic flesh and warp-hardened machine, its pilot unable to leave their Throne until death - or something darker - takes them. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. Add 1 to the bearer’s Toughness characteristic. While the bearer is using the Unnatural Fortitude ability, each time an attack with a Damage characteristic of 1 is allocated to the bearer, add 1 to any armour saving throw made against that attack. |
The machine spirit of this Knight suit has become so ferocious and blood-hungry that it now moves and hunts like a monstrous beast. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. The bearer’s ranged weapons have the [assault] ability. While the bearer is using the Unholy Hunger ability, it can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic and/or to Advance rolls made for its unit. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One Chaos Knights unit from your army that is not Empowered.
EFFECT: Your unit makes a Malefic Surge.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select the same unit as the target of this Stratagem more than once per battle round.
TARGET: One Chaos Knights unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
TARGET: That CHAOS KNIGHTS CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker your unit is within range of that 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.
TARGET: One Chaos Knights unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: After your unit has shot, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test; if the test is failed, until the end of your opponent’s next turn, it is aflame. While a unit is aflame, subtract 2" from its Move characteristic and subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for it.
TARGET: One Chaos Knights 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.
TARGET: One Chaos Knights unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
Lords of Dread
2DP
None are safe when the long shadows of the Lords of Dread stretch across the battlefield. Some Fallen Nobles are so toweringly arrogant, so twisted in mind and soul or so enamoured of personal power and wealth that they fight only for themselves. Those not slain by jealous rivals or laid low by foes instead earn notoriety and become the dark heroes in their tales of legend. They earn supernatural boons for their mightiest deeds. They recover ancient and devastating artefacts of war or gather coteries of followers who trail in their wake and hope for reflected glory. Such lords amongst the Chaos Knights may seek one another out and fight side by side. Some do this to test their mettle and prove themselves the greatest. Others find twisted kinship in the company of other Fallen Nobles as egocentric as themselves, forming Dreadblade lances or staging a hostile takeover of a dread household before supplanting its original rulers with a new and especially tyrannical court of monsters.
Tyrannical Court
Every one of these egomaniacal warriors seeks to claim all the battlefield glory for themselves, at any cost.
Improve the Objective Control characteristic of Chaos Knights Character models from your army by 2. In addition, once per battle round, if your WARLORD is on the battlefield, you can use the Claimed for the Dark Gods Stratagem for 0CP.Enhancements
Flowing from this brazen Throne, an all-consuming need for murder grips the pilot and never lets go. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. You can re-roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit. In addition, once per battle, in your Charge phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, the bearer’s unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. |
Inlaid with esoteric circuitry, this relic sword is sheathed within the mechanisms of the pilot’s Throne where it imbues the Knight suit with flowing swiftness. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. The bearer’s ranged weapons have the [ASSAULT] ability. In addition, once per battle, in the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have the Fights First ability. |
Daemonic whispers guide this Knights pilot through the empyric tempests, straight into battle. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. The bearer has the Deep Strike ability. In addition, once per battle, at the end of your opponent’s turn, if the bearer is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, you can remove it from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. |
Blessed by Nurgle, the Chaos God of plague and despair, the hide of this Knight suit is thickened with steadily regenerating layers of rust and rotting blubber. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. The bearer has a Save characteristic of 2+. In addition, once per battle, at the start of either player’s Command phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, the bearer regains up to D6 lost wounds. |
Hammered into the flesh of a Fallen Noble’s forehead and allowed to take root, this warp crystal allows them to predict their enemy’s plans and exploit them. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. Once per turn, when your opponent targets a unit from their army within 12" of this model with a stratagem, you can use this ability. If you do, increase the CP cost of that use of that stratagem by 1CP. |
This pilot has won the favour of a sinister patron, granting them a measure of mysterious protection. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. The bearer has the Stealth ability. In addition, once per battle, after you make a saving throw for the bearer, you can change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 0. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One Chaos Knights Character unit from your army that is within range of one or more objective markers you control.
EFFECT: Select one of those objective markers. That objective marker remains under your control, with a Level of Control of 5 (unless it would otherwise be higher), until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.
TARGET: That CHAOS KNIGHTS CHARACTER unit. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: When rolling to determine whether mortal wounds are inflicted by your unit’s Deadly Demise ability, that model’s Deadly Demise ability inflicts mortal wounds on a D6 roll of a 4+ instead of on a 6.
TARGET: One Chaos Knights Character unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One Chaos Knights Character unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Select one enemy MONSTER or VEHICLE unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. Each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, if that enemy unit is TITANIC, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.
TARGET: That CHAOS KNIGHTS CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Consolidates, models in it can move an additional 3" as long as your unit can end that move within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
TARGET: That CHAOS KNIGHTS CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) that your unit moved over during that move and roll six D6: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound. If one or more models are destroyed as a result of this Stratagem, that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
Houndpack Lance
2DP
Swift, comparatively numerous, yet each still a towering war engine in its own right, when War Dogs gather for the hunt they bring terrifying might to bear. Sometimes this power is leashed to the mental domination of masters piloting Abhorrent-class Knights. Such formations lope out like some feudal world hunting party, the larger Knights inhabiting the roles of bloodthirsty nobles while the War Dogs serve as their baying hounds. Other dread households prefer to give their War Dogs more freedom. They dispatch formations of these light and fast Knight suits into the wilds of the war zone to raid and cause mayhem at will, choking off supply lines and tearing apart targets of opportunity until the foe fears to leave their strongholds. Then there are the Unleashed. These masterless packs of War Dogs have broken their former masters’ control and now hunt and slaughter in pursuit of their own glories. Over time, these packs become ever more feral, following the direction of their alphas and dragging down prey like murderous super-predators.
Marked Prey
Once War Dogs have singled out a victim, they target it relentlessly until it is dragged down and torn apart.
At the start of your Command phase, select one unit from your opponent’s army. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a WAR DOG model from your army makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, if that unit is visible to the attacking model, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.KEYWORDS
While using the Houndpack Lance Detachment, the following rules apply:
- Your army must include three or more WAR DOG units.
- WAR DOG units from your army have the BATTLELINE keyword.
- When mustering your army, select three WAR DOG units from your army. Until the end of the battle, those units have the CHARACTER keyword.*
*Designer’s Note: This means that the selected units can be given Enhancements and one of them can be selected as your WARLORD.
Enhancements
This ancient War Dog chassis is said to have been forged in warpfires and ensorcelled with the spirit of the hunt unending. WAR DOG model only. The bearer has the Super-heavy Walker ability. |
Biomechanoid parasites lace a War Dog’s vox-emitters with the infernal baying of supernatural hunting hounds. Its effects upon other nearby War Dogs are profound and alarming. WAR DOG model only. While a friendly War Dog model is within 6" of the bearer, each time that model makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. |
This swift attacker is adept at firing on the move, trusting the predatory senses of their War Dogs machine spirit to single out targets of opportunity. WAR DOG model only. The bearer’s ranged weapons have the [assault] ability. |
Borne within by an order of silent Idolators, this collection of tattered pennants, chain-strung charms and armour scraps represent the last remains of the Knight Carnivus Grymm, torn apart by his own pack of War Dogs. It is said festooning one’s Knight suit with these charms instils the legendary fortitude of that doomed war engine, but also invites Carnivus Grymm’s ghastly end. WAR DOG model only. Each time an attack targets the bearer, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within 6" of your unit must take a Battle-shock test. Each friendly WAR DOG unit that is within 6" of your unit and is Battle-shocked must take a Leadership test; if that test is passed, that unit is no longer Battle-shocked.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per turn.
TARGET: Two or more WAR DOG units from your army within Engagement Range of the same enemy unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of those WAR DOG units. Until the end of the phase, models in those WAR DOG units can only target that enemy unit, but each time a model in one of those WAR DOG units makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: That WAR DOG unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: That WAR DOG unit. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Before resolving your unit’s Deadly Demise ability, it can either shoot or fight. When doing so, it must target only the enemy unit that just destroyed it, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target. After it has done so and after any Consolidation moves have been made, resolve your unit’s Deadly Demise ability as normal.
TARGET: One WAR DOG 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 WAR DOG unit from your army that is wholly within 12" of one or more battlefield edges and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Helhunt Lance
2DP
When the Chaos Knight houses ride out on the hunt, their prey endure a living nightmare. Eye lenses blaze in the gloom. Ion shields flicker like corpselight. The howl of brazen vox-horns announces the coming of the hunt. War Dogs lead the charge, loping beasts plunging into the densest terrain to flush warriors-turned-quarry into the open. Behind them come their masters, diabolical scions in monstrous steeds. They sneer in contempt, rune-locking choice prey upon their Knights’ targeters before picking them off with the clinical precision of master hunters. All the while the War Dog packs continue to harry the enemy, snarling target triangulation data to their masters through neural uplinks, redoubling their efforts with every goading lash. Soon enough, the enemy are reduced to heaped corpses and burning wrecks. Pausing only long enough to select the finest trophies to be lashed and chained to their Knight suits’ hulls, the hunt then moves on in search of new prey.
Masters of the Pack
By bending their tyrannical will upon their War Dog underlings, the masters of the hunt goad them to provide a constant stream of sensor data. This influx of supplementary targeting, prey-seeking and omnisensory analysis enhances the scions’ ability to hunt alongside their snarling ironclad hounds.
If a Titanic Chaos Knights unit from your army has an Aura ability that affects friendly WAR DOG units, while two or more friendly WAR DOG models are within range of that TITANIC CHAOS KNIGHTS unit’s Aura ability, that TITANIC CHAOS KNIGHTS unit is affected by that Aura ability as well.Enhancements
Something predatory and monstrous from the depths of the Warp has possessed this Knight suit. Its terrifying presence spreads like a pall. Chaos Knights model only. At the start of your Command phase, select one Dread ability to be active for the bearer until the start of your next Command phase, in addition to the Dread abilities active for your army |
This infernal faceplate was forged by the cannibalistic Dark Magi of Ghanarkh. Affixed to a Chaos Knight, it infuses the steed with a carnivore’s ferocious hunger. Chaos Knights model only. You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit. |
This Knight suit’s cockpit incorporates a summoning octagram that drags warp gheists into reality and sends them screaming out to bedevil rune‑marked prey. KNIGHT ABOMINANT model only. The bearer has the following ability: |
So dominant is the psychoneural signature of this Throne Mechanicum that it dominates even other scions and their steeds as they rule over War Dogs. Titanic Chaos Knights model only. In your Command phase, select one other Chaos Knights Character model within 9" of the bearer. If the bearer has one or more Aura abilities that affect friendly WAR DOG units, until the start of your next Command phase, the selected CHAOS KNIGHTS CHARACTER model is affected by those Aura abilities as well. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That CHAOS KNIGHTS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability against mortal wounds.
TARGET: One Titanic Chaos Knights unit from your army, and up to two friendly WAR DOG units, that have not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that is an eligible target for each of those CHAOS KNIGHTS units. Until the end of the phase, each time one of those Chaos Knights units is selected to shoot or fight, if that enemy unit is an eligible target, you can only select that enemy unit as the target for all of those attacks and those attacks have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.
TARGET: One CHAOS KNIGHTS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
TARGET: One Titanic Chaos Knights unit from your army and up to three friendly WAR DOG units within 6" of that Titanic Chaos Knights unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time one of those War Dog units makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, its models can move through models and terrain features. When doing so, they can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed.
TARGET: That Chaos Knights 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 CHAOS KNIGHTS unit from your army that lost one or more wounds as a result of those attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a surge move of up to D6"
Bastions of Tyranny1DP
KNIGHTS TYRANT CRUELLY DEMONSTRATE THEIR ARROGANT SCORN FOR THE WEAK IN TAINTED SALVOES
Annihilate the Unworthy
The withering arsenal of cursed weaponry available to a Knight Tyrant is turned with the cruellest focus upon those its scion despises for their weakness of spirit.
Friendly KNIGHT TYRANT units’ attacks that target a battle-shocked unit have +1 to the hit roll.Enhancements
The gothic and mutated extrusions of this Knight Tyrant are the roost of a parasitic flock of pterrorshades. From their Throne, the Fallen Noble within has brokered a fragmented understanding of the maddening chorus they emit, enough to know when their unnatural senses have spotted fresh prey to be annihilated. KNIGHT TYRANT model only. When this unit is selected to shoot, select one enemy unit within 24" of this unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range until this unit has shot. |
This arrogant despot has yoked their weapon spirits to their will with a dominion forged of pure hate. Every maximised salvo is an expression of their malice and tyranny. KNIGHT TYRANT model only. This unit can re-roll rolls to determine the A of a weapon. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That KNIGHT TYRANT unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has Feel No Pain 5+ against mortal wounds.
TARGET: That KNIGHT TYRANT unit.
EFFECT: That move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to shoot.
TARGET: That KNIGHT TYRANT unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit hit by those attacks. That enemy unit is suppressed until the start of your next Command phase:
- While a unit is suppressed, that unit’s attacks have -1 to hit rolls.
Hunting Warpack1DP
WAR DOGS ROOT OUT PREY AND SOW RUINATION ON HIGH‑SPEED HUNTS
Scenting Fear
The corrupted pilots of War Dog suits despise fear and cowardice in the foe almost as much as they revel in hunting such prey and betraying their hiding places.
(Once per battle round, per army) In your Shooting phase, you can select one visible enemy unit within 12" of a friendly WAR DOG unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range.This detachment has the WAR DOGS tag and cannot be taken with another WAR DOGS detachment.
Enhancements
Those Huntsmen darkly blessed with a daemonic device sensitive to a worthy prey’s spirits are capable of killing shots at greater effective ranges. HUNTSMAN unit only. This unit’s ranged attacks have +6" R. |
The greatest Executioners are expert long‑range killers. They viciously compete for tallies of slaughter and eagerly eviscerate dug‑in foes to prove their skill. EXECUTIONER unit only. This unit’s ranged attacks have [IGNORES COVER]. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That WAR DOG unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has Feel No Pain 5+
TARGET: That WAR DOG unit.
EFFECT: Those attacks do not prevent your unit from being eligible to start an action.
TARGET: That WAR DOG unit.
EFFECT: Ranged attacks that target your unit have -1 AP until that enemy unit has attacked.
Iconoclast Fiefdom1DP
DEBASED HERETICS SERVE TOWERING MASTERS AS IDOLISING THRALLS AND SACRIFICIAL PAWNS ALIKE
Wretched Thralls
Devoted mortal thralls flock to fight in the titanic shadow of their mechanical idols with chanted prayers and brayed challenges.
- You can include DAMNED units in your army (see Codex: Chaos Space Marines). The combined points cost of such units cannot exceed 500 points.
- Friendly DAMNED units can re-roll leadership rolls.
Enhancements
This callous Fallen Noble drives teeming hordes of their twisted serfs at a desperate pace to overwhelm their prey with lesser targets. CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. While a friendly DAMNED unit is within 6" of this model, when that unit is selected to make a normal/advance/fall-back move that unit has +2" M until the end of the phase. |
Chanting mortal thralls have pledged their lives and souls to this Chaos Knight’s defence, and throw themselves at any who dare threaten the object of their idolatry CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. While a friendly DAMNED unit is within 6" of this model, when you target that unit with the Heroic Intervention stratagem, that use is -1 CP. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That enemy unit.
EFFECT: That enemy unit is marked until the end of the battle.
- Friendly DAMNED units’ attacks that target a marked unit have [LETHAL HITS].
TARGET: One friendly DAMNED unit (excluding ACCURSED CULTISTS units) within 9" of a friendly CHAOS KNIGHTS model.
EFFECT: Select one CHAOS KNIGHTS model within 9" of your unit and roll D3+3:
- Your DAMNED unit suffers that number of mortal wounds.
- That CHAOS KNIGHTS model heals that number of wounds.
TARGET: One friendly DAMNED unit.
EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of your unit. That enemy unit is hunted:
- While a unit is hunted, that unit has +6" detection range.
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles that are bespoke to the CHAOS KNIGHTS units. You can find out more about Crusade armies in the main Crusade rules.
Chaos Knights armies can attempt to achieve unique Agendas in addition to those found in other publications. These represent the factions unique goals and their particular methods of waging war.
AMASSING POWER
The rules presented in this section represent the efforts of a Chaos Knights household force, as it strives to carve out its own dominion in the galaxy, by gaining power over the various forces that can aid or hinder them in the form of the Idolators that are essential to maintaining and upgrading your colossi of brutality, the War Dog Hunting Packs that are driven by their heinous instincts, or the malefic pacts offered to the Dark Gods themselves.
IDOLATORS’ OFFERINGS
As they gain experience and prowess, Chaos Knights Titanic units in your Crusade force can be given one of the Battle Traits in this section instead of one presented elsewhere. Each attaches to different parts of the Knight itself, letting you create a bespoke war machine of death.
HUNTING PACKS
As the harrying Hunting Packs congregate, War Dog units in your Crusade force can be given one of the Battle Traits in this section instead of one presented elsewhere. These allow them to hunt savagely together, working to bring down their foes as one.
PACTS OF DAMNATION
Over your Crusade forces journey, CHAOS KNIGHTS TITANIC units in your collection can make pacts with the Dark Gods. These special Battle Honours represent the unique benefits and perils that come from such dealings.
REQUISITIONS
CHAOS KNIGHTS armies have access to a number of bespoke Requisitions in addition to those found in other publications.
BATTLE SCARS
In addition to the Battle Scars presented in other publications, the ones presented here can better portray the damage to the CHAOS KNIGHTS TITANIC units from your Crusade force.
CRUSADE RELICS
In addition to the Crusade Relics presented in other publications, Chaos Knights Character models can claim one of the Crusade Relics found here.
CRUSADE BADGES
Here you will find three Crusade Badges representing goals you can set yourself when campaigning with your Crusade force. Once one is achieved, you could set yourself a new goal, or take the opportunity to start a new Crusade force.
Agendas
If your Crusade army includes any Chaos Knights units, you can select Agendas from those presented here.
Singling out their mightiest foe as little more than a game animal to prey upon, the Fallen Nobles ride out to prove their dominance by competing to be the one to slay it.
Many Fallen Nobles are fanatical in their devotion to the Gods of Chaos, quick to topple the idols and smash the fanes of any other deity.
The foe bears ancient devices and complex weapons of whose might they are not worthy. The Chaos Knights must crush those who hoard these technological riches, claiming them as their rightful due or using them to curry favour with Idolators and dark priests.
The enemy must be driven from this place and the banners of the Chaos Knights raised high over it, proclaiming to all their dominion and their right to seize whatever lands they please.
Amassing Power
Chaos Knights attempt to amass power and influence on their campaigns throughout the galaxy. The true strength of a Chaos Knights force lies in the Power Bases presented below.
 Dark GodsThose who strike dark bargains with warp entities or their mortal servants may gain great power. Yet there is always a price to be paid. Those blessed by the Dark Gods can enter into powerful Pacts of Damnation, granting them potent abilities at the cost of some part of themselves. The more favoured they are by these malign entities the better they will be able to bargain with them, and the greater the blessing they will receive in return. | ||
 Idolator InfluenceIt is a wise Fallen Noble who either cultivates the favour of their Idolators or sets one cabal against the other and reaps the rewards of their fierce competition. Leaders that have curried goodwill amongst the ranks of the Idolators will have access to new and powerful Battle Traits in the form of Idolators’ Offerings, which can be fashioned onto various parts of a Knight, granting unique capabilities specific to that part of their Knight suit. | ||
 War Dog DominationBe it Fallen Nobles perfecting their control of War Dogs via the link between Thrones and Helms, or a pack of Unleashed Chaos Knights gaining their independence, mastery of these lighter Knights brings tactical benefits. The War Dog pilots in this force have been firmly dominated by Fallen Noble masters or pack Alphas, allowing them to be formed into large Hunting Packs and used to pin and bring down foes. | ||
There are five levels of standing for each Power Base:
A standing level can never be reduced below Hostile and can never be increased beyond Aligned Interests.
Beginning to Amass Power
When your Crusade force begins to Amass Power, select one of the following Allegiances (Iconoclast House, Infernal House or Dreadblades) and make a note of it on your Order of Battle. The starting standing level of each of your Crusade force’s Power Bases is then shown in the table below. You may use Amassing Power tracker.
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Gaining Standing LevelsAdditional standing can be gained through completing Agendas. In addition:
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Idolators’ Offerings
Each time you give a model an Idolators’ Offering, after selecting the location you wish to upgrade, you can either roll one D6 to randomly determine the Battle Trait or select the one most appropriate for your narrative. If you have a good standing level within the Idolator Influence, you will also gain access to some of their most powerful technologies that you can install instead of ones generated from the table. Each location has two special Idolators’ Offerings: one that can only be given to a model if your Idolator Influence standing level is Cautious Alliance or higher and another that can only be given if it is Aligned Interests.
These bundles of gruesomely harvested muscle and rune-etched machinery strain with unnatural vitality. They lend a Chaos Knight an obscene turn of speed.
Clusters of vicious spikes, wrought from metal or bone, have been mounted on this Knight’s hull or have sprouted from it. They impale luckless foes at close quarters.
Carved into the Knight’s huge armoured greaves, these foul glyphs radiate hatred and arrogance, foes struggling not to instinctively cower at the sight of them.
With every stride towards its victims, every foe crushed underfoot, the Chaos Knight fills these empyric batteries with a charge of spiteful power to be released in the form of speed at a vital moment.
Those seeking to flee from this towering monster may be caught and torn apart by swipes of these vicious talons.
This arcane device reads the strands of its victims’ fates in the winds of the warp, then guides even the most wildly aimed firepower to where their doom awaits.
Threaded through the mechanisms of the weapon arm, these foul masses of muscle and flesh lend extra force to the Chaos Knight’s blows.
Blister-like eyes peer from this arm’s weapon housing, perceiving the souls of the prey no matter where or how they hide.
This weapon has been infused with a machine spirit so fierce and predacious that it will strike before its pilot even consciously recognises the need.
and can do so even if you have already targeted a different unit with that Stratagem this phase.
Caged within the weapon limb, these sparks of warp sentience watch constantly for approaching foes and turn their spite upon any who dare draw too near.
This rare device channels momentary surges of ion shield energy across the Chaos Knight’s hull, protecting it from the back blast from its own point-blank fire.
This Chaos Knight’s hull crawls with heretical warding runes and protective spells.
These reactor-limiter spirits actively overcharge the Chaos Knight’s power plant in the instant before its destruction, ensuring its demise claims many lives.
Tormented faces constantly rise to the surface of these rippling armour plates, straining and screaming in terrifying fashion before submerging once again.
Supplied by magi of the Dark Mechanicum itself, these armour plates are fashioned from the most infernal materials that endure with supernatural tenacity.
This fleshmetal visor slithers down over the pilot’s face and allows them to see in supernatural spectra.
This foul entity’s data-tendrils stretch out from the pilot’s Throne to infest others in the lance and transmit whispered messages.
This entity lurks within the shell of the Chaos Knight, held at bay by the pilot’s will but ever ready to seize control should that will waver.
This pseudo-sentient machine spirit singles out key prey and temporarily dominates all other systems within the Chaos Knight, goading it to pour all its fury into the chosen victim.
This arcane array of biomechanical and warp-infused instrumentation draws information in from both the realspace battlefield and its echoes in the warp, giving its user unparalleled strategic command.
At the start of the first battle round, you can form the WAR DOG models from your army into one or more Hunting Packs for the duration of the battle, the size of which is determined by your standing level with the War Dog Domination as shown in the table below.
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Once you have done so, you must select one Hunt Tactic for each Hunting Pack in your Crusade army. Until the end of the battle, while a model from that Hunting Pack is within 12" of one or more other models from that Hunting Pack, that model has the Hunt Tactic selected for that Hunting Pack.
Each Hunt Tactic has a secondary effect that only affects its Hunting Pack if that Hunting Pack is Ascendant. At the start of the battle, no Hunting Packs are Ascendant. Each time a model from a Hunting Pack destroys an enemy unit, after resolving all of that model’s attacks, that Hunting Pack becomes Ascendant, if it is not already, until the end of the battle.
Hunt Tactics
Making straight for the prey, the pack aims to either tear it to pieces or else drive it from cover in terrified disarray.
The pack focuses on trapping their prey before ripping them limb from limb.
Prowling the battlefield, these War Dogs wait until their prey believe themselves safe before picking them off with long-ranged firepower.
The pack’s War Dogs close formation and present their thickest armour to the prey, bulling forward into their midst.
These hunters focus on evading their prey’s notice, closing in through dense terrain and loping low to the ground.
Maintaining constant vox-contact and employing a gestalt warp-manifold to exchange strategic data, War Dogs hunt their prey with exceptional cunning.
Pacts of Damnation
A Pact of Damnation consists of two parts, a Dark Boon and a Cursed Price. A Dark Boon is a powerful benefit that the model gains, and can be selected from those below, while the Cursed Price is a Battle Scar that cannot be removed without breaking the pact entirely using the Path to Damnation Requisition. Note that a Cursed Price does not count towards the number of Battle Scars a model is considered to have for the purposes of Out of Action tests (so you can choose the Battle Scar result on an Out of Action test for a unit with two normal Battle Scars and a Cursed Price).
When a unit gains a Pact of Damnation, choose the Dark Boon that most fits your narrative, based on your Crusade forces Dark Gods standing level. Then determine the Cursed Price by randomly generating a Chaos Knights Battle Scar.
A model can never have more than one Pact of Damnation, and you cannot have more than one model in your Order of Battle with the same Dark Boon.
Minor Dark Boons
The ghosts within this Fallen Noble’s Throne have been granted malevolent insight. They constantly whisper into the pilot’s mind, revealing the deepest fears of the foe.
Raw fury radiates from this Chaos Knight, crushing the will and courage of those it touches.
The words that slither from this Fallen Noble’s twisted lips become irresistible compulsions in the minds of their servants.
Major Dark Boons
The dark power of a patron deity flow through this Knight suit’s ion shield and weave themselves about its hull in a divine protective aegis.
Occluded by a magnificent gilded glare, this Chaos Knight vanishes into the warp seemingly at will only to emerge elsewhere.
The blood fury of this raging power plant can reignite even after the most grievous damage.
Requisitions
If your Crusade army includes any Chaos Knights units, you can spend Requisition points (RP) on any of the following Requisitions.
Cabals of Idolators can replace technologies they have previously worked into a Chaos Knights chassis. There are risks to such work, however, as damage - accidental or malicious - may be inflicted.
The Dark Gods are said to be jealous patrons and the ways of the warp are fickle. There is peril in breaking and remaking pacts that court their favour.
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Many Fallen Nobles cleave with psychotic fervour to sworn oaths. Yet when the chance of greater power beckons, they can be all too quick to justify betraying these very pacts while believing that their deeds do no such thing.
Whether claimed as a trophy in battle and broken to heel, presented as martial tribute by fawning underlings or unleashed from within the dread household’s hellish stable, a new Knight suit beckons.
Battle Scars
When generating a Battle Scar for a Chaos Knights unit, you can use the table below. If rolling for a WAR DOG model, only apply results 1-3, re-rolling results of 4-6.
Motive actuators crucial to the Knight suit’s mobility have been damaged.
This Knight’s machine spirit has devolved into feral savagery and needs goading back to full function.
Battle damage or warp corruption has led this Knight suit to emit gouts of pollutant foulness and flaring energy that betray its position.
Whether through intentional sabotage, battle damage or sheer incompetence, the Idolators’ technological additions to this Knight suit are starting to fail.
Capricious fluctuations in this Knight suit’s power supply rob command systems and empyric resonators of energy at crucial moments.
Broken trophy chains, damaged armour and torn banners trail from this Knight suit, becoming snarled on battlefield obstacles.
Crusade Relics
When a Chaos Knights Character model gains a Crusade Relic, you can select one of the Relics presented here.
Artificer Relics
Legend has it this cloak of woven hair and threaded teeth comprises contributions taken from the populations of a hundred conquered worlds.Unutterably foul it may be, but any who wears it is imbued with a supernatural talent for oppression and martial domination. Wars have been fought between dread households over its possession.
Each time the bearer makes an attack that targets a unit within range of an objective marker, add 1 to the Hit roll.This eight-pointed emblem is bestowed by dark artificers in return for a bounty of stolen technology. Striking it causes it to shatter, the fragments running like quicksilver to patch rent armour and mend broken power lines. Mysteriously, in the wake of battle, the icon is always discovered whole again somewhere about its owner’s person - even should they seek to rid themselves of its unsettling presence.
Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can use this Crusade Relic. If it does, it regains up to D6 lost wounds.Said to have been forged from the despoiled ramparts of the Keep Inviolate, these warp-soaked chains radiate a malice that can make even the stoutest heart falter.
While an enemy unit is within Engagement Range of the bearer, subtract 1 from the Objective Control characteristic of models in that enemy unit (to a minimum of 1).Antiquity Relics
This thrice-cursed Throne Mechanicum feeds off the blood and soul of its user as a perpetual offering to the Dark Gods, in return for a mote of their favour.
Each time the bearer is selected to shoot or fight, it can use this Crusade Relic. If it does, it suffers D6 mortal wounds and until the end of the phase, each time it makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.Those who assail this Knight are beset by a squall of shadowy wings, flashing beaks and gouging talons. It is a determined foe indeed who dares the wrath of these swarming Pterrorshades.
Each time an enemy unit within 18" of the bearer makes an attack that targets the bearer, until the end of the phase, that enemy unit’s ranged weapons have the [HAZARDOUS] ability.Legendary Relics
Said to imprison an entire warp storm, hues of madness ripple and change constantly in the crystal shard at the talisman’s heart. Supernatural tempests gather about its bearer and drown the lands around them in a tide of dread.
The bearer always benefits from every Dread ability, regardless of which ones are currently active for your army.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.
Dread Baron
Through violent conquest, cunning politicking and the striking of diabolical pacts, you have attained considerable personal power. A lance of Chaos Knights marches at your command. Lands are yours to tyrannise and exploit however you see fit. Yet this is only a beginning, a foundation laid for something greater still to come, and your cruel ambitions know no limit.
- You have the maximum standing level in at least one Power Base.
- You have won two or more battles.
Exalted Fiend
So great and terrible is the tale of your deeds, so many foes have you slain and battlefields have you conquered, that your star is now firmly in the ascendant. You have earned a place within the innermost circle of your dread household’s monarch, becoming a trusted advisor as well as their champion, herald, headsman or seneschal. Yet you still desire greater power, and the Path to Glory is paved with the skulls of rulers betrayed by their closest lieutenants.
- You have the maximum standing level in at least two different Power Bases at the same time.
- You have won six or more battles.
- At least one CHARACTER unit from your Order of Battle has reached the Heroic rank.
Heretic Monarch
Your victories - over enemies and former allies alike - have elevated you to ultimate power. You now rule an entire dread household, commanding the world-conquering might of its massed lances, Idolator cabals and myriad esoteric assets. Your realm is an entire world, perhaps even a stellar empire. Of course, with so much power at your disposal, the galactic conquests you could achieve are considerable. Fresh wars beckon. Your Path to Glory does not end here.
- You have the maximum standing level in all three Power Bases at the same time.
- You have won ten or more battles.
- At least one CHARACTER unit from your Order of Battle has reached the Legendary rank.
The ABHORRENT keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The ACASTUS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The BEASTS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The CERASTUS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The CHAOS KNIGHTS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The CULT DEMAGOGUE keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The DAMNED keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights 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 Knights datasheets:
The GRENADES keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The HERETIC ASTARTES keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The KNIGHT ACHERON keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The KNIGHT ASTERIUS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The KNIGHT ATRAPOS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The KNIGHT CASTIGATOR keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The KNIGHT LANCER keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The KNIGHT MAGAERA keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The KNIGHT PORPHYRION keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The KNIGHT STYRIX keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The MOIRAX keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The PSYKER keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The SWARM keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The TITANIC keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights 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 TOWERING keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The WALKER keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The WAR DOG keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights 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).
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
- 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).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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- 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
While a model with an aura ability is on the battlefield, it is always within range of its own aura ability.
A unit can be affected by more than one aura ability at a time, but if a unit is within range of the same aura ability more than once, that aura ability only applies to that unit once.
- 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
- 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).
Where Chaos Knights tread, the skies grow unnaturally dark and the power of the warp permeates the battlefield.
If your Army Faction is CHAOS KNIGHTS, each unit from your army with this ability gains Dread abilities, depending which are active for your army (see below). The Deathly Terror ability is active for your army from the start of the battle. In addition, at the start of the first, third and fifth battle rounds, you can either select one of the other Dread abilities or randomly select two Dread abilities to apply by rolling two D6 and applying the results rolled, from those numbered 1-6.Any Dread abilities that have been selected are active until the end of the battle. You cannot select the same Dread ability more than once, and any duplicated Dread abilities (as a result of randomly selecting them) have no additional effect.
- 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
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.- It can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them.
- It can also move through sections of terrain features that are more than 4" in height, but if it does, after it has moved, roll one D6: on a 1, that model is Battle-shocked.
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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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.Calling upon heretical - often supernatural - powers, these Knights are infused with strange and terrible might.
In your Command phase, one or more Chaos Knights units from your army can make a Malefic Surge. Each one that does must first take a Leadership test; if that test is failed, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Then, until the start of your next Command phase, that unit is Empowered. While a unit is Empowered it can use one of the Malefic Surge abilities below. Once that unit has used a Malefic Surge ability, it is no longer Empowered.- Unholy Hunger: When a model in this unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, until the end of the phase, add 3" to its Move characteristic.
- Diabolic Power: When this unit is selected to shoot or fight, select either the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in this unit have the selected ability.
- Unnatural Fortitude: When this unit is selected as the target of an attack, select one of the following to apply until the end of the phase:
- Models in this unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.
- Models in this unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability.
Designer’s Note: We recommend placing a token next to Chaos Knights models that are Empowered, removing it once they have used a Malefic Surge ability, and removing all unused tokens at the start of your Command phase.
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.- 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.
- 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).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 Chaos Knights Character unit from your army that is within range of one or more objective markers you control.
EFFECT: Select one of those objective markers. That objective marker remains under your control, with a Level of Control of 5 (unless it would otherwise be higher), until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a 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).
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.
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.
- 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").The WAR DOGS tag is used in the following Chaos Knights detachments:
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 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.
- 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.
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 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.
- 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.
The CHAOS KNIGHTS and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
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.
- 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.
Cabals of Idolators can replace technologies they have previously worked into a Chaos Knights chassis. There are risks to such work, however, as damage - accidental or malicious - may be inflicted.
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.
The Dark Gods are said to be jealous patrons and the ways of the warp are fickle. There is peril in breaking and remaking pacts that court their favour.
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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.