Chaos Knights – Knight Abominant
M
10"
T
11
SV
3+
W
26
LD
6+
OC
10
INSV*
5+
* Against ranged attacks only
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
| Diabolus heavy stubber rapid fire 3 | |||||||
| Diabolus heavy stubber rapid fire 3 | 36" | 3 | 3+ | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Volkite combustor Ignores Cover devastating wounds | |||||||
| Volkite combustor Ignores Cover devastating wounds | 30" | 12 | 3+ | 12 | 0 | 3 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Balemace extra attacks | |||||||
| Balemace extra attacks | Melee | 3 | 3+ | 8 | -1 | 2 | |
| Electroscourge sustained hits 1 | |||||||
| Electroscourge sustained hits 1 | Melee | 9 | 3+ | 10 | -2 | 3 | |
ABILITIES
CORE: Deadly Demise D6
FACTION: Harbingers of Dread, Super-heavy Walker
Vortex Terrors (Psychic): At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 24" of and visible to this model. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.Warp Storms (Psychic): At the end of your Movement phase, roll one D6 for each enemy unit within 9" of one or more models with this ability: on a 3+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 1 Knight Abominant
| YOUR 1ST TO 2ND UNITS COST | |
| 1 model | 355 |
| YOUR 3RD + UNIT COSTS | |
| 1 model | 370 |
DAMAGED: 1-9 WOUNDS REMAINING
While this model has 1-9 wounds remaining, subtract 5 from this model’s Objective Control characteristic and each time this model makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
KEYWORDS: VEHICLE; WALKER; TITANIC; TOWERING; ABHORRENT; PSYKER; CHARACTER; CHAOS; KNIGHT ABOMINANT
FACTION KEYWORDS:
CHAOS KNIGHTS
CHAOS KNIGHTS
STRATAGEMS
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Core
C
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Core
C
RAPID INGRESS
1CP
Core
C
CRUSHING IMPACT
1CP
Core
C
HEROIC INTERVENTION
1CP
Core
C
EPIC CHALLENGE
1CP
Core
C
COUNTEROFFENSIVE
2CP
Core
C
BATTLEFIELD COMMAND
1CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic
BA
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
FERAL ARROGANCE
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Strategic Ploy
CONTEMPTUOUS VOLLEYS
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Strategic Ploy
FLUSH THE QUARRY
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Battle Tactic
BEASTHIDE MANIFESTATION
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Battle Tactic
MERCILESS FUSILLADE
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Battle Tactic
GOADED BEAST
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Strategic Ploy
AVENGE THE MASTERS!
1CP
Iconoclast Fiefdom Stratagem
PROFANE SYMBIOSIS
1CP
Infernal Lance – Battle Tactic
CORRUPTING TAINT
1CP
Infernal Lance – Epic Deed
UNLEASH BALEFIRE
1CP
Infernal Lance – Wargear
WARP VISION
1CP
Infernal Lance – Wargear
DIABOLIC BULWARK
1CP
Infernal Lance – Wargear
HELLFORGED CONSTRUCTION
1CP
Infernal Lance – Battle Tactic
SPITEFUL DEMISE
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed
CLAIMED FOR THE DARK GODS
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed
CRUSHED LIKE VERMIN
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed
RUNES OF DISDAIN
2CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed
TITANIC DUEL
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed
TROPHY HUNTER
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed
PTERRORSHADES
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Wargear
A LONG LEASH
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Strategic Ploy
IMPERIOUS ADVANCE
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Epic Deed
STORM OF DARKNESS
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Strategic Ploy
CONQUERORS WITHOUT MERCY
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Battle Tactic
DISDAIN FOR THE WEAK
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Strategic Ploy
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Paragons of Terror
Malefic Surge
Tyrannical Court
Masters of the Pack
ENHANCEMENTS
Nightmare’s Master
20
Tyrant’s Shadow
25
Malevolent Heraldry
30
Veil of Medrengard
35
Iconoclast Idol (Aura)
20
Cruel Lashmaster (Aura)
25
Knight Diabolus
25
Bestial Aspect
30
Blasphemous Engine
35
Fleshmetal Fusion
35
Blessing of the Dark Master
20
Throne Mechanicum of Skulls
25
Warp-borne Stalker
25
Mirror of Fates
30
Putrid Carapace
30
Blade of Celerity
35
Hunter’s Helm
15
Throne Tyrannicus
25
Aspect of the Beast
30
Octagram of Conjuration
40
The ABHORRENT keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Character
Infantry
Swarm
The CHAOS KNIGHTS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Character
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The DAMNED keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
Infantry
Swarm
The PSYKER keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Character
The TITANIC keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Character
22.05 Plunging Fire
Each time a model makes a ranged attack that targets a visible unit containing one or more models on ground level, if one or more of the following conditions apply, improve the BS characteristic of that attack by 1:- 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:
Vehicle Character
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Character
The WALKER keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Character
The WAR DOG keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
[DEVASTATING WOUNDS]24.10
The most potent weapons strike with such power that they make a mockery of armour and can cleave through several foes.
Each time an attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon results in a critical wound, the attack sequence for that attack ends and the target unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the D characteristic of that weapon. These are inflicted after resolving any normal damage inflicted by those attacks.Mortal wounds inflicted by [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapons can damage a maximum of one model for each critical wound; any remaining mortal wounds inflicted by that attack are lost.
Example: An attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon with a D characteristic of 3 results in a critical wound against an Intercessor Squad, so inflicts 3 mortal wounds. The first 2 mortal wounds are sufficient to destroy 1 Intercessor model, so the remaining mortal wound is lost.
05.02.01 Multiple Toughness Characteristics
When resolving attacks that target a unit in which the models have two or more different T characteristics, follow the first instruction that applies from below:- If the target unit is an attached unit, use the highest T characteristic amongst bodyguard models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
- Use the highest T characteristic amongst models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
Wound Roll
Make one wound roll for each hit by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a wound by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL WOUNDS
Critical wounds are still wounds. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical wound, such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] (24).SEE ALSO
- Multiple Toughness Characteristics 05.02.01
13.08 Benefit of Cover
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit, if every model in that unit meets one or more of the following conditions, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack:- That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area.
- That model is not fully visible to the attacking model due to one or more intervening terrain features and/or one or more intervening obscuring terrain areas (see below).
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit that has the benefit of cover against it, worsen the BS characteristic of that attack by 1.
STEALTH24.33
The stealthiest warriors can evade the attentions, and the bullets, of their foes.
If every model in a unit has this ability, each time a ranged attack targets that unit, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).01.02.01 Starting Strength and Half-Strength
The number of models a unit contains at the start of the first battle round is its starting strength. The starting strength of an attached unit is the number of models that unit contains at the start of the first battle round.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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Example: A Captain (1 model) is attached to a unit of Intercessors (5 models). This attached unit has a starting strength of 6. If three Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be at half-strength. If four Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be below half-strength. If all of the Intercessors were destroyed, the remaining Captain would be below half-strength, despite having his full wounds remaining.
SOME UNITS CANNOT BE AT HALF-STRENGTH
If a model’s W characteristic or a unit’s starting strength cannot be evenly divided in half, that model or unit cannot be at half-strength (but can be below half-strength as described above).06.02.01 Normal Damage
Normal Damage is damage that was inflicted on a model as a result of a weapon’s D characteristic, rather than by other means such as mortal wounds. Mortal wounds dealt in addition to normal damage from an attack are part of that same attack.
06.02 Mortal Wounds
Some attacks or rules inflict mortal wounds on units. Each time a unit suffers one or more mortal wounds, its controlling player must resolve the following sequence for each of those mortal wounds, until either all of them have been inflicted or that unit is destroyed:- Select Model: Select one model in that unit by following the first instruction below that applies:
If a non-CHARACTER model in that unit has lost one or more wounds, you must select that model. Otherwise, if that unit contains one or more non-CHARACTER models, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, if one or more CHARACTER models in that unit have lost one or more wounds, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, you must select one CHARACTER model in that unit. - Resolve Damage: The selected model loses 1 wound. If this reduces that model’s remaining wounds to 0, it is destroyed.
MORTAL WOUNDS AND NORMAL DAMAGE
When resolving attack dice, if those attacks inflict a mixture of both mortal wounds and normal damage, resolve all of the normal damage first, then resolve all of the mortal wounds.
SEE ALSO
- Normal Damage 06.02.01
22.01 Aura Abilities
Abilities that affect models or units within a stated range are aura abilities, and are tagged with the word ‘Aura’.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.
03.04 Engagement
A model’s engagement range is the area of the battlefield within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of it.
- While a friendly model is within engagement range of one or more enemy models, those models – and the units they belong to – are engaged with each other.
- While a unit contains no engaged models, that unit is unengaged.
WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT?
While opposing models are within each other’s engagement range, they are able to fight in vicious melee, so unless they are seeking to make melee attacks, models should keep out of their foes’ reach.
ENGAGEMENT
These two units have at least one model within 2" of the opposing unit, and are therefore engaged with each other.
NORMAL MOVE09.05
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
ADVANCE MOVE09.06
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Advance roll + your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Make an advance roll by rolling one D6.
AFTER MOVING:
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or start an action.
06.03 Hazard Rolls
To make a hazard roll for a unit, roll one D6: on a 1-2, that roll fails and that unit suffers 1 mortal wound, or 3 mortal wounds instead if each model in that unit is a MONSTER/VEHICLE model. If more than one hazard roll is required for a unit, make all of those rolls simultaneously.
FALL-BACK MOVE09.07
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is engaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select fall-back mode:
- Ordered Retreat: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you can select this mode.
- Desperate Escape: Otherwise, you must select this mode. Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
- Desperate Escape: Each model that is moved can be moved through enemy models.
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to shoot, declare a charge or start an action.
- Desperate Escape: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you must make a battle-shock roll for your unit (01.07).
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.
DEATHLY TERROR (AURA)
N/A
While an enemy unit is within 9" of this model, worsen the Leadership characteristic of models in that unit by 1.
DESPAIR (AURA)
While an enemy unit is within 9" of this model, worsen the Leadership characteristic of models in that unit by 1. This is cumulative with the Deathly Terror ability (see above).
DOOM
Each time this model makes an attack, if the target of that attack is Battle-shocked, add 1 to the Wound roll.
DARKNESS
This model has Stealth.
DISMAY (AURA)
In the Battle-shock step of your opponent’s Command phase, for each enemy unit that is below its Starting Strength and within 9" of this model, that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
DELIRIUM (AURA)
While an enemy unit that is Below Half-strength is within 9" of this model, each time that unit fails a Battle-shock test, it suffers D3 mortal wounds.
DOMINION
Add 3" to the range of this model’s Aura abilities.
01.07.01 Battlefield Morale
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.
01.07 Battle-shock Rolls
To make a battle-shock roll for a unit, its controlling player makes a leadership roll for it (see above).- If that roll succeeds, that unit does not become battle-shocked.
- If that roll fails, that unit, and each model in it, is battle-shocked.
While a unit is battle-shocked:
- The Objective Control (OC) characteristic of all of its models is modified to ‘-’ (02.02).
- Its controlling player cannot target that unit with stratagems (15).
- It is not eligible to start an action (16), and any action it has started cannot be completed.
SEE ALSO
- Battlefield Morale 01.07.01
- Battle-shock Test 01.07.02
BATTLEFIELD MORALE
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.FEEL NO PAIN24.12
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.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.
[LETHAL HITS]24.23
Many deadly weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.
Each time an attack made with a [LETHAL HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, you can choose for that attack to automatically wound the target.Designer’s Note: Choosing to automatically wound the target means that no wound roll is made for that attack. You may decide against this, as it means that attack cannot result in a critical wound and so cannot trigger other abilities such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].
Hit Roll
Make one hit roll for each attack dice by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a hit by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL HITS
Critical hits are still hits. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical hit, such as [LETHAL HITS] (24).01.06 Leadership Rolls
To make a leadership roll for a unit, its controlling player rolls 2D6: if the result is equal to or greater than one or more of the Ld characteristics in that unit, that roll succeeds. Otherwise, that roll fails. The rule that instructed you to make that leadership roll will describe the effects of that roll succeeding or failing.
[SUSTAINED HITS]24.36
Some weapons possess a punishing rate of fire, or can land devastating flurries of blows, tearing the foe apart with relentless ferocity.
This ability always takes the form [SUSTAINED HITS X]. Each time an attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, that attack results in a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by X.Example: An attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS 2] weapon results in a critical hit. That attack therefore hits the target three times (once from the critical hit, and twice more from the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability).
Malefic Surge
Infernal Lance Detachment
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.
[LANCE]24.21
With the momentum of a warrior at full-tilt, lance weapons are deadly on the charge.
Each time an attack is made with a [LANCE] weapon, if the attacking model’s unit made a charge move this turn, add 1 to the wound roll.Save Rolls
The opposing player resolves the following sequence:- Create Groups: Divide all models in the target unit into the following groups, as many times as required:
- One group for each CHARACTER model.
- One group for all other models with the same W, Sv and InSv characteristics.
- Allocation Order: Declare the order in which those groups will have attacks allocated to them, applying all of the following:
- If a non-CHARACTER group contains a model that has lost one or more wounds, that group must be first in the allocation order.
- No CHARACTER group can be earlier in the allocation order than a non-CHARACTER group.
- CHARACTER groups containing a model that has lost one or more wounds must be earlier in the allocation order than CHARACTER groups containing no wounded models.
- Make Save Rolls: The opposing player makes one save roll for each attack that wounded the target by rolling one D6.
ASSAULT SHOOTING10.05
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply to your unit:
WHILE SHOOTING: You can only select [ASSAULT] weapons to make attacks with.
AFTER SHOOTING: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to start an action.
- Unengaged and made an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [ASSAULT] weapons.
WHILE SHOOTING: You can only select [ASSAULT] weapons to make attacks with.
AFTER SHOOTING: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to start an action.
[ASSAULT]24.04
Folding stocks, shortened barrels or lightweight construction enable some weapons to be easily fired on the move.
Units containing one or more models with an [ASSAULT] weapon can shoot using assault shooting (10.05).[IGNORES COVER]24.18
Some weapons are designed to root enemy formations out of entrenched positions.
Each time an attack is made with an [IGNORES COVER] weapon, the target cannot have the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08), including from rules that give a model or unit the benefit of cover (e.g. Stealth).CLAIMED FOR THE DARK GODS
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed Stratagem
The Fallen Noble dedicates their latest conquest to the Dark Gods in hope of reward.
WHEN: Start of your Command phase.
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: 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.
FIGHTS FIRST24.13
Those possessed of lightning-fast reactions may strike before the opponent can react.
While every model in a unit has this ability, that unit is a Fights First unit.See the Resolve Fights First Combats step in the Fight phase (12.04).
DEEP STRIKE
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.
05.04.04 Destroyed
Throughout a battle, models will suffer damage, lose wounds and be destroyed. When every model in a unit has been destroyed, that unit is destroyed.When a model is destroyed, first resolve any rules that are triggered when it is destroyed, then it is removed from the battlefield. If any such rules apply, and if the model was destroyed as the result of an attack, unless otherwise stated, those rules are only resolved and that model is only removed after the attacking unit’s attacks have been resolved. Unless otherwise stated, destroyed models and units cannot use abilities or be selected or targeted by rules.
Some rules only trigger if an enemy model or unit was destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army. This means that the enemy model or unit was destroyed by an attack made by a model from your army, or by a player rule you have. Enemy models or units that are destroyed by any other means are not destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army.
01.04.03 As Close As Possible
- 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.
EMERGENCY DISEMBARK MOVE18.05
SET-UP DISTANCE: 6"
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is embarked within a TRANSPORT model that was just destroyed.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.
DEADLY DEMISE24.08
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").Example: An Impulsor with a unit of Intercessors embarked within it is destroyed by ranged attacks. First, any unresolved attacks made by the attacking unit are resolved. Then the Intercessors make an emergency disembark move. Then the roll is made for the Deadly Demise ability, and on a 6, that ability is resolved. Finally, the Impulsor is removed from the battlefield.
06.01 Visibility
Line of sight is used to determine visibility between models. For an observing model to have line of sight, it must be possible to draw an imaginary straight line, 1 mm wide, from any part of that model to any part of the model being observed. This line is the line of sight. While doing so, other models in the observing model’s unit and in the observed model’s unit are ignored.Other models and units can be either visible or fully visible to the observing model, as shown below. Note that terrain applies additional rules to visibility (13.07).
Model Visible
If any part of another model is visible to the observing model, that model is visible.
Model Fully Visible
If every part of another model that is facing the observing model is visible to the observing model (so the only thing blocking visibility to any part of that other model is that model itself), that model is fully visible.
Unit Visible
If one or more models in a unit are visible to the observing model, that unit is visible.
Unit Fully Visible
If every model in a unit is fully visible to the observing model, that unit is fully visible. When determining this, the observing model can see through other models in that unit.
04.03.04 Shot
When all of the attacks made with a ranged weapon have been resolved, that weapon has shot.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.
Surge Move
SURGE MOVE21.02
SET-UP DISTANCE: As stated in the rule allowing this move type.
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply:- 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.
The CHAOS KNIGHTS and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
HEROIC INTERVENTION15.11
1CP
Core Stratagem
Voices raised in furious war cries, your warriors surge forth to meet the enemy’s onslaught head-on.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
- Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
+1CP
- Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.
[BLAST]24.05
High-explosive rounds can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them too close to comrades is unwise.
Each time you gather attack dice for a [BLAST] weapon, add one additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down).If this ability takes the form [BLAST X], each time you gather attack dice for such a weapon, add X additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down) instead.
Example: If a [BLAST 2] weapon with an A characteristic of 3 targets a unit containing 12 models, you would gather four additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of seven for that weapon).
[HAZARDOUS]24.15
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder and those that stand beside them.
Each time a unit is selected to shoot or selected to fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, make a number of hazard rolls (06.03) for that unit equal to the number of [HAZARDOUS] weapons you selected in the Select Weapons step.Army List
Datasheets collatedVehicle Character
Battleline
Infantry
Swarm
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
COMMAND RE-ROLL15.02
1CP
Core Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you make one of the following rolls for a friendly unit or model:
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
- Advance roll
- Charge roll
- Damage roll
- Hazard roll
- Hit roll
- Save roll
- Wound roll
- A roll to determine the number of attacks generated with a weapon.
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
01.05.01 Automatically Successful/Passes/Hits/Wounds
When a dice roll or test is automatically successful or automatically passes/hits/wounds, do not roll the dice and instead move to the next step of the sequence for that roll as if the required result had been rolled. Any rules that take effect on a particular dice result or roll result do not take effect.Example: If a hit roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Wound Rolls step for that attack. Such a hit roll is not a critical hit.
Example: If a wound roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Save Rolls step for that attack. Such a wound roll is not a critical wound.
INSANE BRAVERY15.04
1CP
Core Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you make a battle-shock roll for a friendly unit.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
INGRESS MOVE20.04
SET-UP DISTANCE: 6"
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is in strategic reserves (excluding units that are embarked within TRANSPORTS that are themselves in strategic reserves).EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
WHILE MOVING: Set up your unit wholly within the set-up distance of one or more battlefield edges and more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
- Before the Third Battle Round: While doing so, no models can be set up within your opponent’s deployment zone.
RAPID INGRESS15.07
1CP
Core Stratagem
Be it cunning strategy, potent technology or supernatural ritual, there are many means by which a commander may hasten their warriors’ onset.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
CHARGE MOVE11.04
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Charge roll.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit declared a charge this phase.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select one or more enemy units that are within 12" of your unit and within the maximum distance of your unit; until the end of this move, each of those enemy units is a charge target.
WHILE MOVING:
- Each model must end its move closer to one or more charge targets.
- Each model that can end its move within 1" of one or more charge targets must do so.
- Each model that can end its move engaged with one or more charge targets must do so.
- Your unit must be engaged with all of the charge targets.
- Your unit cannot be engaged with one or more enemy units that are not charge targets.
- Until the end of the turn, each model in your unit has the Fights First ability (24.13).
CRUSHING IMPACT15.06
1CP
Core Stratagem
In extremis, armoured vehicles and rampaging monsters can use their sheer size as a weapon, ramming and crushing enemies beneath their colossal bulk, though doing so risks sustaining damage in return.
WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after a friendly MONSTER/VEHICLE unit ends a charge move.
TARGET: That MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: Resolve the following sequence:
TARGET: That MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: Resolve the following sequence:
- Select one enemy unit engaged with your unit.
- Select one model in your unit engaged with that enemy unit.
- Roll a number of D6 equal to the T characteristic of that model: for each 1, your unit suffers 1 mortal wound; for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds per unit).
COUNTEROFFENSIVE15.12
2CP
Core Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight step of your opponent’s Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you have made a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll, a saving throw, an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test, a Hazardous test, or just after you have rolled the dice to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon, for an attack, model or unit from your army.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just after you have failed a Battle-shock test taken for a unit from your army.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A well-placed explosive munition in confined shipboard spaces can cause bloody carnage.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
FERAL ARROGANCE
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
This Chaos Knight shrugs off even the most dire hurts as though they are beneath such a mighty, warp‑empowered predator.
WHEN: Any phase, just after a mortal wound is allocated to a Chaos Knights unit from your army.
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: 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.
CONTEMPTUOUS VOLLEYS
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
No mere prey swirling about their steed’s feet will prevent this scion from focusing their fire.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a CHAOS KNIGHTS unit from your army Falls Back.
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: 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.
FLUSH THE QUARRY
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Urged on by their masters, the War Dogs push hard through the densest terrain.
WHEN: Start of your Movement phase.
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: 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.
BEASTHIDE MANIFESTATION
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The raw and bestial power of the Warp causes this Chaos Knight to sprout thick mutant scales and layered hide in response to incoming attacks
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
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 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.
MERCILESS FUSILLADE
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The scion slaves their servants’ weapons to their own, forming an overwhelming firestorm.
WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase or the start of the Fight phase.
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 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.
GOADED BEAST
1CP
Helhunt Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Firing upon adamantine monsters only goads them to greater wrath and more ferocious bloodshed.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.
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"
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"
AVENGE THE MASTERS!
1CP
Iconoclast Fiefdom Stratagem
As the object of their adulation is consumed by fire, mortal worshippers are roused to a desperate fury, seeking vengeance on behalf of their deceased master.
WHEN: Any phase, when a friendly CHAOS KNIGHTS unit is destroyed by an enemy unit.
TARGET: That enemy unit.
EFFECT: That enemy unit is marked until the end of the battle.
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].
PROFANE SYMBIOSIS
1CP
Infernal Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Some Fallen Nobles are conjoined, symbiotically or parasitically, with the hideous systems of their Chaos Knight. This allows them to channel more unholy energies, though not without risk.
WHEN: End of any phase.
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 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.
UNLEASH BALEFIRE
1CP
Infernal Lance – Wargear Stratagem
These weapons bathe the target in blasts of daemonic balefire that burns flesh and soul alike.
WHEN: Your Shooting 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: 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.
WARP VISION
1CP
Infernal Lance – Wargear Stratagem
Supernatural sensors perceive the soul-spoor of their prey, or even stare forward through fate and time.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
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 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.
DIABOLIC BULWARK
1CP
Infernal Lance – Wargear Stratagem
Ectoplasmic blood surges hot through glowing conduits as the Fallen Noble feeds power to their Knight suit’s supernaturally enhanced ion shield emitters.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
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.
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.
HELLFORGED CONSTRUCTION
1CP
Infernal Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Reinforced with warp-infused materials and warded through ritual blood sacrifice, these Chaos Knights can withstand unnatural levels of punishment.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
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 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.
PTERRORSHADES
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Wargear Stratagem
Shrieking with hunger, Pterrorshades descend in a whirlwind to feast on the fearful souls of the foe. Their banquet transmutes into vital energy that flows into the Chaos Knight on which they roost.
WHEN: Any phase, just after an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test.
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 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.
IMPERIOUS ADVANCE
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Epic Deed Stratagem
Employing piloting skill or brute force, Fallen Nobles can either manoeuvre or simply barge their steeds through foes and obstacles alike.
WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.
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: 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).
STORM OF DARKNESS
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Through dark rituals and dread pacts, the Chaos Knights draw upon the fear and despair of their foes and bind it into a curse upon the land itself, wreathing themselves in a shrouding pall.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
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:
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.
CONQUERORS WITHOUT MERCY
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Chaos Knights leave only death and devastation in their wake, and reduce entire worlds to ruin.
WHEN: Fight phase.
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 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.
DISDAIN FOR THE WEAK
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Fallen Nobles sneer at the pathetic efforts of their foes, doubly so in the case of those who fear them.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
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 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.
Paragons of Terror
Traitoris Lance Detachment
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).Tyrannical Court
Lords of Dread Detachment
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.Masters of the Pack
Helhunt Lance Detachment
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.Example: Two friendly WAR DOG models are within 9" of a Knight Desecrator when it is selected to shoot. As a result, the KNIGHT DESECRATOR’s Taskmaster ability also affects itself, even though it does not have the WAR DOG keyword, so each time that KNIGHT DESECRATOR makes a ranged attack, Hit rolls of 1 are re-rolled.
Helhunt Lance Detachment
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.
A LONG LEASH
1CP
Traitoris Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The neural connections between Fallen Nobles and doggedly loyal or fearful War Dog pilots can extend over remarkable distances.
WHEN: Your Command phase.
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: 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.
[RAPID FIRE]24.30
Rapid fire weapons are capable of long-ranged precision shots or controlled bursts at nearby targets.
This ability always takes the form [RAPID FIRE X]. Each time you gather attack dice for a [RAPID FIRE] weapon, add X additional attack dice if the target unit was within half range of that weapon in the Select Targets step.Example: If a [RAPID FIRE 1] weapon with an A characteristic of 1 targets a unit that is within half range, you would gather one additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of two for that weapon).
[EXTRA ATTACKS]24.11
Some warriors ride to battle atop trusty mounts that gore and trample nearby foes. Others wield combat weapons that deliver a frenzy of additional blows.
Each time a unit containing one or more models with an [EXTRA ATTACKS] weapon fights, those models will make attacks with those weapons in addition to any others. In the Select Weapons step (04.01), for each of those models, you must select:- All of that model’s [EXTRA ATTACKS] weapons.
- One of that model’s other melee weapons, if possible.
05.04.01 Current Allocation Group
The first group in the allocation order begins as the current group. Once all models in an allocation group are destroyed, the next group in the allocation order becomes the current one.
[PRECISION]24.28
Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd.
While resolving attacks made with one or more [PRECISION] weapons, at the start of the Allocation Order step (05.03), if the target unit contains one or more CHARACTER models visible to one or more of the attacking models, the active player can select one allocation group that contains one of those visible CHARACTER models. If they do, until those attacks are resolved, or until that CHARACTER group is destroyed (whichever happens first), that CHARACTER group is the current allocation group.EPIC CHALLENGE15.03
1CP
Core Stratagem
The legends of the 41st millennium are replete with deadly duels between mighty champions.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after a friendly CHARACTER unit is selected to fight.
TARGET: That CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Select one CHARACTER model in your unit. Until the end of the phase, that model’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] ability.
TARGET: That CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Select one CHARACTER model in your unit. Until the end of the phase, that model’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] ability.
LEADER24.22 / SUPPORT24.23
Mighty heroes fight at the forefront of battle.
Before the battle, in the Muster Armies step, for each leader and support unit in your army, you can select one friendly bodyguard unit that unit can lead. That unit will then lead that bodyguard unit for the battle and form an attached unit with it.Unless otherwise stated, each bodyguard unit can only have one leader unit and one support unit attached to it.
BATTLEFIELD COMMAND
1CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The commander's authoritative tone cuts through the din of battle, guiding the actions of nearby troops.
WHEN: Start or end of any phase.
TARGET: One Leader unit from your army and one friendly Bodyguard unit within 6" of it that it could normally be attached to.
EFFECT: Select one of your Leader unit’s Leader abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Bodyguard unit is treated as being led by that Leader unit for the purposes of that Leader ability.
RESTRICTIONS: Once you target a unit with this Stratagem, that unit cannot be targeted with it again until your next Command phase.
TARGET: One Leader unit from your army and one friendly Bodyguard unit within 6" of it that it could normally be attached to.
EFFECT: Select one of your Leader unit’s Leader abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Bodyguard unit is treated as being led by that Leader unit for the purposes of that Leader ability.
RESTRICTIONS: Once you target a unit with this Stratagem, that unit cannot be targeted with it again until your next Command phase.
CORRUPTING TAINT
1CP
Infernal Lance – Epic Deed Stratagem
The foul energies and unnatural influence of the Chaos Knights spread from them like sorcerous radiation, tainting all they touch.
WHEN: Your Command phase, just after a Chaos Knights Character unit from your army makes a Malefic Surge.
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: 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.
SPITEFUL DEMISE
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed Stratagem
Determined that tales will be told of their spectacular end, the Fallen Noble overloads the internal generators of their Knight suit, hoping to take their enemy with them into oblivion.
WHEN: Any phase, just after a Chaos Knights Character unit from your army is destroyed.
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: 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.
CRUSHED LIKE VERMIN
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed Stratagem
Screaming enemy warriors are crushed to gory paste as the Chaos Knight tramples spitefully through their midst, stamping and raking these unworthy foes with its huge, taloned feet.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a Chaos Knights Character unit from your army ends a Normal move.
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.
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.
RUNES OF DISDAIN
2CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed Stratagem
Inscribed into the Knight suit’s servo-skeleton, these markings channel the pilot’s contempt for the foe and manifest it as a sorcerous aura of defence.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
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 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.
TITANIC DUEL
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed Stratagem
The Chaos Knights engage in duels not for honour, but to assert their absolute dominance over the battlefield.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
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: 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.
TROPHY HUNTER
1CP
Lords of Dread – Epic Deed Stratagem
To these Fallen Nobles, each new foe chased down is another opportunity to claim gory trophies.
WHEN: Fight phase, just before a Chaos Knights Character unit from your army consolidates.
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: 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.
Traitoris Lance Detachment
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.
Traitoris Lance Detachment
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.
Traitoris Lance Detachment
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.
Traitoris Lance Detachment
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.
Iconoclast Fiefdom Detachment
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.
Iconoclast Fiefdom Detachment
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.
Infernal Lance Detachment
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.
Infernal Lance Detachment
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.
Infernal Lance Detachment
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.
Infernal Lance Detachment
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.
Lords of Dread Detachment
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.
Lords of Dread Detachment
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.
Lords of Dread Detachment
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.
Lords of Dread Detachment
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.
Lords of Dread Detachment
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.
Lords of Dread Detachment
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.
Helhunt Lance Detachment
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.
Helhunt Lance Detachment
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
Helhunt Lance Detachment
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:
Octagram of Conjuration (Aura): While a friendly WAR DOG model is within 9" of this model, after that WAR DOG model has shot, you can select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.