Drukhari
The Drukhari are a race of sadistic killers who feed upon the exquisite agony of their victims. From the Dark City of Commorragh, hidden deep within the twisting passages of the webway, their reaver-fleets strike forth in a never-ending search for new souls to torment.
Books
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Drukhari | ||||
| Drukhari | Faction Pack | 10 | 1.1 | October 2025 |
 Aeldari | ||||
| Aeldari | Faction Pack | 10 | 1.2 | February 2026 |
 Boarding Actions | ||||
| Boarding Actions | Expansion | 10 | 1.1 | July 2025 |
 Munitorum Field Manual | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual | Expansion | 11 | 1.0 | |
Keywords
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Introduction
The Detachment rule listed here will apply to either your whole army or to particular units within it.
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.
Army Rules
Power from Pain
The Drukhari feed on suffering and terror. Every arc of blood that jets from a blade-slit artery, every scream of agonised horror, every vertiginous moment of shock or despair experienced by their prey surges through the Drukhari like an intoxicant. As the battle rages, the denizens of the Dark City drink deep of the floodtide of pain. Sinews singing with stolen strength, motions blurred to preternatural swiftness, they howl in exhilarated bloodlust and fight all the harder to extract yet sweeter agonies from those who dare resist them.
All DRUKHARI units have a Pain ability, tagged with the word ‘Pain’. Pain abilities only apply to a unit while it is Empowered. If your Army Faction is DRUKHARI, you can Empower units from your army with Pain abilities by spending Pain tokens (see below).
Designer’s Note: You can also spend Pain tokens to activate additional effects in certain other rules such as Enhancements and Stratagems.
Gaining Pain Tokens
If your Army Faction is DRUKHARI, you gain Pain tokens as follows:
- 1 Pain token at the start of your Command phase.
- 1 Pain token each time an enemy unit is destroyed.
- 1 Pain token each time an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test.
Empowered Through Pain
Each Pain ability will state when you can spend Pain tokens to Empower that unit. When you do, until the end of the phase, that unit is Empowered and all Pain abilities it has take effect. While an Attached unit is Empowered, the Pain abilities of all Leader and Bodyguard units in that unit take effect - you do not need to spend additional Pain tokens to activate each of those Pain abilities.
Corsairs and Travelling Players
If your Army Faction is DRUKHARI, you can include HARLEQUINS and ANHRATHE units in your army, even though they do not have the DRUKHARI Faction keyword. The combined points value of HARLEQUINS and/or ANHRATHE units you can include in your army depends on the battle size, as follows:- Incursion: Up to 250 pts
- Strike Force: Up to 500 pts
- Onslaught: Up to 750 pts
No HARLEQUINS or ANHRATHE models included in your army in this way can be your WARLORD, and they cannot be given Enhancements.
Realspace Raiders
There are few better ways to display true power in Commorragh than by successfully allying warriors of the kabals, the wych cults and the haemonculus covens in a single raiding force. Only through cunning and flattery, menace and politicking is such a feat achieved. Yet the results achieved by forging such a temporary entente are rarely less than spectacular. Such tripartite realspace raids alloy the psychotraumatic sadism and nightmare weaponry of the covenites to the close-quarters quicksilver ferocity of the Wyches, underpinning the whole with the armoured firepower and paramilitary discipline of massed Kabalites. Augmented by bands of Commorrite sellswords with their esoteric combat specialities, the result is a raiding party as diverse as it is diabolical. Though they would never admit it, the strengths of each facet of Drukhari society cover for each others’ weaknesses, honing the blade of their martial might into something razor-swift and unutterably lethal.
Alliance of Agony
A spirit of decidedly unhealthy competition permeates intermingled realspace raids, with each Archon, Succubus and Haemonculus vying with their rivals to spread the most suffering and claim the greatest prizes. Though the Drukhari are canny enough to set aside infighting in the name of a successful raid, this mutual antagonism still spurs them all on to greater efforts.
At the start of the battle, you gain 2 Pain tokens for each of the following combinations your army contains (these do not need to be in the same Attached unit):- One or more ARCHON models and one or more KABALITE WARRIORS units.
- One or more SUCCUBUS models and one or more WYCHES units.
- One or more HAEMONCULUS models and one or more WRACKS units.
Designer’s Note: These are all cumulative, so if your army contains at least one of all of the combinations listed above, you start the battle with 6 Pain tokens.
Enhancements
Surrounded by terror and pain, this champion of the Dark City is a veritable conduit of cruel vitality. DRUKHARI model only. The bearer’s unit is always Empowered - you do not need to spend any Pain tokens to activate that unit’s Pain abilities. |
This Archon’s intellect is towering, and their gift for devious politicking and vicious cunning is almost peerless. ARCHON model only. At the start of your Command phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield, you can do one of the following:
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Having battled the most hulking and heavily armoured opponents in the arena, this Succubus can spot and exploit the slightest weakness in their enemy’s defences. SUCCUBUS model only. Improve the Attacks and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 1. Each time the bearer’s unit is selected to fight, you can spend 1 Pain token; if you do, until the end of the phase, improve the Attacks and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 2 instead. |
This repulsive artefact contains the tortured souls of psykers. When released, these essences scream across the battlefield, spreading terror and madness. HAEMONCULUS model only. Once per battle, in your Shooting phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, you can spend 1 Pain token. Then, each enemy unit within 12" of the bearer must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test if you spent 1 Pain token. Each time a PSYKER unit fails that test, it suffers 3 mortal wounds. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS COVENS 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 DRUKHARI unit from your army (excluding HAEMONCULUS COVENS units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: Up to two DRUKHARI BATTLELINE units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army.
EFFECT: You can spend 1 Pain token. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in each of those units makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is Below Half-strength, add 1 to the Hit roll. If you spent 1 Pain token, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.
TARGET: Up to two WRACKS units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in each of those units have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
TARGET: Up to two WYCHES units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army, that have not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time one of those units Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit (this is not cumulative with the REAVERS’ Matchless Swiftness ability).
TARGET: Up to two KABALITE WARRIORS units from your army, or one other DRUKHARI unit from your army (excluding SCOURGES and AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Each of those units can make a Normal move of up to 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units. Until the end of the turn, those units are not eligible to declare a charge.
Skysplinter Assault
Many raiding parties swoop upon their victims aboard fleets of speeding anti-grav skimmers. Bands of Drukhari ride their nimble craft with perfect poise, whooping in exhilaration with every sharp banking turn and suicidally steep dive. Like airborne predators, the shoals of transports and gunships weave through incoming flak to encircle their prey and rain blistering fire upon them. Explosions leap skyward as enemy strongpoints and war engines are knocked out one after another. Next comes the ground assault, as murderous bands of Drukhari vault from their Raiders and Venoms to plunge into the reeling foe. Even as the bloodshed escalates amidst a whirlwind of whistling blades and cracking lashes, still the Drukhari skimmers streak back and forth to pick off targets of opportunity and rapidly relocate wild-eyed bands of gleeful Commorrite killers. Only once resistance has been utterly shattered do the grav-vessels halt, just long enough for captives and plunder to be heaped aboard their decks for the triumphant return to Commorragh.
Rain Of Cruelty
Few warriors in the galaxy are as adept at launching punishing skyborne raids as the Drukhari. Before their prey even realise the peril, the killers of Commorragh are amongst their lines like grinning ghouls. Splinter fire lays low defenders still scrambling into position. Quicksilver assaults leave dozens screaming in maimed agony. Often, the battle is over before it has even truly begun.
Each time a DRUKHARI unit from your army disembarks from a TRANSPORT, until the end of the turn:- Ranged weapons equipped by models in that disembarking unit have the [ignores cover] ability.
- Melee weapons equipped by models in that disembarking unit have the [lance] ability.
Enhancements
Phantasm grenade launchers worked into sweeping hull plates discharge, laying down covering spreads of hallucinogenic vapours that daze and distract the foe. DRUKHARI model only. While the bearer’s unit is wholly within 6" of a friendly DRUKHARI TRANSPORT:
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Witnessing this murderous warrior wreaking havoc, the sadistic crew of the Drukhari transports are filled with the vigour only the suffering of others can provide. DRUKHARI model only. Each time you spend 1 Pain token to Empower the bearer’s unit in the Shooting phase, select one friendly DRUKHARI TRANSPORT within 6" of the bearer’s unit; until the end of the phase, each time that TRANSPORT makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll. |
This cruel realspace raider knows the best reason to take something from the foe is for the simple spite of denying them that which they most desire to keep. DRUKHARI model only. Each time the bearer’s unit destroys an enemy unit in the Fight phase, if that enemy unit was within range of one or more objective markers when the bearer’s unit was selected to fight, you gain 1 additional Pain token. |
This strange artefact wreathes its bearer in a cloying cloud of shadow. Flitting into battle under cover of this pall, they are nigh impossible for the prey to see coming. DRUKHARI model only. Each time the bearer’s unit disembarks from a TRANSPORT, until the end of the turn, enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at the bearer’s unit. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That TRANSPORT.
EFFECT: After your TRANSPORT has fought, select one enemy unit that was the target of one or more of those attacks and roll one D6 for each model embarked within your TRANSPORT, adding 1 to the result if that embarked model is a WRACKS model: for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).
TARGET: One DRUKHARI INFANTRY unit from your army that fought this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal or Fall Back move, but unless it is a WYCHES unit, it must end that move wholly within 3" horizontally and 5" vertically of a friendly DRUKHARI TRANSPORT and must embark within that TRANSPORT at the end of that move (otherwise, it cannot make that move).
TARGET: That INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase and that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability, or the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability if your unit is a KABALITE WARRIORS or HAND OF THE ARCHON unit.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI TRANSPORT from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Your TRANSPORT can make a Normal move of up to 6".
TARGET: One DRUKHARI VEHICLE 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.
Spectacle of Spite
When a wych cult unleashes its full fury in a realspace raid, the bloody extravaganza of the arena is brought to the battlefield in spectacular style. Acrobatic gladiators dart into combat, wielding exotic tools of murder, each vying to score the most eye-catching kills. Jetbike-mounted Reavers scream low overhead, fairing blades lopping off their victims’ heads while cluster caltrops raise rippling detonations in their wake. Succubi - the uncontested stars of each frenzied performance - ride into battle aboard personal Venom chariots or stab, slash and weave their way through the melee, alabaster skin spattered with the vivid gore of their victims. Some wych cult raids are lent armoured support by their Kabalite patrons, the better to maximise carnage and ensure victory. Others are trailed by entire audiences of avid fans, Commorrites of every stripe who have come to enjoy the mayhem and feast on a banquet of pain. So involved do some spectators become that they rush in to join the fight alongside the Wyches and add their blades to the fray.
Combat Drugs
Wyches abuse an array of potentially lethal performance-enhancing combat stimms.
At the start of your Command phase, select which Combat Drugs will be active for your army until the start of your next Command phase. To do so, either select one from the list below (you cannot select the same Combat Drug more than once per battle), or randomly select two by rolling two D6. When doing so randomly, Combat Drugs you have previously selected can become active again, but if you randomly select one that is already active for your army, it has no additional effect.1. Adrenalight
Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army.
2. Hypex
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of WYCH CULT models from your army.
3. Serpentin
Improve the Weapon Skill characteristic of melee weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army by 1.
4. Painbringer
Add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of WYCH CULT models from your army.
5. Grave Lotus
Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army.
6. Splintermind
Improve the Leadership characteristic of WYCH CULT models from your army by 1, and improve the Ballistic Skill characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army by 1.
Enhancements
This inbuilt chem-atomiser wreathes the bearer and their comrades in a hyperstimulant haze. SUCCUBUS model only. At the start of your Command phase, after selecting which Combat Drugs will be active for your army, roll one D6 and consult the Combat Drugs list. The result rolled applies to the bearer’s unit until the start of your next Command phase in addition to any other Combat Drugs that are active for your army. If you randomly select one that is already active for your army, it has no additional effect. |
When smashed, this splinter of crystallised time ensnares the foe, forcing them to move with the helpless sluggishness of a nightmare for crucial moments. SUCCUBUS model only. Once per battle, at the start of 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. |
This hollow black stone is worn as warrior jewellery. The sinister organism that lurks within it can detect those who intend malice to its bearer and punishes them by lashing their psyches with its psi-barbs. SUCCUBUS model only. Enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at the bearer’s unit. |
Archon Aestra Khromys gifted the famed gladiatrix Morghenna this glaive as a symbol of patronage. Yet so exquisitely crafted is the blade that the Succubus was eventually murdered for it by a rival. Such has been the eventual fate of all those reckless and conceited enough to wield it since. SUCCUBUS model only. Improve the Armour Penetration and Damage characteristics of the bearers melee weapons by 1. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One WYCH CULT unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit 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, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability. If your unit is a WYCHES unit, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 as well.
TARGET: That DRUKHARI unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: One WYCH CULT unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, you can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic and to Advance and Charge rolls made for it and, until the end of the turn, each time a model in your unit makes such a move, it can move horizontally through models (when doing so, such a model can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end a Normal or Advance move within Engagement Range of them).
TARGET: One WYCH CULT unit from your army that would be able to declare a charge if it were your Charge phase.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 9" of your unit that was set up on the battlefield this phase or that ended a Normal or Advance move this phase. Your unit now declares a charge that targets only that enemy unit, and you resolve that charge.
RESTRICTIONS: Even if that charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.
TARGET: One WYCH CULT 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 5+ invulnerable save.
Covenite Coterie
To face a realspace raid by the Haemonculi of the Dark City is to endure a living nightmare. Ghoulish things with worm-pale flesh and blades for fingers crawl and caper from the shadows, their blood-wet breath rasping eagerly through the slits of their iron masks. Engines of Pain drift through the air on whispering suspensors, loosing stinging blasts of firepower, gathering up screaming victims in nests of needle-tipped tendrils and flensing their flesh with snickering blades. Through it all move the Haemonculi, dealing out unspeakable agonies even as they leer with cruel gratification or hum to themselves with the distracted air of a scientist enjoying their labours. They are the composers of a gruesome flesh symphony, the conductors of an orchestra of despairing shrieks and gibbering glee fit to drive mortal minds to madness. Even those other Drukhari who fight alongside the covenites look askance at their twisted allies and count themselves lucky not to be on the receiving end of their insane attentions.
Stitchflesh Abominations
The Haemonculi and their servants have been surgically altered in body and mind beyond any measure of sanity. For beings so twisted as these, pain is little more than a fascinating diversion, while none but the most grievous wounds can lay them low for long.
Each time an attack targets a HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit from your army, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.Enhancements
Having extensively studied the mechanisms of biological growth and vitality, this Haemonculus is adept at goading flesh to reknit and new muscle and limbs to sprout in ever more grotesque arrangements. HAEMONCULUS model only. Each time the bearer uses its Fleshcraft ability, you can return up to D3+3 destroyed Bodyguard models to the bearer’s unit instead of D3+1. |
Simply for the sake of scientific curiosity and personal entertainment, this twisted poisoner has tailored toxins to kill every single life form they have ever encountered. HAEMONCULUS model only. The bearer’s weapons have the [anti-beast 2+] and [anti-monster 4+] abilities. |
This Haemonculus is a savant in the arts of sculpting metal, flesh, sinew and bone alike. Their creations are works of dark and malevolent genius. HAEMONCULUS model only. Add 1 to the bearers Wounds characteristic and add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of models in the bearer’s unit. |
The Repugnomancers focus all their study on the art of triggering instinctive revulsion and horror. Though considered gauche by many other Haemonculi, the results of their foul craft on the battlefield are undeniable. HAEMONCULUS model only. Add 3" to the range of the bearer’s Fear Incarnate ability, and each time a friendly DRUKHARI unit within 9" of the bearer fails a Battle-shock test or is destroyed, roll one D6: on a 4+, you gain 1 Pain token. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS model from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Spend 1-3 Pain tokens. At the end of the phase, set the destroyed model back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with a number of wounds remaining equal to the number of Pain tokens you just spent.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem if you have 0 Pain tokens, and you cannot target the same HAEMONCULUS model with this Stratagem more than once per battle.
TARGET: That DRUKHARI unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within 9" of and visible to your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test if your unit is a HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit.
TARGET: That HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit (excluding VEHICLES) hit by one or more of your unit’s attacks this phase. Until the end of the battle, that enemy unit is poisoned. At the start of each Command phase, roll one D6 for each poisoned unit on the battlefield: on a 4+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is Battle-shocked, that attack has the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Spend 1 Pain token. 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. At the end of the phase, if your unit is still on the battlefield and it is a HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit, you gain 1 Pain token.
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a surge move of up to D6".
Kabalite Cartel
No kabal can survive without the strength of arms to back up its demands and menaces. When the cream of that paramilitary strength is concentrated into a realspace raiding party and unleashed upon unsuspecting victims, the results are devastating. Reaving bands of Kabalites ride to war beneath the flayed-skin banners of their Archons. Each squad vies to outdo its rivals in cruelty and martial conquest, slaying and tormenting with spiteful abandon. At the same time, predatory gunships thrum overhead and bands of vicious mercenaries ply their bloody trade. Moreover, no two kabals are alike - each having its own portfolio of diabolical exploits and murderous predilections - and so each has its own particular agendas to pursue and strengths to bring to bear. One Kabalite raiding band might benefit from exceptionally well-crafted weaponry or a wealth of tailored toxins. Another might field swathes of terror troops, obsess overtaking bloody trophies, call upon the aid of arena gladiators or a myriad of other unique and murderous quirks.
Murderous Agenda
Kabalite forces often prize particular targets amongst the enemy ranks, whether as a macabre trophy, the target of a contract killing, or for some other devious reason.
At the start of the first battle round, select one of the Contracts below, then select one unit from your opponent’s army that matches the ‘Contract’ description in that Contract. Until that Contract is completed, that unit is your Contract unit and KABAL and BLADES FOR HIRE units from your army have the ability stated in that Contract. At the start of your Command phase, if your Contract unit is destroyed, that Contract is completed and you gain 3 Pain tokens.Trophy Hunters
Contract: One CHARACTER unit.
Ability: Each time a KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE model in this unit makes an attack that targets the Contract unit, that attack has the [precision] ability.
Sow Fear and Terror
Contract: One INFANTRY or MOUNTED unit (excluding units containing only CHARACTER models). At the start of your Command phase, this Contract is completed if all non-CHARACTER models in that unit are destroyed.
Ability: Each time a KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE model in this unit makes an attack that targets an INFANTRY or MOUNTED unit, that attack has the [sustained hits 1] ability.
Show of Strength
Contract: One MONSTER or VEHICLE unit.
Ability: Each time a KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE model in this unit makes an attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, that attack has the [lethal hits] ability.
Enhancements
Threaded with parasite circuits and fashioned from empathovoric crystalline resins, this armour drinks deep of the lifeblood that spatters it and the pain of the wounded to nourish and heal its wearer. ARCHON model only. The bearer has a Save characteristic of 3+. At the start of either player’s Command phase, you can spend 1 Pain token: if you do, the bearer regains all of its lost wounds. |
A recklessly destructive implement modified from ancient Aeldari technology, the Webway awl allows its bearer to bore temporary rents into and out of the labyrinth dimension, careless of the ruin they leave in their wake. ARCHON model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Deep Strike ability, and you can target the bearer’s unit with the Rapid Ingress Stratagem for 0CP. |
A web of infiltrating agents, coerced unfortunates, and infoparasitic organisms keeps this Archon well informed and allows them to plan their realspace raids with insidious accuracy. ARCHON model only. At the start of the Declare Battle Formations step, select up to three KABALITE WARRIORS and/or HAND OF THE ARCHON units from your army; those units gain the Infiltrators ability. |
So absolute is this war leader’s self-belief so monstrous their ego, that it is virtually a weapon in its own right. Drukhari are drawn in their wake, unable to resist the charismatic certitude they exude. Enemies, meanwhile, give ground and lose heart beneath their witheringly contemptuous glare. ARCHON model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, improve the Leadership and Objective Control characteristics of models in that unit by 1. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly DRUKHARI unit (excluding VEHICLES).
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE unit, if your DRUKHARI unit is within Engagement Range of the attacking model, no saving throw is made for that attack; instead, your DRUKHARI unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. If your Contract unit is destroyed as a result of those attacks, every unit in your opponent’s army must take a Battle-shock test. You cannot gain more than 3 Pain tokens as a result of failed Battle-shock tests caused by this Stratagem.
TARGET: One KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets your Contract unit, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One ARCHON WARLORD from your army.
EFFECT: Select one new Contract (this can be one you have already completed), then select one unit from your opponent’s army that is on the battlefield and matches the ‘Contract’ description in that Contract. Until that Contract is completed, that unit is your Contract unit and the Murderous Agenda Detachment rule applies as normal.
TARGET: One KABALITE WARRIORS or HAND OF THE ARCHON unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Ballistic Skill and Armour Penetration characteristics of ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1.
TARGET: One KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".
Reaper’s Wager
The Reaper’s Wager is among the most macabre saedaths, depicting a gruesome tale of murderous bets between merciless killers and mythic executioners. It is a well-known tale that is greatly enjoyed in the depths of the Dark City. When Harlequin and Drukhari go to war as one, Commorrite warriors often perform an accompanying role in its retelling. Bladed Drukhari transports emerge from the Webway alongside scintillating Harlequin skimmers emblazoned with dazzling adornments. Kabalite Warriors open fire upon the foe from firing decks, and Wyches howl and whoop as they leap acrobatically into the fray. As Harlequin troupes begin their gore-slick recital, they inhabit their roles wholeheartedly, competing furiously with their Drukhari allies to score the greatest tally of luridly violent kills.
Callous Competition
In this saedath, the Harlequins embody the Reaper, whilst their Drukhari companions are mortal killers.
At the start of the battle, DRUKHARI units from your army are winning the wager.Each time a DRUKHARI unit from your army destroys an enemy unit, DRUKHARI units from your army are winning the wager.
Each time a HARLEQUINS unit from your army destroys an enemy unit, HARLEQUIN units from your army are winning the wager.
While DRUKHARI units from your army are winning the wager, HARLEQUIN units from your army are losing the wager, and vice versa.
Each time a DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS model from your army makes an attack, if that model’s unit is winning the wager, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that model’s unit is losing the wager, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1 instead.
HARLEQUINS
You can include HARLEQUINS units in your army (see Codex: Aeldari). The combined points cost of such units depends on your battle size:
- Incursion: Up to 500 pts
- Strike Force: Up to 1000 pts
- Onslaught: Up to 1500 pts
No HARLEQUINS models from your army can be your WARLORD. If you select this Detachment, you cannot use the Corsairs and Travelling Players army rule.
Enhancements
A veteran of countless realspace raids or vehicular saedaths, this warrior champion utilises the speed of their sleek anti-grav craft to surprise their enemies. HARLEQUINS or DRUKHARI model only. In the Declare Battle Formations step, if the bearer starts the battle embarked within a DEDICATED TRANSPORT, that DEDICATED TRANSPORT has the Scouts 9" ability. |
This elite combatant possesses intricate knowledge of the Webway’s hidden paths and employs them to enhance this dreadful performance. HARLEQUINS or DRUKHARI model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Deep Strike ability. Each time the bearer’s unit is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, if that unit is currently losing the wager, until the end of the turn, you can re-roll Charge rolls made for that unit. |
This ebon cloak contains a shadow field generator, which shrouds the bearer in a field of umbral darkness. HARLEQUINS model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Stealth and Infiltrators abilities. |
This cruel champion of Commorragh seeks only to bathe in the agony of the foe. To them, the outcome of any wager is secondary to the symphony of suffering. DRUKHARI model only. In your Command phase, you
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Stratagems
TARGET: One DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Select [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if that unit is losing the wager: on a 4+, do not remove it from play. That destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI or HARLEQUINS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at your unit.
TARGET: One DRUKHARI INFANTRY or HARLEQUINS INFANTRY unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6". If your unit is currently losing the wager, it can make a Normal move of up to 6" instead.
Exhibition of Slaughter
MURDEROUS ARTISTES OF THE WYCH CULTS EXHIBIT THE FULL REACH OF THEIR TALENTS
Exacting Cruelty
With long lives spent honing their murderous skills against the most powerful opponents, the renowned fighters of Commorragh’s arenas have an instinct for just where to strike to bring their prey low in the most painful and elegant manner possible.
Friendly WYCH CULT units’ melee attacks have [LETHAL HITS: non-MONSTER/VEHICLE].This detachment has the WYCH CULT tag and cannot be taken with another WYCH CULT detachment.
Enhancements
This hollow black stone is worn as warrior jewellery. The sinister organism that lurks within it can detect those who intend malice to its bearer and punishes them by lashing their psyches with its psi-barbs. SUCCUBUS model only. Enemy units cannot target this unit with snap shooting attacks. |
This gladiator has eyes only on the patronage of their audience. Supplied by a network of narcotic distributors – and heedless of the brutal effects of overdosing – the Succubus and their Wyches can endure long enough to provide extensive and heightened performances. SUCCUBUS model only. This unit has +1 T. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s melee attacks have [LETHAL HITS].
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: That move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to start an action.
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has 5+ InSv.
Kabalite Agonysts
KABALITES AND THEIR VENAL ALLIES SKILFULLY REAP AN ABUNDANCE OF SUFFERING
Contracted Harvest
Directed to inflict as much suffering as possible amongst the enemy’s soldiers – on pain of their own torment – a kabal’s vicious warriors spare no opportunity to unleash deluges of painful firepower.
Friendly BLADES FOR HIRE/KABAL units’ ranged attacks have [SUSTAINED HITS 1: non-MONSTER/VEHICLE].This detachment has the KABAL tag and cannot be taken with another KABAL detachment.
Enhancements
So absolute is this war leader’s self‑belief, so monstrous their ego, that it is virtually a weapon in its own right. Drukhari are drawn in their wake, unable to resist the charismatic certitude they exude. Enemies, meanwhile, give ground and lose heart beneath their witheringly contemptuous glare. ARCHON model only. This unit has:
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Assured of their utter superiority over any of the enemy’s champions, this Archon rarely extends the offer of single combat and instead directs their warriors en masse to cut the pretender down. ARCHON model only. This unit’s attacks have [PRECISION]. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That BLADES FOR HIRE/KABAL unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s attacks that target a CHARACTER unit can:
- Re-roll hit rolls of 1.
- Re-roll wound rolls of 1.
TARGET: That BLADES FOR HIRE/KABAL unit.
EFFECT: Those attacks do not prevent your unit from being hidden.
TARGET: That KABALITE WARRIORS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks have [IGNORES COVER].
Tools of Torment
HORRIFIC AND TORTUROUS CREATIONS OF THE HAEMONCULI INFLICT GRUESOME AGONIES
Darkest Artifice
A Haemonculus’ most resilient Engines of Pain are each a dark triumph valued as a work of malevolent genius. Their finely wrought armoured carapaces shield toughened mech-organic strata and slabs of mutated cartilage.
Attacks that target friendly CRONOS/TALOS units with a S greater than that unit’s T have -1 to wound rolls.This detachment has the COVENS tag and cannot be taken with another COVENS detachment.
Enhancements
This master fleshcrafter sees raids as opportunities to assess a host of novel skins for themselves and their suffering servants: scabrous crusts, squirming meshes, resinous under layers and more besides. HAEMONCULUS model only. Attacks that target this unit with a S greater than your unit’s T have -1 to wound rolls. |
Flowing from surgically grafted vials, this milky substance causes tumorous masses of pallid and nerve‑deadened flesh to grow. It sloughs away in sickly lumps when struck, but is soon replaced in a regenecyst cycle of cutaneous ablative armour. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That CRONOS/TALOS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s attacks that target a battle-shocked unit have [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].
TARGET: That HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit.
EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of your unit. That enemy unit makes a battle-shock roll, with -1 to that battle-shock roll.
TARGET: That HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit.
EFFECT: That move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to declare a charge.
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles that are bespoke to the Drukhari. You can find out more about Crusade armies in the main Crusade rules.
DRUKHARI armies can attempt to achieve unique Agendas in addition to those found in other publications. These represent the faction’s unique goals and their particular methods of waging war.
ASCENDANT LORDS
As your Crusade force launches successful raids you will amass power, wealth and infamy, which in turn will fuel your rise in dominance over the regions of Commorragh, reaping many rewards. As your grip over these territories tightens, you will have the opportunity to overthrow rivals, coerce allies and thwart treacherous plots in order to maintain your position as one of Commorragh’s Ascendant Lords. The rules in this section explain how to begin your journey as an aspiring lord in Commorragh, and the benefits should you be successful.
REQUISITIONS
DRUKHARI armies have access to a number of bespoke Requisitions in addition to those found in other publications.
In addition to the Crusade Relics presented in other publications, DRUKHARI CHARACTER models can claim one of the Crusade Relics found here.
BATTLE TRAITS
As they gain experience and prowess, DRUKHARI units in your Crusade force can be given one of the Battle Traits in this section instead of one presented elsewhere.
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 can set yourself a new goal, or take the opportunity to start a new Crusade force.
Agendas
If your Crusade army includes any DRUKHARI units, you can select Agendas from those presented here.
To inflict extremes of suffering for the sake of cruelty alone is an almost spiritual experience for the Drukhari and saturates them with newfound vitality.
At the end of the battle:
- You can select up to 6 units from your Crusade army that have one or more Pain tokens on their Crusade cards: each unit selected gains 1XP for each Pain token on its Crusade card (to a maximum of 3XP).
- When rolling the D6 to determine whether your ASCENDANT LORD claims a territory, if it gained 2 or more XP from this Agenda at the end of this battle, add 1 to that D6 result.
Leading realspace raids offers a plethora of ways in which high-status Drukhari can win renown at the expense of the people they prey upon.
- Beasts for the Arena: Your ASCENDANT LORD’s unit destroyed one or more enemy MONSTER or BEASTS units during the battle.
- Trophy-hunter: Your ASCENDANT LORD’s unit destroyed one or more CHARACTER units during the battle.
- Deadly Reaver: Your ASCENDANT LORD’s unit is wholly within your opponent’s deployment zone.
- Send a Message: Your ASCENDANT LORD’s unit is within range of an objective marker you control that is not within your deployment zone.
- Power Monger: Your ASCENDANT LORD’s unit was Empowered two or more times during the battle.
The Drukhari delight in subduing prey during realspace raids and hauling them back to Commorragh as living, screaming plunder.
Waves of extreme terror and dismay nourish the souls of the Drukhari like the finest nectar and delight the Commorrite indolents spectating upon the proceedings from their pleasure barges above.
- Each time an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test, select one DRUKHARI unit within 12" of that unit; that DRUKHARI unit gains 2XP.
- Each time a DRUKHARI unit from your Crusade army destroys an enemy unit that is Battle-shocked, that DRUKHARI unit gains 2XP.
To capture masses of defeated enemy combatants, it is best to corral them like livestock before deploying hallucinogenic toxins or air-dropped barb nets to lay them low en masse.
Ascendant Lords
Drukhari raids provide many valuable spoils. Worthy captives, trophies of exotic kills and stolen soul fragments are among the most desirable resources hauled back to Commorragh. Power-hungry Drukhari lords trade portions of these spoils to gain leverage or bribe interested parties, allowing them to bring more of the Dark City’s nightmarish territories under their control.
Territories
Your influence increases with every victory secured in realspace, every bounty of dismayed captives, and priceless esoterica snatched back to Commorragh. Material wealth and reputation soon translate into paramilitary power, increasing your reach within the Dark City and allowing you to grasp more territory for yourself
When you add an Ascendant Lord unit to your Order of Battle, it starts with 0 territories - you will need to play a battle to claim one.While you have an ASCENDANT LORD unit on your Order of Battle, after each battle, in the Update Crusade Cards step, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if your ASCENDANT LORD was in your Crusade army, and adding 2 to the result if you were the Victor (for a total possible bonus of +3): on a 4+, your ASCENDANT LORD claims 1 territory (see right); on a 6+, your ASCENDANT LORD claims 2 territories.
Claiming Territory
Each time a rule instructs you to claim a territory, first roll one D6 to select one of the two tables below (on a 1-3, use table A; on a 4-6, use table B), before rolling a D66 to generate a territory on that table. If that territory is unclaimed, you claim it - make a note of that territory on your Order of Battle. Each territory is unique and cannot be generated more than once for your ASCENDANT LORD. If you randomly generate a territory that is already controlled by your ASCENDANT LORD, generate another. If you randomly generate a territory that is claimed by a Rival Lord, immediately resolve a Hostile Takeover (see below). Keep a note of any territories claimed on your Order of Battle.Hostile Takeovers
To resolve a Hostile Takeover, roll one D6 for each lord that is involved in that takeover. If one of the lords has a higher Power than the other, add 1 to that lord’s result. Whichever lord has the highest result claims that territory. In the case of a tie, roll one further D6: on a 1-3, that territory remains claimed by the current owner; on a 4-6, the current owner loses that territory (it becomes unclaimed), and neither lord claims it.
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Districts and Power
Almost every service, craft and esoteric resource imaginable can be found within the labyrinthine ways of the Dark City. The more extensive a network of subrealms and districts a Commorrite lord controls, the more such sources of power they gain access to.
An ASCENDANT LORD’s Power is equal to the number of districts they control. This is used when attempting Hostile Takeovers and when rolling on the Rival Activity table, so it is a good idea to keep a note of it on your Order of Battle.
As each district increases the overall efficacy of your Crusade force, when you muster a DRUKHARI Crusade army, its Crusade points total is increased by 1 for every 2 districts your ASCENDANT LORD controls (rounding up).
District Abilities
Weapon Forge This lord’s string of arcane armourers and energy-wreathed testing facilities give them access to exotic weapons technologies. At the start of the Declare Battle Formations step, select one DRUKHARI unit from your Crusade army (you cannot select an EPIC HERO or a unit that has the Weapon Modification Battle Honour). Until the end of the battle, one weapon equipped by one model in that unit has the Weapon Modification Battle Honour. |
Toxin Distillery Be they elegantly appointed venom salons in the spires of High Commorragh or shadowed oubliettes of the Haemonculi, these facilities provide a flow of refined poisons for use in battle. While your ASCENDANT LORD is leading a unit, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability. |
Arena The warriors of the Wych Cults will fight all the harder during realspace raids to impress their lordly patron and retain that beneficial patronage. In the Update Crusade Cards step, if a DRUKHARI unit from your Crusade army would gain XP from Dealers of Death, it gains 1 additional XP. |
Scourge Spire By winning the allegiance of the Scourges in their high eyries, a Drukhari lord ensures the support of skilled spies, messengers and gun-toting airborne murder squads. In the Update Crusade Cards step, if a SCOURGES unit from your Crusade army would gain XP from Battle Experience, it gains 1 additional XP. |
Incubi Shrine It requires tact - with fearless arrogance and ready wealth - to truly secure the allegiance of even a single shrine of Incubi. The reward is a cadre of murderously skilled bodyguards well worth any expense. In the Declare Battle Formations step, your ASCENDANT LORD can be attached to an INCUBI unit (if your ASCENDANT LORD is an ARCHON, while it is leading an INCUBI unit, your ASCENDANT LORD model has the Feel No Pain 5+ ability). If your ASCENDANT LORD is attached to an INCUBI unit, at the end of the battle, unless all of those Bodyguard models have been destroyed, you can re-roll all Leadership tests required as the result of Assassination Attempts during that battle’s Rival Activities. |
Dock Control of trade in and out of Conimorragh’s many ports is essential to maintaining an iron grip over the rest of the city. After each battle, in the Update Crusade Cards step, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if you were the victor: on a 4+, you gain 1 additional RP. |
Sprawl Slum When a deed needs doing, or machinations need putting into effect, it can be beneficial to have a ready supply of Drukhari desperate to elevate themselves no matter the risks. At the start of the Select Crusade Blessings step, roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if you are the Underdog: on a 6+, you can use one additional Crusade Blessing this battle (even if you are not the Underdog). |
Flesh Market Many mundane and esoteric goods pass through these regions, exchanged with the masters of the haemonculus covens for their dubious services in surgery and resurrection through pain. Once at the end of each battle, you can re-roll one Out of Action test taken for one DRUKHARI INFANTRY or DRUKHARI MONSTER unit from your Crusade army. |
Shadow District There are many risks in dealing with the denizens of Aelindrach, and they are terrible. Yet there are few better spies or saboteurs than supernatural beings against whom no door can be barred, nor chamber warded. Each time a Rival Lord makes an Activity roll, you can subtract 1 from the result. |
Noble Spire Having such enviable estates means this lord is never short of trusted agents to help achieve their schemes and plots, whether through bribery, blandishment, intimidation, or making bloody examples. At the start of the Select Agendas step, roll one D6: on a 4+, you can select one additional Drukhari Agenda to use in that battle. |
Gang Territory There are those lordly residents who sneer at the idea of claiming territories in Low Commorragh. Those same arrogant fools are the first to have their heads hoisted atop a trophy rack when a less blinkered rival unleashes the fury of the many vicious gangs over which they rule. Each time your ASCENDANT LORD attempts a Hostile Takeover, add 1 to its D6 result and, if that ASCENDANT LORD claims a territory as a result, increase your Crusade forces Supply Limit by 50 points. |
Raidcraft Workshop Commanding the finest workshops gives a lord of Commorragh access to exceptional anti-grav attack skiffs, which can be deployed to bear their warriors into battle at a breakneck pace. In the Declare Battle Formations step, you can select one DRUKHARI VEHICLE or DRUKHARI MOUNTED unit from your Crusade army. Until the end of the battle, that unit has the Scouts 6" ability. |
Rival Lords
Drukhari society is both ruthless and mercenary. The accumulation of power is vital to survival, yet at the same time, its acquisition inevitably attracts hostile attention. The higher up the charnel heap a Drukhari lord climbs, the greater the risk that rivals - or even an agent ofVect himself - will take steps to knock them back down.
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Each Rival Lord starts with 3 territories. The first of these is randomly selected from those that are unclaimed within the relevant district shown above. For example, for each ARCHON Rival Lord, randomly select one unclaimed territory from those in the Noble Spire district. When doing so, if there are no unclaimed territories in the relevant district, randomly select any other unclaimed territory for that Rival Lord. To determine each Rival Lord’s remaining starting territories, randomly generate two further unclaimed territories just as you would when your ASCENDANT LORD would claim a territory, except that if a claimed territory is generated, roll again until an unclaimed territory is generated.
Like your ASCENDANT LORD, each Rival Lord’s Power is equal to the number of districts they control.
After you have determined starting territories for a Rival Lord, roll one D6 and consult the table below to generate a Rival Trait for them, and record this information on your Rival Lords tracker.
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Rival Activity
One of the most significant risks any Drukhari lord faces when leading a realspace raid is that, in their absence, their rivals in Commorragh will not sit idly by. There is every chance of returning from even the most successful raid to find their territories in flames and their allies poisoned, butchered, or turned against them.
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Death of a Lord
If your ASCENDANT LORD is removed from your Order of Battle for any reason, you must select a new DRUKHARI CHARACTER model from your Order of Battle (excluding EPIC HEROES) to be your new ASCENDANT LORD. To represent the internecine intrigues that invariably follow such a transition of leadership, you must then immediately remove D6 randomly selected territories from your Order of Battle (to a minimum of 0). If your ASCENDANT LORD was removed from your Order of Battle as the result of the Price of Success rules (see above), you instead lose all of your territories except one, which you can choose.A Rival Lord is defeated when they have no territories remaining, at which point you must remove them from your Rival Lords tracker. If all Rival Lords are defeated, at the end of your next battle, generate D3 new Rival Lords to replace them.
Requisitions
If your Crusade army includes any DRUKHARI units, you can spend Requisition points (RP) on any of the following Requisitions.
Having lured a supposed ally’s forces out on a realspace raid, your lord sent agents to seize their all-but-unguarded territories before their return.
Cruelly slaying a defeated rival provides a short-term thrill, and nothing says fear me like a bloodied head on a spike. Still, sometimes, there is wisdom - and spiteful satisfaction - in preserving an enemy’s life in exchange for their service.
Sometimes, an example needs to be made, and those who have failed their commander find themselves thrust into the arena to be slaughtered or disposed of in some other showily gruesome manner.
Archons are well-practised at playing the long game, drawing out labyrinthine plans to outwit their foes and placing counteragents and ploys at every turn to thwart their rivals’ intrigues.
Self-indulgent though it may be, the Haemonculi of the Dark City do so love to tinker.
As unforgiving as this lord might be with those who fail them, they are equally as indulgent of their chosen favourites. So long as their hand-picked coterie of killers continues to perform on the battlefield, they will be offered the best of everything and a chance to advance themselves further in their patron’s graces.
Crusade Relics
When a DRUKHARI CHARACTER model gains a Crusade Relic, you can select one of the Relics presented here.
Artificer Relics
The Drukhari look down upon those who use psychic witchery. Not only do they tempt the gaze of She Who Thirsts, but they also risk the wrath of Asdrubael Vect. Through necessity, the Drukhari’s psychic abilities have atrophied, leaving them vulnerable to the Warpcraft of their foes. The Helm of Spite redresses this balance, shielding its wearer from harm and setting up a field of violent psionic feedback.
Models in the bearer’s unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability against mortal wounds and Psychic Attacks.This foul veil is fashioned from the still-living flayed face of a Farseer and embedded with fragments of spirit stones. The trapped souls within constantly whisper maddening glimpses of potential futures, allowing a canny and strong-willed wearer to avoid some unfortunate fates.
Enemy units that are set up on the battlefield from Reserves cannot be set up within 12" of the bearer.Antiquity Relics
Crafted using psychoempathic sections of poisoned wraithbone, this armour emanates crippling waves of dread, causing foes to quail.
ARCHON model only. The bearer has a Save characteristic of 3+ and each time a melee attack targets the bearer’s unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.Forged by Organghast the Haemomancer, the Blood Glaive absorbs the viscera of those victims it slays. Sloughing off parts of its blade that have become nicked in battle, the freshly harvested gore is used to rehone its crimson edge.
SUCCUBUS model only. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [twin-linked] ability and add 1 to the Damage characteristic of those weapons.Should the owner of the Nightmare Doll be harmed in battle, their injuries are transferred to this cadaverous mommet, which is fashioned from stolen flesh and fed on drops of its owner’s blood. If its Haemonculus is riddled with bullets, tiny holes appear in the thing’s writhing body whilst its master remains unhurt. Should the owner be burned, it is the doll that whimpers and blackens.
HAEMONCULUS model only.- The first time the bearer is destroyed, roll one D6 at the end of the phase. On a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with its full wounds remaining.
- You can re-roll Out of Action tests taken for the bearer, but you cannot target the bearer’s unit with the Postmortality Stratagem.
Legendary Relics
Clone fields are a popular defensive measure amongst those Drukhari lords who can acquire them, projecting a pair of perfect illusory doppelgangers of the bearer to confound assassination attempts. The Delirium Cowl goes further, burning these clone images onto the visual field of all who look upon the bearer so they cannot tell facsimile from reality or unsee the leering reflections for many hours.
- The bearer has a 4+ invulnerable save. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.
- Once per battle, in your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has shot or fought, if the bearer’s unit was the target of one or more of those attacks, the bearer can use this Crusade Relic. If it does, remove the bearer’s unit from the battlefield and set it back up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.
Designer’s Note: If an ARCHON has this Crusade Relic, it will have a 4+ invulnerable save after the first time you fail an invulnerable saving throw for it (see the Shadowfield ability).
Battle Traits
When a DRUKHARI unit gains a Battle Trait, you can use one of the tables presented here to determine which Battle Trait that unit has gained.
Many kabals include amongst their ranks those who were born through natural means rather than by the accelerated processes of the Haemonculi. These so-called Trueborn consider themselves superior to all other Drukhari and are afforded better training and the finest wargear.
In many wych cults, the most supremely skilled Hekatrixes band together to form units that answer to none but the highest authority of that cult. Often accompanying prestigious Succubi into battle, these paragons of the arena have mastered the killing arts, their esoteric fighting styles proving deadly to any who face them.
Highly prized by their masters, the Haemoxytes consider themselves the pinnacle of the fieshcrafting art. Grafted with a bewildering array of internal augmentations derived from both Aeldari gene stock and that of other species, they exhibit enhanced abilities and are often tasked with particularly vital duties by their masters. Although they are viewed with disgust by other Drukhari, it is not unusual for a Wrack to viciously slay any rivals to secure a chance to become a Haemoxyte.
The sight of these degenerate fiends is enough to drive foes into such depths of terror that their hearts stop beating.
Fuelled by the darkest technoalchemy, the parasitic weapons grafted to these warriors’ bodies inflict grotesque wounds upon their victims.
Thanks to surgically implanted subcutaneous gland grafts, the flesh of these foul beings weeps modified lymph and gore that hardens in successive layers to form clotted scab masses of natural armour.
The worse agonies these Drukhari inflict upon their victims, the greater heights of malicious savagery they are goaded to.
When suffused by the suffering of their victims, these warriors achieve a blade-keen marksman’s trance that helps them hammer their victims with hails of shots.
Cunning experts in deception and misdirection, this band of killers weave like shadowy wraiths around their enemies.
Experience during realspace raids has taught these warriors to strike without warning and stay ever on the move.
The instinct to prey upon already weakened victims drives these Drukhari into an almost feral frenzy.
This squad has acquired a small but potent device that generates a short-lived phantasmal image of them and projects it to where they are not.
The sheer disgust these Kabaiites feel towards their foes lends a more aggressive character to their volleys of fire.
Having hunted live prey through the shadow-tangled warrens of Low Commorragh, there are few places victims can hide from these cruel sharpshooters.
This piratical band take pride in seizing the finest prizes during raids and presenting them to their Archon in return for favour.
The slightest chance of wetting their blades with the prey's blood goads these gladiators on with preternatural vigour.
The slightest gap in their victims’ armour is as good as a bared throat to these Drukhari.
Wyches hurl themselves into the foe, using their bladed armour to impale and lacerate.
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.
Dark Star Rising
Your first raids into realspace have borne bloody fruit and cemented your fearful reputation with your followers. Through guile and violence, you have begun to carve out your territory in the Dark City, and with these new holdings have come fresh warrior underlings, new opportunities and - of course - some thrillingly deadly rivals.
- You have won three or more battles.
- You control two or more districts.
- You have used the Source of Disappointment Requisition to remove a unit from your Order of Battle.
Malevolent Master
Your name is whispered from the depths of Commorragh’s underbelly to its jagged spires, and your deeds are spoken of with a mixture of envy and profound unease. Your power spreads like bloodstains, and your enemies multiply with a most complimentary swiftness. True power is within your grasp.
- You have won six or more battles.
- You control four or more districts.
- You have claimed two or more territories that were claimed by Rival Lords using the Hostile Takeover rules.
- One or more units from your Crusade force have been given one of the following Battle Traits: Kabalite Trueborn; Hekatrix Bloodbrides; Haemoxytes.
Commorrite Overlord
You have murdered, betrayed, raided and politicked your way to the pinnacles of power in the Dark City. From here, there is only the fight to preserve what is yours or, perhaps, a different fate within the deep shadow of Asdrubael Vect himself.
- You have triggered the Price of Success rules.
- You have won ten or more battles.
- You control six or more districts.
- You have used the Serve Me or Die Requisition to add one or more new units to your Order of Battle.
Boarding Actions
Introduction
Within the following pages you will find numerous Boarding Actions Detachments that can be used in your Boarding Actions games. Each lists which units you can include in your army, any modifications to those units’ army rule as presented in their Codex or Index, a Detachment rule unique to that Detachment, and a number of Enhancements and Stratagems that you can use.A keyword that will be shared by all units in your army.
MUSTERING RULES
Which units you are allowed to include in your army.
FORMING BOARDING SQUADS
Any additional rules that will apply in the missions Form Boarding Squads step. Note that not all Detachments will have these.
RULES ADAPTATIONS
Some units will be unable to use certain abilities in Boarding Actions battles. Where this is the case, these units and their relevant abilities will be listed here.
Due to the distinct nature of close-quarters battle in Boarding Actions, most army rules require some modifications to their effects. Where this is the case, these will be described here.
DETACHMENT RULE
Each faction will have a number of different Detachments to choose from, each with its own Detachment rule to reflect the unique fighting methods of such forces.
ENHANCEMENTS
Further Enhancements that you can give to CHARACTER models from your army, beyond those(Boarding Actions Enhancments), will be found here.
STRATAGEMS
Additional Stratagems that you can use, in addition to those (Boarding Actions Stratagems), will be found here.
Space Lane Raiders
The Drukhari delight in launching piratical attacks on their victims’ voidships, gathering realspace raiding parties just as they would to assail an enemy world. Such close and nightmarish confines suit these raiding bands particularly well. Soon enough, the voidship rings to the screams of its defenders...
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to one of the following unit if you include one or more KABALITE WARRIORS units:- ARCHON
- HAEMONCULUS (excluding URIEN RAKARTH)
- URIEN RAKARTH
- LELITH HESPERAX
- SUCCUBUS (excluding LELITH HESPERAX)
- KABALITE WARRIORS (10 models)
- WRACKS (5 or 10 models)
- WYCHES (10 models)
Rules Adaptations
- The ARCHON model loses the Devious Mastermind ability.
- The KABALITE WARRIORS unit loses the Sadistic RAIDERS ability.
- The LELITH HESPERAX model loses the Thrilling Spectacle ability.
- The MANDRAKES unit loses the Fade Away ability.
- The URIEN RAKARTH model loses the Fleshcraft ability.
Feast of Pain
Rooting out every last defender aboard a voidship and devouring their fear and agony is an epicurean delight over which the Drukhari take their time.
Units from your army with the Power From Pain ability retain that ability and gain this one.At the start of the battle, you gain 1 Pain token.
Detachment Rule
Commorrite Rivalries
Even in the midst of battle, the Drukhari indulge in politicking and factionalism, seeking to outdo their rivals and cover themselves in dark glory with every murderous triumph.
Each time a DRUKHARI CHARACTER model from your army destroys an enemy CHARACTER unit, you gain 1 Pain token. In addition, each time you use the Battlefield Command Stratagem, you can expend 1 Pain token from your Pain token pool. If you do, decrease that Stratagems cost by 1CP for that usage.Enhancements
Power and Greed This warrior is addicted to the heady rush of battle and suffering, each fresh taste driving them to crave more. The first time in each turn that the bearer is Empowered, roll one D6: on a 3+, you gain 1 Pain token. |
Spiteful Demise Knowing all too well that the carnage they cause during this void battle may be all that pays for their revivification by the Haemonculi, this warrior strikes out viciously until their very last breath. When the bearer is destroyed, if it has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 2+, do not remove it from play. The bearer can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One WRACKS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ANTI-INFANTRY 3+] ability.
TARGET: One WYCHES unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 2+, until the end of the turn, enemy units cannot fire Overwatch at your unit.
TARGET: That KABALITE WARRIORS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 3".
Kabalite Corsairs
Every Drukhari Kabal is as much malevolent crime syndicate as it is private army, often with its own specialist areas of insidious expertise. Some Archons have a predilection for piratical boarding and raiding of voidships, their warbands honing their skills in these areas above all others.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following unit (duplicates are not allowed):- ARCHON
- DRAZHAR
- KABALITE WARRIORS (10 models)
- COURT OF THE ARCHON (4 models)
- INCUBI (5 or 10 models)
- MANDRAKES (5 or 10 models)
Rules Adaptations
- The ARCHON model loses the Devious Mastermind ability.
- The KABALITE WARRIORS unit loses the Sadistic RAIDERs ability.
- The MANDRAKES unit loses the Fade Away ability.
Feast of Pain
Rooting out every last defender aboard a voidship and devouring their fear and agony is an epicurean delight over which the Drukhari take their time.
Units from your army with the Power From Pain ability retain that ability and gain this one.At the start of the battle, you gain 1 Pain token.
Detachment Rule
Raid and Pillage
These warriors reap a bounty of both material plunder and precious pain during their raids, leaving only shattered storage reliquaries and the twisted bodies of tortured victims in their wake.
Each time a DRUKHARI unit from your army destroys an enemy unit, if that enemy unit was within range of an objective marker controlled by your opponent at the start of the phase, you gain 1 Pain token. In addition, in your Command phase, you can select one objective marker you control that has one or more KABAL units from your army within range of it, then expend 1 Pain token from your Pain token pool. If you do, that objective marker is Secured by your army.Enhancements
Dark Charisma The masters of such piratical Kabals lead by example, spitting scorn upon peril, standing tall as avatars of malevolent elan, and overcoming the odds with devilish daring time and again. The bearer has an Objective Control characteristic of 5 and you can re-roll Battle-shock tests taken for the bearer. |
Malevolent Cunning Having fought countless bloody battles aboard the voidships of their prey, this warrior knows well how to turn such environments against their prey. Swiftly deployed booby traps and devious ruses staged with inhuman speed and skill confound the foe at every turn. The first time in each battle round that your opponent targets a unit from their army that is within 3" of the bearer with a Stratagem, increase that Stratagems cost by 1CP for that usage. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One DRUKHARI unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll and, if your unit has the INCUBI keyword, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One KABAL unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of splinter cannons, splinter rifles and splinter pistols equipped by models in your unit by 1.
TARGET: That KABAL unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit hit by one or more of your unit’s attacks this phase (excluding those made with Pistols). That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result if your unit is within 6” of it.
TARGET: One KABAL unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker you do not control that is visible to your unit. Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", but if it does, every model in that unit must end that move as close as possible to that objective marker.
Ship-killer Cult
Employing esoteric technologies to transmit their exploits back to debauched audiences in Commorragh, some Wych Cults board voidships as a kind of murderous death-sport. Here, the voidship becomes the arena, and the Wyches’ every violent action the entertainment for their baying fans.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):- LELITH HESPERAX
- SUCCUBUS (excluding LELITH HESPERAX)
- WYCHES (10 models)
Rules Adaptations
- The LELITH HESPERAX model loses the Thrilling Spectacle ability.
- The MANDRAKES unit loses the Fade Away ability.
Feast of Pain
Rooting out every last defender aboard a voidship and devouring their fear and agony is an epicurean delight over which the Drukhari take their time.
Units from your army with the Power From Pain ability retain that ability and gain this one.At the start of the battle, you gain 1 Pain token.
Detachment Rule
Appetite for Adulation
Thriving upon the praise their sadistic deeds will earn from their twisted audience, the Wyches fight all the harder and inflict ever-more excessive torments upon their victims.
In the Fight phase, if two or more enemy units were destroyed by DRUKHARI units from your army that phase, you gain 1 Pain token. In addition, each time a WYCH CULT unit from your army becomes Empowered in the Fight phase, until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [ANTi-iNFANTRY 4+] ability.Enhancements
Stimm-Fervour Propelled like a living missile through the voidship’s corridors by a near-toxic cocktail of combat stimms, this Wych strikes like dark lightning and fights with blistering savagery. The bearer is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. |
Blood-Drenched Champion This murderous star of the arenas delights in graphically and agonisingly taking their enemies to pieces, much to the delight of their audiences and the abject terror of surrounding foes. In the Battle-shock step of your opponent’s Command phase, for each enemy unit that is below its Starting Strength and is within Engagement Range of the bearer, that unit must take a Battle-shock test. If that enemy unit is also Below Half-strength, subtract 1 from that test. This Enhancement cannot cause a unit to take two Battle-shock tests in the same phase. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One WYCH CULT unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll and subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: If your unit destroyed one or more enemy models this phase, select one of those enemy models. Until the end of your opponent’s next turn, subtract 1 from the Objective Control characteristic of models in that enemy model's unit (to a minimum of l).
TARGET: One WYCH CULT unit from your army that opened a Hatchway this turn.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit can declare a charge that includes one or more targets that are not visible to it, provided each of those units that are not visible to it are wholly on the opposite side of that Hatchway from your unit.
TARGET: That WYCH CULT unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 9" of and visible to your unit. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result: if failed, until the end of the turn, that enemy unit cannot fire Overwatch.
Painbringers
The twisted fleshcrafters of the Haemonculus Covens seek to seize fresh captives for their laboratories. Boarding enemy vessels, they rely upon their menageries of mutant creations to smash through bulkheads and rip open hatches. The Haemonculi and their creations are empowered by pain both given and received, and will fight on through injuries that would spell doom for lesser beings.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):- HAEMONCULUS (excluding URIEN RAKARTH)
- URIEN RAKARTH
- WRACKS (5 or 10 models)
- GROTESQUES (3 or 6 models)
- INCUBI (5 or 10 models)
- MANDRAKES (5 or 10 models)
Forming Boarding Squads
In the Form Boarding Squads step, GROTESQUES units containing 6 models are each split into two Boarding Squads, both containing 3 models.Rules Adaptations
- The MANDRAKES unit loses the Fade Away ability.
- The URIEN RAKARTH model loses the Fleshcraft ability.
Feast of Pain
Rooting out every last defender aboard a voidship and devouring their fear and agony is an epicurean delight over which the Drukhari take their time.
Units from your army with the Power From Pain ability retain that ability and gain this one.At the start of the battle, you gain 1 Pain token.
Detachment Rule
Regenerative Agony
The twisted physiologies of the Haemonculus fleshcrafters’ creations are inured to all but the most terrible injuries. The greater and more terrible the agonies inflicted upon their hideous forms, the more formidable their regenerative abilities become.
Each time four or more Feel No Pain rolls are successful for HAEMONCULUS COVENS models from your army in a single phase, you gain 1 Pain token. In addition, each battle round, the first time a HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit from your army becomes Empowered in that battle round, roll one D6: on a 2-5, one model in that unit regains 1 lost wound or, if that unit has the WRACKS keyword, one destroyed model is returned to it with its full wounds remaining; on a 6, one model in that unit regains up to 2 lost wounds or, if that unit has the WRACKS keyword, one destroyed model is returned to it with its full wounds remaining.Enhancements
Rending Chain-Flails This Haemonculus fleshcrafter has adorned their grotesque form with bladed chain-flails with which to ensnare fleeing foes and tear them to bloody shreds. Each time an enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer is selected to Fall Back, roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. |
Vile Surgeon This cruel chirurgeon seeks out particularly worthy subjects upon whom to practice the most agonising surgical experiments. The bearers Haemonculus tools and scissorhands have a Damage characteristic of 3 while targeting CHARACTER units. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit from your army within range of that objective marker.
EFFECT: Until the end of your next turn, while you have one or more DRUKHARI units within range of that objective marker (excluding Battle-shocked units), that objective marker remains Secured by your army and cannot be Seized by enemy units.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit's attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 if your unit has the GROTESQUES keyword: on a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
RESTRICTIONS: If your unit has the GROTESQUES keyword, until the end of the phase, it loses the Mindless Killing Machines ability.
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Select any number of models in your unit. Until the end of the phase, improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of melee weapons equipped by the selected models by 1, and each time you select targets for attacks made by those models, they must target an enemy unit that is wholly on the opposite side of a Hatchway from them.
TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS COVENS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit's attacks and is within 6" of the attacking unit.
EFFECT: That enemy unit must take a Leadership test, subtracting 1 if it is within 3" of your unit: if failed, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack that targets your unit, an unmodified Hit roll of 6 is required to score a hit, irrespective of the attacking weapon’s Ballistic Skill or any modifiers.
The AELDARI keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The AIRCRAFT keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The ANHRATHE keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The ARCHON keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The ASURYANI keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The BEASTS keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The BLADES FOR HIRE keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The DEDICATED TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The DRUKHARI keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The EPIC HERO keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The FLY keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The GRENADES keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The HAEMONCULUS keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The HAEMONCULUS COVENS keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The HARLEQUINS keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The JUMP PACK keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The KABAL keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The MOUNTED keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The PSYKER keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The SCOURGES keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The SMOKE keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The SUCCUBUS keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
The WYCH CULT keyword is used in the following Drukhari 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).
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- Mixed Keywords in Units
The Drukhari feed on suffering and terror. Every arc of blood that jets from a blade-slit artery, every scream of agonised horror, every vertiginous moment of shock or despair experienced by their prey surges through the Drukhari like an intoxicant. As the battle rages, the denizens of the Dark City drink deep of the floodtide of pain. Sinews singing with stolen strength, motions blurred to preternatural swiftness, they howl in exhilarated bloodlust and fight all the harder to extract yet sweeter agonies from those who dare resist them.
All DRUKHARI units have a Pain ability, tagged with the word ‘Pain’. Pain abilities only apply to a unit while it is Empowered. If your Army Faction is DRUKHARI, you can Empower units from your army with Pain abilities by spending Pain tokens (see below).
Designer’s Note: You can also spend Pain tokens to activate additional effects in certain other rules such as Enhancements and Stratagems.
Gaining Pain Tokens
If your Army Faction is DRUKHARI, you gain Pain tokens as follows:
- 1 Pain token at the start of your Command phase.
- 1 Pain token each time an enemy unit is destroyed.
- 1 Pain token each time an enemy unit fails a Battle-shock test.
Empowered Through Pain
Each Pain ability will state when you can spend Pain tokens to Empower that unit. When you do, until the end of the phase, that unit is Empowered and all Pain abilities it has take effect. While an Attached unit is Empowered, the Pain abilities of all Leader and Bodyguard units in that unit take effect - you do not need to spend additional Pain tokens to activate each of those Pain abilities.
- 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.
Many deadly weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.
Each time an attack made with a [LETHAL HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, you can choose for that attack to automatically wound the target.
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The DRUKHARI and BATTLELINE keywords are used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Some rules refer to units being below starting strength, or at – or below – half-strength. The meaning of these terms varies depending on a unit’s starting strength, as shown below.
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The 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.
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- 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).
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).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
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).
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.
EFFECT: No models are moved (either in straight lines or rotated). Units that remain stationary do not trigger any rules that are triggered when a unit starts or ends a move.
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.
If a persisting effect applies to a unit when you place it in strategic reserves or when it embarks within a TRANSPORT, make a note of that effect and its duration; if that unit is set up on the battlefield again, any persisting effects continue to apply to that unit for their full duration.
If you have a rule that specifies when it is triggered (e.g. ‘In the Shooting phase’) and it does not specify how long it is active for, it is only active for the duration of that specified period (e.g. until the end of that Shooting phase). After that period, that effect is no longer applicable/active.
If a rule or effect is given to a unit and it does not specify how long it is active for, it is only active for the phase in which it was given.
If a TRANSPORT model is destroyed, before removing it from the battlefield, the active player must make an emergency disembark move (see below) with each unit embarked within it.
- Rapid/Tactical Disembark: 3"
- Combat Disembark: 6"
- Embarked within a TRANSPORT model that is on the battlefield.
- Did not embark within that TRANSPORT this phase.
- That TRANSPORT has not made an advance or fall-back move this phase.
BEFORE MOVING: Select disembark mode:
- Rapid Disembark:If that TRANSPORT made a normal or ingress move this phase, you must select this mode.
- Tactical Disembark:Otherwise, If that TRANSPORT remained stationary or has not yet been selected to move this phase, and if you can set up your unit as described below, you must select this mode.
- Combat Disembark:Otherwise, you must select this mode. Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit.
- Rapid Disembark:If that TRANSPORT made an ingress move this turn, each model must follow the same rules that TRANSPORT had to follow while resolving that move.
- Combat Disembark:Each model can be set up engaged with one or more enemy units that TRANSPORT is engaged with.
- Rapid Disembark:Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
- Tactical Disembark:Select your unit to make a normal or advance move.
- Combat Disembark:Your unit is battle-shocked and, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge.
EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
WHILE MOVING: Set up each model in your unit wholly within the set-up distance of that TRANSPORT, and as close as possible to that TRANSPORT. Each model that cannot be set up in this way is destroyed.
AFTER MOVING: Your unit is battle-shocked and, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge.
- Hazard Rolls 06.03
- Persisting Rules Effects
- 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 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).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.Other models and units can be either visible or fully visible to the observing model, as shown below. Note that terrain applies additional rules to visibility (13.07).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
- You can only target one visible enemy unit within 24" of your unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
- Each attack only hits on an unmodified hit roll of 6 (irrespective of the attacking weapon’s BS characteristic or any modifiers).
- You cannot re-roll hit rolls.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
- That unit is not visible to any other units (units are visible to themselves).
- Any other unit is not visible to that unit.
- Players cannot measure distances to or from that unit (units are within range of their own abilities).
This means units not on the battlefield cannot be selected or targeted by any attack or rule that requires a unit to be visible or within a certain distance (other than their own abilities).
Such units can still use their other rules, and are still units in the controlling player’s army and so can be affected by rules that require a player to select a unit from an army, as well as rules that affect all units in an army.
The controlling player must make battle-shock rolls for units that are not on the battlefield in their Command phase if they are battle-shocked, or if they are at or below half-strength.
- Each model in that unit is within 3" of that TRANSPORT.
- That unit was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
- That unit is eligible to embark within that TRANSPORT, as described on that TRANSPORT’s datasheet.
- That TRANSPORT has sufficient remaining transport capacity for each model in that unit.
When a unit embarks, the active player removes that unit from the battlefield and places it to one side – it is now embarked within that TRANSPORT and is not on the battlefield.
- Not on the Battlefield
The DRUKHARI and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
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.The DRUKHARI and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Wyches abuse an array of potentially lethal performance-enhancing combat stimms.
At the start of your Command phase, select which Combat Drugs will be active for your army until the start of your next Command phase. To do so, either select one from the list below (you cannot select the same Combat Drug more than once per battle), or randomly select two by rolling two D6. When doing so randomly, Combat Drugs you have previously selected can become active again, but if you randomly select one that is already active for your army, it has no additional effect.1. Adrenalight
Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army.
2. Hypex
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of WYCH CULT models from your army.
3. Serpentin
Improve the Weapon Skill characteristic of melee weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army by 1.
4. Painbringer
Add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of WYCH CULT models from your army.
5. Grave Lotus
Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army.
6. Splintermind
Improve the Leadership characteristic of WYCH CULT models from your army by 1, and improve the Ballistic Skill characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by WYCH CULT models from your army by 1.
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).
Certain weapons are the bane of particular foes.
This ability always takes the form [ANTI-X Y+]. Each time an attack is made with an [ANTI] weapon, if the target unit has the keyword denoted by X, an unmodified wound roll of Y+ is a critical wound.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.
- 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.
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.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.
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.
Many armies employ reconnaissance units who can sit concealed, waiting for the right moment to strike.
During deployment, if every model in a unit has this ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally from your opponent’s deployment zone and all enemy units.Kabalite forces often prize particular targets amongst the enemy ranks, whether as a macabre trophy, the target of a contract killing, or for some other devious reason.
At the start of the first battle round, select one of the Contracts below, then select one unit from your opponent’s army that matches the ‘Contract’ description in that Contract. Until that Contract is completed, that unit is your Contract unit and KABAL and BLADES FOR HIRE units from your army have the ability stated in that Contract. At the start of your Command phase, if your Contract unit is destroyed, that Contract is completed and you gain 3 Pain tokens.Trophy Hunters
Contract: One CHARACTER unit.
Ability: Each time a KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE model in this unit makes an attack that targets the Contract unit, that attack has the [precision] ability.
Sow Fear and Terror
Contract: One INFANTRY or MOUNTED unit (excluding units containing only CHARACTER models). At the start of your Command phase, this Contract is completed if all non-CHARACTER models in that unit are destroyed.
Ability: Each time a KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE model in this unit makes an attack that targets an INFANTRY or MOUNTED unit, that attack has the [sustained hits 1] ability.
Show of Strength
Contract: One MONSTER or VEHICLE unit.
Ability: Each time a KABAL or BLADES FOR HIRE model in this unit makes an attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, that attack has the [lethal hits] ability.
- Incursion: Up to 250 pts
- Strike Force: Up to 500 pts
- Onslaught: Up to 750 pts
No HARLEQUINS or ANHRATHE models included in your army in this way can be your WARLORD, and they cannot be given Enhancements.
Scouts form the vanguard of many armies. Unnoticed by the enemy, they range ahead of the main force.
This ability always takes the form Scouts X". In the Resolve Pre-battle Abilities step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can do one of the following:- If that unit is in strategic reserves, you can set up that unit anywhere that is wholly within your deployment zone.
- If that unit is wholly within your deployment zone, it can make a scout move (see below).
- If that unit is embarked within a DEDICATED TRANSPORT that is wholly within your deployment zone, and if every model embarked within that DEDICATED TRANSPORT has the Scouts ability, that DEDICATED TRANSPORT can make a scout move.
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
The HARLEQUINS and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
- 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.
Your influence increases with every victory secured in realspace, every bounty of dismayed captives, and priceless esoterica snatched back to Commorragh. Material wealth and reputation soon translate into paramilitary power, increasing your reach within the Dark City and allowing you to grasp more territory for yourself
When you add an Ascendant Lord unit to your Order of Battle, it starts with 0 territories - you will need to play a battle to claim one.While you have an ASCENDANT LORD unit on your Order of Battle, after each battle, in the Update Crusade Cards step, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if your ASCENDANT LORD was in your Crusade army, and adding 2 to the result if you were the Victor (for a total possible bonus of +3): on a 4+, your ASCENDANT LORD claims 1 territory (see right); on a 6+, your ASCENDANT LORD claims 2 territories.
The DRUKHARI and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Weapon Forge
This lord’s string of arcane armourers and energy-wreathed testing facilities give them access to exotic weapons technologies.
At the start of the Declare Battle Formations step, select one DRUKHARI unit from your Crusade army (you cannot select an EPIC HERO or a unit that has the Weapon Modification Battle Honour). Until the end of the battle, one weapon equipped by one model in that unit has the Weapon Modification Battle Honour.
Toxin Distillery
Be they elegantly appointed venom salons in the spires of High Commorragh or shadowed oubliettes of the Haemonculi, these facilities provide a flow of refined poisons for use in battle.
While your ASCENDANT LORD is leading a unit, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
Arena
The warriors of the Wych Cults will fight all the harder during realspace raids to impress their lordly patron and retain that beneficial patronage.
In the Update Crusade Cards step, if a DRUKHARI unit from your Crusade army would gain XP from Dealers of Death, it gains 1 additional XP.
Scourge Spire
By winning the allegiance of the Scourges in their high eyries, a Drukhari lord ensures the support of skilled spies, messengers and gun-toting airborne murder squads.
In the Update Crusade Cards step, if a SCOURGES unit from your Crusade army would gain XP from Battle Experience, it gains 1 additional XP.
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.Incubi Shrine
It requires tact - with fearless arrogance and ready wealth - to truly secure the allegiance of even a single shrine of Incubi. The reward is a cadre of murderously skilled bodyguards well worth any expense.
In the Declare Battle Formations step, your ASCENDANT LORD can be attached to an INCUBI unit (if your ASCENDANT LORD is an ARCHON, while it is leading an INCUBI unit, your ASCENDANT LORD model has the Feel No Pain 5+ ability). If your ASCENDANT LORD is attached to an INCUBI unit, at the end of the battle, unless all of those Bodyguard models have been destroyed, you can re-roll all Leadership tests required as the result of Assassination Attempts during that battle’s Rival Activities.
Sprawl Slum
When a deed needs doing, or machinations need putting into effect, it can be beneficial to have a ready supply of Drukhari desperate to elevate themselves no matter the risks.
At the start of the Select Crusade Blessings step, roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if you are the Underdog: on a 6+, you can use one additional Crusade Blessing this battle (even if you are not the Underdog).
Flesh Market
Many mundane and esoteric goods pass through these regions, exchanged with the masters of the haemonculus covens for their dubious services in surgery and resurrection through pain.
Once at the end of each battle, you can re-roll one Out of Action test taken for one DRUKHARI INFANTRY or DRUKHARI MONSTER unit from your Crusade army.
Shadow District
There are many risks in dealing with the denizens of Aelindrach, and they are terrible. Yet there are few better spies or saboteurs than supernatural beings against whom no door can be barred, nor chamber warded.
Each time a Rival Lord makes an Activity roll, you can subtract 1 from the result.
Noble Spire
Having such enviable estates means this lord is never short of trusted agents to help achieve their schemes and plots, whether through bribery, blandishment, intimidation, or making bloody examples.
At the start of the Select Agendas step, roll one D6: on a 4+, you can select one additional Drukhari Agenda to use in that battle.
Gang Territory
There are those lordly residents who sneer at the idea of claiming territories in Low Commorragh. Those same arrogant fools are the first to have their heads hoisted atop a trophy rack when a less blinkered rival unleashes the fury of the many vicious gangs over which they rule.
Each time your ASCENDANT LORD attempts a Hostile Takeover, add 1 to its D6 result and, if that ASCENDANT LORD claims a territory as a result, increase your Crusade forces Supply Limit by 50 points.
The DRUKHARI and MOUNTED keywords are used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
Raidcraft Workshop
Commanding the finest workshops gives a lord of Commorragh access to exceptional anti-grav attack skiffs, which can be deployed to bear their warriors into battle at a breakneck pace.
In the Declare Battle Formations step, you can select one DRUKHARI VEHICLE or DRUKHARI MOUNTED unit from your Crusade army. Until the end of the battle, that unit has the Scouts 6" ability.
The non-CHARACTER DRUKHARI keyword is used in the following Drukhari datasheets:
A Rival Lord is defeated when they have no territories remaining, at which point you must remove them from your Rival Lords tracker. If all Rival Lords are defeated, at the end of your next battle, generate D3 new Rival Lords to replace them.
Dual weapons are often grafted to the same targeting system for greater lethality.
Each time an attack is made with a [TWIN-LINKED] weapon, you can re-roll the wound roll.TARGET: One HAEMONCULUS model from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Spend 1-3 Pain tokens. At the end of the phase, set the destroyed model back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with a number of wounds remaining equal to the number of Pain tokens you just spent.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem if you have 0 Pain tokens, and you cannot target the same HAEMONCULUS model with this Stratagem more than once per battle.
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.- 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).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).
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.
Sometimes, an example needs to be made, and those who have failed their commander find themselves thrust into the arena to be slaughtered or disposed of in some other showily gruesome manner.
Many kabals include amongst their ranks those who were born through natural means rather than by the accelerated processes of the Haemonculi. These so-called Trueborn consider themselves superior to all other Drukhari and are afforded better training and the finest wargear.
In many wych cults, the most supremely skilled Hekatrixes band together to form units that answer to none but the highest authority of that cult. Often accompanying prestigious Succubi into battle, these paragons of the arena have mastered the killing arts, their esoteric fighting styles proving deadly to any who face them.
Highly prized by their masters, the Haemoxytes consider themselves the pinnacle of the fieshcrafting art. Grafted with a bewildering array of internal augmentations derived from both Aeldari gene stock and that of other species, they exhibit enhanced abilities and are often tasked with particularly vital duties by their masters. Although they are viewed with disgust by other Drukhari, it is not unusual for a Wrack to viciously slay any rivals to secure a chance to become a Haemoxyte.
Cruelly slaying a defeated rival provides a short-term thrill, and nothing says fear me like a bloodied head on a spike. Still, sometimes, there is wisdom - and spiteful satisfaction - in preserving an enemy’s life in exchange for their service.
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.
High-explosive rounds can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them too close to comrades is unwise.
Each time you gather attack dice for a [BLAST] weapon, add one additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down).If this ability takes the form [BLAST X], each time you gather attack dice for such a weapon, add X additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down) instead.
- Engaged and did not make an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons or is a MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- MONSTER/VEHICLE Models: Each time a MONSTER/VEHICLE model in your unit makes an attack:
- Unless that attack is made with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon and targets a unit your unit is engaged with, subtract 1 from the hit roll.
- If that attack is made with a [BLAST] weapon, it still cannot target a unit your unit is engaged with.
- Non-MONSTER/Non-VEHICLE Models: You can only select [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons to make attacks with and you can only select enemy units that are engaged with your unit as targets.
Weapons designed for close-quarters fighting can be wielded effectively even in the press of melee combat.
Units containing one or more models with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon can shoot using close-quarters shooting (10.06).When using another shooting type, for each model in that unit (excluding MONSTER/VEHICLE models), you can only select one of the following to make attacks with:
- One or more of its [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons.
- One or more of its other ranged weapons.
Pistols can be wielded even at point-blank range.
[PISTOL] and [CLOSE-QUARTERS] are identical for all rules purposes. See [CLOSE-QUARTERS].