Emperor’s Children
Few beings in the galaxy are as twisted and deranged as the Emperor’s Children. Their sanity blasted by the sick worship of Slaanesh, the Lord of Pleasure, the Emperor’s Children embrace terror and agony as delightful bliss, and wreak the most horrific degradations upon their foes in the name of indulgence and pleasure.
Books
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Emperor’s Children | ||||
| Emperor’s Children | Faction Pack | 10 | 1.3 | April 2026 |
 Boarding Actions: Sublime Strike | ||||
| Boarding Actions: Sublime Strike | White Dwarf | 10 | April 2025 | |
 Munitorum Field Manual | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual | Expansion | 11 | 1.0 | |
FAQ
Faction Pack: Emperor’s Children
| Q: | While using the Coterie of the Conceited Detachment, if my WARLORD is not on the battlefield, can I use the Unbound Arrogance Stratagem? |
| A: | Yes, your pledge to Slaanesh would increase from 0 to 1. |
| Q: | Can the same enemy unit be affected by Noise Marines’ Terrifying Crescendo ability more than once, for multiple subtractions to its Battle-shock and Leadership tests? |
| A: | Yes. |
Keywords
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- The number in parentheses indicates the number of datasheets containing this keyword. This number represents the total number of datasheets in the faction, regardless of the filter.
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Introduction
The Detachment rule listed here will apply to either your whole army or to particular units within it. If any additional restrictions or benefits apply to a Detachment, they will be listed here. This can include units your army either must include or cannot include, as well as additional keywords some of your units may gain.
When mustering your army, your chosen Detachment enables you to upgrade CHARACTERS using the Enhancements listed here, as described in the Core Rules (see the Select Units step). If you are playing a Crusade battle, you can instead use the Renowned Heroes Requisition to give your CHARACTERS Enhancements, as described in the main Crusade rules.
Your chosen Detachment gives you access to the Stratagems listed here in addition to the Core Stratagems listed in the Core Rules. During the battle, you can spend Command points (CP) to use these Stratagems. You can find out more about how to use Stratagems here.
Army Rules
Thrill Seekers
The Emperor’s Children are skilled warriors all, their transhuman might enhanced by a lifetime of ceaseless conflict. Their ingrained desire for sensation in all its forms sees them move rapidly across the battlefield, flitting between targets as they attempt to satiate their never-ending hunger for fresh experience.
If your Army Faction is EMPEROR’S CHILDREN, this unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back, but when doing so:- It cannot target a unit it was within Engagement Range of at the start of the turn.
- It cannot target a unit that was the target of another units charge or attack this phase.
Mercurial Host
The Emperor’s Children are a myriad of warbands driven by an obsessive desire to experience the thrill of battle in all its many forms. These warbands strike with a speed and excessive violence that is majestic in its ever-escalating cruelty. Tormentors and Infractors, their pupils dilated by exotic stimm cocktails, flesh scarred and sculpted by self-inflicted tortures, traverse the battlefield. Their murderous intentions flit from target to target, driven by their obsessive need for fresh experience and sensation. Each bloody kill they make is more excruciating and visually gratifying than the last. Noise Marines unleash wave after wave of discordant sonic destruction. The varied pitch and tone of blastmaster, sonic blaster and screamer pistol combine with the screams of the dying and the exultant battle cries of the Emperor’s Children to form a symphony of majestic horror.
Quicksilver Grace
The Emperor’s Children are consummate raiders, eager to satiate their lust for sensation amid battle and falling upon their foes with impossible swiftness and inhuman grace.
You can re-roll Advance rolls made for EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army.Enhancements
The warlords of the Emperor’s Children thrive on the pain they cause. The more grievous the injuries they cause, the deadlier they become. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit below its Starting Strength, add 1 to the Hit roll. If that target is also Below Half-strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well. |
A sickly-sweet aroma emanates from this warrior, at once delightful and abhorrent. A perfumed assault on the senses intoxicates those in its vicinity. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Each time a melee attack targets the bearer’s unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll. |
Since their foundation, the Emperor's Children have sought to master every art of warfare, be it in personal acts of martial prowess or superior tactical displays. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to two EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army and redeploy them. When doing so, you can set those units up in Strategic Reserves if you wish, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves. |
Blessed by Slaanesh to further accentuate their perverse elegance, this leader possesses feline finesse. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, it can move through enemy models. When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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 [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY 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 Wound roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, if your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army (excluding BEASTS and VEHICLES) that is within 8" of the enemy unit that just ended that move.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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 EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that is wholly within 9" of one or more battlefield edges and not within 3" horizontally of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Peerless Bladesmen
The Emperor’s Children are consumed by their own pride and driven by insatiable obsession. They seek to prove their prowess in myriad forms of combat. Tall and powerful Flawless Blades stride proudly into battle, seeking out enemy champions to gruesomely humble in single combat. They parry the blows of their foes with sneering arrogance and spill their blood with glee. In their blood-slick wake come squads of Infractors, empowered by rare and esoteric combat drugs. Other sons of Fulgrim unleash death in shredding salvoes from boltguns and sonic weapons. Those who exult in their swordfighting prowess find gaps in armour plate with their curved blades and sinuous whips, rending flesh and spilling viscera with each strike. The slaughter increases in pace and intensity as it rushes towards a gore-slick crescendo, ending only when the last wretched victim has been eviscerated, and the twisted souls of the Emperor’s Children are briefly glutted on the riotous carnage they have inflicted.
Exquisite Swordsmanship
These warriors are peerless swordsmen, each demonstrating exquisite fighting form. Those who lock swords with these obsessive warriors do so at their peril.
Each time an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army is selected to fight, if it made a Charge move this turn, select one of the abilities below. While resolving those attacks, melee weapons equipped by models in that unit have that ability:- [LETHAL HITS]
- [SUSTAINED HITS 1]
Enhancements
This swordsman forever seeks opportunities to flaunt their dazzling and deadly bladework. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. You can target this unit with the Heroic Intervention stratagem, regardless of any other uses of that stratagem this phase. If you do:
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By injecting powerful combat stimms distilled from the perfumed ichor of Daemonettes, these warriors slash out with diabolically enhanced speed. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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. |
The sheen of this blade reflects to the bearer their own alluring countenance. In their image, they see an example of perfection. In reality, the bearer has become a hideous wretch, every ounce of elegance leached away to increase the daemon blade’s killing power. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Add 1 to the Attacks and Damage characteristics of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. |
This warriors arrogance is matched by a listless ennui at the galaxy's everyday stimuli. Should a worthy opponent challenge them in combat, they transform into a faultless duellist with skill beyond compare. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per battle, at the end of the Fight phase, if the bearer is within Engagement Range of three or more enemy models, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, the bearer can fight one additional time. When doing so, you can select one ability using the Exquisite Swordsmanship Detachment rule to apply to those attacks. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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 EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3", provided your unit ends that Consolidation move within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that made a Charge move in the previous turn and destroyed one or more enemy units in the previous Fight phase.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within 6" of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test if they are Below Half-strength. Enemy units affected by this Stratagem do not need to take any other Battle-shock tests in the same phase.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army (you can only select a VEHICLE if it is a WALKER) that is within 6" of that enemy unit and would be eligible to declare a charge against that enemy unit if it were your Charge phase.
EFFECT: Your unit can declare a charge. When doing so, you must select that enemy unit as a target of that charge, and your unit does not receive a Charge bonus this turn.
Rapid Evisceration
The armoured transports of the Emperor’s Children are a testament to the debased nature of those who ride within them. Daubed in vibrant colours and covered in symbols of dedication to both Legion and Dark Prince, the war engines’ twisted machine spirits snarl, whine and growl like beasts straining at the leash. Warp amps emit streams of daemonic screeches, spreading fear in the ranks of the enemy and heralding the slaughter to come. Laying down destructive choruses of firepower from turrets, hatches and sponsons, armoured transports grind over the foe’s defences, smash into enemy infantry and disgorge their fell cargo to battle. From the armoured behemoths emerge the Emperor’s Children, weapons drawn in anticipation of the glorious violence to come.
Mechanised Murder
The Emperor’s Children are masters of the mechanised assault, leaping from their growling, daemonically tainted vehicles to fall upon the foe with blade and bolter.
Each time an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model from your army makes an attack, if it is a TRANSPORT model or disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.Enhancements
This leader’s tactical prowess ensures that their reinforcements arrive when required. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per turn, in your Movement phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT that is in Strategic Reserves. Until the end of the phase, for the purposes of setting up that TRANSPORT on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is. |
This leader and their bodyguard pride themselves being first into the fray. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Each time the bearer disembarks from a TRANSPORT, until the end of the turn, you can re-roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit and enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at the bearer’s unit. |
Possessed of uncanny situational awareness, this leader directs hit-and-fade attacks with great precision. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per turn, in your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot, you can select one friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit within 9" of the bearer that was hit by one or more of those attacks, then select one friendly TRANSPORT that unit is wholly within 6" of and is able to embark within. That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit can embark within that Transport. |
This warrior is well-versed in the fell rituals of the Dark Mechanicum. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per battle round, when a saving throw is failed for a friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer, you can change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 0. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that destroyed an enemy unit this phase, and one friendly TRANSPORT it is able to embark within.
EFFECT: If your EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT from your army that has one or more TORMENTORS units embarked within it (excluding Battle-shocked units).
EFFECT: Select one objective marker you control that your TRANSPORT is within range of. That objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN VEHICLE unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through enemy models (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES). When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that disembarked from a TRANSPORT that made a Normal move this turn.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit is eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit embarked within your TRANSPORT can disembark. When doing so, models in that unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT from your army, or up to two EMPEROR’S CHILDREN DEDICATED TRANSPORTS from your army.
EFFECT: For each of those TRANSPORTS wholly within 9" of one or more battlefield edges, remove it from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Carnival of Excess
Wherever the Emperor’s Children tread, wherever they indulge their every obsessive desire, wherever they gut, flay and slaughter, reality is torn asunder and through the veil pour the daemons of Slaanesh. Daemonettes leap forward, their lithe forms at once repulsive and alluring. Clouds of sickly soul-musk drift through the ranks of the foe dulling their senses whilst the susurrations of the advancing daemons lull the weak-willed into trances. Seekers of Slaanesh crash into their helpless victims, talon, claw and poisoned tongue ripping flesh asunder. Alongside their daemonic allies, the Emperor’s Children keep pace, letting out ecstatic laughter and booming battle cries as they unleash malefic sorceries and slaughter at will. Return fire finds only corrupted air as daemon and tainted warriors alike advance like a murderous pageant through the enemy fire with contemptuous ease.
Daemonic Empowerment
Where the Emperor’s Children indulge their obsession, the power ofSlaanesh empowers those in his thrall.
- While an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army is within 6" of one or more friendly LEGIONS OF EXCESS units, it is Empowered.
- While a LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit from your army is within 6" of one or more friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units, it is Empowered.
While a unit from your army is Empowered, weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [sustained hits 1] ability. If such a weapon already has that ability, each time an attack is made with that weapon, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
LEGIONS OF EXCESS
You can include LEGIONS OF EXCESS units in your army, even though they do not have the EMPEROR’S CHILDREN Faction keyword. The combined points cost of such units you can include in your army is:
- Incursion: Up to 500 pts
- Strike Force: Up to 1000 pts
- Onslaught: Up to 1500 pts
Enhancements
Swirling clouds of perfumed empyric energy suffuse this leader s followers, granting them daemonic vigour. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. When you target this unit with the Heroic Intervention stratagem, that use is -1 CP. |
This warrior has earned the favour of the Dark Prince. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per battle, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, the bearer has a 3+ invulnerable save. |
The martial grace that this daemon weapon bestows upon its bearer comes at a price. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. At the start of the battle, select one melee weapon equipped by the bearer; add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of that weapon. In addition, each time the bearer is selected to fight, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, while resolving those attacks, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that weapon and that weapon has the [devastating wounds] and [hazardous] abilities. |
This champion of Slaanesh is so steeped in the warp as to be able to traverse its maddening depths at will. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN or KEEPER OF SECRETS model only. Each time the bearer’s unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, it can move through enemy models. When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Select one friendly LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit within 6" of your unit. One model in that LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit recovers up to 3 lost wounds or, if it is a DAEMONETTES unit, return upto D3+3 destroyed models to it instead.
TARGET: That LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit and one friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit within 6" of it that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit can declare a charge. If it does so and it has already been selected to fight this phase, it cannot fight again this phase.
TARGET: One SLAANESH BEASTS, SLAANESH INFANTRY or SLAANESH MOUNTED 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 a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3". When doing so, it does not need to end that move closer to the closest enemy model, provided it ends that move as close as possible to the closest enemy unit.
TARGET: One LEGIONS OF EXCESS unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back, provided at least one of the targets of that charge is within Engagement Range of one or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army.
TARGET: One SLAANESH 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 DAEMONETTES unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. If it arrives back on the battlefield in the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase using the Deep Strike ability, it can be set up anywhere that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units (instead of more than 9"), provided it is also set up wholly within 9" of one or more friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units.
Coterie of the Conceited
The Emperor’s Children possess a desire for perfection and superiority that drives them to inflict ever greater and more impressive death upon their foes. To satisfy their urges, some Emperor’s Children warlords strike desperate pacts with daemonic powers. By doing so they wager their souls and those of their warriors and in turn promise to outdo their rivals in the volume and luridity of carnage they inflict. In return, they may be granted power beyond measure, and the ability to experience limitless sensation. Those who have sworn such pacts urge their warriors forward and hurl themselves into battle with desperation and exhilaration. Each torture inflicted and each gory kill brings them one step closer to fulfilling their part of the bargain. Failure, however, can lead only to a violent death or, far worse, the ire of their patron and the torturous obliteration of their very soul.
Pledges to the Dark Prince
Few appear as favoured by the Dark Prince as these warriors, their boons of power a reward for committing ever viler deeds in honour of their patron.
At the start of the battle round, if your WARLORD is on the battlefield, you must pledge a number to Slaanesh representing how many enemy units will be destroyed this battle round. At the end of the battle round, if the number of enemy units destroyed this battle round is greater than or equal to your pledge, you gain a number of Pact points equal to your pledge. Otherwise, you do not gain any Pact points this battle round and your WARLORD model suffers D3 mortal wounds.EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army gain a bonus depending on how many Pact points you have gained during the battle, as shown below (these are all cumulative).
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Enhancements
Through Slaanesh’s favour, this warrior has defied death more than once and each time has been agonisingly resurrected to offer more souls to their patron. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. The first time the bearer is destroyed, take a Leadership test for the bearer at the end of the phase. If that test is passed, set the bearer back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, with D6 wounds remaining (up to its Wounds characteristic). |
This leader is surrounded by an aura of dark majesty, radiating the glorious and infectious arrogance displayed by the greatest of Slaanesh’s chosen sons. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, improve the Leadership and Objective Control characteristics of models in that unit by 1. |
This warrior gifts their foes with Slaanesh’s own exquisite caress, offering up their agonies to please the Dark Prince. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer. That unit must take a Leadership test, subtracting 2 from the result if it is Battle-shocked: if failed, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds. |
A daemonic patron steers this warrior’s fate. Every movement is a killing stroke or exquisitely timed parry. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Once per turn, just after making a Hit roll, a Wound roll or a saving throw for a model in the bearer’s unit, if the bearer is not Battle-shocked, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, treat the result as an unmodified roll of 6 instead. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability, and the Feel No Pain 4+ ability against mortal wounds.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the following: that attack’s Ballistic Skill or Weapon Skill characteristic; the Hit roll; the Wound roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy model within Engagement Range of your unit selects targets, it must select your unit as the target of its attacks.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Increase your pledge to Slaanesh by 1.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets a model in your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Slaanesh’s Chosen
Amongst the Emperor’s Children are those who see themselves as particularly favoured by Slaanesh. These puissant champions of excess have inflicted deaths beyond count, suffered agonies beyond measure and won glorious victories in honour of the Dark Prince. When such champions of ruin gather together, they are driven to outdo one another. Whether engaging enemy commanders in brutal duels, inflicting exquisite agonies upon mewling mortals or offering sacrifices to their unholy deity, the chosen of Slaanesh are unceasing in their murderous advance. To these paragons of arrogance and superiority, no foe is worthy of respect, and few are capable of providing the challenge they desire. Thus, their rivalries are with their own, each vying for Slaanesh’s attention. Only those who prove themselves the deadliest will gain the approval they seek.
Internal Rivalries
The boldest and most debased champions of Slaanesh may gain the benefit of the Dark Princes boons. Yet none hold Slaanesh’s favour for long, for always another seeks to wrest his favour from their rivals.
EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER units from your army can ignore any or all modifiers to their Move characteristic and any or all modifiers to Advance and Charge rolls made for them.At the start of the battle, your WARLORD’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions. The first time in each player’s turn that an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER unit from your army destroys an enemy unit, after resolving all of its attacks, that CHARACTER unit becomes your army’s new Favoured Champions, replacing the old one.
Each time a model in your army’s Favoured Champions unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
Enhancements
This puissant champion of Slaanesh is ever eager to join the battle and prove their peerless skill to the Dark Prince. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. You can re-roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit. While the bearer’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions, add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit. |
Those chosen by Slaanesh seek only worthy foes. The weak and craven are slaughtered with sneering contempt. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Each time an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit Falls Back, models in that enemy unit must take Desperate Escape tests. When doing so, if the bearer’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions, subtract 1 from each of those Desperate Escape tests. |
Even amongst the prideful warriors of the Emperor’s Children, this warrior is a towering pillar of arrogance. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. You can re-roll Battle-shock and Leadership tests taken for the bearer’s unit. While the bearer’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in that unit. |
This warrior has obsessively perfected the arts of war for centuries if not millennia. Few champions, regardless of origin, are beyond their ability to kill. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] ability, and each time the bearer makes a melee attack that targets a CHARACTER unit, improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of that attack by 1. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER units from your army that have not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in those CHARACTER units have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability while targeting that enemy unit.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if your unit is your army’s Favoured Champions. On a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: Your army’s Favoured Champions unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER unit from your army that is not your army’s Favoured Champions makes an attack, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within 6" of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can re-roll charge rolls. Your unit must end that charge move engaged with one or more of those enemy units.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER 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". If your unit is not your army’s Favoured Champions, you can re-roll the dice to determine the distance of that surge move.
Court of the Phoenician
Many are the Emperor’s Children that seek to join their daemonic gene-sire in his excessive spectacles of sublime artistry. Such warbands often style themselves as Fulgrim’s Court, a mocking reflection of the circles of patronised champions he once favoured with his intoxicating presence. These over-stimulated warriors lose themselves in hedonistic battle, aiming to commit exquisite acts of martial prowess to prove themselves worthy of the Daemon Primarch’s fleeting approbation and bask in the adulation they know is theirs by right.
Sensational Performance
The craving for fresh experience and the obsession with enacting ever more excessive destruction drives these warriors to displays of sudden and obscene violence.
EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army have the following ability:Sensational Performance: Each time this unit is selected to fight, if this unit made a Charge move this turn, it can use this ability. If it does, until the end of the phase:
- This unit cannot target a unit it was within Engagement Range of at the start of the turn.
- This unit cannot target a unit that was the target of another unit’s attack this phase.
- Improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of this unit’s melee weapons by 1.
Master of the Pageant
Fulgrim sees war as a theatrical act, his warriors and the enemy alike a mere chorus to his own egotistical performance of sinuous strategy.
Once per battle round, when you target a FULGRIM unit from your army with the Sinuous Breach or Prideful Superiority Stratagem, you can reduce the CP cost of that use of that Stratagem by 1CP.Enhancements
The addictive substance in these droplets is said to fracture consciousness – and sanity – to the point where the imbiber perceives every strike and parries their opponents’ attempts. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes a melee attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack’s Weapon Skill characteristic and any or all modifiers to the Hit roll and Wound roll. |
This champion is a domineering martial lord, hungry for the adulation and audience of his warband’s most self-centred blademasters. LORD EXULTANT model only. Add 1" to the Move characteristic of the bearer. |
The corruption of this warrior’s soul is so total that it bleeds outwards in a nimbus of nauseating eldritch horror that repulses his enemies. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model only. At the start of the Fight phase, you can select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer; that unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result. |
This slender hellforged blade appears to weave in and out of being. Its daemonic bearer wields it in flickering arcs at supernatural speed, swift enough for its phantasmal edge to slice apart a victim’s soul before it is lost to the Warp. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN DAEMON PRINCE model only. Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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 a CHARACTER unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN DAEMON unit from your army that has not been selected to move or charge this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN model in your unit makes an attack that targets an eligible unit within 12", improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of that attack by 1.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN DAEMON unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, you can re-roll Charge rolls for friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units within 6" of your unit.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that lost one or more wounds as a result of those attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a surge move of up to D6".
Elegant Brutes
SLAANESHI TERMINATORS BLEND MONSTROUS RESILIENCE WITH MARTIAL SKILL TO TERRIFYING EFFECT
Eager to Kill
Infused with a ferocious need to exert their superiority before any rival has the chance to outshine them, Chaos Terminators enter their chosen arena with a horrific dynamism.
When a friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit is set up, that unit has +1 to charge rolls until the end of the turn.Enhancements
Like a parasite clinging to its host, this Lord Kakophonist’s mutated armour piggybacks on the teleport signals of Emperor’s Children Terminators, slingshotting him perilously through the Empyrean to explode onto the battlefield in a riot of discordant sonic fury. LORD KAKOPHONIST model only.
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Encumbered not at all despite the massive bulk of their armour, these Terminators’ mutant muscle and warp‑tainted reactions allow them to indulge in every aspect of attacking the foe to wild excess. EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TERMINATOR SQUAD unit only. This unit’s attacks have [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit.
EFFECT: Attacks that target your unit with a S greater than your unit’s T have -1 to wound rolls.
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit
EFFECT: Your unit’s attacks have +2 S.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit.
EFFECT: Place your unit in strategic reserves.
Frenzied Host
TORMENTORS AND INFRACTORS FORM THE HEART OF THIS WARBAND, DOING BATTLE WITH A HECTIC FRENZY
Frantic Focus
Seeming to be everywhere at once, bands of Infractors and Tormentors seek to embrace all the sensations the battlefield can offer, never relenting for a moment.
When a friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit is selected to make an advance/fall-back move, that unit’s attacks have +1 S until the end of the turn.This detachment has the HOST tag and cannot be taken with another HOST detachment.
Enhancements
This champion of Slaanesh wears a helm that absorbs and amplifies the frenzied carnival of carnage around them, driving the wearer into a frenzy of euphoric might. LORD EXULTANT model only. This model’s melee attacks have +1 S. |
Mutant vox-emitters open like mouths all across this warrior’s grotesque armour, vomiting targeted sonic shock waves that enhance his allies’ already furious firepower. LORD EXULTANT model only. This unit’s ranged attacks have +1 AP. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit.
EFFECT: Attacks that target your unit have -1 AP until that enemy unit has attacked.
TARGET: One friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit.
EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of your unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range.
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit.
EFFECT: Those ranged attacks do not prevent your unit from being hidden.
Spectacle of Slaughter
ALL EYES FALL ON THE FLAWLESS BLADES AS THEY TURN THE BATTLEFIELD INTO A GLADIATORIAL STAGE
Entitled to Victory
So certain are the Flawless Blades in their arrogant pre-eminence, so sure they have already won before the first blow is struck, that they are filled with swift assurance that no foe can match.
Friendly FLAWLESS BLADES units have Fights FirstEnhancements
The daemonic audience drawn by the deeds of these Flawless Blades is impatient for the spectacle to begin, and so bestows supernatural celerity upon those they consider the star performers. FLAWLESS BLADES unit only. This unit has +2" M. |
Unable to tear their gaze from the hypnotically hideous features of the Flawless Blades, foes stare slack‑jawed in horrified fascination as their death stalks elegantly toward them. FLAWLESS BLADES unit only. Enemy units cannot target this unit with snap shooting attacks. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That FLAWLESS BLADES unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s melee attacks have [PRECISION].
TARGET: That FLAWLESS BLADES unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can move through models (excluding MONSTER/VEHICLE models).
TARGET: That FLAWLESS BLADES unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3".
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles that are bespoke to the Emperor’s Children. If your Crusade army includes any EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units, you can use any of the following Crusade rules.
Below you will find rules to craft, equip and utilise a wide variety of Combat Elixirs in battle, both to improve your warriors’ martial performance and to enhance the sensations they feel in the midst of combat. Throughout this section you will also find rules to gather rare and exotic ingredients with which to create even more potent elixirs - fine vintages enjoyed by only the most powerful lords of the Emperor’s Children.
AGENDAS
Emperor’s Children 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.
REQUISITIONS
Emperor’s Children armies have access to a number of bespoke Requisitions in addition to those found in other publications.
BOONS OF SLAANESH
Unique Battle Honours for EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTERS that run the risk of turning your powerful warriors into Chaos Spawn.
BATTLE TRAITS
As they gain experience and prowess, EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units in your Crusade force can be given one of the Battle Traits in this section instead of one presented elsewhere.
CRUSADE RELICS
In addition to the Crusade Relics presented in other publications, EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER models can claim one of the Crusade Relics found here.
CRUSADE BADGES
Here you will find three Crusade Badges representing goals you can set yourself when campaigning with your Crusade force. Once one is achieved, you could set yourself a new goal, or take the opportunity to start a new Crusade force.
When mustering your Crusade army, you may be able to include Legions of Excess units from your Order of Battle in your Crusade army (e.g. if you are using the Carnival of Excess Detachment). Such units can never gain Experience points or Battle Honours. However, they automatically pass any Out of Action tests they are required to take, so never gain Battle Scars. You can mark the Experience points section of such units’ Crusade cards with ‘N/A’ to remind you.
Combat Elixirs
Crafting Combat Elixirs
The first time you add an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit to your Order of Battle, you must also add one dose of Anfrak Silk (an Army Elixir) to your Combat Elixirs Stash. You can craft additional Combat Elixirs at any time before or after a battle, provided you have the requisite ingredients to do so. The Army and Personal Elixirs tables below show which ingredients are required to craft one dose of each Combat Elixir. To craft a dose, simply remove the required ingredients from your Combat Elixirs Stash and add one dose of the crafted Combat Elixir to your stash.There are three categories of ingredients, each with their own unique symbol, as shown below.
COMMON INGREDIENTS 
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RARE INGREDIENTS 
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EXOTIC INGREDIENTS  Concentrate of Tormented Souls Sickly-sour ectoplasmic soup syphoned from those who bear corruption in their hearts. Dilution of False Hope A clear liquid adulterated with the sickly essence of those sworn to a false god. Distillate of Hatred Purest fury sieved from the ground and pulped corpses of the righteous. Essence of Fear Stolen and refined from the last breath of a craven victim. Extract of Xeno-matter Ichor, viscera or psychic spore extracted from an alien foe. Infusion of Traitor’s Blood Crimson fluid extracted from the veins of those who have broken an oath of loyalty. |
Equipping Combat Elixirs
In the first battle round of each battle, if you did not equip your Crusade army or any CHARACTERS from it with any Combat Elixirs during the Muster Crusade Armies step, every EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your Crusade army is Battle-shocked until the end of that battle round.
Army Elixirs
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Extract of Xeno-matter OR Extract of Xeno-matter OR Extract of Fear OR Extract of Xeno-matterUsing Combat Elixirs
Personal Elixirs
OR Extract of Xeno-matter Concentrate of Tormented Souls OR Distillate of Hatred OR Dilution of False Hope OR Essence of Fear OR Concentrate of Tormented Souls Infusion of Traitor’s Blood OR Dilution of False HopeAgendas
If your Crusade army includes any EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units, you can select Agendas from those presented here.The essence of pure, unadulterated terror can only be drawn from the bodies of those who die in the grip of paralysing fear.
- If one or more enemy units failed a Battle-shock test during the battle, you gain 1 Common ingredient.
- If three or more enemy units failed a Battle-shock test during the battle, you gain 1 Rare ingredient.
- If six or more enemy units failed a Battle-shock test during the battle, or if any of those enemy units that were destroyed while Battle-shocked were AELDARI units, you gain 1 Essence of Fear.
To the Emperor’s Children, warfare is a blood-drenched art. Each battle is a fresh canvas upon which the superiority of Fulgrim’s scions is depicted in gore, viscera and the agonised death screams of the enemy.
- If you control more objective markers than your opponent controls, select one EMPEROR'S CHILDREN unit from your Crusade army that is within range of an objective marker you control; that unit gains 1XP.
- If more enemy units were destroyed this battle round than friendly units, select one EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your Crusade army that destroyed one or more enemy units this battle round; that unit gains 1XP.
Hate is amongst the most powerful of emotions. The Emperors Children take perverse glee in slaughtering foes consumed by fury. There are few experiences more exhilarating than transforming pitiless, triumphant rage to bitter and agonising defeat with the spiteful flick of a blade.
At the end of the battle, if one or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your Crusade army destroyed three or more such enemy units during the battle, you gain 1 Rare ingredient. In addition, if one or more such destroyed enemy units were ADEPTUS ASTARTES, DEATHWATCH or GREY KNIGHTS units, you gain 1 Distillate of Hatred.
The Emperor’s Children seek esoteric ingredients with which to fuel their addictions. Unfortunately for their victims, the ingredients they require reside within mind, body and soul, and their extraction is never less than agonising.
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Requisitions
If your Crusade army includes any EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units, you can spend Requisition points (RP) on any of the following Requisitions.Freshly seized captives are currency amongst the Emperor’s Children. In return for fresh subjects with souls intact, all manner of macabre unguents, reagents and ingredients may be bartered.
- Add D3 Common ingredients to your Combat Elixirs Stash.
- Remove three Common ingredients from your Combat Elixirs Stash and add one Rare ingredient.
- Remove any two Exotic ingredients (of any type or combination) from your Combat Elixirs Stash and replace them with one Exotic ingredient of your choice.
The ultimate prize for mortal warriors is to attain the immortality of daemonhood. Yet for all this power, such beings are more a pawn of their god than ever, irrevocably enslaved to the will of their master.
In either case, the new unit has the same number of Battle Honours and XP as the unit it replaced. The new unit can keep any Boons of Slaanesh the unit it replaced had, even though Daemon models cannot normally have Boons of Slaanesh. Any Battle Scars the replaced unit had are not retained. You cannot purchase this Requisition if doing so would cause you to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit.
Even amongst the foot soldiers of the Emperor’s Children exist many aspiring champions whose obsessions revolve around bladework and butchery. The greatest of their number may draw an audience of daemonic patrons, earning favour in return for displays of artistic violence.
The Emperor’s Children revel in excess of every kind but revel most in the visceral thrill and mortal danger of combat, honing their martial skills until they are commensurate with their inflated egos.
The Path to Glory promises immortality yet, for most, ends in death or, for the least fortunate, a hideous transformation into a gibbering Chaos Spawn.
Boons of Slaanesh
Boons of Slaanesh are a type of Battle Honour that can be given to EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER models. Each time an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER model from your army would gain a Battle Honour, you can choose for it to gain a Boon of Slaanesh. DAEMON models cannot gain Boons of Slaanesh, and no model from your Crusade force can have more than three Boons of Slaanesh.A model can have more than one Boon of Slaanesh, but if you roll a result that duplicates a Boon of Slaanesh a model already has, that model’s unit suffers Spawndom (see below). As with any Battle Honour, make a note on a model’s Crusade card when it gains a Boon of Slaanesh, and increase its Crusade points by 1.
Spawndom
To court the favour of the Dark Prince is to risk Slaanesh’s capricious whims. Many powerful champions have disappeared beneath an overabundance of gifts, ending their Path to Glory as mindless aberrations of insane mutation. Some cleave into multiple monstrosities; some are herded with others of their kind; all are goaded forwards to bless the foe with untold new experiences in Slaanesh’s name.
If an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your Order of Battle suffers Spawndom, remove that unit from your Order of Battle, then add a new EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHAOS SPAWN unit to your Order of Battle. The new unit has the same number of Battle Honours, Battle Scars and XP as the unit it replaced. If adding this new unit would cause your Crusade points total to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit, you must first increase your Supply Limit (e.g. by using the Increase Supply Limit Requisition) or your unit is removed from your Order of Battle and no new unit is added in its place.
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Crusade Relics
When an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER model gains a Crusade Relic, you can select one of the Relics presented here.Artificer Relics
This rune renders those who gaze upon it rapt with indescribable pleasure. Though their lives are cruelly torn away, for a few short moments, they truly know ecstasy and agony entwined.
Each time the bearer fights, after they have finished making their attacks, for each enemy model destroyed by those attacks, the bearer regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 3 lost wounds per phase). If this is not possible because the bearer is already at their starting number of Wounds, until the start of the next Fight phase, the bearer has the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.This fleshy mask is the still-living, flayed face of a man who begged Slaanesh to fulfil his wish to live forever. The Dark Prince was only too pleased to oblige, gifting the unfortunate soul immortality but also forcing him to present his face to the Chaos Lord Shixe. After murdering the supplicant, Shixe wore that face as a prized reminder of the occasion for several centuries. The Endless Grin has since exchanged hands many times, but the fear it inspires has never diminished.
At the start of the Fight phase, each enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.At the end of the battle, if one or more enemy units failed a Battle-shock test while within Engagement Range of the bearer, you gain 1 Essence of Fear.
The bearers of this mark seek only to torment their victims, inflicting creative and excessively gruesome agonies upon their mortal forms. This compulsion drives them to focus their ire upon a single foe and to revel in the escalating agonies they inflict upon their chosen target.
The bearer’s unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back, and when doing so, even though that unit has the Thrill Seekers ability, it can target a unit if it was within Engagement Range of that unit at the start of the turn and it can target a unit that was the target of another unit’s charge or attack this phase.Antiquity Relics
This ornate object emits a thunderous bass boom and a hypermodulated scream powerful enough to shatter diamonds. The sheer deafening power hits with a devastating physical impact, blasting away all cohesive thought in an instant. Flesh, bone and gristle are reduced to shuddering pulp by myriad resonant frequencies.
At the start of your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer. That unit must take a Battle-shock test; if that test is failed, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds.Legendary Relics
This long-tongued daemon weapon can render those who feel its sting insensible with indescribable pleasure. Even those who put aside gratification for a greater duty find their oaths and promises forgotten, washed away in a tide of sensation that drowns the mind completely. So it is to feel the fatal kiss of Slaanesh.
Melee weapons equipped by the bearer have the [precision] and [devastating wounds] abilities, and improve the Attacks, Armour Penetration and Damage characteristics of those weapons by 1.At the end of the Fight phase, each enemy CHARACTER model that had one or more attacks made by the bearer allocated to it this phase but is not destroyed must take a Leadership test; if that test is failed, that CHARACTER model’s unit suffers 3 mortal wounds, and when allocating those mortal wounds, they must be allocated to that CHARACTER model.
At the end of the battle, if during the battle the bearer’s unit destroyed one or more IMPERIUM Leader units or IMPERIUM CHARACTER units without the Leader ability with a melee attack or with mortal wounds inflicted by this Crusade Relic (see above), you gain 1 Dilution of False Hope.
Battle Traits
When an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit gains a Battle Trait, you can use one of the tables presented here to determine which Battle Trait that unit has gained.These warriors are peerless swordsmen, each an exquisite example of fighting form.
Inured to ordinary sensations by several lifetimes of indulgence, the Emperor's Children find stimulation only in excess.
Combat Elixirs, each time a model in this unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
This unit has laced its grenades with potent toxins. Upon detonation, these devices emit hallucinogenic clouds that induce all manner of mind-altering effects.
The delight of pain and the sense of superiority as allies are cut down makes these warriors loath to embrace oblivion.
These warriors have been implanted with subdermal auto-dispensers that pump a constant flow of enhancing concoctions into their bloodstreams.
Few appear as favoured by the Dark Prince as these warriors.
This vehicle is adorned with the gilt finery of the Emperor’s Children and their Dark Prince, serving as a nexus for the enervating power of the empyrean.
Hull-mounted vox-casters scream unholy invocations across the battlefield. Such cursed syllables are capable of inflicting harm on those who hear them.
The blessed caress of SIaanesh has bestowed upon this vehicle an unholy resilience.
These warriors calibrate and aim their weapons to inflict the most violent and vibrantly gory kills.
Reacting to the flow of battle as a chorus to a conductor, these warriors begin anew their sonic symphony with a screaming encore of annihilation.
These warriors unleash a cacophonous wall of sonic force that reverberates through the body of the target long after the final sound wave has torn through flesh and bone.
Hubris is both this warrior's greatest strength and biggest weakness.
At the end of the battle, if one or more models from your Crusade army with this Battle Trait destroyed one or more ADEPTUS ASTARTES, DEATHWATCH or GREY KNIGHTS units with a melee attack during the battle, you gain 1 Distillate of Hatred.
This warrior has experienced the limits of mortal sensation yet craves more.
An alchemist of incomparable ingenuity and depravity, this warrior harvests exquisite agonies from the fallen with the care and precision of a surgeon.
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.Seeker of Sensation
You have experienced the thrill of battle, supped deeply of your victims’ fear and awe. Leaving behind a trail of tortured souls and flayed bodies, you have inflicted and felt sensations and emotions of heart-stopping intensity. By indulging your senses thus, you have earned the envious ire of your rivals and surely elevated your status in the eyes of the Dark Prince.
- You have won three or more battles.
- You have crafted three different Combat Elixirs (at least one of which must have been a Personal Elixir).
- One or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER models from your Crusade force have one or more Boons of Slaanesh.
Arch-hedonist
You have plumbed the depths of mortal sensation, and enjoyed tangible rewards from the flayed and eviscerated corpses of your victims: a terrible bounty of agony with which to perform horrific alchemies.
- You have won six or more battles.
- You have crafted six different Combat Elixirs (at least three of which must have been Personal Elixirs).
- You have either used the Dark Patronage Requisition to add one or more new units to your Order of Battle, or an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER model from your Order of Battle has suffered Spawndom.
- One or more EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER models from your Crusade force have two or more Boons of Slaanesh.
Favoured of the Dark Prince
Your veins run thick with piquant elixirs, opening your mortal form to sensations beyond the reach of all but the most depraved minds. And so the Dark Prince has marked you as his own, bestowing upon you the ability to perceive and experience thrills beyond the understanding of mere mortals.
- You have won ten or more battles.
- You have crafted all twelve Combat Elixirs.
- You have used the Perfect Ascension Requisition to add one new unit to your Order of Battle.
Boarding Actions
Introduction
Below 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.
Sublime Strike
When an Emperor’s Children boarding party attacks, its warriors aim to humiliate the enemy by demonstrating their glaring superiority. What need of massed onslaught or brute force have the scions of Fulgrim when a mere handful of their best warriors can seize and destroy the enemy’s command bridge, their enginarium, or whatever vital target will bring swift and total victory? By moving quickly and employing the full gamut of their dark gifts, the warriors of a boarding party take the enemy out of the fight with a single, expertly aimed blow.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units:You can include up to two of each of the following units:
- FLAWLESS BLADES (3 or 6 models)
- TERMINATOR SQUAD (5 models)
Rules Adaptations
- TERMINATOR SQUAD units can perform the Secure Site Tactical Manoeuvre as if they had the BATTLELINE keyword.
Musk of Torpidity
A perfumed miasma billows about the warriors, oozing from their pores and flowinfrgom vents in their armour. The merest touch of these psychotropic fumes dulls their enemies’ wits and bewilders their senses, leaving the Emperor’s Children free to weave gleefully around victims rendered glassy-eyed and lethargic.
Units from your army with the Thrill Seekers ability lose that ability and gain this one.This unit is eligible to perform a Tactical Manoeuvre in a turn in which it Fell Back or is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
Detachment Rule
Dark Radiance
So potent is the disdainful arrogance of these Slaaneshi chosen that it manifests as a Warp-tainted aura that blinds and cows even the most obdurate enemies, forcing them to give way before the advance of the Emperor’s Children like unworthy dregs.
Each time an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, models in that unit can move through friendly and enemy models.Enhancements
Venom of the Six-fanged Serpent This preening Slaaneshi champion has anointed their weapons with corrosive hyperstimulants milked from the maw of a foul daemonic entity. The merest drop can burn out the nervous systems of their victims with flash floods of unbearable sensation. Add 1 to the Strength and Damage characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons and improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of those weapons by 2. |
Daemonshrieker Carved with imprisoning runes and bristling with needle barbs, this vile device houses a bound Slaaneshi daemon. Through agonising ritual surgery, it is implanted into the throat of a chosen champion, allowing them to channel the trapped entity’s desperate rage into blasting war shouts that can shatter any barred gateway or locked hatch. In your Shooting phase, you can select one closed Hatchway within 12" of and visible to the bearer. If you do, roll one D6: on a 2+, open that Hatchway and, until the end of the battle, that Hatchway cannot be closed. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test. Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One FLAWLESS BLADES unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker you control that your unit is within range of. That objective marker is Secured by your army.
TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 3".
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that was within Engagement Range of that enemy unit at the start of the phase.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 3".
The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
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 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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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.Few appear as favoured by the Dark Prince as these warriors, their boons of power a reward for committing ever viler deeds in honour of their patron.
At the start of the battle round, if your WARLORD is on the battlefield, you must pledge a number to Slaanesh representing how many enemy units will be destroyed this battle round. At the end of the battle round, if the number of enemy units destroyed this battle round is greater than or equal to your pledge, you gain a number of Pact points equal to your pledge. Otherwise, you do not gain any Pact points this battle round and your WARLORD model suffers D3 mortal wounds.EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units from your army gain a bonus depending on how many Pact points you have gained during the battle, as shown below (these are all cumulative).
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TARGET: That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit.
EFFECT: Increase your pledge to Slaanesh by 1.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The BEAST keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The DAEMON keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The DAEMON PRINCE keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The DAEMON PRINCE WITH WINGS keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The DEDICATED TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The EPIC HERO keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The FLY keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
When rotating a FRAME model as part of a move, if that model does not have a base, turn it any amount around its central axis, while keeping it upright.
The FRAME keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The GRENADES keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The LAND RAIDER keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The LEGIONS OF EXCESS keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The MOUNTED keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The PRIMARCH keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The PSYKER keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The RHINO keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The SLAANESH keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The SMOKE keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The SORCERER keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The SUMMONED keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The TERMINATOR keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The TERMINATOR SQUAD keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The WALKER keyword is used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
There are several categories of Battle Honours that can be bestowed upon a unit, such as Battle Traits, Weapon Modifications and Crusade Relics. Other categories of Battle Honour may be found in other publications. Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, you can select from any category.
- Once a unit gains enough XP it will gain a rank.
- Only CHARACTER units can gain the Heroic or Legendary ranks.
- Each time a unit gains a rank, it can gain a Battle Honour.
- There are several categories of Battle Honours, which include:
- Battle Traits: New skills and abilities.
- Weapon Modifications: Upgrade an item of wargear.
- Crusade Relic: Gain a rare and powerful artefact.
- Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, increase its Crusade points total by 1 (or by 2 if TITANIC).
The greatest warriors, most cunning tacticians and seers lead their armies to war possessed of hard-won skills and powerful artefacts that mark them out as legendary commanders.
You can select one Enhancement that unit has access to (if using this Requisition when that unit gains a rank, this is instead of it gaining a Battle Honour). When doing so, that unit has access to any Enhancements described within any Detachment rules that it could use, even though you have not yet started to muster your army and so have not selected any Detachment rules yet.
If the selected Enhancement replaces a weapon that is a Crusade Relic or a weapon upgraded by Weapon Modifications, that Crusade Relic or Weapon Modifications are lost. Recalculate the unit’s points value as a result of gaining this Enhancement and update its Crusade card. You cannot make any changes that would cause you to exceed your Supply Limit.
This Requisition costs 1RP plus 1 additional RP for each other Enhancement that your Order of Battle contains (to a maximum of 3RP).
- While a friendly model is within engagement range of one or more enemy models, those models – and the units they belong to – are engaged with each other.
- While a unit contains no engaged models, that unit is unengaged.
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Make an advance roll by rolling one D6.
AFTER MOVING:
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or start an action.
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select fall-back mode:
- Ordered Retreat: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you can select this mode.
- Desperate Escape: Otherwise, you must select this mode. Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
- Desperate Escape: Each model that is moved can be moved through enemy models.
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to shoot, declare a charge or start an action.
- Desperate Escape: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you must make a battle-shock roll for your unit (01.07).
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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EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
- Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
- Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.
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).
These warriors are peerless swordsmen, each demonstrating exquisite fighting form. Those who lock swords with these obsessive warriors do so at their peril.
Each time an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army is selected to fight, if it made a Charge move this turn, select one of the abilities below. While resolving those attacks, melee weapons equipped by models in that unit have that ability:EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select consolidation mode:
- Ongoing Consolidation:If your unit is engaged, you must select this mode and select every enemy unit it is engaged with.
- Engaging Consolidation:Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more enemy units, you must select this mode and select one or more of those enemy units.
- Objective Consolidation:Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more objectives, you must select this mode and select one of those objectives.
- Ongoing Consolidation:Models in base-contact with one or more enemy models cannot be moved. Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
- Engaging Consolidation:Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
- Objective Consolidation:Each model that is moved must end its move within range of the selected objective if possible, or closer to it if not.
- Ongoing Consolidation:Each model that started this move engaged with an enemy unit must still be engaged with that enemy unit.
- Engaging Consolidation:Your unit must be engaged with all of the selected enemy units. If one or more enemy units engaged with your unit have not been selected to fight this phase, your opponent must select each of those units, one at a time; when each is selected, it becomes eligible to fight and is selected to fight (12.04).
- Objective Consolidation:Your unit must be within range of the selected objective.
- If 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.
The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN and WALKER keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
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
The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN and TRANSPORT keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
Other models and units can be either visible or fully visible to the observing model, as shown below. Note that terrain applies additional rules to visibility (13.07).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
- You can only target one visible enemy unit within 24" of your unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
- Each attack only hits on an unmodified hit roll of 6 (irrespective of the attacking weapon’s BS characteristic or any modifiers).
- You cannot re-roll hit rolls.
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
- Create Groups: Divide all models in the target unit into the following groups, as many times as required:
- One group for each CHARACTER model.
- One group for all other models with the same W, Sv and InSv characteristics.
- Allocation Order: Declare the order in which those groups will have attacks allocated to them, applying all of the following:
- If a non-CHARACTER group contains a model that has lost one or more wounds, that group must be first in the allocation order.
- No CHARACTER group can be earlier in the allocation order than a non-CHARACTER group.
- CHARACTER groups containing a model that has lost one or more wounds must be earlier in the allocation order than CHARACTER groups containing no wounded models.
- Make Save Rolls: The opposing player makes one save roll for each attack that wounded the target by rolling one D6.
The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
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.The SLAANESH and BEAST keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
The SLAANESH and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
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.
- 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.
The hardiest warriors refuse to be laid low, even by wounds that should by all rights prove lethal.
This ability always takes the form Feel No Pain X+. Each time a model with this ability would lose a wound, roll one D6: on an X+, that wound is not lost.The boldest and most debased champions of Slaanesh may gain the benefit of the Dark Princes boons. Yet none hold Slaanesh’s favour for long, for always another seeks to wrest his favour from their rivals.
EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER units from your army can ignore any or all modifiers to their Move characteristic and any or all modifiers to Advance and Charge rolls made for them.At the start of the battle, your WARLORD’s unit is your army’s Favoured Champions. The first time in each player’s turn that an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHARACTER unit from your army destroys an enemy unit, after resolving all of its attacks, that CHARACTER unit becomes your army’s new Favoured Champions, replacing the old one.
Each time a model in your army’s Favoured Champions unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd.
While resolving attacks made with one or more [PRECISION] weapons, at the start of the Allocation Order step (05.03), if the target unit contains one or more CHARACTER models visible to one or more of the attacking models, the active player can select one allocation group that contains one of those visible CHARACTER models. If they do, until those attacks are resolved, or until that CHARACTER group is destroyed (whichever happens first), that CHARACTER group is the current allocation group.- The rule allowing this move type has been triggered.
- Your unit is not battle-shocked.
- Your unit is unengaged.
- Your unit has not moved this phase.
BEFORE MOVING: Select the closest enemy unit to be the surge target.
WHILE MOVING:
- Each model must end its move engaged with the surge target if possible.
- Each model that cannot end its move engaged with the surge target must end its move as close as possible to the surge target.
- Your unit cannot be engaged with one or more enemy units that were not the surge target.
- Your unit cannot move again this phase.
The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN and DAEMON keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children datasheets:
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN DAEMON unit from your army that has not been selected to move or charge this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.
TARGET: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN 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 a CHARACTER unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
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.
- 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).The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN and BATTLELINE keywords are used in the following Emperor’s Children 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.
The datasheets using AELDARI keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Xenos: Aeldari, Drukhari.The AELDARI keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The ADEPTUS ASTARTES keyword is used in the following Space Marines datasheets:
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The datasheets using DEATHWATCH keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Imperium: Imperial Agents, Space Marines.The DEATHWATCH keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The GREY KNIGHTS keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
COMMON INGREDIENTS
- At the end of every battle, roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if you won that battle: on a 4+, add 1 Common ingredient to your Combat Elixirs Stash; on a 6+, add D3 Common ingredients to your Combat Elixirs Stash.
RARE INGREDIENTS
- At the end of every battle, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if you won that battle: on a 6+, add 1 Rare ingredient to your Combat Elixirs Stash.
EXOTIC INGREDIENTS
Concentrate of Tormented Souls
Sickly-sour ectoplasmic soup syphoned from those who bear corruption in their hearts.
Dilution of False Hope
A clear liquid adulterated with the sickly essence of those sworn to a false god.
Distillate of Hatred
Purest fury sieved from the ground and pulped corpses of the righteous.
Essence of Fear
Stolen and refined from the last breath of a craven victim.
Extract of Xeno-matter
Ichor, viscera or psychic spore extracted from an alien foe.
Infusion of Traitor’s Blood
Crimson fluid extracted from the veins of those who have broken an oath of loyalty.
Occasionally, a group of warriors will climb the ranks across a score of battles, forging a legendary reputation that is known by friend and foe. Such veterans possess skills and honours to rival those of the most glorified heroes.
Information uncovered by your forces has revealed the growing importance of this war zone and the increasing threat posed by enemies. In response, high command has acceded to your urgent request for reinforcements.
The datasheets using IMPERIUM and CHARACTER keywords can be found in the following Factions:
Imperium: Adepta Sororitas, Adeptus Custodes, Adeptus Mechanicus, Astra Militarum, Grey Knights, Imperial Agents, Imperial Knights, Space Marines.Xenos: Genestealer Cults.
The IMPERIUM and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following datasheets:
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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.
TARGET: One friendly SMOKE unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets either your SMOKE unit, or a unit that is not fully visible to the attacking model because of one or more models in your SMOKE unit, the target has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).
The datasheets using DAEMON keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Chaos: Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines, Death Guard, Emperor’s Children, Thousand Sons, World Eaters.Imperium: Imperial Agents.
Xenos: Aeldari.
The DAEMON keyword is used in the following datasheets:
Even amongst the foot soldiers of the Emperor’s Children exist many aspiring champions whose obsessions revolve around bladework and butchery. The greatest of their number may draw an audience of daemonic patrons, earning favour in return for displays of artistic violence.
To court the favour of the Dark Prince is to risk Slaanesh’s capricious whims. Many powerful champions have disappeared beneath an overabundance of gifts, ending their Path to Glory as mindless aberrations of insane mutation. Some cleave into multiple monstrosities; some are herded with others of their kind; all are goaded forwards to bless the foe with untold new experiences in Slaanesh’s name.
If an EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your Order of Battle suffers Spawndom, remove that unit from your Order of Battle, then add a new EMPEROR’S CHILDREN CHAOS SPAWN unit to your Order of Battle. The new unit has the same number of Battle Honours, Battle Scars and XP as the unit it replaced. If adding this new unit would cause your Crusade points total to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit, you must first increase your Supply Limit (e.g. by using the Increase Supply Limit Requisition) or your unit is removed from your Order of Battle and no new unit is added in its place.The ultimate prize for mortal warriors is to attain the immortality of daemonhood. Yet for all this power, such beings are more a pawn of their god than ever, irrevocably enslaved to the will of their master.
In either case, the new unit has the same number of Battle Honours and XP as the unit it replaced. The new unit can keep any Boons of Slaanesh the unit it replaced had, even though Daemon models cannot normally have Boons of Slaanesh. Any Battle Scars the replaced unit had are not retained. You cannot purchase this Requisition if doing so would cause you to exceed your Crusade force’s Supply Limit.