Grey Knights
An ancient order of champions shrouded in mystery and legend, the Grey Knights are Humanity’s greatest defence against the threat of Daemonkind. Though the common folk of the Imperium will never know of their sacrifice and courage, it is only by their hand that the untold perils of the warp are kept at bay.
Books
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Grey Knights | ||||
| Grey Knights | Faction Pack | 10 | 1.0 | October 2025 |
 Boarding Actions | ||||
| Boarding Actions | Expansion | 10 | 1.1 | July 2025 |
 Munitorum Field Manual | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual | Expansion | 11 | 1.0 | |
Keywords
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Introduction
The Detachment rule listed here will apply to either your whole army or to particular units within it.
When mustering your army, your chosen Detachment enables you to upgrade CHARACTERS using the Enhancements listed here, as described in the Core Rules (see the Select Units step). If you are playing a Crusade battle, you can instead use the Renowned Heroes Requisition to give your CHARACTERS Enhancements, as described in the main Crusade rules.
Your chosen Detachment gives you access to the Stratagems listed here in addition to the Core Stratagems listed in the Core Rules. During the battle, you can spend Command points (CP) to use these Stratagems. You can find out more about how to use Stratagems here.
Army Rules
Gate of Infinity
Few can command the powers of the Warp with anything like the skill and control of the Grey Knights. So masterful is their sorcery that they can conjure glowing empyric gateways to step in and out of reality. In this way, they swiftly outflank their foes and redeploy their forces to counter threats, kept safe during their split-second Warp travel by the intricate wards worked into their wargear.
If your Army Faction is GREY KNIGHTS, at the end of your opponent’s Fight phase, you can select a number of units (see below) from your army that are on the battlefield (excluding units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units), provided every model in those units has this ability. The maximum number of units you can select depends on the battle size, as follows:
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Once you have made your selections, remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
Brotherhood Strike
When supernatural terrors endanger the very survival of Humanity, strike forces assembled from the might of the Grey Knights brotherhoods deploy to end the threat. Forewarned by the scrying of the Prognosticars, these hosts bring a balance of infantry and armour assets best suited to completing their mission, allied by the mightiest war leaders the Chapter can muster. No weapon or relic of esoteric technology is forbidden to such strike forces. In particular, these warriors wield the potent sorceries of Titan, not only to blast their enemies with excoriating energies but also to rapidly traverse battlefields through coruscating Warp gates. By employing such arcane tactics, the Grey Knights can rapidly outmanoeuvre even the most well-entrenched or fast-moving foes and focus the full wrath of their brotherhood precisely where it is most needed. Heretical rituals are cast into ruin, daemonic demagogues exorcised and slain, and the mightiest foes of the Imperium are purged without mercy by these warrior hosts.
Fury of Titan
Erupting from whirling Warp gates with their Nemesis blades blazing, squads of Grey Knights cut a bloody path through their enemies before the foe even realise their peril.
Each time a unit from your army is set up using the Deep Strike ability, until the end of the turn, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.Enhancements
This warrior mystic harnesses the empyric overspill of teleport flares and Warp gates, channelling them into shock waves of purifying flame. GREY KNIGHTS model only. Each time the bearer’s unit is set up using the Deep Strike ability, roll one D6 for each enemy unit within 12" of the bearer: on a 2-5, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 6, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. |
A coruscating curtain of sorcerous energies surrounds this battle-brother, its radiance too fierce for any but the most strong-willed to look upon. GREY KNIGHTS model only. Each time the bearer’s unit is set up using the Deep Strike ability, until the end of the turn, enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at the bearer’s unit. |
This warrior’s single-minded devotion to duty is exemplary, driving them into the fiercest fires of battle with no thought of hesitation. GREY KNIGHTS model only. Each time the bearer’s unit is set up using the Deep Strike ability, until the end of the turn, you can re-roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit. |
Drawn from the Chambers of Purity under special dispensation, this ancient book reveals sorcerous paths that none but the bravest and most mighty dare walk. GREY KNIGHTS model only. While the bearer is on the battlefield or in Strategic Reserves, add 1 to the number of units from your army that you can select for the Gate of Infinity rule. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, Psychic weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army that is arriving using the Deep Strike ability this phase.
EFFECT: Set your unit up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units, but until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army that was set up using the Deep Strike ability this turn and has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.
TARGET: One of those GREY KNIGHTS units that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: If your unit has the Deep Strike ability, it can be placed into Strategic Reserves.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS unit that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Stealth ability.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: If every model in your unit has the Deep Strike ability, remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
Designer’s Note: This Stratagem allows you to remove a unit in addition to those removed using the Gate of Infinity rule, and it allows you to remove a unit within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Hallowed Conclave
The indomitable core of the Grey Knights’ fighting forces are their Terminator-armoured battle-brothers. When enough of these heavily equipped combatants gather, their amassed strength and resilience are a match for hosts of enemies many times their number. Incoming fire rattles from blessed and warded Terminator plate while hostile sorcery dwindles to nothing before the Grey Knights’ combined Aegis. In return, the hulking templars of Titan maintain unceasing firepower and banishing magicks that winnow the enemy’s ranks before their inevitable and overwhelming charge crashes home. Though surrounded by screaming foes, the Grey Knights hack a relentless path ever deeper with their Nemesis blades and hammers singing in their fists. Unstoppable, indefatigable, the Terminators press forward to shatter diabolical rites, seal diabolical Warp gates, slay possessed tyrants and carve the will of the Emperor into the flesh of their foes.
Duty Before All
Every Grey Knights Terminator is a tower of strength, a massively armoured living war engine clad in warded truesilver. Seeking to bar the path of such warriors, to entrap them or deny their will, is as futile a course of action as trying to halt an avalanche with bare hands alone.
GREY KNIGHTS TERMINATOR units from your army are eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which they Fell Back.Enhancements
A miniature facsimile of the silver mirrors used by the Prognosticars, this artefact affords its bearer a glimpse of where they will be needed most in the heat of battle. GREY KNIGHTS 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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So crushing is this warrior’s psychic presence that those he scorns as cowards are slain even as they flee, withering beneath the weight of his disgust. GREY KNIGHTS model only. Each time an enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit Falls Back, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, roll one D6: on a 2-5, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers D3+3 mortal wounds. These mortal wounds are Psychic Attacks. |
A veteran of dozens of purgation campaigns, this champion has honed his combat style to cut a bloody path through massed foes easily. GREY KNIGHTS TERMINATOR model only. Add 3 to the Attacks characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons. |
Empowered through the invocation of true names and carved spells of seeking, each of these precious rounds veers unerringly toward its intended target. GREY KNIGHTS TERMINATOR model only. Each time you target the bearer’s unit with the Fire Overwatch Stratagem, hits are scored on unmodified Hit rolls of 5+ while resolving that Stratagem. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS TERMINATOR unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS 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 a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not shot or fought this phase, roll one D6. On a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can shoot or fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, storm bolter weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PISTOL] and [TWIN-LINKED] abilities.
TARGET: That GREY KNIGHTS unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit, then roll one D6 for each model in your unit that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6".
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS 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, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Banishers
The esoteric arsenal of the Grey Knights is as potent as their armoury of more conventional munitions. Indeed, when the most corrupt or supernatural foes must be defeated, these arcane weapons may prove more powerful than any volume of bolt shells and blades. By bringing together their mightiest psychic warriors and focusing the empyric powers they have learned to wield as no others could, the Grey Knights harness the terrifying might of the Warp without succumbing to its insidious taint. The result is a strike force of warriors wreathed in unnatural flame and shielded by potent warding sigils that whirl about them like an arcane constellation. The air shudders with psychic overpressure as the Grey Knights advance, vox-amplified voices raised in chants of banishment and malediction that ring above the thunder of their guns and the crackle of their blades. Warp-spawned entities are blasted into ectoplasmic slicks before their advance, while more corporeal foes fall as swiftly before the psychic might of Titan made manifest.
Channelled Force
So potent is the interwoven mind-choir of this strike force that each individual can syphon off a portion of its gestalt might to empower their weapons of war without diminishing the whole. The result is Nemesis force weapons that blaze like caged psychic stars, leaving trails of witchfire blazing behind every swing and blasting victims into nothing with a single strike.
Each time a GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army is selected to fight, that unit can take a Leadership test. If that test is passed, select one of the following rules. Until the end of the phase, that unit has that rule.- Melee weapons equipped by models in this unit with the [psychic] ability also have the [sustained hits 1] ability.
- Melee weapons equipped by models in this unit with the [psychic] ability also have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
Enhancements
Wrought from truesilver and noctilith, this ancient arcane sigil renders its bearer and comrades supernaturally accurate in battle. GREY KNIGHTS model only. In your Shooting phase, each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. |
A sorcerous volume whose treatises on the impermanence of reality change constantly, this tome’s harnessed power allows the bearer to flicker in and out of phase with realspace. GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, if the bearer’s unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, the bearer’s unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", and until the end of the turn, the bearer’s unit is not eligible to declare a charge. |
One of the six hundred and sixty-six seals of purity once affixed to the tomb of Vasandrius, the talismanic properties of this artefact lend a keen edge of sacred intolerance to their bearer’s armaments. GREY KNIGHTS model only. In your Shooting phase, each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. |
So fiercely do the psychic flames of this warrior’s soul burn that they can be conjured forth in blazing columns of spiritual immolation to annihilate the foe. GREY KNIGHTS model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one enemy unit within 24" of and visible to the bearer; that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER unit from your army that is on the battlefield and suffered one or more mortal wounds this phase.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit which inflicted one or more mortal wounds on your unit this phase, then roll a number of dice equal to the number of mortal wounds your unit suffered this phase: for each 2+, that enemy unit suffers one mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds). These mortal wounds are Psychic Attacks.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability against attacks with an unmodified Damage characteristic of 1.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ANTI-CHAOS 4+] ability.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS CHARACTER model from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, enemy units that are set up on the battlefield as Reinforcements cannot be set up within 12" horizontally of your model.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER unit from your army that is within 9" of that enemy unit and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6" or, if it has the Deep Strike ability, it can be placed into Strategic Reserves.
Sanctic Spearhead
Many Grey Knights task forces are supported by assets drawn from the Chapter’s Armoury, be it ward-inscribed armoured transports, ancient Dreadnought battle-brothers, swift Stormraven Gunships or towering Nemesis Dreadknights piloted by the Chapter’s greatest warriors. Yet there are threats and foes so monstrous that they must be countered with a mass host of these sanctified engines of war. At such times, the ground shudders beneath pounding adamantine feet, and the grinding tracks of the mightiest battle tanks to roll from the Deimosian forges. Entire flights of silver-grey gunships streak overhead, their holds packed with psychic battle-brothers, their wings guarded by nimble fighter craft. Combat walkers stride from teleport flares just as the rest of their armoured onslaught hits the enemy lines like a thunderbolt, leaving nothing but devastation in their wake. In this way, the Grey Knights shatter the mightiest enemy armies or break through to critical locations in time to stave off calamity.
Mailed Fist
Such concentrations of the Grey Knights’ armoured power are only unleashed when time is of the essence, and the price of defeat would be utterly disastrous. Knowing all this, these hosts strike with tremendous force and unstoppable momentum, a mailed fist driven straight down the enemy’s throat.
Each time a GREY KNIGHTS VEHICLE unit from your army Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it; until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit, and until the end of the turn, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [ASSAULT] ability.Enhancements
So single-minded is this warrior in their devotion to the Grey Knights’ duty that they press ever forward without pause or respite. GREY KNIGHTS WALKER model only. Each time the bearer’s unit Piles In or Consolidates, the bearer can move up to 6" instead of up to 3". |
Worked into purity seals or armour inscriptions, these cantrips of haste lend the bearer and their comrades a sudden burst of supernatural speed. GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY model only. In your Movement phase, each time the bearer’s unit disembarks from a TRANSPORT, until the end of the turn, you can re-roll Charge rolls made for that unit. |
This powerful and ancient sorcerous ward reacts to imminent peril by wrenching the bearer momentarily out of sync with reality itself. GREY KNIGHTS model only. Once per battle, in your opponent’s Shooting phase, when the bearer’s unit is selected as the target of a ranged attack, you can remove the bearer’s unit from the battlefield and then set it back up again anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy units. If the bearer’s unit is no longer an eligible target, your opponent can then select new targets for any attacks that had targeted the bearer’s unit. |
Thought to date back to Old Night, this device allows the bearer to draw targeting data from machine spirit senses and entwine it with their own perceptions. GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY model only. In your Shooting phase, each time the bearer’s unit is selected to shoot, if the bearer’s unit disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, until the end of the phase, each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 4+ ability against mortal wounds.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER VEHICLE unit from your army.
EFFECT: One model in your unit regains up to 3 lost wounds.
TARGET: That GREY KNIGHTS VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS VEHICLE 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: That GREY KNIGHTS VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within 3" of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.
Augurium Task Force
Empyric scrying, ancient prophecies of cataclysmic events, Warp-sent visions experienced by the Chapter’s most potent psykers: by such esoteric means are the Grey Knights sometimes forewarned of where, when and how a threat will arise in far more detail even than is usual. Such omens are never squandered. When allowed to truly prepare, the warriors of Titan ensure they are positioned to prevent the rising peril rapidly. Battles of this sort see the Grey Knights remaining ahead of their enemies as they employ their foreknowledge to anticipate and outmanoeuvre the foe’s every strike. Bands of steely-eyed battle-brothers step from blazing teleport flares to gun down flanking forces. Champions of Titan intervene at pivotal moments to send summoning rituals awry or bring supernatural portals crashing down in ruin. Locking blades with fate itself, the Grey Knights hack and parry, stab and slice until they have carved the future into a new and bloody form that benefits the Imperium.
Prescient Redeployment
Combining the psychic disciplines of precognition and translocation, the Grey Knights rapidly relocate in response to strategic manoeuvres the foe has yet to make.
From the second battle round onwards, at the start of your Movement phase, if you did not select the maximum number of GREY KNIGHTS units from your army using the Gate of Infinity ability at the end of your opponent’s previous turn, you can select one GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army that is on the battlefield that could have been selected using the Gate of Infinity ability. Remove that unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.Designer’s Note: This means that your unit can retain its position on the battlefield at the end of your Command phase, and then be placed into Strategic Reserves at the start of your Movement phase, to set it up again in your Reinforcements step in another position.
Enhancements
This crumbling and code-locked tome details propitious astrological conjunctions beneath whose prophesied stars powerful foes may be struck down. GREY KNIGHTS 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, add 4 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. |
Foreknowledge of the foe’s offensive capabilities allows tailored incantations of warding to be unleashed at the critical moment. GREY KNIGHTS model only. Once per battle, at the start of the battle round, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the battle round, add 2 to the Toughness characteristic of models in the bearer’s unit. |
Stratego-prescient telecasts scroll over this warrior’s heads-up display, providing them with tactical battlefield foretellings to which they swiftly react. GREY KNIGHTS model only. Each time the bearer’s unit is set up in your Reinforcements step, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, the bearer’s unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", and until the end of the turn, the bearer’s unit is not eligible to declare a Charge. |
The cruel powers of this forbidden artefact cause foes to perceive the wearer as a death omen drawn from their culture, manifested to prophecy their doom. GREY KNIGHTS model only. Each time the bearer’s unit is set up in your Reinforcements step, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one enemy unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack’s Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill characteristics and/or any or all modifiers to the Hit roll.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS WALKER 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 GREY KNIGHTS 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 a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6. If the result is greater than the current battle round number, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: If your unit has the Deep Strike ability, it can be placed into Strategic Reserves.
Designer’s Note: This Stratagem lets players utilise abilities that retain control of objective markers and react to their missions and objectives with this unit.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER unit from your army that is within 12" of that enemy unit and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: If your unit has the Deep Strike ability, it can be placed into Strategic Reserves.
Warpbane Task Force
When daemonic entities corrupt the worlds of the Imperium, Grey Knights forces strike to cleanse unhallowed ground and restore the sanctity of the Emperor’s domain. Such formations are raised when only the most obscure and esoteric rituals of purgation will drive the taint of Chaos back into the depths of the Warp. Striding fearlessly into malignant hellscapes, the warriors of the Order of Purifiers lead the assault. The combined psychic might of these anointed champions manifests in an azure fire that ignites the bodies and souls of unclean foes and scours away the taint of witchcraft and infernal corruption. In place of this excised perversion, an ensorcelled zone of consecration is created, within which the Grey Knights are emboldened and empowered.
Hallowed Ground
Purging corrupted nodes of Warp energy, the Grey Knights establish an ever-expanding area of hallowed ground within which their psychic powers and indomitable resolve are greatly enhanced.
Certain areas of the battlefield are within your army’s Hallowed Ground, as follows:- Your deployment zone is always within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
- The area of the battlefield within 6" of one or more PURIFIER SQUAD units from your army is within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within No Man’s Land, until the end of that phase, No Man’s Land is within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within your opponent’s deployment zone, until the end of that phase, your opponent’s deployment zone is within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
Enhancements
This reliquary contains a single finger bone taken from the body of the feted former Grand Master, Mandulis. It serves as a symbol of unity and duty. GREY KNIGHTS model only. While the bearer’s unit is not Battle-shocked, add 3 to the bearer’s Objective Control characteristic. |
This warrior is a master slayer whose blade has found the cursed hearts of countless corrupted foes. When fighting within realms cleansed by eldritch power, his psychic might manifests in a nimbus of searing light, and his strikes inflict terrible wounds upon flesh and soul. GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY model only. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] ability, and while the bearer is wholly within your army’s Hallowed Ground, each time a melee attack made by the bearer scores a wound, the target of that attack suffers 1 mortal wound in addition to any normal damage. |
Gifted by the Prognosticars of the Augurium, this ampoule contains cosmic energies syphoned from the event horizon of a Warp singularity. At the prophesied hour, the vial shatters, its contents swirling around the bearer and wreathing them in a localised field of time and light distortion. GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Stealth ability. |
This warrior sorcerer lends their spiritual strength to allies fighting amidst unholy corruption, bolstering their spiritual resolve. GREY KNIGHTS model only. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, the bearer can select one friendly GREY KNIGHTS unit within 18" of and visible to it. If it does, until the end of the phase, that unit is within your army’s Hallowed Ground. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase and that is wholly within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1, or, re-roll the Wound roll instead if your unit is a PURIFIER SQUAD.
TARGET: One PURIFIER SQUAD unit from your army that was eligible to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Roll one D6 for each enemy unit within 6" of your unit, adding 1 to the result if your unit includes CASTELLAN CROWE: on a 4+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY unit (excluding TERMINATOR units) that is arriving using the Deep Strike ability this phase.
EFFECT: Set up your unit wholly within your army’s Hallowed Ground and more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy unit is set up or ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within 6" of your unit, roll one D6, adding 2 to the result if your unit is wholly within your army’s Hallowed Ground: on a 4+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS 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, models in your unit that are wholly within your Hallowed Ground have a 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy unit declares a charge and your unit is one of the targets of that charge, subtract 1 from the Charge roll, or subtract 2 instead if your unit is wholly within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
Argent Assault
THE GREATEST CHAMPIONS OF THE GREY KNIGHTS SEEK OUT THEIR DEADLIEST FOES FOR PURGATION
Dauntless Champions
To be a Paladin of the Grey Knights is to do battle with the greatest and most terrible enemies and yet emerge victorious, no matter the odds.
When a friendly PALADIN SQUAD unit is selected to fight, if the S of those attacks is lower than the T of the target, those attacks have +1 to wound rolls.Enhancements
These champions of Titan employ their psychic might to lend themselves supernatural speed and catch their enemies unawares TERMINATOR model only. This unit has +1 to charge rolls |
None who would work the unclean will of the Warp – even unknowingly – can escape the merciless gaze of the Grey Knights. TERMINATOR model only. At the start of your Shooting phase, you can select one visible enemy unit within 12" of this unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That PALADIN SQUAD unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has Feel No Pain 4+ against mortal wounds.
TARGET: That PALADIN SQUAD unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s melee attacks have [PRECISION].
TARGET: That PALADIN SQUAD unit.
EFFECT: That enemy unit’s melee attacks have [HAZARDOUS].
Fires of Purgation
PURGATION SQUADS LEAD THEIR BRETHREN TO PURIFY THE BATTLEFIELD THROUGH FEROCIOUS FIREPOWER
Searing Soulflame
Through potent psychic focus and the channelling of their vehement wrath, Purgators imbue their salvoes with bursts of soul-burning psy-fire.
When you select a unit to be pinned by a friendly PURGATION SQUAD unit’s Righteous Persecution ability, that enemy unit makes a battle-shock roll, with -1 to that battle-shock roll.Enhancements
These champions of Titan employ their psychic might to lend themselves supernatural speed and catch their enemies unawares PURGATION SQUAD unit only. This unit’s snap shooting attacks hit on unmodified hit rolls of 5+. |
None who would work the unclean will of the Warp – even unknowingly – can escape the merciless gaze of the Grey Knights. PURGATION SQUAD unit only. This unit’s ranged attacks have +2 S. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That PURGATION SQUAD unit.
EFFECT: That move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to shoot.
TARGET: That PURGATION SQUAD unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit. Your unit’s ranged attacks that target that unit have:
- [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].
- [SUSTAINED HITS 1].
TARGET: That PURGATION SQUAD unit.
EFFECT: Select one battle-shocked enemy unit hit by those attacks. That enemy unit suffers D3+1 mortal wounds.
Immaterial Interdiction
GREY KNIGHTS INTERCEPTORS LEAP THROUGH THE WARP TO MEET AND TURN BACK EACH NEW ENEMY PUSH
Echojump
Pushing their esoteric wargear to its limits, Interceptors are able to make secondary, shorter personal teleportation jumps, effectively skimming the very surface of the Immaterium to respond all the more quickly to developing threats.
In your Shooting phase, when a friendly INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit has shot, if that unit did not make an ingress move this turn, you can use this ability. If you do:- That unit cannot use its Personal Teleporters ability.
- That unit can make a surge move of up to D6+1".
Enhancements
This rune‑sealed data-scroll is opened at the ordained moment, providing vital strategic insights and empyric jump coordinates foreseen by the Prognosticars themselves. INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit only. In your first Movement phase, this unit can make an ingress move. |
Esoteric adjustments to the calibration of these Interceptors’ teleportation arrays allow them to achieve a temporary state of semi‑incorporeality, in which enemy projectiles may simply pass through them as though they were ghosts. INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit only. This unit has Stealth. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s melee attacks have [LANCE].
TARGET: That INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit.
EFFECT: That action does not prevent your unit from being eligible to shoot.
TARGET: That INTERCEPTOR SQUAD 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 GREY KNIGHTS units. You can find out more about Crusade armies in the main Crusade rules.
The Grey Knights are guided by the Visions of their Prognosticars, striking where they are prophesied to be needed rather than reacting to their foes. The rules in this section task you with heading off the dire predictions of the Prognosticars in an effort to prevent a Chaos Incursion, equip you for dealing with such an incursion, and reward you for doing so to the best of your warriors’ formidable abilities.
GIFTS OF THE PRESCIENT
Following a Chaos Incursion, the templars of Titan consolidate their resources but never rest, once more following the prescient wisdom of their Prognosticars, to regain their strength and remain the blade pressed against the throat of Chaos.
AGENDAS
Grey Knights 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
Grey Knights armies have access to a number of bespoke Requisitions in addition to those found in other publications.
BATTLE TRAITS
As they gain experience and prowess, GREY KNIGHTS 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, GREY KNIGHTS CHARACTER models can claim one of the Crusade Relics found here.
CRUSADE BADGES
Here you will find three Crusade Badges representing goals you can set yourself when campaigning with your Crusade force. Once one is achieved, you can set yourself a new goal, or take the opportunity to start a new Crusade force.
Visions from the Augurium
Within the Augurium, the Prognosticars sift the currents of the Warp, seeking the empyric spoor of daemonic presences at work. Their strategic foretellings enable their battle-brothers to head off these emergent Chaos threats and banish their malefic architects.
Each time you consult the Prognosticars, if there are currently no Visions in the Malefic state, or if there are four or more Visions in the Sanctic state (see Chaos Incursion), you must randomly select two instead of one.
You can attempt to change Visions that are in the Malefic state into the Sanctic state by completing certain Grey Knights Agendas: keep a note of this on your Augurium Vision tracker. Note, you can only change one Vision into the Sanctic state after each battle as a result of completing Agendas, even if you complete multiple Agendas that allowed you to change Visions into the Sanctic state.
The more Visions that are in the Sanctic state the more Purgation points you will gain later.
Whenever you consult the Prognosticars, if a selected Vision is in the Sanctic state, it changes to the Malefic state instead. If a Vision is already in the Malefic state, roll again until you select one that is not in the Malefic state.
Chaos Incursion
The threat posed by the Ruinous Powers is everlasting and omnipresent. The Grey Knights can never relax their vigilance, never cease their tireless war to deny the will of the Dark Gods. With every victory, the templars of Titan stave off the inevitable for a little longer, holding back the tides of horror for another precious day.
While you are combating a Chaos Incursion, you cannot consult the Prognosticars, and no Visions on your Augurium Vision tracker can change state, either to Malefic or Sanctic, until the incursion has ended.
To end a Chaos Incursion, your Crusade force must acquire a number of Banishment points equal to your Banishment total. To determine your Banishment total, roll one D3 and add the number of Visions that are in the Malefic state on your Augurium Vision tracker when the incursion happened. For example, if 4 Visions are in the Malefic state and the D3 result is 2, your Banishment total for this Chaos Incursion would be 6. Keep a note of your Banishment points on your Augurium Vision tracker; you can earn them in a number of ways, such as by completing certain Agendas, using certain Requisitions and via some Battle Honours. Note that you can only acquire Banishment points while your Crusade force is combating a Chaos Incursion, and you cannot gain them at any other time (any rule that instructs you to do so is ignored).
If, at the end of the Update Order of Battle step, you have reached your Banishment total, you have successfully ended this Chaos Incursion and you reset your Banishment points to 0. You then gain Purgation points which you can spend to acquire one or more Gifts of the Prescient. Any Purgation points unspent by the time you next consult the Prognosticars are lost.
The number of Purgation points you gain are as follows:
- Each Vision that is in the Sanctic state = 1 Purgation point
- One or more rows or columns of 3 Visions are in the Sanctic state = 1 Purgation point
You should then start a brand new Augurium Vision tracker (with no Visions in either the Malefic or Sanctic state) before you consult the Prognosticars again.
Gifts of the Prescient
As well as foreseeing when and where Warp-tainted threats will arise, the Prognosticars sometimes furnish champions of the Chapter with insights, warnings or relics released from the Chambers of Purity. The vital importance of these boons will become clear only at the foretold moment of greatest need.
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Purgation points are presented as shown on the left.
The vision speaks of onrushing assailants filled with murderous malice. The warning’s recipient has already prepared his response, and the enemy appears precisely as predicted, right in the Grey Knights’ gun sights.
The words of the Prognosticars, inscribed in sanctified ink upon vellum, reveal where and when the Grey Knights will be needed. Such accurate foresight allows for a robust and targeted response.
Appearing deceptively simple, like the fetish of some primitive culture, this knot tied from woven truesilver thread is imbued with strands of fate that lead to the bearer’s demise. By cutting the knot at the crucial moment, a Grey Knight also severs the immediate futures in which he is slain.
An intermingling of abjurer’s incantations and interwoven true names, the words upon this crumbling scroll presage the doom of those unworthy souls who are fated to know and fear them.
One of the fabled gems that fall as rain deep within the gas giant Inoktu, this stone has been inlaid with rare and complex psychocircuitry. Pre-attuned to the psyches of those the gems bearer will face in battle, it allows a killing will to be focused against them.
A tenuous soul trail teased from the tides of the Warp by the Prognosticars’ arts, this signature leads forward through time to the moment where its originators’ fates are forged. The Grey Knights can use this knowledge to track and intercept their foes where destiny renders them most vulnerable.
To know the appointed hour of one’s death and to see the one who will inflict it is an experience that would drive many mad with existential terror. For a champion of the Grey Knights, such knowledge merely allows them to prepare, to sell themselves as dearly as possible and do their duty one last time.
Slashed into the stuff of the battlefield with a bloodied blade at the exact moment and place foretold, this ancient design turns the very fabric of reality against the target, holding them at bay on a molecular level.
Knowing the errors and heresies that will doom a foe, the Grey Knights exploit them to the fullest.
This talisman grants the bearer visions of dangers about to manifest, allowing them to parry and evade the attacks of those who assail them in battle.
The false present reflected in this sorcerous mirror imposes itself upon the present long enough to fool the foe before its lies fade to reveal the truth.
This fine crystal glows with moments of opportunity, guiding the bearer and their brothers along a path of rigorous self-improvement.
These ancient words, scribed in earlier aeons, reveal how misfortune may be turned to advantage at the precise fated hour with shocking clarity.
Agendas
If your Crusade army includes any GREY KNIGHTS units, you can select Agendas from those presented here.
Preordained sites of empyric power must be psychically cleansed of corruption lest their creeping taint weaken the barriers holding back the Warp.
At the end of the battle, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result for each table quarter that has been purged by your army. On a 7+:
- If you are not combating a Chaos Incursion, you can select one Purifying Ritual Vision on your Augurium Vision tracker and change that vision to the Sanctic state.
- If you are combating a Chaos Incursion, gain 1 Banishment point.
Merely advancing into battle is not a swift enough response to this foe, who must instead be intercepted with a strike from the depths of the Warp.
At the end of the battle, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result for each unit from your army that gained XP from this Agenda. On a 7+:
- If you are not combating a Chaos Incursion, you can select one Prophetic Intervention Vision on your Augurium Vision tracker and change that vision to the Sanctic state.
- If you are combating a Chaos Incursion, gain 1 Banishment point.
Visions hint at apocalyptic consequences, should the foe be allowed to continue their labours undisturbed. Yet the Grey Knights may prevent disaster by seizing critical sites of power in enemy territory and undertaking an ancient sorcerous rite.
At the end of the battle, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result for each objective marker that you control. On a 7+:
- If you are not combating a Chaos Incursion, you can select one Portent of Doom Vision on your Augurium Vision tracker and change that vision to the Sanctic state.
- If you are combating a Chaos Incursion, gain 1 Banishment point.
The Grey Knights were created for a singular duty: to battle the Ruinous Powers and bring destruction to all those who work their insidious will.
If you are combating a Chaos Incursion, then at the end of the battle, if 3 or more units from your army gained XP from this Agenda, you gain D3 Banishment points.
True victory for the Grey Knights often encompasses not just the defeat of the foe but the utter annihilation of any who know of their existence or have been tainted by their corrupting touch.
Requisitions
If your Crusade army includes any GREY KNIGHTS units, you can spend Requisition points (RP) on any of the following Requisitions.
Ancient prophecies scribed on crumbling parchment are released from the Librarium to provide wisdom.
In battle’s wake, the Grey Knights begin their true labour in this place, a ritual of great and terrible power whose energies are intended to drive back the threat of the uncanny and the tendrils of the Warp.
The great and terrible achievements of Grey Knights battle-brothers would, were they any other Chapter, be lauded across the Imperium. Instead, they must remain secret, yet they are no less spectacular for all that.
Even by the inhumanly exacting standards of the Chapter, this warrior’s skill is remarkable to behold.
Whether it be a Brother-Captain promoted to the rank of Grand Master and offered the chance to pilot a Nemesis Dreadknight, or a champion of the Chapter laid low and interred within a Dreadnought sarcophagus, there are multiple paths to wielding such truesilver-armoured might.
- Select one BROTHER-CAPTAIN unit from your Crusade force with the Heroic rank or higher. Remove that unit from your Crusade force and add one GRAND MASTER or GRAND MASTER IN NEMESIS DREADKNIGHT unit to your Crusade force.
- Select one GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY CHARACTER or GRAND MASTER IN NEMESIS DREADKNIGHT unit from your Crusade force with the Heroic rank or higher that has one or more Battle Scars. Remove that unit from your Crusade force and add one GREY KNIGHTS VENERABLE DREADNOUGHT unit to your Crusade force.
The new unit has the same Battle Honours and Battle Scars as the unit it replaced, and until this unit is removed from your Crusade force, each time this unit would gain one or more XP from Dealers of Death, if it destroyed one or more MONSTER or VEHICLE units during the battle, it gains 1 additional XP. You cannot purchase this Requisition if doing so would cause your Crusade force to exceed its current Supply Limit.
After fighting forbidden foes alongside other Chapters, the Grey Knights often use a form of psychic adjustment to scour away their allies’ experiences and memories rather than exterminating such valuable warriors. A more nuanced form of this technique is sometimes used on the Grey Knights themselves to rapidly implant new skills and knowledge in place of old.
Battle Traits
When a GREY KNIGHTS unit gains a Battle Trait, you can use one of the tables presented here to determine which Battle Trait that unit has gained.
Freshly inscribed sorcerous sigils channel wisps of empyric energy to hasten these warriors through the flow of time.
These warriors lay down ceaseless volleys of fire while maintaining the pace required for the Grey Knights’ merciless strike operations.
Through long training and ritual, these battle-brothers have achieved a keener psychic bond with their Nemesis weaponry.
In the midst of battle, Grey Knights can shut out pain, distraction and emotion to bring their full might to bear again and again.
Worked with litanies of denial and bound with truesilver chains, these obdurate ward-glyphs turn aside the most powerful blows.
To be the best of even this elite Chapter is to fight all the more fiercely when faced with impossible odds.
While none beyond the Chapter may ever know of their deeds, there is no denying this champion will achieve incredible things.
Although duty may compel him to commit horrific deeds, it still drives this warrior, certain of his own righteousness.
In the darkest times, the disciplined fury of the Grey Knights burns its brightest.
Psychic Fortitudes
The following Battle Traits can only be given to GREY KNIGHTS PSYKER units in your Crusade force, and they can only be given to units with the Battle-hardened rank or better. If you are randomly generating a Psychic Fortitude for a GREY KNIGHTS VENERABLE DREADNOUGHT, roll a D3 on the following table instead of a D6.A unit can only have one of these Battle Traits, and having one increases the unit’s Crusade points total by +2 rather than the usual +1. Note that you can remove or replace Psychic Fortitude Battle Traits by using the Psycho-reconditioning Requisition.
An Attached unit can only use one Psychic Fortitude at a time - while a Leader with one of these traits is attached to a Bodyguard unit with a different one of these traits, only one can be in effect; select which at the Declare Battle Formations step - that trait then applies to the Attached unit until either the Leader unit or the Bodyguard unit is destroyed, at which point the remaining units Psychic Fortitude comes into effect.
These warriors possess such psychic fortitude that, once gathered and focusing their powers, few malevolent entities can overwhelm them.
This squad has learned to wreathe themselves in ever-shifting phantasms born of the Warp, twisting shadows and banks of ethereal mist clouding the minds of those who seek them out.
A form of psychic communion allows these battle-brothers to triangulate their vision as one, augmenting their marksmanship to a supernatural degree.
The very act of channelling the tightly controlled energies of the Warp through their bodies enhances these warriors' already prodigious might.
Channelling the primal strength of their hatred through their weaponry causes this squad's every attack to burst with flares of furious psychic fire.
Combining their indomitable wills and the white heat of their hatred for the foe, this band of battle-brothers project them in a manifest wave of psychic fire that rages around them as they charge into battle.
Crusade Relics
When a GREY KNIGHTS CHARACTER model gains a Crusade Relic, you can select one of the Relics presented here.
Artificer Relics
Over centuries of war, a fraction of a Grey Knights essence may imprint itself upon his weapon. In rare cases, this imprint is so strong that it persists after death, and another can wield the blade to combine their psychic might with that of a fallen champion. The Soul Glaive is such a weapon; it is the halberd carried into battle by the 13th Supreme Grand Master of the Grey Knights, Sylas Kalthorn, who defeated the Daemon Prince Ka’laedzar in single combat.
INFANTRY model only. Improve the Strength and Damage characteristics of the bearers melee weapons by 1. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [ANTI-CHAOS 4+] ability.The inner surface of this suit of armour is etched with the names of the many allies that fought and died alongside the Grey Knights in the eternal war against the daemonic. The Cuirass is a reminder to Titan’s sons that such sacrifice must not be forgotten. The wearer swears a solemn vow not to dishonour the names of those who have suffered such a fate, not whilst even an ounce of strength remains in his body.
The first time the bearer is destroyed, remove it from play without resolving its Deadly Demise ability (if it has this ability). Then, at the end of the phase, roll one D6: on a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, with 3 wounds remaining.Antiquity Relics
This tome is a relic of Supreme Grand Master Janus, who mastered all six hundred and sixty-six words of banishment, each painstakingly recorded on its pages. In times of need, an exemplar of the Chapter will carry this book into battle, its bindings crackling with arcane energy.
At the end of the battle, if the bearer is wholly within your opponent’s deployment zone, roll one D6: on a 5+:- If you are not combating a Chaos Incursion, you can select one Vision on your Augurium Vision tracker and change it to the Sanctic state.
- If you are combating a Chaos Incursion, you gain 1 Banishment point.
Upon the death world of Kantu, a host of Grey Knights fought a desperate battle to end a daemonic incursion that would have transformed the planet into a daemon world. This vambrace - recovered from atop the carrion heaps in the battles wake and incorporated into afresh suit of armour - became imbued with the indomitable spirits of all those battle-brothers who died to see victory achieved, energies that fortify and protect the bearer even centuries later.
Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.Within this fist-sized artefact, a spindle of seemingly perpetual chrono-psychic energy spins like a miniature pulsar. What manner of ancient cabal or long-dead xenos civilisation fashioned it is unknown. Regardless, with the correctly applied incantations, temporal energy can be syphoned from the vault’s midnight-black surface and projected to alter the flow of time and the fortunes of war by empowering the bearer’s allies with incredible speed.
Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Crusade Relic. If it does, until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have the Fights First ability.Legendary Relics
Though mysteries surround this remarkably ancient battle helm, Chapter legend insists that it was first worn by Supreme Grand Master Janus himself. Archeotech auto-archival systems - surely the product of Dark Age artifice - have allowed the helm to catalogue every catechism and incantation invoked by its wearers over millennia. It can implant its arcane knowledge directly into the wearer’s mind via cortical shunts, furnishing them with a librarius’ worth of psycho-sorcerous lore at their fingertips.
At the start of each battle round, select one Psychic Fortitude Battle Trait. Until the end of the battle round, the bearer has that Psychic Fortitude Battle Trait.The bearer can use this Crusade Relic to be given a Psychic Fortitude Battle Trait even if this means they would have two Psychic Fortitude Battle Traits. If they do, both apply to the bearer’s unit, even though normally only one Psychic Fortitude can be in effect at any time.
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.
Exemplar of the Chapter
To become a battle-brother of the Grey Knights Chapter is a remarkable achievement in its own right, yet you strive for more. You have commanded strikes that have banished infernal entities and halted the machinations of the Dark Gods’ servants on multiple worlds.
- You have won three or more battles.
- You have ended one or more Chaos Incursions.
- Your Crusade force has 1 or more Gifts of the Prescient.
Champion of Titan
On world after world, from one side of the Imperium to the other, you have led the fight to stem the endless tides of Warp corruption. By your deeds, dark prophecies have been ended, and entire Imperial systems have been saved. For this, your name is whispered with loathing by the daemons that lurk in the Warp.
- You have won six or more battles.
- You have ended two or more Chaos Incursions.
- Your Crusade force has three or more Gifts of the Prescient.
- You have used the Armoured Raiment Requisition to add a new unit to your Crusade force.
Bane of Chaos
You are the bane of the Archenemy, a paragon of your Chapters virtues, and though your name may never be known elsewhere, it has found a place upon the honour rolls in the Hall of Champions.
- You have won ten or more battles.
- You have ended three or more Chaos Incursions.
- Your Crusade force has five or more Gifts of the Prescient.
- You have completed the No Witnesses Agenda one or more times, or you have scored XP from the Destroy the Infernal Agenda from destroying a DAEMON PRIMARCH one or more times.
- You have used the Master Among Masters Requisition one or more times.
Boarding Actions
Introduction
Within the following pages you will find numerous Boarding Actions Detachments that can be used in your Boarding Actions games. Each lists which units you can include in your army, any modifications to those units’ army rule as presented in their Codex or Index, a Detachment rule unique to that Detachment, and a number of Enhancements and Stratagems that you can use.A keyword that will be shared by all units in your army.
MUSTERING RULES
Which units you are allowed to include in your army.
FORMING BOARDING SQUADS
Any additional rules that will apply in the missions Form Boarding Squads step. Note that not all Detachments will have these.
RULES ADAPTATIONS
Some units will be unable to use certain abilities in Boarding Actions battles. Where this is the case, these units and their relevant abilities will be listed here.
Due to the distinct nature of close-quarters battle in Boarding Actions, most army rules require some modifications to their effects. Where this is the case, these will be described here.
DETACHMENT RULE
Each faction will have a number of different Detachments to choose from, each with its own Detachment rule to reflect the unique fighting methods of such forces.
ENHANCEMENTS
Further Enhancements that you can give to CHARACTER models from your army, beyond those(Boarding Actions Enhancements), will be found here.
STRATAGEMS
Additional Stratagems that you can use, in addition to those (Boarding Actions Stratagems), will be found here.
Void Purge Force
Whether striking into a warp-compromised vessel to annihilate all aboard, defending a vital Grey Knights warship from infernal threats, or removing allies or foes who know too much, these strike teams of Grey Knights hit hard and fast to ensure none escape their purge.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following unit (duplicates are not allowed):- BROTHER-CAPTAIN
- BROTHER-CAPTAIN STERN
- BROTHERHOOD CHAMPION
- BROTHERHOOD CHAPLAIN
- BROTHERHOOD LIBRARIAN
- BROTHERHOOD TECH MARINE
- CASTELLAN CROWE
- GRAND MASTER
- GRAND MASTER VOLDUS
- KALDOR DRAIGO
- STRIKE SQUAD (5 or 10 models)
- INTERCEPTOR SQUAD (5 or 10 model)
- PURIFIER SQUAD (5 model)
- BROTHERHOOD TERMINATOR SQUAD (5 model )
- PALADIN SQUAD (5 model )
Rules Adaptations
- The BROTHERHOOD LIBRARIAN model loses the Vortex of Doom ability.
- The GRAND MASTER VOLDUS model loses the Hammer Aflame ability.
- The INTERCEPTOR SQUAD unit loses the Personal Teleporters ability.
- The KALDOR DRAIGO model loses the One With the Warp ability.
- The STRIKE SQUAD unit loses the Sanctifying Ritual ability.
Eye of the Prognosticars
Forewarned of threats yet to manifest by the divinations of the Prognosticars, these Grey Knights are ready to exploit any eventuality.
Units from your army with the Teleport Assault ability replace that ability with this one.Each time you target this unit with a Stratagem, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if this unit is within range of an objective marker you control: on a 5+, you gain 1CP.
Detachment Rule
An Urgent Duty
None can be allowed to reach an escape craft or get a distress call away - the purge must be swift and total. This knowledge lends the Grey Knights even greater urgency.
Add 1 to Advance and Charge rolls made for GREY KNIGHTS units from your army.Enhancements
Sigil of Warding This minute silver icon contains a personal teleport matrix and a vigilant machine spirit. Its precogitative psyroutines carefully watch for attacks from a distance, and at the sign of danger it transports its bearer away in a crack of energy. Once per battle, at the end of your Shooting phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, it can make a Normal move of up to 3" and can then attempt to operate a Hatchway. The bearer is then not eligible to declare a charge this turn. |
Tactical Haruspexy Sanctioned psychic foretelling has determined the future whereabouts of this warrior’s primary target at a precise moment in time. It is a rendezvous only one will survive. Once per battle, when the bearer declares a charge, it can use this Enhancement. If it does, it can select units that are not visible to it as targets of that charge, provided they are within 9" of it. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS 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".
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in that enemy unit have the [HAZARDOUS] ability.
TARGET: One INTERCEPTOR SQUAD or GREY KNIGHTS CHARACTER unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: The next time your unit is selected to move this phase, models in that unit can move through Walls and closed Hatchways as if they were not there, but when doing so, no model can move more than 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army that charged this turn.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If such a weapon already has that ability, until the end of the phase, each time an attack is made with that weapon, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
Baneslayer Strike
The infernal power of dire threats such as the Heretic Astartes, the Daemons of Chaos or the most abominable of xenos horrors is magnified within the close quarters of shipboard war. The Grey Knights have the tools to deal with even such arch-fiends, however, and they come clad in Terminator plate.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):- BROTHER-CAPTAIN
- BROTHER-CAPTAIN STERN
- BROTHERHOOD CHAPLAIN
- BROTHERHOOD LIBRARIAN
- GRAND MASTER
- GRAND MASTER VOLDUS
- KALDOR DRAIGO
- BROTHERHOOD TERMINATOR SQUAD (5 or 10 models)
- PALADIN SQUAD (5 or 10 models)
Rules Adaptations
- The BROTHERHOOD LIBRARIAN model loses the Vortex of Doom ability.
- The GRAND MASTER VOLDUS model loses the Hammer Aflame ability.
- The KALDOR DRAIGO model loses the One With the Warp ability.
Eye of the Prognosticars
Forewarned of threats yet to manifest by the divinations of the Prognosticars, these Grey Knights are ready to exploit any eventuality.
Units from your army with the Teleport Assault ability replace that ability with this one.Each time you target this unit with a Stratagem, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if this unit is within range of an objective marker you control: on a 5+, you gain 1CP.
Detachment Rule
Pre-Emptive Strike
Employing ancient teleportation technologies, the Grey Knights are able to strike deep into enemy vessels or reposition with supernatural haste to defend vital sites on their own ships.
In the Reinforcements step of your first Movement phase, you can set up on the battlefield one GREY KNIGHTS Reserves unit from your army using the Deep Strike ability. When doing so, you can set up that unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models (measure this distance as you would normally for the Deep Strike ability). Until the end of the turn, that unit is not eligible to declare a charge.Enhancements
Shield of Admonishment This ancient and heavily warded pauldron gleams with searing light in a range of empyric spectra that blind not only a foe’s physical sight, but also its intangible senses. Each time a melee attack targets the bearer, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. |
Close and Sanction Focused on closing the distance to their quarry, this warrior surges forward through enemy fire. In your opponent’s Shooting phase, each time an enemy unit is selected to shoot, after that unit has shot, if the bearer was hit by one or more of those attacks, the bearer can make a Dash move. To do so, roll one D6: the bearer can be moved a distance in inches up to the result, but it must finish that move as close as possible to the closest visible enemy unit. When doing so, it can be moved within Engagement Range of that enemy unit. The bearer can only make one Dash move per phase. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS CHARACTER model from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your model has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS CHARACTER or PALADIN SQUAD unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker within 9” of and visible to your unit. If that objective marker does not have any enemy models within range of it (excluding Battle-shocked models), your unit must take a Leadership test, subtracting 1 from the result if that objective marker is Secured by your opponent’s army. If that test is passed, that objective marker is no longer considered Secured by your opponent’s army and is Secured by your army.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to charge this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: One GREY KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of storm bolters equipped by models in your unit by 1.
The AIRCRAFT keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The DEDICATED TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The DREADNOUGHT keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The EPIC HERO keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The FLY keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
When rotating a FRAME model as part of a move, if that model does not have a base, turn it any amount around its central axis, while keeping it upright.
The FRAME keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The GRENADES keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The GREY KNIGHTS keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The IMPERIUM keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The LAND RAIDER keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The PSYKER keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The SMOKE keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The TERMINATOR keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The TITANIC keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The WALKER keyword is used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
There are several categories of Battle Honours that can be bestowed upon a unit, such as Battle Traits, Weapon Modifications and Crusade Relics. Other categories of Battle Honour may be found in other publications. Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, you can select from any category.
- Once a unit gains enough XP it will gain a rank.
- Only CHARACTER units can gain the Heroic or Legendary ranks.
- Each time a unit gains a rank, it can gain a Battle Honour.
- There are several categories of Battle Honours, which include:
- Battle Traits: New skills and abilities.
- Weapon Modifications: Upgrade an item of wargear.
- Crusade Relic: Gain a rare and powerful artefact.
- Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, increase its Crusade points total by 1 (or by 2 if TITANIC).
The greatest warriors, most cunning tacticians and seers lead their armies to war possessed of hard-won skills and powerful artefacts that mark them out as legendary commanders.
You can select one Enhancement that unit has access to (if using this Requisition when that unit gains a rank, this is instead of it gaining a Battle Honour). When doing so, that unit has access to any Enhancements described within any Detachment rules that it could use, even though you have not yet started to muster your army and so have not selected any Detachment rules yet.
If the selected Enhancement replaces a weapon that is a Crusade Relic or a weapon upgraded by Weapon Modifications, that Crusade Relic or Weapon Modifications are lost. Recalculate the unit’s points value as a result of gaining this Enhancement and update its Crusade card. You cannot make any changes that would cause you to exceed your Supply Limit.
This Requisition costs 1RP plus 1 additional RP for each other Enhancement that your Order of Battle contains (to a maximum of 3RP).
- 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.
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.
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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- 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.
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.
Few can command the powers of the Warp with anything like the skill and control of the Grey Knights. So masterful is their sorcery that they can conjure glowing empyric gateways to step in and out of reality. In this way, they swiftly outflank their foes and redeploy their forces to counter threats, kept safe during their split-second Warp travel by the intricate wards worked into their wargear.
If your Army Faction is GREY KNIGHTS, at the end of your opponent’s Fight phase, you can select a number of units (see below) from your army that are on the battlefield (excluding units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units), provided every model in those units has this ability. The maximum number of units you can select depends on the battle size, as follows:
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Once you have made your selections, remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
The GREY KNIGHTS and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
Some weapons possess a punishing rate of fire, or can land devastating flurries of blows, tearing the foe apart with relentless ferocity.
This ability always takes the form [SUSTAINED HITS X]. Each time an attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, that attack results in a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by X.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).
- 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).The GREY KNIGHTS, PSYKER and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The GREY KNIGHTS and TERMINATOR keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
- Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
- Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.
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.
High-explosive rounds can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them too close to comrades is unwise.
Each time you gather attack dice for a [BLAST] weapon, add one additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down).If this ability takes the form [BLAST X], each time you gather attack dice for such a weapon, add X additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down) instead.
- Engaged and did not make an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons or is a MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- MONSTER/VEHICLE Models: Each time a MONSTER/VEHICLE model in your unit makes an attack:
- Unless that attack is made with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon and targets a unit your unit is engaged with, subtract 1 from the hit roll.
- If that attack is made with a [BLAST] weapon, it still cannot target a unit your unit is engaged with.
- Non-MONSTER/Non-VEHICLE Models: You can only select [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons to make attacks with and you can only select enemy units that are engaged with your unit as targets.
Weapons designed for close-quarters fighting can be wielded effectively even in the press of melee combat.
Units containing one or more models with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon can shoot using close-quarters shooting (10.06).When using another shooting type, for each model in that unit (excluding MONSTER/VEHICLE models), you can only select one of the following to make attacks with:
- One or more of its [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons.
- One or more of its other ranged weapons.
Pistols can be wielded even at point-blank range.
[PISTOL] and [CLOSE-QUARTERS] are identical for all rules purposes. See [CLOSE-QUARTERS].Dual weapons are often grafted to the same targeting system for greater lethality.
Each time an attack is made with a [TWIN-LINKED] weapon, you can re-roll the wound roll.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
The GREY KNIGHTS and PSYKER keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The hardiest warriors refuse to be laid low, even by wounds that should by all rights prove lethal.
This ability always takes the form Feel No Pain X+. Each time a model with this ability would lose a wound, roll one D6: on an X+, that wound is not lost.Certain weapons are the bane of particular foes.
This ability always takes the form [ANTI-X Y+]. Each time an attack is made with an [ANTI] weapon, if the target unit has the keyword denoted by X, an unmodified wound roll of Y+ is a critical wound.The GREY KNIGHTS and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
The GREY KNIGHTS and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
- Unengaged and made an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [ASSAULT] weapons.
WHILE SHOOTING: You can only select [ASSAULT] weapons to make attacks with.
AFTER SHOOTING: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to start an action.
Folding stocks, shortened barrels or lightweight construction enable some weapons to be easily fired on the move.
Units containing one or more models with an [ASSAULT] weapon can shoot using assault shooting (10.05).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 GREY KNIGHTS, PSYKER and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
- If that roll succeeds, that unit does not become battle-shocked.
- If that roll fails, that unit, and each model in it, is battle-shocked.
While a unit is battle-shocked:
- The Objective Control (OC) characteristic of all of its models is modified to ‘-’ (02.02).
- Its controlling player cannot target that unit with stratagems (15).
- It is not eligible to start an action (16), and any action it has started cannot be completed.
The GREY KNIGHTS and WALKER keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
- Create Groups: Divide all models in the target unit into the following groups, as many times as required:
- One group for each CHARACTER model.
- One group for all other models with the same W, Sv and InSv characteristics.
- Allocation Order: Declare the order in which those groups will have attacks allocated to them, applying all of the following:
- If a non-CHARACTER group contains a model that has lost one or more wounds, that group must be first in the allocation order.
- No CHARACTER group can be earlier in the allocation order than a non-CHARACTER group.
- CHARACTER groups containing a model that has lost one or more wounds must be earlier in the allocation order than CHARACTER groups containing no wounded models.
- Make Save Rolls: The opposing player makes one save roll for each attack that wounded the target by rolling one D6.
Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd.
While resolving attacks made with one or more [PRECISION] weapons, at the start of the Allocation Order step (05.03), if the target unit contains one or more CHARACTER models visible to one or more of the attacking models, the active player can select one allocation group that contains one of those visible CHARACTER models. If they do, until those attacks are resolved, or until that CHARACTER group is destroyed (whichever happens first), that CHARACTER group is the current allocation group.Purging corrupted nodes of Warp energy, the Grey Knights establish an ever-expanding area of hallowed ground within which their psychic powers and indomitable resolve are greatly enhanced.
Certain areas of the battlefield are within your army’s Hallowed Ground, as follows:- Your deployment zone is always within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
- The area of the battlefield within 6" of one or more PURIFIER SQUAD units from your army is within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within No Man’s Land, until the end of that phase, No Man’s Land is within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within your opponent’s deployment zone, until the end of that phase, your opponent’s deployment zone is within your army’s Hallowed Ground.
The TERMINATOR and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Grey Knights 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.
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.When all of a model’s ranged weapons have shot, that model has shot.
When all models in a unit that are making ranged attacks have resolved all of those attacks, that unit has shot.
If a unit was selected to shoot and none of the models in it make any attacks, it has not shot.
- The rule allowing this move type has been triggered.
- Your unit is not battle-shocked.
- Your unit is unengaged.
- Your unit has not moved this phase.
BEFORE MOVING: Select the closest enemy unit to be the surge target.
WHILE MOVING:
- Each model must end its move engaged with the surge target if possible.
- Each model that cannot end its move engaged with the surge target must end its move as close as possible to the surge target.
- Your unit cannot be engaged with one or more enemy units that were not the surge target.
- Your unit cannot move again this phase.
With the momentum of a warrior at full-tilt, lance weapons are deadly on the charge.
Each time an attack is made with a [LANCE] weapon, if the attacking model’s unit made a charge move this turn, add 1 to the wound roll.The CHARACTER and GREY KNIGHTS keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
- To do so, both players roll one D6, and whoever rolls highest wins the roll-off.
- If there is a tie for the highest roll, roll off again.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
The GREY KNIGHTS, INFANTRY and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Grey Knights datasheets:
Some rules refer to units being below starting strength, or at – or below – half-strength. The meaning of these terms varies depending on a unit’s starting strength, as shown below.
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After fighting forbidden foes alongside other Chapters, the Grey Knights often use a form of psychic adjustment to scour away their allies’ experiences and memories rather than exterminating such valuable warriors. A more nuanced form of this technique is sometimes used on the Grey Knights themselves to rapidly implant new skills and knowledge in place of old.
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.
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).EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
WHILE MOVING: Set up each model in your unit wholly within the set-up distance of that TRANSPORT, and as close as possible to that TRANSPORT. Each model that cannot be set up in this way is destroyed.
AFTER MOVING: Your unit is battle-shocked and, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge.
From detonating ammo stores to corrosive innards or frenzied death throes, some targets are deadly even in defeat.
This ability always takes the form Deadly Demise X. Each time a model in this unit is destroyed, after the units embarked within it (if any) have made their emergency disembark moves, roll one D6. On a 6, that model suffers a deadly demise; each unit within 6" of that model suffers a number of mortal wounds denoted by X (if this is a random number, roll separately for each unit within 6").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).
Whether it be a Brother-Captain promoted to the rank of Grand Master and offered the chance to pilot a Nemesis Dreadknight, or a champion of the Chapter laid low and interred within a Dreadnought sarcophagus, there are multiple paths to wielding such truesilver-armoured might.
- Select one BROTHER-CAPTAIN unit from your Crusade force with the Heroic rank or higher. Remove that unit from your Crusade force and add one GRAND MASTER or GRAND MASTER IN NEMESIS DREADKNIGHT unit to your Crusade force.
- Select one GREY KNIGHTS INFANTRY CHARACTER or GRAND MASTER IN NEMESIS DREADKNIGHT unit from your Crusade force with the Heroic rank or higher that has one or more Battle Scars. Remove that unit from your Crusade force and add one GREY KNIGHTS VENERABLE DREADNOUGHT unit to your Crusade force.
The new unit has the same Battle Honours and Battle Scars as the unit it replaced, and until this unit is removed from your Crusade force, each time this unit would gain one or more XP from Dealers of Death, if it destroyed one or more MONSTER or VEHICLE units during the battle, it gains 1 additional XP. You cannot purchase this Requisition if doing so would cause your Crusade force to exceed its current Supply Limit.
True victory for the Grey Knights often encompasses not just the defeat of the foe but the utter annihilation of any who know of their existence or have been tainted by their corrupting touch.
The Grey Knights were created for a singular duty: to battle the Ruinous Powers and bring destruction to all those who work their insidious will.
If you are combating a Chaos Incursion, then at the end of the battle, if 3 or more units from your army gained XP from this Agenda, you gain D3 Banishment points.
The datasheets using DAEMON and PRIMARCH keywords can be found in the following Factions:
Chaos: Death Guard, Emperor’s Children, Thousand Sons, World Eaters.The DAEMON and PRIMARCH keywords are used in the following datasheets:
Even by the inhumanly exacting standards of the Chapter, this warrior’s skill is remarkable to behold.
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.