Imperial Knights – Acastus Knight Asterius
M
8"
T
13
SV
2+
W
30
LD
6+
OC
10
INSV*
5+
* Against ranged attacks only
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
| Asterius volkite culverin devastating wounds | |||||||
| Asterius volkite culverin devastating wounds | 24" | 6 | 3+ | 6 | 0 | 2 | |
| Karacnos mortar battery anti-infantry 2+ blast ignores cover indirect fire | |||||||
| Karacnos mortar battery anti-infantry 2+ blast ignores cover indirect fire | 48" | D6+3 | 3+ | 6 | -1 | 1 | |
| Twin conversion beam cannon conversion sustained hits d3 twin-linked | |||||||
| Twin conversion beam cannon conversion sustained hits d3 twin-linked | 48" | 3 | 3+ | 16 | -2 | 6 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Titanic feet | |||||||
| Titanic feet | Melee | 6 | 4+ | 10 | -1 | 2 | |
Conversion: Each time an attack is made with this weapon, if the target is more than 24" from the bearer, an unmodified successful Hit roll of 4+ scores a Critical Hit.
WARGEAR OPTIONS
- None
ABILITIES
CORE: Deadly Demise 2D6
FACTION: Code Chivalric, Super-heavy Walker
Sunderer of Fortresses: Each time this model makes an attack that targets a VEHICLE, improve the Strength and Damage characteristics of that attack by 1. If that attack targets a FORTIFICATION, improve the Strength and Damage characteristics of that attack by 2 instead.
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 1 Acastus Knight Asterius
| YOUR 1ST UNIT COSTS | |
| 1 model | 785 |
| YOUR 2ND + UNIT COSTS | |
| 1 model | 860 |
DAMAGED: 1-10 WOUNDS REMAINING
While this model has 1-10 wounds remaining, subtract 5 from this model’s Objective Control characteristic and each time this model makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
KEYWORDS: VEHICLE; WALKER; TITANIC; TOWERING; ACASTUS; IMPERIUM; KNIGHT ASTERIUS
FACTION KEYWORDS:
IMPERIAL KNIGHTS
IMPERIAL KNIGHTS
STRATAGEMS
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Core
C
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Core
C
RAPID INGRESS
1CP
Core
C
CRUSHING IMPACT
1CP
Core
C
HEROIC INTERVENTION
1CP
Core
C
COUNTEROFFENSIVE
2CP
Core
C
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic
BA
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
NOBLE SACRIFICE
1CP
Freeblade Company – Epic Deed
FULL TILT
1CP
Freeblade Company – Wargear
STRENGTH FROM EXILE
1CP
Freeblade Company – Battle Tactic
POINT‑BLANK BARRAGE
1CP
Freeblade Company – Strategic Ploy
SURVIVOR OF STRIFE
1CP
Freeblade Company – Epic Deed
MARSHAL THE DEFENCE
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Battle Tactic
DRIVE THEM OUT!
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Battle Tactic
TITANIC BOMBARDMENT
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Battle Tactic
FORTRESS OF INTIMIDATION
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Epic Deed
LANCEBREAKER
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Strategic Ploy
STEADFAST SUPERIORITY
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Battle Tactic
OMNISSIAH’S GRACE
1CP
Questor Forgepact Stratagem
VENGEANCE OF THE MACHINE CULT
1CP
Questor Forgepact Stratagem
HERO’S TREAD
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed
UNSTOPPABLE WARRIOR
2CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed
COURAGEOUS STAND
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed
TITANIC DUEL
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed
DRIVEN BY THE PAST
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed
MOMENT OF GLORY
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed
EXEMPLAR’S WISDOM
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Battle Tactic
MANTLE OF THE MENTOR
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Strategic Ploy
THIN THEIR RANKS
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Battle Tactic
VIRTUE OF COURAGE
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Battle Tactic
SQUIRES OFTHE HUNT
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Strategic Ploy
NEURAL LASH
1CP
Throne-Bonded Outriders Stratagem
HELM CONDITIONING
1CP
Throne-Bonded Outriders Stratagem
FULL TILT
2CP
Valourstrike Lance – Battle Tactic
TACTICAL FOIL
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Strategic Ploy
VOW OF RETRIBUTION
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Strategic Ploy
ROTATE ION SHIELDS
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Wargear
RUN THEM THROUGH!
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Strategic Ploy
THUNDERSTOMP
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Battle Tactic
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Cogbound Alliance
Bold Gallantry
Dauntless Defenders
Heroes of Legend
Valour’s Reward
Knightly Teachings
Knights of Legend
[LETHAL HITS]24.23
Many deadly weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.
Each time an attack made with a [LETHAL HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, you can choose for that attack to automatically wound the target.Designer’s Note: Choosing to automatically wound the target means that no wound roll is made for that attack. You may decide against this, as it means that attack cannot result in a critical wound and so cannot trigger other abilities such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].
Hit Roll
Make one hit roll for each attack dice by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a hit by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL HITS
Critical hits are still hits. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical hit, such as [LETHAL HITS] (24).03.04 Engagement
A model’s engagement range is the area of the battlefield within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of it.
- While a friendly model is within engagement range of one or more enemy models, those models – and the units they belong to – are engaged with each other.
- While a unit contains no engaged models, that unit is unengaged.
WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT?
While opposing models are within each other’s engagement range, they are able to fight in vicious melee, so unless they are seeking to make melee attacks, models should keep out of their foes’ reach.
ENGAGEMENT
These two units have at least one model within 2" of the opposing unit, and are therefore engaged with each other.
ADVANCE MOVE09.06
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Advance roll + your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Make an advance roll by rolling one D6.
AFTER MOVING:
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or start an action.
The ACASTUS keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
The ADEPTUS MECHANICUS keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
The ARMIGER keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
The IMPERIAL KNIGHTS keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Vehicle Epic Hero
Vehicle Character
The IMPERIUM keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Vehicle Epic Hero
Vehicle Character
The TECH-PRIEST keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
The TITANIC keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Epic Hero
Vehicle Character
22.05 Plunging Fire
Each time a model makes a ranged attack that targets a visible unit containing one or more models on ground level, if one or more of the following conditions apply, improve the BS characteristic of that attack by 1:- The attacking model is on a section of a terrain feature that is 3" or more in height.
- The attacking model has the TOWERING keyword and the target unit is within 12".
The TOWERING keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Epic Hero
Vehicle Character
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Epic Hero
Vehicle Character
The WALKER keyword is used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Epic Hero
Vehicle Character
[DEVASTATING WOUNDS]24.10
The most potent weapons strike with such power that they make a mockery of armour and can cleave through several foes.
Each time an attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon results in a critical wound, the attack sequence for that attack ends and the target unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the D characteristic of that weapon. These are inflicted after resolving any normal damage inflicted by those attacks.Mortal wounds inflicted by [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapons can damage a maximum of one model for each critical wound; any remaining mortal wounds inflicted by that attack are lost.
Example: An attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon with a D characteristic of 3 results in a critical wound against an Intercessor Squad, so inflicts 3 mortal wounds. The first 2 mortal wounds are sufficient to destroy 1 Intercessor model, so the remaining mortal wound is lost.
05.02.01 Multiple Toughness Characteristics
When resolving attacks that target a unit in which the models have two or more different T characteristics, follow the first instruction that applies from below:- If the target unit is an attached unit, use the highest T characteristic amongst bodyguard models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
- Use the highest T characteristic amongst models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
Wound Roll
Make one wound roll for each hit by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a wound by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL WOUNDS
Critical wounds are still wounds. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical wound, such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] (24).SEE ALSO
- Multiple Toughness Characteristics 05.02.01
NORMAL MOVE09.05
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
06.03 Hazard Rolls
To make a hazard roll for a unit, roll one D6: on a 1-2, that roll fails and that unit suffers 1 mortal wound, or 3 mortal wounds instead if each model in that unit is a MONSTER/VEHICLE model. If more than one hazard roll is required for a unit, make all of those rolls simultaneously.
FALL-BACK MOVE09.07
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is engaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select fall-back mode:
- Ordered Retreat: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you can select this mode.
- Desperate Escape: Otherwise, you must select this mode. Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
- Desperate Escape: Each model that is moved can be moved through enemy models.
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to shoot, declare a charge or start an action.
- Desperate Escape: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you must make a battle-shock roll for your unit (01.07).
The IMPERIAL KNIGHTS and TITANIC keywords are used in the following Imperial Knights datasheets:
Vehicle Epic Hero
Vehicle Character
06.01 Visibility
Line of sight is used to determine visibility between models. For an observing model to have line of sight, it must be possible to draw an imaginary straight line, 1 mm wide, from any part of that model to any part of the model being observed. This line is the line of sight. While doing so, other models in the observing model’s unit and in the observed model’s unit are ignored.Other models and units can be either visible or fully visible to the observing model, as shown below. Note that terrain applies additional rules to visibility (13.07).
Model Visible
If any part of another model is visible to the observing model, that model is visible.
Model Fully Visible
If every part of another model that is facing the observing model is visible to the observing model (so the only thing blocking visibility to any part of that other model is that model itself), that model is fully visible.
Unit Visible
If one or more models in a unit are visible to the observing model, that unit is visible.
Unit Fully Visible
If every model in a unit is fully visible to the observing model, that unit is fully visible. When determining this, the observing model can see through other models in that unit.
Code Chivalric
Imperial Knights fight by a stringent set of codes. In addition to defeating the foe, honour must always be upheld.
If your Army Faction is IMPERIAL KNIGHTS, at the end of the Read Mission Objectives step, you must determine your army’s Oath for the coming battle. An Oath consists of two parts - one Deed and one Quality. There are three options for each part, shown below.
To determine your army’s Deed, you can either select one Deed or you can randomly select one Deed by rolling a D6 and consulting the relevant table below. The selected Deed will describe what needs to be achieved in order to complete that Deed.
To determine your army’s Deed, you can either select one Deed or you can randomly select one Deed by rolling a D6 and consulting the relevant table below. The selected Deed will describe what needs to be achieved in order to complete that Deed.
To determine your army’s Quality, you can either select one Quality or you can randomly select one Quality by rolling a D6 and consulting the relevant table below. Until the end of the battle, the ability described in the Quality selected applies to all models in your army with this ability.
The first time your selected Deed is completed your Oath is fulfilled and, until the end of the battle, your army becomes Honoured and you gain 2CP, or 3CP if you randomly selected your Deed and/or Quality (CP gained in this way are an exemption to the Core Rules that limit the maximum number of CP you can gain per battle round to 1).
The first time your selected Deed is completed your Oath is fulfilled and, until the end of the battle, your army becomes Honoured and you gain 2CP, or 3CP if you randomly selected your Deed and/or Quality (CP gained in this way are an exemption to the Core Rules that limit the maximum number of CP you can gain per battle round to 1).
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13.08 Benefit of Cover
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit, if every model in that unit meets one or more of the following conditions, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack:- That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area.
- That model is not fully visible to the attacking model due to one or more intervening terrain features and/or one or more intervening obscuring terrain areas (see below).
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit that has the benefit of cover against it, worsen the BS characteristic of that attack by 1.
STEALTH24.33
The stealthiest warriors can evade the attentions, and the bullets, of their foes.
If every model in a unit has this ability, each time a ranged attack targets that unit, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).[IGNORES COVER]24.18
Some weapons are designed to root enemy formations out of entrenched positions.
Each time an attack is made with an [IGNORES COVER] weapon, the target cannot have the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08), including from rules that give a model or unit the benefit of cover (e.g. Stealth).[LANCE]24.21
With the momentum of a warrior at full-tilt, lance weapons are deadly on the charge.
Each time an attack is made with a [LANCE] weapon, if the attacking model’s unit made a charge move this turn, add 1 to the wound roll.[SUSTAINED HITS]24.36
Some weapons possess a punishing rate of fire, or can land devastating flurries of blows, tearing the foe apart with relentless ferocity.
This ability always takes the form [SUSTAINED HITS X]. Each time an attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, that attack results in a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by X.Example: An attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS 2] weapon results in a critical hit. That attack therefore hits the target three times (once from the critical hit, and twice more from the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability).
Bondsman
Those honoured to serve a great hero do so unto death.
Some IMPERIAL KNIGHTS models have a Bondsman ability, tagged with the word ‘Bondsman’. In your Command phase, one or more models from your army with a Bondsman ability can use that ability. For each one that does, select one friendly ARMIGER model within 12" of that model (you cannot select an ARMIGER model that is already being affected by a Bondsman ability). Until the start of your next Command phase, that ARMIGER model is affected by that Bondsman ability.Dauntless Defenders
Gate Warden Lance Detachment
With a rigid, strategic intuition born of the unyielding fortifications defended by their ancestors, the Nobles of a Gate Warden Lance hold their ground with an arrogant superiority. While even one defends the marches of their claimed realm, they will fight to the ends of their honour to hurl back the besiegers.
At the start of the first battle round, select two objectives to be your foundations. Place a circular foundation marker in each one. When you draw a line from the closest part of one foundation marker to the closest part of the other, if any part of a model’s base (or any part of a model’s hull, for a model without a base) crosses that line, that model’s unit is said to be on your defensive line.While an IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army is on your defensive line, that unit has the following ability:
Against the Horde: Each time a model in this unit makes an attack that targets a visible enemy unit, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the Hit roll, and weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.
FIGHTS FIRST24.13
Those possessed of lightning-fast reactions may strike before the opponent can react.
While every model in a unit has this ability, that unit is a Fights First unit.See the Resolve Fights First Combats step in the Fight phase (12.04).
CHARGE MOVE11.04
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Charge roll.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit declared a charge this phase.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select one or more enemy units that are within 12" of your unit and within the maximum distance of your unit; until the end of this move, each of those enemy units is a charge target.
WHILE MOVING:
- Each model must end its move closer to one or more charge targets.
- Each model that can end its move within 1" of one or more charge targets must do so.
- Each model that can end its move engaged with one or more charge targets must do so.
- Your unit must be engaged with all of the charge targets.
- Your unit cannot be engaged with one or more enemy units that are not charge targets.
- Until the end of the turn, each model in your unit has the Fights First ability (24.13).
06.02.01 Normal Damage
Normal Damage is damage that was inflicted on a model as a result of a weapon’s D characteristic, rather than by other means such as mortal wounds. Mortal wounds dealt in addition to normal damage from an attack are part of that same attack.
06.02 Mortal Wounds
Some attacks or rules inflict mortal wounds on units. Each time a unit suffers one or more mortal wounds, its controlling player must resolve the following sequence for each of those mortal wounds, until either all of them have been inflicted or that unit is destroyed:- Select Model: Select one model in that unit by following the first instruction below that applies:
If a non-CHARACTER model in that unit has lost one or more wounds, you must select that model. Otherwise, if that unit contains one or more non-CHARACTER models, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, if one or more CHARACTER models in that unit have lost one or more wounds, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, you must select one CHARACTER model in that unit. - Resolve Damage: The selected model loses 1 wound. If this reduces that model’s remaining wounds to 0, it is destroyed.
MORTAL WOUNDS AND NORMAL DAMAGE
When resolving attack dice, if those attacks inflict a mixture of both mortal wounds and normal damage, resolve all of the normal damage first, then resolve all of the mortal wounds.
SEE ALSO
- Normal Damage 06.02.01
CRUSHING IMPACT15.06
1CP
Core Stratagem
In extremis, armoured vehicles and rampaging monsters can use their sheer size as a weapon, ramming and crushing enemies beneath their colossal bulk, though doing so risks sustaining damage in return.
WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after a friendly MONSTER/VEHICLE unit ends a charge move.
TARGET: That MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: Resolve the following sequence:
TARGET: That MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
EFFECT: Resolve the following sequence:
- Select one enemy unit engaged with your unit.
- Select one model in your unit engaged with that enemy unit.
- Roll a number of D6 equal to the T characteristic of that model: for each 1, your unit suffers 1 mortal wound; for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds per unit).
Moving a Model in a Straight Line
Each time you move a model in a straight line, move it horizontally across the battlefield. Measure from the same point on its base at the start and end of that move, and add that distance to any other distance it has moved since its unit began that move. The distance moved cannot be greater than the maximum distance of that move type.
Rotating a Model
Each time you rotate a model, turn it any amount around the centre of its base, while keeping it upright. Note that rotating a model does not count towards the distance it has moved.
REMAIN STATIONARY09.04
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: ‘–’
ELIGIBLE IF: Any unit.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.
01.07.01 Battlefield Morale
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.
01.07 Battle-shock Rolls
To make a battle-shock roll for a unit, its controlling player makes a leadership roll for it (see above).- If that roll succeeds, that unit does not become battle-shocked.
- If that roll fails, that unit, and each model in it, is battle-shocked.
While a unit is battle-shocked:
- The Objective Control (OC) characteristic of all of its models is modified to ‘-’ (02.02).
- Its controlling player cannot target that unit with stratagems (15).
- It is not eligible to start an action (16), and any action it has started cannot be completed.
SEE ALSO
- Battlefield Morale 01.07.01
- Battle-shock Test 01.07.02
BATTLEFIELD MORALE
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.FEEL NO PAIN24.12
The hardiest warriors refuse to be laid low, even by wounds that should by all rights prove lethal.
This ability always takes the form Feel No Pain X+. Each time a model with this ability would lose a wound, roll one D6: on an X+, that wound is not lost.Save Rolls
The opposing player resolves the following sequence:- Create Groups: Divide all models in the target unit into the following groups, as many times as required:
- One group for each CHARACTER model.
- One group for all other models with the same W, Sv and InSv characteristics.
- Allocation Order: Declare the order in which those groups will have attacks allocated to them, applying all of the following:
- If a non-CHARACTER group contains a model that has lost one or more wounds, that group must be first in the allocation order.
- No CHARACTER group can be earlier in the allocation order than a non-CHARACTER group.
- CHARACTER groups containing a model that has lost one or more wounds must be earlier in the allocation order than CHARACTER groups containing no wounded models.
- Make Save Rolls: The opposing player makes one save roll for each attack that wounded the target by rolling one D6.
05.04.04 Destroyed
Throughout a battle, models will suffer damage, lose wounds and be destroyed. When every model in a unit has been destroyed, that unit is destroyed.When a model is destroyed, first resolve any rules that are triggered when it is destroyed, then it is removed from the battlefield. If any such rules apply, and if the model was destroyed as the result of an attack, unless otherwise stated, those rules are only resolved and that model is only removed after the attacking unit’s attacks have been resolved. Unless otherwise stated, destroyed models and units cannot use abilities or be selected or targeted by rules.
Some rules only trigger if an enemy model or unit was destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army. This means that the enemy model or unit was destroyed by an attack made by a model from your army, or by a player rule you have. Enemy models or units that are destroyed by any other means are not destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army.
[RAPID FIRE]24.30
Rapid fire weapons are capable of long-ranged precision shots or controlled bursts at nearby targets.
This ability always takes the form [RAPID FIRE X]. Each time you gather attack dice for a [RAPID FIRE] weapon, add X additional attack dice if the target unit was within half range of that weapon in the Select Targets step.Example: If a [RAPID FIRE 1] weapon with an A characteristic of 1 targets a unit that is within half range, you would gather one additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of two for that weapon).
INGRESS MOVE20.04
SET-UP DISTANCE: 6"
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is in strategic reserves (excluding units that are embarked within TRANSPORTS that are themselves in strategic reserves).EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
WHILE MOVING: Set up your unit wholly within the set-up distance of one or more battlefield edges and more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
- Before the Third Battle Round: While doing so, no models can be set up within your opponent’s deployment zone.
01.04.03 As Close As Possible
- If a rule instructs you to move a model as close as possible to a unit or model you must end that model’s move in base contact with that unit or model if its move is sufficient to do so without breaking any other restrictions (such as coherency), or as close as you can achieve if its move is not sufficient.
- If a model is already as close as possible to a unit or model when it is instructed to make a move as close as possible towards a unit or model, that model cannot be moved, but still counts as having made the move in question.
- If a rule instructs you to move a model as close as possible to an objective you must end that model’s move within range of an objective if its move is sufficient to do so without breaking any other restrictions (such as coherency), or as close as you can achieve if its move is not sufficient.
- If that model is already within range of an objective it can move up to the maximum distance of that move but must end its move still within range of that objective.
EMERGENCY DISEMBARK MOVE18.05
SET-UP DISTANCE: 6"
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is embarked within a TRANSPORT model that was just destroyed.EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
WHILE MOVING: Set up each model in your unit wholly within the set-up distance of that TRANSPORT, and as close as possible to that TRANSPORT. Each model that cannot be set up in this way is destroyed.
AFTER MOVING: Your unit is battle-shocked and, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge.
DEADLY DEMISE24.08
From detonating ammo stores to corrosive innards or frenzied death throes, some targets are deadly even in defeat.
This ability always takes the form Deadly Demise X. Each time a model in this unit is destroyed, after the units embarked within it (if any) have made their emergency disembark moves, roll one D6. On a 6, that model suffers a deadly demise; each unit within 6" of that model suffers a number of mortal wounds denoted by X (if this is a random number, roll separately for each unit within 6").Example: An Impulsor with a unit of Intercessors embarked within it is destroyed by ranged attacks. First, any unresolved attacks made by the attacking unit are resolved. Then the Intercessors make an emergency disembark move. Then the roll is made for the Deadly Demise ability, and on a 6, that ability is resolved. Finally, the Impulsor is removed from the battlefield.
[BLAST]24.05
High-explosive rounds can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them too close to comrades is unwise.
Each time you gather attack dice for a [BLAST] weapon, add one additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down).If this ability takes the form [BLAST X], each time you gather attack dice for such a weapon, add X additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down) instead.
Example: If a [BLAST 2] weapon with an A characteristic of 3 targets a unit containing 12 models, you would gather four additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of seven for that weapon).
HEROIC INTERVENTION15.11
1CP
Core Stratagem
Voices raised in furious war cries, your warriors surge forth to meet the enemy’s onslaught head-on.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
- Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
+1CP
- Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.
Army List
Datasheets collatedInfantry Epic Hero
Vehicle Epic Hero
Vehicle Character
Battleline
Super-heavy Walker
Imperial Knights tower over the battlefield, striding over lesser warriors to eagerly engage the foe.
Each time a model with this ability makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, it can move through models (excluding TITANIC models) and sections of terrain features that are 4" or less in height. When doing so:- It can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them.
- It can also move through sections of terrain features that are more than 4" in height, but if it does, after it has moved, roll one D6: on a 1, that model is Battle-shocked.
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
INDIRECT SHOOTING10.07
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply to your unit:
WHILE SHOOTING:
- Unengaged and did not make an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [INDIRECT FIRE] weapons.
WHILE SHOOTING:
- [INDIRECT FIRE] weapons in your unit can target units that are not visible to the attacking model.
- Each time an [INDIRECT FIRE] weapon makes an attack:
- The target has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).
- You cannot re-roll hit rolls.
- An unmodified hit roll of 1-5 fails, unless your unit remained stationary this turn and the target is visible to one or more friendly units, in which case an unmodified hit roll of 1-3 fails instead.
INDIRECT FIRE
When you select indirect shooting for a unit, its [INDIRECT FIRE] weapons can launch punishing barrages on targets that are not visible, but don’t forget that its other weapons can still target other visible targets.[INDIRECT FIRE]24.19
Indirect fire weapons launch munitions over or around intervening obstacles – nowhere is safe from their fury.
Units containing one or more models with an [INDIRECT FIRE] weapon can shoot using indirect shooting (10.07).[ANTI]24.03
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.Example: An attack made with an [ANTI-VEHICLE 4+] weapon against a VEHICLE unit will result in a critical wound on an unmodified wound roll of 4+, while an attack made with an [ANTI-PSYKER 2+] weapon against a PSYKER unit will result in a critical wound on an unmodified wound roll of 2+.
[TWIN-LINKED]24.38
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.COMMAND RE-ROLL15.02
1CP
Core Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you make one of the following rolls for a friendly unit or model:
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
- Advance roll
- Charge roll
- Damage roll
- Hazard roll
- Hit roll
- Save roll
- Wound roll
- A roll to determine the number of attacks generated with a weapon.
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
01.05.01 Automatically Successful/Passes/Hits/Wounds
When a dice roll or test is automatically successful or automatically passes/hits/wounds, do not roll the dice and instead move to the next step of the sequence for that roll as if the required result had been rolled. Any rules that take effect on a particular dice result or roll result do not take effect.Example: If a hit roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Wound Rolls step for that attack. Such a hit roll is not a critical hit.
Example: If a wound roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Save Rolls step for that attack. Such a wound roll is not a critical wound.
INSANE BRAVERY15.04
1CP
Core Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you make a battle-shock roll for a friendly unit.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
RAPID INGRESS15.07
1CP
Core Stratagem
Be it cunning strategy, potent technology or supernatural ritual, there are many means by which a commander may hasten their warriors’ onset.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
COUNTEROFFENSIVE15.12
2CP
Core Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight step of your opponent’s Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
[HAZARDOUS]24.15
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder and those that stand beside them.
Each time a unit is selected to shoot or selected to fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, make a number of hazard rolls (06.03) for that unit equal to the number of [HAZARDOUS] weapons you selected in the Select Weapons step.COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you have made a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll, a saving throw, an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test, a Hazardous test, or just after you have rolled the dice to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon, for an attack, model or unit from your army.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just after you have failed a Battle-shock test taken for a unit from your army.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A well-placed explosive munition in confined shipboard spaces can cause bloody carnage.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
NOBLE SACRIFICE
1CP
Freeblade Company – Epic Deed Stratagem
Sensing their end drawing close, the scion overloads their Knight’s plasma core to take the enemy with them.
WHEN: Any phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can target that unit with this Stratagem even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Your unit’s Deadly Demise ability inflicts mortal wounds on a D6 roll of 4+, adding 1 to the result if it is an ARMIGER unit, instead of only a 6.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can target that unit with this Stratagem even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Your unit’s Deadly Demise ability inflicts mortal wounds on a D6 roll of 4+, adding 1 to the result if it is an ARMIGER unit, instead of only a 6.
FULL TILT
1CP
Freeblade Company – Wargear Stratagem
With the enemy before them, their Knight’s machine spirit snarling, and the rush of battle coursing through their veins, this scion pours power into their motive actuators and thunders forward.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, if your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit, or 9" instead if your unit is an ARMIGER orDESTRIER unit.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, if your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit, or 9" instead if your unit is an ARMIGER or
STRENGTH FROM EXILE
1CP
Freeblade Company – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Well used to a life without allies or fire support, Freeblades operate more effectively alone.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL 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, if there are no other friendly units within 9" of your unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL 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, if there are no other friendly units within 9" of your unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
POINT‑BLANK BARRAGE
1CP
Freeblade Company – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Few can withstand the point‑blank fury of a Knight.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when making ranged attacks with Blast weapons, models in your unit can target enemy units within Engagement Range of your unit (provided no other friendly units are also within Engagement Range of that enemy unit). In addition, until the end of the phase, your unit does not suffer the penalty to its Hit rolls for being within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, but each time a model in your unit makes an attack with a Blast weapon that targets a unit within Engagement Range of your unit, on an unmodified Hit roll of 1, your unit suffers 1 mortal wound after all of its attacks have been resolved.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when making ranged attacks with Blast weapons, models in your unit can target enemy units within Engagement Range of your unit (provided no other friendly units are also within Engagement Range of that enemy unit). In addition, until the end of the phase, your unit does not suffer the penalty to its Hit rolls for being within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, but each time a model in your unit makes an attack with a Blast weapon that targets a unit within Engagement Range of your unit, on an unmodified Hit roll of 1, your unit suffers 1 mortal wound after all of its attacks have been resolved.
SURVIVOR OF STRIFE
1CP
Freeblade Company – Epic Deed Stratagem
The fires of war have steeled this Freeblade’s resolve.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL 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, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL 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, 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.
MARSHAL THE DEFENCE
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
When the cry goes up to redress their defensive positions - to shut down incursions or leave assaulting enemies flat-footed and vulnerable - the Nobles pour power into their Knights’ servos.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
TARGET: Up to two IMPERIAL KNIGHTS units from your army that have not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 3" to the Move characteristic of models in your units.
TARGET: Up to two IMPERIAL KNIGHTS units from your army that have not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 3" to the Move characteristic of models in your units.
DRIVE THEM OUT!
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Drawing upon their indignant fury at a repugnant incursion into their realm, Nobles pilot their Knight suits in an aggressive purgation of the breach.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL 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 an enemy unit on your defensive line, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL 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 an enemy unit on your defensive line, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TITANIC BOMBARDMENT
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Like an imperious artillery captain atop their gatehouse, the Noble directs a deluge of apocalyptic firepower into the enemy's seething tides.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit from your army that Remained Stationary this turn, that is on your defensive line and 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 [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit from your army that Remained Stationary this turn, that is on your defensive line and 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 [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability.
FORTRESS OF INTIMIDATION
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Epic Deed Stratagem
Rising like towering keeps armed with threatening weapons and inscribed with heraldry proclaiming bloody victories in countless campaigns, Imperial Knights are daunting prospects to engage.
WHEN: Start of your opponent’s Charge phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit from your army that is on your defensive line.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy unit selects your unit as a target of a charge, that unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit from your army that is on your defensive line.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy unit selects your unit as a target of a charge, that unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
LANCEBREAKER
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With a command, experienced Nobles can lock huge actuators into position, bring reserve power cells into wakefulness and shunt extra shielding into place to make their Knightly steed a bastion of defiance.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks and is on your defensive line.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greaterthan the Toughness characteristic of your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks and is on your defensive line.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greaterthan the Toughness characteristic of your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll
STEADFAST SUPERIORITY
1CP
Gate Warden Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Once tasked with preserving a war zone’s sanctity, a Knight will fight with unbowed destructive ferocity, unyielding in their anger while foes remain.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, that is on your defensive line and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, that is on your defensive line and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
OMNISSIAH’S GRACE
1CP
Questor Forgepact Stratagem
So resolute is their faith that the Machine God’s worshippers brave storms of killing fire, trusting in the Omnissiah to shield them from harm.
WHEN: Any phase, when a friendly IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit suffers a mortal wound.
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has Feel No Pain 5+ against mortal wounds.
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has Feel No Pain 5+ against mortal wounds.
VENGEANCE OF THE MACHINE CULT
1CP
Questor Forgepact Stratagem
Those who dare to fell the Machine God’s creations find themselves subject to the vengeance of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
WHEN: Any phase, when a friendly IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit is destroyed by an enemy unit.
TARGET: One friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: That enemy unit is marked until the end of the battle:
TARGET: One friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit.
EFFECT: That enemy unit is marked until the end of the battle:
- While a unit is marked, friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS units’ attacks that target that unit can re-roll wound rolls.
HERO’S TREAD
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed Stratagem
It is said that unalloyed heroism can purge the foulest dishonour, that the very footsteps of those of noblest purity are enough to sanctify their path.
WHEN: End of your Command phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army that is within range of an objective marker you control.
EFFECT: Your Level of Control over that objective marker is 5 (unless it would otherwise be higher), until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army that is within range of an objective marker you control.
EFFECT: Your Level of Control over that objective marker is 5 (unless it would otherwise be higher), until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.
UNSTOPPABLE WARRIOR
2CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed Stratagem
Death is a distant priority when heroism's favour awaits. A breath to seize a new perspective, a new angle at which to tilt towards the foe, permits only a brief reprieve for the enemy of a true warrior.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit from your army Falls Back.
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC 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.
COURAGEOUS STAND
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed Stratagem
When the night is long and the unworthy claw at one's shield, it is chivalry and duty that buoy the soul and bolster failing strength.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability.
TITANIC DUEL
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed Stratagem
The greatest Knightly champions suffer no dishonourable rival to insult them for long with their existence.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your model makes an attack that targets a MONSTER, TITANIC or WALKER unit, add 1 to the Hit roll and add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your model makes an attack that targets a MONSTER, TITANIC or WALKER unit, add 1 to the Hit roll and add 1 to the Wound roll.
DRIVEN BY THE PAST
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed Stratagem
To the worthiest Noble, the whispers that reach their mind from a Throne Mechanicum appear as a tapestry of virtues, standards they strive to meet with wholehearted alacrity.
WHEN: Your Charge phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC 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 IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC 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.
MOMENT OF GLORY
1CP
Questoris Companions – Epic Deed Stratagem
Veteran pilots waste no more time exalting their victory than the Code Chivalric demands before powering back into the fray with the long strides of the selflessly determined warrior Noble.
WHEN: Fight phase, just before an IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit from your army Consolidates.
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Consolidates, models in it can move an additional 3" provided your unit can end that move within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Consolidates, models in it can move an additional 3" provided your unit can end that move within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EXEMPLAR’S WISDOM
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Battle Tactic Stratagem
With a fusillade upon their chosen enemy, the Bondsmen's mentor lectures their loyal servants on the application offeree to the foe's weak points.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase, just after an IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army has shot.
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the end of the phase, each time one of your ARMIGER models makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the end of the phase, each time one of your ARMIGER models makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
MANTLE OF THE MENTOR
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With a rapid volley of covering fire from a Noble liege, Bondsmen employ hit-and-run tactics at high speed.
WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One ARMIGER model from your army, or one IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your ARMIGER models are eligible to shoot in a turn in which they Fell Back.
TARGET: One ARMIGER model from your army, or one IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your ARMIGER models are eligible to shoot in a turn in which they Fell Back.
THIN THEIR RANKS
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A stentorian firing solution floods their Helms Mechanicum, and eager young Nobles shred their master's foes in a blizzard of fury.
WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One ARMIGER model from your army, or one IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by your ARMIGER models have the [RAPID FIRE 1] ability.
TARGET: One ARMIGER model from your army, or one IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by your ARMIGER models have the [RAPID FIRE 1] ability.
VIRTUE OF COURAGE
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A Knight must have the courage to face the greatest horrors of the galaxy, with duty focusing their blows.
WHEN: Start of the Fight phase.
TARGET: One ARMIGER model from your army, or one IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit. Until the end of the phase, each time one of your ARMIGER models makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.
TARGET: One ARMIGER model from your army, or one IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit. Until the end of the phase, each time one of your ARMIGER models makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.
SQUIRES OFTHE HUNT
1CP
Spearhead-At-Arms – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
At a ritualised signal, Bondsmen encircle the foe to cut off escape, prowling onto unexpected attack routes.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
TARGET: One ARMIGER model from your army, or one IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: For each of your ARMIGER models that is within 9" of one or more battlefield edges and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, remove that ARMIGER model from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
TARGET: One ARMIGER model from your army, or one IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC model from your army, and one or more friendly ARMIGER models affected by that model’s Bondsman ability.
EFFECT: For each of your ARMIGER models that is within 9" of one or more battlefield edges and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, remove that ARMIGER model from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
NEURAL LASH
1CP
Throne-Bonded Outriders Stratagem
Noble pilots have little time for panicked or despairing bondsmen, and think nothing of enforcing stoic obedience by way of stinging neural compulsion.
WHEN: Command phase.
TARGET: One friendly IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit.
EFFECT: Select one friendly battle-shocked ARMIGER unit within 12" of your unit. That ARMIGER unit is no longer battle-shocked.
TARGET: One friendly IMPERIAL KNIGHTS TITANIC unit.
EFFECT: Select one friendly battle-shocked ARMIGER unit within 12" of your unit. That ARMIGER unit is no longer battle-shocked.
HELM CONDITIONING
1CP
Throne-Bonded Outriders Stratagem
Some longer‑serving bondsmen become so conditioned to efficient obedience by their Helm Mechanicum that they can be issued neural commands from ever‑greater distances.
WHEN: Your Command phase, when a friendly IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit uses a Bondsman ability.
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit.
EFFECT: When selecting an ARMIGER model for that Bondsman ability, you can select one within 18" of your unit (excluding models already affected by a Bondsman ability).
TARGET: That IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit.
EFFECT: When selecting an ARMIGER model for that Bondsman ability, you can select one within 18" of your unit (excluding models already affected by a Bondsman ability).
FULL TILT
2CP
Valourstrike Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
With their fellows' oaths ringing through the vox-net and the rush of battle coursing through their veins, Noble pilots pour power into their steeds' motive actuators and thunder onwards.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2" to the Move characteristic of your models and add 2 to Advance rolls made for those model’s units.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2" to the Move characteristic of your models and add 2 to Advance rolls made for those model’s units.
TACTICAL FOIL
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The neural bond through their Throne Mechanicum enables seasoned pilots to accomplish swift counter-monoeuvres seemingly impossible for such towering war engines.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS model from your army that is within 8" of that unit.
EFFECT: Your model can make a Normal move of up to D6".
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS model from your army that is within 8" of that unit.
EFFECT: Your model can make a Normal move of up to D6".
VOW OF RETRIBUTION
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With the swearing of cooperative pacts, Knightly companions vow to visit annihilation on their enemies in a searing barrage of retributive firepower.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by your models have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by your models have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
ROTATE ION SHIELDS
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Wargear Stratagem
Veteran Knight pilots can swiftly re-angle their ion shields and manipulate their energies to deflect incoming firepower.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
RUN THEM THROUGH!
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With deafening challenges blaring from their emitters, honour-bound comrades slam into their foes, where the Nobles' martial prowess and their Knight suits’ overwhelming power are wedded to overcome the most monstrous resilience.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by your models have the [LANCE] ability.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by your models have the [LANCE] ability.
THUNDERSTOMP
1CP
Valourstrike Lance – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The Noble brings their Knight suit’s weight down with the force of an industrial piledriver, trampling their honourless foes beneath their iron tread.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS model from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, the Attacks characteristic of any armoured Feet melee weapons equipped by your model is 8, the Attacks characteristic of any titanic Feet melee weapons equipped by your model is 12, and improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of those weapons by 1.
TARGET: One IMPERIAL KNIGHTS model from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, the Attacks characteristic of any armoured Feet melee weapons equipped by your model is 8, the Attacks characteristic of any titanic Feet melee weapons equipped by your model is 12, and improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of those weapons by 1.
Cogbound Alliance
Questor Forgepact Detachment
The Nobles of Questor Mechanicus houses commonly fight alongside the armies of forge worlds. They are bound together by their shared devotion to the Machine Cult.
Friendly IMPERIAL KNIGHTS models have the following ability:Assisted Targeting (Aura): While a friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit is within 6" of this model, that ADEPTUS MECHANICUS unit’s ranged attacks have:
- +1 BS.
- [HEAVY].
Friendly TECH-PRIEST models have the following ability:
Sacristan Pledge: In your Command phase, you can select one friendly IMPERIAL KNIGHTS model within 3" of this model that has not been selected by this ability this phase. If you do, that model heals D3 wounds.
Mechanicus Allies: You can include TECH-PRIEST DOMINUS/TECH-PRIEST MANIPULUS/MARSHAL/RANGERS/VANGUARD units in your army. The combined points value of such units cannot exceed 500 points.
Bold Gallantry
Valourstrike Lance Detachment
With their companions beside them - kin of their blood, allies in honour - Knightly Nobles are inspired to near-reckless heroism. Their fervour spreads through neural interfaces to reach the machine spirits of their towering Knight suits. The Knights’ power cores flare with motive energy. Target stabilisers sputter into life, glaring balefully at the foe. Servo-motors and fibre bundles thrum, powering the Nobles’ steeds to a thunderous speed, such that the ground trembles.
Each time an IMPERIAL KNIGHTS unit from your army Advances, until the end of the turn, ranged weapons equipped by IMPERIAL KNIGHTS models from your army have the [ASSAULT] ability.Heroes of Legend
Questoris Companions Detachment
To those who quest for honour - in service to their liege, to avenge atrocities, to wipe clean the stain of disfavour - there can be no end. The Imperium’s foes are legion, an endless horde from which more arise. As one quest ends, another always begins.
At the start of your turn, if your current Oath is fulfilled, determine an additional Oath as described here, with the exception that you cannot select a Deed or Quality you have already selected (if you are randomly selecting the Deed and/or Quality and roll any result that you have already selected, select a Deed or Quality you have not already selected instead). If you cannot determine an additional Oath because you have already selected each Deed and each Quality, do not determine an additional Oath.The Qualities from Oaths you have fulfilled continue to apply to all models in your army with the Code Chivalric ability. When the Deed for an additional Oath is completed, you instead gain 1CP, regardless of how you selected the Deed or Quality.
Valour’s Reward
Questoris Companions Detachment
With every deed sealed with honour, every clarion call heralding a duty met, a champions spirit is strengthened and their ardour restored.
The Enhancements shown below can become expended. You cannot use such Enhancements while they are expended. Each time you fulfil your Oath, each expended Enhancement is no longer expended.Knightly Teachings
Spearhead-At-Arms Detachment
Knightly Nobles are exalted paragons of honour who uphold the tenets of the Code Chivalric and the glorious histories of their household. Through stern teachings and heroic tales, and no less their own deeds, they exemplify the virtues which Bondsmen aspire to emulate. It is not only in courtly life, upon the practice fields and during thrilling hunts that a Nobles squires and retainers cleave to their duty, but also in the fiery heart of every battle. There such teachings are tested as never before, and also find their most lauded expressions.
Each time a model from your army uses its Bondsman ability, if no other model from your army has used that Bondsman ability that turn, you can select up to three friendly ARMIGER models (instead of one) within 12" of that model, or within 15" of that model while your army is Honoured (you still cannot select a model that is already being affected by a Bondsman ability). Until the start of your next Command phase, those models are affected by that Bondsman ability.KEYWORDS
ARMIGER models from your army gain the BATTLELINE keyword.
Knights of Legend
Freeblade Company Detachment
Warriors such as these are truly indomitable. Driven on by deadly oaths, bolstered by ancient technology or shimmering with supernatural energies, they stride through the most punishing firestorms to emerge victorious on the other side.
IMPERIAL KNIGHTS models from your army have the Feel No Pain 6+ ability. In addition, at the start of your Command phase, each IMPERIAL KNIGHTS model from your army regains 1 lost wound.