Leagues of Votann – Cthonian Beserks
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
| Mole grenade launcher blast indirect fire | |||||||
| Mole grenade launcher blast indirect fire | 18" | D6 | 5+ | 5 | -1 | 1 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Concussion maul anti-monster 3+ anti-vehicle 3+ | |||||||
| Concussion maul anti-monster 3+ anti-vehicle 3+ | Melee | 3 | 4+ | 5 | -2 | 3 | |
| Heavy plasma axe | |||||||
| Heavy plasma axe | Melee | 3 | 4+ | 7 | -2 | 3 | |
| Twin concussion gauntlet twin-linked | |||||||
| Twin concussion gauntlet twin-linked | Melee | 4 | 4+ | 9 | -2 | 2 | |
WARGEAR OPTIONS
- All models in this unit can each have their heavy plasma axe replaced with 1 concussion maul.
- For every 5 models in this unit, 1 model that is not equipped with a mole grenade launcher can have its heavy plasma axe or concussion maul replaced with 1 twin concussion gauntlet.
- For every 5 models in this unit, 1 model that is not equipped with a twin concussion gauntlet or a mole grenade launcher can be equipped with 1 mole grenade launcher.*
* Designer’s Note: If a Cthonian Beserk is equipped with a mole grenade launcher, it will be accompanied by an L-COG unit: both models should be placed on the same base and together they act as a single model for all rules purposes.
ABILITIES
CORE: Feel No Pain 4+
FACTION: Prioritised Efficiency
Cyberstimms: Each time a model in this unit is destroyed by a melee attack, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if units from your army have Fortify Takeover: on a 4+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.Subterranean Explosives: In your Shooting phase, after this unit has shot, select one enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) hit by one or more of those attacks made with a mole grenade launcher. Until the start of your next Shooting phase, that enemy unit cannot be targeted with the Fire Overwatch Stratagem.
Designer’s Note: We recommend placing a Mole Grenade token next to that enemy unit as a reminder.
Designer’s Note: We recommend placing a Mole Grenade token next to that enemy unit as a reminder.
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 5-10 Cthonian Beserks
| YOUR UNIT COSTS | |
| 5 models | 95 |
| 10 models | 190 |
KEYWORDS: INFANTRY; CTHONIAN; BESERKS
FACTION KEYWORDS:
LEAGUES OF VOTANN
LEAGUES OF VOTANN
STRATAGEMS
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Core
C
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Core
C
FIRE OVERWATCH
1CP
Core
C
RAPID INGRESS
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
INEXORABLE EFFICIENCY
1CP
Brandfast Oathband – Strategic Ploy
VENGEANCE FLARE
2CP
Brandfast Oathband – Strategic Ploy
AUGMENTED ASSAULT
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy
WEAVEWËRKE BUTTRESS
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy
CYBERSTIMM INFUSION
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Battle Tactic
UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy
HIDDEN ACCESSWAYS
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy
MATERIALISATION MATRICES
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy
UNYIELDING AGGRESSION
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy
SUPERIOR CRAFTSMANSHIP
2CP
Hearthband – Battle Tactic
SURE OF PURPOSE
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy
GRAND ARTIFICE
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy
AUXILIARY CONTRACT
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy
PRIVATEER ARSENAL
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Wargear
OPTIMAL EXPENDITURE
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Wargear
NEW HORIZONS
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy
ORDERED RETREAT
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Strategic Ploy
VOID HARDENED
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Wargear
ANCESTRAL SENTENCE
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic
HUNTR’S MARK
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic
REACTIVE REPRISAL
2CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Strategic Ploy
HONOUR OF THE HOLD
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic
CLAIMSTAKER REFLEX
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy
RANGER TACTICS
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Battle Tactic
DISPERSED FORMATION
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy
RELIC CYPHER
1CP
Void Salvagers – Strategic Ploy
CORRIDOR COVERED
1CP
Void Salvagers – Battle Tactic
JUDGED AND PUNISHED
1CP
Void Salvagers – Battle Tactic
LED BY
This unit can be led by the following unit:
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Methodical Annihilation
Martial Leverage
Assailed From Every Angle
Fury From The Dêlve
Mobile Sensor Relays
Ruthless Reinvestment
Stalwart Advance
The CTHONIAN keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
13.01 Placing Terrain
Before the battle, place a selection of terrain features on the battlefield using one or more of the following methods:- Place a well-defined boundary (such as a base or mat) in each location you want to furnish with terrain, then place one or more terrain features wholly within that boundary.
- Place one terrain feature directly on the battlefield.
- Place two or more terrain features directly on the battlefield in such a way that together they define the boundary of an area.
In each case, the area of the battlefield occupied by that boundary or terrain feature is known as a terrain area. A mission’s deployment map may define the location and dimensions of each terrain area. Otherwise, players must agree on this before the battle.
FAQ
| Q: | Are models that are within the boundary of a terrain area, but not on the ground floor of a terrain area (e.g. overhanging parts of FRAME VEHICLES or models on terrain features that are within that terrain area) within that terrain area? |
| A: | Yes |
The HERNKYN keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Dedicated Transports
Infantry
Mounted
Vehicle
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Battleline
The KAPRICUS keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Dedicated Transports
Vehicle
The LEAGUES OF VOTANN keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Battleline
Infantry
Mounted
Transport
Vehicle
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Transport
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Transport
Vehicle
[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].
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.
FAQ
| Q: | When checking line of sight from one model to another, is this drawn between the bases of those models, or between any part of them? |
| A: | Line of sight is drawn from any part of the observing model to any part of the model being observed. |
SNAP SHOOTING15.09
ELIGIBLE IF: As stated in the rule allowing this shooting type.
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
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.
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).FAQ
| Q: | My attack has a rule that means it results in a critical hit on a hit roll of 4+. Does this work when snap shooting? |
| A: | Unless otherwise stated, no: when snap shooting, each attack only hits on a roll of 6. |
| Q: | My attack has a rule that means it results in a critical hit on a hit roll of 4+, and I would otherwise need a 5+ to hit. Does a 4+ hit? |
| A: | Yes, except when snap shooting: when snap shooting, each attack only hits on a roll of 6. |
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.
FAQ
| Q: | Does my model or unit become engaged while moving through a enemy units engagement range during a move? |
| A: | No |
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.
[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
[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.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
FAQ
| Q: | I have a rule that triggers when a mortal wound is allocated to a model, when does this happen? |
| A: | When you select a model in the Select Model step of Mortal Wounds (06.02). |
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.
FAQ
| Q: | I failed hazard rolls from [Hazardous] weapons, do those mortal wounds have to be allocated to the models with the [HAZARDOUS] weapons? |
| A: | No, you allocate the mortal wounds to the unit as per Mortal Wounds (06.02). (This represents Bob the guardsmen picking up his fallen squad mates plasma gun or that the twisting power of James the Chaos Sorcerer pulling his followers into the warp.) |
| Q: | If a rule says my unit must make a hazard roll does every model in the unit make a hazard roll? |
| A: | No, the unit would make 1 single hazard roll. |
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.
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.
FAQ
| Q: | When declaring the allocation order of groups in my unit I have more than one non-CHARACTER groups that contain a model with a missing wound, how must I select the order? |
| A: | Those groups can be selected in an order of your choosing but must be in an order that makes them come before any non-CHARACTER groups that do not contain a model with a missing wound. |
| Q: | I have a unit being attacked with weapons that will modify some of their save rolls to be worse then 6 should I make those save rolls? |
| A: | Yes, because other models in your unit may have Sv’s that are better those models you’ve mentioned, this means that enough save rolls could be allocated to the those models that the rest of the results are not greater then the Sv’s of the other models in your unit. |
| Q: | Can I group or allocate a wound to a destroyed model? |
| A: | No. |
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).
Prioritised Efficiency
As the Kin truth describes, Luck has. Need keeps. Toil earns. The kinhost’s ability to efficiently switch its strategic footing embodies this wisdom. It results from swift assessments of a foe’s possessions, how best to seize them for the kindred’s need and then to stubbornly toil to hold them against counterattacks.
If your Army Faction is LEAGUES OF VOTANN, LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army have one of two abilities: Hostile Acquisition or Fortify Takeover (see below). During the battle, which ability those LEAGUES OF VOTANN units have will change depending on how many Yield points (YP) you currently have:
Hostile Acquisition
Fortify Takeover
Yield Points
At the end of each player’s Command phase, you gain 1YP if you control one or more objective markers within your deployment zone, and, from the second battle round onwards, you gain 1 additional YP for each of the following conditions you satisfy:
In your turn, YP gained in this way are always gained before checking which ability LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army have.
Whenever a rule allows you to spend YP, reduce the number of YP you have by that amount (your YP cannot go below 0), otherwise you cannot use that rule.
Designer’s Note: This means you can use rules that let you gain or spend YP to influence which ability your units have - Hostile Acquisition or Fortify Takeover - depending on which will be most beneficial to you. Remember that your army only changes ability at the end of your Command phase, so you will - sometimes need to plan ahead if you want your army to stay in or change ability.
- At the start of the battle, your units have Hostile Acquisition until the start of your next Command phase.
- At the end of your Command phase, if you have fewer than 7YP, your units have Hostile Acquisition until the start of your next Command phase.
- At the end of your Command phase, if you have 7YP or more, your units have Fortify Takeover until the start of your next Command phase.
Hostile Acquisition
- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit within range of one or more objective markers, add 1 to the Hit roll.
- You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for this unit.
Fortify Takeover
- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit, if this unit is within range of one or more objective markers you control, add 1 to the Hit roll.
- Each time an attack targets this unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than this unit’s Toughness characteristic and this unit is not a VEHICLE, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Yield Points
At the end of each player’s Command phase, you gain 1YP if you control one or more objective markers within your deployment zone, and, from the second battle round onwards, you gain 1 additional YP for each of the following conditions you satisfy:
- You control one or more objective markers not within your deployment zone.
- You control two or more objective markers not within your deployment zone.
- You control more objective markers than your opponent.
In your turn, YP gained in this way are always gained before checking which ability LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army have.
Whenever a rule allows you to spend YP, reduce the number of YP you have by that amount (your YP cannot go below 0), otherwise you cannot use that rule.
Designer’s Note: This means you can use rules that let you gain or spend YP to influence which ability your units have - Hostile Acquisition or Fortify Takeover - depending on which will be most beneficial to you. Remember that your army only changes ability at the end of your Command phase, so you will - sometimes need to plan ahead if you want your army to stay in or change ability.
Example: In her third turn, Freida’s units had the Hostile Acquisition ability, as she had 6YP at the end of her Command phase. In her fourth turn, at the end of her Command phase, she controls one objective marker within her deployment zone, and one objective marker not within her deployment zone, and her opponent controls two objective markers. Freida gains 2YP, so she now has 8YP, and her units now have the Fortify Takeover ability instead.
During her turn, Freida uses a Stratagem that allows her to spend YP. She spends 2YP, bringing her total down to 6YP. However, units from her army still have Fortify Takeover - it will only change if, at the end of her next Command phase, she still has fewer than 7YP.
During her turn, Freida uses a Stratagem that allows her to spend YP. She spends 2YP, bringing her total down to 6YP. However, units from her army still have Fortify Takeover - it will only change if, at the end of her next Command phase, she still has fewer than 7YP.
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).
[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).
Assailed From Every Angle
Persecution Prospect Detachment
The Kin of persecution prospects are skilled in escalating their attacks with unrelenting volleys of fire. They pressure the kindred’s foes repeatedly from infiltration positions, unleash enfilading fire from the flanks and surge forward to blaze away at point-blank range before manoeuvring swiftly to other attack angles. Besides the death and destruction they cause, the prospect’s forces leave foes disarrayed, with little chance to rally any ravaged survivors before other Kin capitalise on their plight.
LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army have the following ability:Guerrilla Adepts: In your Shooting phase, just after this unit is selected to shoot, this unit can use this ability. If it does, select one enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES). Until the end of the phase, attacks made by models in this unit can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target) and, after resolving those attacks, if one or more of those attacks hit that enemy unit, until the start of your next Shooting phase, that enemy unit is assailed (this simply labels that unit for the purposes of this ability and some Enhancements and Stratagems). If that unit is already assailed, until the start of your next Shooting phase, it is also pinned. While a unit is pinned, subtract 2" from its Move characteristic and subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for it.
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.
01.02.04 Not On The Battlefield
A unit that is embarked within a TRANSPORT or that is in strategic reserves is not on the battlefield. The following applies to such units:- That unit is not visible to any other units (units are visible to themselves).
- Any other unit is not visible to that unit.
- Players cannot measure distances to or from that unit (units are within range of their own abilities).
This means units not on the battlefield cannot be selected or targeted by any attack or rule that requires a unit to be visible or within a certain distance (other than their own abilities).
Such units can still use their other rules, and are still units in the controlling player’s army and so can be affected by rules that require a player to select a unit from an army, as well as rules that affect all units in an army.
The controlling player must make battle-shock rolls for units that are not on the battlefield in their Command phase if they are battle-shocked, or if they are at or below half-strength.
[ONE SHOT]24.26
Some weapons are so rare, or so complex and slow to reload, that they can only be used once.
Each weapon with this ability can only be selected to make attacks with once per battle.If a destroyed model is returned to a unit, all of its [ONE SHOT] weapons that have already been selected to make attacks with during the battle cannot be selected to make attacks with again.
If a new unit is added to an army, all [ONE SHOT] weapons in that unit can be selected to make attacks with once per battle.
FIRING DECK24.14
Some transports have dedicated platforms or firing ports from which embarked passengers can lay down a withering hail of munitions.
This ability always takes the form Firing Deck X. In your Shooting phase, each time this TRANSPORT is selected to shoot, if one or more units are embarked within it, resolve the following sequence:- Select up to X models embarked within this TRANSPORT (excluding models whose units have already been selected to shoot this phase).
- For each selected model, select one of its ranged weapons (excluding [ONE SHOT] weapons).
- Until this TRANSPORT has resolved all of its attacks, it has all of those selected weapons in addition to its other weapons.
- Until the end of the turn, units embarked within this TRANSPORT are not eligible to shoot.
18.02 Embarking
Once the first battle round has started, a friendly unit can embark within a friendly TRANSPORT model after making a normal, advance or fall-back move, if all of the following conditions apply:- Each model in that unit is within 3" of that TRANSPORT.
- That unit was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
- That unit is eligible to embark within that TRANSPORT, as described on that TRANSPORT’s datasheet.
- That TRANSPORT has sufficient remaining transport capacity for each model in that unit.
When a unit embarks, the active player removes that unit from the battlefield and places it to one side – it is now embarked within that TRANSPORT and is not on the battlefield.
SEE ALSO
- Not on the Battlefield 01.02.04
FAQ
| Q: | Do a unit's abilities continue to function while they are embarked within a TRANSPORT? |
| A: | Yes, within the restrictions specified by the ability itself. Embarked units are Not On The Battlefield (01.02.04), so any ability requiring visibility or measurement to another unit will fail. Example: Azrael is attached to an Intercessor Squad unit and embarked within a TRANSPORT, and that TRANSPORT is making a shooting attack using the Firing Deck ability. While Azrael’s Supreme Grand Master ability is still technically active, it will have no effect, as the requirements of the ability are not met (the ability affects ‘weapons equipped by models’ in Azrael’s unit, and for the purposes of Firing Deck, the TRANSPORT itself is equipped with those weapons instead). |
The LEAGUES OF VOTANN and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Battleline
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.
FAQ
| Q: | When my unit shoots at another unit, how does it work if some models in the target unit are fully visible to some models in my unit, while others are within a terrain area/not fully visible? |
| A: | For each attacking model in your unit, determine whether the target unit has the benefit of cover, as described in Terrain and Visibility. In this scenario, the target unit will likely have the benefit of cover against some of the attacking models, but not all. This means that, in an example unit where all attacking models are using the same weapon, when you get to the Resolve Attacks step of the Attack Sequence, you will collect dice for attacks made by models against which the target unit has the benefit of cover separately from the dice for attacks made by models against which the target unit does not have the benefit of cover. |
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).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.
DEEP STRIKE24.09
There are many ways by which to deploy troops to the field of battle including tunnels, teleportation devices and other esoteric means of transportation.
Each time this unit makes an ingress move (20.04), if every model in this unit has this ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units, even if that is within your opponent’s deployment zone.The LEAGUES OF VOTANN and TRANSPORT keywords are used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Transport
The KÂHL keyword is used in the following Leagues of Votann datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
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.
SNAP SHOOTING15.09
ELIGIBLE IF: As stated in the rule allowing this shooting type.
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
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.
FIRE OVERWATCH15.08
1CP
Core Stratagem
A hail of fire can drive back advancing foes.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
CONSOLIDATION MOVE12.08
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: 3"
ELIGIBLE IF: It is the Fight phase and your unit was eligible to fight this phase.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 unengaged and within range of the selected objective.
05.04.01 Current Allocation Group
The first group in the allocation order begins as the current group. Once all models in an allocation group are destroyed, the next group in the allocation order becomes the current one.
[PRECISION]24.28
Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd.
While resolving attacks made with one or more [PRECISION] weapons, at the start of the Allocation Order step (05.03), if the target unit contains one or more CHARACTER models visible to one or more of the attacking models, the active player can select one allocation group that contains one of those visible CHARACTER models. If they do, until those attacks are resolved, or until that CHARACTER group is destroyed (whichever happens first), that CHARACTER group is the current allocation group.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.[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).
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).
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
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.FAQ
| Q: | If a unit has a rule that allows it to start an action when it is battle-shocked can it also continue doing that action if it becomes battle-shocked after starting an action? |
| A: | Yes |
| Q: | If a unit becomes battle-shocked after starting an action does it stop performing that action? |
| A: | Yes |
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.
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.
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.
INEXORABLE EFFICIENCY
1CP
Brandfast Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With the wealth of sensor-wrought information they can access, the Kin can efficiently adapt fighting withdrawals into deadly counterattacks.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.
VENGEANCE FLARE
2CP
Brandfast Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With a narrow-band data burst, those of an oathband who have been wronged can call in the devastating vengeance of their armoured support.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit that was hit by one or more of those attacks.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Select one friendly KAPRICUS or SAGITAUR unit within 6" of your INFANTRY unit. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, you can select one friendly HEKATON LAND FORTRESS unit within 6" of your INFANTRY unit instead. The selected unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase. When doing so, models in the selected unit can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit that was hit by one or more of those attacks.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Select one friendly KAPRICUS or SAGITAUR unit within 6" of your INFANTRY unit. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, you can select one friendly HEKATON LAND FORTRESS unit within 6" of your INFANTRY unit instead. The selected unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase. When doing so, models in the selected unit can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
WEAVEWËRKE BUTTRESS
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Every dêlve is threaded with force fields to shield against catastrophe, a protection that can be tapped in battle to support advances into hostile territory.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets, if units from your army have Hostile Acquisition.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With their enemies within reach, the Kin’s fury and momentum become an elemental force that will not be stayed.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Piles In or Consolidates, each model in that unit can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Piles In or Consolidates, each model in that unit can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".
HIDDEN ACCESSWAYS
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
A guild’s elite can swiftly reenter the dêlve’s labyrinth, slipping into an artfully hidden tunnel or activating site-to-site teleports, ready to attack elsewhere at a moment's notice.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
TARGET: One CTHONIAN BESERKS, HEARTHKYN WARRIORS or HERNKYN YAEGIRS unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
TARGET: One CTHONIAN BESERKS, HEARTHKYN WARRIORS or HERNKYN YAEGIRS unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.
MATERIALISATION MATRICES
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Built to a superior standard using secrets imparted by the Votann, the teleporters employed by this Hearthband can stabilise rematerialisation fields remarkably close to the foe.
WHEN: The Reinforcements step of your Movement phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that is in Reserves and has the Deep Strike ability.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when your unit is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that is in Reserves and has the Deep Strike ability.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when your unit is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.
RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.
UNYIELDING AGGRESSION
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Even should they be compelled to pull back momentarily, the warriors of the Hearthband maintain a punishing curtain of fire to erode the enemy further or rally swiftly and drive back into the fight.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army Falls Back.
TARGET: That LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY 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 LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY 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.
SUPERIOR CRAFTSMANSHIP
2CP
Hearthband – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Not only are the finest of the Kindred’s warriors selected for this duty, but they are also equipped with the best weaponry and wargear the Brôkhyr can produce.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that attack.
SURE OF PURPOSE
1CP
Hearthband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The single-minded advance of the Kin rolls over collapsing enemy lines and exploits every fault and weakness, driving on towards the objective.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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 LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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".
GRAND ARTIFICE
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Unfazed by deception where it serves a practical use, Kin privateers willingly effect a seemingly ragged retreat only to turn back into the fight from a more advantageous position the moment they are clear of the mire of foes.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army Falls Back.
TARGET: That LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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 LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
AUXILIARY CONTRACT
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Mercenary Kin are no strangers to working more than one seam of wealth at once, and extra contracts to slay or capture individuals or to gather specific trophies can be highly profitable.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY or LEAGUES OF VOTANN MOUNTED unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY or LEAGUES OF VOTANN MOUNTED unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.
PRIVATEER ARSENAL
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Wargear Stratagem
Confident their use will turn the tide, the Kin draw on personal caches of munitions, power cells bearing the signatures of acclaimed Brôkhyr or heirloom augurs to unleash a potent fusillade into the foe.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this usage of this Stratagem, you can re-roll the Hit roll and re-roll a Wound roll of 1 instead.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this usage of this Stratagem, you can re-roll the Hit roll and re-roll a Wound roll of 1 instead.
OPTIMAL EXPENDITURE
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Wargear Stratagem
By expending energy reserves, the Kin’s close-quarter weapons thrum with forgewrought power. The allotment of such resources sees their wielders determined to make every blow strike true.
WHEN: The Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this usage of this Stratagem, you can re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll the Wound roll instead.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this usage of this Stratagem, you can re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll the Wound roll instead.
NEW HORIZONS
1CP
Mercenary Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Efficient and eager to stake their next claim, the Kin are ready to board their transports at a moment’s notice to reach fresh prizes.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that is not within Engagement range of one or more enemy units and one friendly TRANSPORT it is able to embark within.
EFFECT: If your LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit from your army that is not within Engagement range of one or more enemy units and one friendly TRANSPORT it is able to embark within.
EFFECT: If your LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.
ORDERED RETREAT
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Not for the Kin the sudden panic of the rout. Instead, they fall back steadily and by squads, laying down suppressing fire while preparing fresh assaults.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army Falls Back.
TARGET: That LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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 LEAGUES OF VOTANN 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.
VOID HARDENED
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Wargear Stratagem
Between their resilient armour and technology and their capacity to stoically endure pain and suffering, the Kin can weather devastating attacks.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets, if units from your army have Fortify Takeover.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Errata
Needgaârd Oathband Detachment, Void Hardened Stratagem, Effect Section
Change to:
‘Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.’
‘Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.’
ANCESTRAL SENTENCE
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Some foes are so loathed that their ancestors are told to pass a sentence upon them. Marked for death, these enemies suffer the undiluted wrath of the Kin.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability instead.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability instead.
HUNTR’S MARK
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Sensor-network calibration tied to the HunTR modules on Kin weaponry can portly automate targeting to ensure the uncompromising judgement of the Votann is carried out without fail.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
REACTIVE REPRISAL
2CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Once prizes have been seized, the Kin focus their efforts upon maximising their control and respond with redoubled fury to attempts to loosen their grip.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot, if units from your army have Fortify Takeover.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, can only target that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, can only target that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
Errata
Needgaârd Oathband Detachment, Reactive Reprisal Stratagem, Effect Section
Change to:
‘Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, can only target that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.’
‘Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, can only target that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.’
HONOUR OF THE HOLD
1CP
Needgaârd Oathband – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A kinhost's warriors take great pride in their combat proficiency as a symbol of their hold’s honour. The drive to cleave their foes apart is given greater impetus in pursuit of their kindred's needs.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a melee attack that targets that enemy unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 2 instead.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 3YP. Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a melee attack that targets that enemy unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 2 instead.
CLAIMSTAKER REFLEX
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The instinct to seize the most advantageous and dominating positions is ingrained in the Kin.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army (excluding ARTILLERY and VEHICLE units) that is within 8" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6". If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6" instead.
RESTRICTIONS: A unit cannot embark within a TRANSPORT as part of this move.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army (excluding ARTILLERY and VEHICLE units) that is within 8" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6". If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6" instead.
RESTRICTIONS: A unit cannot embark within a TRANSPORT as part of this move.
Errata
Persection Prosepct Detachment, Claimstaker Reflex Stratagem, Target Section
Change 9" to 8".
RANGER TACTICS
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Foes thrown into disarray by the Hernkyn offer a vulnerability that is swiftly exploited.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if that attack targets an assailed unit and/or if your unit has the HERNKYN keyword, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if that attack targets an assailed unit and/or if your unit has the HERNKYN keyword, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
DISPERSED FORMATION
1CP
Persecution Prospect – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
A prospect's warriors will efficiently scatter to minimise the threat of concerted enemy fire.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY or LEAGUES OF VOTANN MOUNTED unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Stealth ability and each time a ranged attack targets your unit, models in your unit have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY or LEAGUES OF VOTANN MOUNTED unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Stealth ability and each time a ranged attack targets your unit, models in your unit have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
RELIC CYPHER
1CP
Void Salvagers – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The Kin possess the accumulated knowledge of their ancestors, including ancient cyphers that enable them to seize control of cogitational systems.
WHEN: Your Command phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway on the battlefield and open it.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway on the battlefield and open it.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
CORRIDOR COVERED
1CP
Void Salvagers – Battle Tactic Stratagem
As their allies push forwards, Kin squads train their guns down darkened corridors, preparing to repel unexpected ambushes.
WHEN: Your opponent's Movement or Charge phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.
JUDGED AND PUNISHED
1CP
Void Salvagers – Battle Tactic Stratagem
To draw the ire of the Kin is to invite a swift and brutal death.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if the target has 1 or more Judgement tokens, you can re-roll the Hit roll, and if the target has 2 Judgement tokens, you can re-roll the Wound roll as well.
TARGET: One LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if the target has 1 or more Judgement tokens, you can re-roll the Hit roll, and if the target has 2 Judgement tokens, you can re-roll the Wound roll as well.
Methodical Annihilation
Hearthband Detachment
With their minds entirely focused on the singular mission with which they have been charged, the Kin work to blast a path through the enemy lines with the same tenacity as a Brôkhyr beating metal or a Cthonian miner splitting bedrock.
Each time a LEAGUES OF VOTANN model from your army makes an attack with a weapon that targets the closest eligible target or a target that is within Engagement Range of that model’s unit:- Re-roll a Wound roll of 1.
- If your unit is a KÂHL, EINHYR HEARTHGUARD or ÛTHAR THE DESTINED unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
Martial Leverage
Needgaârd Oathband Detachment
The weighing of costs in Kin lives and materiel expended against prospective material benefits is an instinct amongst kinhost commanders. Those who lead needgaârd oathbands leverage the deaths of their foes into these equations at every opportunity. Crushing the enemy’s soldiery and war engines can shift the balance of martial power, enabling a canny commander to spend the advantage it provides elsewhere.
Each time an enemy unit is destroyed, you gain 1YP.Mobile Sensor Relays
Brandfast Oathband Detachment
The massed armoured transports of a brandfast oathband connect to an encrypted data network shared by squads of Kin. Their robust sensor webs broadcast various targeting information and extrapolated judgements on enemy movements. Nearby warriors can tap into this wealth of data, enabling them to unleash salvoes of lethal efficiency.
LEAGUES OF VOTANN TRANSPORT units from your army have the following ability:Firebase Control (Aura): While a friendly LEAGUES OF VOTANN INFANTRY unit is wholly within 6" of this TRANSPORT, ranged weapons equipped by models in that INFANTRY unit have the [sustained hits 1] ability.
Ruthless Reinvestment
Mercenary Oathband Detachment
Kin mercenaries are notoriously frugal and ungenerous in the spending of resources to fulfil their employers’ needs. They are nonetheless acquisitively motivated. Where it benefits them, they will not hesitate to spend ammunition, energy, information or any other resource secured in advance from their paymasters if doing so will reap prizes of greater value.
Your LEAGUES OF VOTANN units do not have the Hostile Acquisition or Fortify Takeover abilities except as described in this rule. At the start of the battle, your LEAGUES OF VOTANN units have the Hostile Acquisition ability. At the end of your Command phase, you can spend 3YP. If you do, LEAGUES OF VOTANN units from your army lose the Hostile Acquisition ability and gain the Fortify Takeover ability, or vice versa.Stalwart Advance
Void Salvagers Detachment
The Kin proceed with steadfast determination, exterminating all resistance and securing decks one at a time. Aggressively yet methodically, resistance is swept aside.
In your Shooting phase, each time a LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit from your army has shot, if one or more enemy units were destroyed by those attacks and that LEAGUES OF VOTANN unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 3" and can then attempt to operate a Hatchway.
[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+.
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).[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.AUGMENTED ASSAULT
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The profusion of bionic augmentations that Beserks possess can grant them a burst of incredible speed, one that can drive them - a guttural war song on their lips - into their reeling foes like a meteor.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
TARGET: One CTHONIAN BESERKS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend up to 2YP. Until the end of the turn, add X" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit, where X is the number of YP you spent during this use of this Stratagem, and your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
TARGET: One CTHONIAN BESERKS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend up to 2YP. Until the end of the turn, add X" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit, where X is the number of YP you spent during this use of this Stratagem, and your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
CYBERSTIMM INFUSION
1CP
Dêlve Assault Shift – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The subdermal shunts of Cthonian Beserks can flood their bodies with stimulant chemicals. So empowered, they can smash through the toughest of enemies as easily as an obdurate ore seam.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One CTHONIAN BESERKS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.
TARGET: One CTHONIAN BESERKS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Each time you use this Stratagem, you can spend 2YP. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If you spent YP during this use of this Stratagem, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.
Fury From The Dêlve
Dêlve Assault Shift Detachment
Efficiency and practicality are ingrained in all Kin. Thus, the most meagre of Cthonian dêlves are well-equipped networks of passages, accessways and teleport nodes that enable a guild's bionically altered elites to appear where the foe least expects them. They emerge saturated with cyberstimulants and full of fury, ready to smash asunder those who dare trespass amongst their guild’s operations.
CTHONIAN BESERKS units from your army have the Deep Strike ability.KEYWORDS
CTHONIAN BESERKS units from your army gain the BATTLELINE keyword.