Orks – Mad Dok Grotsnik
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
| Slugga pistol | |||||||
| Slugga pistol | 12" | 1 | 5+ | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Power klaw sustained hits 1 | |||||||
| Power klaw sustained hits 1 | Melee | 4 | 3+ | 9 | -2 | 2 | |
| ’Urty syringe anti-infantry 4+ extra attacks precision | |||||||
| ’Urty syringe anti-infantry 4+ extra attacks precision | Melee | 1 | 3+ | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
WARGEAR OPTIONS
- None
ABILITIES
CORE: Feel No Pain 5+, Leader
FACTION: Waaagh!
Mad Dok: While this model is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.One Scalpel Short of a Medpack: While this model is leading a unit, that unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 1 Mad Dok Grotsnik – EPIC HERO
| YOUR UNIT COSTS | |
| 1 model | 65 |
LEADER
This model can be attached to the following units:
KEYWORDS: INFANTRY; CHARACTER; EPIC HERO; PAINBOY; MAD DOK GROTSNIK
FACTION KEYWORDS:
ORKS
ORKS
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
EPIC CHALLENGE
1CP
Core
C
COUNTEROFFENSIVE
2CP
Core
C
MOUNT UP, LADZ
1CP
Blitz Brigade – Strategic Ploy
BATTLEFIELD COMMAND
1CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
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
GRAB AND BASH
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Strategic Ploy
BOARDIN’ RUSH
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Battle Tactic
KRUMP AND RUN
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Strategic Ploy
DECK FRAGGERS
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Strategic Ploy
BASH AND GRAB
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Battle Tactic
LONG, UNCONTROLLED BURSTS
1CP
More Dakka! Stratagem
SPESHUL SHELLS
1CP
More Dakka! Stratagem
CALL DAT DAKKA?
1CP
More Dakka! Stratagem
EAGER TO FIGHT
1CP
Ramship Raiders – Strategic Ploy
PILE THROUGH
1CP
Ramship Raiders – Strategic Ploy
ON DA MOVE
1CP
Speedwaaagh! – Strategic Ploy
SPESHUL AMMO
1CP
Speedwaaagh! – Wargear
DUST TRAILS
1CP
Speedwaaagh! – Strategic Ploy
MOB RULE
1CP
War Horde – Battle Tactic
ERE WE GO
1CP
War Horde – Battle Tactic
’ARD AS NAILS
1CP
War Horde – Battle Tactic
ORKS IS NEVER BEATEN
2CP
War Horde – Epic Deed
UNBRIDLED CARNAGE
1CP
War Horde – Battle Tactic
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Get Stuck In
Dakka! Dakka! Dakka!
Here Be Loot
Eager for the Fight
Belligerent Boarders
Waaagh!
The infamous war cry of the Orks is known and feared throughout the galaxy. When it echoes across the battlefield, bellowed from hundreds or even thousands of greenskin mouths, even the most stalwart warriors fear the onslaught to come.
If your Army Faction is ORKS, once per battle, at the start of your Command phase, you can call a Waaagh!. If you do, until the start of your next Command phase, the Waaagh! is active for your army and:- Units from your army with this ability are eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which they Advanced.
- Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models from your army with this ability.
- Models from your army with this ability have a 5+ invulnerable save.
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.
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
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Dedicated Transports
Fortifications
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.
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.
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.
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).
04.03.04 Shot
When all of the attacks made with a ranged weapon have been resolved, that weapon has shot.When all of a model’s ranged weapons have shot, that model has shot.
When all models in a unit that are making ranged attacks have resolved all of those attacks, that unit has shot.
If a unit was selected to shoot and none of the models in it make any attacks, it has not shot.
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Vehicle Epic Hero
Infantry Character
The EPIC HERO keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Vehicle Epic Hero
The GROTS keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Vehicle Epic Hero
Artillery
Infantry
Mounted
Walker
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
The MOB keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
The ORKS keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Vehicle Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Mounted Character
Dedicated Transports
Artillery
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Mounted Epic Hero
Vehicle Epic Hero
Dedicated Transports
Artillery
Vehicle
The WALKER keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Vehicle Epic Hero
[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).[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).
[EXTRA ATTACKS]24.11
Some warriors ride to battle atop trusty mounts that gore and trample nearby foes. Others wield combat weapons that deliver a frenzy of additional blows.
Each time a unit containing one or more models with an [EXTRA ATTACKS] weapon fights, those models will make attacks with those weapons in addition to any others. In the Select Weapons step (04.01), for each of those models, you must select:- All of that model’s [EXTRA ATTACKS] weapons.
- One of that model’s other melee weapons, if possible.
[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.
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.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.
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
01.02.01 Starting Strength and Half-Strength
The number of models a unit contains at the start of the first battle round is its starting strength. The starting strength of an attached unit is the number of models that unit contains at the start of the first battle round.Some rules refer to units being below starting strength, or at – or below – half-strength. The meaning of these terms varies depending on a unit’s starting strength, as shown below.
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Example: A Captain (1 model) is attached to a unit of Intercessors (5 models). This attached unit has a starting strength of 6. If three Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be at half-strength. If four Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be below half-strength. If all of the Intercessors were destroyed, the remaining Captain would be below half-strength, despite having his full wounds remaining.
SOME UNITS CANNOT BE AT HALF-STRENGTH
If a model’s W characteristic or a unit’s starting strength cannot be evenly divided in half, that model or unit cannot be at half-strength (but can be below half-strength as described above).The ORKS and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Orks datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
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).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.
01.07.01 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.[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.[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).The ORKS and MOUNTED keywords are used in the following Orks datasheets:
Mounted Character
Here Be Loot
Freebooter Krew Detachment
Grabbing loot is a Freebooter’s favourite pastime, followed closely by bludgeoning senseless anyone stupid enough to try to stop him doing so – or, even worse, seeking to take the loot for themselves.
At the start of your Command phase, select one objective marker. Until the start of your next Command phase, that objective marker is your loot objective.Each time a model in an ORKS INFANTRY, ORKS MOUNTED or ORKS WALKER unit from your army makes an attack, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability if either or both of the following are true:
- That model’s unit is within range of your loot objective.
- That attack targets a unit within range of your loot objective.
[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).
[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+.
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.
[TORRENT]24.37
Torrent weapons project clouds of fire, gas or other lethal substances that few foes can hope to evade.
Each time an attack is made with a [TORRENT] weapon, that attack automatically hits the target.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.
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.
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).
Army List
Datasheets collatedInfantry Epic Hero
Mounted Epic Hero
Vehicle Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Mounted Character
Battleline
Dedicated Transports
Artillery
Vehicle
Fortifications
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
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.
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.
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.
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).
MOUNT UP, LADZ
1CP
Blitz Brigade – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With nothing left to blast or krump, these Orks scramble aboard their transport and thunder towards the next engagement.
WHEN: End of the Fight phase.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 ORKS INFANTRY unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 ORKS INFANTRY unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.
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.
GRAB AND BASH
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Few warriors in the galaxy fight with greater brutality than a Freebooter determined to hang onto his loot.
WHEN: Your Command phase.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army (excluding GRETCHIN units) that is within range of the loot objective.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, the Waaagh! is active for your unit, even if you have already called a Waaagh! this battle.
Designer’s Note: This means that any abilities that are in effect while the Waaagh! is active for your army will be in effect for your unit.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army (excluding GRETCHIN units) that is within range of the loot objective.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, the Waaagh! is active for your unit, even if you have already called a Waaagh! this battle.
Designer’s Note: This means that any abilities that are in effect while the Waaagh! is active for your army will be in effect for your unit.
BOARDIN’ RUSH
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Having cut their gold-plated fangs storming aboard hostile warships, these Freebooterz are good at getting stuck straight into the enemy.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.
KRUMP AND RUN
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Freebooterz are unscrupulous pirates through and through, always on the look out for new looting opportunities and sometimes even willing to forgo a good punch up in favour of hauling away their riches.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit falls back.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that was within engagement range of that enemy unit at the start of the phase and is not within range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that was within engagement range of that enemy unit at the start of the phase and is not within range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
DECK FRAGGERS
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Invented by some sadistic Bad Mek, these shrapnel-packed rounds of kustom ammunition are excellent for scything down tight-packed enemy infantry.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 targets an INFANTRY unit with a ranged weapon, that weapon has the [BLAST] ability.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 targets an INFANTRY unit with a ranged weapon, that weapon has the [BLAST] ability.
BASH AND GRAB
1CP
Freebooter Krew – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Freebooterz waste no time getting violently stuck into anyone unwise enough to try to keep prized loot out of their grasping claws.
WHEN: The Fight phase.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit within range of the loot objective, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit within range of the loot objective, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
LONG, UNCONTROLLED BURSTS
1CP
More Dakka! Stratagem
When facing off against sneaky gitz who like to lurk in cover, most Orks believe the most effective strategy is to fire off so many bullets and munitions that something is bound to hit the target.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase, when a friendly ORKS INFANTRY unit is selected to shoot.
TARGET: That ORKS INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks have [IGNORES COVER].
TARGET: That ORKS INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks have [IGNORES COVER].
SPESHUL SHELLS
1CP
More Dakka! Stratagem
Nothing helps a round punch through armour better than stuffing it full of extra propellant.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase, when a friendly ORKS INFANTRY unit is selected to shoot.
TARGET: That ORKS INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks that target a unit within 9" have +1 AP.
TARGET: That ORKS INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks that target a unit within 9" have +1 AP.
CALL DAT DAKKA?
1CP
More Dakka! Stratagem
Gun-crazed mobs of Orks take incoming fire as a primal challenge, one that must be answered with an even bigger show of dakka.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit that targeted a friendly ORKS INFANTRY unit has shot.
TARGET: That ORKS INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting, but while doing so your unit can only target that enemy unit.
TARGET: That ORKS INFANTRY unit.
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting, but while doing so your unit can only target that enemy unit.
EAGER TO FIGHT
1CP
Ramship Raiders – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Impatient from being bottled up aboard their voidships with no one to clobber, this mob cannot wait to get stuck in to a proper scrap.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, in the Reinforcements step, just after an ORKS unit from your army is set up in an Entry Zone.
TARGET: That ORKS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make an Advance move.
TARGET: That ORKS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make an Advance move.
PILE THROUGH
1CP
Ramship Raiders – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Orks react to the sudden availability of a good scrap with immediate and enthusiastic aggression.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ORKS unit from your army opens a Hatchway.
TARGET: That ORKS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit has the Fights First ability.
TARGET: That ORKS unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit has the Fights First ability.
ON DA MOVE
1CP
Speedwaaagh! – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Speed Freeks live for the thrill of high-octane warfare, rarely letting their feet off the accelerator, even in the most furious fighting.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
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 or Advanced (unless it used its turbo this turn).
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
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 or Advanced (unless it used its turbo this turn).
SPESHUL AMMO
1CP
Speedwaaagh! – Wargear Stratagem
Though the cost in teef is high, Mek-crafted speshul ammunition always comes in handy when taking on big targets.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit (excluding Torrent weapons) have the [ANTI-MONSTER 4+] and [ANTI-VEHICLE 4+] abilities.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit (excluding Torrent weapons) have the [ANTI-MONSTER 4+] and [ANTI-VEHICLE 4+] abilities.
DUST TRAILS
1CP
Speedwaaagh! – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Large formations of Ork vehicles throw up columns of dust and clouds of smoke. These combine to shroud and obscure them as they thunder across the battlefield.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 Benefit of Cover.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 Benefit of Cover.
MOB RULE
1CP
War Horde – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The more Orks that gather in one place the more the Waaagh! energy flows, and the more fearless they all become.
WHEN: End of your Command phase.
TARGET: One MOB unit from your army that contains 10 or more models and is not Below Half-strength.
EFFECT: Select one friendly Battle-shocked ORKS INFANTRY unit within 6" of that MOB unit. That ORKS INFANTRY unit is no longer Battle-shocked.
TARGET: One MOB unit from your army that contains 10 or more models and is not Below Half-strength.
EFFECT: Select one friendly Battle-shocked ORKS INFANTRY unit within 6" of that MOB unit. That ORKS INFANTRY unit is no longer Battle-shocked.
ERE WE GO
1CP
War Horde – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Even Orks can put on a surprising turn of speed when the promise of a good face-to-face fight is in the offing.
WHEN: Start of your Movement phase.
TARGET: One ORKS INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, add 2 to Advance and Charge rolls made for your unit.
TARGET: One ORKS INFANTRY unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, add 2 to Advance and Charge rolls made for your unit.
’ARD AS NAILS
1CP
War Horde – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Even the lowliest Ork Boy has a toughened hide and a dense skull. While there yet remains the prospect of a git to give a good kicking, it takes a blow of truly phenomenal strength to even give the Ork pause.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army (excluding GROTS, MONSTER and VEHICLE units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army (excluding GROTS, MONSTER and VEHICLE units) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
ORKS IS NEVER BEATEN
2CP
War Horde – Epic Deed Stratagem
So resilient is Ork physiology – and so slow are Orks on the uptake – that even killing wounds can take a while to register.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One ORKS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making attacks, and is then removed from play.
UNBRIDLED CARNAGE
1CP
War Horde – Battle Tactic Stratagem
When Orks get stuck into the foe, the carnage is wonderful to behold, at least for other Orks.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 melee attack, an unmodified hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One ORKS 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 melee attack, an unmodified hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
Get Stuck In
War Horde Detachment
Once an Ork gets stuck into hand-to-hand combat, they quickly overwhelm their enemies through sheer ferocity and an eagerness to give the gitz a good kicking.
Melee weapons equipped by ORKS models from your army have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.Dakka! Dakka! Dakka!
More Dakka! Detachment
Orks have no real concept of ammunition preservation, instead tending to hold the trigger down until their ammunition runs dry or their weapon falls apart in their hands.
- Friendly ORKS INFANTRY units’ ranged attacks have [ASSAULT].
- In your Shooting phase, if the Waaagh! is active for your army, friendly ORKS INFANTRY units’ ranged attacks have [SUSTAINED HITS 1].
Eager for the Fight
Blitz Brigade Detachment
Blitz Brigades thunder into battle laden with eager, belligerent Orks, all desperate to get stuck into the enemy. Clambering from transport compartments or leaping from armoured hulls, these wild-eyed killers descend on the enemy in roaring savagery.
Each time an ORKS unit from your army disembarks from a TRANSPORT, until the end of the turn, you can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for that ORKS unit.Belligerent Boarders
Ramship Raiders Detachment
Between the excitement of smashing their way through the all-too-lootable interior of an enemy warship and their natural tendency to overlook their own mortal hurts - sometimes for hours at a time - Ork boarding parties can prove nightmarishly tough.
Each time an attack targets an ORKS unit from your army (excluding GROTS units), if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that ORKS unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
LEADER24.22 / SUPPORT24.23
Mighty heroes fight at the forefront of battle.
Before the battle, in the Muster Armies step, for each leader and support unit in your army, you can select one friendly bodyguard unit that unit can lead. That unit will then lead that bodyguard unit for the battle and form an attached unit with it.Unless otherwise stated, each bodyguard unit can only have one leader unit and one support unit attached to it.
CLOSE-QUARTERS SHOOTING10.06
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply to your unit:
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- Engaged and did not make an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons or is a MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- MONSTER/VEHICLE Models: Each time a MONSTER/VEHICLE model in your unit makes an attack:
- Unless that attack is made with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon and targets a unit your unit is engaged with, subtract 1 from the hit roll.
- If that attack is made with a [BLAST] weapon, it still cannot target a unit your unit is engaged with.
- Non-MONSTER/Non-VEHICLE Models: You can only select [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons to make attacks with and you can only select enemy units that are engaged with your unit as targets.
[CLOSE-QUARTERS]24.07
Weapons designed for close-quarters fighting can be wielded effectively even in the press of melee combat.
Units containing one or more models with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon can shoot using close-quarters shooting (10.06).When using another shooting type, for each model in that unit (excluding MONSTER/VEHICLE models), you can only select one of the following to make attacks with:
- One or more of its [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons.
- One or more of its other ranged weapons.
[PISTOL]24.27
Pistols can be wielded even at point-blank range.
[PISTOL] and [CLOSE-QUARTERS] are identical for all rules purposes. See [CLOSE-QUARTERS].Designer’s Note: [PISTOL] is a pre-existing ability that will be superseded by [CLOSE-QUARTERS] as this edition of Warhammer 40,000 progresses. Both are functionally the same, but the latter is a more suitable term for weapons that function in this way.
LEADER24.22
Mighty heroes fight at the forefront of battle.
Before the battle, in the Muster Armies step, for each leader and support unit in your army, you can select one friendly bodyguard unit that unit can lead. That unit will then lead that bodyguard unit for the battle and form an attached unit with it.Unless otherwise stated, each bodyguard unit can only have one leader unit and one support unit attached to it.
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.EPIC CHALLENGE15.03
1CP
Core Stratagem
The legends of the 41st millennium are replete with deadly duels between mighty champions.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after a friendly CHARACTER unit is selected to fight.
TARGET: That CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Select one CHARACTER model in your unit. Until the end of the phase, that model’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] ability.
TARGET: That CHARACTER unit.
EFFECT: Select one CHARACTER model in your unit. Until the end of the phase, that model’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] ability.
BATTLEFIELD COMMAND
1CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The commander's authoritative tone cuts through the din of battle, guiding the actions of nearby troops.
WHEN: Start or end of any phase.
TARGET: One Leader unit from your army and one friendly Bodyguard unit within 6" of it that it could normally be attached to.
EFFECT: Select one of your Leader unit’s Leader abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Bodyguard unit is treated as being led by that Leader unit for the purposes of that Leader ability.
RESTRICTIONS: Once you target a unit with this Stratagem, that unit cannot be targeted with it again until your next Command phase.
TARGET: One Leader unit from your army and one friendly Bodyguard unit within 6" of it that it could normally be attached to.
EFFECT: Select one of your Leader unit’s Leader abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Bodyguard unit is treated as being led by that Leader unit for the purposes of that Leader ability.
RESTRICTIONS: Once you target a unit with this Stratagem, that unit cannot be targeted with it again until your next Command phase.
The PAINBOY keyword is used in the following Orks datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Alternative models by Artel W:
