To those subjected to their loathsome assaults, the legions of Nurgle seem like an amorphous mass, but amidst the shambling anarchy there is purpose and design. Like the stages of the diseases they carry, each Plague Legion is part of an overarching cycle of fecundity and decay, and exists only to see Nurgle’s garden flourish and his gifts bestowed.
This section contains all of the datasheets that you will need in order to fight battles with your Chaos Daemons miniatures. Each datasheet includes the characteristics profiles of the unit it describes, as well as any wargear and abilities it may have. Some rules are common to several Chaos Daemons units – these are described below and referenced on the datasheets.Books
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Chaos Daemons | ||||
| Chaos Daemons | Codex | 9 | Indomitus 1.0 | October 2022 |
 The Balance Dataslate | ||||
| The Balance Dataslate | Rulebook | 9 | Q2 2023 | April 2023 |
| Arks of Omen: Vashtorr | ||||
| Arks of Omen: Vashtorr | Expansion | 9 | March 2023 | |
 Imperial Armour: Compendium | ||||
| Imperial Armour: Compendium | Index | 9 | Indomitus 1.9 | February 2023 |
 Munitorum Field Manual 2023 Mk I | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual 2023 Mk I | Expansion | 9 | January 2023 | |
 Psychic Awakening: Engine War | ||||
| Psychic Awakening: Engine War | Expansion | 8 | Indomitus 1.3 | February 2022 |
 Warhammer Legends: Forge World | ||||
| Warhammer Legends: Forge World | Index | 9 | 1.0 | December 2020 |
| Imperial Armour: Forces of Chaos | ||||
| Imperial Armour: Forces of Chaos | Index | 8 | Indomitus 1.0 | July 2020 |
FAQ
Codex: Chaos Daemons
| Q: | Does the Pestilent Inspiration Stratagem allow Be’lakor to know powers from the Warprot Discipline? |
| A: | Yes, as he is a NURGLE PSYKER. |
| Q: | Malefic weapons are never affected by rules that modify their characteristics – does this apply to attacks made with them as well? |
| A: | Yes. Unless otherwise specified (e.g. bladed horn), it is not possible to modify the characteristics of an attack made with a malefic weapon. |
| Q: | Syll’Esske’s Warlord Trait is listed as Aura of Bewitchment (Aura), but |
| A: | Yes, Syll’Esske is an exception to the normal rules for HERALD models and has the Aura of Bewitchment Warlord Trait. |
| Q: | When using the Dark Invigoration Warp Storm Effect to replenish a unit of |
| A: | Only models that started the battle as part of that unit can be returned to it using Dark Invigoration. When returning a model that split when it was destroyed, any models that were added to the unit as a result of that split remain part of the unit and are unaffected by the returning model. Example: Rich has a unit containing nine Pink Horrors and one Iridescent Horror. One of the Pink Horrors is destroyed and splits into two Blue Horrors as a result, leaving Rich with a unit of eight Pink Horrors, two Blue Horrors and one Iridescent Horror. Rich then uses the Dark Invigoration Warp Storm effect and brings back the Pink Horror that was destroyed. He is then left with a unit containing nine Pink Horrors, two Blue Horrors and one Iridescent Horror. |
Datasheet Rules
Allegiance Keywords
Most of the datasheets in this book have an Allegiance keyword. The following are Allegiance keywords:- KHORNE
- TZEENTCH
- NURGLE
- SLAANESH
Example: If you include a Daemon Prince in your army, and you decide it is a Daemon Prince of Khorne, its <ALLEGIANCE> keyword becomes KHORNE and its Prince of Chaos ability reads, ‘While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA KHORNE CORE unit is within 6" of this model, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, re-roll a hit roll of 1.’
Malefic Weapons
Many daemons fashion forms for themselves that exhibit strange and esoteric weapons, with which they give vent to their spiteful natures. While most fight with blade or claws, often they can also lash out with spiked tails, envenomed pseudopods or other bizarre appendages. Daemons may also ride to battle atop other daemonic creatures that make attacks with weapons of their own, or may be attended by daemonic minions who swipe at those who draw near their masters.
Many Chaos Daemons weapons are malefic weapons. Such a weapon will have an ability that reads ‘Malefic’ and then a value, such as 2 or 4. Each time the bearer fights, it makes a number of additional attacks with that weapon equal to that value, and no more than that number of attacks can be made with that weapon while resolving that fight. If a model is equipped with more than one malefic weapon, it can make additional attacks with each one it is equipped with.Unless otherwise specified, malefic weapons are never affected by effects or abilities that allow models to make additional attacks, or abilities that would add to, subtract from, or improve their characteristics in any way.
Example: A Skullmaster is equipped with a blade of blood and its Juggernaut’s bladed horn, which has the ‘Malefic 4’ ability. Each time this model fights, it makes a number of attacks equal to its Attacks characteristic with its blade of blood, then an additional 4 attacks with the bladed horn profile.
Abilities
A unit’s datasheet will list all the abilities it has. Certain abilities that are common to many units are only referenced on the datasheets rather than described in full. These are described below.Daemonic
This unit has the following abilities: Daemonic Invulnerability; Manifestation; Daemonic Terror; Warp Storm.Daemonic Invulnerability
Daemons are madness given form. Their very bodies are fashioned from the stuff of the warp, and are difficult to destroy through conventional means. By far the surest way to banish them, short of ritual witchery, is to fight them at close quarters where a warrior’s conviction and faith may strike as surely as their blade.
Instead of a normal Save characteristic as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book, each LEGIONES DAEMONICA datasheet has a Daemonic Save characteristic (abbreviated to DSv on that datasheet’s profile line). This characteristic has two values. The first characteristic is used when a melee attack is allocated to that model, while the second characteristic is used when a ranged attack is allocated to that model. In either case, this saving throw cannot be modified in any way.Manifestation
Daemonic legions tear through the fabric of realspace, malevolent entities flickering into being like phantasms from a nightmare. Worse still, as terror and panic take hold of their victims, so their mortal souls become ever easier prey for the entities pouring through from the warp.
During deployment, you can set up this unit in the warp instead of setting it up on the battlefield. If you do so, then in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" away from any enemy models, or more than 6" away from any enemy models and wholly within 6" of a friendly WARP LOCUS model that was on the battlefield at the start of your turn. If that WARP LOCUS model has an Allegiance keyword, the unit being set up can only use this ability if it has the same Allegiance keyword.If every unit from your army has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword, then in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can instead set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield with one of the following restrictions:
- Wholly within your deployment zone and more than 3" away from any enemy models.
- Neither wholly within your deployment zone nor within your opponent’s deployment zone, and more than a number of inches away from each enemy unit, equal to the current Leadership characteristic of that enemy unit (to a minimum of 3" and a maximum of 9").
Daemonic Terror (Aura)
To encounter a creature of the warp is to face a being utterly anathema to the fundamental laws of reality. Even the most emotionless warrior feels an unnatural primal terror while in their presence.
While an enemy unit is within 6" of this unit, subtract 1 from that enemy unit’s Leadership characteristic and subtract 1 from any Combat Attrition tests taken for that enemy unit.Warp Storm
When daemons pour into realspace, maelstroms of warp energy spill through in their wake. Manifest emotion and unbridled, nightmarish energies twist all that they touch, reshaping the landscape into bizarre forms and tormenting mortal beings.
This ability can be used to apply Warp Storm effects to eligible units from your army.Warp Storm Effects
Warp Storm points can also be gained via other rules or abilities. No matter the source, you can only gain Warp Storm points from such a rule if every unit from your army has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword (excluding models with the AGENT OF CHAOS or UNALIGNED keywords).
Warp Storm points can be spent during that battle round on the Warp Storm effects listed below and each will specify when it can be used. These include a series of effects themed around each of the four Dark Gods, which can be used if your army contains a detachment dedicated to the appropriate Dark God.
If an effect instructs you to return any destroyed models to a unit, a returned model cannot be set up within Engagement Range of any enemy units unless those enemy units are already within Engagement Range of its unit.
At the end of each battle round, unless otherwise specified, any unspent Warp Storm points are lost. Some abilities will allow you to retain Warp Storm points. Each ability will specify how many Warp Storm points can be retained. Retained Warp Storm points are not lost at the end of the battle round.
Undivided
Insidious Whispers (Aura): While an enemy PSYKER unit is within 12" of this unit, each time a Psychic test is taken for that PSYKER unit, it suffers Perils of the Warp on any dice roll that includes a double, instead of only a double 1 or double 6.
Nurgle
If your army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments (excluding Auxiliary Support, Super-heavy Auxiliary, Supreme Command or Fortification Network Detachments) in which every unit has the NURGLE keyword, you have access to the following Nurgle Warp Storm effects, and can spend Warp Storm points to use them.Detachment Abilities
A LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachment is one that only includes models with the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword (excluding models with the AGENT OF CHAOS or UNALIGNED keywords).
- LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments gain the Daemonic Allies, Daemonic Legions and Daemonic Relics abilities.
- Troops units (excluding SWARM units) in LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments gain the Objective Secured ability.
Daemonic Legions
Eldritch and ritualistic hierarchies exist in the daemonic legions, arcane rules that bind each entity to its place with an immutable inevitability weirdly at odds with the anarchy of the warp.
- If your army only contains LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments, and includes any GREATER DAEMON units, one of these must be your WARLORD, unless your army also includes BE’LAKOR.
- For each GREATER DAEMON unit included in a Detachment, you can include 1 HERALD unit with the same Allegiance keyword in that Detachment without that HERALD unit taking up a Battlefield Role slot.
Daemonic Relics
The daemons of the warp go to war carrying all manner of deadly and esoteric artefacts, creations of pure chaos, aiding their owners in sowing terror and destruction wherever they tread.
If your army includes a LEGIONES DAEMONICA WARLORD, you can give one LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER model from your army a Relic. This can be selected from the Relics of Khorne, Relics of Tzeentch, Relics of Nurgle or Relics of Slaanesh.Daemonic Allies
When the mortal servants of the Dark Gods march to war, the most favoured may find daemonic entities accompanying them.
The following rules apply if you wish to include any LEGIONES DAEMONICA units in a CHAOS army in which not every unit has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword.Daemonic Pact
If your army includes one LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachment, and the combined Power Ratings of all units in that Detachment make up no more than 25% of your army’s Power Level, then until the end of the battle, every unit in that Detachment gains the AGENT OF CHAOS keyword. If a BE’LAKOR unit is included in that Detachment, this ability has no effect.
- The inclusion of LEGIONES DAEMONICA AGENT OF CHAOS KHORNE units in your army does not prevent WORLD EATERS units in your army from using any rules that require every model in your army to have the same keyword.
- The inclusion of LEGIONES DAEMONICA AGENT OF CHAOS TZEENTCH units in your army does not prevent THOUSAND SONS units in your army from using any rules that require every model in your army to have the same keyword.
- The inclusion of LEGIONES DAEMONICA AGENT OF CHAOS NURGLE units in your army does not prevent DEATH GUARD units in your army from using any rules that require every model in your army to have the same keyword.
- The inclusion of LEGIONES DAEMONICA AGENT OF CHAOS SLAANESH units in your army does not prevent EMPEROR’S CHILDREN units in your army from using any rules that require every model in your army to have the same keyword.
Exalted Great Unclean Ones
Just as the power of disease waxes and wanes through outbreak and remission, so does Nurgle’s favour see some of his Great Unclean Ones swell almost to bursting with power, even as the blessings of others seep away to naught. Those daemons highest in the Grandfather’s regard boast a veritable cornucopia of malignant abilities and malodorous mutations.
If your army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments (excluding Auxiliary Support, Super-heavy Auxiliary or Fortification Network Detachments), then when you muster your army, you can upgrade any GREAT UNCLEAN ONE models from your army to be exalted. When a model is upgraded to be exalted it gains Exalted abilities.You can select one of the Exalted abilities (see below) for that model. That model’s Power Rating is increased accordingly, as shown in the table below. If you are playing a matched play game, or a game that uses a points limit, then the points value of that unit is also increased by the amount shown in the same table. Make a note on your army roster each time you upgrade a unit using these rules, specifying the ability it has gained.
Named characters (e.g. ROTIGUS) cannot be given Exalted abilities. Each model can only be upgraded to have Exalted abilities once. An army (or a Crusade force) cannot include the same Exalted ability more than once.
A Crusade force cannot start with any models having Exalted abilities - to include one in a Crusade force, you must use the Exalted Daemon Requisition.
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Bountiful Gifts
Deep in this daemon’s unnatural innards is a captive warp rent that leads to a near-infinite ocean of supernatural foulness. The Great Unclean One holds this tide of filth within itself, occasionally burping forth pure warp energy, invigorating its fellows with the noisome stench.
At the end of each battle round, if this model is on the battlefield, you can retain up to 2 unspent Warp Storm points.Hideous Visage
To look upon this creature is to see the fate of all flesh, rotting and sloughing off the bone. Even the sternest warrior is shaken by the inevitability of decay.
This model has the following ability:Hideous Visage (Aura): While an enemy unit is within 6" of this model, subtract 1 from the Leadership characteristic of models in that unit and subtract 1 from Combat Attrition tests taken for that unit.
Revoltingly Resilient
Between the foul gases that belch from every rent in this daemons diseased form, the swarms of biting plague-mites that engulf its victims, and the slick of fever-sweat and curdled pus that coats its hide, it is nigh on impossible for its enemies to land a clean blow.
Each time a melee attack is made against this model, subtract 1 from that attacks Damage characteristic (to minimum of 1).Nurgle Stratagems
If your army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE units (excluding units in Auxiliary Support, Super-heavy Auxiliary or Fortification Network Detachments), you have access to these Stratagems, and can spend CPs to use them.
The supernatural corruption of Plaguebearers’ physical forms is such that even the most grievous wounds do not trouble them.
Sloppity Bilepipers are carriers of the deadly chortling murrain, a disease that causes those who contract it to laugh themselves to death.
From the germ of an idea may grow the most perfect plagues.
Nurgle is said to be all-too-generous with his glopsome gifts.
The more slug-like of Nurgles daemons exude a paralysing slime that leaves victims numbed and despairing.
A tsunami of thrumming plague flies roars around the daemons of Nurgle at all times. They carpet the enemy, providing a horrible distraction as they swarm, bite and choke their victims.
Many daemons of Nurgle manifest lumpen and ponderous physical forms whose sheer bulk is a weapon in its own right.
- On a 6+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
- On a 9, that unit suffers D3+3 mortal wounds instead.
A pervasive aura of pestilence surrounds this icon, causing rusted blades to weep with even fouler and more toxic diseases.
Warprot Discipline
Before the battle, generate the psychic powers for PSYKER models in your army that know powers from the Warprot discipline using the table below. You can either roll one D6 to generate each power randomly (re-rolling duplicate results), or you can select which powers the PSYKER model knows.
| D6 | PSYCHIC POWER |
| 1 | STREAM OF CORRUPTION The daemon’s jaws stretch impossibly wide. Its rotten body convulses, heaving out clouds of rancid gas and flies before at last it ejects a jetting river of diseased vomit. So contagious and corrosive is this tide of foulness that those not drowned by it are often dissolved into organic gruel or left stricken by supernatural sickness. Witchfire: Stream of Corruption has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, the closest enemy unit within 12" of and visible to this PSYKER suffers D3 mortal wounds. If that unit contains 11 or more models, that unit suffers D3+2 mortal wounds instead. |
| 2 | FLESHY ABUNDANCE The daemon blesses their allies with Nurgle’s bountiful energies, swelling them into even more grotesquely resilient and corpulent forms. Blessing: Fleshy Abundance has a warp charge value of 7. If manifested, select one friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE CORE unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of models in that unit. |
| 3 | NURGLE’S ROT Gurgling praise to its god, the daemon exudes a wave of soul-pox that eats away the spiritual essence of those who lack Nurgle’s blessings. Victims’ eyes become glassy, their flesh sinks upon their bones and their limbs fall slack before they collapse and begin to rot before their horrified comrades’ eyes. Witchfire: Nurgle’s Rot has a warp charge value of 7. If manifested, roll 2D6 for each enemy unit within 6" of this PSYKER. If the result is higher than the highest Toughness characteristic of models in that unit, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. If the result is at least double the highest Toughness characteristic of models in that unit, that unit suffers D6 mortal wounds instead. |
| 4 | SHRIVELLING POX Muttering an unholy chant in a blighted tongue, the daemon calls down a foul malignancy that races through the enemies’ ranks like wildfire and chews away at their flesh and organs like a tide of ravenous maggots. Malediction: Shrivelling Pox has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, subtract 1 from the Toughness characteristic of models in that unit. |
| 5 | VIRULENT BLESSING Calling upon the myriad gifts of Nurgle, the daemon infuses its allies’ weapons, fangs and talons with a seething mix of supernatural maladies that render their merest touch inimical to their luckless victims. Blessing: Virulent Blessing has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, select one friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE CORE unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of melee weapons models in that unit are equipped with. |
| 6 | MALODOROUS PALL Chanting in a phlegm-choked drone, the daemon conjures forth a dense cloud of occluding corpse-gas and biting, blinding flies to engulf the enemy and leave them nauseated and reeling. Malediction: Malodorous Pall has a warp charge value of 8. If manifested, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, that enemy unit:
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Nurgle Warlord Traits
If a LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE CHARACTER model from your army gains a Warlord Trait, you can use the Nurgle Warlord Traits table below to determine what Warlord Trait they have. You can either roll one D6 to randomly generate one, or you can select one.
If a NURGLE HERALD model is your WARLORD, they can only have the Heaving Mass, Acidic Ichor or Virulent Touch Warlord Traits. You can either roll one D3 to randomly generate one, or you can select one.
| D6 | WARLORD TRAIT |
| 1 | HEAVING MASS Saturated with corruption and fatted upon a diet of mortal souls, this daemon’s swollen frame seethes with unclean vitality. Add 2 to this WARLORD’s Wounds characteristic. |
| 2 | ACIDIC ICHOR Those that pierce this daemon’s straining flesh are sprayed with sizzling bile that melts through armour, flesh and bone. Each time this WARLORD loses a wound as a result of a melee attack made by an enemy unit, after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, roll one D6: on a 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound. Each unit can only suffer a maximum of 6 mortal wounds per phase as a result of this ability. |
| 3 | VIRULENT TOUCH So saturated with noxious toxins and poisons is this daemon that its merest touch causes its victims to erupt into spreading masses of buboes and sores that burst and redouble until their bodies collapse under the repugnant strain. Each time this WARLORD makes a melee attack (excluding attacks made against TITANIC units), if a hit is scored, that attack automatically wounds the target. |
| 4 | PLAGUE FLY HIVE (AURA) This daemon’s hole-riddled hide supports a colony of plague flies that crawl busily in and out of its flesh, and swarm forth to bedevil the foe. While an enemy unit is within 6" of this WARLORD:
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| 5 | OVERFLOWING FECUNDITY This daemon’s hurts are swiftly unmade amidst swift-clotting filth and rotten regrowth. Each time an attack is made against this WARLORD, an unmodified wound roll of 1-3 for that attack automatically fails, irrespective of any abilities that the weapon or the model making the attack may have. |
| 6 | PESTILENT MIASMA Those who venture too close to this daemon find their injuries blackening in seconds and their infected flesh swiftly turning to rancid soup. At the start of the Fight phase, roll one D6 for each enemy unit within Engagement Range of this WARLORD:
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Named Characters and Warlord Traits
If one of the following characters gains a Warlord Trait, they must have the relevant one shown below:
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Relics of Nurgle
If a LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE CHARACTER model gains a Relic, you can give them one of the following Relics of Nurgle. Named characters and VEHICLE models cannot be given any of the following Relics.
Note that some Relics replace one of the model’s existing items of wargear. Where this is the case, you must, if you are using points values, still pay the cost of the wargear that is being replaced. Write down any Relics of Nurgle your models have on your army roster.
HORN OF NURGLE’S ROT A daemon crowned with this repulsive horn can, with but a single touch, infect mortal victims with Nurgle’s Rot. Even as the afflicted lay dying, their bodies and souls decay and deform, despair curdling their last moments. What were once enemy soldiers rise anew as Plaguebearers of Nurgle, and shamble to take their place in the festering ranks of their fellows. Each time the bearer is selected to fight, after its attacks have been resolved you can select one friendly PLAGUEBEARERS INFANTRY CORE unit wholly within 18" of the bearer to be replenished. Roll one D6 for each enemy model that was destroyed by the bearer this phase. For each 4+, you can return 1 destroyed model to that PLAGUEBEARERS unit with its full wounds remaining, to a maximum of 3 models per turn. These models cannot be set up within Engagement Range of any enemy units unless those enemy units are already within Engagement Range of its unit. Each unit can only be replenished once per turn. |
THE ENTROPIC KNELL To hear the grim tolling of this great bell upon the winds is a death sentence, for its sound heralds the arrival of the Plague Legions. Such is its dread power that a single peal reverberates for long minutes, spreading despair even over the clangour of battle. In your Command phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of this model. Until the start of your next Command phase:
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TOME OF A THOUSAND POXES How this rotten volume found its way out of the diseased libraries of the scholar Ku’gath may never be known, but within its foetid daemon-hide pages are the secrets of many of that daemon’s most ruinous plagues. Even the simplest infection can bloom into new and vibrant potency by using the arcane incantations it contains, each inscribed in divine ichor. PSYKER model only.
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CORRUPTION This fabled weapon is the physical manifestation of corruption. Constantly dripping with foul ooze, the merest scratch from its edge is enough to lay low the hardiest foe, and its toxins can effortlessly overcome even the resilience of a Space Marine. Select one melee weapon the bearer is equipped with:
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EFFLUVIOR Within the hanging skulls of this accursed flail, there is a rancid rot-hole burrowing through reality itself. Down these vile channels rush torrents of liquid warp-filth, the raw and seething slops of the Garden of Nurgle. With every ponderous swing and bludgeoning impact, Effluvior’s skulls spray fans of this lethal slime, causing victims to contort as flesh, metal and bone putrefy. Those not pulverised by the daemon’s attacks are instead reduced to a slick of slime that seeps back into Nurgle’s metaphysical realm. Model equipped with plague flail only. This Relic replaces a plague flail and has the following profile:
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THE ENDLESS GIFT Only the most accomplished plague daemons are granted the Endless Gift. A disease of unutterable malignancy and repulsive beneficence, it changes form constantly from plague to infestation to malaise. The one constant is its ability to reknit its sufferer’s corporeal form from even the most catastrophic of wounds. One moment, infernal bacteria may multiply like wildfire until their gelid mass fills a fleshy rent with fresh daemon-flesh. The next, pestilential vapours may billow from the daemons yawning maw, veiling its ravaged bulk before tattering away to reveal a form healed of its recent hurts. However it happens, the longer the enemy must watch their efforts to fell the daemon falter, the more their despair feeds into the gift and increases its supernatural potency until its vessel is all but immune to banishment. At the start of your Command phase, the bearer regains up to a number of lost wounds equal to the current battle round number. |
Stratagems by Phase
RELICS OF THE GREAT GARDEN (Legions of Nurgle – Requisition)
Battle Round
MUTABLE FORM (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)
INSUBSTANTIAL ENTITIES (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)
DARK ALLURE (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)
SLIME TRAIL (Legions of Nurgle – Strategic Ploy)
PESTILENT INSPIRATION (Legions of Nurgle – Epic Deed)
BEINGS OF THE EMPYREAN (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)
CHORTLING MURRAIN (Legions of Nurgle – Epic Deed)
WAVE OF UNNATURAL FLAMES (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)
SWARMING FLIES (Legions of Nurgle – Strategic Ploy)
REVOLTING CONSTITUTION (Legions of Nurgle – Battle Tactic)
REVOLTING CONSTITUTION (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)
CRUSHING BULK (Legions of Nurgle – Strategic Ploy)
ICON OF CORRUPTION (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Wargear)
ICON OF CORRUPTION (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Wargear)
FRENETIC BLOODLUST (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)
SWARMING FLIES (Legions of Nurgle – Strategic Ploy)
PLAGUE BANNER (Legions of Nurgle – Wargear)
FRENETIC BLOODLUST (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)
SWARMING FLIES (Legions of Nurgle – Strategic Ploy)
PLAGUE BANNER (Legions of Nurgle – Wargear)
Noctic Discipline
Before the battle, generate the psychic powers for PSYKER models in your army that know powers from the Noctic discipline using the table below. You can either roll one D6 to generate each power randomly (re-rolling duplicate results), or you can select which powers the PSYKER model knows.
| D6 | PSYCHIC POWER |
| 1 | SHROUDED STEP A black fume envelops the psyker’s allies. It flows across the battlefield before coalescing into a roiling darkness from which they then emerge. Blessing: Shrouded Step has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, select one friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA INFANTRY or DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR INFANTRY unit within 18" of this PSYKER. Remove that unit from the battlefield and set it up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" from any enemy models. |
| 2 | WREATHED IN SHADES The psyker draws from the warp a churning mass of damned shades, abandoned worshippers of Be’lakor now doomed to conceal and protect his current servants. Blessing: Wreathed in Shades has a warp charge value of 7. If manifested, select one friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA or DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR unit (excluding MONSTER and VEHICLE units) within 12" of this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, enemy models cannot target that unit with ranged weapons unless that unit is the closest eligible target to the firing model or it is within 12" of the firing model. |
| 3 | PALL OF DESPAIR The psyker draws forth every bleak imagining and hopeless terror their victims have ever felt, drowning their enemies’ minds in misery until they barely have the will to keep breathing. Malediction: Pall of Despair has a warp charge value of 7. If manifested, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER. Roll 3D6: if the result is greater than that unit’s Leadership characteristic, select one of the following to apply to that unit:
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| 4 | VOIDSLIVERS Reaching with their mind into the darkest depths of the void, the psyker draws forth crystallised slivers of terror, misery and loss before hurling them in a storm at the foe. The darts rip through soul-matter, while leaving the enemy’s corporeal forms lifeless but seemingly unharmed. Witchfire: Voidslivers has a warp charge value of 5. If manifested, select one enemy model within 12" of and visible to this PSYKER. Draw a line between any part of this PSYKER’s base and any part of the selected model’s base (or hull):
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| 5 | PENUMBRAL CURSE The psyker curses the blades of the enemy, causing them to become as insubstantial as shadows, and to pass harmlessly through the very foes they should have hewn in two. Malediction: Penumbral Curse has a warp charge value of 7. If manifested, select one enemy unit within 18" of this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack, subtract 1 from that attack’s wound roll and worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. |
| 6 | BETRAYING SHADES Falling to the psyker’s whispered blandishments, the enemy’s very shadows turn upon them, clawing and ripping at the mortal forms that cast them. Witchfire: Betraying Shades has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER.
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Be’lakor Warlord Trait
If Be’lakor gains a Warlord Trait, he must have the one shown below:
Shadow Lord
Be’lakor is a nexus for occluding shadow, veiling his enemies’ sight and leaving them helpless to parry the vicious blows of his servants both mortal and daemonic.
In your Command phase, select one friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA CORE or DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR unit (excluding VEHICLE units) within 9" of this WARLORD. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the hit roll.Army of Renown: Disciples of Be’lakor
It pleases the Dark Master to be worshipped as a daemonic deity, and to have his devotees fight and die on his behalf. There is no shortage of heretics willing to do so. After all, Be’lakor promises great rewards to those who serve him, and he has had millennia to perfect his lies...
Heretic Astartes, mortal cultists and nightmarish daemons - all serve Be’lakor and fight amongst the ranks of his Disciples. These fanatical heretics have forsaken the Dark Gods in favour of worshipping their first and greatest champion, whom many of them view as at least a demigod in his own right. Be’lakor’s servants manifest echoes of his own supernatural powers, exuding terrifying auras or flickering in and out of reality amidst cowls of animate shadow. Yet the price of power is eternal servitude, for Be’lakor will suffer no rival.
The Disciples of Be’lakor is an Army of Renown.- All units in your army (excluding UNALIGNED units) must have the CHAOS keyword.
- Your WARLORD must be BE’LAKOR. With the exception of BE’LAKOR, your army cannot include any named characters or DAEMON PRINCE models.
- Your army cannot include any GREATER DAEMON, DAEMON ENGINE, WORLD EATERS, THOUSAND SONS, DEATH GUARD, EMPEROR’S CHILDREN, CHAOS KNIGHTS (excluding one HOUSE KORVAX unit as described under Benefits), TITANICUS TRAITORIS, KHORNE BERZERKERS, RUBRIC MARINES, PLAGUE MARINES or NOISE MARINES units.
- You cannot include more CULTISTS units than other TRAITORIS ASTARTES INFANTRY units (excluding CHARACTER units) in each Detachment in your army.
- You cannot include LEGIONES DAEMONICA units and TRAITORIS ASTARTES units in the same Detachment.
- TRAITORIS ASTARTES units in your army cannot be given any Marks of Chaos.
- If you upgrade a HOUSE KORVAX DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR unit to have a Favour of the Dark Gods, it must be Blessing of the Dark Master.
- You cannot include a second LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit in your army with the same Allegiance keyword unless your army also includes at least one LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit with each of the other Allegiance keywords. You cannot include a third LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit in your army with the same Allegiance keyword until your army also includes at least two LEGIONES DAEMONICA units with each of the other Allegiance keywords, and so on. Be’lakor is excluded when considering this restriction.
Example: If your army includes a LEGIONES DAEMONICA KHORNE unit, you cannot add a second LEGIONES DAEMONICA KHORNE unit to your army unless your army also includes one LEGIONES DAEMONICA TZEENTCH unit, one LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit and one LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH unit.
- All units in your army (excluding UNALIGNED and BUILDING units) gain the DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR Faction keyword.
- All units in your army with the TRAITORIS ASTARTES Faction keyword (excluding CULTISTS units) gain the LEGION DISCIPLES keyword.
- All units in your army with the LEGIONES DAEMONICA Faction keyword gain the DAEMONIC DISCIPLES keyword.
- Your army can include up to one Super-heavy Auxiliary Detachment that contains one CHAOS KNIGHTS HOUSE KORVAX unit. That unit gains the AGENT OF CHAOS keyword. This Detachment still gains all the Detachment abilities available to HOUSE KORVAX units as listed in Codex: Chaos Knights, even though Super-heavy Auxiliary Detachments do not normally gain any Detachment abilities.
- All Troops units in your army gain the Objective Secured ability.
- If a Detachment contains any units with the TRAITORIS ASTARTES Faction keyword, such a Detachment never counts as a Legion Detachment, and you cannot use any Legion-specific Stratagems, Relics, Warlord Traits or psychic powers (e.g. even if such a Detachment only contained TRAITORIS ASTARTES units with the BLACK LEGION keyword, it would not count as a Legion Detachment, you cannot use Black Legion Stratagems, you cannot give a BLACK LEGION CHARACTER model a Black Legion Warlord Trait, etc.).
- You have access to the Disciples of Be’lakor Stratagems.
- DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR PSYKER units from your army can generate their psychic powers from the Noctic discipline.
- LEGION DISCIPLES units in your army cannot have a Legion Trait, but instead gain the Disciples of Shadows ability (see below).
- Your army can use the Warp Storm ability even if it includes any TRAITORIS ASTARTES units.
DISCIPLES OF SHADOWS
Fanatical worship of Be’lakor affords his disciples a fragment of his unnatural obfuscatory powers.
- Each time a Combat Attrition test is taken for this unit, add 1 to that Combat Attrition test.
- Each time a ranged attack is made against this unit, if the attacker is more than 12" away, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.
Disciples of Be’lakor Stratagems
If your army is the Disciples of Be’lakor, you have access to these Stratagems, and can spend CPs to use them.Though they have forsaken the Chaos Gods in favour of Be’lakor, the Dark Master’s mortal Disciples can still draw temporary power from offering soul-pacts to the daemons who fight in his service.
Pact of Blood: Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of models in that unit.
Pact of Fate: Models in that unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.
Pact of Plague: Add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of models in that unit.
Pact of Excess: Add 1" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit. In addition, add 1 to Advance and charge rolls made for that unit.
Mortal and daemon alike fight side by side in the service of the Dark Master, the energies of the immaterium flowing through and empowering both.
- Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of models in that LEGION DISCIPLES unit.
- Each time a model in that LEGION DISCIPLES unit makes a melee attack, an unmodified hit roll of 6 automatically wounds the target.
The Disciples of Be’lakor flow around and through their enemies like wraiths from the depths of the warp.
Be’lakor’s daemonic hosts draw strength from the mortals fighting beside them, anchoring themselves in realspace by sinking ephemeral talons into the soul-stuff of their allies.
The swelling fear of their mortal prey serves as an intoxicating elixir to Be’lakor’s daemonic followers, each draught reknitting sundered warpflesh or drawing fresh and hungry entities through the veil to war.
Draught of Terror (Aura): While an enemy unit is within 6" of this unit, each time a model flees from that enemy unit:
- If any models in this unit have lost any wounds, one model in this unit regains 1 lost wound.
- If no models in this unit have lost any wounds, but it is not at its Starting Strength, one of this unit’s destroyed models is returned with 1 wound remaining.
- Models returned to this unit in this way can only be set up within Engagement Range of enemy units that are already within Engagement Range of this unit.
In the instant the enemy’s blows fall, Be’lakor’s blessings render his worshippers as insubstantial as shadow.
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles with Chaos Daemons, such as Agendas, Battle Traits and Crusade Relics that are bespoke to Chaos Daemons units. You can find out more about Crusade armies in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
Agendas
If your Crusade army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA units, you can select an Agenda from the Chaos Daemons Agendas listed below. This is a new category of Agendas, and follows all the normal rules for Agendas (for example, when you select Agendas, you cannot choose more than one Chaos Daemons Agenda).Where Nurgle’s daemons wreak their butchery, the heaped slain swiftly fester and bloom with new life pleasing to the Plague God.
At the end of the battle, each unit gains 2 experience points for each mark on that unit’s Seed the Garden tally.
The daemons of Chaos despoil that which their foes hold precious.
If you selected this Agenda, LEGIONES DAEMONICA ICON units from your army can attempt the following action:
Corrupt Icons (Action): At the end of your Movement phase, one LEGIONES DAEMONICA ICON unit from your army within range of an objective marker that is not wholly within your deployment zone, can start to perform this action. A unit cannot start to perform this action while there are any enemy units (excluding AIRCRAFT units) within range of the same objective marker. This action is completed at the start of your next Command phase.
At the end of the battle, each unit gains a number of experience points equal to their Corruption tally.
Requisitions
A Crusade army that includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA units can spend Requisition points (RPs) on any of the following Requisitions in addition to those presented in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.As the greatest daemons slaughter their way across reality, so they grow in power, earning rewards from their patron deity and learning how to shape realspace to augment their forms.
- The rules for upgrading
BLOODTHIRSTERmodels to be exalted can be found here. - The rules for upgrading
LORD OF CHANGEmodels to be exalted can be found here. - The rules for upgrading GREAT UNCLEAN ONE models to be exalted can be found here.
- The rules for upgrading
KEEPER OF SECRETSmodels to be exalted can be found here.
The Great Game of the Dark Gods plays out across the battlefields of realspace, their servants taking great risks to claim the mightiest prizes. Should a daemonic general achieve some audacious victory, this reflects well upon the cause of their patron deity. Of course, the reverse is also true...
The Greater Daemons of the Dark Gods are eternal rivals, and their battles with one another transcend both bonds of loyalty and the bounds of reality. With each clash, the victor furthers the cause of their patron deity while diminishing the influence of their rival’s master.
Should a daemon’s essence spill from its corporeal form, a rival may seize the opportunity to ritually bind it into a weapon. While imprisoned, the trammelled daemon lends supernatural power to its wielder’s blows, all the time planning its eventual escape.
- If the bound model is a KHORNE model, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that weapon.
- If the bound model is a TZEENTCH model, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that weapon by 1.
- If the bound model is a NURGLE model, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that weapon.
- If the bound model is a SLAANESH model, each time an attack is made with that weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage.
- It cannot be included on your army roster.
- Keep a Bound tally for that model. After each battle in which the binder was included on your army roster, add 1 to this tally.
When daemons break out of captivity, they are able to put their new-found experience to great use while plotting their revenge.
- That model is no longer bound.
- That model gains 1 experience point for each mark on their Bound tally. That tally is then removed.
Loci of the Gods
Loci of the Gods are a new type of Battle Honour that can be given to GREATER DAEMON or HERALD units. Each time such a model from your army would gain a Battle Honour, you can instead choose for it to gain a Locus of the Gods, from those found below. Each model on your Order of Battle can only have one Locus of the Gods.Each Locus is an aura ability. If the model that has this ability is a GREATER DAEMON model, this ability has a range of 6"; otherwise, it has a range of 3".
As with any Battle Honour, make a note on the model’s Crusade card when it gains a Locus of the Gods, and its Crusade points increase as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
Locus of Poxes Uncounted (Aura)
Like a swift-spreading plague rampaging through a frightened crowd, or a raging fever sweeping over its delirious host, the daemonic foot soldiers of Nurgle flicker across the battlefield to manifest suddenly amidst victims who believed themselves safely out of reach.
NURGLE model only. While a friendly PLAGUEBEARERS CORE unit is within range of this ability, you can re-roll charge rolls made for that unit.Locus of Foetid Regeneration (Aura)
The daemons of Nurgle are tremendously hard to destroy, all the more so in the presence of this walking font of unclean fecundity. Bountiful waves of diseased vigour roll off the daemon, its grotesque generosity an echo of Nurgles own that mends ruptured corporeal forms, reknits burst innards and thickens leathery flesh with fresh layers of rancid blubber.
NURGLE model only. While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE CORE unit is within range of this ability, each time an attack is allocated to a model in that unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack (to a minimum of 1).The Great Game
If your Crusade army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA units, you can track what influence their actions have on the Great Game, the eternal battle between the Dark Gods for primacy.At the end of each battle, you will recalculate each gods total Ascendancy points and organise them into a hierarchy, from first to fourth position, with the god with the most Ascendancy points taking first place, the god with the second most Ascendancy points taking second place, and so on. Each god will gain new benefits (see below), based on their position in the Great Game, that you can use for LEGIONES DAEMONICA units on your Order of Battle with their Allegiance keyword. Do not delay in taking the opportunity to use these new benefits though - by the end of the subsequent battle, the balance of power may have shifted again.
After 8 battles, that round of the Great Game will be complete, and your forces will gain additional rewards depending on their god’s final position in that round. At the end of each round, after gaining these rewards, each Dark God’s Ascendancy points total will be reset based on their final position in the previous round (see The Next Round).
Beginning the Great Game
To begin the Great Game, each of the Dark Gods starts with the following number of Ascendancy points:
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The god with the most Ascendancy points is considered to be in first position, the god with the second most Ascendancy points in second position and so forth down to fourth position.
For the purposes of gaining rewards (see below), each god is also considered to have their own Allegiance keyword (e.g. Khorne has the KHORNE Allegiance keyword).
Gaining Ascendancy Points
At the end of each battle, each of the Dark Gods gains a number of Ascendancy points as described below, in the following order: Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, Slaanesh.- Each god gains D3 Ascendancy points.
- The god that shares an Allegiance keyword with your WARLORD gains 1 Ascendancy point. If you won the battle, they gain D3 Ascendancy points instead. (If BE’LAKOR was your WARLORD for that battle, all four gods gain 1 Ascendancy point each, or D3 each if you won that battle).
The Positions
During each battle while you are tracking the Great Game, each Dark God will gain certain benefits for the units they share an Allegiance keyword with, based on their current position in the Great Game.- Add 1 to the Leadership characteristic of models in LEGIONES DAEMONICA units from your army that share an Allegiance keyword with that Dark God.
- Once per battle, you can use an Epic Deed Stratagem for 0CP if the unit selected for that Stratagem shares an Allegiance keyword with that Dark God.
- Add 1 to the Leadership characteristic of models in LEGIONES DAEMONICA ICON units from your army that share an Allegiance keyword with that Dark God.
- Once per battle, if your WARLORD shares an Allegiance keyword with that Dark God, you can use the Command Re-roll Core Stratagem for 0CP.
- Subtract 1 from the Leadership characteristic of models in LEGIONES DAEMONICA ICON units from your army that share an Allegiance keyword with that Dark God.
- Each time a model in a LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army that shares an Allegiance keyword with that Dark God makes an attack against an enemy unit that shares an Allegiance keyword with one of the Dark Gods in first, second or third position, you can re-roll the hit roll.
End of a Round
After 8 battles, the first round of the Great Game will be complete. At the end of that battle, after determining the positions of each Dark God, they gain the following rewards:- Every unit on your Order of Battle that shares an Allegiance keyword with this Dark God gains 3 experience points.
- You can select one GREATER DAEMON model on your Order of Battle that shares an Allegiance keyword with this Dark God. That model gains 1 Exalted Reward, 1 Greater Reward or 1 Lesser Reward from the Favoured Rewards. Increase that unit’s Crusade points total accordingly, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
- Every unit on your Order of Battle that shares an Allegiance keyword with this Dark God gains 2 experience points.
- You can select one GREATER DAEMON model on your Order of Battle that shares an Allegiance keyword with this Dark God. That model gains 1 Greater Reward or 1 Lesser Reward from the Favoured Rewards. Increase that unit’s Crusade points total accordingly, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
- Every unit on your Order of Battle that shares an Allegiance keyword with this Dark God gains 1 experience point.
- You can select one GREATER DAEMON model on your Order of Battle that shares an Allegiance keyword with this Dark God. That model gains 1 Lesser Reward from the Favoured Rewards. Increase that unit’s Crusade points total accordingly, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
- There are no rewards for failure!
The Next Round
Each Dark God starts the next round with the following number of Ascendancy points, based on their position in the previous round.A new round then begins, following the same rules as the first.
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When instructed as part of the Great Game, GREATER DAEMON models on your Order of Battle can gain Favoured Rewards. To do so, select one of the entries on the appropriate table shown below: Lesser Rewards, Greater Rewards or Exalted Rewards. Each model can only gain each Favoured Reward once.
Each time you select a Favoured Reward, increase that model’s Crusade points by 1 if it was a Lesser Reward, by 2 if it was a Greater Reward or by 3 if it was an Exalted Reward. Make a note of this on the models Crusade card.
Lesser Rewards
AVATAR OF UNREALITY With every step this malign entity takes, the tortured stuff of reality writhes in agony. Each time you make a Warp Storm roll, if this model is on the battlefield, roll 1 additional D6. |
EMPYRIC BEACON This daemon shines like a beacon in the senses of others of its kind, drawing them inexorably to it. This model has the WARP LOCUS keyword. |
FAVOURED FOLLOWERS This entity’s aura of power and corruption draws potent entities into its thrall. Each time you add a LEGIONES DAEMONICA CORE unit to your Order of Battle, you can remove up to 3 Ascendancy points from the Dark God that shares an Allegiance keyword with that unit. If you do so, that LEGIONES DAEMONICA CORE unit immediately gains a number of experience points equal to twice the number of Ascendancy points removed. |
Greater Rewards
INFERNAL MARK This daemon’s patron deity has rewarded it with the merest spark of its divine power, rendering it all the more mighty.
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PORTAL KEEPER Able to fashion metaphysical keys from the raw stuff of the warp, this cunning abomination unlocks the hidden angles and fractures in reality, throwing the doors to the sea of souls open wide.
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CROWN OF CONQUESTS Whether manifesting as a crackling halo of power, an uneven crest of jagged horns, a circlet of burning brass or in some other unholy aspect, this dark gift infuses its keeper with the tormented souls of once-great mortal commanders. With the merest effort of will, the daemon can torture all manner of strategic insights out of its captive advisers.
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Exalted Rewards
SLAYER OF KINGS A metaphysical weapon of incredible strength has been bestowed upon this daemon, a jealous thing of tremendous power that infuses its form and aids it in laying low the greatest foes.
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LORD OF THE STORM This blessing renders the daemon a veritable lightning rod for the energies of raging warp storms, allowing it to draw empyric phenomena to itself and focus their fury to a screaming point. If this model is your WARLORD, and the Warp Storm ability is in effect, while this model is on the battlefield:
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EXALTED SERVANT Worshipful mortals depict this entity seated at its master’s right hand, and whisper in fearful tones of how its matchless deeds have been rewarded by the greatest gifts of their chosen Dark God. You can use the Exalted Daemon Requisition once for 0RP, but if you do so, you must select this model. If this model is not eligible for that Requisition it cannot be given this Reward. When you do so, that Requisition can be used to give this model an additional Exalted ability. Adjust that model’s Power Rating as appropriate and make of note of this on its Crusade card. You cannot use this ability if doing so would cause your total Power Level to exceed your Crusade forces Supply Limit. |
Psychic Fortitudes
When a LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER PSYKER unit gains a Psychic Fortitude, you can use one of the tables below. If you do so, roll one D6 and consult the appropriate table to randomly determine which Psychic Fortitude the unit gains, or choose a Psychic Fortitude from the appropriate table that tells the best narrative for your unit. All the normal rules for Psychic Fortitudes apply (e.g. a unit cannot have the same Psychic Fortitude more than once). As with any Battle Honour, make a note on the unit’s Crusade card when it gains a Psychic Fortitude and increase its Crusade points accordingly, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
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Battle Traits
When a LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit gains a Battle Trait, you can use one of the tables below instead of one of the tables in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book to determine which Battle Trait the unit has gained. To do so, roll one D3 and consult the appropriate table, or choose a Battle Trait from the appropriate table that tells the best narrative for your unit. All the normal rules for Battle Traits apply (e.g. a unit cannot have the same Battle Trait more than once). As with any Battle Honour, make a note on the unit’s Crusade card when it gains a Battle Trait and increase its Crusade points accordingly, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book.
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Crusade Relics
When a LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER model gains a Crusade Relic, you can instead select one of the Relics listed below. All the usual rules for selecting Crusade Relics, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book, apply.Antiquity Relics
A LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER model of Heroic rank or higher can be given one of the following Antiquity Relics instead of one of the ones presented in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book. Add 1 to a unit’s total Crusade points for each Antiquity Relic it has - this is in addition to the +1 from gaining a Battle Honour, for a total of +2.Shroud of Corruption This foetid cloth tangles itself about its wearer, clinging like sweat-drenched sheets ensnaring a fever victim in their delirium. Some even claim that it was the receptacle for Grandfather Nurgle’s own gushing sternutations, and indeed it does seem to be saturated with the most infectious and clammily mucal of warp maladies. NURGLE model only. The bearer has the following ability:Shroud of Corruption (Aura): While an enemy unit is within 6" of this model, at the end of your Movement phase, roll one D6: on a 4+, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound. |
Legendary Relics
A LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER model of Legendary rank can be given one of the following Legendary Relics instead of one of the ones presented in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book. In addition, in order to give a model a Legendary Relic, you must also pay 1 Requisition point (if you do not have enough Requisition points, you cannot give that model a Legendary Relic). Add 2 to a unit’s total Crusade points for each Legendary Relic it has - this is in addition to the +1 from gaining a Battle Honour, for a total of +3.Contagion Blade Said to have been lost for aeons at the bottom of Nurgle’s great cauldron, mortal legend tells how this blade was finally recovered after having absorbed the essence of hundreds of Nurgle’s finest contagions. Only the most favoured of the Plague God’s daemonic servants have ever been witnessed wielding this malignant blade. The merest scratch from its edge causes countless diseases to bloom within the victim before bursting forth in a fulsome eruption of infectious gore and moistened spores inimical to any unfortunate caught in the blast. Model equipped with bileblade only. This Relic replaces a bileblade and has the following profile:
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Boarding Actions
The daemons of Chaos hurst from the pandemonium of warp space to despoil and corrupt all around. Unbound by even the most fundamental laws of realspace, these malevolent terrors unleash infernal powers upon their luckless victims.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
When mustering a Boarding Patrol, if your Faction is LEGIONES DAEMONICA, then the following rules apply when adding units to your Boarding Patrol Detachment, and they take priority over the normal rules for mustering a Boarding Patrol.- You can include one Fast Attack slot, but only if it is a
FLESH HOUNDSunit. FLAMERunits can be included in a Boarding Patrol Detachment even though they have the FLY keyword, but anEXALTED FLAMERmodel cannot have an Enhancement.- When forming Boarding Squads, do not split
BLUE HORRORSunits into separate units.
Rules Adaptations
If your Faction is LEGIONES DAEMONICA, then the following rules adaptations apply to Legiones Daemonica rules found in Codex: Chaos Daemons.- All models lose the FLY keyword (if they have it) while they are on the battlefield.
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HORRORmodel splitting can increase the size of that model’s Boarding Squad above its starting size. - Each time you use the Descending Shadow Warp Storm effect, subtract 1 from an attack’s hit roll if the attacking model is more than 6" away, instead of 12".
- You cannot use the Malicious Misdirection Warp Storm effect.
- The Burning Terror Warp Storm effect costs 5 Warp Storm points.
- The Wave of Sickness Warp Storm effect costs 4 Warp Storm points.
- The Bolt of Change psychic power has a warp charge value of 9.
- The Infernal Gateway psychic power has a warp charge value of 10.
Enhancements
If your WARLORD has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword, then when mustering your Boarding Patrol, they can be given one of the following Enhancements instead of one from Arks of Omen: Abaddon.THE ENDLESS GIFT Only the most accomplished plague daemons are granted the Endless Gift. A disease of unutterable malignancy and repulsive beneficence, it changes form constantly from plague to infestation to malaise. The one constant is its ability to reknit its sufferers corporeal form from even the most catastrophic of wounds. NURGLE model only. At the start of your Command phase, the bearer regains up to a number of lost wounds equal to the current battle round number. |
Boarding Action Stratagems
If your Faction is LEGIONES DEMONICA, then when playing a Boarding Action game you will have access to the following Stratagems, and can spend CP to use them.Ravening packs of Bloodletters spill down corridors and across chambers, seeking out the foe, eager to spill their blood.
When Horrors of Tzeentch uneleash waves of overlapping flames, few are the foes who can escape them.
The supernatural corruption of Plaguebearers’ physical forms is such that even the most grievous wounds do not trouble them.
Many daemons can shift their forms at will, drawing on the powers of the warp to manifest new weapons, powers and otherworldly abilities in the blink of an eye.
Daemons of Slaanesh possess a sickening yet mesmerising beauty that renders their enemies glassy-eyed with entrancement.
- That unit cannot perform actions other than the Operate Hatchway action (if it is currently performing an action, it immediately fails), cannot fire Overwatch and is no longer Set to Defend.
- Subtract 2" from the Move charactistic of models in that enemy unit and halve Advance and charge rolls made for it.
Daemons are not mortal creatures, their forms shifting between the warp and realspace, passing through solid barriers with ease.
Born of the warp, daemons are highly attuned to its power and tides, able to draw upon it and weave it at will.
The unearthly icons that are raised above the daemonic hosts take many grotesque forms, but all are loci for their powers.
Wargear Reference
Glossary
Below you will find a glossary that contains a number of terms used in this Codex.
Ascendancy points: A resource gained by each Dark God if your Crusade army is influencing the Great Game.
Favoured Rewards: Additional abilities that can be gained by GREATER DAEMON units from your Crusade army based on performance in the Great Game. These come in three types: Lesser Rewards, Greater Rewards and Exalted Rewards.
LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachment: A Detachment in a Battle-forged army where every model has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword (excluding models with the UNALIGNED or AGENTS OF CHAOS keyword).
Loci of the Gods: A new kind of Battle Honour that GREATER DAEMON or HERALD units can gain.
Malefic Weapon: A melee weapon that the bearer can use to make attacks in addition to the melee attacks they make with other weapons.
Maximum number of models: A unit contains the maximum number of models if it includes every model it possibly can, as described on its datasheet (excluding models representing wargear).
Psychic power type: A psychic power’s type is written in bold at the start of its rules. There are three types of psychic power described in this Codex: Blessing, Malediction and Witchfire.
Stratagem label: A Stratagem’s labels are written beneath its title and can include: Legiones Daemonica; Battle Tactic; Epic Deed, Strategic Ploy; Requisition; Wargear. A Stratagem can have more than one label (e.g. a Stratagem with ‘Legiones Daemonica - Wargear Stratagem’ has both the Legiones Daemonica and Wargear labels).
Warp Storm points: A resource gained during the battle if every unit from your army has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword (excluding models with the UNALIGNED or AGENTS OF CHAOS keyword).
PSYCHIC DISCIPLINES
Pandaemoniac discipline: A psychic discipline TZEENTCH PSYKER units can know powers from.
Warprot discipline: A psychic discipline NURGLE PSYKER units can know powers from.
Soulstain discipline: A psychic discipline SLAANESH PSYKER units can know powers from.
Noctic discipline: A psychic discipline LEGIONES DAEMONICA PSYKER or DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR PSYKER units can know powers from.
RELICS
Relic of Khorne: A Relic available to LEGIONES DAEMONICA KHORNE CHARACTER models from your army, if it is led by a LEGIONES DAEMONICA WARLORD.
Relic of Tzeentch: A Relic available to LEGIONES DAEMONICA TZEENTCH CHARACTER models from your army, if it is led by a LEGIONES DAEMONICA WARLORD.
Relic of Nurgle: A Relic available to LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE CHARACTER models from your army, if it is led by a LEGIONES DAEMONICA WARLORD.
Relic of Slaanesh: A Relic available to LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH CHARACTER models from your army, if it is led by a LEGIONES DAEMONICA WARLORD.
STRATAGEMS
Disciples of Be’lakor Stratagem: A Stratagem available if your army is a Disciples of Be’lakor Army of Renown. All Disciples of Be’lakor Stratagems are considered to have the Legiones Daemonica Stratagem label (see above).
Legions of Khorne Stratagem: A Stratagem available if your army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments in which every unit (excluding models with the UNALIGNED or AGENTS OF CHAOS keyword) has the KHORNE keyword. All Legions of Khorne Stratagems are considered to have the Legiones Daemonica Stratagem label (see above).
Legions of Tzeentch Stratagem: A Stratagem available if your army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments in which every unit (excluding models with the UNALIGNED or AGENTS OF CHAOS keyword) has the TZEENTCH keyword. All Legions of Tzeentch Stratagems are considered to have the Legiones Daemonica Stratagem label (see above).
Legions of Nurgle Stratagem: A Stratagem available if your army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments in which every unit (excluding models with the UNALIGNED or AGENTS OF CHAOS keyword) has the NURGLE keyword. All Legions of Nurgle Stratagems are considered to have the Legiones Daemonica Stratagem label (see above).
Legions of Slaanesh Stratagem: A Stratagem available if your army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments in which every unit (excluding models with the UNALIGNED or AGENTS OF CHAOS keyword) has the SLAANESH keyword. All Legions of Slaanesh Stratagems are considered to have the Legiones Daemonica Stratagem label (see above).
UPGRADES
Exalted Bloodthirsters: An upgrade that bestows new abilities on a
Exalted Lords of Change: An upgrade that bestows new abilities on a
Exalted Great Unclean Ones: An upgrade that bestows new abilities on a Great Unclean One unit for an additional cost.
Exalted Keepers of Secrets: An upgrade that bestows new abilities on a
WARLORD TRAITS
Khorne Warlord Traits: A Warlord Trait available to KHORNE WARLORD models.
Tzeentch Warlord Traits: A Warlord Trait available to TZEENTCH WARLORD models.
Nurgle Warlord Traits: A Warlord Trait available to NURGLE WARLORD models.
Slaanesh Warlord Traits: A Warlord Trait available to SLAANESH WARLORD models.
Reference
Below you will find a bullet pointed summary of several Chaos Daemons rules. In most games, you may find referencing this summary is all you need to resolve a rule, but if not, follow the link to read the entirety of the rule.
When you include a unit with the <ALLEGIANCE> keyword, nominate which Dark God it owes allegiance to.
- Replace every instance of the <ALLEGIANCE> keyword on that unit’s datasheet with the name of your chosen Dark God.
DAEMONIC PACT
- If your army includes one LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachment, and the combined Power Ratings of all units in that Detachment is 25% or less of your army’s Power Level, then until the end of the battle, every unit in that Detachment gains the AGENT OF CHAOS keyword.
DAEMONIC LEGIONS
- If your army only contains LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments, and includes any GREATER DAEMON units, one of these must be your WARLORD, unless your army also includes BE’LAKOR.
- For each GREATER DAEMON unit included in a Detachment, you can include 1 HERALD unit with the same Allegiance keyword in that Detachment without that HERALD unit taking up a Battlefield Role slot.
EXALTED UPGRADES
- If your army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA Detachments (excluding Auxiliary Support, Super-heavy Auxiliary or Fortification Network Detachments), then when you muster your army, you can upgrade any GREATER DAEMON models from your army to be exalted.
- That GREATER DAEMON model gains an Exalted ability, depending which Dark God they owe allegiance to.
MALEFIC WEAPONS
- A malefic weapon is any weapon which includes the ‘Malefic’ ability in it’s profile, followed by a number.
Daemonic
A unit with this ability has the following abilities:DAEMONIC INVULNERABILITY
- Instead of a normal Save characteristic, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book, each LEGIONES DAEMONICA datasheet has a Daemonic Save characteristic (abbreviated to DSv on that datasheet’s profile line). This characteristic has two values. The first characteristic is used when a melee attack is allocated to that model. The second characteristic is used when a ranged attack is allocated to that model. In either case, this saving throw cannot be modified.
DAEMONIC TERROR
- While an enemy unit is within 6" of this unit, subtract 1 from its Leadership characteristic and subtract 1 from any combat attrition tests made for it.
MANIFESTATION
- During deployment, you can set that unit up in the warp instead of setting it up on the battlefield.
- Unit can then arrive during Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases.
- When unit arrives, set it up on battlefield more than 9" from any enemy models or wholly within 6" of a WARP LOCUS model from your army.
- If that WARP LOCUS model has an Allegiance keyword, the unit being set up within 6" of it must have the same Allegiance keyword.
WARP STORM
- If every unit from your army has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword (excluding models with the AGENT OF CHAOS or UNALIGNED keywords), then at the start of each battle round, you can make a Warp Storm roll. To do so, roll eight D6.
- For each 4+, gain 1 Warp Storm point (WSP).
- Warp Storm points can also be gained via other rules. No matter the source, you can only gain Warp Storm points from such a rule if every unit from your army has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword (excluding models with the AGENT OF CHAOS or UNALIGNED keywords). Warp Storm points can be spent during the battle to gain additional effects. Each effect will specify how many Warp Storm points it costs.
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, NURGLE and PSYKER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- If this model has the TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH keyword, it has the PSYKER keyword.From the germ of an idea may grow the most perfect plagues.
The NURGLE and PSYKER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- If this model has the TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH keyword, it has the PSYKER keyword.Many daemons fashion forms for themselves that exhibit strange and esoteric weapons, with which they give vent to their spiteful natures. While most fight with blade or claws, often they can also lash out with spiked tails, envenomed pseudopods or other bizarre appendages. Daemons may also ride to battle atop other daemonic creatures that make attacks with weapons of their own, or may be attended by daemonic minions who swipe at those who draw near their masters.
Many Chaos Daemons weapons are malefic weapons. Such a weapon will have an ability that reads ‘Malefic’ and then a value, such as 2 or 4. Each time the bearer fights, it makes a number of additional attacks with that weapon equal to that value, and no more than that number of attacks can be made with that weapon while resolving that fight. If a model is equipped with more than one malefic weapon, it can make additional attacks with each one it is equipped with.Unless otherwise specified, malefic weapons are never affected by effects or abilities that allow models to make additional attacks, or abilities that would add to, subtract from, or improve their characteristics in any way.
Example: A Skullmaster is equipped with a blade of blood and its Juggernaut’s bladed horn, which has the ‘Malefic 4’ ability. Each time this model fights, it makes a number of attacks equal to its Attacks characteristic with its blade of blood, then an additional 4 attacks with the bladed horn profile.
AURA OF BEWITCHMENT (AURA)
Even the most disciplined warriors succumb to this daemon’s beguilements, all thoughts lost in a haze of hallucinatory desire.
While an enemy unit is within 6" of this WARLORD, that unit cannot perform actions. If that unit is performing an action when it comes into range of this ability, it immediately fails.
The HERALD keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- Morale test = D6 + number of models destroyed this turn.
- Unmodified roll of 1 always a success (no models flee).
- If Morale test exceeds unit’s Ld, one model flees and other models must take Combat Attrition tests.
To encounter a creature of the warp is to face a being utterly anathema to the fundamental laws of reality. Even the most emotionless warrior feels an unnatural primal terror while in their presence.
While an enemy unit is within 6" of this unit, subtract 1 from that enemy unit’s Leadership characteristic and subtract 1 from any Combat Attrition tests taken for that enemy unit.The INSTRUMENT keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
– if equipped with the Instrument of Chaos this unit gains the INSTRUMENT keyword.- Advance: Models move up to M+D6".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of enemy models.
- Units that Advance cannot shoot or charge this turn.
- Engagement Range: 1" horizontally + 5" vertically.
- Models cannot be set up within Engagement Range of enemy models.
- Declare targets of the charge (must be within 12").
- Charge roll = 2D6".
- If insufficient to move charging unit into Engagement Range of all targets, charge fails.
- If charge successful, models make their charge move.
- Cannot make a charge move within Engagement Range of any unit that was not the target of the charge.
If an attack is made with a weapon that has an ability that says it ‘automatically hits the target’, no hit roll is made – that attack simply scores one hit on the target unit. An unmodified hit roll of 6 always scores a hit, and an unmodified hit roll of 1 always fails. A hit roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1. This means that if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a hit roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be -2 or worse, it is changed to be -1. Similarly, if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a hit roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be +2 or better, it is changed to be +1.
- Psychic test: Passed if 2D6 equals or exceeds psychic power’s warp charge.
- If double 1 or double 6 rolled, PSYKER suffers Perils of the Warp.
- Perils of the Warp: The PSYKER unit manifesting the power suffers D3 mortal wounds.
- If PSYKER unit is destroyed, the psychic power fails to manifest.
- If PSYKER unit destroyed, every other unit within 6" suffers D3 mortal wounds.
Insidious Whispers (Aura): While an enemy PSYKER unit is within 12" of this unit, each time a Psychic test is taken for that PSYKER unit, it suffers Perils of the Warp on any dice roll that includes a double, instead of only a double 1 or double 6.
The KHORNE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The TZEENTCH keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The SLAANESH keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Daemons are madness given form. Their very bodies are fashioned from the stuff of the warp, and are difficult to destroy through conventional means. By far the surest way to banish them, short of ritual witchery, is to fight them at close quarters where a warrior’s conviction and faith may strike as surely as their blade.
Instead of a normal Save characteristic as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book, each LEGIONES DAEMONICA datasheet has a Daemonic Save characteristic (abbreviated to DSv on that datasheet’s profile line). This characteristic has two values. The first characteristic is used when a melee attack is allocated to that model, while the second characteristic is used when a ranged attack is allocated to that model. In either case, this saving throw cannot be modified in any way.The WARP LOCUS keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- KHORNE
- TZEENTCH
- NURGLE
- SLAANESH
Example: If you include a Daemon Prince in your army, and you decide it is a Daemon Prince of Khorne, its NURGLE keyword becomes KHORNE and its Prince of Chaos ability reads, ‘While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA KHORNE CORE unit is within 6" of this model, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, re-roll a hit roll of 1.’
Daemonic legions tear through the fabric of realspace, malevolent entities flickering into being like phantasms from a nightmare. Worse still, as terror and panic take hold of their victims, so their mortal souls become ever easier prey for the entities pouring through from the warp.
During deployment, you can set up this unit in the warp instead of setting it up on the battlefield. If you do so, then in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" away from any enemy models, or more than 6" away from any enemy models and wholly within 6" of a friendly WARP LOCUS model that was on the battlefield at the start of your turn. If that WARP LOCUS model has an Allegiance keyword, the unit being set up can only use this ability if it has the same Allegiance keyword.If every unit from your army has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword, then in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can instead set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield with one of the following restrictions:
- Wholly within your deployment zone and more than 3" away from any enemy models.
- Neither wholly within your deployment zone nor within your opponent’s deployment zone, and more than a number of inches away from each enemy unit, equal to the current Leadership characteristic of that enemy unit (to a minimum of 3" and a maximum of 9").
When daemons pour into realspace, maelstroms of warp energy spill through in their wake. Manifest emotion and unbridled, nightmarish energies twist all that they touch, reshaping the landscape into bizarre forms and tormenting mortal beings.
This ability can be used to apply Warp Storm effects to eligible units from your army.- Combat Attrition tests: Roll one D6 for each remaining model in unit; for each 1, one additional model flees.
- Subtract 1 from Combat Attrition tests if unit is below Half-strength.
The AGENT OF CHAOS keyword is used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
- If this model is your WARLORD it gains the AGENT OF CHAOS keyword.The datasheets using UNALIGNED keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Unaligned: Unaligned.Imperium: Astra Militarum, Space Marines.
The UNALIGNED keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and NURGLE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, resolve the normal damage first. If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, but the normal damage is subsequently saved, the target unit still suffers the mortal wounds, as described before. If an ability modifies the damage inflicted by a weapon, and that weapon can inflict mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, the modifier does not apply to any mortal wounds that are inflicted (unless the rule specifically states otherwise).
- Each mortal wound inflicted on a unit causes one model in the unit to lose one wound.
- No saving throws can be made against mortal wounds.
- Mortal wounds inflicted by attacks in addition to normal damage always apply, even if normal damage saved.
The SWARM keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- Objective Secured: Player controls objective marker if any of their models in range have this ability.
The GREATER DAEMON keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The BE’LAKOR keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The Power Rating on a datasheet is for a minimum-sized unit. A unit’s Power Rating can be increased if additional models are added to the unit, and occasionally if other options are taken for the unit (such as equipping a unit with jump packs) - in either case the unit's datasheet will make it clear if the Power Rating listed at the top of the datasheet is increased as a result.
- Power Ratings: Quick measure of a unit's efficacy.
The WORLD EATERS keyword is used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
The THOUSAND SONS keyword is used in the following Thousand Sons datasheets:
The DEATH GUARD keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
The EMPEROR’S CHILDREN keyword is used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
The GREAT UNCLEAN ONE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- Points limit: Sum of all points values in army cannot exceed this.
- Points values: Detailed measure of a unit's efficacy.
The ROTIGUS keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
As the greatest daemons slaughter their way across reality, so they grow in power, earning rewards from their patron deity and learning how to shape realspace to augment their forms.
- The rules for upgrading
BLOODTHIRSTERmodels to be exalted can be found here. - The rules for upgrading
LORD OF CHANGEmodels to be exalted can be found here. - The rules for upgrading GREAT UNCLEAN ONE models to be exalted can be found here.
- The rules for upgrading
KEEPER OF SECRETSmodels to be exalted can be found here.
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- Starting number of Command points varies with battle size.
The PLAGUEBEARER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
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If the result of the wound roll is less than the required number, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. An unmodified wound roll of 6 always successfully wounds the target, and an unmodified wound roll of 1 always fails. A wound roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1. This means that if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a wound roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be -2 or worse, it is changed to be -1. Similarly, if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a wound roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be +2 or better, it is changed to be +1.
The SLOPPITY BILEPIPER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, NURGLE and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The BEASTS OF NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The HORTICULOUS SLIMUX keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- Fall Back: Models move up to M".
- Units that Fall Back cannot charge this turn.
- Units that Fall Back cannot shoot or manifest psychic powers this turn unless they are TITANIC.
The PLAGUE DRONES keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, NURGLE and ICON keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
– if equipped with the Daemonic icon this unit gains the ICON keyword.The PSYKER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- If this model has the TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH keyword, it has the PSYKER keyword.To manifest the psychic power, you must first pass a Psychic test. The opposing player can then select one of their PSYKER units that is within 24" of the PSYKER unit attempting to manifest the power and attempt to deny that power before its effects are resolved by passing a Deny the Witch test.
So long as the Psychic test was successful and the psychic power was not denied by a successful Deny the Witch test, the psychic power is successfully manifested and its effects, which will be described in the power itself, are then resolved. If the PSYKER unit can attempt to manifest more than one psychic power in its Psychic phase, you can then attempt to manifest those, one at a time, as described above. The number of psychic powers each PSYKER unit can attempt to manifest in its Psychic phase is listed on its datasheet.
- Select psychic power.
- You cannot select the same psychic power more than once per battle round, unless that power is Smite.
- Attempt to manifest the psychic power by taking a Psychic test.
- The opponent can attempt to deny the psychic power by taking a Deny the Witch test.
- If successfully manifested, resolve the psychic power’s effects.
- Select another psychic power.
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, NURGLE and CORE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The NURGLE and HERALD keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HEAVING MASS
Saturated with corruption and fatted upon a diet of mortal souls, this daemon’s swollen frame seethes with unclean vitality.
Add 2 to this WARLORD’s Wounds characteristic.
ACIDIC ICHOR
Those that pierce this daemon’s straining flesh are sprayed with sizzling bile that melts through armour, flesh and bone.
Each time this WARLORD loses a wound as a result of a melee attack made by an enemy unit, after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, roll one D6: on a 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound. Each unit can only suffer a maximum of 6 mortal wounds per phase as a result of this ability.
VIRULENT TOUCH
So saturated with noxious toxins and poisons is this daemon that its merest touch causes its victims to erupt into spreading masses of buboes and sores that burst and redouble until their bodies collapse under the repugnant strain.
Each time this WARLORD makes a melee attack (excluding attacks made against TITANIC units), if a hit is scored, that attack automatically wounds the target.
PESTILENT MIASMA
Those who venture too close to this daemon find their injuries blackening in seconds and their infected flesh swiftly turning to rancid soup.
At the start of the Fight phase, roll one D6 for each enemy unit within Engagement Range of this WARLORD:
- On a 2-5, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.
- On a 6, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The PLAGUEBEARERS, INFANTRY and CORE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- Deny the Witch: Passed if 2D6 exceeds result of the opposing PSYKER’s Psychic test.
- Only one attempt can be made to deny each psychic power.
If a unit includes any models equipped with Assault weapons, that unit is still eligible to shoot with in your Shooting phase even if it has Advanced this turn, but you can only resolve attacks using those Assault weapons when you select that unit to shoot with. If a model shoots an Assault weapon in the same turn in which its unit has Advanced, subtract 1 from hit rolls when resolving that weapon’s attacks.
- Can be shot even if firing model’s unit Advanced.
- Subtract 1 from hit rolls if the firing model’s unit Advanced.
Nurgle is said to be all-too-generous with his glopsome gifts.
Many daemons can shift their forms at will, drawing on the powers of the warp to manifest new weapons, powers and otherworldly abilities in the blink of an eye.
Daemons are not mortal creatures, their forms shifting between the warp and realspace, passing through solid barriers with ease.
Daemons of Slaanesh possess a sickening yet mesmerising beauty that renders their enemies glassy-eyed with entrancement.
- That unit cannot perform actions other than the Operate Hatchway action (if it is currently performing an action, it immediately fails), cannot fire Overwatch and is no longer Set to Defend.
- Subtract 2" from the Move charactistic of models in that enemy unit and halve Advance and charge rolls made for it.
The more slug-like of Nurgles daemons exude a paralysing slime that leaves victims numbed and despairing.
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and PSYKER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- If this model has the TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH keyword, it has the PSYKER keyword.Born of the warp, daemons are highly attuned to its power and tides, able to draw upon it and weave it at will.
Sloppity Bilepipers are carriers of the deadly chortling murrain, a disease that causes those who contract it to laugh themselves to death.
When Horrors of Tzeentch uneleash waves of overlapping flames, few are the foes who can escape them.
A tsunami of thrumming plague flies roars around the daemons of Nurgle at all times. They carpet the enemy, providing a horrible distraction as they swarm, bite and choke their victims.
The supernatural corruption of Plaguebearers’ physical forms is such that even the most grievous wounds do not trouble them.
The PLAGUEBEARERS and CORE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The supernatural corruption of Plaguebearers’ physical forms is such that even the most grievous wounds do not trouble them.
Many daemons of Nurgle manifest lumpen and ponderous physical forms whose sheer bulk is a weapon in its own right.
- On a 6+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
- On a 9, that unit suffers D3+3 mortal wounds instead.
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and ICON keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
– if equipped with the Daemonic icon this unit gains the ICON keyword.The unearthly icons that are raised above the daemonic hosts take many grotesque forms, but all are loci for their powers.
Ravening packs of Bloodletters spill down corridors and across chambers, seeking out the foe, eager to spill their blood.
A pervasive aura of pestilence surrounds this icon, causing rusted blades to weep with even fouler and more toxic diseases.
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and CORE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The datasheets using CHAOS keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Chaos: Chaos Daemons, Chaos Knights, Chaos Space Marines, Death Guard, Heretic Titan Legions, Renegades and Heretics, Thousand Sons, World Eaters.The CHAOS keyword is used in the following datasheets:
and others...
The datasheets using DAEMON PRINCE keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Chaos: Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines, Death Guard, Thousand Sons, World Eaters.The DAEMON PRINCE keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The GREATER DAEMON keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The datasheets using DAEMON ENGINE keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Chaos: Chaos Space Marines, Death Guard, Thousand Sons, World Eaters.The DAEMON ENGINE keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The CHAOS KNIGHTS keyword is used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
The TITANICUS TRAITORIS keyword is used in the following Heretic Titan Legions datasheets:
The KHORNE BERZERKERS keyword is used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
The RUBRIC MARINES keyword is used in the following Thousand Sons datasheets:
The PLAGUE MARINES keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
The NOISE MARINES keyword is used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
The CULTISTS keyword is used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
The TRAITORIS ASTARTES and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Chaos Space Marines datasheets:
Note that CHARACTERS cannot use their Aura Abilities while performing actions.
The datasheets using TRAITORIS ASTARTES keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Chaos: Chaos Space Marines, Death Guard, Thousand Sons, World Eaters.The TRAITORIS ASTARTES keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and KHORNE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and TZEENTCH keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA and SLAANESH keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The datasheets using BUILDING keyword can be found in the following Factions:
Unaligned: Unaligned.Chaos: Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines, Death Guard.
Imperium: Astra Militarum, Space Marines.
Xenos: Necrons, Orks, T’au Empire.
The BUILDING keyword is used in the following datasheets:
The CHAOS KNIGHTS and HOUSE KORVAX keywords are used in the following Chaos Knights datasheets:
- Invulnerable save: Saving throw that is never modified by attacking weapon’s AP.
- A model with an invulnerable save can use it instead of its normal Sv.
The Requisitions you can purchase can be found here. Each Requisition will tell you when it can be purchased; they can never be purchased during a battle. Unless stated otherwise, there is no limit on the number of Requisitions you can purchase, the number of times you can purchase each Requisition, nor on the combination of Requisitions you can purchase, so long as you have enough Requisition points. If you do not have enough Requisition points to purchase a Requisition, you cannot purchase it.
- Requisitions cost Requisition points to purchase.
- You can never have more than 5 Requisition points.
- Each battle you play earns you 1 Requisition point (win, lose or draw).
- Power Level: Sum of all Power Ratings in army.
Should a daemon’s essence spill from its corporeal form, a rival may seize the opportunity to ritually bind it into a weapon. While imprisoned, the trammelled daemon lends supernatural power to its wielder’s blows, all the time planning its eventual escape.
- If the bound model is a KHORNE model, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that weapon.
- If the bound model is a TZEENTCH model, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that weapon by 1.
- If the bound model is a NURGLE model, add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that weapon.
- If the bound model is a SLAANESH model, each time an attack is made with that weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 6 inflicts 1 mortal wound on the target in addition to any normal damage.
- It cannot be included on your army roster.
- Keep a Bound tally for that model. After each battle in which the binder was included on your army roster, add 1 to this tally.
Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour you must increase its Crusade points total by 1 (if the unit has a Power Rating of 10 or less) or 2 (if the unit has a Power Rating of 11 or higher).
- There are four types of Battle Honours:
- Battle Traits: New skills and abilities.
- Weapon Enhancements: Upgrade an item of wargear.
- Psychic Fortitudes: Boosts a unit's psychic might.
- Crusade Relic: Gain a rare and powerful artefact.
- Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, increase its Crusade points by:
- 1 if unit has a Power Rating of 10 or less.
- 2 if unit has a Power Rating of 11 or more.
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, CHARACTER and PSYKER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- If this model has the TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH keyword, it has the PSYKER keyword.The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, CHARACTER, PSYKER and NURGLE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- If this model has the TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH keyword, it has the PSYKER keyword.The SLAANESH and PSYKER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- If this model has the TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH keyword, it has the PSYKER keyword.
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If a model has more than one melee weapon, select which it will use before resolving any attacks. If a model has more than one melee weapon and can make several attacks, it can split them between these weapons however you wish – declare which attacks are being made with which weapons before any attacks are resolved. If the selected weapon has more than one profile that you must choose between, you must declare which profile is being used at the same time. Different attacks made with such a weapon can be made using different profiles if you wish.
If your unit is making attacks with more than one melee weapon against a unit, and those weapons have different characteristics profiles, then after you have resolved an attack with one of those weapons you must, if any other weapons with the same characteristics profile are also being used to make attacks against that unit, resolve those attacks before resolving any attacks against the target with a weapon that has a different characteristics profile. Note that all the attacks you have declared are always resolved against the target unit even if, when you come to resolve an individual attack, no models in the target unit remain in range (this can happen because of models being destroyed and removed from the battlefield as the result of resolving other attacks made by the attacking model’s unit first).
- Each close combat attack is made with a melee weapon.
- A model makes attacks using the close combat weapon profile if it has no other melee weapons.
- If a unit attacks with multiple weapons, all attacks made with weapons that have the same profile must be resolved before resolving attacks with the next.
AXE OF KHORNE
Each time an attack is made with this weapon, select one of the profiles below to make that attack with.WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D |
| Mighty strike | |||||
| Mighty strike | Melee | Melee | +4 | -4 | D6 |
| Sweeping blow | |||||
| Sweeping blow | Melee | Melee | User | -3 | 1 |
Abilities: Each time an attack is made with this weapon profile, make 2 hit rolls instead of 1. | |||||
- Named characters always have a Warlord Trait (even if they are not your WARLORD).
- Warp Charge 5: A Psychic test of 5+ is required to manifest Smite.
- Warp charge increases by 1 for each other attempt to manifest Smite made in this phase.
- If manifested, closest visible enemy unit in 18" suffers D3 mortal wounds.
- If manifested with a Psychic test result of 11+, enemy instead suffers D6 mortal wounds.
The Factions that a unit belongs to will be listed in the Faction keywords section of its datasheet.
- Faction: Described by Faction keywords on a unit's datasheet.
- If Detachment requires all units to be from the same Faction, they must all share at least one Faction Keyword.
- FLY models can move over other models when they make a Normal Move, an Advance or when they Fall Back.
- FLY models ignore vertical distances when they make a Normal Move, an Advance or when they Fall Back.
- Normal Move: Models move up to M".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of any enemy models.
- Pile in: Move up to 3".
- Must end closer to the closest enemy model.
- Both Models B and C are within Engagement Range of Model A, as the shortest distance between them passes through an open Hatchway and they are within 2" of one another.
- However, Model D is not within 2" of Model A and so these two are not within Engagement Range.
If a Hatchway opens and units on opposite sides of that Hatchway now find themselves within Engagement Range of each other, then those units will be eligible to fight during the subsequent Fight phase, but neither of those units count as having made a charge move this turn.
Before opening the Hatchway, Model A and Model B are not within Engagement Range of one another.
After Model A opens the Hatchway, it is within Engagement Range of Model B as the shortest distance between them passes through an open Hatchway and they are within 2" of one another. In the following Fight phase, both units will be eligible to fight, but Model A’s unit will not count as having charged that turn.
- Overwatch: Before charge roll made, all charge targets that can fire Overwatch can do so.
- Can never fire Overwatch while enemy units are in Engagement Range.
- When firing Overwatch, shoot with unit, but attacks only hit on unmodified 6s.
Contagion spray used in the following datasheets:
Death’s heads used in the following datasheets:
- If a Blast weapon targets a unit that has between 6 and 10 models, it always makes a minimum of 3 attacks. So if, when determining how many attacks are made with that weapon, the dice rolled results in less than 3 attacks being made, make 3 attacks instead. For example, if a Grenade D6 weapon with the Blast rule targets a unit that has 6 or more models, and you roll a 2 to determine how many attacks are made, that roll is counted as being a 3 and that weapon makes three attacks against that unit.
- When a Blast weapon targets a unit that has 11 or more models, do not roll dice to randomly determine how many attacks are made – instead, make the maximum possible number of attacks. For example, if a Grenade D6 weapon with the Blast rule targets a unit that has 11 or more models, that weapon makes six attacks against that unit.
- Blast Weapons: Minimum three attacks against units with 6+ models. Always make maximum number of attacks against units with 11+ models.
- Can never be used to attack units within the firing unit’s Engagement Range.
Disgusting sneezes used in the following datasheets:
Grasping tongue used in the following datasheets:
Harvester cannon used in the following datasheets:
When an INFANTRY model shoots a Heavy weapon, subtract 1 from the hit rolls when resolving that weapon’s attacks if the firing model’s unit has moved for any reason this turn (e.g. it made a Normal Move this turn).
- Subtract 1 from hit rolls if firing model is INFANTRY and its unit has moved this turn.
Horrific vomit used in the following datasheets:
Phlegm bombardment used in the following datasheets:
Plague flail used in the following datasheets:
Putrid vomit used in the following datasheets:
Rancid vomit used in the following datasheets:
A model can make attacks with a Pistol even when its unit is within Engagement Range of enemy units, but it must target an enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of its own unit when it does so. In such circumstances, the model can target an enemy unit even if other friendly units are within Engagement Range of the same enemy unit.
When a model equipped with both a Pistol and another type of ranged weapon (e.g. a Pistol and a Rapid Fire weapon) shoots, it can either shoot with its Pistol(s) or with its other ranged weapons. Choose which it will fire (Pistols or non-Pistols) before selecting targets.
- Can be shot even if firing model’s unit is within Engagement Range of enemy unit.
- Cannot be shot alongside any other type of weapon.
Rot cannon used in the following datasheets:
Streams of brackish filth used in the following datasheets:
Acidic maw used in the following datasheets:
Bileblade used in the following datasheets:
Bilesword used in the following datasheets:
Blade of Decay used in the following datasheets:
Churning fangs and claws used in the following datasheets:
Daemonic axe used in the following datasheets:
Diseased claws and teeth used in the following datasheets:
Distended maw used in the following datasheets:
Doomsday bell used in the following datasheets:
Fanged maw used in the following datasheets:
Fist of Decay used in the following datasheets:
Foul balesword used in the following datasheets:
Foul mouthparts used in the following datasheets:
Gaping maw used in the following datasheets:
Gnarlrod used in the following datasheets:
Hellforged sword used in the following datasheets:
Iron claw used in the following datasheets:
Jagged claws used in the following datasheets:
Lopping shears used in the following datasheets:
Malefic talons used in the following datasheets:
Marotter used in the following datasheets:
Nurgling claws used in the following datasheets:
Nurglings used in the following datasheets:
Plaguesword used in the following datasheets:
Pox Rider plaguesword used in the following datasheets:
Prehensile proboscis used in the following datasheets:
Putrid appendages used in the following datasheets:
The Blade of Shadows used in the following datasheets:
Tusked maw used in the following datasheets:
Warpclaw used in the following datasheets:
Warpsword used in the following datasheets:
Yawning maw used in the following datasheets:
Daemonic icon used in the following datasheets:
The ICON keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
– if equipped with the Daemonic icon this unit gains the ICON keyword.Instrument of Chaos used in the following datasheets:
Wings used in the following datasheets:
The FLY keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
– if equipped with the Wings this unit gains the FLY keyword.The TZEENTCH and PSYKER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
- If this model has the TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH keyword, it has the PSYKER keyword.The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, KHORNE and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, TZEENTCH and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The LEGIONES DAEMONICA, SLAANESH and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
