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The Rules

Chaos Daemons

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Slaanesh’s Legions of Excess strike with a sinuous grace, hitting the foe in a whirling blur of lithe and bladed limbs. As they do so they are at once horrific and alluring, mesmerising and loathsome. Slaanesh’s Daemon legions vary in composition and purpose, but all desire to spread their lord’s corruption.

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
Warhammer Legends: Chaos Daemons
Warhammer Legends: Chaos Daemons	Datasheet	8		December 2019

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 SLAANESH HERALD models (which Syll’Esske is) cannot normally have this Warlord Trait. Is this Syll’Esske’s correct Warlord Trait?
A:	Yes, Syll’Esske is an exception to the normal rules for HERALD models and has the Aura of Bewitchment Warlord Trait.

When using the Dark Invigoration Warp Storm Effect to replenish a unit of ~~HORRORS~~, which models can be returned to the unit and, if any of those models had split, what happens to the models created as a result of that split?

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

If a unit instead has the <ALLEGIANCE> Faction keyword, then when you add that unit to your army, you must select one of the listed Allegiance keywords above and replace the <ALLEGIANCE> keyword in all instances on that Datasheet with the selected Allegiance keyword.

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

If every unit from your army has the LEGIONES DAEMONICA keyword (excluding models with the AGENT OF CHAOS or UNALIGNED keywords), 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 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.

Each effect has an associated Warp Storm points cost. If you do not have enough Warp Storm points for a specific Warp Storm effect, you cannot use it. Unless otherwise specified, you can use the same Warp Storm effect multiple times over the course of the battle, but you cannot use the same Warp Storm effect more than once per battle round. Any spent Warp Storm points are deducted from your total.

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

DARK INVIGORATION5 WSP

Use this effect at the start of the Morale phase. One model in each LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army can regain up to D3 lost wounds. If every model in that unit has a Wounds characteristic of 1, that unit can instead be replenished. When a unit is replenished, you can return D3 destroyed models to that unit with their full wounds remaining. Each returned model no longer counts as having been destroyed for the purposes of Morale tests this turn. Each unit can only be replenished once per turn.

PRIMEVAL TERROR3 WSP

Use this effect at the start of a turn. Until the end of the turn, while an enemy unit is within range of the Daemonic Terror ability of one or more units from your army, subtract 1 from the Leadership characteristic of models in that unit.

MUSIC OF THE WARP2 WSP

Use this effect at the start of your turn. Until the end of the turn, add 6" to the range of the Daemonic Terror ability for INSTRUMENT units from your army (to a maximum of 12").

MALICIOUS MISDIRECTION2 WSP

Use this effect at the start of the Reinforcements step of your opponent’s Movement phase. Until the end of that step, enemy Strategic Reserve units can only be set up as if it were the second battle round.

MAGNIFIED GLORY3 WSP

Use this effect at the start of any turn. Until the end of the turn, add 3" to the range of aura abilities of LEGIONES DAEMONICA units from your army.

OTHERWORLDLY TREAD2 WSP

Use this effect at the start of your Movement phase or at the start of your Charge phase. Until the end of the phase, LEGIONES DAEMONICA units from your army can ignore any or all modifiers to their Move characteristic, Advance rolls and charge rolls.

DESCENDING SHADOW3 WSP

Use this effect at the start of your opponent’s Shooting phase. Until the end of the phase, each time a ranged attack is made against a LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army, if the attacker is more than 12" away, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.

INSIDIOUS WHISPERS2 WSP

Use this effect at the start of your opponent’s Psychic phase. Until the end of the phase, LEGIONES DAEMONICA units from your army have the following ability:

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.

Slaanesh

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 SLAANESH keyword, you have access to the following Slaanesh Warp Storm effects, and can spend Warp Storm points to use them.

MESMERISING DANCE4 WSP

Use this effect at the start of the Fight phase. Until the end of the phase, each LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of any enemy units can fight first that phase.

LIGHTNING SPEED3 WSP

Use this effect in your Movement or Charge phase. Until the end of the turn, each time an Advance roll or Charge roll is made for a LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH unit from your army, add 1 to the result.

DARK HALLUCINATIONS2 WSP

Use this effect at the start of your opponent’s turn. Until the end of the turn, while an enemy unit is within 12" of one or more LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH units from your army, each time that enemy unit starts to perform an action, roll 2D6. If the result is greater than that enemy unit’s Leadership characteristic, that action fails and that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.

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 Keepers of Secrets

The most gifted amongst the Greater Daemons of Slaanesh are living embodiments of unfettered excess and sensory overload. At once sublimely graceful and menacingly bestial, they terrify and repulse mortals even as they beguile them and bewitch their every sense. To stand against such a sublime nightmare given corporeal form is to endure a test of will and resolve that few mortals stand any chance of passing.

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 KEEPER OF SECRETS 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. SHALAXI HELBANE) 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.

EXALTED ABILITY	POWER	POINTS
Diaphanous Panoply	+2	+35
Epicurean of Agonies	+2	+25
Insatiable Onslaught	+1	+20

Exalted Abilities

Diaphanous Panoply

Though the smooth flesh and flowing silken finery of this daemon appear almost delicate, they are as impenetrable as a mind lost to the deepest throes of addiction. Even the largest calibre shots rebound from them as though the blows were no more than the kiss of a perfumed breeze.

Each time a ranged attack is made against this model, subtract 1 from that attack’s wound roll.

Epicurean of Agonies

It is in this daemon’s gift to know the innermost secrets, the most desperate desires and deeply harboured fears of all those it looks upon. It delights in exploiting such stolen insights to maximise the torments of its victims, dissecting their bodies with precise, nerve-shredding blows even as it drowns their minds in sadistic illusions that leave them all but unable to resist.

Each time this model makes a melee attack, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores 1 additional hit.

Insatiable Onslaught

The unfulfilled desires of myriad desperate souls surge through this daemon, filling it with a ravenous appetite for cruelty and slaughter that drives it on with ever-greater urgency.

Add 2 to Advance rolls and charge rolls made for this model.

Slaanesh Stratagems

If your army includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH 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.

THIRST FOR SOULS1CP

Legions of Slaanesh – Battle Tactic Stratagem

As extensions of their patron deity, the daemons of Slaanesh salivate with undisguised desire at the thought of devouring Aeldari souls.

Use this Stratagem in the Fight phase, when a LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH unit from your army is selected to fight. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack against an AELDARI unit, you can re-roll the hit roll and you can re-roll the wound roll.

RAZOR-SHARP CARESS1CP

Legions of Slaanesh – Battle Tactic Stratagem

The keenness of the Daemonettes’ desire to torment their foes manifests in the razored kiss of their vicious talons.

Use this Stratagem in the Fight phase, when a DAEMONETTES unit from your army is selected to fight. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack, on an unmodified wound roll of 6, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

THE ENDLESS DANCE1CP

Legions of Slaanesh – Battle Tactic Stratagem

These daemons flow ever-onward through the steps of an immortal ballet, a hideously graceful and wholly unnatural performance that speeds them across the battlefields of realspace.

Use this Stratagem in the Fight phase, when a DAEMONETTES unit from your army is selected to fight. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes a pile-in or consolidation move, it can move up to an additional 3". This is not cumulative with any other rule that increases the distance models can pile in or consolidate.

IMPOSSIBLE ELEGANCE1CP

Legions of Slaanesh – Epic Deed Stratagem

The greatest ofSlaanesh’s daemons move with an idealised grace and agility rendered hideous by its sheer precision and impossibility.

Use this Stratagem at the start of the Fight phase. Select one LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH CHARACTER model from your army (excluding VEHICLE units). Until the end of the phase, each time a melee attack is made against that unit, an unmodified hit roll of 1-3 always fails, irrespective of any abilities that the weapon or the model making the attack may have.

EXQUISITE GIFTS1CP

Legions of Slaanesh – Requisition Stratagem

The most exalted of Slaanesh’s daemons wield mighty artefacts, powerful symbols of the favour of the Dark Prince.

Use this Stratagem before the battle. Select one LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH CHARACTER model from your army and give them one Relic of Slaanesh (this must be a Relic they can have). Each Relic in your army must be unique, and you cannot use this Stratagem to give a model two Relics. You can only use this Stratagem once, unless you are playing a Strike Force battle (in which case, you can use this Stratagem twice) or an Onslaught battle (in which case, you can use this Stratagem three times).

MELODIC DELIRIUM1CP

Legions of Slaanesh – Strategic Ploy Stratagem

Fiends sing a strange dirge, its melodies catching in the minds of enemy psykers like hooks in flesh and flooding their thoughts with feverish bewilderment.

Use this Stratagem at the start of your opponent’s Psychic phase. Select one FIENDS unit from your army. Until the end of the phase, that unit has the following ability:

Melodic Delirium (Aura): While an enemy PSYKER unit is within 12" of this unit, each time a Psychic test is taken for that unit, subtract 2 from the result.

RACE THROUGH THE WARP1CP

Legions of Slaanesh – Strategic Ploy Stratagem

Slicing the skein of reality, Slaaneshi charioteers steer their charge into the warp before re-emerging to run the enemy down.

Use this Stratagem in your Command phase. Select one LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH VEHICLE unit (excluding SOUL GRINDER units) from your army. Remove that unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

RAPTUROUS STANDARD1CP

Legions of Slaanesh – Wargear Stratagem

This icon fills all who gaze upon it with such euphoria that they stand slack and glazed even as the daemons of Slaanesh descend upon them.

Use this Stratagem at the start of the Fight phase. Select one LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH ICON unit from your army. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack, you can re-roll the hit roll.

Soulstain Discipline

Before the battle, generate the psychic powers for PSYKER models in your army that know powers from the Soulstain 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.

PSYCHIC POWER

CACOPHONIC CHOIR

The daemon emits an ear-piercing chorus of warp-infused screams that erupt from its distended maw and shatter the sanity of its foes.

Witchfire: Cacophonic Choir has a warp charge value of 7. If manifested, roll 3D6. The closest enemy unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER suffers 1 mortal wound for each point that the result exceeds that enemy unit’s Leadership characteristic by (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).

SYMPHONY OF PAIN

Drawing in all the screams of pain and pleasure from across the battlefield, the daemon melds them into a disorienting and otherworldly music that beguiles even as it torments.

Malediction: Symphony of Pain has a warp charge value of 7. If manifested, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, each time a melee attack is made by a model in that unit, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll and wound roll.

HYSTERICAL FRENZY

The daemon sends a barbed lash of deranged fervour and furious bliss uncoiling across the battlefield to goad its allies to greater efforts.

Blessing: Hysterical Frenzy has a warp charge value of 7. If manifested, select one friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH CORE unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase:

Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of models in that unit.
Each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack, on an unmodified hit roll of 6, that attack scores 1 additional hit.

DELIGHTFUL AGONIES

Manipulating the very stuff of its allies’ corporeal manifestations, the daemon turns their physical hurts to euphoric stimuli, allowing them to fight on even with their physical selves in tatters.

Blessing: Delightful Agonies has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, select one friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH CORE unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, each time a model in that unit would lose a wound, roll one D6: on a 5+, that wound is not lost.

PAVANE OF SLAANESH

Compelled by this daemons plaintive urging, its victims begin an ever-more-desperate dance, flailing and contorting with wild abandon until flesh tears and bones snap from the unnatural contortions.

Witchfire: Pavane of Slaanesh has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER. Roll one D6 for each model in that unit. For each 5+, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).

PHANTASMAGORIA

Fixing its malevolent gaze upon its chosen victims, the daemon floods their minds with rapturous visions of delight and horror. These escalate to such overwhelming heights that soon those foes not tearing themselves or one another to pieces instead simply drop dead from insupportable sensory overload.

Witchfire: Phantasmagoria has a warp charge value of 7. If manifested, select one enemy unit within 18" of and visible to this PSYKER and roll six D6. For each 5+, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, each time that unit suffers a mortal wound as a result of this psychic power, subtract 1 from the Leadership characteristic of models in that unit.

Slaanesh Warlord Traits

If a LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH CHARACTER model gains a Warlord Trait, you can use the Slaanesh 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 SLAANESH HERALD model is your WARLORD, they can only have the Warp Mists, Fatal Caress or The Murderdance Warlord Traits. You can either roll one D3 to randomly generate one, or you can select one.

WARLORD TRAIT

WARP MISTS

The stuff of the warp clings to this daemon’s form, swirling around it like iridescent silks.

At the end of each battle round, if this WARLORD is on the battlefield, you can retain up to 2 unspent Warp Storm points.

FATAL CARESS

With a swift flick of a blade or razor-sharp claw, this daemon can inflict agonising pleasures that drive the1 victim instantly insane.

Each time this WARLORD makes a melee attack, on an unmodified successful wound roll of 5+, invulnerable saving throws cannot be made against that attack.

3	THE MURDERDANCE A performer in the maniacal dance of death, this daemon hacks and cavorts its way through the enemy ranks without ever missing a step. Each time this WARLORD fights, if it made a charge move this turn, then until that fight is resolved, add D3 to its Attacks characteristic.

4	QUICKSILVER DUELLIST A corporeal embodiment of arrogance, this daemon redoubles its efforts when humbling an enemy champion. Each time this WARLORD makes a melee attack: You can re-roll the hit roll. If that attack is made against an enemy CHARACTER model, you can re-roll the wound roll.

5	SAVAGE HEDONIST This daemon is a glutton for violence, striking ever harder to maintain the thrill of combat. At the start of each battle round, add 1 to this WARLORD’s Strength characteristic (to a maximum of +3).

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.

Named Characters and Warlord Traits

If one of the following characters gains a Warlord Trait, they must have the relevant one shown below:

Named Character	Warlord Trait
Shalaxi Helbane	Quicksilver Duellist
Syll’Esske	Aura of Bewitchment (Aura)
The Masque of Slaanesh	The Murderdance

Relics of Slaanesh

If a LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH CHARACTER model gains a Relic, you can give them one of the following Relics of Slaanesh. Named characters 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 Slaanesh your models have on your army roster.

THE FORBIDDEN GEM

This gem was the purest diamond in the Aeldari empire in the time before the Fall. It was a source of jealous pride to its keeper, a noble by the name of Ydrisyll, who spent increasing amounts of time transfixed by its beauty. One of Slaanesh’s first deeds after his apocalyptic birth was to capture Ydrisyll’s soul and cage it within the very gem he once so coveted. Gazing upon this corrupted diamond now inspires uncontrollable jealousy, leaving mortal senses hopelessly addled.

In your Command phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, any aura abilities that unit has have no effect.

THE MARK OF EXCESS

A daemon favoured with Slaanesh’s own mark of excess faces an existence of constant, desperate addiction. Whenever the cursed recipient sheds the lifeblood of a worthy foe it is rewarded by a sensory explosion of bliss so all-consuming that the daemon will fight harder than ever to feel such sensations again.

Add 1 to the bearer’s Attacks characteristic.
Each time the bearer makes a melee attack that destroys a CHARACTER, MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, add 1 to the bearer’s Attacks characteristic.

SOULSTEALER

This gluttonous blade gulps down the souls of its victims before invigorating the corporeal form of its wielder. Its greed stems from the starving Keeper of Secrets bound within - an arrogant entity that sought to devour enough Aeldari souls to challenge Slaanesh itself. As punishment for the daemon’s monstrous hubris, Slaanesh trapped it within Soulstealer, condemning the Keeper of Secrets to sustain other daemons with its frenzied appetite while retaining nothing for itself.

Model equipped with witstealer sword or hellforged sword only. This Relic replaces a witstealer sword or hellforged sword and has the following profile:

WEAPON	RANGE	TYPE	S	AP	D
Soulstealer
Soulstealer	Melee	Melee	+2	-3	3
Abilities: Each time a model is destroyed by an attack made with this weapon, the bearer regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 6 regained wounds per phase). Each time the bearer makes an attack with this weapon against an AELDARI unit, if a hit is scored, that attack automatically wounds the target.

SLOTHFUL CLAWS

Formed from the essence of a Keeper of Secrets, these claws have taken many guises and been bound to the corporeal forms of countless daemons. The slightest scratch from them imparts a smothering lethargy that weighs heavy on limbs, mind and soul alike, leaving victims mired in blissful lassitude.

Model equipped with ravaging claws or snapping claws only. Select 1 ravaging claws or snapping claws the bearer is equipped with.

Add 1 to the Damage characteristic of that weapon, regardless of whether it is a malefic weapon.
Each time an enemy model loses any wounds as a result of an attack made with that weapon, until the end of the phase, that enemy unit is not affected by the aura abilities of other enemy units.
That weapon is now considered to be a Relic for all rules purposes.

SILVERSTRIKE

The blinding speed with which this blade flicks out makes it appear as if it does not even occupy the space between thrust and strike. This swiftness makes the weird languor the blade inflicts on its victims seem all the more grotesque by comparison, those struck responding with slow and witless smiles even as their flesh peels apart or their limbs thump heavily to the ground.

Model equipped with witstealer sword only. This Relic replaces a witstealer sword and has the following profile:

WEAPON	RANGE	TYPE	S	AP	D
Silverstrike
Silverstrike	Melee	Melee	+3	-3	3
Abilities: Each time an enemy model loses any wounds as a result of an attack made with this weapon, until the end of the battle, each time that model makes a melee attack, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll and wound roll.

WHIP OF AGONY

This twitching lash coils lazily and deceptively around its master’s limbs, lurking innocently like a hidden compulsion until willed into a serpentine strike. The Whip of Agony exudes a psychic poison, linking its sentience with the nerves of any it touches. With the connection made, the whip’s febrile imagination pours pain and horror into the sensoria of its victims.

Model equipped with living whip or lashes of torment only.

Change the Type characteristic of any living whip or lashes of torment the bearer is equipped with to Assault 8.
Each time the bearer makes an attack with a living whip or lashes of torment (excluding attacks made against VEHICLE units), on an unmodified successful hit roll of 4+, that attack automatically wounds the target.

Stratagems by Phase

Before battle

EXQUISITE GIFTS (Legions of Slaanesh – Requisition)

Battle Round

Command phase

RACE THROUGH THE WARP (Legions of Slaanesh – Strategic Ploy)

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) MUTABLE FORM (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)

Movement phase

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) INSUBSTANTIAL ENTITIES (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) DARK ALLURE (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)

Psychic phase

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) BEINGS OF THE EMPYREAN (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy)

Enemy Psychic phase

MELODIC DELIRIUM (Legions of Slaanesh – Strategic Ploy)

Shooting phase

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) WAVE OF UNNATURAL FLAMES (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)

Being targeted

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) REVOLTING CONSTITUTION (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)

Charge phase

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) ICON OF CORRUPTION (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Wargear)

Enemy Charge phase

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) ICON OF CORRUPTION (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Wargear)

Fight phase

IMPOSSIBLE ELEGANCE (Legions of Slaanesh – Epic Deed)

RAPTUROUS STANDARD (Legions of Slaanesh – Wargear)

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) FRENETIC BLOODLUST (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)

RAZOR-SHARP CARESS (Legions of Slaanesh – Battle Tactic)

THE ENDLESS DANCE (Legions of Slaanesh – Battle Tactic)

THIRST FOR SOULS (Legions of Slaanesh – Battle Tactic)

Enemy Fight phase

IMPOSSIBLE ELEGANCE (Legions of Slaanesh – Epic Deed)

RAPTUROUS STANDARD (Legions of Slaanesh – Wargear)

Expansion. Arks of Omen: Vashtorr (9th edition) FRENETIC BLOODLUST (Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic)

RAZOR-SHARP CARESS (Legions of Slaanesh – Battle Tactic)

THE ENDLESS DANCE (Legions of Slaanesh – Battle Tactic)

THIRST FOR SOULS (Legions of Slaanesh – Battle Tactic)

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.

PSYCHIC POWER

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.

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.

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:

Until the start of your next Psychic phase, if that unit has any aura abilities, select one of those abilities: that unit loses that ability.
Until the start of your next Psychic phase, that unit cannot perform actions. If that unit is currently performing an action, it immediately fails.
Until the start of your next Psychic phase, in the Fight phase, that unit is not eligible to fight that phase until after all eligible units from your army have done so.

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):

The selected model’s unit suffers 1 mortal wound (if that unit contains 11 or more models, it suffers D3 mortal wounds instead).
Every other enemy unit that this line passes over or through suffers 1 mortal wound (if any of those units contains 11 or more models, it suffers D3 mortal wounds instead).

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.

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.

Select up to 6 models in that unit, and add together the unmodified Attacks characteristics of those models.
Roll a number of D6 equal to the total (for example, if five of the selected models had an Attacks characteristic of 2, and one had an Attacks characteristic of 3, you would roll thirteen D6).
If the result of the Psychic test was 11 or more, add 1 to each dice result.
For each roll of 6+, that unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).

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.

RESTRICTIONS

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.

BENEFITS

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.

SHADOW PACT1CP

Disciples of Be’lakor – Battle Tactic Stratagem

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.

Use this Stratagem in your Command phase. Select one CHAOS UNDIVIDED LEGION DISCIPLES INFANTRY unit from your army (see Codex: Chaos Space Marines), then select one of the pacts below. Until the start of your next Command phase, that unit has that pact:
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.

DAEMONIC BOON1CP

Disciples of Be’lakor – Battle Tactic Stratagem

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.

Use this Stratagem at the start of the Fight phase, when a LEGION DISCIPLES unit (excluding VEHICLE units) from your army that is within 6" of a friendly DAEMONIC DISCIPLES unit is selected to fight. Until the end of the phase:

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.

LEGIONS OF SHADE1CP

Disciples of Be’lakor – Strategic Ploy Stratagem

The Disciples of Be’lakor flow around and through their enemies like wraiths from the depths of the warp.

Use this Stratagem at the start of your Movement phase or at the start of your Charge phase. Select one DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR unit from your army. Until the end of the phase, models in that unit can move horizontally through enemy models (they cannot finish a move on top of another model, or its base).

MORTAL BOON2CP

Disciples of Be’lakor – Strategic Ploy Stratagem

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.

Use this Stratagem at the start of the Morale phase. Select one DAEMONIC DISCIPLES unit from your army that is within 6" of a friendly LEGION DISCIPLES unit (excluding VEHICLE units). Until the end of the phase, each time a Morale test is taken for that DAEMONIC DISCIPLES unit, it is automatically passed and counts as having been passed with an unmodified roll of a 1.

DRAUGHT OF TERROR1CP

Disciples of Be’lakor – Strategic Ploy Stratagem

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.

Use this Stratagem at the start of the Morale phase. Select one DAEMONIC DISCIPLES unit from your army. Until the end of the phase, that unit gains the following ability:

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.

BLESSING OF BE’LAKOR2CP

Disciples of Be’lakor – Epic Deed Stratagem

In the instant the enemy’s blows fall, Be’lakor’s blessings render his worshippers as insubstantial as shadow.

Use this Stratagem in any phase, when a saving throw made for a DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR model from your army against an attack is failed. If BE’LAKOR is on the battlefield, the Damage characteristic of that attack is changed to 0.

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).

SAVAGE EXCESS

Chaos Daemons Agenda (Slaanesh)

Though despising the crude butchery of Khorne’s daemons, those of Slaanesh delight in sudden explosions of elegant savagery.

Keep a Savage Excess tally for each LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH unit from your army. Add 1 to a unit’s Savage Excess tally each time:

A model in that unit makes a melee attack that destroys an enemy unit in the same turn that model made a charge move or performed a Heroic Intervention.
A model in that unit makes a melee attack that destroys an enemy unit that made a charge move or performed a Heroic Intervention this turn.

At the end of the battle, the unit in your army that has the highest Savage Excess tally gains 3 experience points, the unit with the second highest Savage Excess tally gains 2 experience points, and the unit with the third highest Savage Excess tally gains 1 experience point. If two or more units are tied, you can select which unit has the highest tally from those tied units.

CORRUPT ICONS

Chaos Daemons Agenda

The daemons of Chaos despoil that which their foes hold precious.

Keep a Corruption tally for each LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit in your army. Add 1 to a unit’s Corruption tally each time it destroys an enemy unit that started the turn within 3" of an objective marker and each time it completes the Corrupt Icons action (see below).

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.

EXALTED DAEMON1RP

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.

Purchase this Requisition when a GREATER DAEMON model from your Crusade force gains the Battle-hardened, Heroic or Legendary rank. That model is upgraded to be exalted.

The rules for upgrading ~~BLOODTHIRSTER~~ models to be exalted can be found here.
The rules for upgrading ~~LORD OF CHANGE~~ models 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 SECRETS models to be exalted can be found here.

Increase this model’s Power Rating accordingly and make a note on its Crusade card. You cannot purchase this Requisition if doing so would cause your total Power Level to exceed your Crusade forces Supply Limit.

DARK GAMBIT1RP

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...

Purchase this Requisition before any battle, while you are influencing the Great Game. If you win that battle, the god that shares an Allegiance keyword with your WARLORD gains D6 Ascendancy points instead of D3. If you lose the battle, the god that shares an Allegiance keyword with your WARLORD gains no Ascendancy points after that battle.

MONSTROUS DUEL1-3RP

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.

Purchase this Requisition at any time, while you are influencing the Great Game. Select two GREATER DAEMON models from your Order of Battle that do not share an Allegiance keyword. Select one of these models to be the victor and one of them to be the defeated. The god that shares an Allegiance keyword with the victor gains 1 Ascendancy point for each RP spent on this Requisition, and the Dark God who shares an Allegiance keyword with the defeated loses 1 Ascendancy point for each RP spent on this Requisition.

IGNOBLE DEFEAT1RP

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.

Purchase this Requisition when an Out of Action test is failed for a LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER model from your army. That model is now considered to be bound. Select one GREATER DAEMON model from your Order of Battle to be the binder, then select one melee weapon that model is equipped with (this cannot be a Relic or a malefic weapon) for the selected LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER model to be bound into. While that model is bound, the selected melee weapon gains the relevant ability below:

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.

While a model is bound:

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.

GLORIOUS RETURN2RP

When daemons break out of captivity, they are able to put their new-found experience to great use while plotting their revenge.

Purchase this Requisition after any battle, while a LEGIONES DAEMONICA CHARACTER model from your army is bound (see Ignoble Defeat, above):

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 Delicate Evisceration (Aura)

The daemons of Slaanesh gift blissful agonies to their victims, each bladed caress causing organs to rupture and bones to shatter amidst convulsions of overwhelming pleasure.

SLAANESH model only. While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH CORE unit is within range of this ability, each time a model in that unit makes a melee attack, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

Locus of Unnatural Swiftness (Aura)

Slaaneshi daemons dance across the battlefield with a grace and speed that defies belief. Their obsessive desire to close with their mortal playthings causes the stuff of reality to yield before them, allowing the daemons to cavort directly into battle with shrieks of wild delight.

SLAANESH model only. While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA SLAANESH CORE unit is within range of this ability, that unit is eligible to charge, even if it Advanced in the same turn.

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.

When you are creating your Order of Battle, if it includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA units, you can also start to influence the Great Game. In order to influence the Great Game, you will need a Great Game tracker. During your battles, if your army roster includes any LEGIONES DAEMONICA units, you will gain Ascendancy points for each of the four gods - Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle and Slaanesh. This tracker allows you to keep a tally of how many Ascendancy points each god has at present, growing their domains in the warp, and empowering their daemons. You can use this tracker to keep track of how many Ascendancy points each god is gaining during your games, as well as their overall total.

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:

KHORNE	4 Ascendancy points

TZEENTCH	3 Ascendancy points

NURGLE	2 Ascendancy points

SLAANESH	1 Ascendancy points

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).

If, after a god has gained Ascendancy points, they have the same total as another god, the god you have just rolled for gains 1 additional Ascendancy point. After each god has gained Ascendancy points, make a note of their new position in the Great Game on your tracker.

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.

First Position

DOMINION

While a Dark God is in first 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.

Second Position

DOMINION

While a Dark God is in second position in the Great Game:

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.

Third Position

DOMINION

While a Dark God is in third position in the Great Game there are no additional abilities.

Fourth Position

DOMINION

While a Dark God is in fourth position in the Great Game:

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:

First Position

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.

Second Position

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.

Third Position

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.

Fourth Position

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.

FIRST	4 Ascendancy points

SECOND	3 Ascendancy points

THIRD	2 Ascendancy points

FOURTH	1 Ascendancy points

Favoured Rewards

If your Crusade army includes any GREATER DAEMON units, they can gain Favoured Rewards, based on how well their Dark God performed in each round of the Great Game.

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.

If this model is a TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH model, this model knows one additional psychic power from any discipline they have access to.
If this model is a KHORNE model, add 1 to that model’s Strength characteristic.
If this model is a TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH model, once per battle, after successfully manifesting a psychic power, this model can regain up to D3 lost wounds.
If this model is a KHORNE model, once per battle, after this model destroys an enemy CHARACTER model with a melee attack, this model can regain up to D3 lost wounds.

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.

If this model is part of your Crusade force and you are the Attacker, then you start the battle with an additional 2 Command points.
If this model is part of your Crusade force and you are using the Strategic Reserves rule, you can halve the Command point cost required to place units into Strategic Reserves (rounding down).

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.

Once per battle, if this model is on the battlefield, you can use one Battle Tactic or Strategic Ploy Stratagem twice during the same phase, instead of only once.
When you select this model to be your WARLORD, you receive 1 additional Command point.

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.

Each time this model makes an attack against an enemy WARLORD or a unit that has a higher Crusade points total than this model, add 1 to that attack’s wound roll.
Each time this model destroys an enemy WARLORD or a unit that has a higher Crusade points total than this model, it gains 1 additional experience point at the end of the battle.

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:

Each time you make a Warp Storm roll, roll 1 additional D6.
Once per battle round, when you use a Warp Storm effect, reduce the Warp Storm points cost of that effect by 1.

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.

SLAANESH CHARACTER UNITS ONLY
D6	PSYCHIC FORTITUDE
1-2	Feast of Rapturous Agonies Even as it unleashes the power of the warp upon its victims, this daemon also drinks in the emotional feedback of their blissful suffering to reinvigorate its corporeal form. Each time this PSYKER successfully manifests a psychic power from the Soulstain discipline, it regains 1 lost wound.
3-4	Phantasmagoric Fugue This daemon’s curses come disguised behind blessed veils of enrapturing yet unattainable daydream. Each time an enemy unit is affected by a Witchfire or Malediction psychic power manifested by this PSYKER, until the end of the turn, that unit cannot fire Overwatch or Set to Defend.
5-6	Compulsive Conjuration The more this entity channels the power of the warp, the more obsessively it feels the need to do so again and again. Each time this PSYKER attempts to manifest a psychic power from the Soulstain discipline, add 1 to the Psychic test.

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.

DAEMONETTES CORE UNITS ONLY
D3	BATTLE TRAIT
1	Perfect Killers These daemons are experts at their deadly task, their every perfect evisceration drawing the eye of Slaanesh. Each time you make a Warp Storm roll, if any enemy units were destroyed by an attack made by this unit in the previous battle round, roll one additional D6.
2	Whimsic Wisps Like an urge or thought that leaps unbidden to mortal minds, the flickering advance of these daemons cannot be resisted. Each time a model in this unit makes a melee attack, the target does not receive the benefits of cover against that attack.
3	Claws of Living Diamond The talons of these daemons are as unnaturally beautiful as they are viciously sharp. Each time this unit is selected for the Razor-sharp Caress Stratagem, that Stratagem costs 1 fewer CPs to use (to a minimum of 0CP).

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.

Jewel of Excess

Seeming as one perfect ornament amongst many worn by this daemon, the Jewel of Excess is in fact a tormenting prison, housing the souls of every psyker ever slain by the bearer, their power now the daemons.

SLAANESH PSYKER model only.

Each time the bearer attempts to manifest a psychic power from the Soulstain discipline, add 1 to the Psychic test.
Add 1 to Deny the Witch tests taken for the bearer.

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.

Tears of Asuryan

When Slaanesh was birthed into the warp by the decadence of the Aeldari, she devoured the souls of many of that ancient race. Tales tell how the Aeldari god Asuryan witnessed the horrible fate of so many of his children and wept bitter tears that crystallised into these rainbow-hued gems. Only rarely is a daemon of Slaanesh encountered bearing such jewels, but should they use one in ritual imitation of She Who Thirsts, the power unleashed is little short of apocalyptic.

SLAANESH model only. Once per battle, in your Command phase, the bearer can shatter a Tear of Asuryan. When they do so:

You gain 6 Warp Storm points.
Until the start of your next Command phase, the bearer knows all the psychic powers from the Soulstain discipline.

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 HOUNDS~~ unit.
~~FLAMER~~ units can be included in a Boarding Patrol Detachment even though they have the FLY keyword, but an ~~EXALTED FLAMER~~ model cannot have an Enhancement.
When forming Boarding Squads, do not split ~~BLUE HORRORS~~ units 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.
A ~~HORROR~~ model 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.

FATAL CARESS

With a swift flick of a blade or razor-sharp claw, this daemon can inflict agonising pleasures that drive the victim instantly insane.

SLAANESH model only. Each time the bearer makes a melee attack, on an unmodified successful wound roll of 5+, invulnerable saving throws cannot be made against that attack.

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.

FRENETIC BLOODLUST1CP/2CP

Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem

Ravening packs of Bloodletters spill down corridors and across chambers, seeking out the foe, eager to spill their blood.

Use this Stratagem at the start of the Fight phase. Select one unit from your army. If that unit is not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, make a Normal Move of up to 6" with that unit. It must end this move closer to the closest visible enemy unit (if there is one). If that BLOODLETTERS CORE unit is within Engagement Range of any enemy units, make a pile-in move with that unit. If that unit makes a Normal Move, this Stratagem costs 2CP; otherwise, it costs 1CP.

WAVE OF UNNATURAL FLAMES1CP

Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem

When Horrors of Tzeentch uneleash waves of overlapping flames, few are the foes who can escape them.

Use this Stratagem in your Shooting phase, when a unit from your army is selected to shoot. Until the end of the phase, each time a ranged attack is made by a model in that unit (excluding Brimstone Horror models), an unmodified successful hit roll of 5+ scores one additional hit.

REVOLTING CONSTITUTION1CP

Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem

The supernatural corruption of Plaguebearers’ physical forms is such that even the most grievous wounds do not trouble them.

Use this Stratagem when a unit from your army is selected as the target of an attack. Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is made against that unit, an unmodified wound roll of 1-3 for that attack fails, irrespective of any abilities that the weapon or the model making the attack may have.

MUTABLE FORM1CP

Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem

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.

Use this Stratagem in your Command phase. Select one LEGIONES DAEMONICA model from your army that has any Enhancements. You can replace one of that model’s Enhancements with another. Select an Enhancement as normal and replace one of this model’s existing Enhancements with it. If that new Enhancement has an effect which takes place at a specific point in the battle which has already passed, that Enhancement has no effect.

DARK ALLURE1CP

Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem

Daemons of Slaanesh possess a sickening yet mesmerising beauty that renders their enemies glassy-eyed with entrancement.

Use this Stratagem at the end of your Movement phase. Select one enemy unit within 9" of and visible to one or more SLAANESH units from your army. Roll 2D6, if that SLAANESH unit has the CHARACTER keyword, you can re-roll this result: if the result is greater than or equal to that enemy unit’s Leadership characteristic, then until the start of your next Movement phase:

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.

INSUBSTANTIAL ENTITIES2CP

Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem

Daemons are not mortal creatures, their forms shifting between the warp and realspace, passing through solid barriers with ease.

Use this Stratagem in your Movement phase, when a LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit from your army is selected to make a Normal Move. When making that move, models in that unit can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, and can move through models, walls and closed Hatchways, but cannot move more than 6" and cannot end their move within any of these, nor within Engagement Range of any enemy models. You can only use this Stratagem once.

BEINGS OF THE EMPYREAN2CP

Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem

Born of the warp, daemons are highly attuned to its power and tides, able to draw upon it and weave it at will.

Use this Stratagem in your Psychic phase. Select one LEGIONES DAEMONICA PSYKER unit from your army. Until the end of the phase, that unit can attempt to manifest one additional psychic power.

ICON OF CORRUPTION2CP

Legiones Daemonica – Boarding Actions – Wargear Stratagem

The unearthly icons that are raised above the daemonic hosts take many grotesque forms, but all are loci for their powers.

Use this Stratagem at the end of the Charge phase. Select one enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of a LEGIONES DAEMONICA ICON unit from your army and roll one D6 for each model in that enemy unit. For each result of 5+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.

Wargear Reference

Glossary

Below you will find a glossary that contains a number of terms used in this Codex.

Allegiance Keyword: A LEGIONES DAEMONICA unit will have one or more of the following Allegiance keywords: KHORNE, TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH. If a unit has the <ALLEGIANCE> keyword, you must replace this keyword with one of those listed above.

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 unit for an additional cost.

Exalted Lords of Change: An upgrade that bestows new abilities on a unit for an additional cost.

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 KEEPER OF SECRETS unit for an additional cost.

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.

<ALLEGIANCE> KEYWORD
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.

Books

FAQ

Codex: Chaos Daemons

Datasheet Rules

Allegiance Keywords

Malefic Weapons

Abilities

Daemonic

Daemonic Invulnerability

Manifestation

Daemonic Terror (Aura)

Warp Storm

Warp Storm Effects

Undivided

Slaanesh

Detachment Abilities

Daemonic Legions

Daemonic Relics

Daemonic Allies

Exalted Keepers of Secrets

Exalted Abilities

Diaphanous Panoply

Epicurean of Agonies

Insatiable Onslaught

Slaanesh Stratagems

Soulstain Discipline

Slaanesh Warlord Traits

Named Characters and Warlord Traits

Relics of Slaanesh

Stratagems by Phase

Noctic Discipline

Be’lakor Warlord Trait

Shadow Lord

Army of Renown: Disciples of Be’lakor

Disciples of Be’lakor Stratagems

Crusade Rules

Agendas

Requisitions

Loci of the Gods

Locus of Delicate Evisceration (Aura)

Locus of Unnatural Swiftness (Aura)

The Great Game

Beginning the Great Game

Gaining Ascendancy Points

The Positions

End of a Round

The Next Round

Favoured Rewards

Lesser Rewards

Greater Rewards

Exalted Rewards

Psychic Fortitudes

Battle Traits

Crusade Relics

Antiquity Relics

Legendary Relics

Boarding Actions

Mustering a Boarding Patrol

Rules Adaptations

Enhancements

Boarding Action Stratagems

Wargear Reference

Glossary

Reference

Daemonic

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