Space Marines Stratagems281 stratagems across 58 detachments, with the army rules and detachment rules they come with. Print them as cards, nine to a sheet.

Extremis-level Threat

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

HEROES OF THE CHAPTER

Shooting · Fight

When the fighting is at its fiercest, the veteran warriors of the Chapter truly show their quality.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. If your unit is Below Half-strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.

TERRIFYING PROFICIENCY

Fight

The 1st Company's veterans unleash their skills with an efficiency that is harrowing to witness.

When

Your Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army that made a Charge move this turn and destroyed one or more enemy units this phase.

Effect

In your opponent’s next Command phase, each enemy unit within 6" of your unit must take a Battle-shock test. If the unit taking that test is Below Half-strength, subtract 1 from that test. Enemy units affected by this Stratagem do not need to take any other Battle-shock tests in the same phase.

DUTY AND HONOUR

Shooting

Adeptus Astartes veterans claim critical objectives in daring strikes, annihilating resistance in their Chapter’s name before sweeping onto their next target.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control.

Effect

That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn.

ORBITAL TELEPORTARIUM

Fight

Teleportarium chambers within orbiting strike cruisers are able to perform site-to-strike teleportations for Terminator-armoured battle-brothers in extremis.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR unit from your army.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves. It will arrive back on the battlefield in the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase using the Deep Strike ability.

Restrictions

You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

LEGENDARY FORTITUDE

Charge

Many are the legendary tales of the 1st Company holding their ground against the odds, weathering assaults that would have swept away lesser warriors.

When

Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Charge move.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.

ADAPTIVE TACTICS

Command

Only a truly versatile approach to warfare allows the Deathwatch to focus their tactical genius and best the myriad xenos foes they face.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One DEATHWATCH unit from your army.

Effect

Select the Furor Tactics, Malleus Tactics or Purgatus Tactics. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Deathwatch Mission Tactic is active for your unit instead of any other Deathwatch Mission Tactic that is active for your army, even if you have already selected that Deathwatch Mission Tactic this battle.

Legacy of the Angel

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes, combined with their transhuman physiology, makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

FOCUSED FURY

Fight

Keeping the beast within under tight control, the Blood Angels nonetheless tap into that inner rage and shackle it to their precisely aimed blows.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability. If your unit is a CHARACTER unit, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [LANCE] ability as well.

INSTANT OF GRACE

Command

In this most desperate moment of need, a lone battle-brother rises to the challenge as a true inheritor of the Angel’s legacy.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army.

Effect

Select one non- CHARACTER model in your unit. Until the start of your next Command phase, your model has the CHARACTER keyword.
Designer’s Note: While in effect, your model’s unit is therefore a CHARACTER unit, meaning it can interact with the Legacy of the Angel Detachment rule, in addition to other rules that interact with CHARACTER units.

STRIKE NOW FOR GLORY

Shooting

Knowing instinctively that the pivotal moment has arrived, these battle-brothers aim and hammer their foes with unrelenting volleys.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.

IN THE SHADOW OF GREAT WINGS

Shooting

The enemy is engulfed in a soul-deep shadow for just a moment, as though mighty wings have spread above them and marred their vision with occluding darkness.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".

UNTO THE BURNING SKIES

Fight

In the face of encroaching doom, as the world seems to burn around them, these scions of Sanguinius leap high into the tormented heavens, ready to strike down with vengeful fury upon the enemy teeming below.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit from your army. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, unless it is THE SANGUINOR.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Shield of the Imperium

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

RIGID DISCIPLINE

Fight

Cleaving to duty, the Adeptus Astartes refuse to be drawn out of position. Instead they secure ground to establish new fire lines to the enemy.

When

End of the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Your unit can immediately make a Fall Back move of up to 6".

Restrictions

When making that move, your unit must end that move either wholly within your deployment zone or within range of an objective marker.

NOT ONE BACKWARDS STEP

Command

Siege warfare is incomparably brutal. Space Marines battle with the fiercest determination to achieve victory, and will fight unto death to hold every defensive line or to secure gains they have wrested from the enemy.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army within range of an objective marker.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, double the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit, but it must Remain Stationary this turn.

NO THREAT TOO GREAT

Shooting

To combat an entrenched force of Space Marines, foes resort to armoured vehicles or packs of murderous monstrosities. Even the greatest of behemoths has a chink in its armour and the Adeptus Astartes are well versed in exploiting such weaknesses.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, you can re-roll the Wound roll.

BATTLE DRILL RECALL

Shooting

Space Marines train for countless hours to master their weapons and in the heat of battle can trigger mnemonic patterning to recall their ritual drills and ensure the foe’s destruction.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. If your unit Remained Stationary this turn, then until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

HAIL OF VENGEANCE

Shooting

Space Marines' incredible battlefield awareness enables them to instinctively identify the origin of any enemy fire and punish their attackers.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that had one or more of its models destroyed as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.

Rapid Deployment

MACHINE WRATH

Any phase

In a last act of vengeance, the doomed crew of this burning transport drive into the midst of the enemy.

When

Any phase, just after a HEAVY TRANSPORT unit from your army with the Deadly Demise ability is destroyed.

Target

That HEAVY TRANSPORT unit, if you rolled a 6 for its Deadly Demise ability. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal or Fall Back move before its Deadly Demise ability is resolved, and before any embarked units perform an Emergency Disembarkation. When making this move, your unit can move through enemy models (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) and can move within Engagement Range of such models, but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

RAPID EMBARKATION

Fight

With steely discipline, Space Marine battle-brothers mount up swiftly, even as the enemy closes in.

When

End of the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, and one friendly HEAVY TRANSPORT it is able to embark within.

Effect

If your ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit is wholly within 6" of that HEAVY TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.

CERAMITE SLEDGEHAMMER

Movement

The mightiest Space Marine transports are unstoppable on the advance.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TRANSPORT unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal or Advance move, it can move horizontally through terrain features. In addition, if your unit is a HEAVY TRANSPORT, when making this move, your unit can move through enemy models (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) and can move within Engagement Range of such models, but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed.

ADVANCED DEPLOYMENT

Movement

Coaxing the utmost from roaring engines, transport crews strive to deploy their passengers as close as possible to their assigned objectives.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TRANSPORT unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, units can disembark from your TRANSPORT after it has Advanced. Units that do so count as having made a Normal move this phase, and cannot declare a charge in the same turn (unless your TRANSPORT has the Assault Ramp ability), but can otherwise act normally.

PURGATION DOCTRINE

Shooting

Emerging from their transports, Space Marine infantry ruthlessly clear enemy positions.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll (if your unit disembarked from a HEAVY TRANSPORT this turn, add 1 to the Wound roll as well).

Interlocking Tactics

CODEX DISCIPLINE

Shooting · Fight

Holding to the teachings of the Codex Astartes, these warriors unleash disciplined volleys of firepower.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that target is auspex scanned, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 as well.

GUIDED DISRUPTION

Shooting · Fight

Employing auspex data to reveal weak points in the foe’s formation, the Space Marines exploit these to sow confusion and suppress their targets.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit from your army has finished making its attacks.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit.

Effect

When an enemy unit is auspex scanned as a result of those attacks this turn, if that enemy unit does not have the MONSTER or VEHICLE keywords, until the start of your next turn, it is pinned. While a unit is pinned, subtract 2 from that unit’s Move characteristic and subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for that unit.

LIGHT OF VENGEANCE

Shooting · Fight

With their frailties exposed by the harsh glare of auspex analysis, the foe are easy prey for the Space Marine’s vengeful onslaught.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Select the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have that ability while targeting an auspex scanned unit or if the bearer has the BATTLELINE keyword.

SHOCK BOMBARDMENT

Shooting · Fight

An auspex-guided hail of shock charges blinds the foe’s targeting systems and skews their aim.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit from your army finished making its attacks.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit.

Effect

When an enemy unit is auspex scanned as a result of those attacks this turn, until the start of your next turn, it is suppressed. While a unit is suppressed, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

ANGELS DEFIANT

Any phase

All too aware of their vital role in holding the foe at bay, these battle-brothers refuse to yield to even the most grievous of wounds.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

HERESY UNDONE

Shooting · Charge

Tactical scans and cogitator analysis have revealed the enemy’s debase schemes, rendering their movements easier to anticipate and counter.

When

Your Shooting phase or your Charge phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit (excluding BATTLELINE units) from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back. If it does, every target of that charge and every target of those attacks must be an auspex scanned unit.

Mission Tactics

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerency and transhuman physiologies of the Adeptus Astartes make them unyielding foes.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

ADAPTIVE TACTICS

Command

Only a truly versatile approach to warfare allows the tactical genius of the Deathwatch to best the myriad xenos foes they face.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

Up to two KILL TEAM units from your army, or one other ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

For each unit targeted, select Furor Tactics, Malleus Tactics or Purgatus Tactics. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Mission Tactic is active for that unit instead of any Mission Tactic that is active for your army.

HELLFIRE ROUNDS

Shooting

Hellfire rounds douse their targets in voracious acids that are utterly lethal to organic life.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One KILL TEAM unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons (excluding Devastating Wounds weapons) equipped by models in your unit have the [ANTI-INFANTRY 2+] and [ANTI-MONSTER 5+] abilities.

Restrictions

You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Dragonfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.

KRAKEN ROUNDS

Shooting

Kraken rounds utilise adamantine cores and improved propellants to penetrate the thickest hide.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One KILL TEAM unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 and improve the Range characteristic of those weapons by 6".

Restrictions

You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Dragonfire Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.

DRAGONFIRE ROUNDS

Shooting

Dragonfire rounds are designed to explode just before contact, saturating foes in cover with searing gas and flames.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One KILL TEAM unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ASSAULT] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.

Restrictions

You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.

SITE-TO-SITE TELEPORTATION

Fight

Site-to-site battlefield teleportation is a rare capability indeed, used only by the Deathwatch in extreme situations.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

Up to two KILL TEAM units from your army, or one other ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army, if those units are not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves. Until the end of your next Movement phase, models in those units that do not have the Deep Strike ability have the Deep Strike ability.

Mastered Doctrines

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

TACTICAL FORESIGHT

Shooting · Fight

With the enemy’s countermeasures and responses predicted and allowed for in advance, the Ultramarines can weather their most ferocious attacks.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than or equal to the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

COURAGE AND HONOUR!

Fight

Roaring their famed battle cry, the Ultramarines hurl themselves into the fight, striving all the harder to prevail beneath the unwavering eye of their Chapter Master.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LANCE] ability. If your unit is under the effects of the Assault Doctrine, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of such weapons by 1 as well.

ULTRAMARIAN ADAPTIVITY

Command

No Chapter’s warriors know better the breadth – theoretical and practical – of the Codex Astartes’ teachings, and how these can and should be adapted to ensure victory.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Select the Devastator Doctrine, Tactical Doctrine or Assault Doctrine. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Combat Doctrine is active for your unit instead of any other Combat Doctrine that is active for your army, even if you have already selected that Combat Doctrine this battle.

EXEMPLARY VIGILANCE

Shooting

Long have the Ultramarines guarded both Ultramar and the wider Imperium. No foe can hide from their vengeful gaze or evade the reach of their wrath.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability. If your unit is under the effects of the Devastator Doctrine, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of such weapons by 1 as well.

PRACTICAL TACTICS

Movement

After rapidly making a theoretical assessment of the foes’ probable next moves, the Ultramarines apply practical repositioning to counter them.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and is within 8" of the enemy unit that just ended that move.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or a Normal move of up to 6" instead if it is under the effects of the Tactical Doctrine.

Drive Home the Blade

IN THE EMPEROR’S NAME

Shooting · Fight

Space Marines will suffer any hardship and endure the savagery of the most monstrous foes to see their duty done.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker and was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.

CERAMITE BULWARK

Fight

The Space Marines present a wall of ceramite and plasteel shoulder guards to the breach as they force passage through.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES BATTLELINE unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Select any number of models in your unit. Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of melee weapons equipped by the selected models and each time you select targets for attacks made by those models, they must target an enemy unit that is wholly on the opposite side of a Hatchway from them.

DUTY AND DEFIANCE

Fight

Even when wounded unto death, still the Adeptus Astartes fight on in hopes their final efforts will spell the difference between defeat and victory.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if your unit has the BATTLELINE keyword: on a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

VOX-AMPLIFIED ROAR

Charge

In the echoing confines of a voidship, the deafening battle cries of the Space Marines evoke terror in the foe.

When

Your Charge phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army declares a charge.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Each target of that charge must take a Battle-shock test.

Adaptive Defence

UNYIELDING MIGHT

Command

Knowing that this strategically vital site must be secure for the defence lines to hold, Space Marines stand indomitable in the face of the foe.

When

Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Until the start of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristics of models in your unit.

PRIORITY STRIKE

Shooting · Fight

Eliminating key enemy assets is crucial to stalling then reversing the foe’s momentum.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a CHARACTER, MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, you can re-roll the Wound roll.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

STAND TO THE END

Fight

Aware of how vital it is that the defence line holds, these warriors fight even to their last breath.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if it is an ENTRENCHED unit: on a 4+, do not remove it from play. That destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

AUGMENTED TARGETING

Shooting

Auto-sense targeting subroutines specially adapted for defensive fire patterns aid these warriors’ aim.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Select either the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS] abilities. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability. If your unit is ENTRENCHED, until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] and [LETHAL HITS] abilities instead.

EVASIVE REPOSITIONING

Shooting

Codex doctrine when conducting an aggressive defence is to swiftly take up new positions whenever the foe finds your range.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6". If your unit is ENTRENCHED, you can re-roll the D6 to determine how far your unit can move.

The Great Wolf Watches

WOLF TOTEMS

Any phase

Be it the power of belief or something a little more eldritch, the Space Wolves’ trust in their various protective amulets and totems is often borne out.

When

Any phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY CHARACTER unit suffers a mortal wound.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY CHARACTER unit.

Effect

Your unit has Feel No Pain 5+ against mortal wounds.

RUNES OF CLAIMING

Movement

A few quick cuts with a diamond-keen hunting knife or energised claw tip leave Fenrisian runes carved into bedrock, plasteel or flesh, marks of abjuration against the foe and secret messages between Space Wolves alike.

When

End of your Movement phase.

Target

One friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY CHARACTER unit.

Effect

Select one objective your unit is controlling. That objective is secured.

STALK BETWEEN WORLDS

Shooting

This champion possesses nigh-preternatural stealth and cunning, stalking their prey like some predatory terror circling the dying campfire of its doomed quarry.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY CHARACTER unit.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY CHARACTER unit.

Effect

Your unit has Stealth.

Righteous Fervour

DEVOUT PUSH

Fight

With a zealous cry, the Black Templars press forward, using their ceramite-armoured bulk to smash into the foe and overwhelm the enemy's lines.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".

Restrictions

A unit cannot be targeted with this and the Hearts Hardened to Duty Stratagem in the same phase unless it has the Chaplain or JUDICIAR keywords.

HEARTS HARDENED TO DUTY

Fight

To suffer not blind aggression is to evade the snares of foul deceit and honourably reject self-aggrandisement.

When

Fight phase, just before an ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army Consolidates.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Consolidation move, it does not need to end that move closer to the closest enemy model (or the closest enemy unit if the Suffer Not the Unclean to Live Vow is active for it).

FOR THE EMPEROR'S HONOUR!

Fight

Filled with the spirit of Sigismund, his heirs seek out the foe's dark and unclean champions so that they may be crushed in the sight oftheirthralls.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.

PIOUS ENMITY

Fight

The warrior priests of a crusade drive Sigismund's heirs into the heart of battle, daring the greatest abominations to face their spiritual strength.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One Chaplain or JUDICIAR unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a melee attack that targets an enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that target is a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 as well.

HERESY BEGETS RETRIBUTION

Movement

Where enemies dare threaten the warriors of the God-Emperor or seek to escape their deserved death, there must be swift retribution.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

Target

One CHAPLAIN or JUDICIAR unit from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Your unit can make a surge move of up to D6".

DREAD CRUSADERS

Charge

To face the Emperor's transhuman crusaders as they chant their litanies of detestation can chill the soul.

When

Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit declares a charge.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as one of the targets of that charge.

Effect

That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.

Masters of Manoeuvre

HUNTERS’ TRAIL

Command

Using augur beacons, servo-skulls and the like, the Ravenwing mark locations they have passed through and cleansed of foes, laying a trial their fellows can follow on the hunt.

When

Command phase.

Target

One RAVENWING MOUNTED unit from your army that is within range of an objective marker you control.

Effect

That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

TALON STRIKE

Shooting · Fight

Be it their true quarry or simply one who possesses knowledge that will lead them to their apprehension, when the Ravenwing strike at a priority target they do so with unmerciful surety.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit is selected to fight.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Your unit’s melee attacks have [LANCE].

DEATH ON THE WIND

Movement

The Ravenwing employ shock tactics and focussed firepower to tear bloody paths through the enemy ranks, shattering resistance and clearing the way to their true quarry.

When

Your Movement phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit ends an advance move.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

That advance move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to declare a charge.

HIGH-SPEED FOCUS

Shooting

Even when travelling at breakneck pace, the Ravenwing control their vehicles with consummate skill and are able to jink and dodge around incoming enemy fire.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One RAVENWING unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

RAPID REAPPRAISAL

Fight

The Ravenwing scan and analyse their foes’ strategic dispositions constantly, augury and aerial surveillance helping to watch that no quarry slips their closing net. They are quick to redirect combat assets should such a risk present itself

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One RAVENWING unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Invocations of Ancient Fury

SEARING BURSTS

Shooting

When correctly calibrated and respectfully invoked, a plasma incinerator can fire blinding bolts that burst with searing energy. Those not killed are scorched and blistered by near misses.

When

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly HELLBLASTER SQUAD unit has shot.

Target

That HELLBLASTER SQUAD unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit hit by your unit’s plasma ranged attacks. That enemy unit is seared until the start of your next turn:
▪ While a unit is seared, that unit has -2" M.

NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT

Shooting

In extremis, the invoking of plasma coils’ output may be pushed past even the tolerances proscribed by Mars. The price is one the Chapter is prepared to make.

When

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit is selected to shoot.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Your unit’s [HAZARDOUS] plasma ranged attacks have +1 S.

REVELATION OF GUILT

Shooting

The weapon spirits of the Dark Angels are known to despise guilt, and gunners who chant the foe’s unrepentant acts may be rewarded with merciless precision.

When

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit is selected to shoot.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Your unit’s plasma ranged attacks have +1 to hit rolls.

Black-winged Vigilance

SKYBORNE SURVEILLANCE

Shooting

The auspicators of the Ravenwing are sleepless, and from ideal hunting vantages, there is nowhere the foe can hide for long.

When

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly RAVENWING FLY unit has shot.

Target

That RAVENWING FLY unit.

Effect

Visible enemy units within 6" of your unit have +3" detection range.

WINGS OF SHADOW

Shooting

Through subtle manoeuvring and empowered cameleoline armour, the swiftest of the Ravenwing evade attempts to bring their hunt to an end.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly RAVENWING FLY unit.

Target

That RAVENWING FLY unit.

Effect

Your unit has Stealth.

WE ARE VENGEANCE

Shooting

The Ravenwing’s aerial assets are capable of swift and reactive manoeuvring to new firing positions, ensuring opportunities for rapid vengeance.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit that targeted a friendly unengaged RAVENWING FLY unit has shot.

Target

That RAVENWING FLY unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3".

Wrath of Dorn

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

FURY OF THE FIRST

Shooting · Fight

Losses only serve to stoke the fiery wrath of the Imperial Fists and increase their resolve.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Terminator, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, Sternguard Veteran Squad or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. If your unit is below its Starting Strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.

OBDURATE VENGEANCE

Fight

Even when established wisdom favours retreat, the Imperial Fists remain defiant. Stubborn to the last, they would give their lives in the name of honour and the destruction of their foes.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Terminator, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, Sternguard Veteran Squad or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 3+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

WRATHFUL CONQUERORS

Movement

The battle-brothers of the Imperial Fists 1st Company advance with merciless efficiency, eliminating all resistance and staking the Emperor’s claim.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Terminator, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, Sternguard Veteran Squad or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control.

Effect

That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any phase.

DISCIPLINED EXTERMINATION

Shooting

Masters of bolter drill, the Imperial Fists utilise precise fire patterns to scour their enemies from hiding places and fell them in droves.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Terminator, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, Sternguard Veteran Squad or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability and improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of such weapons by 1.

DROPSHIP EXTRACTION

Fight

Making use of a lull in fighting, Terminator squads pull back from the front line, boarding airborne transports and withdrawing to prepare their next assault.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Terminator unit from your army. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Wrath of Angels

JUDGEMENT OF THE GOLDEN HOST

Charge

The meteoric impact of the Sanguinary Guard is an unavoidable judgement on those who have incurred the Chapter’s wrath.

When

Your Charge phase, when a friendly SANGUINARY GUARD unit from your army ends a charge move.

Target

That SANGUINARY GUARD unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit engaged with your unit. Roll one D6 for each model in your unit engaged with that enemy unit:
▪ For each 3+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound.

INEXORABLE VALOUR

Movement

Ever reaching for the heights of exemplary valour instilled in their forebears by Sanguinius, the golden host seize every opportunity to claim positions from which to strike anew.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, when an enemy unit that was engaged with a friendly SANGUINARY GUARD unit ends a fall-back move, if that SANGUINARY GUARD unit is unengaged.

Target

That SANGUINARY GUARD unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3".

BLINDING BLURS OF VENGEANCE

Shooting

When they power forward in rapid leaps, the glare emitted by their jump packs’ nacelles reflecting from the mirrored gleam of their armour, the Sanguinary Guard seem to glow with a blinding radiance few can look upon.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly SANGUINARY GUARD unit.

Target

That SANGUINARY GUARD unit.

Effect

Your unit has Stealth.

Close-range Eradication

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

CRUCIBLE OF BATTLE

Shooting · Fight

Only where the enemy can be faced eye to eye can a Space Marine be truly tested.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets the closest eligible target within 6", add 1 to the Wound roll.

RAPID EMBARKATION

Fight

No time can be wasted in punishing the Emperor's foes. Many are those that deserve death and once one enemy is vanquished, soon must another follow.

When

End of the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TRANSPORT unit from your army that has no models embarked within it, and one ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT.

Effect

Your INFANTRY unit can embark within that TRANSPORT.

Restrictions

You cannot target an INFANTRY unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, that cannot normally embark within that TRANSPORT, or that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn.

IMMOLATION PROTOCOLS

Shooting

Salvo after salvo of burning promethium unleashed in synchronised waves will leave almost any foe as smouldering ash.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, Torrent weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.

ONSLAUGHT OF FIRE

Shooting

Armed with targeting data supplied by their transport's augury gheists, warriors erupt from the assault ramps with weapons blazing in ruthless eradication patterns.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn and has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets the closest eligible target within 12", add 1 to the Hit roll. If one or more enemy models are destroyed as the result of any of those attacks, select one of those destroyed models; that destroyed model’s unit must take a Battle-shock test.

BURNING VENGEANCE

Shooting

To open fire on warriors of a Firestorm Assault Force is merely to invite one’s own swift destruction.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TRANSPORT unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

One unit embarked within that TRANSPORT can disembark as if it were your Movement phase, and can then shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.

Vulkan’s Quest

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

CRUCIBLE OF BATTLE

Shooting · Fight

Only where the enemy can be faced eye to eye can a Space Marine be truly tested.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets the closest eligible target within 6", add 1 to the Wound roll.

WRATHFUL INFERNO

Movement

The enemy has closed with your warriors. Now you have them precisely where you want them. Unleash upon them the fires of damnation.

When

Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army Falls Back.

Target

That unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.

IMMOLATION PROTOCOLS

Shooting

Salvo after salvo of burning promethium unleashed in synchronised waves will leave almost any foe as smouldering ash.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, Torrent weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.

BURNING VENGEANCE

Shooting

To open fire on warriors of the Salamanders is merely to invite one’s own swift destruction.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TRANSPORT unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

One unit embarked within that TRANSPORT can disembark as if it were your Movement phase, and can then shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.

BLAZING EARTH

Charge

When faced with an onrushing horde, the Forgefather’s warriors set fire to the earth beneath their feet, impeding their advance and throwing them into confusion.

When

Start of your opponent’s Charge phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army equipped with one or more Torrent weapons.

Effect

Select one enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES and units with the FLY keyword) within 12" of and visible to your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time that enemy unit declares a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (this is not cumulative with any other negative modifiers to that Charge roll).

Skystrike

DATA-LINK AUGURY

Shooting

Speeder crews are trained to exploit their craft’s reconnaissance augurs in a data-link with its weapons to target suddenly revealed foes.

When

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly SPEEDER unit is selected to shoot.

Target

That SPEEDER unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit within 24" of your unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range until your unit has shot.

REACTIVE EVASION

Movement

Triggering sudden flows of power to engines and manoeuvring planes, aggressive advances by the foe can be left foundering in a skimmer’s wake.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, when an enemy unit ends a move within 8" of a friendly unengaged SPEEDER unit.

Target

That SPEEDER unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3".

ANTI-GRAV SURGE

Fight

The anti-grav plates of this combat skimmer thrum with extra power, powering the craft into the atmosphere from where it can redeploy.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One friendly unengaged SPEEDER unit.

Effect

Place your unit in strategic reserves.

Combat Doctrines

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY END

Fight

Imminent death does not prevent a Space Marine from enacting his final justice upon the enemies of the Imperium.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

HONOUR THE CHAPTER

Fight

Every Chapter has forged its own tales of heroism, and none of its battle-brothers would see that noble record besmirched.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LANCE] ability. If your unit is under the effects of the Assault Doctrine, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of such weapons by 1 as well.

ADAPTIVE STRATEGY

Command

The tenets of the Codex Astartes allow for unorthodox use of combat tactics and the employment of divergent strategic doctrines if doing so will lead to victory.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Select the Devastator Doctrine, Tactical Doctrine or Assault Doctrine. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Combat Doctrine is active for that unit instead of any other Combat Doctrine that is active for your army, even if you have already selected that doctrine this battle.

STORM OF FIRE

Shooting

There is no escaping the wrath of the Space Marines, and they use their weapons to bring swift death to their foes wherever they may hide.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability. If your unit is under the effects of the Devastator Doctrine, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of such weapons by 1 as well.

SQUAD TACTICS

Movement

Space Marines know precisely when to give ground in order to leave their enemies floundering, before surging back into the fight and driving them from the field in disarray.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that is within 8" of the enemy unit that just ended that move.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or a Normal move of up to 6" instead if it is under the effects of the Tactical Doctrine.

Restrictions

You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Shock and Awe

A CEASELESS CAUSE

Fight

There is no room for hesitation or exultation for the Black Templars. With one knot of blasphemy expunged, the crusaders surge in search of the next.

When

End of the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that was eligible to fight this phase.

Effect

If your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, it can make a Normal move of up to 6". It cannot embark within a TRANSPORT at the end of this move if it disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn.

UNCOMPROMISING EGRESS

Movement

Little can threaten to overwhelm the venerable Land Raider. Its multiple, hydraulically augmented assault ramps slam into closing aggressors, enabling its deadly cargo to deploy quickly.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One LAND RAIDER model from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

Effect

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit embarked within your LAND RAIDER can disembark. When doing so, models in that unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield wholly within 6" of your LAND RAIDER and can be set up within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

GAUNTLET OF THE GOD-EMPEROR

Movement

Like the mailed fist of the Master of Mankind, the crusade's armoured battle tanks, transports and combat walkers smash their way through choked war zones to reach those deserving execution.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time your model makes a Normal or Advance move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.

FOCUSED HATRED

Charge

Surging from assault ramps, the Black Templars let none bar them from the most unholy threats, using their armoured might to bludgeon a path into battle.

When

Your Charge phase, just after you make a Charge roll for an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Charge move, models in your unit can move through models (when doing so, its models can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but they can only end that move within Engagement Range of enemy models if those enemy models belong to a unit that your unit declared a charge against this turn).

CONDEMNATORY INFO-SCREED

Fight

Prepared within their troop compartment by a broadcast litany of their foe's ungodly sins, the crusaders emerge with their hearts full of hatred.

When

Your Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if it disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If that TRANSPORT has the LAND RAIDER keyword, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.

BLESSED HULL

Shooting

Their hulls blessed by the chants of Techmarines and their prayer-servitors, a crusade’s war engines can be entreated to withstand the most malign attacks.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.

Calculated Annihilation

Recalculating

Restrictions

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

RUTHLESS BUTCHERY

Fight

The Iron Hands elite kill with machine-like relentlessness, and the tempo of slaughter only increases if they have losses of their own to avenge.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Dreadnought, TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, Sternguard Veteran Squad or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. If your unit is below Starting Strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.

DOMINATOR BEACON

Movement

These custom-built servo-skulls detach from augmetic tethers as the Iron Hands pass, settling into sentry patterns around vital strategic sites.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Dreadnought, TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, Sternguard Veteran Squad or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control.

Effect

That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the end of a phase.

COGITATED FEROCITY

Fight

Running endless up-to-the-second cogitations of their foes’ weak spots and vulnerabilities, Avernii veterans place every blow with punishing precision.

When

Your Fight phase.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Dreadnought, TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, Sternguard Veteran Squad or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Select either the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS] abilities. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability.

AUGMETIC FORTITUDE

Charge

Gene-wrought flesh reinforced by hardened augmetics and adamantine armour, the warriors of Clan Company Avernii exhibit nigh-supernatural resilience.

When

Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Charge move.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Terminator, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, Sternguard Veteran Squad or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.

DROPSHIP EXTRACTION

Fight

Terminators withdraw from the fight during a lull, board airborne transports and prepare their next assault.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Terminator unit from your army. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Target Sighted

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

TARGET WEAK POINT

Shooting

Targeting vulnerable joints or seams between armoured plates, Space Marine gunners increase the effectiveness of their weapons.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One TANK ACE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

Restrictions

A unit cannot be targeted with this and the Kill Shot Stratagem in the same phase.

KILL SHOT

Shooting

Space Marines are ruthless in culling weakened foes.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One TANK ACE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If the target unit is below its Starting Strength, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.

Restrictions

A unit cannot be targeted with this and the Target Weak Point Stratagem in the same phase.

RAPID GUNNERY

Shooting

Advanced targeting systems and the skill of transhuman gunners ensure that Space Marine tanks keep up a punishing rate of fire, even when extracting themselves from a press of enemies.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back.

REACTIVE REPOSITIONING

Movement

Reacting swiftly to enemy movements, this tank’s crew reposition their vehicle, angling armour or taking up an advantageous firing position.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

Target

One TANK ACE unit from your army (excluding units containing one or more models with a Wounds characteristic of 16+) that is within 8" of that enemy unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6".

MACHINE VENGEANCE

Shooting

Bellicose in the extreme, this vehicle’s machine spirit demands immediate vengeance for the hurts it has incurred.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

Target

One TANK ACE unit from your army (excluding units containing one or more models with a Wounds characteristic of 16+) that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is visible and an eligible target.

Vowed Target

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

MARTIAL MASTERY

Fight

The warriors of the Deathwing fight with the honed skill and lethality of knightly champions.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One DEATHWING INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. If your unit is within range of your Vowed objective marker, you can re-roll the Wound roll instead.

DUTY UNTO DEATH

Fight

So driven by duty are the veterans of the Unforgiven that even death cannot keep them from it.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One DEATHWING unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 if your unit is within range of your Vowed objective marker. On a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

RELIC TELEPORTARIUM

Movement

The Deathwing employ ancient and incredibly powerful teleportariums, some older than the Great Crusade, to strike at their foes with unparalleled safety and accuracy.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One DEATHWING unit from your army that is arriving using the Deep Strike ability this phase.

Effect

Your unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models.

Restrictions

Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.

WRATH OF THE LION

Charge

Channelling the strategic puissance and measured ferocity of their gene-sire, the veterans of the Unforgiven unleash a perfectly timed and utterly lethal storm of tightly controlled violence.

When

Your Charge phase.

Target

One DEATHWING INFANTRY unit from your army that just ended a Charge move.

Effect

Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit and roll one D6 for each model in your unit, adding 1 to the result if that enemy unit is within range of your Vowed objective marker: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 3 mortal wounds).

UNMATCHED FORTITUDE

Shooting

In the name of their oaths to Chapter, Primarch and Emperor, the Deathwing march into the fiercest firestorms and refuse to falter.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One DEATHWING INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than your unit’s Toughness characteristic, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

Dread Catechism

EXACTING PUNISHMENT

Shooting · Fight

With a denunciatory roar, Chaplains lead their battle-brothers in focused assaults to root out the foe’s reviled leaders.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, when a friendly CHAPLAIN unit is selected to attack.

Target

That CHAPLAIN unit.

Effect

Your unit’s attacks have [PRECISION].

TERRIFYING ZEAL

Charge

The intensity with which the skull-masked Interrogator-Chaplains plunge into the fray can shake the hardiest warriors. All who face them feel the tiniest of guilts eating away at their soul.

When

Your Charge phase, when a friendly CHAPLAIN unit ends a charge move.

Target

That CHAPLAIN unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit (excluding MONSTER / VEHICLE units) engaged with your unit. That enemy unit makes a leadership roll:
▪ If that leadership roll fails, that enemy unit’s attacks have -1 to hit rolls until the end of the turn.

WAGES OF COWARDICE

Movement

The spiritual leaders of the Dark Angels are ever watchful for lapses of conviction, and when displayed by the foe, they are the first to fervently capitalise on them.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, when an enemy unit that was engaged with a friendly CHAPLAIN unit ends a fall-back move, if that CHAPLAIN unit is unengaged.

Target

That CHAPLAIN unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3".

Armoured Wrath

UNBOWED CONVICTION

Command

Space Marines exemplify obdurate tenacity. Even injured, they will never abandon their oaths.

When

Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is below its Starting Strength.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit can ignore any or all modifiers to its characteristics and/or to any roll or test made for it (excluding modifiers to saving throws).

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

MERCY IS WEAKNESS

Shooting · Fight

Once a foe is marked for destruction, the Angels of Death must not relent until the target is annihilated.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability, and when making such an attack, if the attacking model is a VEHICLE, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

VENGEFUL ANIMUS

Any phase

Carefully cogitated binharic prayers can focus a machine spirit’s ire into near-obsessive hatred of its slayers, ensuring that vengeance is meted out even in death.

When

Any phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model from your army with the Deadly Demise ability is destroyed.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.

Effect

Do not roll one D6 to determine whether mortal wounds are inflicted by your model’s Deadly Demise ability. Instead, mortal wounds are automatically inflicted.

ANCIENT FURY

Command

The heroes entombed within Dreadnoughts have fought across countless war zones throughout their extended existences, perfecting their martial prowess beyond mortal limits.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES WALKER model from your army.

Effect

Until the start of your next Command phase, improve your model’s Move, Toughness, Leadership and Objective Control characteristics by 1 and each time your model makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.

POWER OF THE MACHINE SPIRIT

Shooting

There are many tales of machine spirits wreaking havoc on the foe, even after the crew of their vehicle are slain and critical systems are failing.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE unit from your army that was reduced to Below Half-strength as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.

Legacy of the Angel

MARTIAL PARAGON

Shooting · Fight

Led by the exquisite example of their lord, Blood Angels warriors adapt their deadly fighting tactics to efficiently carve their foe apart.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit is selected to attack.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit.

Effect

Your unit’s attacks have:
▪ [LETHAL HITS].
▪ OR: [SUSTAINED HITS 1].

SOUL-DARKENED FURY

Movement

Nobility’s mirror is a darkness that the greatest Blood Angels risk only momentarily to savagely exploit the foe’s attempt to escape.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, when an enemy unit is selected to make a fall-back move, if that unit is engaged with a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit.

Effect

When an enemy unit engaged with your unit is selected to make a fall-back move, that enemy unit must use the desperate escape mode, with -1 to those hazard rolls if that enemy unit is battle-shocked.

AURA OF THE ANGEL’S GRACE

Shooting

The indomitable inspiration of their Commander fills the Sons of Sanguinius with the resolve to endure, no matter the foe’s hateful power.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit.

Target

That CHARACTER unit.

Effect

Your unit has 5+ InSv.

Loping Charge

FANGS OF THE PACK

Fight

Fighting as one, the Wolf Guard fall upon an enemy champion and drag them down with single-minded savagery.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR unit is selected to fight.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR unit.

Effect

Your unit’s melee attacks have [PRECISION].

CHILLING HOWL

Command

Raising their feral voices as one, the elite champions of Fenris give voice to a predatory howl fit to freeze the marrow of the bravest warriors.

When

Your opponent’s Command phase.

Target

One friendly WOLF GUARD TERMINATORS unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit within 6" of your unit. That enemy unit makes a battle-shock roll, with -1 to that battle-shock roll if that enemy unit is at or below half-strength.

WINGS OF THE BLIZZARD

Fight

A swift extraction by gunship sees the Wolf Guard take to the skies, ready to strike back onto the battlefield wherever the fighting is most fierce.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One friendly unengaged ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR unit.

Effect

Place your unit in strategic reserves.

Red Thirst

ANGELIC GRACE

Any phase

Sanguinius' sons are blessed with the spiritual fortitude of their Primarch.

When

Any phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army has a mortal wound allocated to it.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability against mortal wounds.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

SAVAGE ECHOES

Charge

The Sons of Sanguinius may embrace the Red Thirst but for a moment, if the need arises.

When

Your opponent’s Charge phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was just charged by an enemy unit.

Effect

Select either the Strength or Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit. Until the end of the turn, add 1 to the selected characteristic. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the turn, add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.

RED RAMPAGE

Fight

In times of great desperation, fury and ferocity can be a warrior's strongest allies.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Select either the [LANCE] or [LETHAL HITS] abilities. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, then it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LANCE] and [LETHAL HITS] abilities.

AGGRESSIVE ONSLAUGHT

Movement

The Blood Angels enact a sweeping advance.

When

Your Movement phase, just after an Adeptus Astartes unit from your army has Advanced.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to either shoot or declare a charge, even though it Advanced. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to both shoot and declare a charge, even though it Advanced.

RELENTLESS ASSAULT

Movement

When Blood Angels execute a tactical withdrawal it is but a prelude to a renewed assault.

When

Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army Falls Back.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to either shoot or declare a charge even though it Fell Back. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it) and until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to both shoot and declare a charge, even though it Fell Back.

Psychic Disciplines

In The Lion’s Claws

OVERPOWERING EXACTION

Command · Fight

Engines roar, and teleportation flares erupt across the battlefield. Such is the din and ferocity of the Dark Angels’ assault that even the most veteran foes are given cause to cower before it.

When

Command phase or the start of the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test. When doing so, if your unit has the DEATHWING or RAVENWING keyword, subtract 1 from the result.

Restrictions

You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their transhuman physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

STRENGTH IN UNITY

Fight

Combining their specialised methods of warfare, the Ravenwing and Deathwing confound their enemies with high‑speed manoeuvrability and stalwart fortitude.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

If that enemy unit is within Engagement Range of one or more RAVENWING units from your army, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. If that enemy unit is within Engagement Range of one or more DEATHWING units from your army, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of the target, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

Restrictions

A unit cannot be targeted by this and the Armour of Contempt Stratagem in the same phase.

KNIGHTS OF IRON

Movement · Charge

Atop their snarling mechanical steeds, the warriors of the Ravenwing surge through seemingly impassable terrain, smashing through rubble and ruin to unleash the wrath of the Unforgiven upon unsuspecting targets.

When

Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

Target

One RAVENWING unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.

ILLUMINATING FIRE

Shooting

Ravenwing vehicles tear across the battlefield, identifying priority threats and targeting them with volleys of killing fire. The storm of blazing fury serves as a beacon for the wrathful battle‑brothers of the Inner Circle, who strive to bring final judgement to the foe.

When

Your Shooting phase, just after a RAVENWING unit from your army has selected its targets.

Target

That RAVENWING unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit within 12" of your unit that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks. Until the end of the phase, each time a friendly DEATHWING unit makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Wound roll.

INESCAPABLE WRATH

Charge

The Dark Angels’ Inner Circle warriors pursue the Chapter’s sworn foes and any who shield them with relentless endurance and a determination borne of indoctrinated hatred.

When

End of your opponent’s Charge phase.

Target

One DEATHWING INFANTRY or DEATHWING WALKER unit from your army that is within 6" of one or more enemy units and would be eligible to declare a charge against one or more of those enemy units if it were your Charge phase.

Effect

Your unit now declares a charge that only targets one or more of those enemy units, and you resolve that charge.

Restrictions

Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.

Faith-fuelled Resolve

SLAYERS OF ABOMINATIONS

Fight

The largest manifestations of the foe’s sin are branded unholy abominations, challenges which a crusade’s champions gladly meet to drive their sanctified weapons deeply beneath their hides.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly SWORD BRETHREN SQUAD unit is selected to fight.

Target

That SWORD BRETHREN SQUAD unit.

Effect

Your unit’s melee attacks that target a MONSTER / VEHICLE unit have +2 S.

BLADE OF DETESTATION

Charge

With roared litanies and incendiary hatred, the Sword Brethren plunge into their foe like a white-hot blade, their armoured momentum cracking armour, crushing bones, and trampling the foe underfoot.

When

Your Charge phase, when a friendly SWORD BRETHREN SQUAD unit ends a charge move.

Target

That SWORD BRETHREN SQUAD unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit engaged with your unit. Roll one D6 for each model in your unit engaged with that enemy unit:
▪ For each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).

UNSPARING EXECUTION

Movement

Those who attempt to flee their rightful death only stoke their executioners’ hatred all the hotter. None can be spared the God-Emperor’s wrath.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, when a unit is selected to make a fall-back move, if that unit is engaged with a friendly SWORD BRETHREN SQUAD unit.

Target

That SWORD BRETHREN SQUAD unit.

Effect

When an enemy unit engaged with your unit is selected to make a fall-back move, that enemy unit must use the desperate escape mode, with -1 to those hazard rolls if that enemy unit is battle-shocked.

Rapid-drop Deployment

SUPPRESSION STRAFING

Command

As the Space Marines storm forward, their gunships and fighter craft streak overhead, hammering enemy positions with hails of fire to keep the foe pinned.

When

Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Select one enemy unit visible to and within 18" of your unit. That enemy unit takes a Battle-shock test. When doing so, subtract 1 from that test and, if that test is failed, until the start of your next turn, that enemy unit is suppressed. While a unit is suppressed, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

Restrictions

You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per battle round.

TACTICAL DECAPITATION

Shooting · Fight

By rapidly eliminating localised enemy leaders, the Space Marines keep the foe off balance and hamper organised resistance to their onslaught.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability and each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a CHARACTER unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.

SHOCK ONSLAUGHT

Fight

The sheer devastating momentum of a Space Marine drop assault shatters one enemy battle line after another.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".

AUTO‑SENSE COORDINATION

Shooting · Fight

By binding the datafeeds from their auto-senses, these battle-brothers generate triangulated targeting solutions for close-quarters fire spreads.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Select the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have this ability in a turn in which they disembarked from a DROP POD or while targeting an enemy unit within 12".

BLIND SCREEN

Shooting

Autolaunchers spit a precogitated spread of blind grenades to baffle organic and mechanical targeting.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit (excluding TITANIC units) from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks and one friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES SMOKE VEHICLE or DROP POD unit within 9" of it.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, models in your units have the Stealth ability and each time a ranged attack targets one of your units, models in that unit have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.

ONWARD FOR THE EMPEROR

Fight

There is always another battle to be fought, and the Space Marines waste no time in fighting it.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that was not set up on the battlefield this turn and one friendly TRANSPORT it is able to embark within.

Effect

If your ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.

Relentless Salvoes

KNIFE WORK

Fight

These warriors strike at their enemies'weak spots, aiming to silence the foe without raising the alarm.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1.

ENHANCED EFFICIENCY

Movement

Moving with alacrity, clearing each new space with exceptional speed and skill, the warriors of the strike team advance on their main objective.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time your unit is selected to make a Normal or Advance move, it can attempt to operate one Hatchway it is within 1” of either at the start or end of that move. If it does, it cannot attempt to operate a Hatchway again this turn.

FIGHTING RETREAT

Movement

These warriors employ cover fire and frag charges to batter the foe as they fall back to new positions.

When

Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army is selected to Fall Back.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit and roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds.

MASTER MARKSMEN

Shooting

Every shot these warriors fire is placed for maximum impact and swift, decisive kills.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.

Maddened Ferocity

A GRIM WARNING

Any phase

So savagely butchered are the corpses left strewn by the Blood Angels that the mere sight of them gives the enemy pause.

When

Any phase.

Target

One BLOOD ANGELS unit from your army that was just destroyed while it was within range of one or more objective markers you controlled at the end of the previous phase. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

Effect

Select one of those objective markers. That objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes, combined with their transhuman physiology, makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

INSENSATE RAMPAGE

Shooting · Fight

The agony of even the most catastrophic wounds means nothing to the warriors of the Death Company, pain finding no purchase on their maddened minds.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One DEATH COMPANY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability.

LIMB FROM LIMB

Fight

While the Blood Angels display skill and discipline at close quarters, it is tinged with a blood-drenched brutality that only increases with their building rage.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that made a Charge move this turn.

Effect

Select either the Strength or Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit. Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the selected characteristic. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it), and until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.

DEATHLESS DUTY

Fight

Even as death at last smothers the inferno of fury consuming the minds of these lost brethren, they keep killing, until not even the faintest spark remains.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One DEATH COMPANY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

RED WRATH

Movement

Already swift and aggressive even by Space Marine standards, the Blood Angels can enhance their might yet further by surrendering temporarily to the Red Thirst, albeit at the cost of higher strategic thought.

When

Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army Advances.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to either shoot or declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. You can instead choose for your unit to give in to the Red Thirst; if it does, it becomes Battle-shocked (but the effects of this Stratagem still apply to it), and until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

Oath of Reclamation

CRUSADING CONQUERORS

Command

The sheer will of these battle-brothers to reclaim the sacred Five Hundred Worlds is overwhelming.

When

End of the Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Until the start of the next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit.

FURIOUS DEDICATION

Charge · Fight

Cold fury of purpose drives the charge of the Space Marines, their absolute dedication to their cause lending them ferocious speed and strength.

When

Your Charge phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not declared a charge or been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, add 2 to Charge rolls made for your unit and add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.

Restrictions

You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per turn.

FIGHT TO THE END

Fight

Those who have sworn an oath to see Ultramar reclaimed will not yield a single yard of its territories once they have seized and secured them.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

SCIONS OF GUILLIMAN

Movement

The gene-sons of Roboute Guilliman are masters of his tenets, regardless of which Chapter they hail from.

When

Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army ends a Fall Back move.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

ULTRAMARIAN DESTINY

Movement

All those Space Marines fighting to defend or to expand the Ultramarines stellar realm trust that their conquest – though it must be hard fought for – is nothing short of ordained by the Primarch’s will.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Select one objective marker you control that your unit is within range of. That objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.

MARCHING EVER ON

Fight

The road to the complete rebuilding of the Five Hundred Worlds will be a long and gruelling one, and those who fight their way along it cannot pause in their advance for even a moment.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit Falls Back.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was within Engagement Range of that enemy unit at the start of the phase.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6"+1.

Legendary Slayers

UNBRIDLED FEROCITY

Fight

The Space Wolves fight with a savage fury that enables them to overcome even the most resilient targets.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One SPACE WOLVES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Wound roll.

SHOCK CAVALRY

Movement · Charge

Thunderwolf Cavalry bound through friend and foe, leaping over obstacles in pursuit of their foes.

When

Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

Target

One THUNDERWOLF CAVALRY unit from your army that has not been selected to move or declared a charge this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Normal, Advance, Fall Back or Charge move, it can move through models (excluding TITANIC models) and sections of terrain features that are 4" or less in height. When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but unless it is making a Charge move, it cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them.

PINNING FIRE

Shooting

Unleashing a storm of firepower, the Space Wolves pin their targets down and halt their advance.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, after your unit has shot, select one enemy CHARACTER, MONSTER, or VEHICLE unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the start of your next Shooting phase, that unit is pinned. While a unit is pinned, subtract 2" from its Move characteristic and subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for it.

THUNDEROUS PURSUIT

Movement

The relentless endurance of thunderwolf steeds enables the Space Wolves to run down fleeing foes.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6". If your unit has the SPACE WOLVES INFANTRY or THUNDERWOLF CAVALRY keywords, it can make a Normal move of up to 6" instead.

IMPETUOSITY

Shooting

Severe losses only drive Blood Claws and Wulfen forward into the midst of the foe.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit that targeted a friendly unengaged WULFEN INFANTRY / BLOOD CLAWS unit this phase has shot.

Target

That WULFEN INFANTRY / BLOOD CLAWS unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a surge move of up to D6".

COORDINATED STRIKE

Fight

Space Wolves officers rein in their warriors’ impulsive fury, repositioning them to strike exposed flanks.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One SPACE WOLVES unit from your army that is wholly within 9" of one or more battlefield edges and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Heroes All

INSPIRING PRESENCE

Fight

The inspiring presence of a champion lends their pack's strikes lethal impetus.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.

CHAMPION’S GUIDANCE

Shooting · Fight

A paragon of Fenrisian savagery, this champion guides his warriors with confidence and precision.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One SPACE WOLVES CHARACTER unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.

BIRTH OF A SAGA

Command

Heroes are forged in the heat of battle, rising from obscurity to become the warriors of epic sagas.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One Wolf Guard Headtaker or Wolf Guard Terminator Pack Leader model from your army.

Effect

Until the start of your next Command phase, your model has the CHARACTER keyword.
Designer’s Note: While in effect, your model’s unit is therefore a CHARACTER unit, meaning it can interact with the Heroes All rule, in addition to other rules that interact with CHARACTER units.

ALPHA STRIKE

Charge

A true alpha wolf leads by example, and is always first into the fray.

When

Your Charge phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

HEROIC RESOLVE

Shooting

This warrior’s indomitable fortitude is the stuff of legend, galvanizing his pack to remain standing before an avalanche of incoming attacks.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One SPACE WOLVES CHARACTER unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.

COUNTERCHARGE

Charge

Bellowing encouragement, this warrior rallies his pack and leads a furious counterstrike, intercepting the enemy advance before it can fall upon his allies.

When

End of your opponent’s Charge phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit from your army that is within 6" of one or more enemy units and would be eligible to declare a charge against one or more of those enemy units if it were your Charge phase.

Effect

Your unit now declares a charge that targets only one or more of those enemy units, and you resolve that charge as if it were your Charge phase. Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.

Master of Wolves

Howling Onslaught

THE FOE FORESEEN

Shooting · Fight

With his great strategic wisdom, Grimnar predicted the peril these warriors would encounter and warned them to be ready for it.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

GRIMNAR’S COMMAND

Command

Pivotal as they are to the Great Wolf’s plans, this pack have their own orders to fulfil in this moment that come directly from Grimnar himself.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Select one Hunting Pack from the Master of Wolves Detachment rule. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Hunting Pack is active for your unit instead of any other Hunting Pack that is active, even if you have already selected that Hunting Pack this battle.

FENRISIAN FEROCITY

Movement · Charge

Even the most challenging terrain or formidable fortifications cannot stop the Great Wolf’s chief hunters once they are in motion.

When

Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED or ADEPTUS ASTARTES WALKER unit from your army that has not been selected to move or charge this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Normal, Advance, Fall Back or Charge move, it can move horizontally through models (excluding TITANIC models) and terrain features. When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but cannot end a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within Engagement Range of them.

UNRELENTING HUNTERS

Movement

Knowing their part in the grand plan and determined to execute it with the magnificence of true champions, these warriors fight with a fluid and inescapable ferocity.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back. If your unit is a SPACE WOLVES unit, until the end of the turn, it is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.

EYE OF THE PACK

Shooting

Once one Fenrisian warrior has perceived some slight weakness in the defences of their foes, they all strike at it like encircling predators dragging down prey.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can add 1 to the Wound roll.

BATTLE INSTINCTS

Shooting

These champions of Fenris respond to enemy fire with instinctive swiftness, rarely giving their foes a second chance to shoot at them.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

Target

One SPACE WOLVES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6".

Pack’s Quarry

HUNTERS’ TRAIL

Fight

The Space Wolves close in on their foes, some packs hurling themselves upon the enemy whilst others move to cut off retreat routes.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One SPACE WOLVES unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3". When doing so, it does not need to end that move closer to the closest enemy model, provided it ends that move as close as possible to the closest enemy unit.

TERRITORIAL ADVANTAGE

Fight

The wolf packs are ever on the move, seizing ground and repelling their foes with savage violence.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit is destroyed by an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Select one objective marker you control that your unit is within range of. That objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.

OVERWHELMING ONSLAUGHT

Fight

Several packs converge upon a single target, pinning them in place with the weight of their bodies.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

Two ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit, or one SPACE WOLVES BEASTS unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

CHOSEN PREY

Movement

Having singled out their prey, the pack repeatedly strikes in waves, bleeding the target with each hit.

When

Your Movement phase, just after a SPACE WOLVES unit from your army Falls Back.

Target

That SPACE WOLVES unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

BOUNDING ADVANCE

Movement · Charge

Fenrisian warriors and wolves surge forward, driving through the enemy line to outflank the foe.

When

Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

Target

One SPACE WOLVES INFANTRY or SPACE WOLVES BEASTS unit from your army that has not been selected to move or declared a charge this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Normal, Advance, Fall Back or Charge move, it can move through models (excluding TITANIC models). When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of enemy models, but unless it is making a Charge move, it cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them.

MARKED FOR DESTRUCTION

Shooting

At the barked orders of their Pack Leaders, the Space Wolves focus their fury upon a single target, combining their firepower to bring the foe down.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

Two ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army (excluding BEASTS) that have not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Select one enemy unit visible to both of your units. Until the end of the phase, models in your units can only target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target) and each time a model in one of your units makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

Masters of Shadow

Unparalleled Tactician

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

LAY LOW THE TYRANTS

Fight

In a storm of blade thrusts and bludgeoning strikes, enemy champions and commanders are laid low, leaving their troops in leaderless disarray.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.

FEINT AND THRUST

Movement

Retreating from the fight, these warriors lure their enemies on before swiftly turning the tables and hurling themselves into their now overextended foe.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back. If it is a PHOBOS or SCOUT SQUAD unit, it is also eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

STUNNING FUSILLADE

Shooting

From darkness and obscuring cover, Raven Guard battle-brothers open fire as one, striking their unaware targets with precision fire.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit that is more than 12" away, improve the Ballistic Skill and Armour Penetration characteristics of that attack by 1. If one or more enemy models are destroyed as a result of those attacks, select one of those destroyed models; that destroyed model’s unit must take a Battle-shock test.

RAPTORIAL VIGILANCE

Movement

The Raven Guard are swift to exploit the movements of their foes, whether to pursue their prey and complete the kill or to make use of an opportunity to fade oncemore from sight.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that is within 8" of the enemy unit that just ended that move. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or up to 6" instead if it is a PHOBOS or SCOUT SQUAD unit.

INTO DARKNESS

Fight

At the opportune moment, Raven Guard infiltration units slip away from battle, only to relocate ready to strike the foe again.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

Up to two PHOBOS and/or SCOUT SQUAD units from your army, or one other ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.

Focused Response

CODEX WARFARE

Movement

The Codex Astartes is held as a hallowed work of martial genius by the Shield Chapters. Its tenets prescribe tactical adaptability and fighting on the move, advancing from one adversary to the next in a series of deadly redeployments.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.

OVERCHARGED BREACH

Shooting

With a well-placed volley of high-powered ammunition or a dedicated melta charge, specially equipped Space Marines can effect a permanent access route.

When

Start of your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Select one closed Hatchway within 9" of and visible to your unit. Open that Hatchway and, until the end of the battle, that Hatchway cannot be closed.

Restrictions

You cannot use this Stratagem more than once.

ADAPTIVE PURGE

Shooting

Whatever hidden horrors lurk in the vessels the Shield Chapters must conquer, the warriors are able to adapt their firing tactics to ensure their destruction.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Select one of the following abilities: [LETHAL HITS], [IGNORES COVER] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have that ability.

RAPID TAKEOVER

Movement

With one foe reeling in disarray, the battle-brothers instantly refocus on their next target, their rapid yet methodical progress capitalising on the enemy's every move.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit Falls Back.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was within Engagement Range of that enemy unit at the start of the phase.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D3+1".

Storm-swift Onslaught

Wrath of the First Khan

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

SPEAR THRUST AND SABRE SWING

Fight

Some foes can be ended with a single charge. Others require sustained savagery to fell. The White Scars are adept at both methods of fighting.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Select either the [LANCE] or [LETHAL HITS] ability. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability. If it is a MOUNTED unit, until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LANCE] and [LETHAL HITS] abilities instead.

MOBILE LETHALITY

Movement

The White Scars fight their wars at a furious tempo, and their warriors are adept at fire-and-manoeuvre strategies.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.

HUNTER’S INSTINCTS

Movement

The White Scars read the ebb and flow of battle with the hungry cunning of raptorial predators, reacting to the enemy’s movements with exceptional rapidity.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".

EVASIVE MANOEUVRES

Shooting

Battle-brothers of the White Scars Chapter are born and raised in the saddle. Expert pilots and riders all, they weave through incoming fire with instinctive skill.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED or ADEPTUS ASTARTES FLY VEHICLE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

WITHDRAW AND REGROUP

Fight

The riders and pilots sweep away as swiftly as they arrive, regrouping in preparation for their next assault.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED or ADEPTUS ASTARTES FLY VEHICLE unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Lightning Assault

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

BLITZING FUSILLADE

Shooting

Warriors of Stormlance Task Forces can suddenly pour heavy and accurate fire into the enemy even as they race to finish off any survivors.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ASSAULT] ability. If such a weapon already has this ability, until the end of the phase, that weapon has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability as well.

FULL THROTTLE

Movement

On the eve of riding down the most elusive prey, the task force's expert Techmarines will entreat the engine spirits o f their vehicles, honing the iron steeds' performance to elicit even more speed from them.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED or ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE unit (excluding WALKERS) from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, if your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit, or 9" instead if your unit is MOUNTED.

SHOCK ASSAULT

Charge

The Adeptus Astartes are elite troops who strike with all the speed and fury of a searing thunderbolt.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit is selected to fight.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Your unit’s melee attacks have [LANCE].

RIDE HARD, RIDE FAST

Shooting

Like zephyrs dancing across wide horizons, Space Marine riders and pilots can weave lithely around incoming fire with incredible skill.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED or ADEPTUS ASTARTES FLY VEHICLE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

WIND-SWIFT EVASION

Movement

Space Marines are loathe to be brought into combat on any others’ terms, especially the warriors of Stormlance Task Forces, whose battlefield tactics revolve around speed and precise, ferocious assaults.

When

Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".

Restrictions

You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Nowhere to Hide

ADAPTIVE OPERATIONS

Shooting

Those warriors who operate far from Chapter reinforcement maintain their lethal fire even while conducting vital strategic operations.

When

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly PHOBOS / SCOUT SQUAD unit starts an action.

Target

That PHOBOS / SCOUT SQUAD unit.

Effect

That action does not prevent your unit from being eligible to shoot.

STRIKE FROM THE SHADOWS

Shooting

Holding to the shadows and choosing victims with care, stealthy warriors winnow the enemy ranks without ever revealing their positions.

When

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly PHOBOS / SCOUT SQUAD unit has shot.

Target

That PHOBOS / SCOUT SQUAD unit.

Effect

Those ranged attacks do not prevent your unit from being hidden.

CLOAKED POSITION

Shooting

When still, silent and further masked by cameleoline materials or drifting smoke, a Chapter’s forward operatives are almost impossible to spot until it is too late.

When

Start of your opponent’s Movement phase.

Target

One friendly unengaged PHOBOS / SCOUT SQUAD unit.

Effect

Your unit has -3" detection range until the end of the turn.

Sacred Oath

TOWER OF STRENGTH

Any phase

Each individual Terminator is a walking fortress. When they stand together they are truly indomitable.

When

Start or end of any phase.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Terminator unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit.

Restrictions

Each time you use this Stratagem, you cannot use it again until after your next Command phase.

FOCUSING SHRINE

Movement

An ancient device built into the structure of the teleportarium, this relic allows for incredibly accurate teleport assaults.

When

Your Movement phase, at the start of the Reinforcements step.

Target

One Adeptus Astartes Terminator unit from your army that is in Reserves.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, when setting up your unit on the battlefield using its Deep Strike ability, you can set it up unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models (measure this distance as you would normally for the Deep Strike ability, ignoring Walls and closed Hatchways).

Restrictions

Until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge.

CARVE A PATH

Movement · Charge

Power fists, chainfists, and sheer servo-actuated armoured mass ensure that Terminators’ paths are never barred for long.

When

Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.

Target

One TERMINATOR ASSAULT SQUAD unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase and has not declared a charge this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, when making a Normal, Advance or Charge move, your unit can move through a single closed Hatchway as if it was open. When doing so, that Hatchway is opened and cannot be closed for the rest of the battle. This can allow that unit to declare a charge against enemy units that are not visible to it, but to do so those enemy units must be within 1" of that Hatchway and wholly on the opposite side of it from your unit.

Restrictions

You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per turn.

CLEANSING SWEEP

Movement · Charge

Refined during the clearance of infested space hulks, these methodical tactics ensure no angle of approach goes undefended.

When

Your opponent's Movement or Charge phase.

Target

One TERMINATOR SQUAD unit from your army that has not fired Overwatch this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack while firing Overwatch, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ is required to score a hit, instead of an unmodified 6.

Upon Wings of Fire

UNBRIDLED ARDOUR

Any phase

The Sanguinary Guard exemplify the noble heritage of Sanguinius, leaping to avenge their battle-brothers without hesitation.

When

Any phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

Effect

Until the end of the battle, each time a friendly SANGUINARY GUARD unit makes an attack that targets the enemy unit that just destroyed your unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their enhanced physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

ANGEL’S SACRIFICE

Fight

The Blood Angels would gladly put themselves in harm's way to protect others, just as Sanguinius sacrificed his own life.

When

Start of the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy model within Engagement Range of your unit selects its targets, it must select your unit as the target of all of its attacks.

MARTIAL EXEMPLARS

Fight

The Blood Angels are mighty warriors indeed, and wield their gilded and shimmering blades with consummate skill.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] and [PRECISION] abilities.

DESCENT OF ANGELS

Movement

The Blood Angels are masters of aerial assault, leaping from airborne transports with jump packs roaring to plunge into the heat of battle.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit from your army that is arriving using the Deep Strike ability this phase.

Effect

Your unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units.

Restrictions

A unit targeted by this Stratagem is not eligible to declare a charge in the same turn.

DEATH FROM THE SKIES

Charge

The roar of the Blood Angels jump packs is as a funeral dirge to their foes.

When

Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit from your army Advances or Falls Back.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES JUMP PACK unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced or Fell Back.

Anointed Champion

A Noble Death in Combat

GLORIOUS SACRIFICE

Any phase

Even in death, the Lost bring victory to their Chapter.

When

Any phase.

Target

One DEATH COMPANY unit from your army that was just destroyed while it was within range of an objective marker you controlled. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

Effect

That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their enhanced physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

FINAL RETRIBUTION

Fight

These battle-brothers have already accepted their deaths. They now seek to strike one last, telling blow against the enemy.

When

Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One DEATH COMPANY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly Chaplain models; on a 4+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.

FURIOUS ONSLAUGHT

Fight

The Lost push towards new foes, the bloodlust in their veins enhancing their preternatural speed.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One DEATH COMPANY unit from your army, just before that unit Piles-in.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Pile-in move, it can move up to D3+3" instead of up to 3". If your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly Chaplain models, or if it is below Starting Strength, it can move up to 6" instead. In either case, it can only do so provided your unit ends that Pile-in move in Unit Coherency and within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

LOST TO RAGE

Fight

The Lost are consumed utterly by rage.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One DEATH COMPANY unit from your army that is below Starting Strength and has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, improve the Attacks, Stength and Armour Penetration characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 and, unless your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly Chaplain models, until the end of the phase, those weapons have the [HAZARDOUS] ability.

WRATHFUL RAMPAGE

Movement

So lost to rage are the Death Company that they surge unstoppably into battle, eagerly outpacing their brothers.

When

Your Movement phase, just after a DEATH COMPANY unit from your army Advances.

Target

That DEATH COMPANY unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. If your unit is within 12" of one or more friendly Chaplain models, or it is below its Starting Strength, until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.

Grim Resolve

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

UNFORGIVEN FURY

Shooting · Fight

With focused aggression, the Dark Angels relentlessly punish the foe.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [LETHAL HITS] ability. In addition, if one or more ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army are currently Battle-shocked, until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

INTRACTABLE

Movement

Even the Dark Angels must give ground occasionally, y but their stubborn determination ensures they never do so for long, or without a fight.

When

Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army Falls Back.

Target

That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

FIRE DISCIPLINE

Shooting

There is no escaping the Unforgiven’s wrath when they bring their disciplined firepower to bear.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have the [ASSAULT], [HEAVY] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.

GRIM RETRIBUTION

Shooting

Stern and vengeful as they are, the warriors of the Unforgiven Chapters deliver swift retribution to any foe foolish enough to try to lay them low.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that had one or more models destroyed as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but it must target the enemy unit that just attacked it, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.

UNBREAKABLE LINES

Charge

Countless assaults have faltered against the unbreakable ceramite wall that is the Unforgiven standing their ground.

When

Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Charge move.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

Shadow Masters

A DEADLY PRIZE

Command

Warriors of a Vanguard Spearhead will rig critical objectives with explosives to deny them to the enemy.

When

Start of the Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control.

Effect

That objective marker is said to be Sabotaged, and remains under your control even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn. While an objective marker is Sabotaged and under your control, each time an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance, Fall Back or Charge move within range of that objective marker, roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their post-human physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

SURGICAL STRIKES

Fight

Every tyrant must fear the assassin's blade, and the vanguard spring ambushes with precision coordination.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.

STRIKE FROM THE SHADOWS

Shooting

To evade one’s enemies and sow confusion can be a deadly weapon in itself.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit that is more than 12" away, improve the Ballistic Skill and Armour Penetration characteristics of that attack by 1. If one or more enemy models are destroyed as a result of those attacks, select one of those destroyed models; that destroyed model’s unit must take a Battle-shock test.

CALCULATED FEINT

Charge

A feigned retreat can be used to overextend eager foes or draw them into deadly arcs of fire.

When

Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit declares a charge.

Target

One friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit within 12" of that enemy unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or up to 6" instead if it is a PHOBOS or SCOUT SQUAD unit.
RESTRICTION: You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

GUERRILLA TACTICS

Fight

At the opportune moment, Space Marine infiltration units slip away from battle, only to relocate ready to strike the foe again.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Target

Up to two PHOBOS and/or SCOUT SQUAD units from your army, or one other ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army.

Effect

Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.

Restrictions

Each unit selected for this Stratagem must be more than 3" away from all enemy models.

Imperator Unleashed

METEORIC ONSLAUGHT

Fight

Jump jets blazing, these Space Marine shock troops slam into their foes with bone-breaking force.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES FLY INFANTRY unit that made a charge move this turn is selected to attack.

Target

That friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES FLY INFANTRY unit.

Effect

Your unit’s melee attacks have +1 S.

PURGE BY SECTORS

Fight

Focused on sweeping the Ork threat from Armageddon, if these warriors find themselves unengaged, they press swiftly onward.

When

End of the Fight phase.

Target

One friendly unengaged ADEPTUS ASTARTES FLY INFANTRY unit that was eligible to fight this phase.

Effect

Your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3".

KNOW NO FEAR

Command

Inspired by duty, these warriors reject dismay and fight on with renewed fury.

When

Your Command phase.

Target

One friendly battle-shocked ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit. You can target that unit with this stratagem even though it is battle-shocked.

Effect

Your unit is no longer battle-shocked.

Old Greymanes

GRIZZLED KILLERS

Fight

Be it mighty beasts or hordes of lesser foes, these warriors learned long ago how to best them.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly GREY HUNTERS unit is selected to fight.

Target

That GREY HUNTERS unit.

Effect

Your unit’s melee attacks have:
▪ [SUSTAINED HITS 1].
▪ OR: [LETHAL HITS].

ICY CALM

Movement

No matter what is demanded of them amidst the mayhem of battle, still packs of Grey Hunters are able to complete even the most complex tasks with stern surety.

When

Your Movement phase, when a friendly GREY HUNTERS unit is selected to make an advance/fall-back move.

Target

That GREY HUNTERS unit.

Effect

That move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to start an action.

BLADE-KEEN SENSES

Shooting

Many decades’ experience hunting foes through the worst conditions have honed the senses of these warriors to near-inescapable sharpness.

When

Start of your Shooting phase.

Target

One friendly unengaged GREY HUNTERS unit.

Effect

Select one visible enemy unit within 24" of your unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range.

Purge and Sanctify

REFUSAL TO YIELD

Any phase

Where honour is upheld, the Emperor's divinity may manifest to grant his pious warrior new strength.

When

Any phase, just after an ANCIENT model from your army is destroyed.

Target

That ANCIENT model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.

Effect

At the end of the phase, set your model back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, with its full wounds remaining.

Restrictions

You cannot target the same model with this Stratagem more than once per battle.

LITANIES OF PURGATION

Fight

Where the Emperor's domain is imperilled by the unholy, the Black Templars vow to cleanse it.

When

Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if that model’s unit is within range of one or more objective markers or the target unit is within range of one or more objective markers, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

SPOOR OF THE UNHOLY

Shooting · Fight

Perhaps guided by visions from the Emperor, Black Templars can pick out heresy wherever it lurks.

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability and each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the following: that attack’s Ballistic Skill or Weapon Skill characteristic; the Hit roll.

RECLAIM OUR HONOUR!

Shooting · Fight

The sacred standards of a crusade embody its warriors' honour, and no one would see them lost.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit destroys an ANCIENT model from your army that has not been targeted with the Refusal to Yield Stratagem this phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army visible to that enemy unit.

Effect

Until the end of the battle, each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.

Restrictions

You cannot target that ANCIENT model with the Refusal to Yield Stratagem this phase.

RECITATION OF THE REVERED

Shooting

The Ancient leads a deafening recital of his banner's honours, the projected chant's zeal shaking the foe.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ANCIENT unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

PERFERVID INTERVENTION

Charge

When the Emperor blesses his crusaders with the opportunity to seize the initiative, none refuse.

When

End of your opponent’s Charge phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within 6" of one or more enemy units and would be eligible to declare a charge against one or more of those enemy units if it were your Charge phase.

Effect

Your unit now declares a charge that only targets one or more of those enemy units, and you resolve that charge.

Restrictions

Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.

Fanatical Celerity

DEATH BEGETS VENGEANCE

Any phase

With their perceptions twisted, the battle-brothers of the Death Company transmute loss into the worst of ancient betrayals and seek only to sever such treachery from existence.

When

Any phase, when a friendly DEATH COMPANY unit is destroyed by an enemy unit.

Target

That enemy unit.

Effect

That enemy unit is hated until the end of the battle:
While a unit is hated, friendly DEATH COMPANY units’ attacks that target that unit have +1 to wound rolls.

NO BARRIER TO RETRIBUTION

Movement · Charge

Knowing in what remains of his mind that his is a sorrow-filled mission of galactic consequence, this ancient interred warrior permits nothing to stand in his way.

When

Your Movement or your Charge phase, when a friendly DEATH COMPANY DREADNOUGHT unit is selected to make a normal/advance/charge move.

Target

That DEATH COMPANY DREADNOUGHT unit.

Effect

Your unit has MOBILE.

RAGE-FUELLED RESPONSE

Shooting

They may no longer recognise the foe before them, but the Lost Brethren are sane enough to identify an attack and capable of responding with a violent surge and a howl of wrath.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit that targeted a friendly unengaged DEATH COMPANY unit has shot.

Target

That DEATH COMPANY unit.

Effect

Your unit can make a surge move of up to D6".

Dutiful Tenacity

INESCAPABLE JUSTICE

Any phase

The Dark Angels pursue their enemies relentlessly, eliminating one with ruthless precision before turning to the next.

When

Any phase, just after your Oath of Moment target is destroyed.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER unit that is on the battlefield.

Effect

Select one enemy unit within 12" and visible to your unit. That enemy unit becomes your Oath of Moment target until the start of your next Command phase.

LION’S WILL

Command

Unflinching in their loyalty to Chapter and Primarch, Dark Angels battle-brothers seize and hold their objectives with unrelenting determination and zealous fury.

When

Command phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Until the start of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit. In addition, until the end of the turn, if your unit does not have the DEATHWING, RAVENWING or VEHICLE keyword, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

Shooting · Fight

The belligerence of the Adeptus Astartes combined with their transhuman physiology makes them unyielding foes to face.

When

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Effect

Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

TACTICAL MASTERY

Movement

When the constituent elements of the Dark Angels fight as one, the enemy is often overwhelmed and torn apart by the fluidity of the Chapter’s rapid advances, tactical withdrawals and unexpected counteroffensives.

When

Your Movement phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. If your unit has the RAVENWING keyword, it is also eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

RELICS OF THE DARK AGE

Shooting

Amongst the many secrets hoarded by the Dark Angels are those technological in nature. The armouries of the Rock contain potent weapons unseen in the armouries of other Chapters.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Strength characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit.

LEONINE AGGRESSION

Charge

The Dark Angels are always aggressive in their waging of war, seizing any opportunity to pounce upon and annihilate their prey.

When

End of your opponent’s Charge phase.

Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army within 3" of one or more enemy units, or one DEATHWING unit from your army within 6" of one or more enemy units.

Effect

Your unit now declares a charge that only targets one or more of those enemy units, and you resolve that charge.

Restrictions

Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.

Chant of Deathless Devotion

FUELLED BY FAITH

Any phase

So powerfully gripped by holy fervour are these warriors that they fight on through even the most grievous wounds to body and mind.

When

Any phase, when a friendly CHAPLAIN unit suffers a mortal wound.

Target

That CHAPLAIN unit.

Effect

Your unit has Feel No Pain 4+ against mortal wounds.

CASTIGATE THE DEMAGOGUES

Fight

There is nowhere that the architects of heresy can hide from the righteous judgement of the Black Templars.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly CHAPLAIN unit is selected to fight.

Target

That CHAPLAIN unit.

Effect

Your unit’s melee attacks have [PRECISION].

RITE OF PERFERVID WRATH

Fight

With a bellowed oath to Rogal Dorn, Chaplains lead their warriors plunging into the foe’s midst, shattering armour and crushing skulls with blows granted the strength of their devotion.

When

Fight phase, when a friendly CHAPLAIN unit is selected to fight.

Target

That CHAPLAIN unit.

Effect

Your unit’s melee attacks have +1 S.