The final action is Operate Hatchway , which unsurprisingly covers what happens when you open or close a hatchway. This one is performed at the end of the Move units step of your Movement phase and completes at the start of your Shooting phase, allowing you to walk forward, open a door, then shoot or charge through it in a subsequent phase. We have removed the command costs from all Detachments and made it so that players can place units into Strategic Reserves for free. These savings mean that players only need to spend their Command points on Stratagems, whether that is on Requisition Stratagems to upgrade their units before the battle, or on other Stratagems used when bullets are flying and blades are poised to strike. The secondary objectives that players can select from can be found below - players cannot select any secondary objectives from a Codex or Codex supplement.

Allies also don’t cost any CP, but they come with a few caveats – only certain factions and types of Detachments can join your main Arks of Omen Detachment as warzone comrades. It’s all laid out in a new section of Battle Brothers rules, representing iconic partnerships from the 41st Millennium. If your Arks of Omen Detachment is a CHAOS Detachment, you can include one CHAOS KNIGHTS Super-heavy Auxiliary Detachment (containing one DREADBLADE unit) as an Allied Detachment. Each secondary objective belongs to one of the following categories: Purge the Enemy; No Mercy, No Respite; Battlefield Supremacy; Warpcraft; Shadow Operations. Players cannot choose more than one secondary objective from each category. Note that in Arks of Omen: Grand Tournament games, players can select up to three faction secondary objectives, provided all three of their secondary objectives are from different categories. In other cases, new rules have been adapted to suit the claustrophobic battlefield. Units can stand on top of objective markers, for instance, just as they did in the previous edition. Some of those corridors would get mighty cramped if they couldn’t! Plant Explosives (Action): One or more RAVEN GUARD CORE INFANTRY units from your army can start to perform this action at the end of your Movement phase. Each unit from your army that starts to perform this action must be within range of a different objective marker you control that does not have explosives planted on it by your army (see below). The action is completed at the end of your turn. If completed, that objective marker is said to have explosives planted on it by your army.With the ruthless advance of Haarken Worldclaimer’s armada through the Nachmund Gauntlet – one of the very few safe passages through the Cicatrix Maledictum – the forces of Chaos are nearing their goal. Only a few faltering obstacles stand between Abaddon the Despoiler and supremacy over the entire Imperium Nihilus. Much to the misfortune of the Imperium, Angron had recently returned to the Materium aboard the Conqueror. Around the Daemon Primarch gathered a force which included noted World Eaters Chaos Lords such as Kossolax and Karakka Bloodfist as well as other Chaos Space Marine warbands and even Xenos mercenaries. The reborn Red Angel made way for Malakbael in search of a beacon which had been tormenting him with its psychic light, known as the Choral Engine. The engine had recently been aiding Indomitus Crusade Fleet Quartus in a string of victories, but to the forces of Chaos it was anathema much like the light of the Astronomican. [3a] This one-size-fits-all solution means every army can now include Lords of War and Fortifications at no extra cost. This is especially great news for Imperial Knights and Chaos Knights players, who now don’t require a specific configuration of units to avoid a CP tax. Fleshmetal Gangliaxos - Swarms of silvery cybernematodes created by Vashtorr that burrow deep into the Hulk, exuding warp-silicae strands and creating a synapse-like fleshmetal cabling. As these autocognitive pathways spread through the hulk they connected and enslaved any mechanical system still viable, creating a control nexus within the Ark.

The ongoing narrative of Warhammer 40,000, with galaxy-shaking implications for the Imperium as the Lion and his sons battle to foil Vashtorr's designsIn addition to all this, there is also an Underdog Bonus for the player with fewer points, if the difference between the two armies is more than 30 points. This particular bonus depends on the mission.

Free stuff is a big theme in this matched play season. You don’t even have to spend any CP to put your units into Strategic Reserves * – good for armies with ways to boost their Strategic Reserves, like the T’au Commander’s positional relay, the Aeldari Webway Gate , or a tunnelling Tyranid Trygon . No more than half the total number of units in a players army can be Strategic Reserve and/or Reinforcement units, and the combined points value of all Strategic Reserve and Reinforcement units (including those embarked within TRANSPORT models that are Strategic Reserve and/or Reinforcement units) must be less than half of the total points value of a players army, even if every unit in that army has an ability that would allow them to be set up elsewhere. Rad Leak takes the players into proximity of a leaking reactor. The board is divided into four sectors, labelled A through D, representing different levels of distance away from the reaction (sector A is particularly bad). During the course of the mission the radiation levels increase, ranging from “none” to “extreme” depending on how bad things are. The effect of radiation is to reduce Leadership, Move, and Toughness characteristics depending on the level. Players can score up to 15 points per turn for securing one, two, or more objectives. At the end of the game players score 15 points if they control both markers labelled Critical and 10 points for killing the enemy Warlord. On the whole, these are solid. There’s a lot of options here and some really cool narrative concepts for play here, such as the furnace and the explosive decompression of Hull Breach.Control Centre features a critical objective (A) and a second objective (B) which allows you to open every hatchway in the board if you perform an action there. In terms of objectives players get up to 15 points per turn for controlling one, two, or more objectives, an additional five points for controlling objective marker A, and 10 points at the end of the game for killing the enemy warlord. If your Arks of Omen Detachment is an ASTRA MILITARUM Detachment, you can include one ASTRA MILITARUM Patrol Detachment that only contains units with the MILITARUM TEMPESTUS keyword as an Allied Detachment. First, if a unit’s minimum size is less than five then it can only be included in a Boarding Party if the unit is minimum-sized. This means that if you take something like a unit of Chaos Spawn, it’ll only be a single model. It’s great news for armies that rely on Vanguard, Outrider, or Spearhead Detachments to maximise a particular Battlefield Role, as they’ll now be able to take more of (almost) everything else alongside their preferred units. You’ll even get some extra Elites slots specifically for CHARACTER units, so a crucial Apothecary , Ork Mek , or Sister Dogmata won’t steal space from your big hitters.