Use this at the start of the Morale phase. Select one DAEMONIC DISCIPLES unit from your army that is within 6? of a friendly LEGION DISCIPLES unit excluding VEHICLE units. Until the end of the phase, each time that DAEMONIC DISCIPLES unit takes a Morale test, it is automatically passed and you count as having passed that test with an unmodified roll of a 1. Use this Stratagem after an enemy unit has declared a charge against one or more units from your army. One of the units that was chose as the target of that charge can fire Overwatch before the charge roll is made. The rules here also specify very specifically that including KHORNE units in your army won’t turn off army-wide rules for World Eaters, NURGLE daemons won’t turn off army-wide rules for Death Guard, TZEENTCH units won’t turn off army-wide rules for Thousand Sons, and SLAANESH daemons won’t turn off army-wide rules for Emperor’s Children. This is very helpful for Death Guard and Thousand Sons, whose books currently do not have any wording that allows for Agents of Chaos without losing Contagions/Cabalistic Rituals.

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TheChirurgeon: The part I’m generally unsure of here – and it’s a little vague in the rules – is whether this means you can circumvent the 25% PL cap in those armys with daemons of a single god. The way they’ve been broken out rules-wise is a bit weird, since it doesn’t seem to have any effect on World Eaters or Emperor’s Children armies.This mechanic has existed in Age Of Sigmar for a long time as the Nighthaunt (if you’re unfamiliar with AoS, think of them as ghosts) faction rule. Sigmar is a fantastic game with an amazing community, and I’m a big fan of 40K experimenting with new mechanics. Let’s all take a deep breath and play some games before going crazy over this rule. The vast, vast, vast majority of the time, this will be functionally identical to an invuln save. The only exception will be that ignores-invuln weapons like Hammerheads won’t ignore DSvs. Up next we have two decent but flawed choices. In Shadow Operations, we have Despoilers Of Reality . This secondary rewards you with 4VP for performing actions on different objectives you control outside of your deployment zone. Because it’s not completed until your next Command Phase (or end of game), units that start this action will always be vulnerable. The upside is that you can have unlimited units start this action at the same time. If you suspect you’re going to table them and are playing a mission like Tide Of Conviction, this isn’t too bad. Realistically, just take Raise Banners and save yourself the headache. If your army is led by a Warlord with the KHORNE DAEMON Faction keywords, you can give one of the following Hellforged Artefacts to an EXALTED BLOODTHIRSTER model from your army, instead of giving them a Hellforged Artefact from another source.

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Mike P: There are six Stratagems for Khorne daemons where other gods got 8, and Khorne daemons particularly feel the inability to buy a second Warlord Trait. All units in your army with the HERETIC ASTARTES Faction keyword excluding CHAOS CULTIST units gain the LEGION DISCIPLES keyword. If your army is led by a Warlord with the SLAANESH DAEMON Faction keywords, you can give one of the following Hellforged Artefacts to an EXALTED KEEPER OF SECRETS model from your army, instead of giving them a Hellforged Artefacts from another source.

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You cannot include a second DAEMON unit in your army unless your army also includes at least one DAEMON unit that owes its allegiance to each of the other three Chaos Gods. You cannot include a third DAEMON unit in your army that owes its allegiance to the same Chaos God until your army also includes at least two DAEMON units that owe their allegiance to each of the three other Chaos Gods, and so on. BE’LAKOR and HERETIC ASTARTES units are excluded when considering this restriction. Use this at the start of any phase. Select a unit of Daemons; until the end of the phase, you cannot re-roll savings throws for that unit, but its invulnerable save is improved by to a max of 3+ You can also nab custom AdMech-themed player aid datacardsand dice alongside the codex. Who knows, maybe they’ll help you curry favor with the Omnissiah. Serving as your right hand on the battlefield and beyond, the Codex also includes a host of rich lore surrounding the warp and it's ruinous powers plus plenty of stunning illustrations designed to wet your appetite for destruction. But the rulebooks’ release cycle was delayed on December 4 2020, when GW put the release of the Death Guardcodex on ice due to “unavoidable delays to crucial shipments”. That book finally arrived in late January 2021.

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Writer, Editor, Texas Native, and Austinite for 15+ years, Adam covers all things Tabletop Gaming. Which includes Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, D&D, Board Games and everything else that involves dice, boards, cards and a table.Use this Stratagem when a TRANSPORT model from your army is destroyed. All units that are embarked within that model can be set up wholly within 6? of the destroyed model when they disembark instead of the normal 3? before the model itself is removed from the battlefield. These units are not affected by the destroyed model’s Explodes ability – instead you must roll one D6 for each model you just set up on the battlefield. Instead of one model that disembarked being destroyed for each roll of 1, one model that disembarked (your choice) is destroyed for each roll of 1 or 2. Units cannot declare a charge or perform Heroic Intervention in the same turn that they disembarked from a destroyed Transport model. Before the battle, generate the psychic powers for PSYKERS that can use powers from the Tzeentch, Nurgle or Slaanesh discipline using the table below. You can select the psychic powers you wish the psyker to have. The sons of Mortarion sap the toughness of nearby enemies by spreading Nurgle’s Gift, marching in an unstoppable wave and leaving infected objectives firmly under their control. Tomorrow brings the rest of the Imperium, with the Xenos factions and the first Munitorum Field Manual (which contains all the points) of the new edition arriving later in the week.

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Roll a dice each time your Warlord suffers Perils of the Warp; on a 2+ they do no suffer Perils of the Warp. Make sure you’re alerted to all future skull-taking and bloodletting opportunities by signing up for the Warhammer Community newsletter. We’ve not even talked about Bloodthirsters yet… If manifested, select an enemy CHARACTER that is within 18″ of the psyker and visible to it (excluding the opponent’s Warlord) and roll 2D6. If the result is greater than the character’s Leadership characteristic, until the end of the following Fight phase treat that character as if it were a friendly model from your army in your Shooting, Charge and Fight phases. Use this before the battle. Choose one of your Tzeentch models with a Daemonic Icon. That icon in addition to its normal ability, the power of the banner can be used once per battle, at the beginning of any Psychic phase. When used roll 9 dice:; for each roll of 6, the closest visible enemy unit within 9″ suffers a mortal wound. If manifested, roll 2D6 (adding 2 to the result if the Psychic test result was more than 10). The closest enemy unit that is within 18″ of the psyker and visible to it suffers a mortal wound for each point that the total exceeds their highest Leadership characteristic.What’s interesting is that almost all of the Daemonic Saves are worse vs melee than range. This is very fluffy–Daemons are more vulnerable in melee, where the raw emotions and rage of their opponent have a greater effect on the Daemons–and creates some interesting counterplay. Malefic Weapons