Detachment Rule
Hypermorphic Fury
Little can assuage a Genestealer Cults least Human instincts, behaviours made even more ferocious under provocation. Stimulated by psionic pulses of the Broodmind or fuelled by alchemical concoctions delivered from alien grafts, impulses drive the blessed to acts of increased savagery.
Add 1 to Charge rolls made for AbERRANTS, BIOPHAgUS and PURESTRAIN GENESTEALERS units from your army. In addition, each time such a unit is selected to fight, if it made a Charge move this turn, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in that unit.
Stratagems
BIO-HORROR REVELATION
1 CPBiosanctic Broodsurge – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Shooting phase
WHEN: Start of your opponent's Shooting phase.
TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy unit within 9" of your unit is selected to shoot, it must take a Leadership test, subtracting 1 from the result. If that test is failed, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack that targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy unit within 9" of your unit is selected to shoot, it must take a Leadership test, subtracting 1 from the result. If that test is failed, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack that targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
EVASIVE VANGUARD
1 CPBiosanctic Broodsurge – Strategic Ploy Stratagem · Any phase
WHEN: Any phase, just after an enemy unit ends a move within 9" of one or more of your Cult Ambush markers, before removing those markers from the battlefield.
TARGET: Select one of those Cult Ambush markers.
EFFECT: You can set up that Cult Ambush marker anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy units.
TARGET: Select one of those Cult Ambush markers.
EFFECT: You can set up that Cult Ambush marker anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy units.
GENE-TWISTED MUSCLE
1 CPBiosanctic Broodsurge – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers 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 that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE, add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers 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 that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE, add 1 to the Wound roll.
HYPER-METABOLIC VIGOUR
1 CPBiosanctic Broodsurge – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Fight phase
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers 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". In addition, it does not need to end that move closer to the closest enemy model, provided it ends it as close as possible to the closest enemy unit.
TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers 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". In addition, it does not need to end that move closer to the closest enemy model, provided it ends it as close as possible to the closest enemy unit.
SAINTLY PAROXYSM
1 CPBiosanctic Broodsurge – Epic Deed Stratagem · Fight phase
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit destroys a Genestealer Cults Character model from your army.
TARGET: That destroyed CHARACTER model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. If that Character model is an Abominant or Patriarch, that enemy unit suffers 2D3 mortal wounds instead.
TARGET: That destroyed CHARACTER model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. If that Character model is an Abominant or Patriarch, that enemy unit suffers 2D3 mortal wounds instead.
STIMULATED BIO-SURGE
1 CPBiosanctic Broodsurge – Battle Tactic Stratagem · Charge phase
WHEN: Your Charge phase.
TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers unit from your army that has not declared a charge this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit declares a charge, if the closest eligible enemy unit is selected as one of the targets of that charge, add 1 to the Charge roll for each selected target of that charge (including the closest eligible enemy unit), to a maximum of +3.
TARGET: One Aberrants, Biophagus or Purestrain Genestealers unit from your army that has not declared a charge this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit declares a charge, if the closest eligible enemy unit is selected as one of the targets of that charge, add 1 to the Charge roll for each selected target of that charge (including the closest eligible enemy unit), to a maximum of +3.
Enhancements
Mutagenic Regeneration
10 ptsAbOmINANT, BIOPHAgUS or PATRIARCH model only. In each Command phase, one model in the bearer’s unit regains 1 lost wound.
Alien Majesty
15 ptsAbOmINANT, BIOPHAgUS or PATRIARCH model only. While an enemy unit is within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit, subtract 1 from the Objective Control characteristic of models in that enemy unit (to a minimum of 1).
Predatory Instincts
20 ptsAbOmINANT, BIOPHAgUS or PATRIARCH model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Infiltrators ability and, once per battle round, you can target the bearer’s unit with the Heroic Intervention Stratagem for 0CP, and can do so even if you have already targeted a different unit with that Stratagem this phase.
Biomorph Adaptation
25 ptsAbOmINANT or PATRIARCH model only. Improve the Armour Penetration and Damage characteristics of melee weapons equipped by the bearer by 1.
Eligible Units
Characters