Stratagems

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Vigilators 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, you can re-roll the Hit roll If the target of that attack is Battle-shocked or a PSYKER, you can re-roll the Wound roll as well.

WHEN: Any phase, just after a mortal wound has been allocated to an Adeptus Custodes model from your army(excluding Anathema Psykana models). TARGET: That ADEPTUS CUSTODES model’s unit. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 4+ ability against mortal wounds.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (excluding Anathema Psykana units) that has not been selected to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Select either the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES 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 (excluding ballistus grenade launchers) have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability while targeting units within 6".

WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after an ALLARUS CUSTODIANS unit from your army ends a Charge move. TARGET: That ALLARUS CUSTODIANS unit. EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.

WHEN: Start of the Fight phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (excluding Anathema Psykana units) that is below its Starting Strength. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in that unit. If your unit is Below Half-strength, until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Attacks characteristic of those melee weapons instead.

WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One VIgiLATORS, ALEYA or KNIGHT-CENTURA equipped with an executioner greatblade 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.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (excluding ANATHEMA PSYKANA units) that has not been selected to move this phase. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move, models in your unit can move through other models as if they were not there. In addition, any Desperate Escape tests taken for models in your unit are automatically passed.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit from your army Falls Back. TARGET: That ANATHEMA PSYKANA 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.

WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES 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 2 to the result if that model has the CHARACTER keyword. On a 4+, do not remove it from play; the destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks (when doing so, it is treated as having 1 wound remaining), and is then removed from play.

WHEN: Any phase, just after an enemy PSYKER unit has either finished using a Psychic ability that targets a unit, or finished making Psychic Attacks. TARGET: One Anathema Psykana unit from your army within 18" of that enemy PSYKER unit. EFFECT: That enemy PSYKER unit must take a Leadership test If the test is passed, that PSYKER unit is Battle-shocked; if the test is failed that PSYKER unit suffers 3 mortal wounds and is Battle-shocked.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: Up to two Adeptus Custodes Character units from your army that have not been selected to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a CHARACTER model in either of your units makes an attack that targets a MONSTER or VEHICLE unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.

WHEN: Start of the Fight phase. TARGET: Up to two Adeptus Custodes units from your army. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in one of your units targets an enemy unit that is below its Starting Strength, add 1 to the Wound roll. RESTRICTIONS: You can only select two units if one (and only one) of them is an Anathema Psykana unit and both are within 6" of each other.

WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES 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 Walker keyword. On a 4+, do not remove it from play; The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks (when doing so, it is assumed to have 1 wound remaining), and is then removed from play.

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CusTODES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit within 6" of that ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability against Psychic attacks and mortal wounds.

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes 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 a model in your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One ANATHEMA PSYKANA 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.

WHEN: Any phase, just after an Adeptus Custodes Character model from your army has used an ability on its datasheet that states it can only be used ‘once per battle’. TARGET: That ADEPTUS CUSTODES CHARACTER model. EFFECT: Your model can use that ‘once per battle’ ability one additional time during the battle (but not in the same phase). RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem on the same ADEPTUS CUSTODES CHARACTER model more than once per battle.

WHEN: Start of your Movement phase. TARGET: Up to two ADEPTUS CUSTODES units from your army. EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your units are eilgible to shoot and/or declare a charge in a turn in which they Fell Back. RESTRICTIONS: You can only select two units if one (and only one) of them is an ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit and both are within 6" of each other.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (excluding ANATHEMA PSYKANA units) that has not been selected to move 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 ignore Walls and other models for the purposes of determining which enemy units are visible to its own.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army Falls Back. TARGET: That ADEPTUS CUSTODES 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.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes unit from your army that Fell Back this phase. EFFECT: Until the end of your turn, that unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES 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.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Prosecutors unit from your army that has just shot. EFFECT: Select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the start of your next turn, while your unit is on the battlefield, that enemy unit is prosecuted. While a unit is prosecuted, each time an Anathema Psykana model makes an attack against that unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. While a PSYKER or Battle-shocked unit is prosecuted, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One Anathema Psykana 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, your unit has the Stealth ability, and Battle-shocked and PSYKER models can only select your unit as a target of a ranged attack if they are within 12".

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES 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 until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack’s Ballistic Skill characteristic and/or any or all modifiers to the Hit roll.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One PROSEcUTORS 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. In addition, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack, on a Critical Wound, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by an additional 1.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Witchseekers unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of Torrent weapons equipped by models in your unit. If such a weapon targets a PSYKER or Battle-shocked unit this phase, add 2 to its Attacks characteristic instead.

WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an ADEPTUS CUSTODES VEHICLE unit from your army Advances. TARGET: That Adeptus Custodes Vehicle unit. EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Advanced. If your unit has the Walker keyword, until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced instead.

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One Anathema Psykana Infantry unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one other friendly Adeptus Custodes Infantry unit (excluding ANATHEMA PSYKANA units) within 6" of that ANATHEMA PSYKANA INFANTRY unit. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, any attack that targets your ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit must instead target your other ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit (unless it is not an eligible target).

WHEN: Your Movement phase, before the Reinforcements step. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Character model from your army that is not leading a unit. EFFECT: Select one friendly unit (excluding Battle-shocked and Attached units) within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of your model that it could lead (as described in the Leader section of its datasheet). Your model attaches to that unit as a Leader. Change that unit’s Starting Strength accordingly.

WHEN: Any phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Character unit from your army that has just destroyed the unit you selected at the start of your Command phase as the target of your Assemblage of Might ability. EFFECT: Select one enemy unit on the battlefield Until the start of your next Command phase, each time an ADEPTUS CUSTODES CHARACTER model from your army makes an attack that target that enemy unit, add 1 to the Wound roll In addition, if the destroyed unit was a CHARACTER unit, gain 1CP.

WHEN: Any phase, just after an Adeptus Custodes Warlord model from your army has used an ability on its datasheet or from an Enhancement that says it can only be used Once per battle. TARGET: That Adeptus Custodes Warlord model. EFFECT: Your model can use its Once per battle’ ability one additional time during this battle (but not in the same phase). RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per battle.

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot. TARGET: One ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army (excluding VEHICLE units) 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".

WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move. TARGET: Up to two Adeptus Custodes units from your army that are within 9" of that enemy unit. EFFECT: Your units can make a Normal move of up to 6". RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units. You can only select two units if one (and only one) of them is an Anathema Psykana unit and both are within 6" of each other.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: Up to two ADEPTUS CUSTODES INFANTRY units from your army, and one enemy unit that is an eligible target for all of those units. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your units can only target that enemy unit, but each time a model in one of your units makes a ranged attack, improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of that attack by 1. RESTRICTIONS: You can only select two units if one (and only one) of them is an ANATHEMA PSYKANA unit and both are within 6" of each other.

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes 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, CHARACTER models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 4+ ability.

WHEN: Your Command phase. TARGET: One Allarus Custodians or Aquilon Custodians unit from your army that is on the battlefield. EFFECT: That unit is split into separate units, each containing one model. These new units each have a Starting Strength of 1.

WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Vehicle or Adeptus Custodes Mounted unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through terrain features.

WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Infantry unit from your army (excluding Anathema Psykana units) that is within range of an objective marker you control and 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 melee attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

WHEN: Your Movement phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Battleline unit from your army (excluding Anathema Psykana units) 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.

WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Adeptus Custodes Character model from your army that was just destroyed and has not fought this phase. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed. EFFECT: Do not remove your destroyed model from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking unit has finished making attacks, and is then removed from play.

WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase. TARGET: One Anathema Psykana unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase. EFFECT: Select either the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability, but models in your unit can only target PSYKER units with their attacks.

WHEN: Fight phase, just before an ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit from your army Piles In. TARGET: That ADEPTUS CUSTODES unit. 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".