Agents of the Imperium detachment
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Thousands of years of collated strategic data and hard‐won combat experience have provided the Deathwatch with the ultimate battlefield tactics to combat almost any foe.
Detachment ability
always on · no CP
Deathwatch Mission Tactics
Furor Tactics
Malleus Tactics
Purgatus Tactics
At the start of your Command phase, you can select one of the Mission Tactics listed below. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Mission Tactic is active and its effects apply to all DEATHWATCH units from your army. Each Mission Tactic can only be selected once per battle.
While this Mission Tactic is active, weapons equipped by DEATHWATCH units from your army have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.
While this Mission Tactic is active, weapons equipped by DEATHWATCH units from your army have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
While this Mission Tactic is active, each time a DEATHWATCH model from your army makes an attack, on a Critical Wound, that attack has the [PRECISION] ability.
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Thousands of years of collated strategic data and hard‐won combat experience have provided the Deathwatch with the ultimate battlefield tactics to combat almost any foe.
The warriors of the Deathwatch are often sorely outnumbered by swarming foes, yet by striking for maximum indiscriminate carnage they soon even the odds.
Even the largest behemoth has a weak point, and the Deathwatch find them all.
Adopting Purgatus tactics, the Deathwatch focus their ire upon the commanders of the enemy host.
Stratagems
6 · every one costs 1 CP
Command
Adaptive Tactics
Strategic PloyYour Command phase.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.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Fly · Grenades · DeathwatchFull rule ▾
Target: One DEATHWATCH unit from your army.
Shooting
Armour of Contempt
Battle TacticYour opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.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.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Fly · Grenades · DeathwatchFull rule ▾
Target: One DEATHWATCH unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Hellfire Rounds
WargearYour Shooting phase.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.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Grenades · DeathwatchFull rule ▾
Target: One DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Restrictions: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Dragonfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.
Dragonfire Rounds
WargearYour Shooting phase.Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ASSAULT] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Grenades · DeathwatchFull rule ▾
Target: One DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Restrictions: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.
Kraken Rounds
WargearYour Shooting phase.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".
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Grenades · DeathwatchFull rule ▾
Target: One DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Restrictions: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Dragonfire Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.
Fight
Armour of Contempt
Battle TacticYour opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.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.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Fly · Grenades · DeathwatchFull rule ▾
Target: One DEATHWATCH unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
Rapid Tactical Relocation
Strategic PloyEnd of your opponent’s Fight phase.Remove your unit from the battlefield. In the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase, set your unit up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally away from all enemy models.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Grenades · DeathwatchFull rule ▾
Target: One INQUISTOR or DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army.
Restrictions: You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Enhancements
4
Meta
current edition
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