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Vindication Task Force

Black Templars detachment

Vindication Task Force

As the battle-brothers of a Vindication Task Force purge the Emperor’s domain in fire and blood, they see their holy quest as recovering Humanity’s rightful dominion.…

52.1%
win rate
48
games
8%
faction share

Detachment ability

always on · no CP

Purge and Sanctify

Each time an attack targets an ANCIENT unit from your army, if that unit is within range of one or more objective markers and the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Each time a friendly CRUSADER SQUAD unit makes a surge move, instead of selecting a surge target, you can can select the closest objective to that unit. When that unit makes that surge move, each model in that unit must end that surge move as close as possible to that objective instead.
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As the battle-brothers of a Vindication Task Force purge the Emperor’s domain in fire and blood, they see their holy quest as recovering Humanity’s rightful dominion. They scour the stain of the unclean, topple false idols, breach strongholds of unholy faith and plant the crusade’s standards in their place, branding such sites with the sacred icons of their brotherhood.

Stratagems

6

Epic Deed 1Battle Tactic 2Strategic Ploy 3

Shooting

1CP

Spoor of the Unholy

Battle TacticYour Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability and each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the following: that attack’s Ballistic Skill or Weapon Skill characteristic; the Hit roll.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Terminator · Grenades · Smoke · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

1CP

Reclaim Our Honour!

Strategic PloyYour opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit destroys an **ANCIENT** model from your army that has not been targeted with the Refusal to Yield Stratagem this phase

Until the end of the battle, each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Terminator · Grenades · Smoke · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army visible to that enemy unit

Restrictions: You cannot target that ANCIENT model with the Refusal to Yield Stratagem this phase.

1CP

Recitation of the Revered

Strategic PloyYour opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

Character · Infantry · Grenades · AncientFull rule ▾

Target: One ANCIENT unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Charge

2CP

Perfervid Intervention

Strategic PloyEnd of your opponent’s Charge phase.

Your unit now declares a charge that only targets one or more of those enemy units, and you resolve that charge.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Terminator · Grenades · Smoke · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is within 6" of one or more enemy units and would be eligible to declare a charge against one or more of those enemy units if it were your Charge phase.

Restrictions: Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn

Fight

1CP

Litanies of Purgation

Battle TacticFight phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if that model’s unit is within range of one or more objective markers or the target unit is within range of one or more objective markers, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Terminator · Grenades · Smoke · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

1CP

Spoor of the Unholy

Battle TacticYour Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability and each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the following: that attack’s Ballistic Skill or Weapon Skill characteristic; the Hit roll.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Terminator · Grenades · Smoke · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

1CP

Reclaim Our Honour!

Strategic PloyYour opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit destroys an **ANCIENT** model from your army that has not been targeted with the Refusal to Yield Stratagem this phase

Until the end of the battle, each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Terminator · Grenades · Smoke · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army visible to that enemy unit

Restrictions: You cannot target that ANCIENT model with the Refusal to Yield Stratagem this phase.

Other

1CP

Refusal to Yield

Epic DeedAny phase, just after an **ANCIENT** model from your army is destroyed.

At the end of the phase, set your model back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, with its full wounds remaining.

Character · Infantry · Grenades · AncientFull rule ▾

Target: That ANCIENT model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.

Restrictions: You cannot target the same model with this Stratagem more than once per battle.

Enhancements

4

EnhancementPtsWhat it does
Imperialis of the Eternal Crusade15ANCIENT model only. Each time an enemy unit selects the bearer’s unit as a target of a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (this is not cumulative with any other negative modifiers to that Charge roll).
Consecrating Aura25ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.
Orb of the Emperor’s Aegis10ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Deep Strike ability.
Warden of Honour20CRUSADE ANCIENT model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, each time you roll one D6 for the bearer’s Vengeful Exhortation ability, add 1 to the result.