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Emperor’s Children detachment

Rapid Evisceration

The Emperor’s Children are masters of the mechanised assault, leaping from their growling, daemonically tainted vehicles to fall upon the foe with blade and bolter.

33.3%

win rate

games

faction share

Detachment ability

always on · no CP

Mechanised Murder

Each time an EMPEROR'S CHILDREN model from your army makes an attack, if it is a TRANSPORT model or disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

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The Emperor’s Children are masters of the mechanised assault, leaping from their growling, daemonically tainted vehicles to fall upon the foe with blade and bolter.

Stratagems

6 · every one costs 1 CP

Strategic Ploy 5Epic Deed 1

Command

1CP

Advance and Claim

Strategic PloyYour Command phase.

Select one objective marker you control that your TRANSPORT is within range of. That objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase.

Infantry · Vehicle · Grenades · Smoke · Transport · TormentorsFull rule ▾

Target: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT from your army that has one or more TORMENTORS units embarked within it (excluding Battle-shocked units).

Chaos Land Raider Chaos Rhino Tormentors

Movement

1CP

Dynamic Breakthrough

Epic DeedYour Movement phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through enemy models (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES). When doing so, it can move within Engagement Range of such models but cannot end that move within Engagement Range of them, and any Desperate Escape test is automatically passed

Walker · Vehicle · Fly · SmokeFull rule ▾

Target: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN VEHICLE unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.

Chaos Land Raider Chaos Rhino Defiler Heldrake Maulerfiend

Shooting

1CP

Reactive Disembarkation

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

One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit embarked within your TRANSPORT can disembark. When doing so, models in that unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Vehicle · Smoke · TransportFull rule ▾

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

Chaos Land Raider Chaos Rhino

Charge

1CP

Ceaseless Onslaught

Strategic PloyYour Charge phase.

Until the end of the phase, your EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit is eligible to declare a charge.

Vehicle · Smoke · TransportFull rule ▾

Target: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit from your army that disembarked from a TRANSPORT that made a Normal move this turn.

Chaos Land Raider Chaos Rhino

Fight

1CP

On to the Next

Strategic PloyEnd of the Fight phase.

If your EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it. Your unit can embark within that TRANSPORT in a turn it disembarked from a TRANSPORT.

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Target: One EMPEROR'S CHILDREN unit from your army that destroyed an enemy unit this phase, and one friendly TRANSPORT it is able to embark within.

1CP

Outflanking Strike

Strategic PloyEnd of your opponent’s Fight phase.

For each of those TRANSPORTS wholly within 9" of one or more battlefield edges, remove it from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Vehicle · Smoke · TransportFull rule ▾

Target: One EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT from your army, or up to two EMPEROR’S CHILDREN DEDICATED TRANSPORTS from your army.

Chaos Land Raider Chaos Rhino

Enhancements

EnhancementPtsWhat it does

Sublime Prescience25EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per turn, in your Movement phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TRANSPORT that is in Strategic Reserves. Until the end of the phase, for the purposes of setting up that TRANSPORT on the battlefield, treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is.

Spearhead Striker20EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Each time the bearer disembarks from a TRANSPORT, until the end of the turn, you can re-roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit and enemy units cannot use the Fire Overwatch Stratagem to shoot at the bearer’s unit.

Accomplished Tactician35EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per turn, in your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot, you can select one friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit within 9" of the bearer that was hit by one or more of those attacks, then select one friendly TRANSPORT that unit is wholly within 6" of and is able to embark within. That EMPEROR’S CHILDREN unit can embark within that TRANSPORT.

Heretek Adept35EMPEROR’S CHILDREN INFANTRY model only. Once per battle round, when a saving throw is failed for a friendly EMPEROR’S CHILDREN VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer, you can change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 0.