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Biosanctic Broodsurge

Genestealer Cults detachment

Biosanctic Broodsurge

Little can assuage a Genestealer Cult’s least Human instincts, behaviours made even more ferocious under provocation. Stimulated by psionic pulses of the Broodmind or…

50.0%
win rate
210
games
40%
faction share

Detachment ability

always on · no CP

Hypermorphic Fury

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.

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Little can assuage a Genestealer Cult’s 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.

Stratagems

6 · every one costs 1 CP

Strategic Ploy 2Epic Deed 1Battle Tactic 3

Shooting

1CP

Bio-horror Revelation

Strategic PloyStart of your opponent’s Shooting phase.

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.

Infantry · Purestrain GenestealersFull rule ▾

Target: One ABERRANTS, BIOPHAGUS or PURESTRAIN GENESTEALERS unit from your army.

Charge

1CP

Stimulated Bio-surge

Battle TacticYour Charge phase.

Your unit has +2 to charge rolls.

Infantry · Purestrain GenestealersFull rule ▾

Target: One ABERRANTS, BIOPHAGUS or PURESTRAIN GENESTEALERS unit from your army that has not declared a charge this phase.

Fight

1CP

Saintly Paroxysm

Epic DeedFight phase, just after an enemy unit destroys a **GENESTEALER CULTS CHARACTER** model from your army.

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.

Character · Infantry · Mounted · Psyker · GrenadesFull rule ▾

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

1CP

Gene-twisted Muscle

Battle TacticFight phase.

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.

Infantry · Purestrain GenestealersFull rule ▾

Target: One ABERRANTS, BIOPHAGUS or PURESTRAIN GENESTEALERS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

1CP

Hyper-metabolic Vigour

Battle TacticFight phase.

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.

Infantry · Purestrain GenestealersFull rule ▾

Target: One ABERRANTS, BIOPHAGUS or PURESTRAIN GENESTEALERS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

Other

1CP

Evasive Vanguard

Strategic PloyAny phase, just after an enemy unit ends a move within 8" of one or more of your Cult Ambush markers, before removing those markers from the battlefield.

You can set up that Cult Ambush marker anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally away from all enemy units.

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Target: Select one of those Cult Ambush markers.

Enhancements

4

EnhancementPtsWhat it does
Predatory Instincts20ABOMINANT, BIOPHAGUS or PATRIARCH model only.
<ul><li>Models in the bearer's unit have the Infiltrators ability.</li>
<li>You can target this unit with the Heroic Intervention stratagem, regardless of any other uses of that stratagem this phase. If you do:</li>
<ul><li>That use is -1 CP.</li>
<li>That use does not prevent any uses of that stratagem on other units this phase.</li></ul></ul>
Biomorph Adaptation25ABOMINANT or PATRIARCH model only. Improve the Armour Penetration and Damage characteristics of melee weapons equipped by the bearer by 1.
Mutagenic Regeneration10ABOMINANT, BIOPHAGUS or PATRIARCH model only. In each Command phase, one model in the bearer’s unit regains 1 lost wound.
Alien Majesty15ABOMINANT, 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).