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Ironstorm Spearhead

Salamanders detachment

Ironstorm Spearhead

An Ironstorm Spearhead’s commanders guide their assault with pre-cogitated fire solutions, cycling data-gheist inloads and whispered binharic auguries. These ensure th…

34.7%
win rate
95
games
2%
faction share

Detachment ability

always on · no CP

Armoured Wrath

Once per phase for each ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit in your army, you can re-roll one Hit roll, one Wound roll or one Damage roll made for a model in that unit.

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An Ironstorm Spearhead’s commanders guide their assault with pre-cogitated fire solutions, cycling data-gheist inloads and whispered binharic auguries. These ensure their warriors, and the belligerent machine spirits inhabiting their war engines, deliver their fire with inescapable accuracy.

Stratagems

6

Battle Tactic 3Epic Deed 3

Command

1CP

Unbowed Conviction

Battle TacticCommand phase.

Until the end of the turn, your unit can ignore any or all modifiers to its characteristics and/or to any roll or test made for it (excluding modifiers to saving throws).

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Grenades · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that is below its Starting Strength.

1CP

Ancient Fury

Epic DeedYour Command phase.

Until the start of your next Command phase, improve your model’s Move, Toughness, Leadership and Objective Control characteristics by 1 and each time your model makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.

WalkerFull rule ▾

Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES WALKER model from your army.

Shooting

1CP

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 · Grenades · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

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

2CP

Mercy Is Weakness

Battle TacticYour Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability, and when making such an attack, if the attacking model is a VEHICLE, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Grenades · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

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

1CP

Power of the Machine Spirit

Epic DeedYour opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.

Your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.

VehicleFull rule ▾

Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE unit from your army that was reduced to Below Half-strength as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.

Fight

1CP

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 · Grenades · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

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

2CP

Mercy Is Weakness

Battle TacticYour Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, that attack has the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability, and when making such an attack, if the attacking model is a VEHICLE, a successful unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Grenades · Adeptus AstartesFull rule ▾

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

Other

1CP

Vengeful Animus

Epic DeedAny phase, just after an **ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE** model from your army with the Deadly Demise ability is destroyed.

Do not roll one D6 to determine whether mortal wounds are inflicted by your model’s Deadly Demise ability. Instead, mortal wounds are automatically inflicted.

VehicleFull rule ▾

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

Enhancements

4

EnhancementPtsWhat it does
Target Augury Web30TECHMARINE model only. In your Command phase, select one ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, weapons equipped by that VEHICLE model have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.
The Flesh Is Weak20ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability.
Adept of the Omnissiah35TECHMARINE model only. Once per battle round, when a saving throw is failed for a friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer, you can change the Damage characteristic of that attack to 0.
Master of Machine War20ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. In your Command phase, select one ADEPTUS ASTARTES VEHICLE model within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, that VEHICLE is eligible to shoot even if it Fell Back or Advanced this turn.