Salamanders detachment
Vanguard Spearhead
The warriors of a Vanguard Spearhead slip through the shadows, half-seen spectres barely visible to the foe. Enemies blaze away into the gloom with increasing panic, t…
Detachment ability
always on · no CP
Shadow Masters
Each time a ranged attack targets an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army, unless the attacking model is within 12", the target has the Benefit of Cover against that attack.
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The warriors of a Vanguard Spearhead slip through the shadows, half-seen spectres barely visible to the foe. Enemies blaze away into the gloom with increasing panic, their shots flying wide as covert specialists encircle their victims and prepare to level the killing blow.
Stratagems
6
Command
A Deadly Prize
WargearStart of the Command phase.That objective marker is said to be Sabotaged, and remains under your control even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the start or end of any turn. While an objective marker is Sabotaged and under your control, each time an enemy unit ends a Normal, Advance, Fall Back or Charge move within range of that objective marker, roll one D6: on a 2+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Mounted · GrenadesFull rule ▾
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY or ADEPTUS ASTARTES MOUNTED unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control.
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 · 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.
Strike From The Shadows
Battle TacticYour Shooting phase.Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an enemy unit that is more than 12" away, improve the Ballistic Skill and Armour Penetration characteristics of that attack by 1. If one or more enemy models are destroyed as a result of those attacks, select one of those destroyed models; that destroyed model’s unit must take a Battle-shock test.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · GrenadesFull rule ▾
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
Charge
Calculated Feint
Strategic PloyYour opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit declares a charge.Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6", or up to 6" instead if it is a PHOBOS or SCOUT SQUAD unit.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · GrenadesFull rule ▾
Target: One friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit within 12" of that enemy unit.
Restrictions: You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
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 · 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.
Surgical Strikes
Battle TacticFight phase.Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · GrenadesFull rule ▾
Target: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
Guerrilla Tactics
Strategic PloyEnd of your opponent’s Fight phase.Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Phobos · GrenadesFull rule ▾
Target: Up to two PHOBOS and/or SCOUT SQUAD units from your army, or one other ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army.
Restrictions: Each unit selected for this Stratagem must be more than 3" away from all enemy models.
Enhancements
4
Lord of Deceit (Aura): Once per turn, when your opponent targets a unit from their army within 12” of this model with a stratagem, you can use this ability. If you do increase the CP cost of that use of that stratagem by 1CP.
Meta
current edition
33.3%
▲16.0
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