Mission Tactics

At the start of your Command phase, you can select one of the Mission Tactics listed below. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Mission Tactic is active and its effects apply to all units from your army with this ability. Each Mission Tactic can only be selected once per battle.

FUROR TACTICS

When the enemy horde grows close, the Deathwatch will be tasked with the decimation of their core. Aiming not for clinical kills but for maximum destruction over a wide area, they tear the heart from the enemy army.

While this Mission Tactic is active, weapons equipped by ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.

MALLEUS TACTICS

When the giants of war lumber forth, the Deathwatch will adopt Malleus tactics. Even the largest behemoth has a weak point, and the archives of the Deathwatch number them all.

While this Mission Tactic is active, weapons equipped by ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army have the [LETHAL HITS] ability.

PURGATUS TACTICS

By adopting Purgatus tactics, the Deathwatch focus their deadly ire upon the commanders of the enemy host, assassinating them one after another with pitiless head shots and killing thrusts of the blade.

While this Mission Tactic is active, each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army makes an attack, if a Critical Hit is scored, that attack has the [PRECISION] ability.

25 pts

Beacon Angelis

ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Deep Strike ability. In addition, you can target the bearer’s unit with the Rapid Ingress Stratagem for 0CP.

15 pts

Osseus Key

Watch Master or Techmarine model only. At the start of your opponent’s Shooting phase, select one enemy VEHICLE unit (excluding TITANIC units) within 12" of and visible to the bearer. That unit must take a Leadership test. If that test is passed, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll; if that test is failed, that unit is not eligible to shoot this phase.

30 pts

The Tome of Ectoclades

Watch Master or Captain model only. Once per battle, after you have selected your Oath of Moment target, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select a second enemy unit to be an Oath of Moment target.

Designer’s Note: This means that each time a model with the Oath of Moment ability makes an attack that targets either of your Oath of Moment targets, you can re-roll the Hit roll.

25 pts

Thief of Secrets

ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Improve the Strength, Damage and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 1. At the end of the Fight phase, if one or more enemy models were destroyed as a result of a melee attack made by the bearer this phase, until the end of the battle, improve the Strength, Damage and Armour Penetration characteristics of the bearer’s melee weapons by 2 instead.

1 CP

ADAPTIVE TACTICS

WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: Up to two Kill Team units from your army, or one other ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

EFFECT: For each unit targeted, select Furor Tactics, Malleus Tactics or Purgatus Tactics. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Mission Tactic is active for that unit instead of any Mission Tactic that is active for your army.

1 CP

ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT

WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

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

EFFECT: 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.

1 CP

DRAGONFIRE ROUNDS

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Kill Team unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ASSAULT] and [IGNORES COVER] abilities.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.

1 CP

HELLFIRE ROUNDS

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Kill Team unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons (excluding Devastating Wounds weapons) equipped by models in your unit have the [ANTI-INFANTRY 2+] and [ANTI-MONSTER 5+] abilities.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Kraken Rounds or Dragonfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.

1 CP

KRAKEN ROUNDS

WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Kill Team unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1 and improve the Range characteristic of those weapons by 6".

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot select any units that have already been targeted with either the Dragonfire Rounds or Hellfire Rounds Stratagems this phase.

1 CP

SITE-TO-SITE TELEPORTATION

WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

TARGET: Up to two Kill Team units from your army, or one other Adeptus Astartes Infantry unit from your army, if those units are not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves. Until the end of your next Movement phase, models in those units that do not have the Deep Strike ability have the Deep Strike ability.