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Deathwatch 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 DEATHWATCH units from your army. Each Mission Tactic can only be selected once per battle.

Furor Tactics

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

Malleus Tactics

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

Purgatus Tactics

While this Mission Tactic is active, each time a DEATHWATCH model from your army makes an attack, on a Critical Wound, that attack has the [PRECISION] ability.

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Armour of Contempt
Shooting & Fight Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

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

When

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

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
Adaptive Tactics
Command Phase - Strategic Ploy
Target

One DEATHWATCH unit from your army.

When

Your Command phase.

Effect

Select the Furor Tactics, Malleus Tactics or Purgatus Tactics. Until the start of your next Command phase, that Deathwatch Mission Tactic is active for your unit instead of any other Deathwatch Mission Tactic that is active for your army, even if you have already selected that Deathwatch Mission Tactic this battle.

1
Hellfire Rounds
Shooting Phase - Wargear
Target

One DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

When

Your Shooting 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.

Restriction

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

1
Dragonfire Rounds
Shooting Phase - Wargear
Target

One DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

When

Your Shooting phase.

Effect

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

Restriction

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

1
Kraken Rounds
Shooting Phase - Wargear
Target

One DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

When

Your Shooting 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".

Restriction

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

1
Rapid Tactical Relocation
Fight Phase - Strategic Ploy
Target

One INQUISTOR or DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit from your army.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield. In the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase, set your unit up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models.

Restriction

You cannot select a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

Universal Anathema
10 pts

AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM model only. Melee weapons equipped by the bearer have the [ANTI‐INFANTRY 2+] and [ANTI‐MONSTER 4+] abilities.

Blackweave Shroud
15 pts

AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM model only. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability.

Beacon Angelis
30 pts

WATCH MASTER 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.

Amulet of Auto-chastisement
25 pts

WATCH MASTER 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.