Orbital Assault Force

2DP · Take and Hold

Rapid-drop Deployment

At the start of the Declare Battle Formations step, select a number of ADEPTUS ASTARTES units (excluding TITANIC units) from your army based on the battle size, as shown below. Models in those units have the Deep Strike ability.

In an Incursion sized battle, you can select up to 2 units. In a Strike Force sized battle, you can select up to 3 units. In an Onslaught sized battle, you can select up to 4 units.

Each time an ADEPTUS ASTARTES model from your army makes an attack, if it was set up on the battlefield this turn, re‑roll a Wound roll of 1. If it disembarked from a DROP POD this turn, re‑roll a Hit roll of 1 as well.


Enhancements

Dedicated Gunship
15 pts

ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR model only. Once per battle, at the end of your opponent’s Fight phase, if the bearer’s unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, remove the bearer’s unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

Laurels of Thunder
15 pts

ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. You can re‑roll Charge rolls made for the bearer’s unit in a turn in which it was set up on the battlefield.

Orbital Uplink Reliquary
25 pts

ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. After both players have deployed their armies, select up to three ADEPTUS ASTARTES units from your army and redeploy them. When doing so, you can set those units up in Strategic Reserves if you wish, regardless of how many units are already in Strategic Reserves.

Veteran of the Vanguard
20 pts

ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Scouts 6" ability.


Stratagems

Suppression Strafing
Command Phase - Strategic Ploy
Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.

When

Command phase.

Effect

Select one enemy unit visible to and within 18" of your unit. That enemy unit takes a Battle‑shock test. When doing so, subtract 1 from that test and, if that test is failed, until the start of your next turn, that enemy unit is suppressed. While a unit is suppressed, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

Restriction

You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per battle round.

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Tactical Decapitation
Shooting & Fight Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

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

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Effect

Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability and each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a CHARACTER unit, add 1 to the Hit roll.

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Shock Onslaught
Fight Phase - Strategic Ploy
Target

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

When

Fight phase.

Effect

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".

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Auto-sense Coordination
Shooting & Fight Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

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

When

Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

Effect

Select the [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have this ability in a turn in which they disembarked from a DROP POD or while targeting an enemy unit within 12".

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Blind Screen
Shooting Phase - Strategic Ploy
Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit (excluding TITANIC units) from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks and one friendly ADEPTUS ASTARTES SMOKE VEHICLE or DROP POD unit within 9" of it.

When

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

Effect

Until the end of the phase, models in your units have the Stealth ability and each time a ranged attack targets one of your units, models in that unit have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.

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Onward for The Emperor
Fight Phase - Strategic Ploy
Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES INFANTRY unit from your army that was not set up on the battlefield this turn and one friendly TRANSPORT it is able to embark within.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Effect

If your ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit is wholly within 6" of that TRANSPORT, it can embark within it.

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