Hammer of Avernii

2DP · Priority Assets

Restrictions

  • Your army can include IRON HANDS units, but it cannot include any ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.

Calculated Annihilation

Each time a model from your army with the Oath of Moment ability makes an attack that targets your Oath of Moment target, you can re‐roll a Wound roll of 1.

Recalculating

Once per battle round, after your Oath of Moment target is destroyed, if a CAANOK VAR model from your army is on the battlefield, select one enemy unit visible to that model. That enemy unit becomes your Oath of Moment target until you select a new one.


Enhancements

Iron Laurel
10 pts

ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Improve the Objective Control characteristic of the bearer by 1. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of all other models in the bearer’s unit as well.

Medusan Roar (Aura)
30 pts

ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. While an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) is within 6" of the bearer, each time that unit fails a Battle‐shock test, one model in that unit is destroyed (chosen by its controlling player). Once per battle, when such an enemy unit fails a Battle‐shock test, you can choose for D3 models in that unit to be destroyed in this way instead.

Spiritus Ferrum
25 pts

ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons. Once per battle, at the start of any phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by all other models in the bearer’s unit as well.

Steel Font
15 pts

ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, in your Command phase, you can return 1 destroyed Bodyguard model to that unit.


Stratagems

Armour of Contempt
Shooting & Fight Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES 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
Ruthless Butchery
Shooting & Fight Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES DREADNOUGHT, TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD 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, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. If your unit is below Starting Strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.

1
Dominator Beacon
Movement Phase - Strategic Ploy
Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES DREADNOUGHT, TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army within range of an objective marker you control.

When

Your Movement phase.

Effect

That objective marker remains under your control, even if you have no models within range of it, until your opponent controls it at the end of a phase.

1
Cogitated Ferocity
Fight Phase - Strategic Ploy
Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES DREADNOUGHT, TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

When

Your Fight phase.

Effect

Select either the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS] abilities. Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the selected ability.

1
Augmetic Fortitude
Charge Phase - Battle Tactic
Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR, BLADEGUARD VETERAN SQUAD, STERNGUARD VETERAN SQUAD or VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

When

Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Charge move.

Effect

Until the end of the turn, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.

1
Dropship Extraction
Fight Phase - Strategic Ploy
Target

One ADEPTUS ASTARTES TERMINATOR unit from your army. You cannot target a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

When

End of your opponent’s Fight phase.

Effect

Remove your unit from the battlefield and place it into Strategic Reserves.

1