M
5"
T
5
SV
2+
W
9
LD
5+
OC
4
The Kakophoni of Slaanesh
Emperor's Children
“Perfection Through Excess”
Fulgrim's sons were the paragons of artistry and swordsmanship before their fall, and in service to Slaanesh they have only refined their cruelty into performance. Every battle is a masterpiece staged for an audience of none but themselves, every kill a stroke of the brush. Sonic weapons scream psychic agony into the void, Noise Marines dance through gunfire untouched by anything but ecstasy, and somewhere beneath the excess, Fulgrim's daemonic laughter never quite fades.
Army Rule
Excess of Passion
EMPEROR'S CHILDREN units can gain Rapture points by inflicting wounds and destroying units. Spend Rapture points to trigger devastating Kakophoni effects, granting bonus attacks, mortal wounds, or additional actions to your models mid-battle.
4 available
Detachments & Enhancements
Elegant Brutes
Eager to Kill
Infused with a ferocious need to exert their superiority before any rival has the chance to outshine them, Chaos Terminators enter their chosen arena with a horrific dynamism. When a friendly EMPEROR'S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit is set up, that unit has +1 to charge rolls until the end of the turn.
Cacophonic Accompaniment
20 ptsLike a parasite clinging to its host, this Lord Kakophonist's mutated armour piggybacks on the teleport signals of Emperor's Children Terminators, slingshotting him perilously through the Empyrean to explode onto the battlefield in a riot of discordant sonic fury. LORD KAKOPHONIST model only. - This model has Deep Strike. - This unit's ranged attacks have [IGNORES COVER].
Frenzied Ferocity
cost per official appEncumbered not at all despite the massive bulk of their armour, these Terminators' mutant muscle and warp-tainted reactions allow them to indulge in every aspect of attacking the foe to wild excess. EMPEROR'S CHILDREN TERMINATOR SQUAD unit only. This unit's attacks have [SUSTAINED HITS 1].
Frenzied Host
Frantic Focus
Seeming to be everywhere at once, bands of Infractors and Tormentors seek to embrace all the sensations the battlefield can offer, never relenting for a moment. When a friendly EMPEROR'S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit is selected to make an advance/fall-back move, that unit's attacks have +1 S until the end of the turn. This detachment has the HOST tag and cannot be taken with another HOST detachment.
Euphoric Crown
20 ptsThis champion of Slaanesh wears a helm that absorbs and amplifies the frenzied carnival of carnage around them, driving the wearer into a frenzy of euphoric might. LORD EXULTANT model only. This model's melee attacks have +1 S.
Howling Plate
20 ptsMutant vox-emitters open like mouths all across this warrior's grotesque armour, vomiting targeted sonic shock waves that enhance his allies' already furious firepower. LORD EXULTANT model only. This unit's ranged attacks have +1 AP.
Spectacle of Slaughter
Entitled to Victory
So certain are the Flawless Blades in their arrogant pre-eminence, so sure they have already won before the first blow is struck, that they are filled with swift assurance that no foe can match. Friendly FLAWLESS BLADES units have Fights First.
Eager Patrons
cost per official appThe daemonic audience drawn by the deeds of these Flawless Blades is impatient for the spectacle to begin, and so bestows supernatural celerity upon those they consider the star performers. FLAWLESS BLADES unit only. This unit has +2" M.
Beguiling Grotesquerie
cost per official appUnable to tear their gaze from the hypnotically hideous features of the Flawless Blades, foes stare slack-jawed in horrified fascination as their death stalks elegantly toward them. FLAWLESS BLADES unit only. Enemy units cannot target this unit with snap shooting attacks.
Court of the Phoenician
Sensational Performance
The craving for fresh experience and the obsession with enacting ever more excessive destruction drives these warriors to displays of sudden and obscene violence. Emperor's Children units from your army have the following ability: Sensational Performance: Each time this unit is selected to fight, if this unit made a Charge move this turn, it can use this ability. If it does, until the end of the phase: ■ This unit cannot target a unit it was within Engagement Range of at the start of the turn. ■ This unit cannot target a unit that was the target of another unit's attack this phase. ■ Improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of this unit's melee weapons by 1.
Tears of the Phoenix
25 ptsThe addictive substance in these droplets is said to fracture consciousness - and sanity - to the point where the imbiber perceives every strike and parries their opponents' attempts. Emperor's Children model only. Each time a model in the bearer's unit makes a melee attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack's Weapon Skill characteristic and any or all modifiers to the Hit roll and Wound roll.
Exalted Patron
15 ptsThis champion is a domineering martial lord, hungry for the adulation and audience of his warband's most self-centred blademasters. Lord Exultant model only. Add 1" to the Move characteristic of the bearer.
Soulstain Made Manifest
15 ptsThe corruption of this warrior's soul is so total that it bleeds outwards in a nimbus of nauseating eldritch horror that repulses his enemies. Emperor's Children model only. At the start of the Fight phase, you can select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer; that unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
Spiritsliver
20 ptsThis slender hellforged blade appears to weave in and out of being. Its daemonic bearer wields it in flickering arcs at supernatural speed, swift enough for its phantasmal edge to slice apart a victim's soul before it is lost to the Warp. Emperor's Children Daemon Prince model only. Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of the bearer's melee weapons.
15 stratagems
Stratagems
Delight in Agony
1 CPDetachment · Shooting phase · Elegant Brutes
WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly EMPEROR'S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit. TARGET: That EMPEROR'S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit. EFFECT: Attacks that target your unit with a S greater than your unit's T have -1 to wound rolls.
Psychedelic Soulflame
1 CPDetachment · Shooting phase · Elegant Brutes
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, when a friendly EMPEROR'S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit is selected to attack. TARGET: That EMPEROR'S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit EFFECT: Your unit's attacks have +2 S.
Warp Plunge
1 CPDetachment · Fight phase · Elegant Brutes
WHEN: End of your opponent's Fight phase. TARGET: One friendly unengaged EMPEROR'S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit. EFFECT: Place your unit in strategic reserves.
Possessive Mania
1 CPDetachment · Shooting phase · Frenzied Host
WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly EMPEROR'S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit within range of an objective. TARGET: That EMPEROR'S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit. EFFECT: Attacks that target your unit have -1 AP until that enemy unit has attacked.
Agonised Cacophony
1 CPDetachment · Shooting phase · Frenzied Host
WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase. TARGET: One friendly EMPEROR'S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit. EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of your unit. That enemy unit has +6" detection range.
Absolute Sensory Overload
1 CPDetachment · Shooting phase · Frenzied Host
WHEN: Your Shooting phase, when a friendly EMPEROR'S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit is selected to shoot. TARGET: That EMPEROR'S CHILDREN BATTLELINE unit. EFFECT: Those ranged attacks do not prevent your unit from being hidden.
Honour Is for Fools
1 CPDetachment · Fight phase · Spectacle of Slaughter
WHEN: Fight phase, when a friendly FLAWLESS BLADES unit is selected to fight. TARGET: That FLAWLESS BLADES unit. EFFECT: Your unit's melee attacks have [PRECISION].
Single-minded Strike
1 CPDetachment · Charge phase · Spectacle of Slaughter
WHEN: Your Charge phase, when a friendly FLAWLESS BLADES unit starts a charge move. TARGET: That FLAWLESS BLADES unit. EFFECT: Your unit can move through models (excluding MONSTER/VEHICLE models).
Intoxicated by Triumph
1 CPDetachment · Movement phase · Spectacle of Slaughter
WHEN: Your opponent's Movement phase, when an enemy unit that was engaged with a friendly FLAWLESS BLADES unit ends a fall-back move, if that FLAWLESS BLADES unit is unengaged. TARGET: That FLAWLESS BLADES unit. EFFECT: Your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3".
Contemptuous Disregard
1 CPDetachment · Shooting phase · Court of the Phoenician
WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase. TARGET: One Emperor's Children unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of your unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
Prideful Superiority
2 CPDetachment · Fight phase · Court of the Phoenician
WHEN: Fight phase. TARGET: One Emperor's Children unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a Character unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
Sinuous Breach
1 CPDetachment · Movement phase · Court of the Phoenician
WHEN: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase. TARGET: One Emperor's Children Daemon unit from your army that has not been selected to move or charge this phase. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.
Close-quarters Excruciation
1 CPDetachment · Shooting phase · Court of the Phoenician
WHEN: Your Shooting phase. TARGET: One Emperor's Children unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an Emperor's Children model in your unit makes an attack that targets an eligible unit within 12", improve the Strength and Armour Penetration characteristics of that attack by 1.
Euphoric Inspiration
1 CPDetachment · Charge phase · Court of the Phoenician
WHEN: Your Charge phase. TARGET: One Emperor's Children Daemon unit from your army. EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, you can re-roll Charge rolls for friendly Emperor's Children units within 6" of your unit.
Catalytic Stimulus
1 CPDetachment · Shooting phase · Court of the Phoenician
WHEN: Your opponent's Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot. TARGET: One Emperor's Children unit from your army that lost one or more wounds as a result of those attacks. EFFECT: Your unit can make a surge move of up to D6".
48 units
Datasheets
M
6"
T
4
SV
6+
W
1
LD
7+
OC
2
TORMENT
M
6"
T
4
SV
6+
W
3
LD
7+
OC
2
M
12"
T
5
SV
3+
W
3
LD
6+
OC
2
M
10"
T
12
SV
2+
W
16
LD
6+
OC
5
M
6"
T
4
SV
3+
W
5
LD
6+
OC
1
M
5"
T
5
SV
2+
W
6
LD
6+
OC
1
M
10"
T
10
SV
3+
W
11
LD
6+
OC
4
M
10"
T
10
SV
3+
W
11
LD
6+
OC
4
M
12"
T
9
SV
3+
W
10
LD
6+
OC
2
M
8"
T
5
SV
4+
W
4
LD
7+
OC
1
M
5"
T
5
SV
2+
W
3
LD
6+
OC
1
M
9"
T
11
SV
2+
W
11
LD
6+
OC
3
M
6"
T
4
SV
3+
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3
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6+
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1
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6"
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3
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6+
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1
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1
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6"
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4
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5
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4
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1
DARK DISCIPLE
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6"
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4
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1
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1
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3
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4
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1
OTHER MODELS
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6"
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3
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6+
W
1
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7+
OC
1
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12"
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11
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3+
W
18
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6+
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5
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6"
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4
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3+
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4
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6+
OC
1
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6"
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4
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3+
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5
LD
6+
OC
1
SURGEON ACOLYTE
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4
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6+
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1
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7+
OC
1
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6"
T
4
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5+
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1
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7+
OC
1
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10
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3+
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1
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2
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1
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6+
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3
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10
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3
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6"
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4
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5
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1
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8"
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13
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3+
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24
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6+
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8
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6"
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4
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3+
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2
LD
6+
OC
2
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10"
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10"
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10
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4"
T
7
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5
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2
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6
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3+
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3
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6+
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1
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12"
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4
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3+
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2
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6+
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1
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TRAITOR OGRYN
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6"
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6
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5+
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4
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OC
1
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6"
T
3
SV
5+
W
1
LD
7+
OC
2
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12"
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9
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2+
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3
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12"
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9
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3
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1
Rules digest
How This Force Plays
Our own plain-speech digest of how this force's rules hang together — army rule, detachment choice, command-point economy and roster shape. Written by us, not reproduced from the pack; the official PDF is the only authority on exact wording.
Read the official pack PDFHow the army rule shapes play
Every list in this force answers to Excess of Passion, so plan your turns around it rather than treating it as a bonus. There is no secondary doctrine to pick, which keeps the force predictable to learn and unforgiving to misplay. Exact wording lives in the official pack PDF; the summary here is ours.
Choosing a detachment
You commit to one of 4 detachments (Elegant Brutes, Frenzied Host, Spectacle of Slaughter, Court of the Phoenician), and that choice locks in both your detachment rule and the 10 enhancements available to your characters. Pick the detachment that matches the units you already own, then buy enhancements last.
Command points and stratagems
There are 15 stratagems on offer, costing between 1 and 2 CP. In a normal game you will bank enough for two or three interventions a turn at most, so decide before deployment which one or two plays you are saving command points for.
Building to a points limit
The roster runs to 48 datasheets. The cheapest entry comes in at 55 points and the most expensive at 420, so a single flagship choice can eat a fifth of a 2,000-point army. Use the list builder to keep the Rule of Three, character limits and your points ceiling honest as you add units.
Official faction pack v1.2
What Changed & Rulings
Our own plain-speech summary of what the current pack alters for this force — no rules text reproduced. The exact wording is authoritative only in the Games Workshop PDF. Legal for matched play from 26th August 2026.
Read the official pack PDFCarnival Of Excess Detachment
Empyric Suffusion Enhancement
Empyric Suffusion has been rewritten for this pack, so the old wording no longer applies. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Dark Apparitions Stratagem, Effect Section
Numbers change only: Dark Apparitions's effect section now reads 8" where it used to read 9".
Coterie Of The Conceited Detachment
Armour of Abhorrence Stratagem, Effect Section
Armour of Abhorrence's effect section has been rewritten for this pack, so the old wording no longer applies. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Mercurial Host Detachment
Dark Vigour Stratagem, Target Section
Numbers change only: Dark Vigour's target section now reads 8" where it used to read 9".
Peerless Bladesmen Detachment
Faultless Opportunist Enhancement
Faultless Opportunist has been rewritten for this pack, so the old wording no longer applies. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Rapid Evisceration Detachment
On to the Next Stratagem
On to the Next has been rewritten for this pack, so the old wording no longer applies. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Mechanised Murder Detachment Rule
Mechanised Murder has been rewritten for this pack, so the old wording no longer applies. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Slaanesh’S Chosen Detachment
Vengeful Surge Stratagem, Effect Section
Vengeful Surge's effect section has been rewritten for this pack, so the old wording no longer applies. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Refusal to be Outdone Stratagem
Refusal to be Outdone has been rewritten for this pack, so the old wording no longer applies. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Datasheets
Chaos Spawn, Scuttling Horrors Ability
Chaos Spawn, Scuttling Horrors Ability has been rewritten for this pack, so the old wording no longer applies. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Chaos Terminators, Lethal Obsession Ability
Chaos Terminators, Lethal Obsession Ability has been rewritten for this pack, so the old wording no longer applies. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Fulgrim, Keywords Section
This pack bolts an extra clause onto Fulgrim's keywords section — the rule does everything it did before, plus more. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Heldrake
Heldrake is updated in this pack. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Chaos Land Raider and Chaos Rhino - Keywords Section
This pack bolts an extra clause onto Chaos Land Raider and Chaos Rhino - Keywords Section — the rule does everything it did before, plus more. See the official pack PDF for the exact wording.
Ruling on Conceited
Ruled yes in the official pack.
Ruling on Noise Marines’ Terrifying Crescendo
Ruled yes in the official pack.
Ruling on Excess
Ruled yes in the official pack.
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