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Astra Militarum

Bridgehead Strike

1 CP

Detachment Rules

Fire Zone Purge

Enhancements

Priority Drop Beacon

25 pts

Locked to the designator runes of this officer’s dropship and heavily warded against interference, this predeployed beacon ensures they and their elite soldiers land swiftly and on target.

Militarum Tempestus Officer model only. In your first Movement phase, this unit can make an ingress move.

Bombast-class Vox-array

15 pts

Carried by an officer’s comms specialist, this device is a precious example of an omni‑frequency master vox‑array manufactured on the long‑lost forge world of Urvax. It facilitates the rapid dissemination of orders throughout the entire strike force.

Militarum Tempestus Officer model only. When this model issues an Order, if this unit has the Master Vox wargear ability, this model can issue that Order to up to three different Regiment units, instead of only one.

Stratagems

Opponent's Turn

On My Position

1 CP
Charge

Circling Aeronautica Imperialis strike fighters wait above to launch strafing runs should the attack falter. In extremis, these assets can be called down upon Imperial positions in danger of being overrun, affording soldiers the desperate dignity of taking their enemies with them into death

When:

End of your opponent’s Charge phase.

Target:

One friendly engaged Regiment unit.

Effect:

Roll one D6 for each enemy unit engaged with your unit:

  • On a 2+ that enemy unit suffers D6 mortal wounds.
Then, your unit suffers 3D3 mortal wounds.

Your Turn

Firing Hot

2 CP
Shooting

At the risk of permanently burning out power packs, hot‑shot weaponry can be temporarily overcharged to provide additional punch at the crucial moment.

When:

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly Militarum Tempestus/Kasrkin unit is selected to shoot.

Target:

That Militarum Tempestus/Kasrkin unit.

Effect:

Your unit’s Hot‑shot Lascarbines, Hot‑shot Lasguns, Hot‑shot Laspistols, Hot‑shot Marksman Rifles, Hot‑shot Volley Guns and Sentry Hot‑shot Volley Guns weapons that targeted an enemy unit within 12" have +1 S and AP.

Servo-designators

1 CP
Shooting

Released in a swarm from a modified Valkyrie gunship, high‑altitude servo‑skulls analyse targeting data from the ongoing fight and then provide updated firing solutions to the troops on the ground

When:

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly Militarum Tempestus unit has shot.

Target:

That Militarum Tempestus unit.

Effect:

Select one enemy unit hit by those ranged attacks. Friendly Militarum Tempestus units’ ranged attacks that target that enemy unit have [Ignores Cover].