Genestealer Cults

Brood Brothers Auxilia

2 CP

Detachment Rules

Integrated Tactics

Brood Brothers

Enhancements

Martial Espionage

25 pts

With access to Imperial data-logs and servo-scry records, this cult leader feeds the stolen information to their professional allies, enabling them to immediately exploit weak points in the enemy.

GENESTEALER CULTS INFANTRY* model only. Once per turn, when a friendly ASTRA MILITARUM INFANTRY or ASTRA MILITARUM MOUNTED unit within 9" of the bearer is selected to shoot, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit by 1.

Adaptive Reprisal

15 pts

Whether through intensive cross-training with tainted officers or some symbiotic neuro-mimicry, this insurrectionist is adept in daring tactical manoeuvres.

GENESTEALER CULTS INFANTRY* model only. When you target this unit with the Heroic Intervention stratagem, that use is -1 CP.

The Hero Returned

20 pts

Hidden for years within a xeno-tainted regiment, this feted commander has returned to lead their guerrillas, donning once more the garb of the insurgent. Respected with reverent awe, they instil a disciplined professionalism and focus in their cult comrades.

GENESTEALER CULTS INFANTRY* model only. Improve the Leadership and Objective Control characteristics of models in the bearer’s unit by 1.

Fire-point Commander

10 pts

Taking a righteous vindication in turning the oppressor’s tactics against them, this war leader coordinates their broodkin’s last-second fire into effective volleys to drive back the foe.

GENESTEALER CULTS INFANTRY* model only. Each time you target the bearer’s unit with the Fire Overwatch Stratagem, while resolving that Stratagem, hits are scored on unmodified Hit rolls of 5+.

Stratagems

eitherPlayer

In the Shadow of Iron

1 CP

CommandMovementShootingChargeFight

Hulking armoured war engines provide ideal cover to launch a well-timed ambush.

When:

Any phase, just after an enemy unit ends a move within 9" of one or more of your Cult Ambush markers.

Target:

One ASTRA MILITARUM VEHICLE unit from your army.

Effect:

Select one of those Cult Ambush markers. You can set up that Cult Ambush marker anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally away from all enemy units and wholly within 6" of your unit.

Regimental Reinforcements

1 CP

ShootingFight

Xeno-tainted soldiers have long learned to lurk in the shadows, ready to attack when the cult calls.

When:

Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an ASTRA MILITARUM INFANTRY REGIMENT unit from your army (excluding ARTILLERY and CHARACTER units) is destroyed.

Target:

That INFANTRY unit. You can use this Stratagem on that unit even though it was just destroyed.

Effect:

Roll one D6: on a 3+, place one Cult Ambush marker anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally away from all enemy units (if this is not possible, no marker is placed) and add a new unit to your army identical to your destroyed unit, in Cult Ambush, at its Starting Strength, with all of its wounds remaining and any [ONE SHOT] weapons those models are equipped with considered as not having been shot.

Restrictions:

You can only use this Stratagem once per battle.

Your Turn

Suppress and Overwhelm

1 CP

Shooting

Disciplined salvoes of fire can drive the foe into cover, leaving them vulnerable to the rest of the cult.

When:

Your Shooting phase, just after an ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army has shot.

Target:

That ASTRA MILITARUM unit.

Effect:

Select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the end of the turn, that enemy unit cannot be targeted with the Fire Overwatch Stratagem and each time a GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army selects that enemy unit as a target of a charge, you can re-roll the Charge roll.

Acceptable Losses

2 CP

Shooting

With martial pragmatism and the cult’s victory at stake, Brood Brothers will willingly open fire on the foe even if it endangers infiltrating cells of allies.

When:

Your Shooting phase.

Target:

One ASTRA MILITARUM unit from your army.

Effect:

Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of one or more GENESTEALER CULTS units from your army. Until the end of the phase, your unit can make ranged attacks that target that enemy unit. If it does, after it has resolved those attacks, roll one D6 for each of those GENESTEALER CULTS units: on a 5+, the unit being rolled for suffers D3+1 mortal wounds.

Symbiotic Destruction

1 CP

Shooting

As the Broodmind coordinates their timing, martial and insurrectionist comrades target their chosen victims in volleys of mutually supportive firepower.

When:

Your Shooting phase.

Target:

One ASTRA MILITARUM and one GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army that have not been selected to shoot this phase.

Effect:

Select one enemy unit that is visible to both of those selected units and within range of at least one ranged weapon from each of those units. Until the end of the phase, models in those units can only make attacks that target that enemy unit (and only if it is an eligible target). When doing so, each time such a model makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1.

Opponent's Turn

A Dark Network

1 CP

Movement

Forewarned of the enemy’s sudden onset by spies in their ranks or by the Brood Brothers’ own strategos, the cult’s faithful evade potential catastrophe.

When:

Reinforcements step of your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit is set up on the battlefield from Reserves.

Target:

One ASTRA MILITARUM or GENESTEALER CULTS unit from your army (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within 12" of that enemy unit.

Effect:

Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".