Let us tempt you in with a look at the three new detachments for the Emperor’s Children.
Elegant Brutes
Emperor’s Children Terminators are already elegant yet brutal. Clad in debased suits of armour, they have the raw power to bludgeon their way through swarms of lesser foes. Now you can make them even faster when they charge, as they’re Eager to Kill.
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.
This is a great way to make your charge more likely to succeed when you’ve arrived via Deep Strike or are piling out of your Land Raider. You can also make up to three units of Terminators even deadlier as you grant them the boon of Sustained Hits thanks to the Frenzied Ferocity enhancement.
FRENZIED FEROCITY (Upgrade)
Encumbered 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].
But what happens when you’ve sliced your way through your enemies but left yourself out of position? Take a Warp Plunge to leave the battlefield and prepare to Deep Strike all over again.
WARP PLUNGE (1CP)
ELEGANT BRUTES STRATAGEM
Addicted to the supreme danger of teleportation, these Terminators employ twisted warp sorcery to plunge into the immaterium time and again.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Fight phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged EMPEROR’S CHILDREN TERMINATOR unit.
EFFECT: Place your unit in strategic reserves.
Frenzied Host
The heart of most Emperor’s Children warbands is the units of Tormentors and Infractors. With advance and fall-back moves, they can cover more of the tabletop – and their weapons will get +1 S when they do, opening up a wealth of tactical options.
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.
There’s no-one better to lead your Battleline units than a Lord Exultant – who doesn’t like getting the Lethal Hits, Infiltrators, AND Scouts 6” abilities from their boss? What if he also gave your ranged weapons +1 AP? Yes, please! The Tormentors, with their elaborately ornamented boltguns, will be big fans of the Howling Plate enhancement.
HOWLING PLATE
Mutant 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.
When your Emperor’s Children are really keen to hold on to an objective, they can be overcome by a Possessive Mania, which sees enemy attacks harmlessly glance off your battleplate. While your foe flounders helplessly, your Infractors mercilessly slice them up with their Excessive Assault ability.
POSSESSIVE MANIA (1CP)
FRENZIED HOST STRATAGEM
Having seized some vital location or enthralling prize, these Slaaneshi warriors experience a frenzied need to claim it that renders them inured to the most grievous hurts.
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.
Spectacle of Slaughter
Finally, the third new detachment is built around the Flawless Blades. It takes quite a lot of ego to refer to yourself as ‘flawless’, but these degenerate warriors can walk the walk as well as talk the talk. The supreme stimm-saturated swordsmen are Entitled to Victory, giving them the Fights First ability, which enables them to cut their way through enemy warriors before they even know what hit them.
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.
Fighting first would be an excellent opportunity for the Flawless Blades to call forth their Daemonic Patrons and stack up the Critical Wounds. You can also make up to three units even faster with the Eager Patrons upgrade.
EAGER PATRONS (Upgrade)
The 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.
But what happens when you’ve run across the battlefield at high speed, ready to revel in the Fights First ability, but your enemy has sensibly screened their key units with some targets that are beneath the attention of your Flawless Blades? With the Single-minded Strike stratagem, you can simply charge right through.
SINGLE-MINDED STRIKE (1CP)
SPECTACLE OF SLAUGHTER STRATAGEM
Scornfully dismissing the chaff that blocks their path, the Flawless Blades swat them aside and sweep regally on toward their true quarry.
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).
Each of these detachments costs 1 Detachment Point, meaning you could combine them all together in a Strike Force-sized game or use them alongside existing detachments from the Codex. Spectacle of Slaughter or Elegant Brutes would work alongside Rapid Evisceration as you use your daemonically tainted vehicles to ferry your pre-eminent killers to the front line.
And with that, the Emperor’s Children depart, leaving a garish devastation in their wake and the smell of perfume in the air. Following them are the daemon-hunting Grey Knights, who will be the stars of our Faction Focus tomorrow.
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