Guardsmen Orders: STRATEGIC GAMBIT and SUPPORT A friendly GUARD LEADER operative can issue a GUARDSMAN ORDER. Whenever it does, select one GUARDSMAN ORDER for all friendly GUARD LEADER operatives within 6" of it to receive. Whenever a friendly operative receives a GUARDSMAN ORDER, apply its rules until the end of the turning point. Operatives cannot benefit from more than one GUARDSMAN ORDER at once; they only benefit from the most recent order they received during the turning point.

• Take Aim! Ranged weapons of operatives that received this order (excluding mortar barrage and remote detonator) have the Ceaseless weapon rule.

• Fix Bayonets! Melee weapons of operatives that received this order have the Ceaseless weapon rule.

• Dig In! Whenever an operative is shooting a friendly operative that has received this order, if you can retain any cover saves, you can re-roll any of your defence dice results of one result (e.g. results of 2).

• Move! Move! Move! Whenever an operative that’s received this order is performing the Reposition action, add 1" to its Move stat.

DUTY AND HONOR! (Strategic Ploy): Whenever a friendly GUARD operative is fighting or retaliating, or an operative is shooting it, the first time an attack die inflicts Normal Dmg of 3 or more on this operative during that sequence, that dice inflicts 1 less damage on it.

ENGAGE FROM COVER (Strategic Ploy): Whenever an operative is shooting a friendly GUARD operative, if you can retain any cover saves, improve that friendly operative’s Save stat by 1.

FOR CADIA! (Tactical Ploy): Use this firefight ploy when a ready friendly GUARD operative is incapacitated while retaliating. Before it’s removed from the killzone, it can immediately perform a free Fight action against the operative that incapacitated it. Unless otherwise specified, the operative would be injured for this.

CHAIN OF COMMAND (Tactical Ploy): If a friendly GUARD LEADER operative is incapacitated and removed from the killzone, you can use this tactical ploy. If you do, until the end of the battle, another operative gains the LEADER keyword and that operative can issue GUARDSMAN ORDERS as a STRATEGIC GAMBIT.

Enforce (1 AP): Select one other friendly GUARD operative visible to and within 3" of this operative. That operative can immediately perform a 1AP action for free, but it cannot move more than 2" during that action. If the selected operative has the commspack equipment, it cannot perform the SIGNAL action.

This operative cannot perform this action while within control range of an enemy operative

Strategise (1 AP): You gain 1CP. This operative cannot perform this action while within 3'' of an enemy operative.

Zealous Disciplinarian: Whenever a friendly GUARD operative is within 6" of this operative, you can ignore any changes to that operative's stats from being injured (Including its weapons' stats). Whenever a friendly GUARD operative is activated within 6" of this operative, you can ignore any changes to that operative's stats from being injured until the end of its activation (including its weapons' stats).

Manifest Psychic Power (1AP): Roll one D6: on a 1-2, that friendly operative suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 3+, select one psychic power from the list below to be resolved. You cannot select a psychic power that you have already resolved during this Turning Point.

• Doombolt
• Firestorm
• Fluxblast

Adaptive Orders: Adaptive Orders: If this operative doesn’t issue a GUARDSMAN ORDER as a STRATEGIC GAMBIT, you can use the Inspirational Leadership firefight ploy for 0CP during this operative’s activation.

OVERCHARGE LASGUNS (Strategic Ploy): Until the end of the Turning Point, each time a Las weapon is selected for a friendly TROOP operative to shoot with (excluding Sharpshooter's Long-Las), you can choose to overcharge. If you do so, that weapon gains the P1 and Hot special rules for that shooting attack. A Las weapon is a ranged weapon that includes "Las" in its name (e.g. Lasgun, Laspistol, etc.).

CLEAR THE LINE (Strategic Ploy): Friendly TROOP operatives’ melee weapons have the Accurate 1 weapon rule. Whenever a friendly TROOP operative is fighting wholly within your territory, or whenever it’s retaliating, its melee weapons also have the Severe weapon rule.

INTO THE BREACH (Strategic Ploy): Each friendly TROOP operative within your drop zone can perform a free Dash action, but must finish that move closer to the enemy’s drop zone.

SIEGE WARFARE (Strategic Ploy): Friendly TROOP operatives’ ranged weapons have the Saturate and Accurate 1 weapon rules.

INSPIRATIONAL LEADERSHIP (Tactical Ploy): Use this tacticalploy during a friendly TROOP LEADER operative’s activation, before or after it performs an action. It issues a GUARDSMAN ORDER.

COMBINED ARMS (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy after rolling your attack dice for a friendly TROOP operative, if it’s shooting an enemy operative that’s been shot by another friendly TROOP operative during this turning point. You can re-roll any of your attack dice.

FRONTLINE BRAVERY (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy when a friendly TROOP operative is activated and given an Engage order. It receives every GUARDSMAN ORDER. This takes precedence over the normal rule that operatives cannot benefit from more than one GUARDSMAN ORDER at once.

LAST STAND (Tactical Ploy): Use this Tactical Ploy when a ready friendly TROOP operative is incapacitated. That operative is not removed from the killzone until the end of your next activation or the end of the battle (whichever comes first) and does not count as being injured.

Veteran Leadership: Whenever this operative is in the killzone and you issues a GUARDSMAN ORDER , you can select one additional GUARDSMAN ORDER but they cannot be the same.

ELIMINATION PATTERN (Strategic Ploy): Whenever a friendly KASRKIN operative is shooting with a hot-shot weapon against an operative that cannot retain any cover saves or is being scanned (see the Auspex Equipment Option), that weapon has the Piercing Crits 1 weapon rule, or Piercing 1 instead if it’s a hot-shot volley gun.

CLEARANCE SWEEP (Strategic Ploy): Place your Clearance Sweep marker in the killzone. Whenever a friendly KASRKIN operative within 5" horizontally of that marker is shooting an operative also within 5" horizontally of that marker, that friendly operative’s weapons have the Ceaseless weapon rule. In the Ready step of the next Strategy phase, remove that marker.

RELOCATE (Strategic Ploy): Select one friendly KASRKIN operative that’s more than 3" from enemy operatives. That operative, and each other friendly KASRKIN operative that’s both within 3" of that operative and more than 3" from enemy operatives, can immediately perform a free Dash action in an order of your choice. You cannot use this ploy during the first turning point.

SPECIAL FORCES (Strategic Ploy): Select the Pick up action or one mission action friendly KASRKIN operatives can perform. Until the end of the Turning Point, each time a friendly KASRKIN operative is activated, it can perform that action for one less AP (to a minimum of 0AP).

SEIZE THE INITIATIVE (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy at the start of the Firefight phase. One friendly KASRKIN operative can immediately perform a 1AP action for free, but it cannot move during that action. You cannot use this ploy if you’re the player with initiative.

COVER RETREAT (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy when a friendly KASRKIN operative performs the Fall Back action while visible to and within 6" of another friendly KASRKIN operative that’s not within control range of enemy operatives. After that friendly operative has finished moving, but before that Fall Back action ends, that other friendly operative can immediately perform a free Shoot action (you can change its order to Engage to do so).

NEUTRALISE TARGET (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy after rolling your attack dice for a friendly KASRKIN operative, if it’s shooting an operative that either cannot retain any cover saves or is being scanned (see the Auspex Equipment Option). You can re-roll any of your attack dice.

GIVE NO GROUND (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy during a friendly KASRKIN operative’s activation, or at the end of the Firefight phase. Select one of your mission markers or an objective marker. Until the end of that activation or until the start of the next turning point respectively, if the total APL of friendly KASRKIN operatives that contest that marker is 2, and the total APL of enemy operatives that contest it is the same, friendly KASRKIN operatives control that marker.

Target Designation: STRATEGIC GAMBIT. Select one enemy operative. Until the end of the turning point, whenever a friendly RATLING operative is shooting that enemy operative with a rifle, that weapon has the Lethal 5+ weapon rule.

SNIPER POSITIONS (Strategic Ploy): Whenever a friendly ABHUMAN operative is more than 6" from enemy operatives and within 1" of Heavy terrain, the stationary profile of its rifle (if any) has the Silent weapon rule.

SHIFTY (Strategic Ploy): Whenever a friendly RATLING operative has a Conceal order and is in cover, it cannot be selected as a valid target, taking precedence over all other rules (e.g. Seek, Vantage terrain) except being within 2".

CRACK SHOTS (Strategic Ploy): Whenever a friendly ABHUMAN operative is shooting an enemy operative more than 6" from it, if that friendly operative hasn’t performed the Charge, Fall Back or Reposition action during the activation, or if it’s a counteraction, its rifle (if any) has the Balanced weapon rule. Note that operative isn’t restricted from performing those actions after shooting.

FRONTLINE ASSAULT (Strategic Ploy): Whenever a tactical BULLGRYN or friendly OGRYN operative within your opponent’s territory or within 3" of an objective marker is shooting, fighting or retaliating, its weapons have the Balanced weapon rule.

SURVIVAL INSTINCTS (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy when an enemy operative is shooting against or fighting against a friendly RATLING operative) and you’re allocating a dice to block. If it’s a normal success, it can block one unresolved critical success; if it’s a critical success, it can block two unresolved successes (normal or critical).

LARCENOUS (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy during a friendly RATLING operative’s activation. Until the end of that activation, that operative doesn’t have to control a marker to perform the Pick Up Marker or mission actions that usually require this (taking precedence over that action’s conditions – it only needs to contest the marker), and having an enemy operative within its control range doesn’t prevent it from doing so.

SHARPSHOT (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy when a friendly ABHUMAN operative is performing the Shoot action with a rifle and you’re selecting a valid target. Having other friendly ABHUMAN operatives within an enemy operative’s control range doesn’t prevent that enemy operative from being selected.

SHOOT AND HIDE (Tactical Ploy): Use this tacticalploy after a friendly RATLING operative that has an Engage order performs the Shoot action with a rifle. If it’s more than 3" from enemy operatives, or not visible to every enemy operative, you can change its order to Conceal.

Ambush Tactics: RECON VETERAN operatives can perform the Guard action for free.

DISAPPEAR (Strategic Ploy): One friendly RECON VETERAN operative can immediately perform a free Reposition action. It cannot end that move closer to enemy operatives or your opponent’s drop zone (unless it ends that move wholly within your drop zone) and it cannot perform that action again during the turning point. In a killzone that uses the close quarters rules (e.g. Killzone: Tomb World), ignore Wall terrain when determining closer.

HIDDEN ENGAGEMENT (Strategic Ploy): Whenever a friendly RECON VETERAN operative is shooting, if it’s in cover from the target’s perspective, that friendly operative’s weapons have the Balanced weapon rule. Note that your opponent still determines the targeting lines for this (i.e. they decide which point of their operative’s base targeting lines are drawn from).

AMBUSHING VOLLEY (Strategic Ploy): Whenever a friendly RECON VETERAN operative is activated, if it’s more than 3" from enemy operatives and isn’t a valid target for enemy operatives before determining its order, its ranged weapons (excluding the suppressive profile of an autostubber) have the Devastating 1 weapon rule until the end of that activation.

PATIENCE (Strategic Ploy): In the Firefight phase of this turning point, you can do one of the following: When it’s your turn to activate a friendly operative, you can skip that activation. You cannot do this until after your opponent’s first activation. When a friendly RECON VETERAN operative performs the Shoot or Fight action during its activation, if it’s the last friendly operative to be activated during this turning point, its weapons have the Relentless weapon rule for that action.

DODGE (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy during a friendly RECON VETERAN operative’s activation, before or after it performs an action. During that activation, that operative can perform the Fall Back action for 1 less AP.

PREPARED DEFENCE (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy when a friendly RECON VETERAN operative that has a Conceal order or is ready is retaliating. You can do one of the following: At the start of the Resolve Attack Dice step, you can resolve one of your successes before the normal order. If you do, that success must be used to block. When you block, that block can be allocated to block two unresolved successes (instead of one).

SILENT KILLERS (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy during a friendly RECON VETERAN operative’s activation before or after it performs an action, if it has a Conceal order and isn’t a valid target for enemy operatives. Until the end of that activation, it can perform the Charge action while it has a Conceal order, and the first time it strikes you can inflict 3 additional damage, but cannot resolve any other successes during that sequence.

SHARP REACTIONS (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy after an enemy operative that has a Conceal order performs an action during its activation, if it’s within 8" of a friendly RECON VETERAN operative. You can use a Guard action rule to interrupt that activation with that friendly RECON VETERAN operative regardless of that enemy operative’s order (taking precedence over the normal rules).

FORWARD, FOR THE THRONE! (Strategic Ploy): Until the end of the Turning Point, each time a friendly ROUGHRIDER operative performs a Reposition or Dash action, it can move through Light terrain and the engagement range of enemy operatives as though it were not there.

RUN THEM DOWN (Strategic Ploy): Until the end of the Turning Point, each time a friendly ROUGHRIDER operative fights in combat against an enemy operative in the same activation, it performed the charge action, its melee weapons gain the Brutal keyword.

ENCIRCLING MANOEUVRE (Strategic Ploy): Until the end of the Turning Point, each time a friendly ROUGHRIDER operative fights in combat against an enemy operative within Engagement Range of another friendly operative, you can retain one normal hit as a successful normal hit without rolling it.

PERSISTANT CHARGE (Strategic Ploy): Until the end of the Turning Point, each time a friendly ROUGHRIDER operative incapacitates an enemy within its engagement range, it can perform the Charge action for free, even if it already performed the charge action during that activation.

FELL OF THE HIGH HORSE (Tactical Ploy): Use this Tactical Ploy when a friendly ROUGHRIDER operative is incapacitated. After that operative is removed from the killzone, roll a D3 on a 2+, replace that operative with a TROOP operative. That operative can immediately perform the Dash action.

DUTY ONTO DEATH (Tactical Ploy): Use this Tactical Ploy when a friendly ROUGHRIDER operative performs the shooting action with its Frag Lance; it gains the Blast 4'' and Stun keywords. But it must target all friendly operatives as well for the Blast rule.

EQUINE WILLPOWER (Tactical Ploy): Use this Tactical Ploy when a friendly DEATH RIDER operative is selected for activation, add 1 to its APL.

DRAW FIRE (Tactical Ploy): Use this tactical ploy when a friendly GUARD operative is selected as the valid target of a shoot action. Select one other friendly ROUGHRIDER operative visible to and within 6" of that first friendly operative to become the valid target (as appropriate) instead, even if it normally would not be valid for this. Improve that ROUGH RIDER operatives save by one.

Bayonet Charge: Whenever this operative finishes moving during the Charge action, you can inflict 1D3+1 damage on one enemy operative within its Control Range.

Shields: Pick one Shield

• Brute Shield: If this operative has a Brute Shield, whenever it is fighting or retaliating, each of your blocks can be allocated to block two unresolved successes (instead of one).

• Slab Shield: If this operative has a Slabshield, it has a 3+ Save stat.

Beast: This operative cannot perform any actions other than Charge, Dash, Fall Back, Fight and Reposition. It cannot use any weapons that aren’t on its datacard.

Early Warning: Once per turning point, after an enemy operative performs an action in which it moves or is set up, you can interrupt to use this rule. If you do, each friendly GUARD operative within 6" of this operative and within 2" of that enemy operative can immediately perform a free Dash or Fall Back action in an order of your choice (choose separately for each), but it cannot move more than 3" during that action. In either case, each one cannot end that move within 2" of an enemy operative unless it’s not visible to every enemy operative when it ends that move (if this isn’t possible for an operative, it cannot move).