Friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operatives have the following melee weapon:

• Combat Dagger — 3 attacks, 4+, 3/4

Once per turning point, when a friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operative is performing the Shoot action and you select a lasgun, you can use this rule. If you do, until the end of that action, add 1 to both Dmg stats of that weapon.

You can ignore any changes to the APL stat of friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operatives, and they aren’t affected by enemy operatives’ Shock weapon rule.

Once per turning point, when a friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operative is shooting, fighting or retaliating, if you roll two or more fails, you can discard one of them to retain another as a normal success instead.

Before the battle, you can set up one of your Ammo Cache markers wholly within your territory. Friendly operatives can perform the following mission action during the battle: AMMO RESUPPLY (0 AP): One of your Ammo Cache markers the active operative controls is used during this turning point.

Until the start of the next turning point, whenever this operative is shooting with a weapon from its datacard, you can re-roll one of your attack dice.

An operative cannot perform this action while within control range of an enemy operative, if that marker is not yours, or if that marker has been used this turning point.

Razor wire is Exposed and Obstructing terrain. Before the battle, you can set it up wholly within your territory, on the killzone floor and more than 2" from other equipment terrain features, access points, and Accessible terrain.

Obstructing: Whenever an operative would cross over this terrain feature within 1" of it, treat the distance as an additional 1".

Before the battle, you can set up one of your Comms Device markers wholly within your territory. While a friendly operative controls this marker, add 3" to the distance requirements of its SUPPORT rules that refer to friendly operatives (e.g. ‘select one friendly operative within 6"’ would be 9" instead). Note that you cannot benefit from your opponent's Comms Device markers.

Before the battle, you can set up one of your Mines markers wholly within your territory and more than 2" from other markers, access points, and Accessible terrain. The first time that marker is within an operative's control range, remove that marker and inflict D3+3 damage on that operative.

Light barricades are Light terrain, except the feet, which are Insignificant and Exposed. Before the battle, you can set up any of them wholly within your territory, on the killzone floor and more than 2" from other equipment terrain features, access points, and Accessible terrain.

A heavy barricade is Heavy terrain. Before the battle, you can set it up wholly within 4" of your drop zone, on the killzone floor and more than 2" from other equipment terrain features, access points, and Accessible terrain.

Ladders are Insignificant and Exposed terrain. Before the battle, you can set up any of them as follows:

• Wholly within your territory.
• Upright against terrain that’s at least 2" tall.
• More than 2" from other equipment terrain features.
• More than 1" from doors and access points.

Once per action, whenever an operative is climbing the terrain feature a ladder is placed against, treat the vertical distance as 1" if the ladder is within that operative’s control range during that entire climb.

A portable barricade is Light, Protective and Portable terrain, except the feet which are Insignificant and Exposed. Before the battle, you can set it up wholly within your territory, on the killzone floor and more than 2" from other equipment terrain features, access points, and Accessible terrain.

Protective: While an operative is in cover from this terrain feature, improve its Save stat by 1 (to a maximum of 2+).

Portable: This terrain feature only provides cover while an operative is connected to it and if the shield is intervening (ignore its feet). Operatives connected to the inside of it can perform the following unique action during the battle:

Move With Barricade (1 AP): The same as the Reposition action, except the active operative can move no more than its Move stat minus 2" and cannot climb, drop, jump, or use any killteam's rules that remove it and set it back up again (e.gh. HEARTHKYN SALVAGER Fly, MANDRAKE Shadow Passage).

Before this operative moves, remove the portable barricade it is connected to. After it moves, set up the portable barricade so it is connected again, but the portable barricade cannot be set up within 2" of other equipment terrain features, access points or Accessible terrain. If this is not possible, the portable barricade is not set up again.

This action is treated as a Reposition action. An operative cannot perform this action while within control range of an enemy operative, or in the same activation in which it performed the Fall Back or Charge action.

When you select this equipment, select two utility grenades (2 smoke, 2 stun, or 1 smoke and 1 stun). Each selection is a unique action your operatives can perform, but your kill team can only perform that action a total number of times during the battle equal to your selection.

SMOKE GRENADE (1 AP):

• Place one of your Smoke Grenade markers within 6" of this operative. It must be visible to this operative, or on Vantage terrain of a terrain feature that is visible to this operative. The marker creates an area of smoke 1" horizontally and unlimited height vertically from (but not below) it.
• While an operative is wholly within an area of smoke, it is obscured to operatives more than 2" from it, and vice versa. In addition, whenever an operative is shooting an enemy operative wholly within an area of smoke, weapons with the Piercing 2 or Piercing Crits 2 weapon rule have the Piercing 1 or Piercing Crits 1 weapon rule (respectively) instead, unless they’re within 2" of each other.
• In the Ready step of the next Strategy phase, roll one D3. Remove that Smoke Grenade marker after a number of activations equal to that D3 have been completed or at the end of the turning point (whichever comes first).
• An operative cannot perform this action while within control range of an enemy operative, or if you have reached the total number of times your kill team can perform it.

When you select this equipment, select two utility grenades (2 smoke, 2 stun, or 1 smoke and 1 stun). Each selection is a unique action your operatives can perform, but your kill team can only perform that action a total number of times during the battle equal to your selection.

STUN GRENADE (1 AP):

• Select one enemy operative visible to and within 6" of this operative. That operative and each other operative within 1" of it takes a stun test. For an operative to take a stun test, roll one D6: on a 3+, subtract 1 from its APL stat until the end of its next activation.
• An operative cannot perform this action while within control range of an enemy operative, or if you have reached the total number of times your kill team can perform it.

When you select this equipment, select two explosive grenades (2 frag, 2 krak, or 1 frag and 1 krak).

When you select this equipment, select two explosive grenades (2 frag, 2 krak, or 1 frag and 1 krak).

Once per battle, when a friendly operative performs the Breach action, you can use this rule. If you do, that operative can perform that action for 1 less AP (to a minimum of 1AP) as though it had the word "breach marker" on its datacard.

Use this firefight ploy after an enemy operative shoots against or fights against a friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operative within 6" of it, and that friendly operative isn’t incapacitated as a result. That friendly operative can immediately perform either a free Shoot or a free Fight action, but you cannot select any other enemy operative as a valid target or to fight against during that action (note that secondary targets from the Blast weapon rule can still be targeted).

You cannot direct a HEAVY WEAPONS SUPPORT asset during that free Shoot action.

Use this firefight ploy in the Resolve Attack Dice step, when an attack dice inflicts Normal Dmg on a friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operative. Ignore the damage inflicted by that attack dice. You cannot use this ploy more than once per turning point.

Use this firefight ploy during a friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD 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 CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operatives that contest that marker is 2, and the total APL of enemy operatives that contest it is the same, friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operatives control that marker.

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operative performs the Shoot action with a lasgun, and you select an enemy operative within 6” of it as a valid target. Until the end of that action, that lasgun has the Stun weapon rule.

If that enemy operative is the target of the Focus Target! rule during that turning point, the friendly operative's lasgun also has the Piercing 1 weapon rule for that action.

You can ignore any changes to the stats of friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operatives from being injured (including their weapons’ stats).

Whenever an operative is shooting a friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operative, if you rolled one or fewer successes (including any re-rolls), you can retain one of your fails as a normal success instead of discarding it.

Friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operatives’ melee weapons have the Accurate 1 weapon rule. Whenever a friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operative is performing the Charge action, its melee weapons also have the Severe weapon rule.

Select one friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operative that is not within control range of enemy operatives. That operative, and each other friendly CADIAN VETERAN SQUAD operative that’s within 3" of that operative and not within control range of enemy operatives, can immediately perform a free Dash action in an order of your choice but must end that move closer to an objective marker, enemy operative, or your opponent’s drop zone. You cannot use this ploy during the first turning point.