Novitiates

Up to one third of the friendly NOVITIATE operatives in the killzone (rounding down, to a minimum of 1) can immediately perform a free Dash action in an order of your choice, but each that does so must end that move closer to its closest enemy operative, its closest objective marker or your opponent’s drop zone (you can choose separately for each). You cannot use this ploy during the first turning point.

Whenever you spend Faith points, at the end of that action, the friendly operative you spent them on can regain up to D3 lost wounds. Note this ploy has no effect if that friendly operative was incapacitated during that action, or if the ACT OF FAITH doesn’t cost any Faith points, e.g. Auto-chastisers equipment.

Whenever an operative is shooting against, fighting against or retaliating against a friendly NOVITIATE operative that contests an objective marker, in the Resolve Attack Dice step of that sequence, you can halve the damage inflicted (rounding up and to a minimum of 2) on that friendly operative from one normal success.

Whenever a friendly NOVITIATE operative is shooting against, fighting against or retaliating against an expended enemy operative, that friendly operative’s weapons have the Punishing weapon rule.

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly NOVITIATE operative is incapacitated, before it’s removed from the killzone. For each enemy operative visible to and within 2" of it, you gain 1 Faith point and inflict D3 damage on that enemy operative (roll separately for each).

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly NOVITIATE operative is shooting with a Ministorum flamer and you inflict damage with any critical successes. The target gains one of your Blaze tokens (if it doesn’t already have one). Whenever an operative that has one of your Blaze tokens is activated:

• Inflict D3 damage on it.
• Its controlling player can subtract 1 from that operative’s APL stat until the end of that activation to remove that token. Note that this must be done before that operative performs any actions during that activation.

Use this firefight ploy when an enemy operative is performing the Shoot action and selects a friendly NOVITIATE operative as the valid target. Until the end of that activation/counteraction, while that friendly operative is more than 2" from that enemy operative, your opponent cannot select it as a valid target. If there are no other valid targets that your opponent can select, that action ends (it’s not cancelled, so that operative has still performed it). Note this ploy has no effect if it’s not the selected operative, e.g. if it’s a secondary target from the Blast weapon rule.

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly NOVITIATE operative is performing the Shoot action and you’re selecting a ranged weapon. Until the end of that action, whenever that operative is shooting an operative within 6" of it, that weapon has the Seek Light weapon rule.

You can ignore any changes to the Move stat of friendly NOVITIATE operatives from being injured.

Once per turning point, when a friendly NOVITIATE operative is shooting, fighting or retaliating, in the Roll Attack Dice step, you can inflict 1-3 damage on that friendly operative (but not enough to incapacitate it). If you do, you can use one ACT OF FAITH for free during that sequence with a Faith points cost no more than the damage you inflicted from this rule.

Whenever a friendly NOVITIATE operative is shooting with an autogun, autopistol, relic bolt pistol or relic boltgun, if you spend a Faith point, that weapon has the Piercing Crits 1 weapon rule until the end of that sequence.

Once per turning point, you can use up to two ACTS OF FAITH during a sequence, but each one must be different. This takes precedence over the normal ACTS OF FAITH rules.

You can re-roll one of your dice.

You can retain one of your normal successes as a critical success instead.

You can retain one of your fails as a normal success instead of discarding it.

Q: If a NOVITIATE PENITENT is affected by the EXACTOR operative’s Whip Into Frenzy action, how many Fight actions can it perform in an activation?

A: Up to four. Two as a result of Whip Into Frenzy and two as a result of Absolution Through Destruction.

Q: When inflicting damage while blocking with the NOVITIATE DUELLIST’s Riposte weapon rule, is this considered to be damage from an attack dice, and can it be reduced or ignored by an opponent’s rules?

A: Yes.