Angels of Death

During each friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative’s activation, it can perform either two Shoot actions or two Fight actions. If it’s two Shoot actions, a bolt weapon must be selected for at least one of them, and if it’s a bolt sniper rifle or heavy bolter, 1 additional AP must be spent for the second action if both actions are using that weapon.

Each friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative can counteract regardless of its order.

Change your secondary CHAPTER TACTIC. Note this ploy only lasts until the end of the turning point, at which point your original secondary CHAPTER TACTIC returns.

Whenever an operative is shooting a friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative, if you roll two or more fails, you can discard one of them to retain another as a normal success instead.

You can ignore any changes to the stats of friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operatives from being injured (including their weapons’ stats).

Select one COMBAT DOCTRINE from those presented below. Whenever a friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative is x, its weapons have the Balanced weapon rule. X is the COMBAT DOCTRINE you selected.

• Devastator Doctrine: Shooting an operative more than 6" from it.
• Tactical Doctrine: Shooting an operative within 6" of it.
• Assault Doctrine: Fighting or retaliating.

Use this firefight ploy during a friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative’s activation, before or after it performs an action. If you’ve used the Combat Doctrine strategy ploy during this turning point, change the COMBAT DOCTRINE you selected.

Use this firefight ploy when an operative is shooting a friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative, in the Roll Defence Dice step. You can retain one of your normal successes as a critical success instead.

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative is performing the Fight action during an activation in which it performed the Charge action, at the start of the Resolve Attack Dice step. Until the end of that action:

• Its melee weapon has the Shock weapon rule.
• The first time you strike during that sequence, inflict 1 additional damage (to a maximum of 7).

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative is counteracting. It can perform an additional 1AP action for free during that counteraction, but both actions must be different.

Once per turning point, when a friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative performs the Shoot action and you’re selecting a valid target, you can use this rule. If you do, until the end of the activation/counteraction, enemy operatives within 8" of that friendly operative cannot be obscured.

Once per turning point, when a friendly ANGEL OF DEATH 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.

You can use the Wrath of Vengeance firefight ploy for 0CP if the specified friendly operative has an Engage order.

Once per turning point, when a friendly ANGEL OF DEATH operative is fighting or retaliating, after your opponent rolls their attack dice, but before re-rolls, you can use this rule. If you do, your opponent cannot retain attack dice results of less than 6 as critical successes during that sequence (e.g. as a result of the Lethal, Rending or Severe weapon rules).

This operative’s melee weapons have the Rending weapon rule.

Whenever this operative is fighting or retaliating, each of your normal successes can block one unresolved critical success (unless the enemy operative’s weapon has the Brutal weapon rule).

You can ignore any changes to this operative’s APL stat and it isn’t affected by enemy operatives’ Shock weapon rule.

Whenever an operative is shooting this operative, if you can retain any cover saves, you can retain one additional cover save, or you can retain one cover save as a critical success instead. This isn’t cumulative with improved cover saves from Vantage terrain.

• This operative can perform the Fall Back action for 1 less AP.
• This operative can perform the Charge action while within control range of an enemy operative, and can leave that operative’s control range to do so (but then normal requirements for that move apply).

Whenever an operative is shooting this operative, defence dice results of 5+ are critical successes. Whenever this operative is retaliating, the first time an attack dice inflicts Normal Dmg of 3 or more on this operative during that sequence, that dice inflicts 1 less damage on it.

Whenever this operative is shooting during an activation in which it hasn’t performed the Charge, Fall Back or Reposition action, its bolt weapons have the Accurate 1 and Severe weapon rules.

This operative’s ranged weapons have the Saturate weapon rule. Whenever this operative is fighting or retaliating, enemy operatives cannot assist.