Battleclade

SUPPORT. Whenever a friendly BATTLECLADE SERVITOR operative is within 6" of a friendly BATTLECLADE AUTO-PROXY or BATTLECLADE SERVITOR UNDERSEER operative, that friendly SERVITOR operative’s weapons have the Accurate 1 weapon rule.

For the purposes of this SUPPORT rule and the Comms Device equipment, the AUTO-PROXY or SERVITOR UNDERSEER operative must control your Comms Device marker to add 3" to its distance requirement for this rule.

Once per action, you can use the Command Reroll firefight ploy for 0CP if the attack or defence dice was rolled for a friendly BATTLECLADE operative that contests an objective marker or one of your mission markers.

Whenever an attack dice inflicts damage of 3 or more on a friendly BATTLECLADE operative, roll one D6: on a 5+, subtract 1 from that inflicted damage.

Select one objective marker or one of your mission markers.

• Whenever determining control of that marker, treat the total APL stat of friendly BATTLECLADE operatives that contest it as 1 higher if at least one friendly BATTLECLADE operative contests that marker. Note this isn’t a change to the APL stat, so any changes are cumulative with this.
• Whenever a friendly BATTLECLADE operative is within 3" of that marker, add 1 to the Atk stat of its melee weapons (to a maximum of 4).

Use this firefight ploy when you would activate a friendly BATTLECLADE operative. Remove one rules effect or stat change your opponent has applied to it (e.g. Poison token, -1APL, cannot be activated or perform actions, etc), then activate it. This ploy cannot allow it to regain lost wounds, ignore the effects of being injured, remove mission pack rules or remove -1APL that you have applied to it (i.e. from TRANSFER POWER).

Use this firefight ploy during a friendly BATTLECLADE TECH-PRIEST operative’s activation. Once during that activation, you can use one of the following rules:

• That operative doesn’t require a marker to be within its control range to perform a mission action that usually requires this (this takes precedence over that action’s conditions). Instead, the marker must be within 4" of it and no enemy operatives can contest that marker. However, you can ignore enemy operatives within control range of other friendly BATTLECLADE operatives when determining this.
• That operative doesn’t require a hatchway’s access point to be within its control range to perform an Operate Hatch action. Instead, that access point must be within 4" of it.

Use this firefight ploy when an operative is shooting a friendly BATTLECLADE TECH-PRIEST operative, at the start of the Roll Attack Dice step. Until the end of the sequence, ignore the Piercing weapon rule.

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly BATTLECLADE TECH-PRIEST operative is selected as the valid target of a Shoot action or to fight against during the Fight action. Select one friendly BATTLECLADE SERVITOR operative visible to and within 3" of that first friendly operative to become the valid target or to be fought against (as appropriate) instead (even if it wouldn’t normally be valid for this). If it’s the Fight action, treat that SERVITOR operative as being within the fighting operative’s control range for the duration of that action. If it’s the Shoot action, that SERVITOR operative is only in cover or obscured if the original target was.

This ploy has no effect if it’s the Shoot action and the ranged weapon has the Blast or Torrent weapon rule.

After revealing this equipment option, roll one D3. As a STRATEGIC GAMBIT in the first turning point, a number of friendly BATTLECLADE operatives equal to the result that are wholly within your drop zone can immediately perform a free Reposition action, but must end that move wholly within 3" of your drop zone. Your TECHNOARCHEOLOGIST operative cannot perform more than one Reposition action in the Strategy phase of the first turning point (i.e. as a result of the Seeker of Divine Arcana rule as well)

Friendly BATTLECLADE operatives’ melee weapons have the Shock weapon rule. Whenever a ready friendly BATTLECLADE operative is retaliating, its melee weapons also have the Severe weapon rule.

STRATEGIC GAMBIT in the second turning point. You can swap the locations of any number of friendly BATTLECLADE SERVITOR operatives with each other (excluding GUN SERVITOR), and you can swap the locations of friendly BATTLECLADE GUN SERVITOR operatives with each other (remove them from the killzone and set them back up again). You cannot swap any operatives that have done any of the following during the battle:

• Used any weapons on their datacard.
• Performed any actions on their datacard.
• Used the Mechanosuture Array rule (see TECHNOMEDIC).

After revealing this equipment option, roll one D3. A number of times during the battle equal to the result, whenever you TRANSFER POWER, you can use this rule. If you do, don’t subtract 1 from the operative’s APL stat, but it cannot perform Shoot or Fight actions during that activation (this takes precedence over the normal Noospheric Network rules).

Q: If my opponent uses a rule that would cancel or interrupt when I would activate an operative (e.g. NEMESIS CLAW Vox Scream, MANDRAKE DIRGEMAW Haunting Focus), can I use the System Exorcism firefight ploy to stop my opponent’s rule from taking effect?

A: Yes. System Exorcism can be used anywhere within the ‘would activate’ rule resolution order, including before interrupt effects or after firefight ploys, taking precedence over such rules and the player with the initiative deciding.

Q: Does the Remote Access firefight ploy allow the friendly TECH-PRIEST operative to place a marker within 4", rather than within its control range?

A: No.

Q: Can you NETWORK COUNTERACT if your opponent doesn’t have any ready operatives remaining to activate?

A: Yes.