Exodite Dragon Masters

EXODITE DRAGON MASTER MOUNTED operatives cannot perform the Charge, Dash, Fall Back or Reposition actions; instead they can perform the Sprint and Turn unique actions.

Whenever a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER operative is shooting, if it has SPEED 4+, its ranged weapons have the Balanced weapon rule.

Whenever a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER operative is fighting:

• If it has SPEED 4+, its melee weapons have the Balanced weapon rule.
• If it has SPEED 7+, its melee weapons have the Ceaseless weapon rule.

Whenever an enemy operative is shooting a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER operative more than 6" from it, if that friendly operative has SPEED 4+ or SPEED 7+, your opponent cannot re-roll their attack dice.

Once during each friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER MOUNTED operative’s activation, whenever it ends its move during the Sprint action:

• If it moved 4" or more during that action, you can inflict 1 damage on one enemy operative within its control range.
• If it moved 7" or more during that action, or it's a CLANBLADE operative, you can inflict D3 damage on one enemy operative within its control range instead.

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER MOUNTED operative performs the Sprint action during its activation. During that action, that operative can perform the Pick Up Marker, Place Marker or a mission action (you can determine control during that action to do so), and any remaining move distance it had from that Sprint action can be used after it does so.

Use this firefight ploy after rolling your attack dice for a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER operative, if it’s fighting against a wounded enemy operative with its Drakesteed fangs & talons or fangs & talons. You can re-roll any of your attack dice.

Use this firefight ploy when a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER MOUNTED operative performs the Sprint action. Instead of moving that operative, remove it from the killzone and set it back up in a location it can be placed within 1" horizontally of its original location. This distance cannot be measured through terrain features more than 2" tall, and that operative cannot be set up on Vantage terrain higher than 2" from the killzone floor. That operative is treated as having moved 3" for the purposes of its movement allowance and has SPEED 3-.

Use this firefight ploy during a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER MOUNTED operative’s activation or counteraction, before or after it performs an action. Until the start of its next activation, you can ignore any changes to that operative's weapon stats from being injured.

Once per turning point, when an operative is shooting a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER MOUNTED operative, in the Roll Defence Dice step, you can retain one of your normal successes as a critical success instead.

Once per turning point, when a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER MOUNTED 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.

Once per turning point, when a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER operative is performing the Shoot action and you select a solar carbine or a profile of its long rifle, you can use this rule. If you do, until the end of that activation, that weapon has the Piercing 1 weapon rule.

Whenever a friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER MOUNTED operative is incapacitated, you gain 1CP.

Once during each of this operative’s activations, after it’s performed the Sprint action forwards and incapacitated an enemy operative during the Fight action, if it’s no longer within control range of enemy operatives, you can use this rule. If you do, it can immediately perform a free Sprint action forwards using any remaining move distance it had from that first Sprint action, but it cannot pivot during that free action. That operative can perform two Sprint actions during its activation to do so, and its SPEED is measured by the distance moved during both Sprint actions combined. The operative cannot have performed any other actions between those actions.

Once per turning point, when this 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).

Whenever an enemy operative is shooting this operative while within 6" of it, if you allocate one or more critical successes to block your opponent’s attack dice, you can use this rule. If you do, after the action, before incapacitated operatives are removed (including this one, if relevant), inflict 1 damage on that enemy operative for each critical success allocated this way.

Whenever this operative is fighting:

• If it has SPEED 4+, the first time you strike with a normal success during that sequence, inflict 1 additional damage.
• If it has SPEED 7+, add 1 to the Normal Dmg stat of melee weapons on its datacard.

Whenever this operative is fighting or retaliating with its moonblades, you can resolve one of your successes before the normal order. If you do, that success must be used to block.

Whenever this operative is performing the Sprint action, it can perform the Shoot action during that action (it must do so in a location it can be placed, and any remaining move distance it had from that Sprint action can be used after it does so). Note that as the Shoot action occurs before the Sprint action ends, for that Shoot action, this operative’s SPEED is whatever it had before beginning the Sprint action.

Whenever an operative is shooting this operative from more than 8" away, if you cannot retain any cover saves, you can retain one of your defence dice as a normal success without rolling it; if you can retain any cover saves, you can retain one cover save as a critical success instead.

Once per turning point, this operative can perform the Guard action during its activation regardless of the killzone if it has SPEED 3- (see close quarters rules, Kill Team Core Book).

Whenever this operative performs a point-blank shot as a result of the Guard action, don’t worsen the Hit stat of its weapons as a result of performing a point-blank shot.

At the end of each Firefight phase, if this operative isn’t within control range of enemy operatives, it can perform a free Sprint or Turn action, but it cannot move more than 3" during that action and its SPEED remains the same. Note that it must still have the necessary amount of movement allowance remaining this turning point.

Once per turning point, when this operative performs the Shoot action and you select a profile of its long rifle, you can use this rule. If you do, select one of the following rules for it to have until the end of that sequence:

• Enemy operatives cannot be obscured.
• Having other friendly EXODITE DRAGON MASTER operatives within an enemy operative’s control range doesn’t prevent that enemy operative from being selected as a valid target.

Once per turning point, during this operative’s activation, before or after it performs an action, you can use this rule. If you do, select one objective marker it controls. Until this operative is incapacitated, until you use this rule again or until an enemy operative controls that marker (whichever comes first), this operative is treated as contesting that marker with an APL of 1 and controlling it for the purposes of mission actions and victory conditions (even if it’s not within this operative’s control range). Note that this could allow this operative to perform a mission action that would require it to control that marker.

This operative has the following ranged weapon:

*Earthen Wrath: If the target is in cover, this weapon has the Lethal 5+ weapon rule.

Q: How does the Cleansing of the Pale Moon action interact with rules that apply an effect to operatives only while they are within a specific area (e.g. DEATH KORPS Gas Bombardment)?

A: Cleansing of the Pale Moon has no effect in these scenarios.

Q: When using the Cleansing of the Pale Moon action to remove a rules effect where multiple identical tokens can be given to an operative (e.g. HEARTHKYN SALVAGER Grudge), do I remove all of those tokens or one?

A: All of those tokens.

Q: What happens if parts of my model (excluding the base) like the tail or weapons prevent my model from moving?

A: As above, just ignore them during the move. An operative must still end the action in a location it can be placed though, so moving through areas, operatives and terrain in this manner just allows it to manoeuvre, not be placed there as its final location.

Q: What happens if terrain or other operatives prevent my model from pivoting?

A: Most things are ignored, allowing you to freely pivot. An operative’s base can pivot through other operatives and hazardous areas. Its base can also pivot through terrain parts no more than 2” tall (excluding Wall terrain). If parts of the model other than its base would prevent it from pivoting (e.g. tail, weapons, etc.), ignore them during the pivot. An operative must still end the action in a location it can be placed though, so pivoting through areas, operatives and terrain in this manner just allows it to manoeuvre, not be placed there as its final location.

Q: What is the specific point I can pivot a MOUNTED operative from?

A: The front, centre or back of its base. Pivot templates are provided as a guide and some examples are shown below (see official Kill Team mobile app or PDF on Warhammer Community for diagrams) .

To use the centre pivot template, place one of its black corners at the very front (or back) of the operative’s base so its straight edge is in line with the centre pivot point. Rotate the operative along the inner curve of the template from the centre pivot point. The very front (or back) of its base cannot rotate past the 45° mark.

To use the front/back pivot template, place one of its black corners at the very front (or back) of the operative’s base so its straight edge is in line with the front/back pivot point. Rotate the operative along the inner curve of the template from the front/back pivot point. The very front (or back) of its base cannot rotate past the 45° mark.

Q: How does moving directly forwards or backwards work during the Sprint action?

A: The operative cannot move sideways or diagonally; its base must remain parallel to the direction of movement. Movement templates are provided as a guide and some examples are shown below (see official Kill Team mobile app or PDF on Warhammer Community for diagrams).

To use the 1-3" sprint template, place it around the front of the operative’s base. Move the operative directly forwards until the front of its base reaches the appropriate distance. To move backwards, use the back of the operative’s base.

To use the 4-6" sprint template, place it around the front of the operative’s base. Move the operative directly forwards until the back of its base reaches the appropriate distance.

Q: In Killzone: Bheta Decima, can MOUNTED operatives climb gantry and thermometric condenser terrain features?

A: Yes, taking precedence over the Drakesteed Agility faction rule, but the EXODITE DRAGON MASTER kill team is not recommended to be used in that killzone.

Q: In a Descent killzone, can MOUNTED operatives use Entryway markers to move between killzones?

A: Yes. In this instance they can climb when performing the Sprint action (taking precedence over the normal rules), using 3” of their movement allowance (although this 3" wouldn’t be counted when determining their SPEED).

Q: In Killzone: Tomb World, if an operative teleports and a MOUNTED operative is on the teleport pad it would teleport to, what happens?

A: Move the MOUNTED operative the minimum distance possible to allow the other operative to be the only operative on the teleport pad.

Q: In Killzone: Tomb World, can MOUNTED operatives use a teleport pad to teleport?

A: No.

Q: If a MOUNTED operative moves through razor wire universal equipment, does it count as ‘crossing over’ for that equipment (i.e. do you treat the distance as an additional 1")?

A: Yes.

Q: Can MOUNTED operatives be wholly within areas of smoke (e.g. smoke grenades from universal equipment)?

A: No, even if there are multiple areas of smoke combined.

Q: When I determine visibility for a MOUNTED operative, should it be from the head of the rider or the mount?

A: Either – you can choose.