You can select this secondary objective if you have selected any Templar Vows. This objective consists of a Progressive component and an End Game component. For the purposes of the End Game component, you can only score victory points that apply for the Templar Vow you selected at the end of the Read Mission Briefing step, and not for any other vows you selected during the battle. Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group, or our new Discord server, and make sure you enter the latest monthly giveaway for FREE today! Plant Explosives (Action): One or more RAVEN GUARD CORE INFANTRY units from your army can start to perform this action at the end of your Movement phase. Each unit from your army that starts to perform this action must be within range of a different objective marker you control that does not have explosives planted on it by your army (see below). The action is completed at the end of your turn. If completed, that objective marker is said to have explosives planted on it by your army. Before we dive in, we’d like to thank Games Workshop for providing us with a preview copy for review purposes. The Lore

Each secondary objective belongs to one of the following categories: Purge the Enemy; No Mercy, No Respite; Battlefield Supremacy; Warpcraft; Shadow Operations. Players cannot choose more than one secondary objective from each category. Note that in Arks of Omen: Grand Tournament games, players can select up to three faction secondary objectives, provided all three of their secondary objectives are from different categories. If a players Arks of Omen Detachment is either an ADEPTUS ASTARTES or TRAITORIS ASTARTES Detachment, and every unit from their army (excluding AGENT OF THE IMPERIUM, AGENT OF CHAOS or UNALIGNED units) is from the same Chapter or Legion, that player can also select from the appropriate Chapter or Legion secondary objectives. Death in the Dark splits the field into two Lighting Areas (corresponding to each board), and at the end of each Movement phase the lights in each zone can turn on or off. Up to 15 points can be earned each turn for controlling one, two,, or more objectives and the end game objective gives an additional 15 points per Lighting Area if the player controls every objective in that region. Rob: Having played a few games of Boarding Actions now, I can say that it’s a very fun game mode that really makes 500-point games viable. The action is brisk, with games taking around an hour, and the removal of Stratagems, Relics, and Warlord Traits means that it has a much lighter cognitive load than standard 40k or even Kill Team, and I actually think that Boarding Actions might be the ideal way to teach new players 40k. It’s also a great mode for any of your friends who insist that they don’t have the headspace for the complexity of 9th edition. There are a number of line-of-sight based changes in Boarding Actions; Witchfire powers can only affect visible units, and powers that affect the closest unit need a visible target. Most important is the change to charges: You can only charge a unit within line of sight, and likewise you need line of sight to Heroically Intervene.

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Unnamed Ark commanded by Thavak of the Night Lords. Engaged in a war against Ulthwe and the Kabal of the Iron Thorn. [4b]

If your Arks of Omen Detachment is a TRAITORIS ASTARTES Detachment, but your Legion does not have any Legion rules in Codex: Chaos Space Marines, then you can select the faction secondary objectives of the Legion whose rules you are using. If you do so, your Legion’s units count as having the keyword of the same Legion whose rules you are using for the purposes of that secondary objective. The biggest changes centre around the new Arks of Omen Detachment . This massive combined-arms coalition gives you unprecedented flexibility when building your army – it has to be seen to be believed. On Wyrmwood itself, the Unforgiven and their new allies continued their assault, but were hampered by the ever-shifting puzzle-like terrain and traps of the mechanical world. Amidst all of this battled the Lion and Angron. While El'Jonson was disgusted by the corrupted form of his former brother, Angron felt only some dim recognition at the Lion. The two demigods fought their way across Wyrmwood, and with the Lion armed with his new weapons Fealty and the Emperor's Shield even Angron was facing extreme challenge. The battle between the two was titanic and saw them tumble into structures and Angron throw vehicles as if they were missiles. As Wyrmwood shifted, the ground crumbled beneath them and their battle continued as the two plunged below. [7c] For all these grand events, none can compare to the return of a demigod long thought lost to the annals of legend. Lion El’Jonson, Primarch of the Dark Angels, has awoken, and by strange paths has returned to aid the Imperium in its darkest hour. Will the Lion triumph, or will the champions of Chaos unleash a new and nightmarish force upon the galaxy? If your Arks of Omen Detachment is a DRUKHARI Kabal, Wych Cult or Haemonculus Coven Detachment, you can include one DRUKHARI Patrol Detachment of a different type as an Allied Detachment (e.g. if your Arks of Omen Detachment is a Kabal Detachment, you can select a Wych Cult or Haemonculus Coven Detachment for your Allied Detachment). When doing so:The Arks of Omen season brought several changes to the game. The Arks of Omen detachmentmade list building far more open-ended, making it easier to construct an army list however you like. As with previous matched play seasons, GW released a Munitorum Field Manual with updated points values for all units, and a Balance Dataslate that made tweaks to their rules. We’ve produced a rundown of the differences between the Arks of Omen Balance Dataslate, and the previous season of matched play.

A space hulk is an immense amalgamation of stellar debris, starships, and other detritus that have fused together after having been collected together in the warp over the course of millennia. These vessels are at a scale that’s difficult to fathom, potentially hundreds of miles long and consisting of vessels that can be older than the Imperium itself. When the vagaries of the warp unleash them into realspace, they often are infested with all manner of horrors and monstrosities that have been corrupted from exposure to the raw energies of the warp. Others may be filled with Orks hell bent on turning the hulk into the vehicle for their next great WAAAGH!, or Genestealers patiently waiting centuries for the opportunity to descend upon an unsuspecting world and form a psychic beacon to draw the Great Devourer. In the hands of Vashtorr and Abaddon, they are purged of a significant amount of their taint and reborn into Arks of Omen. Arks of Omen: The Lion is the fifth and final book in the Arks of Omen campaign event series for the 9th Edition of Warhammer 40,000. [1] Description [1] If your Arks of Omen Detachment is a CHAOS Detachment, you can include one CHAOS KNIGHTS Super-heavy Auxiliary Detachment (containing one DREADBLADE unit) as an Allied Detachment. Access Junction Primus is a straightforward objective securing mission that provides a maximum of 15 points per turn for controlling objectives and up to 45 points at the end of the battle depending on how much of the enemy army was destroyed. Unlike every other mission this one allows you to score points in the first turn, and does not have an exception for the player who goes second. It’s also got a long firing line in the middle of the board that makes it a little more of a head-to-head brawl than the other missions. Being a daemon of calculated malice, his singular goal is to become a being of such power that he can rival that of the Dark Gods themselves. Vashtorr believes that the best way to achieve divinity is to fulfil the same prophecy that Abaddon pursued in the hopes of finding a weapon of incredible power. The pursuit of this prophecy would require the collection of multiple artefacts scattered across the galaxy which could be combined into something that Vashtorr called the Key. To find and return the Key-fragments would require vessels of immense power and capability, and Vashtorr had a plan for that as well: They would harness space hulks and form them into Arks of Omen that would lead Balefleets across the galaxy. The Arks of OmenThey are still on the maximum of 100 points (really 90), but if your army is painted, you can score all 100. Building Arks of Omen Armies New rules to spice up competitive play is always great too! Hopefully, this can help keep the game open to creativity with tons of viable options. All The Chapter Approved 2023 Arks of Omens 40k Rules Updates, Points Changes, Missions, & Secondary Objectives Through various winding story segments, we follow Abaddon and Vashtorr’s hunt for the key fragments, and the assorted forces opposing them – including not only Imperials but xenos races too, most notably the Tau Empire‘s Commander Farsight. Grand Tourmament 2020/ 2021/ War Zone Nachmund/ War Zone Nephilim/ Arks of Omen • Munitorum Field Manual/ 2021/ 2022 • Tactical Deployment

If your Arks of Omen Detachment is a THOUSAND SONS Detachment, you can include one LEGIONES DAEMONICA Patrol Detachment that only contains units with the TZEENTCH keyword as an Allied Detachment. We have removed the command costs from all Detachments and made it so that players can place units into Strategic Reserves for free. These savings mean that players only need to spend their Command points on Stratagems, whether that is on Requisition Stratagems to upgrade their units before the battle, or on other Stratagems used when bullets are flying and blades are poised to strike. By default, each player will use the following three secondary objectives during their Arks of Omen battle: Assassination; Grind Them Down; Behind Enemy Lines. However, each player can instead select up to three different secondary objectives to replace these. If you select this objective, ALPHA LEGION INFANTRY units from your army can attempt the following action: There are still those who can oppose their dark plan. Chief amongst them are Supreme Grand Master Azrael and the many Unforgiven Chapters who fight beneath his banner. Gathering their might, the Dark Angels and their successors answer the Arkifane’s challenge, hoping to quell whatever malevolence he and Abaddon seek to unleash. Nor are they alone in their quest, for Commander Dante races to lead his Blood Angels – and countless other Imperial forces – to the coming battle.This truncated list really helps keep Boarding Actions games light when it comes to mental load and also helps prevent some of the more degenerate mechanics and combos that might otherwise destabilize the game from rearing their heads here.